Chapter 63 - The Holy Daughter

Dayel returned to the campsite. He had long since ceased to care about the cause that the kingdom espoused, but his love, his obsession with the holy daughter kept him moving on towards their target. Long ago they had ruined their greatest enemy, but it seemed that there had been rats that scattered from the ship before it sank. He was hunting for those rats.

The fact that he was with the holy daughter while doing it only increased his fervour to succeed. He wanted to show her, and her father that he was truly a man that could be trusted, a truly powerful and reliable soldier, even if he was not a zealot.

“I’ve heard word that there’s a group of Lupe that are sweeping up the dregs of all the clans. They are planning something, my lady, but I have no idea what”. He was proud of the information he had collected, it was surely a piece that they would reward him for.

“So you’re saying..” the holy daughter began, “That the Lupe are doing our job for us? And that we should be happy about it?”

He could not help but look on at the woman. She was perfection. Pale skin, a demeanour that commanded any room she was in, thick black hair braided and pulled back behind her. Even her jiangli were incredible. The bones used to pierce through her skin were all of the highest quality. She was so much more than anything Dayel could dream of.

After a moment he realised he had not answered. “Yes,” he said, desperately trying to seem as confident as her. “Of course, I think we should find out where they’re keeping all these unholy spawn and then harvest them for our own ends, but the fact that we have to exert and lose less manpower for someone else to help us is something positive”.

The holy daughter walked over to him and dragged a nail down the side of his face. He could not help but shiver in pleasure as it cut into his skin and a small trickle of blood welled up before sliding down his face. She walked behind him and grabbed his jaw before sliding her tongue up the wound. “I see,” she whispered into his ear. “Well if you can bring me information about the place these bodies are being kept I might deign to let you call me by my name”.

He felt her hand trail down his chest, stopping at his waist before she let go of him completely. He was stunned for a moment before he regained his will. “Yes, my lady! I will get to work immediately. There may have been news spread to one of our informants, so I will check them immediately”.

Turning around Dayel walked back out of the room and closed the door. He was hot, his face flushed as the blood from his lower half began returning to his head. He was so close. He could feel it. Taking a deep breath he calmed himself down before he walked down the stairs and began to interrogate everything he saw. After fifteen minutes of talking, cajoling, roughing up and outright terrifying his informants he found one who had heard a rumour about the Lupe. Immediately he ran back upstairs and into the holy daughter’s room. He was so excited he forgot proper decorum and saw her spreadeagled on her back, naked bar for the bones that pierced her skin and the thick array markings that covered her abdomen.

He gasped and stepped back before stammering “Apologies my lady, but I already have news”.

She stood up and walked over to him, glancing up and down his body before licking her lips. “You made a mistake did you? Well this information best be accurate. If it’s right, I’ll do more than let you call me by my name, but if it’s wrong...” she trailed off and moved her knife-like nails up to his eyes. “You’ll pay by your sight becoming part of my Gi. Yveth Rudh does not like intruders on her personal time”.


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