Vaida's Harem

Limstella


It should have been quiet. It wasn't, but it should have been. Vaida lay on the bed, staring up at nothing, thinking. She didn't want to, she hated being introspective. Dwelling on things did nothing to solve them and dwelling on memories was an even more pointless waste of time. And yet Vaida didn't seem able to stop all those memories from parading through the front of her mind, whether she wanted them to or not. She was in the kind of mood where everything had to be silent and the only noise allowed would be the rustling of leaves outside.

Unfortunately, the pegasus sisters were relieving Louise of her milk, so the room was about as far away from quiet as it could be. True, Vaida normally appreciated hearing a woman's moans of lust, but she couldn't stand them right now.

She got up and left without even bothering to mention to anyone that she was going for a walk or that she would be back soon or any those pointlessly polite phrases. She randomly wandered the halls of Castle Pherae, not knowing where she was going and caring even less. Eventually her meanderings brought her to the top of one of the castle's towers. The only noise up here was the howling of the wind, but even that couldn't quite drown out the silent voice whispering without emotion into her ear.

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Vaida leaned against the stone wall and felt her skin crawl. She hated this place. Hated it with every fibre of her being. It wasn't the constantly falling snow that could fool someone into thinking they'd somehow ended up in Ilia, it wasn't even the group of thugs and murderers that called this place home. There was a sickness here, a malevolent disease that twisted and corrupted everything within its grasp. She was fairly certain its dark source was just on the other side of the door she was waiting near. How she wanted unsheath her sword, barge in there and cut that foul woman down. The only reason she resisted making the world a slightly better place was the fact that if she slaughtered the thing she'd never be able to serve Biran again. So she just grit her teeth and tried not to let her emotions show.

"What are you doing here, newcomer?"

Vaida bit back what she wanted to say and politely turned to the woman who'd spoken to her. She was never sure if she should respect, pity or loathe Ursula. She usually settled for loathing, though, because that feeling at least was mutual.

"I was just leaning against this wall here," Vaida replied.

Ursula gave her a look that told her she didn't believe her. "I don't think Lady Sonia will grant you an audience. Not until you've proven yourself."

"And why I would want to prove myself to her?" said Vaida. "I'm not the one pining for her like a lovesick puppy."

The look of pain that flashed across Ursula's face made Vaida regret her words. But only briefly.

"You may have been a general, once, but that doesn't make you one of us," Ursula snapped. "I can't understand why you're even here."

"I have my reasons."

Both women looked up when the door opened and Limstella stepped into the hallway. She looked at both of them with curiously emotionless golden eyes, then turned to Ursula.

"Sonia will see you now," she said.

Ursula nodded. "Thank you," she said. Then she turned to Vaida once more. "Mark my words, newcomer, you'll be kneeling at Lady Sonia's feet begging for her favour before long."

"Don't count on it," Vaida replied as she watched Ursula walk past her an enter the room.

Once the door shut, Vaida found Limstella's eyes on her.

"You seem to have an argument," she stated.

"Petty Black Fang politics," Vaida replied. "I don't know why I bother."

"All servants of Lord Nergal should be of one mind."

"He should just stick with your kind, then," said Vaida.

"Yes," said Limstella. "Now then, I must be going."

"Why? Do you have urgent business?"

"Why do you ask?"

Why did she ask? Vaida didn't know. She'd seen Limstella only a few times, yet she couldn't help but be fascinated by the woman. If it was a woman. Perhaps it was because she was so calm and seemingly without malice. All of Nergal's other servants were brutes in one way or the other, but Limstella was... different. In a way she was just as far beyond redemption as any of her golden-eyed brothers and sisters, and yet Vaida couldn't help but think there was a glimmer of hope in her. Of course, it might as well have been her imagination. But if she didn't at least try to find out she'd certainly never know.

"Idle curiosity," she said. "Well?"

"I have performed my tasks here and Lord Nergal has given me no further instructions," Limstella said.

"So you do not need to leave immediately," Vaida said.

"No. But neither do I have a reason to stay."

"You're talking to me, aren't you? It would be so impolite to just leave."

