Jane 2
by Waldo 2
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Chapter 1 - Home life 2
Chapter 2 - The Lost City Legend 15
Chapter 3 - Nasroi's Tall Tales 28
Chapter 4 - Kill the bastard! 45
Chapter 5 - The Waterfall 61
Chapter 6 - Acceptance of the new identity 74
Chapter 7 - Home at last 89
Chapter 8 - The barn 102
Chapter 9 - The letter 111
Jane
by Waldo
Chapter 1 - Home life
From the upper window of his mansion, Sir Jerome Parker watched
the unusually large party in the mansion's outdoor courtyard
below his window. The mid-day party was to celebrate his only
daughter's 18th's birthday.
Or the birthday celebration was what the very beautiful and young
Jane Parker was supposed to believe was the only reason for the
party. While all of her exclusive Finishing School girlfriends and her
relatives, as well as the communities social elite, were attending her
yearly birthday party as usual, he had also found some way to
invite the entire senior class of Cambridge University - the
completely all-male class of 1889. All two hundred and twelve of
England's most promising young men of tomorrow's generation
were down in the courtyard. Some of them were destined as their
natural birthright, to go on to become future leading English
statesmen, following in their father's footsteps as they became the
next generation of English politicians. Other young men, whose
families weren't as well politically connected, would enter the
scientific fields, becoming either doctors or architects or scientists
or explorers. Most of them would return to live at their family
estates, dedicating their lives to managing the large family estates
that had typically been in their family for generations.
Either way that their individual futures went, below in the brightly
festooned courtyard were some of the most eligible single men in
England - nay, below were THE MOST ELIGIBLE young Englishmen
by Sir Jerome's very high social standards. He was convinced that
Jane should be able to meet and find someone at this party that
would satisfy even her very high personal requirements. If
everything went the way that he planned it, the next time that
Parker Manor hosted a large party, it would be to celebrate Jane's
engagement.
******
"Jane, may I have the honor of introducing you to Harold Boswell
the fifth, the eldest scion of the very honorable Lord Boswell, from
Goswell County."
The very beautiful and petite dark-haired young woman turned to
face the properly dressed handsome young man that her older male
cousin was introducing to her. Holding her fan demurely at her side
as she had been taught in her Finishing School etiquette classes,
she curtsied while the tall, handsome young man bowed as
expected during formal introductions between proper young
English gentlemen and ladies. Finishing her curtsy, she held her
dainty wrist out, allowing the young man to step forward, and bow
again as he lightly kissed the back of her china-white hand.
After the formal introductions were completed, Jane smiled as she
asked "Is your father_.?"
"Yes. If the 1892 English elections go the way that my Father
predicts, he will become the next Prime Minister of England. He'll
move into Number 10 Downey Street while I stay at the estate,
managing the beautiful estate that I'll eventually inherit." The
young man replied in a rather haughty tone as he boasted of his
father's current dreams.
"Sounds very exciting. I wish your Father success." Replied the
young woman as she adjusted her large, billowing skirt slightly and
adjusted her parasol to keep the sun's damaging rays from
touching her china-white complexion. She turned to walk slowly
through the large courtyard garden, knowing that the young,
dapper-dressed young man would accompany her as she strolled
through the small groups of young people that were standing
around the large garden talking. She knew her father had an
ulterior motive - such as finding her a future husband - to inviting
the twenty-some young women from her Finishing School and the
two-hundred-plus young male aristocrats, in addition to her usual
gaggle mixture of cousins and close friends. The additional new
guests made the party somewhat more stuffy as they observed the
expected formalities but it also made a ten to one male to female
ratio.
She wasn't upset with her father's actions although this wasn't
what she would've preferred for her birthday. She knew that her
father was worried that she would become an old maid - after all
she was eighteen and wasn't even engaged yet.
Jane was too much of a modern woman for her father. Instead of
sitting home and working on her quilts, Jane preferred to sneak
down to the horse stables and find a spirited steed that she would
gallop across the rolling fields at breakneck speed, riding a man's
saddle instead of the more normal ladies sidesaddle. She would
hike her skirt up on the pommel to get it out of the way and prod
the horse to run at breakneck speed as she guided the horse across
her father's large estate. Or she would go down to the nearby river
that flowed near the mansion and swim - as if she was a
commoner. She had made herself something that she called a
bathing suit - using pictures from an American catalog - and she
would spend hours wearing that scandalous and revealing
swimming outfit while she swam in the nearby river. Or she would
spend all day hiking across the fields and bogs, returning home in
the late evening, very muddy and tired from her strenuous exercise.
It had only been in the last two-three years that her father had
been able to convince her that proper women didn't wear pants
and that ladies - especially ladies of his family - didn't work with
field hands in the garden estates. If she wanted to get her hands
dirty, she could work in her flower garden.
Pulled from her reverie, Jane nodded to a giggling Sarah and Saddie
who were surrounded by about ten young suitors. Both young
women were obviously enjoying the attention of the young men.
Saddie was her cousin and Sarah was her current best friend.
She'd met Sarah in the Finishing School and her father had
encouraged the friendship, as he attempted to push Jane and Mary
Beth further apart.
Mary Beth - like Jane - had been born and lived all her life on the
Parker Manor Estate. Only Mary Beth was the daughter of the cook
and one of the gardeners. She was one year older than Jane and
was the person that Jane's father blamed for Jane's errant ways.
Mary Beth had never been schooled in the proper manners
expected of a woman - after all, she was only the daughter of a
cook. Mary Beth was a tall, large-boned woman with a broad face,
long blondish-red hair that she wore up in a proper bun, freckles,
and had the heavy breasts, wide hips and long legs of her mother.
Tipping the barn scales at one hundred and ninety pounds, the
nineteen year-old six-foot-two-inch tall maid looked very
intimidating in her starched black and white maid's uniform. Her
wide shoulders and tall heavy body made her look like she could
whip any man, while her actual demeanor was quite the reverse.
She was a very tender and gentlewoman that wanted nothing more
than to be the mother to a house full of kids.
But to have kids, there has to be a father. So when a twelve year
old Mary Beth first worked out the components of what it took to
get pregnant, she began flirting with men - not for sex, but because
she wanted to get pregnant. Over the years, Mary Beth had shared
with Jane all of the details of her various lovers - she'd had five
different men since her first man at twelve. Jane's father had
forbidden Jane to talk with Mary Beth since that time that a
fourteen-year-old Jane slipped out of the house at night and went
to the local tavern with Mary Beth. When Jane's father learned
that his only daughter had been seen in the local tavern dancing
with local farm hands, he'd become extremely angry. He'd fired
Mary Beth's parents and only recanted their dismissal when Jane
promised to stay away from Mary Beth and to attend the Finishing
School that she'd repeatedly turned down before. While Jane
attended Finishing School to become a proper young lady, Mary
Beth was given intensive moral's training by the local priests and
only allowed to return to the Mansion as a maid with the
understanding that she had to live a very chaste lifestyle or be
permanently prohibited from the Mansion.
