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the sacred and the profane? no, just the profane
a Nimire gets raped, because that is what Nimires do, but it isn't by a Serg this time
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Demon attacks are rare.

Of course, a single traveler or a small group of them is so fantastically unsafe from such that no one in their right mind would do that in the first place, but large caravans are usually perfectly safe.

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Being on the road is still a little worrying, but the job is going to be worth it. Temple scribes get to write out books, fancy ones. She'd go a lot farther than Holycrest for that.

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And Holycrest is a popular destination; a lot of people like being in reach of so many gods.

It would take a hell of a lot of demons to take this caravan.

Oh, wait, what's that on the horizon?

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Great.

She is going to be of no use fighting off demons; she opens the crawlspace hidden in the wall of the wagon, wriggles inside, and pulls the panel shut after her.

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There are sounds of fighting. There are sounds of screaming, in fear and pain and rage, in human voices and inhuman.

It isn't obvious which side won, when the noises die down, until a demonic arm rips through the side of the wagon, and incidentally a chunk of her leg.

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- fuck.

She freezes, trying to think of something she can do. There isn't anything. She is not going to win a fight with one demon, let alone enough of them to capture the whole caravan.

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The demon notices the blood on its hand when it withdraws it. He pries the wood off Nerine's hiding place and looks at her.

He is tall, close to seven feet, and fangy, with blue-grey pebbled skin and blue-green hair. Black horns jut from the back of his head at odd angles, and his wings blot out a great deal of sunlight. Nonetheless, he has no trouble spotting her. Despite the oddness of his dental arrangement, he can still produce a recognizable leer.

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- fuck.

The leer at least seems to imply she's going to be raped as opposed to eaten. Logically speaking that's a better deal, because as long as she's alive there's still a chance she could be rescued.

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He grabs her by the injured leg and slings her over his shoulder.

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It hurts. She squirms anyway, testing the strength of his grip. It's not like she loses anything if she tries to run and fails.

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His grip tightens, but nothing else happens.

She can see other demons, albeit upside-down from her point of view. Some of them have other living women as captives. One of them is holding a large burlap sack and shoving corpses into it.

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Are there just no demons who want to rape boys?

Probably not the important thing here.

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Well, there aren't any demons currently murdering boys, so maybe it's just that all the men fought. Or maybe all the demons here happen to be straight, it's not like these are all the demons ever.

They take off, great wings snapping wide and catching air from a standing start.

Some of the other women scream.

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Nerine holds onto her demon in case he drops her. And looks out for any bodies of water she could try to get him to drop her into.

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No such bodies of water materialize.

It is a long flight before they reach the portal. It is a portal, obviously magic in the way its surface ripples, and not just a doorway.

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Well. Fuck.

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The demons make their way down a dark stone passage, to a better-lit round room with a bunch of doors. The hallway continues, opposite. The few demons with corpse-bags go down that hallway. Those with live captives open the doors and enter the rooms, including the one holding Nerine.

The room is bare, with only a stone slab in the center. The demon slings her onto it and leers again.

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She lands badly; for a moment all she can think about is the pain flaring in her injured leg.

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The demon laughs and takes off his pants. His cock is already half-hard, and gets the rest of the way up quickly. It is...kind of alarmingly large.

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Okay, she's scared.

...okay, she's not just scared.

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The demon grabs her legs, drags her so her hips are even with the edge of the table, and thrusts all the way in in one smooth, violent stroke.

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It hurts. It hurts kind of a lot. She can not only feel but hear herself tearing open around him -

- and she likes it, which, she supposes, is better than not liking it, under the circumstances -

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The demon pays no mind to her pain or pleasure, thrusting into her in fast, vicious strokes.

The door opens again, and a few more demons enter. One of them says something jeering in the guttural demon tongue.

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Are there not enough captives to go around or what? She would really rather this be a one-on-one thing, not that that is by any means her biggest problem here.

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The other demons don't do anything--yet.

The one fucking her continues. His hand slips on her leg, closing over the wound and squeezing.

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She shudders. It would not be at all difficult to mistake it for pain. Pain is definitely a contributing element, at least.

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After another several minutes the demon thrusts even more sharply once--twice--thrice--and then comes, seed burning in the rips his cock left in her.

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Ow.

- okay, now what.

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Now the demon pulls out and a different one takes his pants off. This one appears to have barbs on his cock.

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This one is already hard; he assumes the other's place between her legs with no preamble. He's smaller, and hurts considerably less going in, but when he pulls out the spines slice into her tender flesh.

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Ow.

Maybe they're just going to rape her to death right here. She should not find that prospect as alluring as she in fact does. But it's not like there's much she can do about it either way, so she might as well let herself enjoy it.

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The spines seem to find new territory to perforate with each stroke, and when he comes the sting is stronger, like salted lemon juice, but she does not die.

He heals her before he steps away.

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...the healing implies they mean to keep her long-term, especially because he fixed her leg and not just the mess he personally made.

That's good news for her chance of survival. But in the moment, what she mostly thinks about is a future of weeks or months or years of being violently raped by demons. She shudders, half from fear and half from lust.

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A third steps up to start raping her. The first and second have a brief conversation, and then leave. A larger group enters a moment later.

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Would it be safer to let on that she enjoys it, or - not? Not enough information. She does her best to look unhappy with her situation. It's not difficult; she has several important complaints, starting with the part where they're probably going to kill her eventually.

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The group discusses something with her current rapist for a minute, and then he grabs her by the waist and hoists her off the table, still thrusting up into her. One of the other demons takes off his pants and sits down where she was just lying.

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- uh -

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Nothing else happens--yet. But the sitting demon is apparently enjoying watching her, and that--enjoyment--has yet to become fully manifested, so the fact that nothing's happened yet is maybe not as promising for the future as it might be.

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- maybe there are advantages to the group thing after all.

No that should not have been her first thought.

Okay, fuck it. She is going to spend the foreseeable future being raped by demons. If she gets off on it then fine, she gets off on it, good for her, her life is going to be much more pleasant that way. She shouldn't let herself be so distracted that she misses an opportunity to escape, but realistically there aren't going to be opportunities to escape, so she might as well let herself like it.

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He finishes hardening and pulls her down, his long thick cock sliding into her ass, any resistance doing more to damage her than slow his entry. The other demon somehow manages to keep raping her cunt throughout this.

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Nerine -

- does a pretty decent impression of someone who finds this horrifying and violating and painful and not at all enjoyable. Although if they're paying really close attention they might have questions about the look on her face during that first thrust.

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The one fucking her cunt comes and another steps up to replace him.

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So horrifying, yep, definitely - fuck, she had no idea being gang-raped by demons would be this good.

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They keep fucking her like that for a while, one in front and one behind, swapping out whenever one finishes, when a third demon decides to climb up onto the table and shove his cock in her mouth.

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It is getting more difficult to pretend she's not into it.

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On the plus side, they mostly can't see her face as well, what with it being obscured by the third demon's pelvis as he roughly fucks her throat. He gives her exactly enough leeway to breathe that she doesn't pass out from lack of air.

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It's terrifying and violating and degrading and why does she like it so much.

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When he comes he pulls out far enough that he ejaculates into her mouth and not her throat. His seed tastes acrid, like something burnt that wasn't meant to be.

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It tastes so awful that she bursts into tears. And yet somehow that makes it better. Pain and suffering and helplessness, it's all part of the same thing, and she wants it. She wants them to keep fucking her like this forever. She wants to be hurt, raped, used, nothing but a toy to them, a warm body for them to fuck.

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He climbs down and another one climbs up and shoves his cock in her mouth. The one fucking her ass comes, and the one who replaces him has spikes.

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Breathing while being face-fucked was terrifyingly difficult. Breathing while being face-fucked and crying is substantially harder than that.

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His claws dig into her shoulders, drawing blood.

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She shudders.

If they keep hurting her and she keeps reacting like this, she is going to have to hope that they're either very unobservant or not inclined to complain about her getting off on it. She hasn't literally gotten off yet, but it's starting to look like it's just a matter of time.

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The one raping her cunt finishes and is replaced by one that is both far too large and spiked.

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She whimpers around the cock in her mouth. The pain is incredible, like nothing she's ever felt, and she loves it, she wants them to fuck her to shreds -

- yeah there she goes. Tears streaming down her face, gasping and choking, stuffed full of demon cock from every direction, she has what is unquestionably the most intense orgasm she has ever experienced.

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...Her newest rapist laughs and starts fucking her harder. The one in her ass says something in a questioning tone, and he replies, and then that one snorts and gives her a particularly vicious thrust before resuming his normal rhythm.

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It hurts so much - if they don't heal her after this she'll probably bleed to death - she almost doesn't care, it's not like there's anything she can do, and being afraid of it feels so good - she comes again, and blacks out in the process, half from need of air and half from sheer intensity.

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When she wakes up there are different demons raping her ass and cunt and no one in her mouth. She hurts slightly less than when she blacked out and therefore has probably been healed at least once in the interim.

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The one in her cunt has spikes, she can feel it, ripping her apart and then shredding what's left - she starts crying again, and gives up completely on trying to hide her pleasure. They haven't minded so far; in fact they seemed to find it entertaining, and if she's especially entertaining maybe they'll keep her alive longer.

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A demon who isn't currently raping her hands her a waterskin.

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How thoughtful of him. She drinks.

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When she's done a different demon shoves his cock down her throat.

At no point does he pull out enough for her to breathe, but despite the fact that her lungs burn for air, she never gets dizzy and she never passes out.

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- which is both very convenient and incredibly hot, and now she's coming again.

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The one in her cunt giggles and hitches his hips and spills himself in her still-spasming hole, and the next one takes his place before her orgasm finishes. This one is possibly the largest yet.

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Good.

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The one in her ass gropes her breasts, claws leaving deep gouges in the soft flesh.

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She makes a choked noise that would probably have been a moan if not for interference.

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He finishes and is replaced. His replacement's cock starts out a size reasonable for a human, even, but once he's been fucking her for several seconds it starts slowly growing until it matches the one violating her in front.

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It feels amazing. And she still can't breathe. She comes again, shaking uncontrollably.

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The one blocking her airway comes down her throat and withdraws. Another one replaces him; this one fucks her throat more normally, giving her occasional openings to breathe.

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She whimpers pleadingly whenever his cock leaves her throat.

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Another demon grabs one of her hands and wraps it around his own throbbing erection.

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Yeah she'll go for that.

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The one in her cunt finishes, seed stinging badly again. One a similar size but with spikes replaces him.

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Okay maybe she is going to have trouble coming up with the spare attention for a handjob.

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The demon with her hand on his cock says something sarcastic to the demon who just invaded her. The spikes go away.

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That is much more manageable. Although she kind of misses the spikes now. Still, the implication that they value her cooperation is heartening, survival-wise.

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The demon fucking her ass comes and is replaced. The demon fucking her mouth comes and is replaced. The demon who solicited a handjob comes, streaking her forearm with seed. The new demon fucking her mouth comes too, and instead of being replaced immediately one of them gives her a piece of bread with some kind of oil smeared on it to eat (they do not give her the opportunity to clean her seed-streaked hand first).

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It is kind of difficult to eat under these conditions but she manages it.

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Once she does not have anything to pay attention to the spikes come back, and the next demon to shove his cock down her throat does the "no breathing, but also no passing out from oxygen deprivation" thing.

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That thing is the hottest and most terrifying thing out of a lot of very hot and very terrifying things.

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The demon pounding her cunt finally comes, pulls out, and heals her before before another takes his place. This one has a smaller cock but bigger spikes.

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She comes. Again. Being torn apart like this is amazingly awful.

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The demon smirks, and its cock swells.

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And she still can't breathe - choking on demon cock makes everything better - she loves the way they rape her...

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A demon procures a wicked-looking knife from somewhere and stabs her in the calf.

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Which results in new and exciting kinds of agony.

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The knife slips between her tibia and fibula, and then out.

And then the demon's cock follows where the knife went, bones snapping around it.

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- fuck.

She can't scream, she can't breathe - she is utterly helpless, surviving second by second only at their whim, and they can fuck her any way they want, break her any way they want, and then put her back together and do it all over again, there is nothing she can do to stop it -

She comes. This one goes on for a while.

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The demon raping her ass spills inside her and is replaced. Another demon repeats the calf treatment with her other leg.

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She is starting to lose awareness of details. The world is just a blur of pain and violence and pleasure and violation. Coloured lights swim in front of her eyes, drowning out her vision.

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Eventually, probably hours and hours later if she has any time sense left at all, the pain slowly goes away, until there is only one demon fucking her, and then he finishes and dumps her on the stone table and leaves.

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She should do something - look around the room, try to figure out if there's some way to escape - but she's so exhausted that she just collapses on the table and falls asleep near-instantly.

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She wakes to another cock in her cunt.

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Half-awake, she thrashes in panic and terror, trying to get away.

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The demon's hands tighten on her hips as he waits for her to give up, still driving into her.

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She whimpers, and stops struggling.

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Once she stops struggling the demon lets go of her with one hand, retrieves a waterskin, and hands it to her.

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She drinks.

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Once she is done drinking he retrieves some food and gives it to her.

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As complaints go, this one is fairly petty, but wow, eating while being fucked just makes both things so much less appealing.

On the other hand it's kind of hot to be raped literally every waking moment.

This is a fucked-up way to be but it's not like giving herself a hard time over it will help anything.

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When he finishes he picks her up and sits down so that she's straddling his lap, and another demon thrusts into her from behind.

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She moans and shudders and clings to the one in front of her. Without the spikes she can really feel how full she is, and there is something incredibly hot about being stuffed full of cock like this.

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The one supporting her finishes, and the one behind lifts her up to let another one--huge, still no spikes--take his place before lowering her back down onto his enormity.

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She whimpers helplessly.

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He fucks her hard and fast and deep; it's like a punch to the cervix with every stroke, and not a light one.

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She comes screaming.

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The demon fucking her ass leaves gouged claw-marks on her outer thighs where he grips her. Another demon comes up to shove his cock in her mouth and pull her favorite trick with her lungs.

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At this rate she's just going to keep having orgasms until she passes out. If they let her pass out.

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They seem disinclined to let her pass out.

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Who knew being gang-raped by demons could be this much fun.

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Not the demons, certainly, who seem awfully amused by this whole thing.

The demon in her ass finishes and is replaced by one with spikes.

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Fuck fuck fuck she is way too into this.

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They fuck her like that for a while. Sometimes one of the cocks in her lower holes will have spikes, sometimes both, sometimes neither. Size varies wildly. Almost all of the demons who fuck her throat pull the lung trick.

At one point both of the demons fucking her are way too big and covered in spikes, which proves a mistake when they accidentally abrade entirely through the wall between orifices and start getting each other with the spikes. This results in shrieking and cursing in the incomprehensible demon tongue, immediate removal of spikes, a healing for her, and the two so afflicted leaving immediately to go curl up in pain. There are no more spikes for several rapes after this.

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- it would not be good for her odds of survival to find this hilarious. Luckily she has plenty of other things to focus on.

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Lots of the other demons find it hilarious, so who knows.

They give her another break from throat-fucking to eat and drink and then the next one after that has tiny barbs on his cock.

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...well that's a whole new kind of painful. Fuck.

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This one lets her breathe a little to start but then pulls the lung trick.

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She wonders distantly if they're trying to get her off. If so, it's working.

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One demon draws his claws down her breasts shallowly, leaving bleeding but not deep cuts. Then he jerks off onto them.

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It stings, and you'd think she'd barely notice given everything else that's going on, but no. She notices. She appreciates it very much.

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Someone stabs her in the side.

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She moans.

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They start fucking the wound. Possibly this would kill her if they weren't ensuring not that.

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She's pretty sure it would. Which, again, is hot. Surviving at their mercy moment by moment, being raped more than her body could possibly withstand, violated in every conceivable way and then some...

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He heals her when he's done, his seed oozing out of the wound as it repairs.

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It feels disgusting and there is no reasonable way she should be getting off on it, and yet.

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A different demon stabs her somewhere else on her other side and starts fucking that.

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She comes again.

This is so far down the list of her problems but wow, if she ever gets out of here she is really going to miss this, and there is really nowhere else she can get this kind of thing.

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He heals her when he finishes, too, and another stabs her somewhere else and starts fucking that. Apparently they want to minimize the risk of her dying of a moment's inattention.

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And it means she gets to feel herself healing like that over and over again. It's wrenchingly awful, but it's the kind of wrenchingly awful that gets her off.

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They keep fucking her like that for a long time, then leave her sprawled on the table again when they finally leave.

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And again, she's too exhausted to do anything but sleep.

