Battlemage Nonetheless Book 5 AdvocateChapter 7
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The group of four, following Kat's directions spent almost three weeks traveling through a few of the forests, across the mountains, and eventually came to the end of the forest and started into the desert.
For the most part on their travels the group wasn't hassled too much because of Dusty and Seth, but Kat and Suzan for their part still had to put up with some inconveniences.
A few men felt that they really had more to offer than either of their traveling companions. And of those few a couple were quite eager to prove it regardless of the various objections the women put up, and needed to learn the hard way that no meant "no".
The day before the group rode into the last town they would see before they entered the desert, they came to those few willing to make their home here on the edge. Here there were always rare minerals and items to be found that were not available anywhere else. Some people were willing to stay here and to do what it took to earn that living.
One thing that they found was that the prices were really high in this town. Not just high, but sometimes four and five times what they might have paid anywhere else. As Dusty remarked on it, Kat mentioned that it was another way that people there made their living.
What they were doing was one step away from highway robbery because they would often sell people things that were expensive, but travelers who didn't know what they were doing would buy everything they were told they would need for a long trip. Then a few days or so out they would find that they were having problems carrying it all and start dumping items they were sure they could do without.
Then people would follow the travelers collecting what they cast off, sell it back to the outfitters and then the outfitters would do any cleaning they needed and then turn around and resell the items again. It was a way that they made a profit for themselves.
Dusty was amazed that anyone would do that, but as he looked out over the start of the desert he could see the various tracks and what looked to be the remains of various creatures that were just outside the view of the town. It seemed that he still had a lot to learn about where he now lived.
They took on the bare minimum of supplies. Between Kat and Seth they estimated what they would need for the round trip and then set about collecting everything. The plan was to rest in town for two days, give the horses and themselves a chance to rest up, and then start their trek across the desert to get to the nest.
The first day in this desert border town was interesting.
Every rough character that they could have imagined was out in force. There were fights everywhere on a continual basis. Dusty and Seth narrowly missed a few and a couple they couldn't.
Seth broke one man's jaw with a single punch as he tried to outright steal one of their horses in the middle of the day and Dusty did a snap kick while looking the other direction as someone tried to pick his pocket and also knocked another out during a different event while they were out shopping on the first day trying to find supplies.
Word got around about the two of them and it seemed that the more obvious characters left them alone easily. They were testing the men to see if they would be easy prey for some of the more brazen thieves.
But as for the women it seemed that someone was always grabbing or groping them in a crowd. Both Suzan and Kat constantly had someone, more than likely men but they weren't always sure, copping feels on both their breast and butts all the time. It was the worst during the times they were trying to get around the heavily crowded market square.
It wasn't as if there weren't other women around. Dusty saw various females all over the place. But most looked as if "hygiene" fell pretty low on their list of things they were worried about. A few might have been pretty with a good hot bath and better clothes.
Though that might have also been a defense against the same level of attention Kat and Suzan were getting now. Those females may have worked out the less appealing they appeared the less attention they would attract by those they didn't want it from.
After a while the two of them just stopped acknowledging or responding to what was going on, but Suzan's temper was starting to show at times. She had worked hard on trying to keep it under control after the fight with Joseph had showed her how easily she could lose a fight if she gave in to it, but this was getting out of hand.
Try as she might she never could quite catch whoever was doing it and she didn't want to unfairly lash out at innocent people either. It was truly frustrating.
Kat, while starting to eventually get distressed over it, acted less like it bothered her than Suzan. But it still did, she just did a better job of hiding it.
If it had stayed at that the rest of them might have gone on and ignored it even though it was irritating, but later that night as they tried to have a meal in the only Inn in the border town while it seemed that most of the really rowdy men congregated there and they hooted and hollered at the women and made quite a few crude remarks.
Dusty wanted to kick a few butts when it started, but Kat pointed out that this was normal for a town like this. If they didn't want to have everything they had stolen in the middle of the night while they fought off the entire town, the best thing they could do would be to ignore what was going on.
Even though it irritated him that his wife and the mother of his children had to put up with this type of treatment, Dusty realized that their mission was too important to risk over getting offended over words. Even their success meant that maybe some of the animals in this town would be saved as well.
After the first night they seemed to get a better grasp on it and started turning a deaf ear to what was going on around them.
One man during that first night, while he wasn't quite as rough looking as some of the others, still kept coming around their table and paying the ladies complements. He was a blonde man with curly hair and piercing blue eyes. While he wasn't quite as big as Dusty he had a willow like quality to him.