Jane's attention was pulled back to the present when Sarah
winked conspiratorially at Jane before returning her attention to
the young man who was expounding his personal views as to why
America would one day ask Britain to take the former colony back.
Although Sarah's hand was spoken for, she was permitted to
partake in the festivities, which were conducted under the clear
oversight of the many chaperons that Jane's father had so
thoughtfully provided.
Sarah was the type of daughter that Jane's father wanted Jane to
be more like - the proper young lady. Sarah liked to sew,
experiment with the newest fashionable hairstyles, cook fancy
dinners for her family, bake cookies for the church, and practice
her piano and flute music.
Unlike Jane, Sarah was engaged to a young man whom she would
marry when he returned from his military assignment as an officer
in Her Majesty's Service in India. Sarah had met the man on her
fifteenth birthday and become engaged the same week, promising to
marry him when he returned from fulfilling his military obligation
in India. Jane kept asking Sarah how she could love a man that
she'd only spent a total of ten hours in his company two years ago,
which was shared with their ever-constant chaperon. Sarah
explained by discussing the man's ancestors and his future place
in London society once he returned from his current military
officer's position. Jane asked about love, about knowing the person
that Sarah had committed her life to, and Sarah responded by
listing the man's pedigree again.
"__.. and after I finished Eton, my father wanted me to attend a law
school. But as I told dear old dad, England has enough lawyers. I
convinced him that he should allow me to practice medicine. So
after I finish my medical training, I'll return to the family estate as
Lord and Master. But enough about me, am I boring you?" the
young man asked as they scrolled beneath the upstairs windows
where Jane could see her father watching the festivities as he
smoked his cigar.
"No, I find your story very interesting. Please continue." She
suggested politely, as she tried to think of some polite way to get
away from him.
He smiled down at her. Everyone smiled down at her because of her
very small body. Jane was a very petite five foot two inches tall and
weighed only ninety-eight pounds. Her perfectly proportional body
was slightly top heavy and her slender child-like waist looked so
small that a lot of men imagined that they could encase her waist
with their hands. Jane's small petite body was the same size as
Mary Beth's body when Mary Beth was only nine years old. Even
with her natural small waist size, Jane was forced into wearing a
corset under her dress because slender waists were the fashion
statement of the decade.
"I'm very interested in someday being the Dean of a Medical
School. I've always wanted to teach, ever since I was twelve when
I__." He rambled on as they walked.
******
Sarah was holding her teacup above her saucer, her little finger
sticking up as they'd been taught in the Finishing School. Beside
Jane on the living room couch, Saddie was finishing her review of
the different young men that the three of them had met during the
afternoon party.
"He was such a bore. Honestly, Sarah, I felt like choking you when
you suggested that he join us for tea some afternoon. All he could
do, was talk about his uncle and how the Queen had said or did
this with his uncle. You'd think that his uncle was the only person
that the Queen ever talked to."
Jane piped in, trying to hide the sarcasm with her sugary tone "But
Saddie, the three of us girls know that your father approves him to
be your suitor. If you don't honor your father's wishes, you may
miss marrying the most eligible bachelor in the world."
"Jane!!! How dare you say such a thing? You've just about given
your poor dear father a heart attack by refusing to choose anyone.
After all, you're getting to be a rather - shall I say - aged person
who still hasn't found her Mister Right." She giggled, amused at
her own wit.
The door opened and all three hushed for a second. A maid pushing
a cart filled with fresh tea and cookies entered the room. Sarah
continued her rating of the different young men as the maid
replaced the half-empty teapot and began serving the cookies as
she refilled the three women's teacups. When the maid handed
Jane's small plate of cookies to her, Jane glanced at the maid and
slightly arched her eyebrows in a silent greeting as she said "Thank
you, Mary Beth."
The maid's head nodded imperceptibly as she refilled Lady Jane's
teacup and curtsied to her mistress. The other two women were
laughing over Sarah's all-knowing description of one of the young
men's fingers, about how thick and long his fingers were. As the
maid left the room, Jane laughed also; not really sure why she was
laughing but knowing that it was expected from her.
******
Her father was sitting in his private upstairs study, enjoying his
customary after-dinner brandy and cigar. All of the guests had left
and Jane had just thanked her father for the wonderful party. He
had quizzed her about the young men "Had she meet anyone that
she would like to meet in an appropriate social settings? What did
she think of the young Boswell? Did Saddie behave herself?"
She had done her dutiful daughter routine, telling him as much as
she dared about the many young men that she had met that day.
Then she had begged to turn in early - it'd been a long and tiring
day. She'd gone straight to her room and undressed, being very
happy to get out of the large and uncomfortable billowing skirt and
other lady's unmentionables.
Then she slipped into a simple cotton dress that her father didn't
like to see her wear - one that was comfortable instead of
fashionable. One that he permitted her to keep and wear only
within the privacy of her room. She spent a moment brushing her
hair and staring at her delicate china-white facial features. She
opened a drawer, removing the small bag of makeup - makeup,
which her father prohibited her from wearing because he thought
that unmarried women who painted their faces were common sluts.
She spent a few moments adding a little color to her high
cheekbones and a little red to her lips then extinguished the
candles within her room, as if she'd turned in for the night.
Instead of going to bed, she tiptoed down the hallway to the
Servant's staircase, which led her down to the empty kitchen. She
slipped out the always-unlocked door and across the patio to the
gate that led to the barn. She entered the large and dark barn,
walking to the back of the barn, where the storage room was
located. A glimmer of light escaping through a crack guided her to
the storage room door, behind which she could hear someone
talking in a low voice.
She opened the door, causing the voice to cease. Sitting on
haybales, were Mary Beth, a twenty-four year-old French maid
named Dominique, a gardener named Jack that was the same age
as Jane, and a forty-year-old horse groomer named Harry - her real
friends. All employees of her father.
Jack held up a glass, which Jane knew would be full of whiskey
stolen from her father's liquor cabinet today. The servants enjoyed
her father's parties because it gave them the opportunity to re-
direct excess food and some of the better liquids to their hidden
stockpiles. Mary Beth hugged Jane as she whispered "Happy
Birthday."