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When she wakes there are two demons in the room. One is fucking her and one is mopping up the absurd amounts of semen that leaked out of miscellaneous parts of her body "yesterday".

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She has another moment of panic, but recovers much faster this time.

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The other demon finishes his mopping and promptly starts raping her ass.

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Friendly of him.

At this point she's pretty sure they are deliberately trying to get her off. Well, if that's what they want, she's more than happy to give it to them.

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Other demons come in one and two at a time. As soon as the first newcomer enters the room, he starts fucking her mouth. Unfortunately he doesn't do the lung trick.

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It's so much less hot this way but that is not the same thing as not hot.

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One of the demons picks up her foot and starts breaking the bones in it one at a a time.

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At the first one, she flinches, shuddering. By the third she is trying unsuccessfully to scream.

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He is impeccably careful, breaking each one individually and cleanly.

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It hurts so incredibly much. She has had two shuddering teary-eyed orgasms before he's done.

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He starts on the other foot when he's done.

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If she weren't so worried they were going to kill her eventually, this would be the best week of her life.

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Once he's finished her feet he does her ankles.

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Is he just going to keep going until he's broken every bone in her body? Fuck that's hot.

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Whether or not it's every bone is yet to be determined, but he does go for the legs after the ankles. And the hips. And...

It does not turn out to be literally every bone. He leaves her spine and skull alone.

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And they are still raping her the whole time, making all those broken bones shift and jar and grind together. It's the best thing they've done to her yet.

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And when he heals her and starts over all the broken bits snap right back into place; nothing heals crooked.

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Being healed from that is -

- she comes, and doesn't stop shaking for a solid minute.

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This appears to provoke some kind of argument among the demons.

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Hopefully whatever it is it won't end in them killing her, but right this second she's kind of beyond caring about that.

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The demon starts breaking her foot bones again.

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Whimper.

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He's just going to do the whole thing over unless something stops him.

Nothing stops him.

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And once again she enjoys the whole process immensely and has an intense and prolonged orgasm when he heals all those broken bones.

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Perhaps she will enjoy it if the demon raping her cunt makes his dick temporarily thick enough to break her pelvis, then.

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Yes.

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The demon laughs. They seem to find getting her off to be hilarious, more than anything else.

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Good for them. As long as they're getting something out of it, she's not too bothered about what.

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Bone demon starts on her feet again.

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Bone demon has weirdly specific kinks, but she's hardly about to complain.

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He completes the process a third time, and then the demon currently raping her vulva finishes and bone demon takes his place.

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Would bone demon like her limp and shaky and overwhelmed with pleasure, because that's how he's getting her.

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Bone demon does not express an opinion either way but he does finish quickly enough that he can be presumed to either like that or have really liked doing the bone thing.

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She's betting on option number two.

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Reasonable. Sadly, he leaves after that, but she can enjoy some more of the lung trick.

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The lung trick continues to be a pretty reliable way to get her off.

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Someone claws a set of gouges across her breasts, breaks her leg just below the knee, stabs it, and fucks the hole in such a way that it lands on her chest when he comes.

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This seems unnecessarily elaborate but that doesn't stop it from being hot.

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They keep raping and torturing her for the rest of the "day." The lung trick is employed for most of it.

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By the time they leave her alone, she's already wavering in and out of consciousness. Having this many orgasms is exhausting.

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When she wakes up next time there are already two demons raping her.

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This time she doesn't panic at all, just moans softly.

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They give her food and water.

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She eats and drinks. The not having breaks for meals thing is kind of starting to get on her nerves, but somehow she suspects a complaint wouldn't get far.

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Once she is done eating a demon with tiny barbs on his cock shoves it down her throat.

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Mmmmm she loves it when they do that. The pain, the blood filling her mouth... mm.

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The demon fucking her ass finishes and is replaced by another, who has a knife. He idly leaves shallow cuts all over her back as he rapes her.

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Today is going to be a good day. She shivers happily.

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The demon raping her cunt finishes and is replaced by one with spikes; the one fucking her throat finishes and is replaced by one without.

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Being gang-raped by demons feels good. It's easy to just let herself get lost in it. She's past the point of caring how fucked up that is; so what if she's fucked up? She has bigger problems. And it's not like she's ever going to get the chance to escape -

- but she can't assume that. She shouldn't give up completely.

Still, if she gets that kind of chance, it won't be while she's being raped by three demons at once. She can afford to enjoy herself.

Are they going to spend all day making her come like they did yesterday? Because she would be ever so happy to cooperate with that.

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That does seem to roughly be the plan. This time with fewer broken bones and more knives.

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She misses the healing-from-all-those-broken-bones thing, but knives are good too. And she loves the way they're fucking her. Being filled from every direction, torn open, raped, violated, shredded from the inside out... yes.

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This time several of them invent new and interesting holes and then fuck them at once.

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She really likes it when they do that.

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They continue healing her after finishing,  but reopen the wounds quickly enough that the bloody semen hasn't finished dripping from her sides and sometimes gets fucked right back in.

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It's kind of glorious. And even if they're totally going to kill her she is at least confident they're not going to kill her today, so she can enjoy the pain and terror and all those deliciously awful feelings of violation without worrying about it.

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They do not kill her that day. They rape her to complete and total exhaustion and leave her lying on the stone slab, again, and wake her up with rape and fail to give her a break when they let her eat, again.

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If she ever gets enough leverage with them to make requests, the first thing she's going to ask for is proper meal breaks and the second is somewhere soft to sleep.

In the meantime, though, she is going to be the happiest captive they have ever had.

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They seem to find this some combination of funny and cute.

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Works for her.

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They continue raping and torturing her. About a week after she was first captured, someone decides to add fire to the torture palette. One demon has just clawed her breasts open and ejaculated on the wounds when the burning sensation of demon seed is augmented by the demon raping her cunt laying a flame-wreathed hand on the whole bloody mess.

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She flinches - shudders - moans in helpless lust.

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He keeps his hand there until most of the flesh of that breast has burned away and then puts it on the other one.

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He can get several orgasms out of her that way, if that's what he was going for.

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Among other things. He heals her when that one's mostly gone too.

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It's not quite as glorious as being healed from having all of her bones broken, but it's still pretty fucking glorious.

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The demon gives her a speculative look and starts burning miscellaneous other areas of her body.

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She turns out to be really really into that!

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The demon laughs and wraps a hand around her ankle, burning and also squeezing hard enough to slowly fracture bone.

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Fuck.

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He keeps going as the flesh crisps and the bones are crushed.

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There is so much helpless agonized whimpering going on here.

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He burns and crushes all the way through. Her foot falls off. He grows it back.

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fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck -

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He does it again, a little further up her leg.

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If he's trying to get her off he has chosen an excellent strategy.

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Possibly he is trying to get him off; he comes shortly after healing her foot back the second time.

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She's not in much of a position to notice, because when he heals her foot back the second time she comes screaming, all her senses drowned in the intensity of her pleasure.

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Possibly when she regains coherence she will notice that the cock currently violating her cunt has spikes and the previous one did not.

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She definitely does notice that.

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New Rapist draws pretty patterns on her stomach in burned tissue.

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Hot. So to speak.

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The demon fucking her ass comes. It burns even though she doesn't currently have any open wounds there.

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Is she going to be eaten alive by acid - last week that would've been a terrifying thought, and it still kind of is, but she's more aroused than afraid -

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It doesn't stop but it doesn't spread very quickly either.

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So it just hurts. Yes. Good.

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Apparently demons are immune to acid or something because the one that starts raping her next doesn't react like the unfortunate instigators of the Too Much Spike incident.

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Mmm. Good. If they had to stop raping her now that would be terrible.

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Someone picks up one of her hands and starts slowly incinerating it.

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Nerine is pretty sure she has a new favourite thing, and it's having substantial pieces of her body slowly burned away.

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Charred finger bones drop to the floor one by one as the flesh holding them in place is burned off.

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It's so good, and it's going to be even better when they heal it -

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When he has gotten down to the wrist and there aren't any more little bones to go plink on the floor he heals her.

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She feels so utterly helpless, it's amazing.

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The next day there is much less fire but bone demon comes back to do his thing again.

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Bone demon is her favourite.

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This time instead of leaving after taking his turn actually raping her he goes back to breaking her some more.

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Mmmm yes good. She wishes he'd fuck her while she was broken, that's so hot.

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Perhaps she could suggest it if and when she has the leeway to make requests. Meanwhile have some healing.

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Healing from grievous injury is so fucking glorious.

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He starts breaking her again. And again. Eventually he takes another turn, this one in her throat, lung trick and all. He does heal her first, but lays one hand on her ribcage and cracks it in several places whilst raping her.

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Bone demon is so her favourite. Mmm yes please more of this.

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When he finishes he starts breaking her again.

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It's a good thing that they seem totally uninterested in talking to her because if he wanted to make her beg for his attention she absolutely would.

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He keeps breaking and healing her until he gets a third turn at raping her, after which he leaves.

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She kind of misses him. He only has one trick but it's such a good trick. Well, maybe one of the ones who likes burning pieces off her will come back.

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Eventually, yes.

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Mmmmmm.

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The demon who drew pretty designs on her stomach in burns when fire was first added to the equation steps up to start raping her. He takes her hands and does little curlicues of napalm or something similar across her palms, then lets them fall, still burning, and then cups her breasts, slowly burning them and crushing her ribcage at the same time.

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She is a little too busy reveling in pain to appreciate the artistry, but not too far gone to decide she definitely likes this guy.

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Occasionally he takes a brief break from damaging her chest to draw pretty lines of blood across her shoulders with his claws.

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If only she weren't so distracted. The third thing she wants after meal breaks and a nicer place to sleep is for the demons to sometimes rape her only one or two at a time so she can enjoy the subtle details without being so constantly overwhelmed.

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He finishes and heals her and steps away. It isn't much longer after that that they leave for the night.

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She sleeps, exhausted.

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Things continue in that vein for a while. Sometimes Bone Demon comes in and does his thing, sometimes one of the Burning Pieces Off demons do their thing, sometimes Art Demon does any of a variety of pretty things.

One morning she wakes up without a demon already raping her.

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- weird. She sits up, somewhat stiffly, and looks around.

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Waterskin and a tray of food on the table beside her.

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She eats and drinks. That is not an opportunity she wants to waste.

And - now what? She hesitates, perched on the edge of her stone slab.

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A demon enters the room.

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She looks uncertainly at him.

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He grabs her legs and hoists them apart and starts raping her.

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She moans.

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He fucks her for a while and then finishes and leaves.

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She considers what she would like these demons to think of her, and then she lies back on the stone slab and masturbates to the memory of being gang-raped with all her bones broken.

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...The demon who comes in a minute later is surprised!

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Nerine is a little too busy to pay any attention to him!

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...He's going to lean against the door and just watch until she's done.

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She gets herself off and then sprawls out and relaxes with a happy sigh.

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He walks up to her and almost tenderly picks up the hand she was touching herself with and crushes it.

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She's pretty sure she recognizes this one - isn't he the artist? She bites her lip, whimpering softly, and doesn't make the slightest effort to pull away.

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He crushes the bones very thoroughly and carefully, and then spreads the fingers and sets each fingertip alight with a delicate yet agonizing flame.

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She looks up at him with a dreamy smile. It's so nice to have some subtlety in her rape and torture.

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He smiles back, and puts her hand down, and begins tracing an intricate pattern of bruises across her breasts.

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Okay, bone demon might be her favourite when it comes to gang-rape, but this guy is definitely her favourite one-on-one. She happily holds still for him.

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He finishes the pattern, and starts raping her, and starts detangling her hair with one hand while drawing more pretty lines across her back in blood with his claws.

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She clings to him with her good arm, and closes her eyes so she can really focus on the pain and the way his cock feels inside her.

(Her hair is a real mess after weeks of nonstop rape, but maybe he can do better with it than rip it all out and start from scratch.)

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Apparently he can. All he has to do is stroke it and it smooths and unsnarls under his fingers.

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She wouldn't have thought to ask for that, but wow, she feels so much better with her hair clean and detangled. Impulsively, she kisses him.

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...This really startles him. He goes still.

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Aww. That's just cute.

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...He starts fucking her and clawing up her back again.

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She rests her head on his shoulder and hums with pleasure.

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"You are bizarre," he informs her quietly.

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She giggles.

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He checks on her hand. The fingers have mostly been burned away. He draws a spiral of fire on her palm.

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For the most part she still thinks the safest way to present herself to the demons is as a brainless slut who can't think about anything but how much she loves to be tortured - but this one, this one she thinks she can charm.

"Always nice to meet a fellow artist."

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"...Oh?"

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"I had a very promising career as a scribe and illuminator before I started spending all my time being raped by demons," she says, her smile half-hidden against his chest.

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"...Oh," he says, in a different, less scrutable tone of voice. The pattern of the lines he carves on her back changes. It's not any alphabet she recognizes, but...

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- she laughs and hugs him with her good arm.

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"Why are you so..." he trails off, unable to think of a good word.

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"Why am I so what?"

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"Okay with this."

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"Turns out being raped by demons is really hot. I'm sure you're going to kill me eventually in some horrible way but in the meantime I might as well enjoy myself."

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"That was originally the plan but actually now everyone thinks you're cute the way an animal is cute and wants to keep you as a pet. Like a really clever pig you can't bring yourself to slaughter. ...I'm aware that's not a particularly flattering comparison, sorry."

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She laughs and kisses him again.

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He kisses back this time.

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Mmmm.

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"This is incredibly fucked up," he sighs after the kiss is broken.

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"Just a little, yeah."

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"...Demons don't as a general rule think of humans as people."

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"Well that goes a ways toward explaining why you're such assholes to us all the time." Kiss.

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Kiss. "Yeah. You're shaped enough like us that it's not gross to fuck you, but you're not so much like us that it's unethical not to take no for an answer, is...what pretty much everyone thinks. ...Including me, like, yesterday."

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"And all the torture...?"

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"Is fun?"

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"Well, true enough."

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He continues fucking her for a long moment in thoughtful silence.

Finally: "There's something I should probably tell you but I can't think of a way to do it that isn't incredibly awkward."

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"More awkward than the rest of this conversation? Well now I have to hear it."

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"Standard operating procedure for kidnapped human women is to get them pregnant, wait until the fetus is five or six months old, forcibly abort, magic it so the demonic essence seeps into the womb instead of dissipating on death, repeat as desired, then cut the womb out and eat it for the power."

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"Well. You're right. That was pretty awkward."

Thoughtful pause.

"...admittedly also kind of hot."

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"...What, really?"

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She giggles. "Is it that much of a surprise that I'm into having fucked-up violent things done to me?"

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"To you, no. To a child you're carrying, more of a surprise."

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"I don't want children anyway."

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"Alright. ...Uh, if you were wondering why the decrease in rape..."

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"Figures."

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"Sorry."

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Snuggle. "Thank you. You're very sweet."

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Wryly: "Thanks."

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She laughs.

Her burned hand is getting to the point where it doesn't hurt as much because there's hardly anything left to hurt, but it bumps the edge of the table and she shivers happily at the flare of pain.

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He starts crushing the bones in her other hand.

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She closes her eyes and leans on him and moans softly.

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He goes still again, slightly less abruptly than last time.

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"Mmm?"

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"Trying not to come," he says through gritted teeth.

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This gets a quiet, affectionate giggle out of her.

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After another moment he heals back the hand that finished burning off.

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"Fuck -"

She doesn't quite come, but she's a whole lot closer than she was a second ago.

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His hand closes around her throat and tightens, claws drawing beads of blood.

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That does it.

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He takes his hand off her throat and slowly resumes fucking her.

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"That healing thing is so good," she sighs, running her restored hand down his back.

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He grins. "I noticed."

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"And here I thought I was being so subtle." Snuggle. Kiss.

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Kiss. "The orgasms were a bit of a hint."

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"Mmmmmmmm." More kiss. "What's your name?"

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"Khythen."

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"I'm Nerine. Nice to meet you."

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"Nice to meet you too. Even if realizing humans are people isn't the most comfortable thing ever to happen to me."

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"Yeah, I'll bet it's not." Snuggle.

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Pensive snuggle. "You're into it but you're not the only one I've ever--"

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"Yeah."

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"I can just--not, anymore--but I don't think I can convince the others--"

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She hugs him.

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Hug.

"You're very forgiving," he murmurs into her hair.

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"You're the first person who's been nice to me in a month. What am I gonna say? 'Fuck off'? Anyway, it's... you don't have to make 'demons should stop being such assholes to humans' your thing. There's lots of people who know it's a problem and don't make it their thing. If you want to and think you can get somewhere, then sure, but if you can't..." Shrug. "Personally, I find my ambitions limited by circumstances. I want to get out of here alive someday. Doesn't even have to be soon. Everything else is details."