"I'm not concerned with politeness," said Limstella.

"Really? What freedom you have," said Vaida. "Tell me, do you enjoy working for Nergal?"

"No," Limstella replied.

"Then why?"

"I do not feel enjoyment. I have no emotions."

"Oh?"

Vaida took Limstella's hand and brushed its back with a finger. Limstella watched her with puzzled incomprehension. Or perhaps that was just what Vaida thought she saw in her eyes.

"Do you feel this?"

"Naturally. But physical sensations are not emotions."

"How little you know," Vaida said, letting go of Limstella's hand. "Physical sensations and emotions are entwined with each other. Well, some of them, in any case."

"Lord Nergal has not given me emotions, Vaida, no matter what you may claim."

Vaida smirked. "A bold assumption. Do you dare putting it to the test?"

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Vaida wondered whether or not she had done the right thing. She didn't often wonder about that kind of thing, because the right thing was always obvious to her. Then again, she usually had to decide the right thing to do in battle. She wasn't as experienced when it came to people. Especially not people of the pale-skinned, golden-eyed and black-haired variety. Vaida shrugged mentally. She was falling off the cliff now. No use in wondering if running up to the edge had been a mistake.

Limstella sat on the only piece of furniture in Vaida's room - the bed. She was waiting patiently. Unless she considered patience an emotion, in which case she had probably convinced herself she was merely waiting.

Vaida walked to the waiting woman and considered what to do. A kiss was traditional, of course, but she doubted Limstella would respond or even understand. Better to be more direct then.

Vaida began undoing Limstella's clothes and smiled faintly when she saw the pale woman did indeed have breasts. They were rather smallish, perhaps, but nevertheless there. She had half expected Limstella's body to be free of anything that would hint at her gender, but it was nice to see that wasn't the case. They were symmetrical and flawless, almost eerily so, as if they'd been sculpted out of marble. But when Vaida allowed herself to brush them with her fingertips, she felt warm, supple flesh. She was also rather pleased to hear Limstella breathe in sharply.

Ah, arousal. So simple, yet so difficult. Not really an emotion, yet not really a purely physical sensation either. Vaida could almost feel it swelling within Limstella as her fingers traced the curves of those perfect breasts. She brushed against a perfect taut nipple and noticed the way the pale woman's chest began to rise and fall more deeply as arousal filled her lungs.

Vaida could almost pity Limstella. So convinced she didn't have any emotions, yet with a few simple touches lust had suddenly entered her life. As intelligent and powerful as she was, she probably didn't know how to deal with it. So it was fortunate for her then, Vaida considered, that she was in the hands of a reasonable skilled guide.

"Do you enjoy this?" Vaida asked, her hand gliding over Limstella's breasts.

Limstella looked at her, confusion fighting with lust in her eyes. "I..."

"Never mind. You don't need to answer."

Vaida leaned in and softly kissed the underside of one of Limstella's breasts. She thought she heard a surprised moan leaving the woman's lips, but perhaps that was only her imagination. But as her kisses went higher and higher until her tongue pushed at her nipple from below, the sounds coming from Limstella's mouth, though perhaps not animalistic moans of raw lust, were certainly filled with a kind of erotic appreciation.

"This is not proper."

Vaida froze. She had been so certain Limstella had been willing to go along. But she would not let it be said that she did not respect a person's right to say 'no'. Not even if the person she was with was not, in the eyes of some, technically a person.

"If you insist," Vaida said, withdrawing a bit reluctantly.

"I believe you are required to be partially or fully naked as well, correct?"

Vaida smirked. "Yes, of course. How could I forget?"

She stood up straight to begin undressing herself, but Limstella quickly took her hands. Silently, Vaida lowered her hands to allow Limstella to undress her. The woman was quick and efficient, she would have to admit, but she didn't know how to tease and she wasn't exactly ripping her clothes off in a frenzy of lust either. It appeared that, to Limstella, undressing was merely the act of taking off one's clothes.

After taking off her boots, Limstella was kneeling before Vaida's now naked body. And, much to Vaida's exasperation, her golden eyes turned towards her scar.

"How did you get this?" she asked, touching it softly.