Both Dusty and Seth were immediately on guard. They noticed that for someone who would seem to normally be attractive to women this man wasn't hassled by any of the other men. At most they acted as if they didn't even see him half the time.
In their experiences, someone like this was often the most dangerous and needed to be watched. But other than paying way too much attention to Suzan with his flowery complements he didn't do much else. Even when she said she was married, flashed her wedding band, and asked him to please stop he still watched her from across the room.
While this irritated Dusty, he didn't interfere with his wife. She was a big girl who had fought an entire kingdom to come back to his side. One stupid male caused him no concern. It was the level of disrespect he kept showing him that irritated Dusty.
What really did irritate him was that all of these actions combined put a damper on his love life.
Because with the others in close proximity on the way here it had been almost two weeks since he had been with his wife, and that first night she was so angry over the way she kept being felt up that he knew better than to bring up the subject.
He couldn't remember the last time she was this angry without something to take it out on and it wouldn't be him if he had anything to say about it.
The second day they finished getting their supplies and tried to stay away from people as much as they could. They were tired of this town already and they had only been in it for less than 48 hours so far.
They decided to have dinner and then call it an early night and leave just before dawn.
One of the other things that irritated them was that there were no indoor restrooms, bath's, or showers. Kat found no less than ten magical watching devices and fifteen mechanical ones, including a good old fashion peephole, in the women's bath.
She and Suzan took water back to their rooms and washed up. They badly wanted a good hot bath, but not that badly. Thankfully the restrooms were free of them, but they were only one person facilities.
Close to the end of dinner Suzan, still pissed at all the catcalls and crude remarks that she had to listen to while she ate eventually needed to go to the restroom. Kat asked her if she wanted her to go with her, but Suzan declined saying she was fine because all these men were cowards anyway and that she was good.
Dusty didn't want to let her go, but his protest died in his throat as he saw her face. Self preservation again reared its head and he wisely closed his mouth.
Suzan left her sword at the table as she went out the double doors and headed for the restroom on the left far side of the building.
As she finished, Suzan had just barely made it around the corner of the Inn's front from the side of the building when she heard "Hey hotness where are you going?"
Looking she saw the same man with the curly blonde hair who had been paying way too much attention her last night.
"Look I'm not in the mood for this. I told you I wasn't interested," said Suzan as she started past him not even looking his direction.
Moving quickly the man lashed out and grabbed her in both of his hands, spun her before she realized it, and then with her back against his chest he trapped her arms within his as he started massaging her breasts through her clothing.
"Look you little tease. I know you want to sample what I've got. I saw it in your eyes as you watched me last night. So stop trying to act like you weren't and quit it with the good girl act. We're going to do this the easy way or the hard way, but you are going to get screwed tonight either way. It's up to you how much you'll enjoy it."
"It'll take less than ten minutes for me to give you a sample and then you can sneak out later tonight and I'll really rock your world. I'm bigger than any man you've ever been with because all the women say I'm hung like a bull. I'll get you off more times in one session than you've ever had before," said the man softly into her ear as he continued to play with Suzan's large chest.
He started to lift her shirt as he went to bite her ear while he held her against him.
The people inside the Inn were surprised to hear what sounded like a large animal, maybe a horse, but didn't realize where it was, hitting the side of the building at full speed. It was so loud all conversation stopped as the occupants tried to look around and see what it was.
About two seconds after it happened it happened again, but this time everyone could see that a few windows on the far side of the Inn rattled.
What sounded like the beginning of a male scream was quickly choked off as it was followed by the second thump which was then gone so fast the hearers weren't sure they heard it.
Dusty was out of his chair like a shot and not sure he was going to like what he was going to find. He quickly started for the door, followed by Kat and Seth, and gradually more and more curious patrons got up and also started heading for the door to look outside.
As quickly as they got outside the Inn, by the time they got outside there was a third even louder thump against the same wall.
Looking down the street to where the noise was coming from, they could see that it was Suzan and she was completely working over the blonde man who had grabbed her earlier.
Every time the man went to fall down she would hit him with a high knee that lifted him up in the air and then she kept him pinned to the wall as she repeatedly punched and kicked him. She refused to let the man fall even with his head and arms flailing all over the place from her blows.
It was apparent to all onlookers that he had long gone unconscious from the beating and the blows being thrown now were pure over kill on her part, but she was still yelling at him about keeping his dirty hands to himself as she continued to rain blows on him.
They just barely caught the flash of her bracers as quickly as she hit him. If it wasn't for that they wouldn't have seen any of her blows in the wane light.
Dusty raced down the side of the building and wrapped his arms around his wife to stop her. He couldn't let her kill an unconscious man no matter what he might have done.