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"...I don't know if I could get anywhere in the general case but I'm pretty sure I could get you out of here alive."

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Snuggle.

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Her other hand has mostly burned off now. He grows it back.

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She clings to him, moaning raggedly.

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He kisses her. And elongates his tongue and pulls a variant on the lung trick.

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Oh wow that's nice.

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He pinches off one of her fingers.

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fuck

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It takes him less than a minute before his hips stutter and he comes with a full-body shudder.

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She leans on him to catch her breath. "Mmmm."

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He heals all her injuries.

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She shivers and hugs him.

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He reluctantly pulls out. "I should--go, for now. Whatever I end up doing it won't be made easier if anyone else thinks I'm acting weird."

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"See you later." Kiss.

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He kisses her and leaves.

It takes several minutes for another demon to come in and start raping her.

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She is a happy cooperative victim.

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He claws her up lightly but does not do substantial damage.

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It's still pretty nice.

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The next demon after he finishes and leaves decides to fuck her mouth instead of her cunt. He does do the lung trick.

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The lung trick is still good even without anyone fucking her anywhere else.

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The demon fucks her throat hard and slow and deep and finally comes at the deepest part of his thrust.

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She loves it. Although it might be harder to tell how into it she is when she's doubled over coughing and gagging.

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The demon reaches between her legs and pinches her, hard.

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And now she is coughing and gagging and sobbing and pressing forward into his hand.

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Yeah he's just gonna do this until she gets off.

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Not long at all.

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And then he wipes his hand off on her outer thigh and leaves.

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She flops exhaustedly onto her stone slab.

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Another demon comes in to rape her cunt again a little while later.

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Mmmmm.

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The next one after him brings more food and water with him when he comes in and leaves her to eat it alone in peace after he's raped her.

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This is such an improvement on having to eat while being raped!

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Fortunately the next demon doesn't come in wanting to use her until after she's done.

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Good. And she's less exhausted now, so she can be properly appreciative.

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This one'll be the first one with spikes she's had today.

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She appreciates him so much.

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A few hours later Khythen comes back.

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She grins when she sees him.

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He grins back and closes the door. "Doing alright?"

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"Mmhmm. The 'being left alone to eat' thing is nice."

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"...Yeah, I can imagine. Is there anything else like that...?"

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Shrug. "I might like somewhere softer to sleep but it's not really that big a deal."

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Hug.

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Snuggle.

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He kisses her. "What do you want?"

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"Oh, plenty." Kiss. "I like the spikes thing. And the fire thing. And that trick with my lungs, that's pretty amazing."

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He kisses her some more, and takes one of her hands and sticks it down his pants where his cock is in the process of hardening. It doesn't normally have spikes, but...

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"Mmmmm." She kisses him. She strokes his cock. If her hand gets a little fucked up in the process, so much the better.

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When he is fully hard he pulls her hand out, kisses the bleeding palm, licks it lightly with saliva that stings like fuck in the wounds, and then pulls his pants down and sinks into her.

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"Fuck," she gasps, clinging to him. "Oh I love the way you hurt me -"

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He starts moving in and out in slow, shallow thrusts that fail to qualify as "gentle" only because of the barbs.

"You inspire me," he murmurs.

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"You - make me feel such amazing things," she says breathlessly.

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He kisses her.

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Mmmmmm yes kiss.

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He fucks her and kisses her and trails lines of fire up and down her arms and pulls the tongue version of the lung trick.

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She comes. Several times.

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"Beautiful," he murmurs idly after he has finished and disengaged, tracing a claw down one of the burns so lightly it barely hurts.

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"Mm."

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"I should really figure out what to do next," he muses. "But lying here with you sounds so much more appealing..."

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Giggle. Kiss. "What to do next?"

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"When and how to get you out. Whether and how to do anything about the--general problem. Possibly mercy-killing some of the other prisoners," he adds somberly.

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She nods.

"Well - I'm not urgent. Actually, might be a good idea to keep me here for a while, as - kind of a step in the right direction on the general problem." Thoughtful pause. "And, hey, if you know anybody else I can charm into recognizing my personhood..."

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"I might. I'll have to think about it..."

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"All right." Kiss.

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Kiss. Snuggle.

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Nuzzle. Hug. Contented sigh.

"Mmm. Heal me?"

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"'Course." All her injuries go up in metaphorical smoke.

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She makes a happy humming noise and kisses him.

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He kisses back and resumes the tongue lung thing and reaches between her legs.

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Mmmmm he's so good.

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He traces concentric circles of fire on her breasts.

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She shudders happily.

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He's basically going to keep doing this until his refractory period is over.

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Nerine is the happiest demonic captive of all time.

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This time when he fucks her his cock swells just a little bit with each instroke, a change so subtle and gradual one might almost think one was imagining it.

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- oh she is so not imagining that. What a good demon. The best.

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He reaches down with one hand and snaps her leg with a crunching noise.

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She'd whimper, if she could breathe.

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He heals it. And then breaks it again. And then heals it again.

He gets fast enough with it to snap her leg in time with the inward thrust and heal it as he pulls outward.

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Would he like a helpless writhing teary-eyed Nerine, because he's got one.

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He would very like.

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Excellent, carry on.

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With pleasure.

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so good

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Once her cunt is badly enough damaged by a combination of spines and size he heals it so his cock can start over on fucking it up.

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His helpless writhing teary-eyed Nerine is so thrilled with this turn of events!

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Good.

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Favourite demon.

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When he comes it burns considerably worse than usual.

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Mmmmmmmm that's nice.

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He slowly extracts his tongue from her throat.

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She clings to him, gasping and shaking.

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He puts his hand between her legs and puts fire there.

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She moans.

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He burns her and heals her and burns her and heals her.

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Her moaning escalates to shrieking, and then falters into collapsing in happy exhaustion.

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Mmmmm. Snuggle.

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Yes. Snuggle. It takes her a while to catch her breath.

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"You alright?" he asks.

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"Mmhmmm."

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"Good." Snuggle.

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She smiles and hugs him.

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Excellent. Hugs.

Eventually he has to go. He gives her a kiss goodbye and leaves.

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She's kind of tired. Maybe she has time for a nap before her next visitor.

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She certainly has time to fall asleep. She hasn't wakened naturally when another demon comes in and starts raping her.

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She's starting to like being woken up this way.

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The demon squeezes her thighs hard, bruising them deeply.

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Mmmmmmmmm.

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And he finishes and leaves, and another demon comes in with food and fucks her and leaves her to eat in peace.

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Being left to eat in peace is so nice!

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Pity the reason for it is temporary. Maybe she can get enough leverage between now and when it expires.

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Maybe. On the other hand, if she spends one month being gang-raped every waking moment and then several months having lots of time to herself, that's not so bad.

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Meanwhile have some more rape.

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Mmm, rape.

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Meanwhile Khythen has work to do.

Leaving the hell-pocket by himself is a little risky, but he's careful to avoid humans. The gate point back to the demon dimension is several hours' flight away, but it's pleasant to stretch his wings.

He makes the transition to his home plane with a minute sigh of relief. It's good to be home, even for a brief visit.

It's a few more hours before he makes it to the dwelling in question. He knocks on the door.

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And one of the residents opens it. "Khythen! Hi! Haven't seen you in a while."

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"Hi! I've been. Busy. Can I talk to Talyr?"

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"Sure, c'mon in, I'll get him."

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"Thanks," he says. He comes in.

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They've rearranged the furniture again since his last visit; now the centerpiece of the main room is a painted wooden sculpture of a jaguar standing on her hind legs and stretching up toward the ceiling. There are different paintings hanging on the walls, and they've dug out an extra few feet of cliffside to expand the room and carved a new window in the northeast corner.

Izaneth disappears off down the hall to fetch Talyr.

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He hadn't strongly expected it to be the same. He looks around admiringly.

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And after a minute, Talyr emerges from the back of the house, smiling warmly with a touch of concern. "I didn't expect to see you back so soon."

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He nods.

 

"You were right."

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"...Really." Concern turns to consideration. "What happened?"

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"...One of the captives...reacted...unusually. She liked it. Which. Resulted in enough coherency for conversation.

 

She's a calligrapher too."

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"Ah," he says sympathetically. "Yeah."

Pause.

"So. What are you going to do now?"

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Wryly: "Try to come up with a better plan than 'mercy-kill all the ones that aren't her'."

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"Do you want my help?"

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"Please."

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"Of course. What can you tell me about the situation? You have better access to the details than I do."

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"Yeah, 'course. There's fourteen captives total, all women, and forty-three of us. Each captive has--if I say 'their own room' that'll make it sound better than it is, they're bare stone chambers with bare stone slabs for sleeping and--other things."

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"Hmm. Organizational structure? Who if anyone is in charge?"

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"Jiorthkir's the closest thing to in charge but mostly we just do what we want, with enough prosocialness in what people have happened to decide to do so far that that hasn't blown up in our faces."

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"Hm," he says thoughtfully.

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"...About half the captives are pregnant, so far."

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"I think the question is... do you want to save these particular captives, or try to make a bigger difference than that? Because from your description, I'm pretty sure I could walk into that pocket and walk out again a few months later with every single captive alive and free, but I don't think I could come home afterward. And if everyone who notices that humans are people does something like that, it's hard to see how we'll ever get anywhere on convincing everyone else."

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"...I want to save Nerine, at least. She's--the one who likes it. The rest are...I want to, they're--more my fault than anyone else who gets hurt because--but I don't actually think it's a good idea to make that tradeoff."

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He nods. "Yeah. So. I can help you save Nerine."

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"Thanks. I could probably do it on my own without, uh, setting my life on fire, but that's not a very high bar to clear."

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He laughs softly. "No kidding."

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He chuckles softly. His smile fades after a moment, though. He looks away.

"I should have listened to you," he says softly.

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"What's done is done," he says. "It's all right. We'll do what we can for them."

He thinks for a moment, then says, "I think I should bring Izaneth and Kemar."

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"I'm not surprised," he says. "...Have they...listened to you more, on the subject?"

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"Yeah. And - well, they're both good to have around just in case things get... troublesome. And Izaneth being Izaneth, he'll remodel all the rooms to be more comfortable - he'd do it even if he didn't care about the captives, he just finds that sort of thing aesthetically offensive."

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He snorts. "Yeah. Nerine'll be pleased."

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Talyr smiles. "Was she complaining of the conditions? What's she like?"

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"She's...crazy forgiving. And amazingly masochistic. And she's got a great sense of humor.'

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"Sounds like someone I'd get along with."

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"You really would."

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He laughs. "I can't wait to meet her."

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"I can't wait to introduce you!"

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"I look forward to it. How soon should we leave?"

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"How soon is convenient? She's not in a hurry to be rescued and not likely to die anytime soon."

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Shrug. "A day or two? Kemar's between classes, so we're not held up on that."

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"Convenient."

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Talyr looks thoughtfully at Khythen again, and then hugs him.

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Khythen is briefly startled but then hugs back. Hugs: yes.

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Hugs: important.

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So important.

He stands there hugging his friend for a good long while, but eventually breaks away and says, "I should probably go home, while I'm here."

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"Yeah. See you tomorrow?"

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"See you tomorrow," he says, gives him a last brief hug, and leaves.

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And Talyr tells Kemar and Izaneth what's up, and they spend the following morning packing for the trip.

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Khythen returns the next day.

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Talyr greets him with a hug.

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Hugs: continue to be so important.

"I don't think I realized how badly I needed a hug yesterday before you gave me one."

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He smiles. "Noticing when someone needs a hug before they realize it is one of my most prized skills."

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"It is the best skill and you are absolutely justified in prizing it."

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Izaneth comes up and ruffles Talyr's hair. "We'd all be lost without you," he says fondly.

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Khythen nods firmly. "I do not know what I'd have done next if I didn't have you to turn to for advice."

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"Well. I'm glad I could help." More hug.

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Hug. "So how have you all been doing while I was away?"

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"Pretty great! I've been getting the renovation itch, it's just as well we're going somewhere in need of a remodel," says Izaneth.

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He laughs softly. "It is at that."

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He grins and rubs his hands together gleefully.

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He laughs delightedly. "Nerine is going to love you," he predicts.

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"She sounds like fun, from the one and a half sentences I've heard about her personality."

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"She's very fun. And she likes being creatively tortured."

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"Oooooooh. My kind of girl," he says, grinning.

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"Yeah, I didn't need to be Talyr to figure that out."

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Snicker. "I am not the world's subtlest guy."

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"You are not," Khythen agrees affectionately.

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Kemar emerges from the back of the house with several packed bags. "I think we're all set to leave," he says. "Although we should maybe have lunch first, I know I'm going to miss this kitchen."

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"Sure, I'll make something."

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"They actually do have a decent kitchen setup there," he says, "for all their sins."

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"Bet you it's not as good as ours. But I'm sure we'll cope," says Talyr.

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"Well. No. But that's a pretty high bar to clear."

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"Ain't it just," says Izaneth, proudly.

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He grins at him.

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"I'll go help Talyr with lunch."

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"Is there anything I can do to help?"

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"Nah, leave it to the experts," Kemar says fondly.

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"Okay."

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Lunch ensues ten minutes later.

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It is, of course, delicious.

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And then they can leave.

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Khythen leads them back the way he came, to the hell pocket.

"There are a few rooms no one's actually using right now--they're not furnished, but given that you'd want to completely change everything even if they were I don't think that's probably a huge problem."

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Izaneth laughs: "You caught me. All right, let's see 'em."

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Khythen leads them through a stone corridor to a round room with fourteen doors in the walls, seven on either side of the hallway, which continues opposite where it opens out into the room.

"This is where we keep the humans," he says, gesturing at the doors.

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Nod. "I'm so going to end up redecorating."

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He nods. "You're welcome to. No one else cared enough to bother but I seriously doubt they'll object." He leads them down the corridor on the other side until they hit a cross-corridor dotted with more doors on either side. "And this is where our rooms are. I can show you which ones are unoccupied."

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"If we're lucky maybe there's two side by side we can remodel," says Kemar. "Or," glancing wryly at Izaneth, "you can remodel."

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"Yeah, the last two down the left side of the right corridor are empty."

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"Cool, we'll take those."

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He heads down the corridor in question and opens the doors. They're...blank stone rooms, although they have plenty of space for the three of them between them. Khythen helpfully punches through the wall between them.

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Izaneth shoves at the edges of the hole. Stone moves like clay under his hands. Soon the whole wall is lying on the floor in pieces; he picks up a particularly big slab and forms it into the approximate shape of a bed, then runs his hands over it a few times, softening the stone into something more comfortable. Another chunk of rock becomes a backless couch the same way.

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Khythen leans against the wall, watching him work with admiration.

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In fifteen minutes, the newly enlarged room is furnished and clear of rubble.

"Time to go meet your new friend?" he asks, getting up and stretching.

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"Sure," he says. He leads them back down the hallway to the round chamber, and opens the third door on the right.

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Khythen's new friend is a little busy at the moment.

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"Oh, hey, who's this?" the demon currently raping Nerine asks.

"Friends of mine who came in late," Khythen says. "Izaneth's going to completely remodel the place, it's going to be great."

"Cool," the rapist says approvingly. "My name's Nykrheeth."

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"Nice to meet you. Wow, Khythen wasn't kidding about the furniture. Nobody here actually enjoys having sex on bare stone, right?"

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"Not as far as I know."

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"Well, if so, they're going to be disappointed." He paces around the room, running his hand along the walls; in his wake, they are neat and straight and smooth, gleaming as though polished.

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"Nice."

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"I'll do the bed when you're done with it."

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"I'm almost done," he assures him, and less than a minute later he comes inside her and pulls his pants up and leaves.

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Nerine sprawls on the stone slab and grins up at Khythen. "Hiiii. Missed you."

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He scoops her up and kisses her. "I missed you too. These are my friends--Talyr, Kemar, and Izaneth."

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Mmmmkiss.

"Hi!" she says to the other three.

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Izaneth pounces on the stone slab and starts reshaping it into something more comfortable.

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"It's lovely to meet you."

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"Talyr apparently managed to figure out that humans were people without as far as I know ever meeting one, for which I have no other explanation than 'he's Talyr'."

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He smiles slightly.

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"Congratulations," says Nerine, snuggling into Khythen's arms. "Mmmm. Cozy."

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"And Izaneth was personally offended on an aesthetic level by the stone slab problem." He kisses her again.