Jane laughed "Did you ever see so many pompous asses in one
place? God help this country if they're the leaders of tomorrow.
Harry, pour me a glass of that shit."
Harry handed her a filled whiskey tumbler, which she downed with
one quick gulp. Staring at the empty glass, she loudly declared
"The men got to drink this good shit while the ladies had to sip on
tea. I almost picked up one man's unguarded glass but I knew that
Father was watching from his window. He would die if he knew that
my virgin lips had ever tasted this demon brew. If I were a boy, he
would've introduced me to its delicious taste as part of my twelfth
birthday - my coming-of-age birthday. Instead he had Aunt Jessica
tell me her confused version of the birds and bees story which is
supposed to somehow reveal the truth about sex. If only the old
biddy had known that I already knew that story, she'd had a heart
attack."
As Harry re-filled her tumbler, Jane sat down on a haybale and
picked up Harry's pouch of tobacco. She expertly licked a cigarette
paper, poured some tobacco onto the paper and rolled the paper
into a cigarette. Harry struck a match and lit her cigarette. She
leaned back against a hay bale, blew a cloud of smoke into the air
and held up her refilled whisky tumbler as she declared "I think
that you know that this is the birthday party that I preferred.
Thanks for being my friends and understanding what I have to do
to please the old man."
Harry called "Cheers." and each of them downed their tumbler of
straight whiskey. Jane spread her legs in a very unlady-like
position and enjoyed another deep lung-full of cigarette smoke
before continuing "Did you see that one asshole that monopolized
me all afternoon? I tried everything to get rid of him except to tell
him to go get fucked. If he wasn't talking about how great his
daddy was, he was talking about how much greater he was going to
be someday. When we were in the midst of a group, I even stood
close to him and released a small silent fart, then looked at him as
if he'd done it; hoping that I could embarrass him so that he stayed
away from me. But he apologized to me as if the smell was coming
from him and kept talking his silly garbage. God, I hope that he's
got a dick underneath those expensive trousers, because he surely
doesn't have a brain in his head. How can father expect me to
marry someone that self-centered and un-worldly?"
Jack laughed and started making an imaginary stroking motion as
if he was masturbating "And I expect his lordship is lying on his
silk sheets at this very moment, thinking of how much he
impressed you. Glad that I'm not the one who'll have to clean his
bed in the morning."
Mary Beth put her hands under her large breasts, lifting them and
pressing them up to form a larger exposed cleavage as she
exclaimed "The lordship in question, kept staring down my dress as
I served him. He like's boobs so he's got some redeeming qualities.
Some of those other `gentlemen' seemed to prefer each other's
body to my body. There was one flaming faggot that kept waving his
handkerchief as if he was the Queen of England."
Jane laughed loudly, the cigarette dangling from her red lips "I
know which one of the pompous bastards that you're talking
about. When I was introduced to one of his school friends, he
smirked as if he knew that I wasn't any competition for his
handsome friend's companionship. As soon as I finished my
mandatory `how-the-fuck-are-you' introduction, I moved on while
the little faggot rushed in to make sure that I hadn't contaminated
his `special friend.' And the future Lord Boswell does like to look at
women's breasts. He kept standing close to me and sneaking
surreptitious glances down my bodice as if he'd never seen a
perfect set of tits before."
Harry raised his glass in a toast "I second that. You've got a perfect
set of tits, second only to my wife's tits."
Jane thrust her chest out and declared in mock anger "I've seen
your wife's boobs. That's an insult to me and a fantasy for your
wife."
Harry replied in a solemn tone "It's been four or five years since
I've last seen your tits, so my memory might be failing. Why don't
you show them to me so I can re-evaluate you?"
"Don't do it. He's only trying to goad you so that he can get a
cheap thrill. Next, he'll next start telling you how he can trim a
woman's pubic mound hair so that it's a perfect heart shape. The
old bastard's only interested in getting to look at some real pussy.
We know that his wife's cut him off again." Groaned Mary Beth as
she lit her own cigarette.
Jane laughed as she held her glass up to respond to Harry's toast
"Truce. We're too good friends to fight among ourselves. A toast to
good friends that know when to fuck with each other and when to
respect each other's boundaries."
After each of them emptied and re-filled their whiskey glasses,
Jane's voice turned serious as she looked at each of her good
companions "I'm sorry that I couldn't have the birthday party that
I really preferred - here with you, my good friends. You don't know
how much I appreciate your friendship. And I have some bad news,
which I've been hiding from everyone because I didn't want anyone
to try to talk me out of it. So I've save it for this moment. Tomorrow
morning, I'm leaving."
Jack jumped to his feet "Leaving? But why?"
"I'm unable to continue being my father's daughter - or rather
being the daughter that he wants me to be. If I stay here, I'll be
married within the year to some pompous ass starched shirt that I
don't love. A marriage arranged by my father who thinks that he's
doing the best thing for me, ignoring my personal desires. My father
thinks that I'm going to London to do some shopping for a week,
but I've really booked passage on a boat to France, where I'll board
a tramp steamer to Africa."
Mary Beth's lips curled in a snarl "Africa. There's nothing but
naked savages there and snakes. I could enjoy the naked savages
but snakes is a different matter."
"I know and that's why I going there. Reading my magazines, I've
decided that France is much too civilized and America doesn't have
any more wildernesses to explore. I want to go somewhere where
women don't wear hoops under their skirts, where men don't
dress formally for dinner, and where I can learn what it's like to be
free. Some place where I can ride a horse without being looked at
because I'm not riding sidesaddle. Some place where I can smoke a
cigarette in public if I desire. Some place where I can swim butt-ass
naked if I so desire. Some place where I can meet a real man
instead of all those phony assholes who think that manhood is
dependent upon birthrights. So I'm running away from my home to
search for my dreams. I've made arrangements to join a safari
where I'll travel into the darkest jungle to explore territory that only
men have seen before. To get that deep into the jungle, I've
accepted a job as secretary to the safari leader where I'll record our
journey's accomplishments. I'm going to do some of the things that
I want to do with my life before I'm forced to marry and bear some
stuffed shirt's children."
Mary Beth gave Jane an all-knowing nod "Aye. I've watched you
grow up with me over the years. I've been allowed to do some of the
things that I wanted to do because of my low station in life, while
I've watched you suffer when you tried to get the same limited
experience. I've seen you cry because you couldn't row your boat
instead of practice your piano. I've seen your father get angry over
men who would make you a good husband just because they didn't
have the proper ancestors. I know where you're coming from and I
wish you luck. I wish that I was going with you, but as you know,
Jack's waiting for his uncle to die. When his uncle dies, Jack will
inherit his house and ten acres of farmland. If we're still happy
with each other at that time, we'll get married and fill that little
farmhouse with our children. Think about us as you travel and take
care of yourself."
