Beyond the Hell Cliffs by Case C. Capehart

Author:Case C. Capehart [Capehart, Case C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Case C. Capehart
Published: 2014-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

Raegith found himself in the same carriage as before, with the same hour-long ride. He knew it would be coming soon and was not surprised when the guards came and took him from his cell, tossing Fenra and one of her Urufen friends out into the hall completely naked. Raegith had taken a liking to Fenra after her first night pleasing him and he had taken her often since then, openly encouraging her to bring others to him. He was insatiable ever since carving a name for himself in the Pit. Many nights he would take two or three women to his bed; his sexual stamina nearly boundless. On the morning that the guards came to take him to the palace, he had actually fallen asleep, which made him especially irritable.

Once again he was brought to the royal bath and scrubbed down by Beretta. Once again he was teased by her warm skin and pliant fingers. He was not garbed in fancy robes this time, but in soft leathers; they were clothes like that of the denizens of Greimere. Then he was taken up into the Spire of the palace, stopping short of the Empress’s room and instead entered a small room with a table and walls lined with books and paintings. It reminded him a bit of the library in Forster’s Keep. Several emberstones lined the walls and glowed like dull flames. The spines of many of the books were scrawled with symbols that Raegith naturally recognized as the Rathgar language. His strange skill, bequeathed by the Dragon Queen Silthaheedra, even branched over to written words.

The door opened as he was inspecting a book titled The Far Tunnels and Empress Kalystra of Black Talon entered. Surprisingly, she was dressed in more conservative clothing than the last two times he had seen her, though her bodice and open-front skirt still bore a gratuitous display of her slate-hued skin. She wore make-up on her face and her hair was pulled up in wicked tendrils that resembled scorpion tails. She looked at him and smiled, closing the door behind her and crossed the room to stand behind a chair opposite the table of him.

“Since my last attempt to seduce you failed, Raegith of the North, I have decided to appeal to a different side of you,” she said. “This is my personal library; the only one like it in the Greimere.”

“You have more books than I would have guessed,” Raegith said, then changed his tone when he noticed the sour look on her face. “That is, before I learned more of this place and its people. It does not really surprise me that you would have such a room.”

“I’ll take that as a compliment. Would you care to sit with me for a while, Raegith? I promise to have you back to the Pit afterwards… or should we call it the Harem, at this point?” Kalystra asked, motioning to the chair across from her.

“It gets boring when I’m not fighting someone every time I cross the yard,” Raegith said, taking a seat.

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