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"It doesn't surprise me hugely that humans are people," he says from where he's working on the stone, "but even if you weren't, I wouldn't stand for this nonsense. There." He steps back and dusts off his hands theatrically. "Much better."

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"Clearly we should try it out."

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"Mm. I think you might be right. Any particular requests?"

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"Mmmm. You know, I'm starting to kind of miss being fucked in every hole at once."

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"I think we can probably arrange that."

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Khythen takes off his pants and puts Nerine down on the floor so her mouth is level with his hardening cock.

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She makes an appreciative noise and takes his cock in her mouth.

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(The other three get undressed too.)

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Once he's fully hard he tangles his hands in her hair and thrusts down her throat.

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She welcomes him with a choked little whimper of pleasure.

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He withdraws one hand from her hair and traces pretty patterns on the skin of her shoulder with his index finger. Where it passes the outer layer of skin is replaced by an incredibly painful toxin.

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She shudders happily.

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Izaneth perches on the newly made bed and watches them appreciatively.

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Khythen grabs her by the shoulders, letting his claws sink deep into her flesh, and drags her up onto the bed without withdrawing his cock from her throat.

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She lands half in Izaneth's lap; he pulls her closer, rakes his claws down her back, and shoves his cock in her cunt. No spikes, not yet, but he starts out big and gets bigger.

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Khythen gently starts putting hairline fractures in her shoulderblades.

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Ohhhh wow that's good.

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And then Kemar steps up to the edge of the bed and starts violently fucking her ass.

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Khythen adds a few more fractures and then gently sweeps her hair out of the way and sets her upper back on fire.

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She shakes helplessly, overwhelmed with pain and pleasure.

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"Isn't she lovely?" Khythen asks softly.

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"Beautiful," Talyr murmurs.

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Khythen pets her hair for a bit and then twines it between his fingers and yanks on it hard enough that a substantial chunk would have come out bloodily if he hadn't been magically preventing it.

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She makes a sound that probably would've been a whimper if supplied with air.

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Mmm.

He dislocates one of her arms at the shoulder so he can pull it around to where he can see it properly and starts carving poetry into it in his best handwriting.

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Nerine enjoys this immensely.

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Talyr pets her hair.

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When Khythen finishes the poem he starts carefully filling the wounds with something painful and flammable. Then he sets it alight.

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It's immensely satisfying - being helpless in their power, fucked from every direction, tortured, choked, and made into art - she loves it. When he burns the poem, she has an intense, prolonged orgasm.

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He makes a satisfied noise and pets her.

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And she does not at all seem like she's done enjoying herself afterward.

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That's good, because they are definitely not done enjoying her.

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Khythen comes, shuddering, down her throat. "Do you want a turn?" he asks Talyr, softening but not pulling out.

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"Yes, that sounds lovely."

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He pulls out and steps away.

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She gasps and coughs and moans encouragingly.

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And Talyr steps up to replace Khythen, tangling his hands in her hair while he fucks her mouth. Some of her injuries soothe away when he touches her, but the pain of the burning letters in her arm sharpens, and there's a deep ache in her bones from no discernible source.

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Wow. Khythen has the best friends.

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Khythen is so pleased she's getting along so well with them. He leans against a wall and slowly strokes himself.

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Talyr's variant on the lung trick is a little different from what she's used to. She gets dizzy, but never quite loses consciousness. It's nice.

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Kemar comes next, sinking his claws deep into the flesh of her hips. He lets go, smiles fondly, runs a hand down her back with only the lightest scratch of claws, and steps away.

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Khythen, who has in this interval managed to stroke himself back to full hardness, replaces him. "She's amazing," he murmurs, half to Kemar and half to himself.

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"She really is," Izaneth agrees. He picks up Nerine's arm - the one not already covered in burning poetry - strokes her wrist affectionately, and bites off a chunk of her hand.

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(It regrows almost immediately.)

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Khythen grabs one of her feet and crushes the bones in it very thoroughly to powder. Then he heats it, carefully, evenly, a flameless burning that takes the whole thing at once.

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She makes a soft choked sound of pleasure.

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When the nerves have all burned out he cuts the foot off and regrows it.

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She comes, shaking.

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Izaneth comes inside her shortly afterward.

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Once Izaneth's pulled out Khythen reaches around and burns her somewhere delicate.

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Khythen is so good to her.

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He tries.

He lets up on the burning once it's enough to hurt but not enough to have serious nerve damage, and then smears something that hurts a lot over the burn.

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She shakes and squirms and makes tiny choked noises around Talyr's cock.

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Mmmm. He brushes a hand over her hip, leaving tiny fractures in the bone beneath.

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If only she could tell him how much she appreciates him. Well, he probably gets the idea.

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He thinks he does. He idly traces curving lines into her side in what eventually becomes an abstract flower pattern.

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She's a little too distracted to fully appreciate art right now, but mmmmm, she can feel it and she knows he's doing something pretty. It's lovely. He's lovely.

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He comes again and sighs happily and steps away.

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And Talyr comes in her mouth and withdraws.

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She slumps onto the bed, dizzy and panting.

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Talyr sits down so he can hold her head in his lap and run his fingers through her hair.

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"You're all amazing," she sighs.

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Khythen sits down beside them and pets her back and heals the rest of her injuries.

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She snuggles contentedly into their laps.

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Kemar puts his pants back on.

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Izaneth does the same. "Talyr, want to come with me while I go around remodeling beds? I figure it makes the most sense to do it while nobody else is using them."

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"That would probably be late at night or early in the morning--we could probably, ah, postpone people starting in the morning, to give you more time, but we'd have to ask the others first."

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"I can do a few now if they're not much busier than Nerine, but yeah, probably easiest to do it in the morning."

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"The ones that have already gotten pregnant aren't much busier, the ones that haven't really are."

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Snort. "So pregnant ones now, everybody else tomorrow morning."

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"That makes sense," he says. He gently dislodges Nerine from his lap, stands up, and then bends over again to kiss her again before straightening up for real.

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Mmmm. She sprawls out happily on her cozy new bed.

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Talyr pets her hair, slides out from under her, and retrieves his pants.

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Right. Pants. Khythen also puts his pants back on.

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"Come visit again soon."

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"You bet we will."

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Khythen gives her one last hairpet and then leaves the room and opens the door to the one next door. The woman inside is in fact in the process of being raped, but once Khythen explains Izaneth the rapist is happy to remove himself and his victim from the stone slab so Izaneth can work.

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He fixes up the bed the same way he did with Nerine's, reshaping the stone into something softer and more comfortable and easier to clean.

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The rapist is impressed!

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Izaneth beams. And takes a minute to pretty up the walls before moving on.

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The other five pregnant captives are not busy.

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They do need to get the girls off the beds somehow, and Talyr sees no reason not to try asking politely.

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The first girl slides off the stone slab gingerly, and backs up as far away from the three of them as possible. She seems to be the most scared of Khythen, judging by how much time she spends with her eyes trained on him as opposed to the other two.

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"Thank you," says Talyr.

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Izaneth fixes the bed. "There you go," he says with a careless wave, already walking out of the room.

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She nods mutely and stays pressed against the far wall until they're all out.

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And the next?

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Too paralyzed with fear to get off the slab. She also spends a lot more time looking at Izaneth and Talyr than Khythen. 

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He picks her up and puts her down on the floor, and doesn't touch her again afterward. It doesn't seem worth it just to put her back into bed.

What about the third pregnant woman?

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Her eyes are kind of unfocused. She flinches when they come into the room but mostly doesn't react to them until and unless they touch her, at which point she starts shaking and attempts to curl up into a little ball.

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Yeah, that's another one to leave on the floor.

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Then she will successfully curl up into a little ball!

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And Izaneth fixes her bed and they move on to the next one.

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This one pretends to be unconscious as they enter the room. Badly.

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Well, then, she can be gently scooped up and set down on the floor, and scooped back up again and returned to her bed when Izaneth is done with it.

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Her breathing gets more ragged when he touches her but she relaxes slightly when introduced to the coziness.

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And one more to go.

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This one looks mostly defeated and nauseous. She gets off the slab when asked.

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Nobody touches her. They leave as soon as Izaneth finishes fixing the bed.

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Khythen is definitely not happy. "Poor girls," he murmurs.

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"Yeah." Talyr hugs him.

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Hugs. "I feel like such an idiot for not realizing sooner."

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"It can be hard to - think twice - about that kind of thing."

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"Yeah. But 'hard' feels like a poor justification for what these girls have been through."

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Hug. "We'll fix it," he promises. "Eventually."

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He nods, hugging back tightly.

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"Can you ask around about letting Izaneth fix up the busier rooms tomorrow morning?"

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"Yeah. Do you want to come with me, or...?"

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"Hmm... yeah," he says. "Izaneth and Kemar can entertain themselves without me, I'm sure."

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He laughs. "Yeah." 

He introduces Talyr around some, and shows enough people the improved rooms to get everyone to agree to wait on restarting the rape in the morning until Izaneth is done.

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And Talyr goes back to his and his boyfriends' room to sleep.

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And in the morning, they go around to the not-yet-pregnant girls.

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The first one is startled to wake up without a cock in her.

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Izaneth grins cheerfully at her and then completely ignores her in favour of renovating her room.

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She is bewildered but seems to mostly accept this.

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"Oh--I got warned about this one," Khythen murmurs.

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"Hmm?"

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"Apparently they normally keep her blindfolded."

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"...why?"

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"Because her eyes are unsettling, apparently."

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"...hmm."

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She glares at them. 

It's very communicative glare. 

"I have been Wronged," the glare says, "and you could suffer a thousand years of torment before your debt to me was repaid."

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Hmm.

He glances at Khythen. "Could you give us a moment, please?"

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"...Sure."

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And to the woman, in much the same tone of polite request: "Could you stand up, please? Izaneth is renovating."

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She considers him for a moment, then stands.

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"Thank you."

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Izaneth renovates. It takes a couple of minutes; he's getting faster.

When he's done, he glances at Talyr, almost says something, glances at the human, shakes his head, and leaves.

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Talyr looks steadily at the woman. "I'd like to talk to you, if you don't mind."

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"Okay. Talk."

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A thoughtful silence, and then, "I might be able to arrange an opportunity for you to escape. Would you like me to try?"

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"Yes. What's in it for you?"

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"I'm trying to convince demonic society that humans are people, and I think if you stay here with no hope of getting out you'll try to kill someone and it'll set me back."

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"Mhm."

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He raises his eyebrows slightly. "Yes?"

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"Why should I believe you?"

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"Does this strike you as the sort of operation that engages in sophisticated mind games?" he asks dryly.

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--She laughs at that, a little, 

"Okay. So why do you want to do this thing?"

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"I've suspected something wasn't right for a while now, but I'd barely ever seen a human, I had no way of knowing for sure, and - I didn't have anywhere to start. I'm a painter, not a politician. But then my friend Khythen went on one of these expeditions - I tried to warn him off, he didn't understand what I meant - and he came back and said I was right and he needed me to help him fix it. So now here I am."

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"Huh. You really mean it, don't you?"

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He smiles slightly. "Yes."

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She sighs. "So what makes me special?"

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"I did mention the obvious murderous intent," he says, regarding her thoughtfully.

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"And you're telling me none of the other poor bastards here want the fuckers who did this to us dead?"

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"Not like you. Not that I've seen so far. I've seen many flavours of horrified and traumatized, and one who seems to have no complaints about her situation at all, and then you."

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"...No. Complaints."

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"She's the one who convinced Khythen that humans are people, actually. She's very charming, in a slightly bewildering sort of way."

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"No complaints is pretty bewildering!"

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"I get the sense there's more to her than what's visible on the surface, but what's visible on the surface is someone who's enjoyed everything that's happened to her so far and is mildly annoyed about having her life disrupted but perfectly friendly and very understanding about the 'most demons don't think of humans as people' thing."

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"Hm."

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"I also get the sense there's more to you than what's visible on the surface, but I'll understand if you don't want to indulge my curiosity."

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"You're still a demon. I still kind of want to rip your throat out with my teeth."

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"Fair enough. —They haven't told you why you're here, have they."

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"They haven't told me shit."

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"You probably won't enjoy knowing, but my guess is that you'll want me to tell you anyway."

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"Absolutely tell me."

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"They intend to get you pregnant, forcibly abort at five or six months, repeat that a few times, and then eat you. Well, technically they only need to eat the womb to absorb the collected power but they're hardly about to let the rest go to waste."

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"Oh."

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"I'm sorry," he says quietly.

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"How fast do you think you can get me out?

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"I don't know. Not necessarily very fast. I don't have a plan yet, I just have - a general idea of the constraints." He pauses. "...it would be easier if you were pregnant; they - concentrate less - on the pregnant ones."

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"Fuck."

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"I'm sorry. I'd offer you better news if I had any."

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"If I--well. It's not like I have any control over whether or not I get pregnant."

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"I might," he says. "My magical specialty is healing; I could - arrange that you were in the right condition to catch."

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She shudders. But:

"If you do this, do you think--you could get me out before they kill it? I'm not opposed to abortion per se but you said five or six months along..."

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"I can't make guarantees, but I would be astonished if it took me longer than a month or two."

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"Okay.

If I asked you to kiss me, why would you think I was doing it?"

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He blinks, startled, and looks consideringly at her.

"...I'd expect you were looking for proof of goodwill."

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"Well, not proof exactly, but as close as I have the ability to get right now."

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"That's fair."

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"Kiss me. Kiss me like I was a demon or you were a human. Kiss me like you want me to like it."

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"All right."

He approaches the bed, and sits down next to her, and leans in and kisses her, gently and with a kind of quiet focus. Like there is nothing in the world as important to him right now as understanding exactly how to please her.

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--Oh.

That's...better than she was imagining.

Softly, hesitantly, she kisses back.

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He is definitely following her lead, both as regards the intensity of the kiss and in many other subtle ways. He wants to do exactly what she wants him to do, and he is very good at guessing what that is.

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Ohhh yes good.

After awhile she breaks away.

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"—ah," he says. "I apologize; if I'd known your secret was the sort of thing I could read at a touch, I would have warned you."

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She reacts approximately like he just dumped a bucket of ice water on her head.

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He moves away slightly, to give her some space, but doesn't stand up. "It's not something most people can do; it's my healing specialty again."

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"...Okay but how many is not most."

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"I've never actually met anyone with as strong a healing specialty as mine, and it was subtle even to me. I'm just good at picking up on subtle things."

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She sighs and--

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--relaxes a little.

"My mother was a--dropout priest," she says. "She got captured, and...she knew enough about how to hurt demons to escape with it. And then moved to an entirely different country so no one would think it was weird that she decided to be a solitary forest herbalist so no one would find out what I was before I was old enough to hide it."

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"That sounds like it must have made for a difficult life. I'm sorry," he says.

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Wryly: "And it probably gets harder when the kid's three-quarters demon."

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"Yes."

He pauses.

 

"...I'll still help you escape if that's what you prefer, but—if people find out that you're half-demon, if I make sure the news lands right—you could help my cause immensely."

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"Even if I can't look at any full-blooded demons who aren't you without broadcasting how important it is that they curl up and die?"

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"I can work with that."

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Sigh.

"I want something in exchange."

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"Yes?"

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"If I end up carrying to term, I want to be able to tell the kid they weren't conceived in rape."

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Another slightly startled pause.

"Okay."

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"...Only if you're okay with it, I mean, I'd want to be able to say it honestly."

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He smiles slightly. "It's a reasonable request and I don't mind fulfilling it."

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Nod.

"...It was. Nice. When you kissed me."

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"I'm glad," he says smiling at her. "...My name is Talyr, by the way."

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"Mezeidai."

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"It's good to meet you. Though I can't say much for the circumstances."

He moves closer again and puts a wing around her.

"May I kiss you, Mezeidai?"

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Oooh winghug that's nice.

"Yes."

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He kisses her. A slow gentle all-the-time-in-the-world kiss, although they definitely do not have all the time in the world.

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Mmmm.

She has not been letting her body respond, this past month, lest it pick up unfortunate habits. It is entirely ready to be done with that for the moment.

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He breaks the kiss so he can take his pants off, and then gently scoops her into his lap and kisses her again, wrapping his wings around her.

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There is a spark of fear when his pants come off but it settles quickly.

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Winghugs. Slow gentle kisses.

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Mmmm. Winghugs and kisses are niiice. The rapists never bother with this kind of thing.

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Winghugs and slow gentle kisses and - "if you want," he murmurs, "I can use magic to give you pleasure, directly. It's a very popular trick among people I have slept with."

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"Yes please."

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So he does that. It's very faint at first, a pleasant tingling in sensitive places, but gets gradually more intense. And he is still kissing her.

