Touched By Venom by Cross Janine

Author:Cross, Janine [Cross, Janine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dragons
ISBN: 9780451460790
Publisher: Roc
Published: 2005-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

I believe I was carried back to the mill. Or maybe I walked. The memory is blurred by tears and grief.

I do remember finding myself back in the attic, surrounded again by onais, now all cooing at me. Someone rubbed small, gentle circles on my back; another eased me to the floor. A third stroked one of my arms over and over, and a fourth cupped my scarred hand, marked so many months ago during Mombe Taro, as if it were an ill-born hatchling.

My tears eventually turned into stupor. A palm against my forehead and hands on either of my shoulders eased me onto my back.

Sleep, yes, sleep. Escape into oblivion.

It was not to be.

Hands nudged my thighs apart. I tried to lift my head to see. The hand on my forehead pressed down firmly.

Confusion flooded me, spiraling rapidly into panic, and equally as swiftly the hands about me tightened and my ankles were grasped and my loincloth was tugged off. I bucked and turned and cried out; the grindstone squealed back. The crouched onais pinned me down by kneeling on my elbows and ankles, which hurt, and something cold and wet was slapped over my sex. Thick, it was, like aloe jelly, and it clung obscenely to me, a strange, invading beast smeared over my crotch and leaking cold against my anus.

I screamed till my throat was a dry riverbed.

The beating of my heart grew louder, louder, until it drowned out my cries. Two things silenced me then: the millstone started singing, and the mosquito curtains, not yet drawn up to the rafters for the day, started dancing.

I was transfixed.

The moldy gauze undulated and billowed, spun slowly and spread wide. Wider. A taste of licorice and limes filled my mouth, and though I knew it not at that time, it was the taste of a powerful hallucinogen, a mighty analgesic, a strange and rare drug: diluted dragon venom. And as the taste blossomed in my mouth, carried there through my bloodstream from the venom jelly spread over my nether regions, the mosquito curtains continued to dance, coalesced into a lovely white cloud that descended upon me with the cool kiss of mist, while the millstone sang in dulcet tones.

I was aware of how cold I was but was indifferent to it. I concentrated on the millstone’s voice. There were words there, it was trying to communicate with me, if only I kept still enough long enough, the beating of my heart would silence so I could hear it.

A shocking pain in my sex, a blinding white tug. The cloud and the millstone song vanished.

Burning pain radiated from my groin up into my belly and down deep into my thighs, a nauseating, engulfing never-ending pain that threatened to split my head apart, and it didn’t end, it increased, and someone was wailing, a breathless ongoing scream.

Tug, tug, something was ripping my sex out, flensing flesh from bone

Someone shoved a clot of leather into my mouth.

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