Earlier when the man had lightly bitten her ear, Suzan had launched into action.
She first broke his hold by shrugging upwards. Even though he was strong, he was surprised she was far stronger and shrugged him off so easily.
As his arms came free, she then hit him hard enough with her elbow just below the rib cage and just above the stomach while her back was to him that he lost all wind in his lungs. He couldn't catch his breath to save his life and found he was gasping for breath trying to breathe through the pain.
While she still had her back to him, she caught his still out stretched arms from underneath, moving faster than a blink of an eye, and quickly flicked her wrist. The resulting wet snap could be heard from both arms as she broke both of his forearms.
The man couldn't have screamed if he wanted to, but the combined pain and lack of being able to breathe caused him to start to black out.
Then as he was starting to slump forward she spun and hit him in the chest hard enough that he was then pinned between the wall and her knee. She felt something snap in his chest but she no longer cared what it might have been. No one touched her like that without her permission.
The fresh pain snapped him back into consciousness and he started to scream, but it was short lived as she then hit him with hard to see multiple crosses, hooks, and uppercuts to the head. With his arms broken, he could only flail as she swiftly started working him over.
At first she refused to hit him hard enough to knock him out. She wanted him to feel each and every powerful blow that she used. But they rained on him so quickly he couldn't have followed or dodge them if he had tried to.
Again the man started to black out, but just as he started to pitch forward from the wall Suzan had him up against, she again pinned him back against it with her knee. Again something snapped, and again she didn't care. And again she started whaling on his head and body with her fist using the uppercuts to keep him upright.
She was in the process of doing it a "fourth" time as the now completely unconscious man started to fall forward once again when Dusty wrapped her up so she would stop hitting him before she killed him. Then the man finally fell heavily to the ground and lay there unmoving.
For a few minutes the two of them struggled, she tried hard to get free of him and Dusty tried just as hard to keep her from killing this man before she eventually calmed down.
The blonde man looked to be in very bad shape and might not live through the night after what Suzan had done with him. He lay on the ground extremely battered and bleeding. His face was starting to take on a mottled bluish purple look as the obvious swelling started.
Once she was calm she turned and looked at Dusty, not only was anger still on her face, but defiance as well. She refused to apologize to anyone for defending herself against a rapist. Maybe next time he would think twice about trying to rape someone because he thought he could get away with it.
She didn't expect Dusty to seek an apology from her for what she had done because she knew he would see it as her defending herself, but others in the town might feel she had gone overboard, and right now she refused to apologize to any of them for what she had done. They had all been groping and insulting her for days, and she was sure some of those had been women as well.
"He had it coming. The bastard said he was going to rape me and went as far as put his slimly, disgusting, disease ridden hands, all over me. He was trying to tear off my clothes and he was going rape me out where others could watch him and this is what he got for it!" said Suzan as she first glanced at Dusty then at everyone staring at her outside of the door.
She stayed looking defiant as she looked over the crowd in the doorway and windows, as they tried to see what was going on.
No one met her gaze except for Dusty. While he also felt the man had it coming for touching his wife like she said he did, the man also got the lesson that every other man in town needed for touching his wife, but all at once for the same offense.
She had been carrying that anger for a while and this stupid man had paid the price for uncorking the tempest in the bottle.
Kat slowly walked up and kneeled down to check on the blonde man's condition.
A very soft, almost hard to hear, murmur went out over the crowd as her hand started glowing white and she passed it over the man.
"I'll heal the internal injuries so that he'll live, but I won't set any of the bones except for the ones in his chest. I don't want them to puncture his lung again if he moves, but both of his arms will need to be set by that healer we went past earlier today because I won't let him go without some pain for trying to rape a woman," said Kat loudly after a moment so that everyone could hear her.
While she too felt Suzan may have gone a touch overboard, she agreed with her that the man needed a lesson. Someone who used force to rape women would need a large incentive to quit or they would continue to do it. Memory of a good savage beating at the hands of one of his victims should be enough to make him start to think twice about it.
The crowd silently watched as she healed him. The blonde man went from labored breathing to an easier breath as Kat worked. After a few minutes she said he was no longer in any danger and could be moved.
Seth, picked up the man like he was a sack of potatoes said "I'll drop him off at the healer and be right back" and then like that he was gone into the night on his mission.
While Suzan walked back into the Inn like nothing happened, it was different because this time instead of the men pressing in on her and making crude comments they parted like double doors swinging open and gave her a wide berth.