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Ohh, that's--that's--

Would Talyr like a lapful of whining squirming Mezeidai because he has one.

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He appreciates his lapful of whining squirming Mezeidai very much.

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"You were right this is great," she says breathlessly the next time she has to come up from the kiss for air.

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He grins. "Oh, good. I'm glad." Kiss. Wingsnuggle. Gently moving to reposition her in his lap, alert for any signs of reluctance.

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There is a little nervousness but as long as he keeps kissing and wingsnuggling her and goes slowly it's fine.

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He definitely keeps doing those things.

And— "may I—?"

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"Please," she murmurs.

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So he slowly and gently pulls her down onto his cock. (It's a perfect fit. He's an observant shapeshifter with very good healing senses; why wouldn't it be?)

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She gasps in startled pleasure.

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Kisses. Wingsnuggles. Magical pleasure. Slow gentle sex.

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"So good, so good, oh..." she breathes, half whimpering.

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"Good, I'm glad." He kisses the side of her neck. "You're lovely."

The magical pleasure is really starting to get intense now.

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She squirms and whines and writhes and finally comes, shaking.

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And he comes when she does, and holds her and watches with magic to make sure—

"There," he murmurs. "Whatever else happens, this won't be a child of rape."

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Hug. So much hug.

"Thank you."

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He wraps her in his wings and kisses her forehead.

"I wish it weren't necessary," he says. "Do I have your permission to - pretend to find out for the first time, later, that you're a half-demon?"

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She considers this.

"Yes. I'm--not sure I understand why, though."

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"What do you mean?"

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"...I'm not sure what I mean either, at least not well enough to put it into words. Um. If you have any plans that hinge on pretending our interaction was other than it was I would appreciate if you would tell me what and why so I don't fuck it up? Are we pretending you didn't know but still--did what I asked how I asked--so there's something I feel comfortable--telling them, later, that's not a catastrophe if they're indiscreet..."

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"...I could pretend that, but it would complicate things. If I control exactly when and how I 'find out', then I control how the message lands, and I can make sure the reaction that people have is 'horrified and apologetic and deeply disturbed', which I can hopefully leverage into rethinking the entire concept of abducting humans to rape and torture. If there's any hint that I knew ahead of time and planned that, then I look like a manipulative sneak and it gets much harder to, ah, be a manipulative sneak. And it would be very unlikely for me to have done what I just did without finding out. It's probably best if we pretend we didn't have this conversation at all, to everyone except Khythen and my boyfriends. Everyone else is sleeping in today to give Izaneth time to remodel the rest of the rooms. ...but if you strongly value being able to be open about where your child came from right from the start, I can probably come up with a version of events that works, if not necessarily as well as my original plan."

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"I guess not right from the start, but...it's going to be very difficult to pretend to hate you. And. Depending on how this turns out--I have no idea if you have any interest in being a part of their life, but--if you do--"

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...he nods. "All right. So. New plan: when we came into this room to do the remodeling, I noticed something didn't seem right but I couldn't tell what, so I stayed after Izaneth moved on, and as soon as I touched you I knew you were a half-demon, and I was horrified and apologetic and deeply disturbed, and I said everyone else would certainly feel the same way, but you had every reason not to believe me, so when I admitted what you were here for you asked me to do what I did so that whatever else happened you at least wouldn't be carrying a rapist's child. Does that hold together?"

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"I think so, yeah. Does that mean I--stop hiding, now--"

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"Yeah. And I stay with you until everyone else wakes up, because I didn't want to leave you alone for a moment in case someone else came in and - thought you still looked human enough..."

He hugs her, very gently, and murmurs, "I apologize in advance for - pretending I wouldn't otherwise have cared."

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"I understand. I'm not thrilled, but--you're not the problem there."

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Nod.

He retrieves his pants and puts them back on and then sits beside her on the bed and hugs her some more.

"I'm going to be - protective and considerate and distraught," he says. "It's not exactly an act, it's more - refraining from hiding my feelings when I otherwise might."

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"Okay. Is there any particular way I should act?"

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"How are you inclined to act?"

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Wryly: "Well, I no longer want to rip your throat out with my teeth. I don't know, I'm having a lot of feelings right now."

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"Yeah." Hug. "It's - perfectly reasonable for you to be angry and hate everyone."

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"Yeah. But if it would be better for me to act scared or relieved it's over or just curl up into you with my eyes closed and refuse to interact with anyone who's not you--or renovations guy, I guess? He hasn't raped me either--I can do that."

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"I think anger can be useful, if it's handled right, and I think I can handle it right. —renovations guy is my boyfriend Izaneth and I also brought my other boyfriend Kemar, but you might not meet him immediately, he's a little on the shy side."

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"--Oh. Is it going to be awkward that you got me pregnant, if you have boyfriends and I keep it?"

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"I don't expect so. I don't intend to demand any particular relationship with the child, on my behalf or theirs. Although - if you meet them and you all get along - you would be welcome in our lives."

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She is already hugging him, so she hugs him a little harder.

"I guess we'll see."

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Hug. Wingsnuggle.

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Snuggle.

"...If I tried to make myself look more demonic, would that help?"

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"Probably, yes. And - I might be able to help, depending on what you're going for, if you can't manage it on your own."

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Nod. Sigh. "I don't really want horns," she says, a little morosely.

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Hug. "Is there anything you do want?"

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"...I've always thought wings might be fun, but that sounds...substantially harder."

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"I can help."

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"Okay. Let's try it."

They're not working from literally nothing. She has a few small underdeveloped vestigial wing bones embedded in her back.

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They separate from her back--slowly.

But not nearly as slowly as if he'd been doing this alone.

"I can't affect hardly anything else," she murmurs. "But I'm very good at my own body."

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He smiles and kisses the top of her head.

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Snuggle. Slow growth of previously-vestigial tissues.

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Snuggle. Encouraging the wings to grow out and fill in.

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And eventually--

"Wow," she breathes, giving them an experimental flap.

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He smiles at her. "They're lovely. You're lovely."

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She grins and wraps her wings around him and kisses him.

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Mmmm, wingsnuggles. And kisses. Both such good things.

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"—that's Izaneth. Probably done with the remodel and wondering what I'm up to."

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Snort. "Bet he's not expecting the real answer."

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"I bet he's not," he agrees.

He goes to answer the door.

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"Hey, I'm done with what the fuck," says Izaneth, staring into the room.

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"What's wrong?" Khythen asks from behind him.

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"I, uh..."

He steps aside so Khythen can see into the room.

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"...What the fuck seconded," Khythen says, stunned.

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Mezeidai curls up into Talyr, not sure to what extent the lie applies to his boyfriend and--presumably that's the one who noticed the other captive was a person--as well as the others.

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"This is Mezeidai," says Talyr. "She is, as you can see, a half-demon."

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"How did you know?"

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"I didn't, until I touched her. Then - well, we talked."

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She nods. She is watching Khythen warily.

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Khythen--makes nothing resembling a sudden move or an attempt to get closer to her.

"Talked about...?"

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"...this is gonna shake everybody the fuck up, isn't it," says Izaneth. "It kinda shakes me up and I haven't even been playing."

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"Yes, I rather think it might," says Talyr, hugging Mezeidai. "You might want to let them know when they wake up. I'm not leaving Mezeidai alone until I'm satisfied that no one is going to hurt her again."

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...Khythen nods slowly. "That. Seems reasonable."

To her. "...I'm sorry."

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She hides her face behind one of her wings and snuggles a little closer to Talyr.

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Hug.

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"...I'll just. Go and do that," Khythen says a little awkwardly, and goes to go and do that.

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...Izaneth comes into the room.

"Hey," he says quietly to Mezeidai. "I'm Izaneth. Sorry about, uh, everything."

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"I don't think we have time for a long conversation now, but maybe I can introduce you to my boyfriends properly later."

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"You didn't do anything," she tells Izaneth. "...Except make the 'beds' comfier, which is a good thing."

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"Yeah. Just. Wow, they really fucked this one up, didn't they."

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"Twice in a row, even."

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Snort. "Yeah."

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"I mean, I'm glad I survived to be born and grow up and so on, but you can sure as hell bet that whatever son of a bitch sired me didn't mean for that to happen."

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"No kidding. And just - wow. I didn't notice a thing when you were playing human, and then..." He shakes his head.

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Shrug. "Talyr's apparently just that good. And you didn't even touch me, anyway."

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"I probably wouldn't have seen it even then. I wouldn't hardly know what to look for, and I don't know anybody who can read living things like Talyr can."

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"If it were easy to notice by touching me someone would have noticed before now."

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"They better not have," he mutters.

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"Better not have noticed? I think they would have said something if they did."

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"Yeah. So if anybody noticed, they didn't say anything. And that's - not okay."

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"I'm--glad that noticing resulted in this."

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"Yeah, no kidding."

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"I thought they'd kill me if they noticed."

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"It doesn't sound like they were giving you much reason to think otherwise. ...do you want a hug or has Talyr got that covered."

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"I don't want to stop hugging him but if I don't need to then that would be good."

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He comes to sit down next to them and tucks an arm around Mezeidai's shoulders. "We won't let anybody hurt you. Promise."

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Snuggle. "I--hope you're right that you can."

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Izaneth snorts. "Oh, trust me, it is not gonna be a problem."

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Wryly: "I hope you don't need to burn any important bridges in keeping your promise, then."

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He laughs. "Yeah. Thanks."

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Mezeidai curls up more into Talyr and Izaneth.

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He gives her a gentle squeeze and goes to answer the door.

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There is a vaguely bewildered, slightly guilty-looking demon on the other side.

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"Hey so what the fuck," says Izaneth.

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"--I didn't know? I am. Still not completely sure Khythen wasn't just fucking with us."

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He opens the door, steps back, and gestures to where Mezeidai is cuddled up to Talyr.

"Khythen was not fucking with you. You've been raping a demon this whole time."

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He flinches. "How was I supposed to know," he says defensively.

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"I don't fucking know, but I bet you that won't sound like much of an excuse to her!"

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He flinches again. "Great. So do you have any bright ideas for what to do next?"

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"'Find her a nicer room and then don't go near her' seems like a good first step," says Talyr.

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"And if you don't have anywhere, I can make something," says Izaneth.

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"...I guess." He shudders. "--This is horribly selfish, I know, but--I'm glad she's not flinching at every man's touch. Can you imagine trying to explain to your sister or cousin or just a female friend that we fucked up this badly and need her to come take care of it?"

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"Yeah. You got kind of lucky for how unlucky you got."

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"Yeah." He rubs his forehead. "...Should we be trying to figure out who her father is, do you think?"

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"Do you want to know?" murmurs Talyr to Mezeidai.

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She shakes her head minutely.

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"Let's not, then."

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"At least for now, yeah." He glances at her again, then looks away queasily. "If you, uh, had an idea of where to take her, I could--make sure there was no one in the way she might have to--"

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"...We could make a new room off the hall between here and the exit," he says to Mezeidai. "And Izaneth and I could stay there with you - Kemar, too, if you trust him enough when you meet him - and you'd have one of us between you and the world at all times."

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"Cool, I'll do that then," says Izaneth. Out he goes.

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The other demon leaves to shoo any of the others out of the area until she's been safely transported.

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"So if I'm being generally accepted as An Actual Person now, do you know if I could maybe get clothes?"

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"Yeah. Izaneth can make you some when he's done with the room. I myself am not capable of turning rock into cloth, at least not usable cloth."

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"...He can do that?"

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Talyr laughs softly. "With a little time and practice I'm not sure there's much he can't do. Except work nondestructively with living things; that's still hard for him. But he can turn just about anything into anything as long as the result needn't have a heartbeat."

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"Huh. That's kind of amazing."

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"Isn't it just?" he says, gazing fondly at the door.

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Snuggle. "Well. I certainly have cause to appreciate it right now."

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"Yeah." He wraps his wings around her and pets her hair.

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"Talyr said you could probably do clothes?"

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"Oh - yeah, sure," he says, and he reaches for the wall beside the door and peels off a thin layer of stone. It comes away like paper, and then he shakes it out and it's a square of cloth, dark and shining, thin and light like silk.

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"Showoff," Talyr says dryly.

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Izaneth grins. "Who, me?" he asks, bundling up the cloth and tossing it to them.

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Talyr catches it. "I can manage the tailoring part myself."

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"What are demon garments even like when they're not just pants?"

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"Sometimes there's a tunic or kilt or both in addition to the pants," says Talyr. "If you stand up for a moment I can put this on you and then you can see for yourself. Does tunic and pants sound good?"

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"Anything sounds good after a month straight naked."

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"Fair enough."

He wraps cloth around her and makes adjustments to its structure.

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She sighs in relief.

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It's a cozy room. Actually it's two cozy rooms; Mezeidai gets her own room with its own door, and the slightly bigger room between that and the hall has a bed for Talyr and his boyfriend(s). And the furniture is nice. Izaneth bounces proudly.

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"This is lovely. You did this in that short a time?"

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He grins. "I'm good at this shit."

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She smooths her hand over the fabric she's wearing. "So I see."

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Bounce!

"Lemme go get Kemar so you can meet him."

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"Mmkay."

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He goes. He gets Kemar. He comes back.

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Kemar is the most overdressed demon she's seen so far - tunic and kilt and pants.

"Hey," he says softly.

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"Hi. I'm Mezeidai. You must be Kemar."

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"Yeah."

He comes into the room and sits on a padded bench, well out of her way.

"...I realize 'are you okay' is a stupid question but it's the best I've got," he says wryly.

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"I fully expect to collapse in a sobbing heap at some point in the near future but honestly this whole thing is such an improvement I'm actually feeling pretty good at the moment."

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"Oh." He smiles, a little. "Well. Good, I guess."

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"And. Um. There is a thing that you and Izaneth should know."

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"A few things, actually. One is that Mezeidai knows that my ultimate goal here is to change the way demons feel about humans. The other is - when we were talking, I wasn't aware of her heritage at first, and even once I knew we weren't sure that it would be the right strategic choice to reveal it immediately - so when I told her what she was here for, she asked me to get her pregnant, and I did."

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"...oh," says Kemar, blinking.

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"Huh." Izaneth regards Mezeidai thoughtfully.

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"It was maybe not the most thoughtful life choice I have ever made."

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"So what are you going to do now?"

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"Help solve demon culture, I guess. Be hugged. Besides that--I can hardly begin to guess. I'm--not in a good place to be making long-term decisions right now."

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"Yeah, fair," says Kemar. "Well. —I'm pretty sure I'd be saying this even if you weren't carrying Talyr's kid, but—you have a place in our family if you want one."

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"I think I want it. But--I don't know how much of that is me and how much of it is just--being vulnerable and afraid and clinging to anything that looks like safety."

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Hug. "You'll have time to find out."

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Hug. "And--keeping it probably isn't the smartest thing ever, but--my mom kept me. She didn't have to, she wasn't that far along when she got away, but she did. And I'm really glad I exist."

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"Okay." Talyr hugs her some more. "...They're probably going to be talking about - what to do about all this - soon, and I should be there and I think so should Izaneth. He has a - usefully straightforward way of seeing things."

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"Yeah, okay."

...She looks at Kemar.

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"Guess I'm staying with you, then?"

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"Sounds like it."

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He half-smiles. "Okay."

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"...I like you fine, so far."

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He smiles more fully. "Oh. Good."

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She hesitates, then walks over, sits down beside him and hugs him.

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He tucks his arm around her shoulders and drapes a wing over her.

"Gonna be okay," he murmurs.

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Snuggle.

"I--don't speak your language. Maybe I should try to fix that."

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"I can try'n teach you."

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"Might help me look more like a person."

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"Okay. So - I'm not sure where to start, exactly..."

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"Neither am I," she says. "I guess we'll just have to improvise.

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Talyr and Izaneth definitely aren't the first to show up, but neither are they the last.

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Once everyone's arrived, Jiorthkir stands. "So. I believe everyone knows why we're here."

There is a low murmur of agreement.

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"I came here thinking I'd hang out with a friend and have a little fun, and instead I find out you're raping a demon," says Izaneth. "It's fucked up. And, like - you kinda couldn't have known - but that almost makes it more fucked up?"

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"I should check everyone else, just in case."

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There is a brief stunned pause.

"Shit, you're right," someone says.

"Don't you think we're getting a little ahead of ourselves?" another one wonders.

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Izaneth picks that last one out of the crowd and raises his eyebrows at him. "Uh, what?"

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"Everyone's so freaked out, but does it really count as a demon? I mean. We throw away half-breed fetuses all the time. Maybe we should actually give some thought to whether it's a person and not overdeveloped medical waste."

