A Poisoned Land (Book 1: Faith, Lies and Blue Eyes) by Craig P Roberts

Author:Craig P Roberts [Roberts, Craig P]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2015-08-17T23:00:00+00:00

The Blue Hunter

Grietum stretched her blubbery legs as she lay on her oversized bed. It was her throne and it sat in the central chamber of her hive. The vast metal structure, riddled with tunnels, was nestled under the red rocky hills separating Last Kingdom and Arland Province. Only the main entrance could be seen from the surrounding desert sands. The rest was set deep into the slopes. She answered to neither of the strange lands on either side and was subject to nobody.

A naked male knelt before her in the middle of the throne room. She had not seen one with such blue eyes in years. This hunt will be a wonderful achievement. Her daughter, Gosha, had brought her two blue-eyed males.

Grietum was much larger in stature than anybody she had ever known and her skin was blue like the sky, while everybody else’s body colors were strange shades of whitey-pink or dark brown. Skin color did not matter to her though—only the color of a male’s eyes. She was bloated with child—four by her current estimations. Her round, swollen body lay on the large bed in her throne room. It was a wide space with dark gray-brown, sweaty, metal walls.

Two of her ‘rats’ stood on either side of the throne with spears in hand. These characters were tall men with shaved chests and muscular bodies covered in pelt waistcoats and gray leather kilts. Some were from Vostos, some hailed from Last Kingdom, others from Dorland—all were outcasts, waifs, bastards and strays. She liked to look at them but had no interest in them being inside her because of their brown eyes.

So that they would not be tempted to soil her, or her daughters, or her daughters’ daughters, with their empty seed, she insisted that their manhoods be removed if they were to continue in her service.

Extending Grietum’s reach into more populated, rich and fertile lands, her rats helped her to find blue-eyed males and brought food and other luxuries back to the hive. Although they held spears and stood in a position of guard around the throne and at the doors, it was her daughters who Grietum trusted to defend her and the hive. Her rats were nothing but expendable thralls on display. Some of them had names—perhaps all of them did—but she only bothered to remember a few.

Grietum had them under her spell and they served and obeyed her beyond all measure. Her spell of course was not a magic spell that the apes of the Green Islands speak of. Her power came from a black dust made from a red flower, grown in her secret garden. Grietum had the knowledge (from where, she could not remember), of how to grow the plant, extract the oil and turn it into a potent black powder which she let her rats sniff if they obeyed. It rendered them in a state of pure ecstasy. They began to crave it and, unless they served, they were not given their ‘fix’.

She

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