Suddenly all the men were wondering how dangerous she might be. The man was called "Knife" because it was his weapon of choice and he wasn't someone to fool with. His lighting speed had let him knife more than one person before they realized they were even hit. His speed was nothing to discount or ignore.
But this woman was beating him like he owed her money and she had come to collect on that old debt, and it looked like she was planning to leave him for dead afterwards.
That display proved that she was really dangerous, even more so than Knife!
When Kat came in a little behind her they stayed parted to let her pass as well. At no point had she ever said she was a mage and that new knowledge greatly bothered them.
The town didn't have any mages as residents, but a few different times mages came out of their way to test spells in the desert, and they passed through this town. The people in town could see their magic when they used it for miles.
Afterwards they would often visit the site where the mage had just been and would find huge blasted craters, weird ice formations, or sometimes even strange caricatures of what might have been some well known creature before, but now it was all twisted and mangled. Some of those who practiced the Dark arts did so well away from prying eyes.
No, they wanted nothing to do with any mages either.
Suzan sat down to finish eating and started acting like nothing had happened. She was happy to finally take out some of her aggression on some of the idiots around her. She should have done this a long time ago and then taken her chances with the repercussions.
Seth soon came back and joined them after dropping the man off. The healer looked him over and told Seth that the man had a concussion as well and would be out for a few days, but he was told he would live. Dusty was happy to hear it because killing a man who couldn't defend himself would eventually haunt Suzan and he didn't want that on her conscience.
Before lunch had been served Dusty had already spoken with the King. Even though he tried hard to keep the crystal phones they created a secret from the public, the King while bragging about them, had shown his off to a few of the nobles and visiting dignitaries. That was enough to spark a huge interest in them. Suddenly it was seen as a favor to the crown to have a few people outfitted with them, and a few others tried to curry huge favors with him to get one. Dusty and his friends kept...
While Kat had waited that morning for the three of them to arrive quite a few men had tried to "chat her up" as they passed by her going either into the city or as they left. Even in her generally loose fitting travel garb they saw the gem that she was. Somehow she managed not only to talk to them in a friendly manner, but she also managed to get some useful information while not offending anyone or giving the impression that she was willing to go to bed with any of them. Even though she...
The four women entered the large city and quickly blended in with the rest of the inhabitants. Suzan was just a little unhappy Dusty wasn't with her though it had only been a little over a week since she left Dusty and headed out for the mission. Although she missed her husband, she was also really charged up to be here and was well ready to take on a new mission like this. It took them several days of travel by ship and a few more days of hard riding and just barely stopping for anything...
Amber came into the house and kicked off her boots. She then put her pack down beside the door, took off her twin swords, and then leaned those swords against the door next to her pack. Her parents would be around somewhere, and after she found something to eat she would go find them. She had dropped Logan off in town, as he wanted to visit, but she only wanted to go home and unwind. As she walked down the hallway she had the same thoughts she usually did when she passed through...
Dusty felt like he was submerged in warm water. It was strange because while he couldn't see, he could feel everything. The feeling made him feel like he was surrounded by nothing and yet at the same time by everything. He could feel shapes, colors, sounds, even smells. He could sense everyone around him and as strange as it sounded he could sense himself. It was like he was looking at himself but he wasn't looking at himself. As Dusty was trying to puzzle that out, he felt child like...
Dusty and Suzan reached the double doors that lead to the council chambers. They had passed a few offices that the council members and others made their own. Now they were at their destination. There was a single desk outside the council chambers, and at it sat a very striking and attractive red haired woman. She looked to conceivably be in her mid-thirties, but with mages that didn't mean anything. She was dressed in similar robes as the guard out front with the same sash over her...
Nathan and Ariel were at the city of Lake's End walking around and speaking with the various people who lived there as they waited for their contact to get in touch with them. Someone had sent a work request notice to the guild about a two person job that needed to be done, and they requested the two of them by name. It was a simple escort job, but the request that accompanied it asked that both of them come a few days early before hand and discuss the job, as it was private and sensitive...
Wolfgang wouldn't admit it but he was really looking forward to Kat's visit shortly. She had just called to say that she was close and would soon be at his home, and once they broke the connection he found he was rotating the crystal phone around in his hands and staring at it as he thought about her. Ever since Dusty's phones started to be the rage it had made his life far easier. Of course he wished he had access to these phones a long, long, time ago but Dusty wasn't born during the...
Dusty and Suzan quickly made a few plans between them, agreed on them, and then set about separately doing them. First thing Dusty wanted to do was make sure the kids were taken care of. He knew that getting DJ started on his training was important right then and so he made a quick call to Lori. Talking as fast as he could Dusty then explained what was going on and why he needed to send the kids to her home. Telling Lori he had the emergency covered he made the plan to send their kids,...
