Morgana's Handmaid and the Creature of the Dungeon by Purple Hazel

Author:Purple Hazel [Hazel, Purple]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Torrid Books
Published: 2018-05-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Tale of Bedemer

Next, we got to learn about Bedemer, who had married many years ago, only to march off to war as a mercenary seeking his fortune.

“The wife and I had two daughters together,” he said, and his young wife was forced to raise them virtually alone while he continued to send money back to his family each year. Bedemer later traveled in the same band of mercenaries as Alguin, but he started off in life working as a lowly servant. As Bedemer explained it, “The only work I could find was at the local Inn in town, so I worked there as a young lad—eventually falling in love with the boss’s daughter—then marrying her.”

Orphaned as a young boy, and with no real family of his own, Bedemer had grown up very poor—poorer than most peasants. As a young man in his late teens, he certainly had no means for supporting the innkeeper’s daughter, working as a mere server.

“But, I always had a big strong body that was capable of most anything,” he pointed out. Clearly, he wanted much more for his loving wife than working in a rowdy tavern amidst all the drinking and carousing. There was so much more to life than that, he felt. “I guess every young man thinks that way.” But God in his mercy had other plans for the happy couple it seemed, and soon his young wife became pregnant.

“Aye, and with twin daughters no less!” he boldly clarified. Bedemer was so proud of them, he couldn’t wait to get back home each night from the inn and dote on his adorable little girls. “Much the proud Dad, I was!” he quipped.

However, with the birth of his daughters, Bedemer had a brand-new family; and a much bigger challenge on his hands. His wife was adamant about it right from the start: no way was she going to see her daughters growing up slaving away in a filthy tavern with drunken fools pawing over them. Foul language hurled about constantly; and little in the way of opportunities for her daughters to find a decent husband someday. His young wife wanted something far better for her baby girls. So did Bedemer.

“I gave it some thought, I did. Really pondered the matter. Needed to go make my fortune and someday return to her with enough plunder for us to have a better life,” he explained. So Bedemer decided to become a soldier of fortune. He had the size and strength, could lift and carry barrels of beer all day, and when it came to removing unruly guests at the inn, he made short work of even the most stubborn drunkard. The life of a soldier clearly made sense.

Thus, off to war he went, and didn’t return for years. But he left his young wife with the solemn promise that he’d return, and someday God willing they could run away together.

“Typical brash young man with dreams of the ’morrow, I was,” grinned Bedemer. But he learned how

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