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He must have some plan for me, and I just don’t know what it is.
And yet, with a full belly, I lay down on the blanket he gave me, pull the other one up over my nakedness, and fall asleep.
* * *
Lo’zar
I’ve never, ever gotten turned on just by watching someone eat fruit before.
I mean, plenty of other little things have turned me on. I absolutely love when a female reaches down and touches herself. That’s a big one. I’ve also gotten hard watching someone take off their clothes. Hell, even just bending down and picking something up off the floor can be profoundly erotic. Once, all it took was a trolless’s seductive smile.
Never just... eating a piece of fruit. As the rivulets of juice roll down the sides of her small face, I feel my cock getting fat and warm under my pants.
Damn. The human woman—Ree-mee?—might just be a little bit cute. The thought should revolt me. We trollkin have cut down humans for territory as long as our civilizations have existed. We just fought a bloody war, for fuck’s sake, but I think I’ve been twisted. Maybe if you put your cock inside a human once, it’s like a disease that takes over, and now here I am lusting over another one.
Ree-mee swallows up the last of the second fruit I gave her like it’s the first meal she’s had in days. Then she curls up in the blankets, and without any pomp and circumstance, falls asleep.
I find myself staring at her face as the wagon bumps along. She has a small nose, and an equally small, dainty mouth. Her black hair lies in oily tangles all over her head, and I think the poor thing could use a bath.
I work my way up to the front of the wagon and lean over where Kugara is driving the horses. “Hey,” I say. “Do you know how long it’s going to be to get to the buyer?”
“Better get cozy,” is all she says.
I grunt in annoyance. “I’m asking because we should probably get this human cleaned up before we deliver her. We don’t know what she’s... er, going to be used for.”
This piques Kugara’s interest. “Do you think she’s going to be a kinky sex toy?” she asks. My throat goes dry. What a grotesque thought, some lecherous old orc buying a human woman just to tie her up and abuse her.
“Maybe,” I say. “Anyway, she also reeks. It’s disgusting.”
Kugara sniffs the air, then sighs. “Ugh. You’re not wrong about that.” Letting the reins drop for a moment, she reaches into her pocket and pulls out a map. There’s a red star and a circle around it up near the top, where I assume we’ll find the buyer. She traces her finger along the line of the road.
“Tomorrow there’s a river off that way,” she says, gesturing vaguely to the west. “Then you can get her all clean for her newmaster.” Kugara giggles at this and picks the reins back up. How can she be so callous about another living thing?
With that settled, I return to the back of the wagon to watch Ree-mee sleep a while longer. When it’s time to set up camp, I give her some of my smoked meat rations, and she doesn’t hide at the back of the cage this time. She slides close, only for a second, and takes it from my hands. The brush of her tiny fingers over mine sends a shockwave up my arm. Then it’s gone, and she’s feverishly shoving the food in her mouth and relishing each bite.
That night, I lie in my bedroll thinking about the fruit juice spilling down the sides of her face while she laps it up.
* * *
The following day we come to a stop just after a junction, where Kugara guides the horses off the side of the road. “Since you’re looking after her, it’s on you to wash her,” she says. “I’m not gonna be the one to do it just because I’m a girl.”
I don’t mind that at all. Maybe once Ree-mee is clean, she’ll smile at me again.
Speaking of which, she’s sitting up in her cage looking around, probably wondering why we’ve stopped. I go to the door of her cage and open it. She doesn’t retreat, but she looks nervous, too. I hold up a rope, and then put my wrists together to mime what I want.
Her eyebrows lower and she backs up a step. Damn. This is not going to be easy, and I don’t want to have to drag her out again. Once more I gesture for her to give me her hands, and then point out into the trees. I try to mime washing as best I can, scrubbing under my armpits and running my hand up over my hair. Bathing is a little sexy, so I put my best effort into mimicking what a nice bath would look like.
I stop when I hear laughter. The human is watching me, covering her mouth, her eyes lit up with humor. When I gesture for her hands again she offers them to me, though I don’t think she yet understands what I’m taking her to do.
Once she’s tied up, I wrap the other end of the rope around my wrist and lead her out of the cage. I pick her up and jump down from the wagon, and she lets out a little shriek of surprise.
“Don’t sully the goods,” Kugara calls out to me.
Gross.
I set Ree-mee down on the ground and she looks thunderstruck. I gesture into the woods and pull on the rope. Time to follow me.
She gives me a suspicious look, and digs her feet in. I know I shouldn’t be surprised, but I had hoped this would be easier. I tug again, hoping I won’t have to pull her along. That certainly won’t endear her to me.