Dusty, Suzan, Daniel, and Rachel all suddenly appeared on the pad next to Lori's home. The pad was large enough to accommodate five riders on horseback, but it was the four of them standing next to Dusty and Suzan's horses. Waiting while Dusty and Suzan took their horses to the stable, the four of them returned to the front of the door and knocked. "Lori seemed pretty excited when I called her, I wonder why," said Suzan as they waited "Bet she's discovered something new again. She...
"Thank you for the horses," said Marie as she looked over at Seth smiling. "I'm happy to loan them to you all. I'm just sorry how you received them, but not that you have them," said Seth. "I am too. I wished those men didn't have to die while helping others as they did, but I know those people in the town appreciated their sacrifice," said Marie to Seth. Seth just nodded as he rode. They rode in silence while they were sticking to the main roads in the forest so that they could...
As the five of them worked their way through the dungeon, they were surprised that they no longer found any opposition. There just didn't seem to be anything that approached them or tried to attack them. That bothered Dusty. They had just gone from having wave after wave of ghouls attacking for over an hour to an eerie quiet. The only thing that made it worse was the occasional dripping sound of water from somewhere in the distance as they made their way deeper into the dungeon. "This is...
Melkin had to admit that Dusty was coming up in the world. When he brought him here he was someone who had nothing and had to start at the bottom. The council thought that this was the best way to do it and that it would make him more dependant on them for things he needed to survive while here. But not only had he started with nothing and grown, but he had been knighted, received a title and land, and was now turning a pretty decent profit. No one had expected him to be able to prosper...
"With us not finding any trace of what's happing during the day it looks like we're going to have to venture further into the woods at night," said Suzan as she looked at Dusty and Seth. "Are you sure that's a good idea? I mean we've still not found a single trace of what is taking off with the people from around here," said Dusty as he turned to look at her. "I say we give it at least one more day, maybe two tops, before we go looking for any danger that we may not need to buy for...
The next morning Dusty got up very early, before the sun was even close to coming up, and started packing his pack for the next mission. As he pulled out clothing to take with him he noticed the suede leather jacket and jeans that he was wearing when he arrived here hanging in the wardrobe in the corner of his room. Seeing them once again took him back to when he first appeared in this world just under over a year ago. A lot of things had changed. First of all he now believed in magic. It...
Dusty started to run into the room, but he stopped and took a good long look around first looking for traps. As he stepped into the room he saw Galvin as he basically finished hanging his wife next to Daniel and Rachel from a hook by a chain around both of her wrists. When Galvin stepped back he could see that her shirt was ripped badly in the front and one of her breasts was in danger of spilling out of her already heavily overworked bra. He watched Galvin seem to take a good long look at...
Two men stood looking at the prone form of their leader. They just received the report that the man wanting to join them, a Christopher Jones, was just killed by someone a very powerful. It didn't look like magic that killed him, but they also had no idea at this point how he died. The men weren't too broken up about it because they felt the fool was wrong to be experimenting on children and they wouldn't miss him. He contacted them before with a deep desire to join their ranks and said...
"Mmmmmmm ... do you really need to get up and go work out so soon? The sun isn't even up yet. You really should come back to bed. I need you. I mean I really need you. You could just as easily work out with me instead you know," said Suzan softly but in her deep raspy voice. Even with just barely opening her eyes, she knew that she had her husband's complete attention. They had gone to bed the previous night in the buff and she could see his response to her request instantly. He was...
During the first week that Dusty and the others had left Marie and Seth had met with the King and Marie trained in the yard to keep up her skills, tone her body, and generally keep busy. The King gave her one of the outer rooms that faced the parade yards so that she was well away from the other nobles but close enough that she could work out in the yard and visit with Seth. King William gave her a knowing smile as his secretary briefed her where she would be staying. Marie smiled back at...
Once out of the chamber Dusty smiled and raced down the hall to grab Suzan's hand as she was still storming down the hallway, and pulled her trembling frame into an embrace. As he did he noticed that her face was unreadable, but he could see as he did this that she was still very much pissed off. While pulling her close he buried his face in her hair. "I'm sorry honey, but should have told you that you broke nothing. If I hadn't been so caught up in self pity I would have spoken up...
"Well my dear it has been almost two weeks, I don't believe they are coming back before the time limit," said Queen Morigan as she looked over at Rachel while she stood apart from the other women. Rachel was sitting and trying to look at ease, but it was an effort with all the various other Lady's and ladies in waiting around. All the various forms of nobility were hanging around the audience chamber making light conversation about nothing and gossiping. As Rachel tried to look like she...