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"...wow," says Izaneth, in a slightly stunned tone. "Now that's fucked up."

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He raises an eyebrow. "If half-demons are morally relevant, then what are you doing here? You...have noticed that the brain is pretty much developed by six months, right?"

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"I wasn't planning to stick around for that part," he says. "And I don't honestly care that much about the stages of brain development, like, whatever, I'm fine not thinking of babies as people until they're born, seems like the most convenient place to draw the line, but this is a girl I've seen and talked to and hugged and comforted after what you guys put her through, and I cannot begin to tell you how fucked it is that you're standing there arguing that I'd better not think of her as a person if I want to be okay with the premise of this operation? Like, okay, maybe the premise of this operation is a little fucked too, because sometimes you end up fucking raping somebody? I get that this is awful, I'd be wrecked about it in your place, but you don't get to define away somebody's personhood to make yourself feel better!"

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He starts to say something else. Someone else punches him in the face. "Shut the fuck up, Erxharin. Even if there's any doubt, do you seriously think that risking raping someone is a good idea? We've got fucking enough on our shoulders as it is."

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Izaneth shrugs a 'yeah, my thoughts exactly' kind of shrug.

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"Definitely have him check," someone says.

"What could the odds possibly be?" someone else wonders.

"Who the fuck cares, they're apparently high enough," someone else snaps.

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"I don't think it's remotely likely I'm going to turn anything up, I just know I won't be able to live with myself until I know for sure," says Talyr.

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"Yeah, exactly," the last one agrees.

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Izaneth shivers slightly. "The only reason I'm not a rapist right now is luck," he says, half to himself.

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Talyr puts a comforting hand on his arm.

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"Maybe rub it in slightly less," someone suggests.

"I think how we feel about it is not the issue here," someone else points out.

"Still. It was only luck, it's not like he's better than us."

"I really think that's not a productive frame of mind."

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"I mean, I'm not any better than you, that's exactly my point," he says. "We're all just—normal people doing normal things and then suddenly—" A wordless gesture of shock and dismay.

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"Well, better or not, it's sure as hell a good thing we've got someone who hasn't traumatized her around," someone else mutters.

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"No kidding," he says wryly.

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"What do we do with her?" someone else wonders. "In the long term, I mean."

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"...She might end up coming home with us," says Izaneth. "'Cause - we're the only people she really feels safe around right now, and I kind of really feel for her, you know?"

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"Okay sure," he says. "But, like, in what capacity exactly, I don't know if normal refugee laws cover this."

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"We'll figure something out."

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"There's no precedent as such, but maybe it's time we made one," says Talyr.

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"Well that's delightfully inspecific," someone says cynically.

"Do you have anything more helpful to say?" the demon next to him asks.

"...Not as such, no."

"Then maybe shut up."

"I have a cousin who's a lawyer and won't ask inconvenient questions if I ask him about weird edge cases in immigration and refuge law," someone offers.

"Thank you, that's actually helpful," the one who told the cynic to shut up says.

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"That's a good start," Talyr agrees. "Thank you."

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"...Um," someone else says. "Uh, I think I have a good idea of who you should check first."

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"Oh?"

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"So I was thinking about how maybe we really should of guessed because of how she looked at us and then it occurred to me that that wasn't the only weird thing?"

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"What other weird thing—"

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(There is a - shift, a sudden subtle vertigo, as though while you weren't looking the whole world slid a few inches to the left.)

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—he blinks, momentarily misplacing his train of thought.

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A lot of people are confused! There is general looking-around and expressions of puzzlement. "...That was odd," the one he was talking to says. "What was I saying again?"

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You wake with a start and a splash, in a ditch by the side of a road, neither of which you've ever seen before in your life. The air is mild, without the bite of early spring. The malevolent force of nature locked inside your heart and mind sleeps soundly, never stirring. You shouldn't touch it until you know what's going on. A mara is not a tool to use lightly.

Figures in the distance, unfamiliar, soaring unlike birds in the too-blue sky. This isn't the nightmare realm: the world is solid and real. And when you reach out, you feel no roiling nightmare darkness, no bitter flicker of possession, not even the faint whispering spark of another locked mara like yours. Whatever these people are, with their strange forms and their broad beautiful wings, they're no kind of dream-creature.

You almost can't believe it, when they land and one makes a crude remark in an indecipherable tongue. It just seems so... stupid. You try to explain about the mara, but you half know it's not going to work, and indeed it doesn't. He sees nothing in your eyes, because your mara is safely contained, and you're not about to call it up just to show him what it looks like. Odds are he wouldn't understand, and this is definitely not a safe situation in which to hold a mara in the grip of your bare will. It would not be worth it to call on your mara just to stop them from raping you.

They carry you off to a strange portal, which leads to a place that isn't the nightmare realm either, heaping another layer of incomprehensible foreignness onto the pile. And when the man who flew you here throws you onto a stone slab and rips your clothes off, then you finally bother to be afraid.

There is - a long blur of pain, its details mercifully obscured. The choice, made again and again and again and again and again, not to open the lock and draw on the mara's power, not to risk possession for a chance at safety and freedom. The degree to which you want these people dead varies, but outside of brief moments of hazy temptation you never want them trapped in an eternal nightmare, even though what they've trapped you in is arguably worse. Adding more suffering won't balance the scale of the world; it just drags everything farther down. And if they kill you then your mara will get loose anyway, but it's abundantly clear that they have no immediate plans to kill you.

You wish, variously, for death or rescue or a good night's sleep or two free hours to cry in; but more than anything else, you just wish you could ask them what the fuck they think they're doing

 

The world untwists, and everyone is back in their own skin. (A subtle flavour in the air, a hint of unreality, suggests that they might not be all the way back.)

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There is a moment of collective stunned silence before the room erupts into a roar.

Some people are panicking. Some of them are screaming accusations at one another. One or two seem to have gone into denial and are consequently yelling at her.

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She steps into the room, wearing a simple white dress that blurs slightly at the edges.

The roar quiets; yelling just doesn't produce the kind of volume it should.

"I'm not going to murder you all," she says over their softened voices. "And I'm not going to lose control of my mara. I wouldn't have tried this if I thought it might fail that badly. I'm just here to talk."

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This alarms and frustrates some people!

"...Okay," Jiorthkir says, "I'm listening."

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"What, in fact, did you think you were doing?"

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"...Well, I wasn't on that expedition and can't speak to the stupidity of the ones who were in not realizing something was up," he says cautiously, "but we thought you were human."

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She raises her eyebrows. "I am."

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"...No, humans come from the plane where we found you. You seem more like a human than like a demon or an angel," he says this word derisively, "so I guess whatever you're using to translate might have gotten confused."

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"I haven't looked that closely, but your other prisoners don't seem noticeably different from the kind of people I'm used to."

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"...They're not...really people," he says. (He sounds less certain of this than he would absolutely like to be.)

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"How do you know?"

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"Someone would have noticed by now."

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"...do you actually think that or is it just what you have been assuming."

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"...I..."

"They're the angels' pets," someone else mutters uneasily. "If they were people why haven't they noticed that angels suck."

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"Somehow I don't find your logic convincing."

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"Maybe they have noticed and just find it to be the lesser of two evils," someone says. He does not sound thrilled by this prospect. Someone else punches him. He snarls and swipes back with his claws. One nearby demon tries to separate them, but others end up piling into the fight. It starts escalating quickly.

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Sudden movement stops working, in much the same way that shouting did.

"Given the way you apparently treat humans, I wouldn't be at all surprised if that were true."

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The demons are mostly really not happy about this development.

 

"What do you want," one of them asks.
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"I suppose an apology would be nice. And I still don't really have an explanation for what you were doing, although 'you didn't think humans were people' at least explains why you weren't not doing it. Besides that—" She shrugs. "I've been a little too busy to come up with an itemized list of demands."

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A few demons proffer intimidated apologies.

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"Thank you."

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There is miscellaneous frightened murmuring.

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"If no one has anything else to add, I think I'll take your prisoners and go."

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"—ah—" says Talyr hesitantly.

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"Yes?"

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"...if any of them are pregnant and would like to stop being pregnant, I can help with that," he says.

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"...How are you defining prisoners," someone adds slowly.

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"Why do you ask?"

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"...Because one of them isn't a prisoner anymore and wouldn't be treated kindly by the local humans."

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"I won't take anyone who doesn't want to leave."

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"...Okay."

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"Anything else?"

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No one says anything else.

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She turns to go, and then looks back. "...By the way, in case any of you were confused, this is a constructed dream. In the material world you are all asleep. You can tell the difference if you pay attention. It's... considered very impolite to try to fool anyone about that, at home."

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There is a low murmur of expressing comprehension.

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She leaves.

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"Well, uh, that was terrifying," says Izaneth, in much the same tone you might use for 'well, uh, that was awkward'.

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"Was?" someone else asks incredulously.

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He laughs. "Fair point."

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"I don't know, I'm not all that worried," Talyr says thoughtfully. "Her priorities obviously don't include revenge. The - vision - was very clear on that."

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"Good for you," someone else says. "I"m still not going to be able to relax until we're out of this freaky dream thing."

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There is a general murmur of agreement, which serves to break the stunned silence. People quietly talk amongst themselves about the situation for a few minutes.

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And then someone else walks into the room.

It's the girl who liked it, wrapped in a robe of thin black silk that is clearly less about preserving modesty and more about achieving the state of not-literally-naked.

"Hi," she says. "So apparently I'm being rescued or something?"

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"Apparently?" someone offers.

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Khythen starts moving through the crowd towards where she came in.

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She grins at him.

"Thing is, I'm not actually sure I want to leave? Like, I have some complaints, but it seems like they'd be pretty well addressed by 'oh hey whoops you're a person sorry about that'."

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Khythen reaches her, scoops her up and hugs her.

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She giggles and hugs him back. "Hey, cutie."

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"Maybe this is a real dream," someone muses out loud, "and I'll wake up and none of the crazy will have happened."

"I think you really shouldn't try to rely on that," someone tells him.

"Yeah. But still."

"...How long 'here' is going to continue being a thing is a very real question," Jiorthkir says slowly.

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"Why, 'cause somebody's stealing all your humans?" asks Nerine, snuggling Khythen. "And also rape is wrong?"

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"...Essentially."

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"Reasonable."

Mmmm what a cozy huggable demon Khythen is.

"And, like, it makes some amount of sense to leave now as opposed to later because if I leave later I maybe end up wandering around the middle of nowhere by myself and I hear that's bad for your health. But honestly I'd kind of miss you guys."

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"I'm not going to let that happen."

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"Aww." Kiss.

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Kiss. "Although being returned unharmed by demons would probably lead to awkward questions."

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"Which is more awkward, those or the questions I'd get if I went home with you?"

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"I don't actually know enough about human culture to guess. But--you're not Mezeidai, who--ah. Did anyone tell you about Mezeidai?"

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"Who?"

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"One of the other--former captives."

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"What about her?"

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"Well, it turns out she's half-demon."

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"...Some luck you guys have, huh."

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"Yeah." Hug. So much hug.

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Awwwww. Snuggle.

"I'm definitely going to miss you if I leave with everybody else."

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"We can figure something out," he promises her.

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"Does that mean I should stay?"

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Snuggle. "I would be very happy if you stayed."

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"Okay."

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As if this were some kind of signal, other demons start crowding around the two of them. Is she really okay? Is there anything she needs? Would she like multiple sources of hug instead of just the one?

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Awwwwww. She happily hugs anyone who offers, and is clearly delighted by her demonic cuddlepile. As for the rest - "when we all wake up I'd kind of like to wear clothes and eat real food?" she suggests wryly.

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Oh. Yeah. This is still the dreamworld. Ugh.

Anyway, yes, totally, those things, that can happen.

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Snuggles! So many snuggles!!

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(And the dreamworld fades cozily into a dreamless sleep.)

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Talyr finds himself waking up in a roomful of sleeping demons.

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The dream-girl (without her dream-dress) is standing in the doorway, sparks dancing in the depths of her eyes. (She looks like she's been crying.)

"Hello," she says; her accent is a little odd, but she speaks the demons' language now. "There are some girls who'd like to stop being pregnant."

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"...all right. Are they, um - awake—?"

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"No. It didn't seem necessary."

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"...I'd like to observe that this does require me to trust you about their wishes," he says. "But yes, I'll help."

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She looks at him thoughtfully for a moment, and then leads him on a tour of several of the rooms where soon-to-be-ex-captives are curled up sleeping on their comfortable new beds. (Nerine isn't one of them.)

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It only takes a touch and a half-minute each. He is a very good healer.

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When he's done, she pauses and studies him again.

Then she says, "You're less unhelpful than most of them."

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He smiles wryly. "I try. Did you need anything else?"

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"—The two in that room," she says, pointing at Mezeidai's new room. "Do you know them?"

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"Kemar is my boyfriend and I'm the one who found out Mezeidai was a half-demon," he says.

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"Would it be better for them if you were the one who asked if she wants to leave?"

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"...I think it might."

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She nods. "Go on, then," she says.

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He steps into the room. Kemar and Mezeidai look very cozy, snuggled up sleeping together on that couch. Presumably they're about to wake up.

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Mezeidai stiffens slightly on waking, then relaxes when she realizes where she is and who with.

"...Talyr? Is the meeting over?"

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"...in a sense, yes," he says.

"One of the other captives turned out to have mysterious otherworldly powers relating to dreams, and when she was left alone for long enough this morning she put everyone to sleep in the middle of the meeting and then came into a dream version of the meeting to politely ask us what we thought we were doing. She - showed everyone what it was like for her, coming here - not the traumatic parts but most of the rest - it was, ah, very convincing. Then she told us that humans are people and said she plans to take all the prisoners and leave. I offered to - help anyone who was pregnant and didn't want to be - she woke me up to let me do that, and then asked if I knew the two of you. She'd like me to ask you if you want to go with her or not."

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She shakes her head, realizes she should probably actually give the matter some thought, and decides she does not in fact regret her reflexive reaction.

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"All right. I'll let her know. The girl with few complaints is staying, too; she came into the dream-meeting to ask if that was feasible, and she seemed very charmed by how concerned for her happiness and well-being everyone suddenly is."

He comes over to the couch to distribute hugs.

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Hug.

"Did anyone actually admit to what they thought they were doing?"

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He snorts softly. "They did not. I'll tell her if she asks me privately."

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"I'm not sure would, if I found out I'd been doing something that horrifying to someone with mysterious otherworldly powers."

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"She made it very clear that she isn't interested in revenge. Anyway, I'd better go convey your response."

He hugs them both one more time and steps out into the hall.

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"Well?"

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He shakes his head.

...and pauses. "Ah - do you want some clothes? My other boyfriend can make cloth from stone."

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"Yes, that would be useful. You can show me who to wake."

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He yawns and gets up off the floor.

"This has sure been an interesting day." He looks at Talyr. "Did you volunteer me for something?"

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"Clothes," he explains succinctly.

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"Oh, sure."

He pulls layer after layer of stone-silk off the nearest wall and hands them to Talyr to be made into usable garments. And shoes, too, they're probably going to want shoes, he can do shoes. And maybe some bags for carrying stuff in? Not that there is really any stuff for them to carry?

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She smiles thoughtfully at both of them and puts on shoes and clothes and takes custody of the rest for when she wakes the prisoners.

 

"...There should be someone in the world with the ability to capture a mara, in case mine gets loose," she says. "I'm going to be careful but accidents happen."

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"What does the ability to capture a mara consist of?"

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"Acquiring the ability is a very unpleasant process. Technically it's possible anytime someone is attacked by a mara, at home, but I'm not sure if anyone in this world could do it by themselves, and I don't especially want to rely on that, since people who can capture an attacking mara with no preparation are rare even in a world where everyone knows what a mara is; and locking them is much harder to guess, it needs to be taught. If you want to capture a mara you need a strong will and the ability to focus well under stress. And if you want me to give you the ability to capture mara you have to confirm that you understand how important it is not to unlock them casually. A locked mara is a source of considerable power that is almost never worthwhile to use."

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"Yes, I got that impression very clearly from the - memories you shared. Well. If you want to give me this ability, I'll take it. Will I be able to pass it on to others?"

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She shakes her head. "Not without a mara of your own."

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"From everything I've seen, I hope I'm never in a position to get one."

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"We'll need to sit somewhere quiet for a few minutes." She glances at Izaneth. "Do you mind if I put you back to sleep? It's easier to deal with everything if fewer people are awake at a time."

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The sparks in her eyes flare slightly, and Izaneth falls neatly asleep.

She looks at Talyr.

