Total pages in book: 51
Estimated words: 47749 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 239(@200wpm)___ 191(@250wpm)___ 159(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 47749 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 239(@200wpm)___ 191(@250wpm)___ 159(@300wpm)
She’d been dreaming she was out in the North field, outside the Compound. In her dream, all three moons—the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone—had been in the sky. She’d been alone but she’d had the feeling that something was stalking her—something that kept to the shadows but would soon come out into the deadly, silver light…
“I said, get up! I can’t believe you fell asleep on guard duty!”
It was Meendy, with both hands planted on her skinny hips, glaring down at Breenah.
“Oh, uh…sorry,” Breenah mumbled. “But why else would Mistress Work-worthy tell you to tell me to bring my cot if she didn’t expect me to sleep here?” she asked, feeling defensive and still half asleep.
“Don’t ask me, but you’ve overslept and missed morning shower time now.” Meendy sniffed. “Guess you’ll just have to be dirty all day.”
Breenah bit her lip. She had especially wanted a shower today—she needed to wash the giant’s scent off her skin and his cream out of her pussy slit. But it looked like she had missed her chance. Somehow, she had slept through the morning gong and now she would be lucky if she got anything for First Meal!
“You’d better hurry and get out of here,” Meendy told her. “The Council of Superiors is going to come interrogate the giant as soon as they finish eating and I understand Mistress Pain-giver is going to be involved.”
“She is?” Breenah shot a guilty look at Rax, who was hanging listlessly in the Magno-manacles. His skin looked darker than its normal silvery-gray—was that because he was hungry or thirsty? She had given him two of her rolls and a juice pack the night before, when she’d come to guard him after Last Meal, but that wasn’t much sustenance for such a big male.
And then I pretty much ignored him after our fight, she thought, feeling even more guilty. But he lied to me—tried to tell me some crazy story about having a ravenous Beast inside him—a Beast that comes out in the moonlight. That’s ridiculous, right? How could he expect me to be stupid enough to fall for such a tale?
But she couldn’t quite shake the guilt she felt as she watched the giant sagging in the unbreakable Magno-manacles.
“Go on now—you’d better hurry if you want First Meal,” Meendy said, breaking her train of thought.
“But…what about Ra—I mean the giant?” Breenah asked.
“What about him?” Meendy snapped. “He’ll stay where he is, of course and I’ll keep an eye on him. I’m supposed to bring in the chairs and arrange the room for the Council of Superiors so I’ll watch him as I do that.”
“Oh…all right.” Breenah nodded. There would be no way to speak to Rax with Meendy here anyway. So she might as well go and get First Meal.
With a lingering glance over her shoulder, she left the Guard Room and hurried down the corridor towards the Dining Hall.
But she couldn’t seem to shake the worried feeling that had come over her—the feeling that something was going to go wrong in the very near future.
ELEVEN
BREENAH
Breenah went through the serving line, nodding and smiling automatically as the older women put scoops of food on her tray. Today there was a pile of pale yellow, fluffy re-hydrated ovums as well as two thin, crispy protein strips and a bowl of grain paste sweetened with nut cream. To drink she had a choice of artificial milk or a juice pack. She took the juice and waved at old Moonah, who was giving her a relieved smile.
“I’m so glad you’re all right, Breenah!” she said. “I was so worried when I heard you had to spend the night in the Guard Room with that awful giant!”
“I’m just fine,” Breenah tried to smile at the older woman. “I put my noise-offs in my ears and just ignored him.” Which was partially true, anyway.
“Good for you.” Moonah nodded firmly. “That’s the way to do it—everyone knows that males lie all the time so there’s no point listening to them!”
Breenah wondered what she would think if she knew the crazy lie Rax had been trying to feed her—all about how he had a Beast that came out when it was exposed to too much moonlight. But of course, she couldn’t say any such thing—that would reveal that she’d had a conversation with the giant male.
You did a lot more than have a conversation with him, whispered a scolding little voice in her head. You had his shaft in your pussy slit!
Breenah shifted uncomfortably. Even now she could feel Rax’s cream coating the inside of her channel. She really shouldn’t have gone so far with him…
“Ah, Breenah—there you are! I’ve been watching for you this morning.”
The sharp voice of Mistress Work-worthy interrupted her guilty thoughts and Breenah turned to see the Superior standing at her elbow.