Dusty arrived with his friends at the kingdom of Stelmore. The first thing they did on entering was to head straight for the castle to talk with King Roland about the attacks. Reaching the city gates it was obvious that the city was on high alert. On trying to enter the capital city they had to get off of their horses at the gate and lead them into the city. The guards then separated them, and two guards checked them one at a time. One held a serviceable pike on them as the other one...
A bloody and very upset Suzan and Anita made their way back to the palace just as the Sun was cresting over the horizon. They had already made the stop by Tabitha's mother's house the night before to inform her of what happened. Needless to say it wasn't something they wanted to do, but knew that they had to and it was something they owed the only real victim to pay the ultimate price. Even though Suzan felt she should tell her, Anita insisted that because her death was her fault she...
"Who are you two?" asked Rory quietly as he stared at them. "Rory we're still your friends, but we're also different people than who you know. I promise I'll answer all your questions later. I'll meet you back here in about an hour or so. "Watch over Terrance. I don't believe he'll die, but if I'm wrong come get me. But for now I need to hurry and get Ariel to our room. I'll explain why I need to do this as fast as humanly possible when I return," said Nathan quickly. Moving...
"Everyone, you are here for a reason and it is something that has an effect on your lives both in the past and the future," began Brianna as they were all seated around the living room. As the last to arrive, once Matt and Rayne showed up it was time to get started. As they looked around at their children and their spouses, they both couldn't believe how much the boys took after their father, even down to having the same silver forelock now in their hair as well But knowing this would be...
Galvin sat on the cliff side with his legs dangling as he sat overlooking the city. It was a very prosperous city that originally had been a town that was built against the side of a cliff so that it could only be raided from one direction, and all the defenses had been developed to protect from that direction. But over the years the town had grown, as well as changes in modern warfare. Now if someone wanted to give the city a good pasting they could do it in relative safety from where he...
Aric was sitting the table mentally going over preparations for dinner. It was his week to cook. While Brianna was coming along with her cooking, he was still far better he thought with a smile. But she was getting better, and she was better at cleaning and laundry so he had no complaints. He was glad they took turns switching on and off each week. Even though he tried to stop it, his mind kept drifting back over the last few seasons. After Brianna and Aric were settled in they traveled a...
"And that all happened just a little over ten seasons ago?" asked Nathan slowly. The way this young man was acting he thought it was all recently at least in the last couple of seasons. Not something decades ago. "I left the city and I've not returned. Not even to see my family," said Elliot nodding yes. "But what happened to Kathryn after you left or the man she was with? Did you ever find out? Did you even want to know?" asked Nathan. As he thought about it, he realized that he...
Suzan could tell by the rising and setting of the sun that she had been here at least a week and a half so far. She wasn't sure what was going on with Dusty and her friends, but she really wanted to see them again. The first few days she was there she refused to eat, though after awhile she decided starving herself before she found a way out didn't make sense. But she refused to eat with the Queen and Prince under any circumstances. She just flat out refused to see them. Everyday she...
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After making their way to the address in question they noticed that there was a light coming from what looked to be a cellar door. As they opened the door they saw there was a lantern lit by the door but the others close by it were out. But a few feet after those the rest were lit again. Marie said she was going first, and they followed her down a narrow passageway that seemed to go down for about two stories then leveled out. As they leveled out they realized that they were headed to a...
Dusty and the others made pretty good time over the last day and a half to the huge mountainous expanse in the desert. Dusty would never have expected this if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes. It didn't make sense, but he was still learning things. There was one point when Kat called them close and said they were being followed. Dusty leaned over his horse, using just one stirrup to support his weight, reached into an inside pocket, and then hung like that as he buried something close...
Dusty got up early the next morning and found that not only was DJ up, but he already finished some light stretching, completed a run around the house a few times, and was now seated at the kitchen table entertaining himself as he waited for everyone else to get up. Laughing to himself he found it interesting that the boy had similar habits as himself. "I see your up early, any reason for that?" asked Dusty as he got a cup of something out of the icebox and then leaned against the counter...
"Hi welcome to the Winters, Taylor and Owen law firm. How may I help you?" asked the extremely beautiful young lady coming down the hallway. As Dusty stopped to get a good look at her he found his breath taken completely away. She was about 5'9" in some nice shiny black four inch Patten leather pumps. It didn't appear she was wearing stockings, but her legs were tanned and very well formed, but he was trying not to stare and only took a very quick look at them as she approached...