"I meant it about the process being unpleasant. Being a captive here was only usually worse, minute-for-minute. But it doesn't take very long. If you haven't picked it up after five minutes I'll stop trying."

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"Understood. Go on."

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She stares into his eyes, and the world slips sideways.

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—creeping clinging darkness sliding under his skin, pulling all his pieces out of place, licking at his bones with long cold tongues—

—and an inarticulable sense of how to make it stop doing that

It feels like closing a door that someone else is trying very hard to shove open: a long struggle, and then click, and his mind is his own again. He blinks down at her; neither of them has moved while he was fighting the mara. He can't even tell how much time passed. It didn't feel like more than a few minutes, but it's hard to be sure.

"...you're right," he says. "That was unpleasant. Thank you, though."

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She nods. There's - something about her, now, an intangible feeling of something huge and powerful and horrible wrapped up tight and compressed down to fit in a space as small as a person. Up close, it's kind of disconcerting.

"You'll know how to lock a mara if it ever comes up. I'm going to leave now. I'll let everyone wake up once we're far enough away."

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"My name is Talyr," he says as she turns away. "I never caught yours."

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"Raiel."

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He waits until he can't hear anyone moving in the hall, and a couple of minutes afterward, before he goes to check on Kemar and Mezeidai. The last thing he wants to do is startle anyone on their way out.

When he looks into all the rooms along the way, the only one still occupied is Nerine's.

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"Is everything alright?" she asks when he gets there.

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"Slightly surreal, but otherwise yes," he says. "Raiel - that's her name - said she'll let everyone wake up once she and her rescuees are far enough away. I'm not sure how long that'll be."

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"Okay." She snuggles in a little closer to Kemar. "...Do you think I made the right decision, staying?"

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"...I don't know if it's my place to say. But - I hope we can make it worthwhile."

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"I--I don't want to be alone."

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He comes over and sits next to her and Kemar and hugs her.

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Hugs. "I--I would have thought--

I'm too demonic for the humans. If they had known. I never would have guessed I wouldn't be too human for the demons. But if everyone agrees that I'm a demon, then..."

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"The consensus in favour seems to be pretty firm. Although there was one person who tried to argue that half-demons shouldn't count. That was before Raiel showed up to correct our assumptions about humans, though."

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Snuggle. "And I don't want to hide anymore--and I want to learn to fly--"

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Snuggle. "I look forward to seeing you learn."

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Snuggle. "It would be a very different matter if my mother were still alive."

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...snuggle. "Yeah, I imagine so."

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"I miss her but I'm glad she never had to find out about my getting captured by demons."

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Hug.

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Snuggle. "And I--want to know you better."

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"Hmm?"

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"You've been so nice."

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"I've been - adequate. In a sea of inadequacy," he says, hugging her some more. "I aspire to better than that."

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"Yeah. I--want to give you the chance to do so."

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Snuggle. "Sounds like a plan."

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Snuggle. 

"So, you said you're a painter, what do Kemar and Izaneth do?"

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"Combat instructor," says Kemar. "And Izaneth's a sculptor and architect."

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"Combat instructor?"

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"I used to fight a lot when I was younger. Got good enough to teach it."

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"Could you teach me?"

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He smiles. "Yeah."

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"Thank you."

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He laughs and hugs her.

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Hugs! Snuggly hugs.

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Mmmmm, cozy.

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Cozy cuddlepile.

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"This is so nice," she sighs. "I'm really glad I'm as good at keeping things separate as I am."

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"Yeah. I'm - glad I can help you." Snuggle.

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Snuggle. "It would really suck if I couldn't stand to be touched."

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Nod. Pet pet.

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Snuggle. "And when I asked you to--and you--it was good. I don't think normally--but it was good."

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"I'm glad of that too," he murmurs, snuggling her.

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"They're not going to think you took advantage of me, are they?"

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"I'd hope not."

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"I really hope not."

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Hug. "You are soooo good at hugs," she says contentedly.

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"Thank you, I'm very proud of this accomplishment." Snuggle.

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Nerine wakes up.

There's some chance that was actually just a dream, but... nah.

She gets out of bed and yawns and stretches and goes to see if everybody in the common room is waking up too.

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Everyone in the common room is waking up! One of the more swiftly-lucid demons hugs her and then trots off to retrieve garments.

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It's so cute how nice they are all of a sudden. She's very charmed.

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Well, some of them appear to have been rendered nigh-catatonic by guilt.

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That is less cute and more concerning! Well. Understandable, but concerning.

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Khythen pushes himself up groggily.

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And we're back to cute.

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"Hi,' he says to her. "Nice to see you in the world of the waking again."

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"Nice to see you too." Kiss. "...I hope those guys are going to be okay."

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Kiss. "...I hope so too. But I wouldn't bet on it, not for all of them."

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Sigh. Hug.

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Snuggle.

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The other demon comes back with clothes. They're all too big for her, but they can be made to stay on anyway.

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"Thanks!" Helpful demon can have a hug and a kiss on the cheek and then she puts on clothes and hugs Khythen again. "...I wanna be introduced to people, it's weird not knowing your names."

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"I'm Rrhotehk," clothes demon offers.

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"I'm Nerine! Nice to meet you!"

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He smiles wryly. "I'm glad."

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Awwww. She smiles fondly at him.

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He smiles back. "That's Fythkyre," he adds, gesturing at another demon stirring near their feet. It's Bone Demon.

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"Ooh, I remember him."

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"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" he mumbles into the floor before levering himself to his feet.

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"Good thing!"

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"Well. Thank you."

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She giggles.

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"Uh, that's Jiorthkir, he organized this thing," Rrhotehk adds, pointing.

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Jiorthkir can have a smile too.

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Jiorthkir gives her a wave and goes back to trying to take care of the nigh-catatonic ones.

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"—is there anything I can do to help?"

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"I...don't know. You could try."

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"I - want them to be okay." She leans on Khythen. "But I don't know if there's anything I can do about it."

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Cuddle. "I don't know either," he sighs.

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Snuggle. "Like - I have this impulse to hug them and tell them it's okay but I don't even know that wouldn't make it worse -"

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"Maybe see if Jiorthkir can get anywhere with them first," he murmurs. "And--if it comes to it, if--it might be that it comes to a point where making it worse would be redundant."

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"...yeah." She sighs. She leans on him some more.

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He snuggles her some more.

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He's very cozy. And snuggles are very cheering.

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"...So what do you want to do next?" he asks her.

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"I don't really know! For a while there it was just 'okay, what can I do that leads to me not dying', and now... I would like my future to involve calligraphy and cuddles and lots of great sex but I'm fuzzy on the details and I don't really have a schedule in mind."

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"...Well, I'm also a calligrapher, do you want me to get my supplies so we can nerd about pretty, pretty letters?"

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"That sounds amazing." Kiss.

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He kisses her and puts her down and lopes off for supplies.

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She sits and smiles at cute demons.

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Cute demons come up to her and say hi and want to know that she's really okay and if she wants anything and offer hugs!

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She is absolutely okay! She's worried about those guys over there but she's not sure what to do about them and doesn't make anything worse. She would like to be introduced to people and she would love hugs.

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They introduce her to people and hug her.

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Cozy!! Oh yeah and maybe food?

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She can absolutely have food. Demon cuisine is weird and different from what she's familiar with, but tasty.

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Ee. Who made this and can she hug them, it's great.

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Khyirzen made this and yes she can!

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She hugs Khyirzen very enthusiastically.

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He hugs back delightedly!

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Mmm, cozy hugs. And is Khythen back yet—

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He is now!

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"Hi!" She greets him with a hug and a kiss.

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Kiss. "Hi! I brought calligraphy supplies."

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"I can see that. Let's be nerds."

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Demonic calligraphy supplies turn out to be meaningfully different from human ones! For one thing, demon hands are significantly larger on average and the brush handles are designed accordingly.

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Nerine sits in Khythen's lap and giggles at the enormous brushes.

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"They're not that big," he says, mock-offended.

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"Oh, I'd've thought it would have been obvious by now that our kind have larger--pens," a passing demon says with a suggestively raised eyebrow.

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"Much to my delight, yes," she says, petting a brush handle affectionately.

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Khythen buries his face in his hands and giggles helplessly.

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Nerine turns in his lap so she can hug him, giggling.

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Hugs.

"We could probably get Izaneth to make brushes more like what you're used to."

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"I will happily continue making filthy jokes about your calligraphy supplies in the meantime."

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"I have complete and total faith in your ability to make filthy jokes in any and all situations." Kiss.

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"Good, good." Kiss.

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Kiss  Snuggle. Khythen looks around in case Izaneth happens to be around.

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Yep! He catches Khythen looking at him and comes over.

"What's up?"

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He holds up one of the brushes. "Unsurprisingly in retrospect, demon writing tools are not optimized for human hands."

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He giggles. "Just too big for you, huh?" he says to Nerine, ruffling her hair.

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She leans into his hand. "The joke has been made. But unlike in certain other areas of life, I do actually prefer to have a pen that fits me."

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"Sure, lemme see that and I'll make you a smaller one."

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Khythen hands him the brush. Conveniently, not having a pen in his hand anymore makes it easier to snuggle Nerine.

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He studies it for a minute, and then puts it down and pulls a bit of stone out of the floor (smoothing it out afterward so there's only barely a visible dip) and picks up Nerine's hand, the better to examine it for sizing purposes. The lump of stone shapes itself into a brush, and he kisses Nerine's hand and gives it an affectionate squeeze that makes the bones creak audibly and then gives her the new pen and lets go.

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She shivers happily when he squeezes her hand, and then grins up at him. "Thanks."

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Khythen kisses her, since she is so delightfully kissably arranged.

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Mmmmmmmmkiss. She is maybe a little distracted from calligraphy at this point.

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Kiss. Khythen's claws have not quite broken skin before it occurs to him that he should probably not do that in public.

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She snuggles into his lap with a rueful sigh. "Oh, look at me getting all distracted. I've been having sex for like a month straight, and great as it has been, I miss art."

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"I can completely empathize with that."

Art! Demon calligraphy looks completely different from what she's familiar with, both in terms of having a different alphabet and having different prettying techniques.

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...She kind of double-takes the first time he writes something. "So apparently dream lady taught me your language while I wasn't looking, or something? Thanks, dream lady?"

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"What, really?"

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She switches languages. "Seems like it! This is, uh, surreal. But in a cool way?"

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"...Yeah, wow.

I wonder if she did it for Mezeidai, too."

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"That'd sure be useful. I sort of get the impression she was in a hurry to be gone, though, so if she didn't stop to chat..."

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"Oh well. She can learn it the long way."

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"Yeah."

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Art! Snuggles!

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they really don't let you sleep enough, when you're a captive being raped every waking moment. She dozed off again cozily on Kamar and Talyr.

The noises she's started to make are less cozy.

"No," she mutters in her sleep. "No, don't. I don't want it. No. No!"

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...oh, dear.

"Mezeidai," he murmurs. "Wake up, love, you're having a nightmare."

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She doesn't seem to hear him. She makes an unhappy whining noise and shivers and doesn't wake up.

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He shifts so he is snuggled up to her without doing anything that restricts her freedom of movement, and pets her hair worriedly.

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(Kemar is already appropriately snuggled.)

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The whining gets higher-pitched and more intense. Her back arches and she screams, and apparently this is enough to finally wake her because her eyes fly open. She collapses, whimpering, for a moment, before she levers herself up and crawls to the edge of the bed and vomits over it, dry-heaving long after there isn't anything left in her stomach to disgorge.

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Talyr follows her and holds her hair out of the way.

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When she stops heaving she collapses again and curls up and starts crying.

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Snuggle. Pet pet.

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The crying gets pretty violent. Great shuddering sobs that wrack her body at least as much as the throwing up did.

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Snuggles.

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Eventually it dies down to whimpers. She curls up in his arms in a lump of misery.

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He holds her and heals all the small discomforts that come with violently throwing up and then crying.

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"Thank you," she murmurs eventually.

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Hug. "You're welcome. Do you want me to try harder to wake you up next time?"

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"Yes please."

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"Okay." He cuddles her and pets her hair.

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She glances at Kemar.

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Kemar looks back at her, sleepy and concerned and uncertain.

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"Um--could you--more hug is better than less--"

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"—Of course."

He snuggles up.

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She relaxes a little. She is still not all the way back to okay but she is definitely better.

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Cuddles.

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Cuddles.

"Thank you. For--this, but also for--not making it awkward that I--" she gestures at her abdomen as best she can while snuggling two people. "That it happened or that you--weren't consulted. It. Would be pretty reasonable to be upset about that."

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He smiles and squeezes her shoulder. "Hey, it's okay."

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"I'm glad it's okay. I'm glad you--want me here."

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"I'm - glad Talyr could help you. Glad I can too. But he's better at it."

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"Talyr is the best at hugs."

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Kemar giggles soflty. "Yeah."

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He smiles and cuddles them both.

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She also cuddles both of them.

"I was trying to learn your language before I was magically put to sleep," she observes.

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"Let's continue with that, then." Snuggle. Pet pet.

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Yeah. Snuggles and language lessons.

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Elsewhere Jiorthkir finds Nerine.

"There are some guys who I think could be helped by hugs."

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She hops out of Khythen's lap immediately. "Where?"

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"They're a bit scattered, but I can take you to the closest one."

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"Yes please."

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He brings her to a demon with dark purple skin and neon blue hair, who is sufficiently not catatonic to be sitting up with his arms wrapped around his knees. "This is Xathrek," he introduces her.

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"Hi, Xathrek. I'm Nerine."

She sits next to Xathrek and hugs him.

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"...Hi."

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She cuddles up to his side and leans her head on his shoulder. "Nice to meet you," she says. "Admittedly kind of awkward, but hey."

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...He sort of awkwardly puts an arm around her shoulder. "I can't imagine why."

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She giggles. "Complete mystery," she agrees. "Mm. I'm fine, I promise."

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"I'm glad you're fine. But thirteen women aren't."

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"Yeah. But..."

She trails off, searching for words.

"...You fucked up real bad, I'm not gonna deny that. But you didn't - there's - there's not some kind of cosmic threshold where if you make this big a mistake you're not allowed to be okay anymore. Everybody gets to be okay. Everybody." Hug. "Okay?"

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...Hug. "That's not...that's not really the point?"

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"It's - it's why I'm trying to help."

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"...Okay. Thanks." Hug.

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Hug. "Do you wanna talk about it?"

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He shrugs. "What is there to talk about?"

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"Well, you said 'that's not really the point', which implies there's something that is..."

Snuggle.

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"...I feel like shit, and it would be fine if I didn't, but given why I feel like shit I don't really have a right to complain about it?"

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"So on the one hand, I definitely see your point. On the other hand - if there's anybody who gets to say 'hey, you feel like shit and that sucks, I'm sorry, you deserve to be okay, have a hug', it's gotta be me, right?"

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"...Yeah." Hugs. He shifts to hug her more fully and include wings.

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She snuggles up with a cozy sigh.

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Snuggles.

Eventually he lets her go. "I should probably be less of a lump," he sighs, getting up.

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She smiles at him and gets up and stretches up to kiss him on the cheek.

"See you later," she says, and goes off to see if Jiorthkir has anyone else for her to hug.

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A few of the others have unlumped on their own, at least enough to get to their rooms and lump there where it would be rude to barge in, but there are some other lumps who could use hugging. He directs her to one named Ghyresh.

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She hugs Ghyresh.

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He hugs back automatically but doesn't say anything.

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Snuggle. "Hi."

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"Hi."

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"I'm Nerine. It's nice to meet you."

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"Okay."

 

"My name's Ghyresh."

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Snuggle. "You gonna be okay?"

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Shrug.

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More snuggle.

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He snuggles her for a while.

 

"I heard what you said to Xathrek."

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"Yeah?"

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"Yeah.

 

It's one thing to say 'it's all going to be okay.' It's another thing to consider that if they bring Mezeidai home and have her confirmed an actual demon the rest of us are potentially in a world of legal trouble."

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"...mm. Yeah, there is that. I don't know a thing about demon law, sorry."

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"I didn't expect you to. Just. Much as I'd like to be able to say it was all guilt bothering me."

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She laughs softly. "If this was all happening in my hometown I'd say 'I'll seduce as many judges as it takes', but."

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He snorts. "What, really?"

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"Oh, you bet I would."

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"And this would work?"

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"Depends on the judge. There's also less straightforward options for ones who have, like, professional ethics."

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"Convenient as it would be, I think I prefer a justice system not literally seduceable into letting people get away with rape and torture."

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"There's a reason I was moving out of my hometown," she agrees.

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--He laughs.

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She snuggles him some more.