*******
Jane closed her diary and put it into her steamer trunk. The latest
entry was dated four months from the entry where she'd described
her two very different birthday parties and departure from Parker
Manor.
Since then, she'd filled several pages of her diary, with her travels
from England to Africa where she met Sir Walter Desmond, the
leader of the Safari that she'd accepted employment with. He'd
been a little angry when he'd discovered that the J. Parker that
he'd hired through the mail stood for Jane Parker instead of John.
She'd been lucky because he wasn't able to find a replacement
and had to take her along as his assistant.
He allowed her to wear khaki pants and a blouse as they traveled
during the day but insisted that she change into something more
appropriate for the afternoon tea and dinner. They would sit around
a portable table every evening, being fanned by the natives to keep
the bugs away, as Sir Walter expressed his daily evaluation of that
day's travels. Jane's job was to listen to him and record his
thoughts in a journal that Sir Walter planned to present to the
Queen. He was very impressed with Jane's vocabulary and skillful
recording of his profound thoughts. In other words, she was writing
the journal using her words and descriptions but he was claiming
credit for her writing.
She had grown quite fond of the older man, frequently being so
personal as to advise him to trim his handlebar mustache when she
noticed food residue among the thick whiskers. He confessed that
he'd grown the thick handlebar mustache when he started
planning this safari because "all jungle explorers" have handlebar
mustaches. His mustache was quite thick because he had heavy
facial growth that he shaved every day. Between his bushy
eyebrows, his handlebar mustache, his daily stubble growth, and
his khaki clothes, he looked like the explorers that she'd read
about in her magazines.
Following their normal camp rituals, as soon as they closed up his
journal for the day, they would sit around the campfire talking. At
first he chastised her when she used the word `damn', but after
awhile he enjoyed being able to talk to her as if she was a man, so
he permitted her to use any swear word except `fuck'. That word
was too powerful and crossed too many social barriers for his very
strict upbringing. He'd also been somewhat upset early in their
travels when she pulled out a tobacco pouch and lit a cigarette one
evening as he smoked his evening pipe, but as she pointed out to
him, what harm did it do for her to enjoy that one nasty habit? He
permitted her to smoke as long as there were no other people in the
camp - savages excluded.
Anyone who knew the former Lady Jane Palmer of England's
Parker Mansion wouldn't recognize the new explorer Jane Palmer.
Her exposed life-long pale-white skin had been burnt and then
tanned by repeated exposure to the hot African sun, giving her face
a new healthy looking copper-tone glow. Gone were her long
billowing dresses that were stored at the base camp, with only two
dresses packed into her trunk for emergency social functions. She
wore either khaki trousers or khaki shorts that revealed her golden
tanned legs up to her mid-thigh and a khaki blouse that frequently
clung to her breasts when she was soaked during the sudden cloud
bursts. Gone was the mass of curly hair that was formerly perfectly
curled by a hot iron every morning; the hair reverting back to its
normal natural straight style. The hot sun, frequent showers and
rugged jungle life had taught her that the most practical hairstyle
was the common ponytail or braided pigtails tucked up into her
hat. The several months of hiking through the jungle had toughed
her body and built strong legs that could walk all day long.
As per their usual evening custom, they were sitting around the
evening's roaring and bright campfire, enjoying their individual
cigarette or pipe smoke-induced mild euphoria's when Jane saw
the golden eyes for the first time. As usual, both of them were
constantly aware of the jungle's wild animal sounds and Sir Walter
had his loaded hunting rifle sitting beside him, as was his custom.
In the dark jungle brush, they could hear the distant coughing of a
large lion as it hunted its dinner and the other normal jungle night
sounds.
Jane observed the glimmer of the golden eyes of some animal just
outside the flickering light of their campfires and pointed the eyes
out to Sir Walter. They were both watching the eyes and trying to
figure out what type of animal it was with their guesses varying
from `a big cat' to `a big snake'. So it surprised both of them when
an almost naked white man with golden eyes stepped into their
camp.
Startled at the unexpected boldness of their uninvited guest, Sir
Walter reached for his loaded rifle as Jane slowly stood up to stare
unafraid at their unexpected visitor. The young man's broad
shoulders, tall muscular body, light mat of chest hair, lean waist,
long solid legs, handsome face and thick head of hair wasn't the
first thing that she stared at - it was the small loincloth that
covered his waist that attracted her attention. His body was the
first almost naked white body that she had seen since that time
that she saw her childhood friend Jack swimming naked in the
river. She'd seen so many naked black men since she arrived in
Africa, that seeing a naked man was so normal now that she didn't
stare at anyone's genitalia after the first cursory glance, unless the
man had an exceptionally long or thick cock. But a white man
dressed as a naked savage was new to her. Glancing up at the
man's face, she was somewhat embarrassed when she realized that
he knew where she'd been staring.
He walked straight to their campfire, giving Jane the opportunity to
notice that he was young - about her age - and was a white man
although he was dressed as naked barbaric as the native porters.
His skin was darkly tanned because of many years of exposure to
the sun. Except for the small loincloth around his waist and a large
knife in a scabbard attached to his loincloth, he was completely
naked. He strode barefoot toward their campfire, walking as
majestically as if he was the King of the Jungle and they were his
subjects.
He was tall - a little over six feet tall. His body was perfectly
proportional with wide shoulders, narrow waist and hips over
massive thighs. His muscular body showed that he'd worked hard
all of his life instead of playing golf as so many of Jane's former
English suitors - who pretended that swinging a golf club at a ball
was adequate exercise. His chest was covered with just enough
dark curly hair to be interesting to the young woman who had
never seen a man so perfectly built or comfortable at being this
naked. The young handsome barbarian stood just on the other side
of the campfire, holding up his hands, letting the fire's light show
that he came in peace. Then his deep baritone introduction was a
simple "I'm Tarzan."
Chapter 2 - The Lost City Legend
Sir Walter continued to hold his rifle, not sure what to think of this
naked white savage. He felt somewhat intimidated by the young
man's appearance and attitude. After all, normal people didn't
walk around the jungle dressed like that and without a rifle. Rising
to his feet so that young man didn't seem as tall, Sir Walter cradled
his rifle as he removed the pipe from his mouth "I'm Sir Walter
Desmond, on an exploration expedition authorized personally by
Her Majesty, the Queen of England. Welcome to my humble camp.