Early the next morning found the group of six riding away from the castle as they hurried to the Kingdom of Patella to speak with the Queen and see what was going on in that land. As the rode down the road, Dusty started talking about something that was on his mind. "Was it really wise to leave Marie alone with Seth?" asked Dusty to everyone as they rode their borrowed horses towards the Kingdom of Patella. He waited until they were well away from the capital city before he asked so no...
"Galen? Galen? Yes I know of him. He's one of those mages who seated themselves on their useless council. Don't you know that his meeting you was no accident? He was assigned to watch you. He also wanted to make sure that you didn't go power mad and crazy. While you may be stronger he's always hidden his true strength from you. "And you do know the reason that he took so long to help your son and his wife when her powers truly activated was because the council really didn't want to...
While still stunned from Gemma's story, Brianna looked down at the table and said "But, but, I don't know if he even likes me back. What if he doesn't think I'm attractive enough? All the other women here are so beautiful, and I'm not that special. I don't know how to walk around like they do or how to flirt with him. And I don't really know how to cook very well. Everyone else is better than I am at everything." Gemma, looked at her stunned for a moment, paused and then started to...
Andrea sat next to the bed looking down at the face of a sleeping Daven. It was hard to believe watching him that this was the same face of the young man who was the terror of husbands and fathers alike. Likewise it was hard to believe this was the same face of the young man who was well known as well for his uncommon attractiveness. If it wasn't for his barely hidden arrogance, that few who got close enough to him could see, she herself might have found him more attractive. He always...
DJ slowly came to, and as he did, he tried to get his bearings based on the last thing he remembered. The last thing he clearly remembered was hitting the ground hard and then ... nothing. While DJ lay there trying to figure out what was going on, he noticed a couple things. One he could hear an argument going on in the distance. He tried to focus on it, but he was distracted because his head was at an odd angle. It wasn't the fact it was unpleasant or anything, but he was lying on...
When everyone arrived in front of the home of Lori and Mark Miller, DJ was suitably impressed. To him it pretty much screamed mage from the start when you looked at it. He had seen lots of movies, books, and animations, and some of the designs gave him that impression. Their house was what he would have called a one story ranch style wrap around that had the front door and porch in the center of the structure and what looked to be separate rooms, or wings, on either side of it. It wasn't...
Reaching the edge of the city, just past the market square that she often visited, Suzan and Anita noticed that hardly anyone was around the homes there. Looking around as they reached the edge Suzan could see that something had gone horribly wrong. There were doors that were broken in, overturned stands, and destruction everywhere. Trash and broken items littered the road. Still in shock Suzan asked "What happened here, what is all of this?" "This is what happens when Trolls raid our...
DJ, Amber, Logan, Marilyn, and Jason reached the last city just outside of Lori's home without too much of a problem. They would soon be at her home to start DJ off on his training in magic. The trip was eventful with many men who kept asking after Amber and Marilyn to do everything from sitting with them, asking for a dance, to the blatant request to visit their room. Some didn't even want to wait for nightfall for that to take place. Marilyn often got most men to leave her alone by...
"Are we ready?" asked Marie Seeing everyone nod at her they started out of the gathering hall and headed down the road in the general direction of the city that they would eventually start their assignment. Marie knew that this mission was one that was given to Dusty by the council, via their guild, and she knew like always he would fill them in. He always shared all info with the team, but away from prying eyes and ears. As they walked Dusty was surprised at how Marie didn't seem to be...
Almost seeming to leap over the mess she had just made by the door, Lindsey jumped for Dusty and he just barely caught her before she tackled him. Dusty suddenly found himself holding a hysterically crying Lindsey as she seemed to break down in his arms. Not sure why he did it, Dusty couldn't help but notice that she was dressed in the same short brown outfit as the rest of the serving girls. She couldn't have been there all that long as her tanned and well formed legs only made the...
"Did you get what you needed?" asked Lori as they left Chris's home "Yes and no. I reported in and let them know what I found, but I know now even less about him than I did when I started," commented Dusty to Lori. Lori realized that Dusty probably wanted some privacy to ask some questions. One being why Lindsey was here and another about Chris, and she was sure he didn't want an audience. "Well thank god you came back when you did, we were running out of things to say to him while...
The night of the party was amazing. Somehow the ladies knew just who to see to get outfits for the party. Most missions didn't even include a party so they didn't pack dresses, but were still happy to find some to use to get dressed up for the occasion. Even Lindsey was happy with the outfit for her. It wasn't a large party or even a grand one, but it was a chance for them to talk to others and let their hair down for a bit. It was being held at the summer home near the edge of the town...
