Raw VII: A Primeval Harem by Misty Vixen

Author:Misty Vixen [Vixen, Misty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-05T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XIII

They walked in silence for a while, nothing to be heard but their crunching feet, the whistling of the wind, and their own breathing.

It was Keeza who first broke the silence between them.

“Ripper...do you believe Jak?” she asked.

“What?” he asked, glancing at her. “About what?”

“Me.”

He was silent for a moment. “I believe that he believes he’s telling the truth.”

“That wasn’t really an answer,” Jak said.

Ripper sighed, his breath coming out in a heavy fog. “I don’t know! I’ve spent my entire life hating the embyr. There was a time, and it wasn’t all that long ago, that I swore I would kill them all. That I would attack them on sight. And now there’s one here before me, and you’re telling me she fought and bled for my people? After enslaving them–”

“I never had a hand in any of that,” Keeza said.

“You didn’t stop it,” he growled.

“What was I to do? Take on an entire army of your people and my own people?! I didn’t even know how it was done. Jak, Nessa, they all asked me and I would have told them immediately if I’d had even a tiny idea of how it was done!”

Silence fell again.

Finally, Ripper sighed once more. “Fine,” he said. “If you’re asking me here and now if I believe what you’re telling me...then the answer is yes, much to my surprise. I have a hard time...making sense of that. Like I said: my whole life, I hated your people. But...Jak has been telling me almost since the first day we met that some of my ideas are wrong. About strength and weakness. About what it means to be a tribemaster. About trust, and people from different tribes, different races.”

“And? Do you believe him?” Keeza asked.

“Yeah, I have to answer truthfully that I do. I didn’t at first, or I didn’t want to, really. But he had a lot of good points. I have known humans who were brave and trustworthy, and karn who were cruel and cowardly, who broke their word as easily as they breathed. Who lied to me. I guess it was something I’ve always known but never wanted to believe: the shape of your face or the color of your skin doesn’t mean a thing about who you are, and trying to see the world that way is...wrong. It’s not so easy as karn are good and embyr are bad.”

“You wish it was though,” Jak said.

“Yes...maybe. I don’t know. I’ve made good friends among the humans, the elves. You are an honorary karn at this point, my brethren, Jak, for all you have done for us.”

“A simple rule of karn good, others bad would mean we never would have met,” Jak said.

“Yeah, I know. I don’t want it, but I wish things were easier, sometimes.”

“Easy is often an illusion,” Keeza murmured.

“That...is very true,” Ripper admitted. He laughed softly. “We’ve barely spent any time together and I’m already agreeing with an embyr.”

“We’ll make a big, friendly tribemaster out of you yet,” Jak said.

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