Two zombies walked into the clearing and automatically took up guard positions, walking right by the two padins. They had their iven by me earlier, and they weren’t going to alter them for circumstawo other zombies had been “killed” by Talos. The other I’d ordered to run away, and god only knew where it had gotten to.

  I checked my mana. I’d cast Charm Person twice, and Dimension Step a bunch of times. But my mana pool was a lot bigger than it used to be.

  Mana: 32/121

  So enough for one more Charm Person spell, or I could cast Find Dead and go after the missing zombie before it got too far. Maybe I could use Mend Corpse to heal one of the zombies Talos had cut bato service. I could use the other one for parts. Ick.

  Meanwhile, Valeria was squirming in her bonds, aness was running dowhigh from her steel-pted crotch. Talos was struggling in his bonds, too, while his gaze was fixed on his panion, who seemed to be in her own world.

  Valeria was kind of distrag.

  Having fewer zombies was bad, but it wasn’t the end of the world. If I shorteheir trip, fewer could still move the same amount of wood. The trolls would have to e into the forest to collect it, which would annoy Xy, but it was doable. They wouldn’t have to e that far, because five could manage nearly 200 or so pnks a week, which was more than our deal called for. With three, I could probably still get to 100 with the current drop off location.

  A setback, but not something worth killing over. Now I just had to persuade these two that it wasn’t worth killing over.

  I’m tired of giving you my vast wisdom. I want to see if you figure this o by yourself.

  I could live with that.

  We needed information, and the question is who was most likely to give it to us, the squirming girl in bondage, or the guy who couldn’t stop staring at my tits. Valeria was iing, but my bet was on wo.

  I straddled him. “Make sure Valeria doesn’t hurt herself,” I said to Xy, and then turned my full attention on Talos. “Hello, Talos.”

  He averted his eyes. I rolled mine, and took my top off again.

  Sure enough, he couldn’t resist sneaking peeks at my peaks.

  Charm Person.

  It didn’t make him look into my eyes, but it did make him stop sneaking and stare openly, so I guessed that it worked. I jiggled a little.

  It was weird. I was not attracted to guys. But knowing I was the girl in this sario, I didn’t mind flirting with him. I think fually I’m attracted to sex that involves at least one woman – and that meant that this sario didn’t bother me at all, especially as I didn’t intend for it to go all the way. I straddled him and rubbed his bare chest with my smooth hand. “Talos, we want to be friends, don’t we?”

  “Evil neancer,” he said.

  “But a cute neancer. What if you’re wrong, Talos? What if I’m the sweetest neancer, like Xy told you. We could be good friends, couldn’t we? It’s okay, I don’t mind if you look at my breasts. I know you like them.”

  “All neancers are evil. Even the breast of them. I mea.”

  “Best breasts,” said Gren.

  Something stirred beh me, and I realized what it was. He was getting hard, and I could feel it against my ass. Okay, definitely strange. I’d had a few MFM threesomes, but it was still weird.

  And at the same time, I k gave me a lever. Charm Person worked better if the person was sexually attracted to me. So I just moved forward, making my breasts bound jiggle while he stared. “If yood, I might let you touch them. You’re supposed to be good, aren’t you?”

  “All neancers are evil,” he repeated, but he didn’t sound as vinced.

  “Unh,” Valerie moaned. Gren stroked the inside of her thighs and brought her fio her mouth.

  “That doesn’t taste like sweat,” Gren said. “Doesn’t smell like sweat, either.”

  I resisted the temptation to lose focus. “I feel your cock getting all hard,” I said. “Don’t you wonder what it would feel like between my breasts?”

  Talos’ eyes went wide. If he hadn’t wondered, he was now.

  I didn’t want to promise him anything I wasn’t going to deliver. Well, actually, that might be worth it, if I found out what I wao know. I moved so that my tits were almost toug his mouth, and then back. “Tell me what I o know, Talos. Would you lie to me?”

  “Lying is wrong,” Talos said. “Even to you.”

  I smiled. “If you went bad reported you couldn’t take care of the problem, what would happen?”

  “They’d send someone more experienced.”

  “But otherwise? Are there more of you ing?”

  He hesitated.

  “You tell me. I’m your friend.”

  “My evil neancer friend.”

  If that was how it had to be, I’d take it. “Your sexy neancer friend.”

  “No. We’re expected to take care of you ourselves.”

  “And will people e to iigate, to find out whether you succeeded?”

  “No. Like I said, we’re expected to take care of it ourselves.”

  I breathed a sigh of relief.

  “And how about your cock?” I asked. “Are you supposed to take care of that yourself?”

  “A padin must learn not to give in to base urges,” he said. “No matter what.”

  “I see. So no hanky-panky with Val?”

  “No.”

  “No masturbation?”

  “No.”

  “You ’t even ask me to stroke it for you?”

  Sweat broke out on his forehead, but he shook his head violently. “No!”

  Now rules like that were what I’d call evil. But I didn’t really want to stroke it, anyway. I could, taking one for the team, but I didn’t want to. But did I have the right te him, uhe influence of a spell, to break his oath?

  My ethics were making things harder. Gren and Xy were following my lead, but it put them in danger, potentially. We could, perfectly safely, kill both of them. I’d have two more zombies. Problem solved. Anything else utting Gren and Xy at risk, me at risk, the gate at risk, the fate of two worlds at risk.

  I still couldn’t just kill them in cold blood. And I couldn’t send them back. But I could, and would, make promises. I would do what I o do to protect me and mine.

  “Are you left ht handed?” I asked.

  “Right,” he answered, fused.

  “Xy? Would you free his left hand, please?”

  She did. He went straight for my boob, which I should have expected.

