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The Barbarian's Pleasure Shapeshifters
They’re shapeshifters. That much was obvious to me now.Not just wolves.Not just a panther.The bird set me down and hopped after me as I stalked toward the towering creatures. Each of which looking as big as a castle as it peered down at me.The red one crooned softly and lowered his head to rest along the sand. He dropped to his belly and awaited my approach.When I drew near enough, I put a palm to each side of that massive, intimidating snout. Peering into nostrils bigger than me as it tipped its nose down enough I could peer into those huge eyes. Recognizing the vivid sky blue the moment I saw them.Mardichi.“What are you?” I asked softly.It huffed and a tendril of smoke rose from a nostril. Smelling acrid.Like eggs kept too long.***“Dragons.” Sebastian appeared from behind him. Thankfully wearing pants and a billowing white shirt.Mardichi put up a clawed paw to block my view of him.To keep me from looking at him.And falling under his bloody spell. I laughed slightly. St
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That’s not possible. I couldn’t even figure out a way up there. Even climbing his leg was out of the question. It was too long and smooth for me to grip anything.And if I fell, it could kill me.“Yes.” Sebastian said. “Or you can go on foot next to me.”He plans to go back as the panther.I can’t keep up with that.He’s making a joke. He thinks that’s funny. My deadened mind barely registered it. If I could’ve looked at him, I’d have given him a dry look to show my lack of appreciation for his humor just now.“Mardichi!” I called up to the big read monster. “How am I supposed to get up there?”Giving a low, drawn out, grunt he shuffled sideways and lowered a long wing down to me. Trimmed with feathers along the bone but otherwise made of thin skin. He cast me a look over his shoulder. As if waiting.For what?For me to climb up that.Drawing a steadying breath and shaking my head at the idiocy of the whole thing, I headed up. Catching the first wide bone and climbing over it. Then sc
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“Is someone going to tell me what’s going on?” I asked them.“Come, Lass.” Mardichi wrapped his large, muscled arm about my shoulders and turned me toward the hut. “Let’s have some ale.”“How about I go to the next house.” Sebastian nodded in that direction. “And see if I can purchase you a real dress.”Mardichi snorted.Clearly not approving that idea.He likes me running about naked.Sebastian was already strolling off in the opposite direction.Mardichi led me inside. “Don’t listen to everything he says.”“He says you can’t keep me?” I asked softly. “Why?”Mardichi opened a cupboard and pulled out a wooden cup. Popping the cork from a strange cask with square markings and pouring himself a glass and then me one.I lifted it and swirled the strange brown liquid. The smell emanating from it was anything but delicious.It may have gone bad. I debated.But Mardichi was already tossing back his head to throw it down in one hearty swig. “Let’s wait for the Lad to get back. He’s a bit mor
Last Updated : 2022-08-27The Barbarian's Pleasure Watchers
“Watchers take human form. They look like beautiful young women but the magic they can summon is powerful. It can be either as beautiful as they, themselves, or it can be twisted by Radix into something dark and sickly.”“Dark magic?”“If he is able to sway them to his cause.”“Are you saying that is what I am?”A Watcher? A sort of fallen angel?There were many myths in Sourthern, a country rich in tales. Yet I’d never heard this one.“You are a Watcher, yes.”“You’re mistaken!” I stared at him in horrified disbelief.Surely that was something I’d know.I’d have seen some hint of that before coming to this bloody country! My befuddled expression was only broken when there was a fierce pounding at the door.Mardichi groaned. Telling me, “One moment, I’ll let the bloody bastard in.”Sebastian has returned.***When Mardichi opened the door, it was as I’d suspected. Revealing the golden-haired man standing there with a dress folded atop his palm. Like some grand gift he came bearing for
Last Updated : 2022-08-27The Barbarian's Pleasure Nonis
Mardichi turned the key in the door and forced it open.Causing the small creatures to scream in fury as he squished one behind the door and dragged it over the tail of another.Mardichi and Sebastian were an explosion of movement. Once the door was thrown open, Sebastian skid out on his knees. Stabbing through the backs of creatures.One tried to leap at Sebastian’s face, but Mardichi caught it by the scruff and dropped it level over his foot which he brought up to send the thing flying into the brush with an audible crunch.I winced as I watched their dangerous movements.They were vicious killing machines. Working through the swarm of black creatures.I was most horrified by the glinting orange eyes staring up at me. Bits of yellow and red coursing through them like a fire was reflected in black eyes. They licked at pointed yellow teeth greedily and seemed fixated on me once they’d spotted me.They divided around Sebastian and began to swarm into the hut.I shrieked and leapt atop
Last Updated : 2022-08-27The Barbarian's Pleasure The Lion's Head
We didn’t stop until we reached the docks.There was a huge boat parked at the end of the wharf. It had sleek sails and was smoothed at the stern and bow in a way which told me it would be fast.Sebastian dropped to his belly for me to climb off him, then he rose. Straightening into the form of a man. His clothes folding around his shoulders and hips to drape around him.Walking behind him, I glimpsed a brief view of tight buttocks before the black fabric of his pants had gripped them and fallen over a powerful length of leg. As we stepped onto the wharf, he swept up a Captain’s hat from hanging over a post. Flopping it onto his head in a way that made the single white feather there, bob.Mardichi had stopped at the end of the wharf and was looking at us. Seeming a bit unsure.Something is wrong.***“Mardichi?” Sebastian queried.“I have to stop by the tavern and get something. I’ll be along shortly.”“Can’t a bit o’ dram wait?” Sebastian frowned at him.“Not today, My Brother.”Seba
Last Updated : 2022-08-27The Barbarian's Pleasure The FireStar
Mardichi did not miss that the demon master implied he was a fool. Something he was more than happy to let lie.“She’s not made for your ilk, Radix.” Mardichi grinned. “I’ll not give her to you. Not now. Not ever. Keep your slimy old hands the hell off her.”Mardichi slid to his feet. “I’ll bid you good day.”Radix leapt to his feet a bit to agilely for his seasoned age. “I wouldn’t harm a pretty hair on her head if you give her to me. If I find her on my own…I’ll let each of my minions have a go at her pretty tail.”Mardichi rounded and descended on the man. Grabbing a fistful of beard in his meaty fist. “Watch what you say to me.” He pointed finger in the man’s ancient face. “Lest I be tempted to rip your bottom jaw from your ugly face.”He gave that beard a purposeful tug.“You wouldn’t dare.” Radix sneered through his pointed teeth. “My minions would come from every corner of this tavern to tear you apart.”“Ah.” Mardichi gestured broadly. “But if you were going to do that, you’d
Last Updated : 2022-08-27The Barbarian's Pleasure Besotten
He grinned at me.“Did he try to seduce ye, whilst me was away?”“Of course, he did.” I scoffed at the idiocy of the idea. Certain that was the last thing Sebastian would try to do.“Bloody bastar’!” Mardichi rounded and nearly abandoned me as he headed for the door.I caught his sleeve and realized it was one of the rare occasions I had actually seen him in a full tunic and breeches.He’d dressed to go to the tavern.“I’m kidding! Kidding!” I skid before him to splay across the door to keep him from going out.“Best be, My Gel.” He caught me around the waist and lifted me in the air to turn with me and set me down before him.“Yer mine.” He tweaked the tip of my nose.***I felt my old pride flare. “I’m not yours. I don’t belong to anyone.”“That’s not entirely true. I’ve marked ye as mine forever.”“I thought the mark didn’t work?” I challenged defiantly.“It didn’t change ye. But a mark is still a mark. Bast sensed it.” He gestured above deck. “Why do ye think he came to have a loo
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