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Excellent.

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And by then the rest of the lumps have been cleared out one way or another.

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She helped. She is satisfied with this.

Eventually she unsnuggles from Ghyresh and goes looking for food.

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A demon named Irkhetz offers to find her something from the kitchen.

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"That'd be great, thanks!"

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He comes back a few minutes later with spiced veggie bread smeared with some kind of nut paste.

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"Thanks!" Hug. Nom.

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Delighted hug!

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It is so cute how much these guys like her and want her to be happy! She hugs Irkhetz again after she finishes eating.

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Irkhetz snuggles her happily.

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Mmm, cozy.

...and snuggling him reminds her of the last time she was this close to him for an extended interval, which if she recalls correctly involved him shoving a barbed cock down her throat. She contemplates this memory for a few seconds, and then kisses him.

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He is briefly too startled to kiss back, but only briefly.

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Mmmmmm, kiss.

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He buries a hand in her hair and deepens the kiss.

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She makes approving noises. And maybe an approving wriggle or two.

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He makes a pleased noise in the back of his throat.

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Mmmmm. Yes good.

 

"Wanna come back to my room?" she murmurs, eventually. "I have this lovely new bed I've hardly even used, seems a shame."

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"Sure," he says, grinning.

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She beams, and kisses him again, and leads the way to her room.

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When they get there he picks her up and kisses her again.

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Mmmmmmmmmmmmm. She kisses back, with considerable enthusiasm.

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"What do you want," he murmurs.

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"Mm."

She pulls off her borrowed tunic and unfastens the belt on her borrowed pants.

"I want you to carry me to my lovely new bed and hold me down and fuck me hard. With spikes. I like the way you do spikes."

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He grins. "I can do that."

He scoops her up and lays her out on the bed and climbs fluidly on top of her and pins her wrists to the bed and kisses her.

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This results in such approving noises.

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He pins her ankles with his and sinks his finely-barbed cock into her.

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"Fuck yes," she moans.

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"Oh you're beautiful," he breathes, fucking her roughly.

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"Mmmm that's so good, fucking shred me, yes, fuck—"

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The barbs grow.

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Ecstatic wordless whimpering.

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He fucks her harder.

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She lets out a long low moan, and struggles helplessly under him, and shakes like a leaf when she comes.

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He kisses her some more and heals her.

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"Mmmmmm." Kisses. Yes good.

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He brings her wrists over her head so he can pin them both with one hand and gently caresses her as he brutally fucks her.

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Whimper. "Oh that feels so good..."

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He kisses her and strokes her and shreds her.

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She comes again, shrieking and writhing, helpless and loving it.

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A minute later he comes inside her and pulls out and heals her and flops down beside her and snuggles her.

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She cuddles up with a quiet hum of contentment. "That was amazing."

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"I'm glad."

Thoughtfully: "Want to hear something hilarious and awful?"

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"Definitely!"

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"Did anyone mention to you what the--endgame was?"

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"Yep. "

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"So you may have noticed there are a lot more of us than there were of you."

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"I did notice that!" Kiss.

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Kiss. "So we had to have some way to, ah, allocate the final byproducts."

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Snort. Kiss.

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"In your case--we kept score. Whoever made you come the most times. Orgasms over a minute long counted twice."

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"...that's adorable. And strangely flattering."

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He kisses her again. "I'm glad."

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Mmmmkiss. "Who's winning?"

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Kiss. "Fythkyre."

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Giggle. "Oh, I'll bet he is."

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Kiss. Snuggle.

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Mmmmm so cozy.

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"Not that there's a contest anymore."

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"Yeah."

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Snuggle. "This is better."

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"It is!" Snuggle. Kiss. "You guys are so cute. If I'd known ahead of time that you were all going to find out I'm a person I would not have expected this much cuteness to ensue. It's good. I approve."

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"What would you have expected?"

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"...Probably a lot more straight-up denial. Maybe that's cynical of me."

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"...The scary dream lady didn't give us a lot of choice."

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"What did she do? She wasn't super clear about it."

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"She shoved a mercifully abridged subjective summary of the past month and a half at us.'

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"—of her past month and a half? Wow. Yeah, I guess that'd do it. Okay now I'm surprised more of you aren't curled up in a ball on the floor."

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"I did say 'mercifully abridged'."

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"Mm. Yeah." Snuggle. "I'm - glad she left out the nasty parts, then."

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Fervently: "Trust me, so am I."

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...yeah. Snuggles. Snuggles are good.

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So much snuggle. "The rest of our society is--likely to be harder."

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"No kidding. And I probably can't just go seduce them all."

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"For one thing, not all of them are attracted to girls.''

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—she giggles. "Oh, now I'm just remembering—when the caravan got hit and we were all being carried off, my first thought when I saw who'd been captured was 'what, are there no demons who want to rape boys'—"

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He laughs. "To be fair, given your culture's assigned roles, the men were much more likely to be attempting to kill us and therefore that much harder to nonlethally capture."

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"Granted."

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"But, you know, no one thought it was super weird that when Khythen's friend showed up he brought his boyfriends along with him."

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"Khythen's friend and his boyfriends are adorable! Well, okay, mostly the adorable one is Izaneth. He's just so charmingly earnest about interior decoration."

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"We all appreciate the interior decoration."

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"My bed is so cozy now!" Snuggle.

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Snuggle. "Mmmhmm."

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"It's nice having a cozy bed." Kiss. "Both for sleeping in and for other purposes."

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"Yeah. Especially cuddling."

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"Especially that!" She hums thoughtfully. "Now I'm tempted to go ask him to make my bed bigger so I can cuddle more people in it at once. I'm greedy that way."

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He grins. "I bet he'd do it."

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"Yeah I'm gonna do that."

She kisses Irkhetz. She gets up. She puts her borrowed clothes back on. She goes looking for Izaneth.

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Izaneth is remodeling the common room because of course that's what Izaneth is doing.

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"Hiii," says Nerine, grinning up at him. "Want to come make me a bigger bed?"

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"Sounds like fun."

Off they go to her room. Bed: embiggen!

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She perches on her embiggened bed. She grins up at him some more.

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He laughs, and picks her up effortlessly, and kisses her.

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Mmmmkiss.

 

"So," she says, "first time we met, my impression was 'could definitely break me in half with his dick, is definitely thinking about it, too preoccupied with interior decoration to follow through'. And then you participated in the politest gangbang I've ever had. Which was, you know, nice! But was I wrong?"

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"You weren't wrong. Want to try out your new bed?"

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"I would love to try out my new bed," she says. "Fuck me. Impolitely."

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He kisses her again, and takes her clothes off without putting her down. When her pants come off to reveal blood and semen still damp between her thighs, he makes an appreciative noise and gropes her, then throws her down on her bed, takes his pants off, and pounces. He's well over eight feet tall and built like a blacksmith; when his weight comes down on her wrist, the bones snap like twigs.

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She moans and spreads her legs. "Fuck yes."

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He hauls her knees farther apart, casually crushing them in the process. When he shoves his cock into her cunt, it's already big enough to hurt. It gets bigger. Her bones crack with the force of his thrusts. He doesn't use spikes; he tears her open with sheer size and violence.

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It's amazing. Gasping for breath, crying with pain, she struggles futilely against his unstoppable strength.

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He comes, shuddering; and then, with his now-enormous cock still buried inside her, he heals her. It's slower than usual, skin and bone pulling themselves together over the course of a few long seconds instead of all at once.

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It feels so good - but not quite good enough - she squirms and whines, shoving at his shoulders just to feel the rock-hard muscle refuse to give an inch.

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He grins down at her; pins her wrists above her head, breaks them both with a casual squeeze of his hand; and starts fucking her again, in slow shallow grinding thrusts that really bring some emphasis to how huge he is right now, how thoroughly his cock fills her cunt. As he hardens again, her skin splits just from the increased pressure. Fresh blood trickles out of her.

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She whimpers pleadingly, trying and failing to form words.

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If she's pleading for him to fuck her harder, she'll get her wish soon enough.

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Yes. Yes, that is exactly what she wanted. Her ribs snap and her hips shatter and she screams in agonized ecstasy.

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This time, he heals her while he's still fucking her.

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She comes. Her voice gives out partway through, her shriek faltering into a hoarse whine.

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Shortly afterward, he comes too, and lets himself slip out of her this time. A gush of mingled blood and seed follows, pooling between her thighs. He kisses her forehead and flops next to her on the bed and gathers her into his arms, draping a wing over her back.

"That was fun. You okay?" he asks, petting her hair and healing her again to fix the voice and any lingering splits or fractures from that last half-minute.

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"Mmmmm. Yeah, I'm great." Snuggle. "You're great. I don't think I've ever been fucked like that. You're like a force of nature. A river in flood."

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He laughs. "Poetic. I like that." Kiss. "And I'm glad you enjoyed it. I would've felt bad if you'd caught your breath and said 'not that impolitely'."

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Snort. "After the month I've had, I don't think there's any way you could fuck me where I'd complain of too much violence unless I was afraid I'd literally die."

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"Good to know." Snuggle.

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"The perks of being gang-raped by demons every waking moment for weeks!"

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He laughs.

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She giggles.

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He snuggles her for a while, and then cleans up their mess and peels off a layer of wall to make her some clothes that actually fit her. A tunic and skirt in something like sparkling black silk, loose and floaty, with short pants underneath.

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She twirls delightedly and kisses him and traipses out to the common room with her borrowed clothes in a bundle in case somebody wants them back.

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The original owner doesn't happen to be in the common area but someone else offers to clean them and get them back to him.

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Someone else can have a bundle of clothes and a hug!

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He hugs her delightedly and then leaves to remove blood and semen from the pants.

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What a good helpful collection of demons she has. She looks around for Khythen.

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Khythen is doing something with a square piece of stone. It appears to be some sort of art; he's pretty engrossed in it.

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She sits nearby and watches.

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It turns out flesh is not the only thing he can carve pretty letters into; it's the poem he wrote on her arm.

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Ooh, and now she can read it!

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It's a beautifully eloquent love poem.

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Awwwwwww!!!

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He finally notices her.

"Hi!"

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"Hi! That's very pretty."

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"I try." He scoops her into his lap and snuggles her.

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Eee.

"Mm. You're cozy. And adorable. And good at art."

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"I pride myself on all of these qualities!"

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She kisses him. "Izaneth made me a bigger bed, wanna come see?"

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"Ooh. I would love to."

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"He also made me these pretty clothes!" she says, hopping out of his lap and twirling. Her skirt gleams as though dusted with tiny stars.

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"I thought you were even more lovely than usual somehow."

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"Awwww." Kiss. And back to her room to show off her new bed.

It's big. Like, she could have a cuddlepile with eight of her new friends and room to spare, kind of big.

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"Wow.

...I feel like we should maybe be inviting more people, to appreciate this bed properly."

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"I like the way you think."

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He kisses her. "I think I could find Fythkyre pretty easily."

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"You have the best ideas." Kiss.

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Kiss. "Any other thoughts for who?"

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"Mmmmm. Oh, you know who I haven't been introduced to yet and would like to be, is that one guy who really likes fire - he's a little shorter than you, reddish-purple skin, blue hair, nice eyelashes?"

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"Oh, I think I know who you're talking about--his name's Frixar. I'm not sure I know where he is but I can certainly try."

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"I think I caught a glimpse of him in the common room earlier."

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"Alright," he says, and kisses her, and leaves to find Fythkyre and Frixar.

A few minutes later he opens the door again and calls, "Success!" while flanked by the other two demons.

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Nerine has taken her clothes off in the interim. They are such pretty clothes. She'd rather not ruin them.

"Hiiiii."

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"Hello," Fythkyre says.

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"I hear you're winning the contest. Can't say I'm surprised."

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"The--oh. Who mentioned the contest?"

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"Irkhetz. We were snuggling and he was like 'want to hear something hilarious and awful?' and I was like 'definitely yes'."

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Frixar giggles.

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She beams. "The contest is adorable. You're all adorable. C'mere."

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Frixar comes over and kisses her. Fythkyre sits beside them and kisses her when Frixar's done.

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Mmmm, kisses. She is so enthusiastic about these kisses.

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Khythen comes over and cuddles her.

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Perfect. She kisses him too.

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Mmm kisses.

"How do you want us?" Fythkyre asks.

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"Mmmm, I bet you can guess what I want from you," she says, turning back to Fythkyre to kiss him again. "I want you all fucking me at once when I heal from having all my bones broken. Embellishments to this plan will be thoroughly appreciated."

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Fythkyre laughs. "Alright." He moves down to her feet and starts breaking bones, humming happily as he does so.

Frixar takes off his pants, brings his hips level with her face, and--hesitates.

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She makes a happy sound in the back of her throat and gives Frixar an affectionate nuzzle.

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He makes a sort of choked groaning noise and eases his cock into her mouth.

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She moans softly around him, and again much more emphatically when Fythkyre breaks another bone.

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"She really likes the lung trick," Khythen tells Frixar helpfully.

"Oh? Alright then," Frixar says, and thrusts into her throat.

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Yes. Yes, she definitely does really like that.

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Oh good.

Fythkyre keeps breaking bones.

Khythen lifts her hips enough to get in underneath her, the tip of his cock pressing against her ass.

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She is a little impaired in her ability to make encouraging noises right now, but she does her best.

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He pulls her down onto him, slow and gentle but big enough that it still hurts.

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Khythen is so good. They are all so good. Broken and bleeding and breathless and stuffed full of cock is one of her favourite ways to be.

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He fucks her slowly and gently and grows.

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so good

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Fythkyre finishes breaking her and crawls between her legs and slides his cock into her cunt. Frixar lays a hand on her left breast and starts burning it off.

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She can barely move with all her bones broken, and can barely make a sound with Frixar's cock down her throat, but she manages to communicate her enthusiasm nonetheless.

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Fythkyre adds spikes.

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Oh fuck yes.

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Frixar finishes burning off the first breast and moves on to the second.

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She appreciates these people so much. They do such fucking lovely things to her.

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And once that one's done, Khythen heals her completely.

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She comes, shaking, choking on Frixar's cock, with Fythkyre's spikes shredding her cunt all over again as she shudders and clenches around him.

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He kisses her neck and caresses her through it.

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It lasts a while. A two-pointer, if anyone's keeping score.

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"You're so lovely," he tells her happily.

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Quiet helpless choking noises which may translate to 'yes I am' or 'you too' or maybe just 'fuck I love this'.

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Perhaps he will inquire later. For now he's just coming hard inside her.

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Mmmmm, good.

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When he is done he snuggles her happily without extracting himself, his cock soft and still but still enormous inside her.

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Khythen is her favourite.

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He kisses her on the cheek and reaches around to stroke her in counterpoint to Fythkyre's thrusts.

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Oh that's nice.

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Frixar's thrusts speed up a little, and finally he shoves his cock as far down her throat as it will go and comes, shuddering violently.

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She manages to get a few tiny whimpers of pleasure past this obstruction.

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He slowly drags his cock out of her throat.

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She gasps in a breath and moans raggedly.

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Khythen wraps a hand around her throat and squeezes gently, not quite strangling her.

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Whimper.

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His cock starts hardening again inside her.

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"Fuck yes," she gasps.

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Fyrthkyre comes inside her and lets his cock slip out. Khythen does not stop touching her there.

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She moans. "Mmmm you're all so fucking gorgeous."

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Khythen kisses her properly now that there is no longer a cock in the way of doing so. "I'm glad you think so."

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She kisses back, moaning.

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He rolls them over so he's on top of her and starts fucking her ass again. This time there is very little that could be described as gentle about it.

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She whimpers helplessly and clearly loves every second of it.

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Frixar takes one of her hands in his and starts burning it.

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"Fuck yes—"

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He chars it down to the bone quickly and then heals it.

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She comes, shrieking and shaking.

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Khythen kisses her through it, and comes again shortly thereafter, and then all three of them snuggle her.

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Mmmmmmmmmm.

"That was fucking amazing."

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"I'm glad," Fythkyre says contentedly.

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Nuzzle. "I like the bones thing. The bones thing is good."

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Nuzzle. "I'm very glad."

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She grins and kisses him.

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Mmmmkiss.

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Kiss. Snuggle. What a good cozy cuddlepile. What good cozy demons.

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So cozy! Frixar cleans up miscellaneous fluids and Khythen pulls up the blanket that Izaneth so helpfully provided when embiggening the bed up around all of them.

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It's a big bed! It would've been silly not to include blankets and pillows at that point!

Nerine snuggles up to her cozy demons and contentedly rests her head on Khythen's chest.

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Oh good. He pets her hair.

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~so cozy~