This is Lady Jane Parker, my assistant. Now sir, why are you
dressed like one of the savages?"
A brief smile gleamed exposing a full mouth of white teeth as the
young man replied in a deep but gentle baritone voice "Because I
am one of the savages. I've lived all my life in the jungle and dress
this way because normal clothes have a tendency to be destroyed
as I live my life the way that I've always lived."
"Is Tarzan your first or last name?" asked Jane, a little pique over
this unknown, white person dressed like a savage, who just waltzed
into their camp uninvited. He was very lucky that Sir Walter hadn't
mistaken him for a wild animal or a thief and accidentally shot him.
He turned slightly and bowed to acknowledge Jane's presence "You
have keen eyesight. I noticed that you saw me before I really
entered the fire's light. My name isn't Tarzan, but it's the only
name that the natives have called me for so many years that I came
to accept it as my real name. It means `white savage' in one of the
local native dialects and I've become used to it being my only
name. I've run across other people out here in the jungle who are
also known as Tarzan for various reasons. My real name no longer
means anything to me so I accept the name as if it was the name
that my parents gave me at my birth."
Before she could reply to his answer to her question, Tarzan turned
back to Sir Walter "The jungle drums say that you're looking for
The Lost City. I came to warn you that it doesn't exist and I suggest
that you stop wasting your time looking for it and risking your lives
entering dangerous tribal lands. You're only two days from
Momgua territory and they don't like strangers. They especially
don't like white strangers."
Sir Walter's rifle made a soft clicking sound as he released the
safety switch. Turning slightly so that the barrel was pointed more
directly at Tarzan, Sir Walter asked, "Why are you here trying to
warn us away? Is it because we're getting close to this place that
you claim doesn't exist?"
Tarzan's face never quit smiling as he responded "The jungle
drums also describe the beautiful young lady. If she hadn't been
here, I would've allowed you to continue and to meet whatever
destiny is reserved for you. But I came to warn you that she
shouldn't be here or accompanying you any further into the
territory. Now that I've warned you, it's on your conscious. Good-
by."
Tarzan turned and walked back across the clearing into the dark
jungle as Sir Walter stared at his departing back. As soon as he
blended into the jungle foliage, Sir Walter issued a sharp command
to the native bearers that resulted in them grabbing their spears
and forming a guarding circle around the camp.
Jane asked, "What is the Lost City?"
Releasing the safety from his rifle, he responded "It's an ancient
city. Some say it disappeared about the same time that Atlantis
disappeared, while other's say it's a more modern city. Either way,
it's rumored that this city is built on a gold mine that can make the
finder rich. I know that you think that we're just wandering about
the jungle, but I'm actually following a map. A map drew by
someone who saw the city and lived to return to civilization. I think
the city exists and that's why I'm here."
"If your map-drawer saw the city, why isn't he rich?"
"You wouldn't understand. A lot of men don't always have the
strength or force of will to accomplish tasks. I have that personal
strength and I'm determined to find the mine, to claim it as my
own with the help of my bearers and to return to England as a very
rich man."
******
Now that the real reason for the safari was exposed to Jane, a lot of
the camp gear made sense. There were some explosives, a lot of
weapons and some of the bearers looked more like mercenaries
than explorers. For the next week following Tarzan's visit, Jane's
private diary entries every night noted her rapidly increasing
dissatisfaction with her role in this safari. It was one thing to
explore, but another to be planning to rob and pillage a village of its
native treasures. Every evening since then, they had sat around the
evening's campfire discussing what Sir Walter planned to do if they
found the long-lost village and Jane was now convinced that he
would do whatever it took - even commit murder - to claim the Lost
City's treasures. She still didn't know or care if it really existed.
She just knew that she didn't want to be there when and if it was
found. She made up her mind to leave the safari at the first
possible moment.
After Tarzan's visit, they had skirted around the Momgua territory
until today. That's when Brad Johnson and his men joined the
expedition. Sir Walter had given orders to keep the same camp for
the last three days and each day, he'd marched off with a small
group of natives leaving her in the camp. He'd returned early today
and had paced the camp perimeter smoking his pipe as he stared
into the brush. Then just before dark, Brad's safari of about forty
armed men joined them.
Brad Johnson was a swarthy, balding, overweight constantly
sweating man that had a very obvious cruel streak. He'd been on
his best behavior ever since his armed band of mercenaries joined
Sir Walter's team, but something about him seemed so slimy and
dangerous to Jane that she stayed away from him. He reminded
her of someone that her father had fired one time for whipping a
worn-out horse to death.
Upon Brad's arrival, the normal camp-life changed. Instead of a
quiet dinner at night, Sir Walter and Brad sequestered their selves
in the large tent and whispered as they conspired over their plans.
She quickly recognized that there was a dangerous side to the
gentle Sir Walter that she hadn't recognized before. A side driven
by greed.
The next morning, the camp quickly packed up and headed straight
into the Momgua territory. Brad took control of the bearers and
forced them to cover twice the normal distance before he stopped to
set up camp. He refused to allow campfires to be built so there was
no warm food or relaxing after dinner discussions. Instead everyone
but the guards turned in early to rest for another hard day's
march.
Per Brad's unusual orders that everyone sleep in their clothes,
Jane was almost fully dressed as she slept in the privacy of her
centrally-placed tent, a loaded pistol by her side. The pistol was
more to protect Jane from her companions than from the unseen
inhabitants of this section of the jungle.
Jane was awakened during her sleep by a weird cry. Jumping to
her feet, she slipped on her boots and rushed out of her tent to
discover a crowd forming around something. Pushing her way
through the crowd, she saw a bent-over Brad examining a native
guard whose headless body was lying on the ground. Sir Walter saw
her at the same time as she passed out.
******
When she woke up, she was surprised to find herself on a stretcher
being carried by some of the native bearers as the packed-up safari
wound its way through the jungle that was barely visible from the
faint light of the sunrise. One of the bearers helped her to her feet
as another one of the bearers went forward to find Sir Walter. He
returned quickly to admonish her "Don't wander from the guards
that's been assigned to you."
"What happened to that man?" she asked, still feeling weak from
seeing such a cruel death so close.
"It was a warning to turn back. A warning that we've obviously
ignored. We're continuing deep into Momgua territory and we're
not going to let those stupid natives scare us."
******
The campfires were lit that night because there was obviously no
need for secrecy now that their presence was known. Jane noticed
that the guards were doubled around the camp that night.