As soon as Marie closed and barred the door to her room she started to sweat again. Even though she was sure that at the time the cramps would kill her, she was used to getting the mild form so she was able to endure, but now she thought she was going to crawl out of her skin. She had to have sex and she needed it now! That was the only thing she wanted to do right now. That drug in her system was making it slowly her sole desire and the only thing her mind focused on. She couldn't...
Dusty and Lori managed to get to the farm in question and find what they needed. After convincing the farmer and his wife they weren't nuts and they did have a valid reason for why they wanted the stuff, they managed to get them to help them distill plant into a pure liquid form. Dusty promised that the Mayor would take care of the cost and that they just needed to let him know what to pay Asking for the use of a horse and wagon to carry back the large barrel, it was well into the...
The event in question was the night Dusty and Lindsey went to a summer party two months ago at one of their mutual friend's house. To be honest Grace was more Lindsey's friend than his, but he got along well with her husband Peter. Their friends had setup a barbeque pit, games, horseshoes, volley ball, among a few other games, and they had a very large turn out. Dusty was talking and hanging out with some of the guys he felt more comfortable with even though he really didn't know anyone...
The next morning as Dusty slowly awoke he noticed that a slender arm was now draped over him from behind as he faced the window. It wasn't like he didn't know who it was without turning over. He would have to start locking his door at nights it would seem. As he got up he could see that Lindsey had fallen asleep next to him and had obvious worn only her towel into his bed from the night before, and now it had now fallen open. Without meaning too, he looked and was disgusted to realize...
Eventually Dusty was able to find and move into his new apartment. Regardless of how he looked like on the outside to anyone, he was finding it hard to stay civil when every fiber of his being wanted to throttle Lindsey whenever she was near, and it was slowly starting to get to him. Going to the gym and getting into a good scrap at first seemed to help with his frustrations, but lately as the months drug on that was starting to not be enough. There were times during that last month that...
"I'm going to kill that old man," thought Dusty as he groaned painfully and rolled over. When he came to, he found himself face down in a field of grass. He looked around, and he could see what looked to be a dirt road to his right and trees off in the distance. As he stood up he realized that it looked like he was no longer in the city of Indianapolis anymore. He couldn't see anything like skyscrapers or building in general. All he could see was a big open field with a tree line off...
Three things happened after that first night they all spent in an Inn. First as they traveled during the day Lori came out of her shell and would talk with Dusty. Even though she still had her quiet moments, she no longer scowled at him and now that they traveled together Dusty found that she often would walk beside him, look up at him, and inquire about his life before he met them. She would sometimes even smile at him from time to time. Second was that while Suzan would still play pranks...
"OH MY GOD! WHAT WAS THAT!" thought Dusty as he waved his hand around at the dust in his room. "Did a bomb just now go off in here?! If so it was a bad one, it only took out the wall." There was a very large hole in the wall where his bed used to be and the bed was now a pile of heavily burnt and damaged kindling. But Dusty was without his towel and he was standing there on display as naked as the day he was born. Lori might have appreciated the view if she wasn't staring stunned at...
"Yes right there, right there Dusty. Oh my god yes! That feels wonderful. You really are as good as you said," moaned out Lori as she smiled down at Dusty. Lori was lying on the bed completely naked and looking unbelievable as she played with her large breasts with both hands as Dusty toiled on. Dusty smiled up at her as he was working hard at pleasuring her. He was hitting all the right spots and he knew that she was enjoying herself immensely it seemed. As he felt her twitching and...
The museum was having a party a week before the showing and Dr. White decided to allow the guild members to come as guests. Marie thought he really must be desperate to have them work for him since normally the help wasn't invited to these things. The main surprise was that the museum paid for them to all get new outfits for the night as well. Dr. White said that it was so they wouldn't feel pressure to find something. He just told them to mingle and meet new people and see what the museum...
"Tell me again what you say you saw?!" asked Dr. White shocked. This was the first time anyone had any information on the deaths. Dusty had gotten the girls up as he headed to Dr. White's room. It was on the second floor of where they were staying. Dr. White came down to view the room then he sent word to Dr. Carmichael that there was another attack and he took everyone to his office, and while he waited Dusty covered what he saw again. "Like I said, it was a wolf made of fire. But...
"So it went well?" Suzan asked as she sat and brushed her hair at the vanity. She could tell by Dusty's large smile that he had a good testing. The vanity was the only furniture she had brought with her when she moved into Dusty's room and it was small enough that it took up no real space in the corner. Dusty always enjoyed sitting and watching her work on her hair. While she only wore makeup for some of their special times together he still enjoyed watching her movements. To be honest...