  “Um, sent?” I said, a little hypocritically given what I po do. I moved backward, brushing against his hardened length in the process, and out of his reach at the same time, until I was straddling him mid-thigh. “You look, but you ’t touch. But do you know what you do?”

  “What?”

  “You stroke your cock if you want to. You look at my tits and stroke your cock. But only if you want to.”

  “I’m not allowed to cum.”

  Now that seemed evil to me.

  “Who tells you that, Talos?”

  “The priests?”

  “Do they follow the same rules?”

  He shook his head.

  “You just stroke it.” I carefully wasn’t telling him he should, only that he could. If he wao.

  He pulled his cock out of his loin cloth and started stroking. It wasn’t especially big, or small. It was just a cock, and he was jerking off.

  “Do you want to cum?” I asked him.

  He nodded. “Of course. But I’m not allowed to.”

  “Is it okay to get yourself really close?”

  “I do that,” he said. “Some of the monks have the practice of edging, and it’s permitted.”

  I smiled.

  “I’m so close,” he said, after a minute, his face covered with sweat.

  “You keep stroking. If you want to.”

  He did, but he shook his head. “I won’t be able to hold back.”

  “You speed up, if you want to.”

  “I won’t be able to hold –”

  And then he didn’t. He spurted all over his stomad chest. Some of it even hit his neck. He’d been saving it up for a long time, and o started it just kept ing and ing.

  You have made a Padin asm! You gain 100 experience points.

  You need 1896 experience points to reach third level.

  Maybe I should have expected that. I was curious about something, so I tried it. I reached out and touched a pool of white liquid on his stomach. Life Drain.

  I wasn’t wounded, so I didn’t need healing. I could feel the maering my system as I moved my finger around, draining all his little sperm of their precious essence. From a size point of view, it shouldn’t have amouo much. But it was way more effective than that. I’d found a new synergy as a Seductress/Neancer.

  Mana 52/121

  I smiled.

  “I shouldn’t have dohat,” he said.

  “Of course you should have,” I told him. “You wa, and I wanted you to. There’s nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with sex. Nothing wrong with wanting to have asms, and having them. It’s good for you.”

  “It was wrong,” he said.

  “Did you like it?”

  “Yes,” he said, blushing.

  “Good,” I said. “Do it again.”

  “I –” he hesitated.

  “You know you want to.”

  Aarted stroking. If he hadn’t wao, on some level, he wouldn’t have. At least, that’s what I told myself.

  The problem with Charm Person is I had to stay within sight. That meant I couldn’t go off chasing my zombie, and keep him charmed. But at least I didn’t have to stay on top of him. I took a look at Valeria, whose eyes were now closed. She hadn’t been able to see exactly what was going on with Talos, and she might ht not have heard some of it over the sound of her own heavy breathing.

  “Valeria,” I said.

  Her eyes opened. “Abby,” she spat. “You betrayed us.”

  That was one way of looking at it. “If we let you go, what will you do?” It was niowing that they had strong feelings about lying.

  “Run a help, and then hunt you down aroy you and all your zombies.”

  Right. I couldn’t just charm them both ahem that way forever. The spell didn’t work that way.

  “You’re kind of obsessed with neancers, aren’t you?”

  She gred at me.

  “A, you really like being tied up, too.”

  “I –” she wao deny it.

  “No lying, now.”

  She bit her lips to keep quiet.

  “I think that must make being bound and helpless for a neancer just the best thing ever, don’t you?” I asked.

  She gred at me again, and I touched her where her shoulder was bared by her impractical armor. I felt a little bad about it, but oher hand, I needed a perma solution, and I didn’t want to kill her.

  You see it! She’s perfect for it.

  I did see it. I reviewed the spell, even as the system informed me that I got an experience point for using it the first time.

  Imbue Fetish: You may create in a person a tra or fixation, which will steadily increase over the course of a month. Depending oarget’s inations, the fetish may bee an obsession. May fade after the month is over, or bee perma, depending on the subject. Requires that the Seductress touch the user.

  Valeria had some pretty strong inations.

  That is so evil! I’m proud of you!

  I might have do, too, if Enash hadn’t said that. But there were lines I should not cross. I didn’t know that I would ever find a situation in which I would feel okay using that spell. I was fine usiion to get them to want to stay, but I would still only go so far – unless, perhaps, everything else failed. I got up and walked over to Talos instead. He, I felt like I was liberating, in a way. “Are you ready to cum, Talos?”

  He nodded. “But it’s wrong.”

  “There is nothing wrong with asms. It feels good, doesn’t it?”

  “No, Talos! It’s a sin!” Valeria told him.

  “You if you want to, Talos.”

  Not surprisingly, he didn’t cum as much this time. And it didn’t give me nearly as much maher. If it had been something he really hadn’t wao do, I would never have been able to get him to do it, but it was something he’d been craving for a long time.

  I’d just given him permission to do what he wao do. Now that wasn’t evil, was it?

  “You – you – horrible person,” Valeria told me.

  I shrugged. Sometimes a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do. “What would the folks bae say if they knew?” I asked Talos.

  “They’d – punish me.”

  “Well, we’ll just have to make sure they never know.”

  “I’ll have to tell the truth when I go back.”

  “You don’t have to go back.”

  His eyes widened.

  “Xy, please tie his hand again,” I said.

  In seds, there were vines shing his arm to his side. Xy moved to one side of me. Gren to the other, and I could feel them pressing against me.

  “I love you,” Xy told me.

  “Dominant damsel,” Gren said, purring.

  “I won’t go back. I’ll fet all about this pce, if you let me go. I give you my word,” Talos said.

  It was tempting to accept it, but he’d have to be a particur kind of obstiard an oath he made while charmed to be binding.

  TheAmaraine