The next morning, there were no deaths, but they were short almost
thirty porters who'd silently disappeared sometime during the
night, reducing their total force to less than one hundred total. That
day, they discovered another headless body tied to a tree in the
middle of the trail that someone recognized as a former porter - one
of the deserters. That night, Brad and Sir Walter alternated being
up all night to keep the bearers from disappearing, but they still
lost over seventy people whom deserted somehow during the night.
The remaining safari of sixteen people discarded a lot of gear,
taking only what was necessary - guns, ammo, food, water and Sir
Walter's small trunk of maps and journals. Even Jane was pressed
into service to carry food and ammo, leaving behind her small
trunk; being permitted only to carry her personal diary.
They pressed forward, refusing to stop for rests until everyone was
almost exhausted. That's when the attack occurred.
A lead scout fell over dead as the spear penetrated his chest. Jane
dropped her pack and ran for shelter - a big tree. As she reached
the tree, a painted native stepped out from behind the tree and
clubbed her with his club.
******
Jane's head hurt. Everything hurt, but her head hurt the most.
Her throat was dry and her lips felt parched. Ignoring her pain, she
opened her eyes, discovering that her arms and legs were bound
and that she was in a native hut.
She tried to sit up but the way that she was tied prevented her from
getting into a comfortable position. She humped the floor as she
turned and rotated only to discover that another similarly tied
prisoner was quietly watching her. He whispered "I think that
they're all dead. It was a trap and they massacred us. It's only me
and you."
She recognized him as one of the guards that joined the camp with
Brad. She whispered back "What about Sir Walter?"
"I saw him run back down the trail with a painted Momgua right
behind him. He's probably out there in the jungle with a spear
through his back."
"Can you untie me?"
He shook his head no then whispered "They broke my fingers when
they captured me."
Their discussion was interrupted by someone lifting a tent flap and
saying something in a language that she didn't understand. Then
two men entered the hut and roughly picked her up from the floor,
carrying her by her arms. She was dumped on the ground as if she
was a sack of potatoes. A foot gingerly slipped under her chin and
pried her face up. Staring up at the bright sun, all Jane could see
was the outline of the foot's owner. Then a woman's voice asked,
"Do you speak English?"
Squinting into the sun, Jane was able to see that the voice's owner
was a young black woman. Through her parched lips, Jane grunted
"Yes, please help me."
The woman replied "I'll do what I can but you're going to have to
tolerate a little more punishment first before I can you to a safe
place."
The woman switched languages and began talking to someone that
Jane couldn't see from her facedown position. As Jane listened to
them talk, she could tell from her limited knowledge of African
languages that the woman was haggling with some man over the
ownership of Jane. Finally the woman's voice changed to English
again "You were expensive - one pig. Just relax and wait because I
can't leave until tomorrow. Until then, you're still their prisoner."
She was carried back and dumped in the same dark hut. Only this
time, she was all alone. They left her alone overnight, tied tightly
with nothing to eat or drink. She allowed herself to pee on herself
because she couldn't hold it back any longer.
The next morning, someone came into the dark hut, cut her ropes,
and handed her a bowl of gruel. She wolfed the gruel down while
her unknown benefactor waited. When she dropped the empty
bowl, her female benefactor said in English "The Momgua were
going to kill you but I purchased your freedom. You belong to me -
Understand? You show me the proper respect while I lead you out
of here or the Momgua might not honor their portion of the
bargain."
The woman's strong hands lifted Jane's chin as the woman slipped
something around her neck, then she fumbled with a buckle. When
she was finished, she gave a little tug on a rope, almost pulling a
very weak Jane off her feet. The woman repeated Jane's
instructions "You come where I lead and don't say anything or look
at them. I don't want you to accidentally insult anyone as we're
leaving."
Jane was led out of the hut, motivated by strong tugs on the rope
that kept her moving. She paused for a second to stare at the dead
body of the other prisoner lying beside the entrance to the hut but
the sharp tug of the rope kept her going. The woman led Jane
through the center of the village and down a path to a river where
they climbed into a canoe. The woman handed Jane a paddle as
she whispered "Keep it up for another twenty minutes until we put
some distance between us and them. Then I'll stop and let you
clean up some."
Jane was weak and could barely hold the paddle, much less wield it
correctly but somehow she found the strength to do as directed. It
was with a lot of relief that the woman directed the prow of the
canoe into shore about twenty minutes later. The woman
unfastened the leash around Jane's neck, leaving the leather collar
still in place "Keep this on and I'll have to put you back on the
lease until we're really out of here. Get in the water and clean
yourself. You smell like you shit in your britches."
Jane fell in the water and just floated, letting the flowing water
clean and refresh her. For several minutes, she just relaxed, feeling
a little strength come back. She turned to stare at her benefactor -
a young woman that could only be described as a black amazon.
The woman's natural skin color was dark, not black like the
Momgua natives. She was tall for a woman - close to six feet tall,
slightly broad-shouldered, and had very long legs - legs that were
strong and muscular like a man's legs. Her long dark hair was
braided into pigtails festooned with bright ribbons. Her clothes were
a simple mid-thigh skirt and a leather halter to support her
breasts. Her lower arms were covered with a leather wrist guard.
Around her waist was a short belt, which supported a scabbard-
encased knife and a small leather bag.
Jane asked, "Who are you?"
The woman responded "I'm Laywan, a chief of the Thrudds.
Whether you like it or not, you're now a member of the Thrudds.
The Momgua territory completely surrounds our small village and
we are allowed to come and go only as they permit."
"I'm Jane Parker. My father is rich. If you can just get me to a large
city, I can make you rich."
Laywan laughed "What good is riches in a jungle? Can your money
buy me a longer life? Better air, a good husband or remove this scar
from my leg? Rich is a state of mind."
"How did you learn to speak such perfect English?"
"If the Momgua don't kill their captives, we buy them and adopt
them into our tribe. Over the years, we've become a multiple
language tribe because of the large number of English captives that
have come to live with us - thanks to the warring nature of the
Momguas."
******
Laywan did most of the paddling for the rest of the morning while
Jane rested. Then they stored the canoe on the riverbank and
started climbing a steep trail that quickly carried them up into the
mountains.
As Laywan walked up the mountain in front of Jane, the worn-out
Englishwoman couldn't help but stare at the Amazon's muscular
legs that were almost constantly at Jane's eye-level as they climbed
the steep trail. Jane had seen so many naked women since arriving
in Africa, that the sight of a woman's naked body no longer startled
her. But this woman's semi-naked body was different because of
her strong athletic build. Her lean body was the result of constant
exercises, not dieting like Jane's friends did back home. The
ebony's woman's body glistened with a light coating of sweat that
further highlighted her muscle definition as the woman easily
climbed the steep trail.
