Handfasting the Warrior Queen (Knights of Passion, #2) by Ash Gray

Author:Ash Gray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: lesbian romance, lesfic, reverse harem romance, harem romance, lesbian fantasy, knights, kissing, steamy, steamy lesbian romance, steamy romance
Publisher: Ash Gray
Published: 2022-05-22T00:00:00+00:00

UNFORTUNATELY FOR ZELDA, she could not handle Signe, nor any of the other non-warrior women in the village, who were known ubiquitously as “the hearth wives” because they stayed home and did not hunt. All the hearth wives seemed to have taken Signe’s side and were cruel to Zelda as a result. When the women gathered to weave baskets or prepare meals, they mocked Zelda in their language, Signe the leader among them, her eyes scathing each and every time she looked at Zelda.

The mockery escalated to physical violence. The women would walk by as Zelda was sitting outside Yrsa’s hut, clumsily weaving a basket, and as they mocked her lack of skill, they would yank her hair and keep walking. Such meanness continued, with Signe tossing food in Zelda’s face at village meals and then laughing at her when she didn’t retaliate before insulting her in a string of nasty words in her language. The other women often joined in, pointing and laughing at Zelda.

The bullying went on for one week. Zelda didn’t think there was anything she could do to defend herself without becoming exiled from the village. She was a newcomer and an outsider who had yet to earn her place. Revna had told her she must prove herself a good wife, and so, after her first conversation with Yrsa around the fire, she had taken to cooking Yrsa’s meals and cleaning Yrsa’s hut and rubbing Yrsa’s shoulders when she came home, tired from the hunt. She knew she was on trial, that her place in the clan was precarious, and so she was afraid to cause trouble by fighting back against Signe and the other hearth wives.

But Zelda was tired of being bullied, too! One night over supper, as she sat with Yrsa around the fire in their hut, she complained about Signe and the other women. “They despise me!” she moaned, rubbing her head where her scalp was sore from all the hair pulling. To her surprise, Yrsa looked at her across the fire with a mixture of pity and amusement.

“It’s not funny!” Zelda said at once.

Yrsa shook her head. “If Zelda is to survive in Black Bear Clan, then Zelda must become a bear.”

Zelda blinked at Yrsa, not understanding. There were many tribes of Wilde Women, and Yrsa’s was that of the black bear. The Black Bear Clan had rival clans of Wilde Women nearby. Another clan, known as the Black Wolf Clan, had been trying to take over Dark Bloom Forest for years, but the Black Bear Clan was steadily pushing them out. The people of the Black Bear Clan often referred to themselves as bears, which Zelda found silly and confusing, and now Yrsa was doing it again.

“Bears do not let other bears mark their territory,” Yrsa elaborated. “If other wives wish to push Zelda out, Zelda must stand firm. Like bear.”

Zelda went still when she finally understood what Yrsa was saying to her: Yrsa was giving Zelda permission to crack some skulls.

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