Vaida resisted the urge to roll her eyes. "Battle," she said shortly.

Limstella stared at it for a few moments longer and then, to Vaida's complete bafflement, kissed it. Then she stood up as though nothing had happened and began to strip naked as well. Vaida would have interfered to show Limstella there was more to undressing than the mere removal of garments, but she was a bit too dazed to do anything. It didn't take long for her to pull herself back together, but by then Limstella was fully naked as well. Her body was completely flawless, without the merest hint of an imperfection, but she looked even more like a living statue than before. It would have helped if she had some hair down there, but she was completely smooth.

She was also glistening just ever so slightly.

Vaida easily guided Limstella onto the bed, making sure that she lay down so that her legs would still fall over the edge and her feet touched the ground. Vaida crouched down in front of it, Limstella before her, moist and inviting. She reached out with a pair of fingers and caressed the pale woman's folds. She felt a small tremor running through Limstella's body as she touched her.

"Mmm."

Vaida grinned to herself. Not quite the moan she had been hoping for, but...

Part of her wondered if Nergal realised what he'd done. She wondered if the sorcerer had known that one couldn't just create a perfect copy of a human body expect it to be nothing more than a soulless puppet. Every human body had nerves. And with nerves came pain.

Vaida withdrew her fingers and slowly licked up Limstella's fluids. Their taste was nothing extraordinary, but still very... womanly.

Nerves brought pleasure as well. And pleasure... well... In Vaida's unsophisticated view, no one who could enjoy what their bodies could give them could truly be nothing but a puppet.

But why think about this now? There was a woman in front of her, waiting willingly for her, inviting her with her wetness.

Vaida leaned forward and kissed Limstella. She trembled on her lips and once again there was a sigh that might become a moan. Vaida took her time, slowly kissing Limstella's slit, only rarely allowing her tongue to leave her mouth and lap at her fluids. She looked up as best she could, and saw at the other end of the trembling body Limstella's head arching back, her eyes no doubt closed. Her breathing was sharp and uneven, her hands gripping the sheets. Vaida got the distinct impression that her slow, leisurely kisses were already filling Limstella with more pleasure than she knew how to deal.

Vaida grinned and slowly, deliberately, pressed against Limstella's clit with her tongue, then dragged it up like a cat. Limstella jerked up from the bed, uttering a sound very much like a sudden, stratled scream of pleasure. Then she fell back onto the sheets, writhing, breathing heavily as Vaida's lips closed around her. Vaida took a perverse delight in seeing Limstella finally lose complete control over the feelings surging through her body and allow the lustful animal within her to roam free. It made her more human.

Vaida patiently kissed and licked and sucked on Limstella's clit almost as though her actions had nothing to do with Limstella's shuddering body. The pale woman had finally begun moaning, tossing her head from side to side, her pussy flowing bountifully and gracelessly. It was incredibly satisfying to Vaida to be the one to unleash all of that pleasure in a woman who hadn't even been aware she had it locked inside of her.

And so, writhing and screaming as only a human could, Limstella came.

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Vaida tensed briefly when she felt someone grabbing her. Then she relaxed when she realised it was merely Isadora putting her arms around her stomach and leaning her chin on her shoulder.

"Hello Vaida."

Vaida nodded. "Isadora."

"You walked out rather suddenly," Isadora said without a hint of disapproval in her voice.

"I needed to be alone for a while."

"We all do once in a while, I suppose," Isadora said. "Do you want me to leave again?"

"No I'm fine. In fact, I think I'd better head back with you."

"To our room or to someplace a bit more private?"

Vaida grinned. "Why don't you decide?" she said.

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Limstella paused as she reached for the door. She turned slightly and looked at the spear leaning against the wall.

"I assume this is your weapon?" she said.

Vaida looked up from the bed. "Of course."

Limstella nodded and raised her hand. Black tendrils of magic flowed from her fingertips and wrapped themselves around the spear before they sank into the wood and metal.

"What did you do?" Vaida asked.

"Nothing of importance," came the reply. "Fare you well, Vaida."

And with that, the pale woman with the golden eyes was gone.