Behind her, Jane admired the beautiful muscles her new "owner"
possessed in her legs. Just looking at the very prominent
hamstrings, Jane could tell that the woman had a lot of power
available and ready whenever she needed it. Once when Jane was
gasping for breath from her exertion, Laywan turned to face Jane
and began flexing her quad muscles up and down to stretch out the
muscles while she waited on Jane to recover her breathing. Jane
could only stare at the expanding quads as they jutted out like a
runner's muscles, recognizing that her own legs looked weak and
undeveloped compared to her new friend's legs.
They walked until just before dark when they reached a
campground. A very weak and tired Jane didn't resist as Laywan
tied Jane's hands and feet so that she couldn't escape while
Laywan slept. The next morning, they continued their journey,
reaching a steep cliff just before dark. Again, Jane was tied during
the night.
The next morning, Laywan guided Jane to a small trail along the
face of the cliff. For hours, they walked a very narrow trail, hugging
the cliff face until they reached a narrow rope footbridge across a
chasm. When Jane reached the other side, Laywan said, "You're
now in Thrudd land. That bridge is the only way in or out. Don't
ever attempt to escape because we'll catch you."
They went up and down more cliff faces until they stood on a small
cliff overlooking a green valley with a beautiful river flowing through
it. Laywan pointed to a small clearing, declaring "There is my home
- The Lost City."
******
The next two days were a blur for Jane. They allowed her to rest
because it was obvious that she was exhausted from her ordeal.
They gave her a small hut and she spent most of the time sleeping.
Laywan spent some time with her, telling Jane about the Thrudds
and the Lost City.
The Lost City really existed. It was in a mountain valley where there
was only one way in - the rope bridge which was tightly guarded by
both tribes - and two ways out - the rope bridge and the waterfall.
The river flowing through the valley eventually ended in a four
hundred-foot waterfall that flowed into the jungle below. Laywan
noted that some people had survived going over the waterfall but
most people didn't.
The Lost City got its name because a former mountain trail
collapsed, leaving the inhabitants trapped for almost a century
before they found they could build a rope bridge at a certain point
and get out. By that time, the residents were used to their privacy
and new self-reliance. Where they had been descendants of the
Momgua tribe, now they considered themselves to be a separate
tribe. When they re-established relations with the Momguas, both
tribes recognized each other's individual sovereignty. The Momguas
didn't want the Thrudd's remote lands and the Thrudds enjoyed
their isolation.
There was a gold mine, but it didn't produce as much gold as Sir
Walter imagined. Most of the gold had been removed over two
hundred years before and now the mine didn't produce enough to
make it worth mining. And the majority of the gold that had been
removed had been used to trade with the Momguas or stolen by
escapees.
Yes, escapees. The Thrudds had early recognized that the isolation
could produce too much in-breeding with such a small village, so
they used the time-honored custom of raiding other jungle villages
to obtain new villagers of breeding age. But the truce with the
Momguas prevented raiding the Momguas tribe and other tribes
were too far away. Their problem was resolved when the Momguas
offered to give the Thrudds first choice on any captives that the
Momguas didn't kill or want for their own breeding programs. The
eight or ten people every year that the Thrudds brought back to
their village were more than enough to provide the genetic
difference to support their tribe's long-term existence and to give
the tribe an understanding of world-wide changes. Over the last two
hundred years, most of the people brought back to the village were
either English, Spanish or Portuguese explorers, thus the reason
that most of the current villagers were light skinned and spoke
multiple languages.
The Thrudds were unique because all of the village elders or chiefs
were women. Apparently something in the water caused most
babies to be born female and the females were normally larger and
stronger than the men were. In this tribe, the women were the
warriors and the men were the food preparers or farmers. Most of
the men who were born in the valley were Jane's height while most
of the women were Laywan's height and general build. Any male
that was over five foot four inches had probably been born outside
the valley. There were currently about sixteen hundred men and
women in the tribe, with about seventy-five men that had been
born elsewhere. Jane was the first white woman although there
were about thirty black women who had entered the tribe through
similar circumstances.
And that's why Jane was there - to be the latest addition to their
breeding program. Laywan told Jane that she would learn to love
the new life. She would be assigned a different lover each month
until she became pregnant. After her baby was born, she would
again sample a different lover every month and repeat the cycle
until she had born five babies by different lovers. Then she would
be free to select and marry a husband if she desired. Until she had
five children, she had to have a different lover every month, even if
she fell in love with one of her lovers.
Jane asked Laywan why she wasn't married. The response was
"My blood is the blood of thousands of years of our village
forefathers. I can only marry an outsider. And I have chosen my
mate although he hasn't acknowledged my selection. He doesn't
live in the Lost City and only visits us occasionally. When he visits
the next time, you'll see why I lost my heart to him."
Jane laughed at the irony of the situation. She had fled her father's
estate because he wanted her to marry a young man of his
choosing and to basically provide him with many grandchildren
that he could be proud of. And here in the jungle thousands of
miles from her home, it appeared that her destiny was to be a
mother also.
******
She lost her virginity on the third night in the village. Not by her
choosing or by her willing participation but because it was so
mandated by the tribal council. Because she was a virgin, they
awarded her as if she was a trophy to a male that was one of their
top farmers. Laywan told her about the tribal decision then left her
with two women whose jobs were to make sure that she didn't run
away, that she was properly prepared to meet her new mate and
that the de-flowering took place.
The women shared their dinner meal with Jane as they talked
about the decision but Jane didn't notice that a small herb was
added to her meal. Twenty minutes after dinner was finished, a very
complacent and happy Jane was more than willing to do whatever
the women suggested. The women escorted the very glassy-eyed
Jane to the river and bathed her, throwing away the clothing that
she'd been wearing ever since her capture. They gave her some new
clothes very similar to what Laywan wore but without the weapons.
They also gave her some clothes that they laughingly described as
"bedtime clothes". They washed, brushed, and combed her hair,
decorating her hair with flowers and beads. Then they left a very
warm, happy and slightly drugged Jane in her hut, waiting for her
first man.
Jane wasn't too thrilled when she woke up the next morning and
saw the naked man sleeping beside her. She remembered
everything that they had done together but it had seemed like a
faint dream. Everything seemed so fuzzy but normal from the
moment that the man entered her hut. She remembered welcoming
him to her hut with a kiss and undressing each other before she
proudly guided him to her bed. She remembered touching his
throbbing manhood and enjoying the feel of the hard, heavy cock
growing in response to her gentle touch. She remembered stroking
his hard cock and seeing the look of pure satisfaction on his face as
she played with him. She remembered guiding his very hard cock to
that very private part of her body that she had protected for so
many years - her vagina. She remembered the burning and hurting
as he entered her, then remembered how the burning changed to a
different type of burning - a burning where she couldn't get enough
of him. She remembered the wonderful series of orgasms that
accompanied her migration from virgin to womanhood. She
remembered his energy-less collapse on top of her after he pumped
his hot load deep into her and how she fought to keep him hard, to
keep him thrusting into her as she begged for more. She
remembered how they both fell asleep exhausted, his semi-flaccid
manhood buried inside her.
Pushing the memories aside, she slipped out of bed and examined
herself as tears flowed down her cheeks. Was she pregnant? How
could she tell if she was pregnant? Her legs were sore from the
repeated pounding by his body and her breasts hurt from his
repeated sucking and squeezing. Her dark mound of pubic hair was
matted with his dried cum and there were bruises between her legs.
She grabbed her new clothes and quickly dressed, then headed to
the river to cleanse herself, leaving the man still asleep. The man
whose name she didn't know.
She undressed and dived into the river naked, letting the water
cleanse her body and mind. When she finally felt clean, she dressed
in her amazon short skirt, leather halter, and leather boots. She
returned to her hut to find that the man had cleaned the hut before
leaving.
Later in the morning, Laywan talked to her but Jane didn't want to
talk to Laywan or any of the other damned women. The most
important possession of her life had been taken away from her and
given to a complete stranger. All of her life-long romantic
daydreams where she found the perfect man and they rode off into
the sunset, had been destroyed.
When the two amazon women came to prepare her for her second
night to be the man's bed companion, Jane refused to cooperate
with their friendly requests. She refused to eat or drink anything,
knowing that was how they drugged her the previous night. Then
the two women showed Jane that if necessary, they would use their
superior force to gain her compliance. Jane fought them but their
much larger size and greater strength quickly overpowered her,
even though she fought like a trapped wildcat. She spat out the
drug that they stuffed into her mouth, but they had a trick to get
her to swallow some of it. Twenty minutes later, a more calm and
slightly drugged Jane gladly accepted the full dosage of the drug,
then let her new friends guide her back to the river for the evening
cleansing.
It was the same man in bed beside her when she awoke the next
morning. She crawled out of bed and sat naked on the floor in the
corner of the hut crying. Her sobbing woke him up and he slipped
out of bed, pausing only long enough to grab his clothes before he
slipped naked out the hut's door. Five minutes later the two
amazon women entered the hut, carrying a glass of water. One of
them softly commanded "This will take the hurt away. When you
don't need it anymore, we'll stop it."
Jane's shaking hands eagerly accepted the glass, knowing that it
contained one of the mysterious drugs instead of water. She turned
the glass up, drinking the liquid the same way that she used to
drink her father's stolen whiskey - bottoms up. Five minutes later,
the smile had returned to her face and she felt happy. She willingly
accepted her friend's directions to visit the river and to clean her
body. Then she returned to her hut and spent the rest of the
morning in a semi-daze. At lunchtime, she eagerly accepted a
second glass of the "happy water" as she called it. After her dinner
and third, more powerful glass of "happy water", she was sitting in
her hut waiting on the man. Her body was burning and itching for
him. She felt a strong desire for him and couldn't wait for him to
enter her hut.
When he stepped into the hut, she attacked him with a passion
that she didn't believe possible. She made love to him two long
times before he rolled over to go to sleep off his exhaustion. She
slipped out of bed and stared at the spare glass of "happy water"
sitting on her shelf - the drugs that helped her overcome her
reluctance.
Standing naked in the center of her hut with her body coated with
sweat and drying cum, she eagerly drank the glass of "happy
water" then climbed back in bed beside the already sleeping man.
As the "happy waters" warm buzz began flowing through her body,
she sought new ways to entertain her man. She gently convinced
him to roll over on his back so that she could stare at his cock that
was just as asleep as the man. Not knowing what she was doing,
she let her lips drift down his body until her lips were touching his
shriveled cock. She remembered Mary Beth telling her about doing
this to a man once.
Chapter 3 - Nasroi's Tall Tales
At the end of the week, there was only pure water in her glass, but
Jane acted the same as if was full of the mysterious drug that they
called happy water. As soon as the man entered the privacy of her
hut at dusk, she attacked him with the same fierce passion as she
had when she was drugged. The combination of drugs and sex had
awakened a strong passion in her that had to be satisfied - the
passion of sex. She now realized that the main reason that she had
cried the first couple of times, was because this wasn't the way
that she intended to lose her virginity. She also learned the man's
name - Mogu.
During the day, she enjoyed her new freedom. Yes, it was freedom
because she was allowed to roam freely through the village or
jungle as long as she fulfilled the role that that the tribal elders had
assigned for her. It was freedom because there were no stuffy dress
codes telling her what to wear. It was freedom because she was a
woman - a member of the ruling class of the tribe. Even though she
was a captive, her gender gave her more freedom than any man in
the village. It was freedom because the women treated her as an
equal. She enjoyed the freedom of going naked if she desired, letting
the sun tan her body; knowing that somewhere in England, her
cousin Saddie was struggling as she slipped into the crinoline skirt
and hoops that the English society demanded from its young
women. She enjoyed the freedom of sitting on a high cliff face and
feeling the wind blow through her hair.
She would leave the hut in the morning with a big smile on her face
and strike off on her own, exploring the valley. As her legs became
stronger from the weeks of strenuous hiking, she began pushing
her body harder. She ran across the flat valley floor, enjoying the
thrill of long distance running. She swam the river, enjoying the
freedom of swimming naked or diving from the cliffs into the pools.
She climbed the cliff, enjoying the danger of the steep cliffs, using
her new muscles to pull herself to the cliff tops. She challenged the
Amazon Warrior Women to foot races to test her speed and
endurance against theirs. She practiced their warrior training with
them, using their weapons, and quickly learning how to handle a
spear and a knife. She enjoyed the adventure of climbing on top of
an elephant and guiding the huge beast across the valley floor. She
hunted with them, enjoying the thrill of participating in a boar kill
with Laywan one day and the next - killing her own boar with only
her spear as the sharp-tusked pig charged her. She enjoyed the
freedom of her new life.
By the end of the first month of living with the Trudds, there were
more physical and mental changes in her. Anyone that had known
the civilized Jane of the last several years wouldn't have recognized
the new Jane. She proudly wore the short skirt and leather halter
of the Amazon Warrior Women. Or she just as proudly walked
around the village baring her perky breasts the way that most o