Vedikus tore off the corpses armor, ripping the cloth he found into strips for bandages and bowed his head. He gave them their last rites and wished them an eternity of failure in the afterlife.
Chapter Fourteen
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The centaurs made campafter thrusting one of their spears into the ground and binding her to it. They took her dagger and the bandaged one checked her for others, running his splayed hands all over her body. The others watched it happen with intense expressions. Their cocks jutted, dripping with cum from their bodies.
Aldora shut her eyes.
When he was done, she swallowed the blood in her mouth from where her teeth had sunk into her tongue. Aldora observed the centaurs quietly as they unloaded packs and sheathed their weapons. She tried to be discreet in pulling out the spear that bound her, but the mud refused to relinquish it. So she worked on dislodging it bit by bit, pretending to shiver from the evening breeze.
They watched her back.
It was still day when several of them placed large clusters of wood onto the ground. She couldn’t figure out where they had gotten it. But the wood was erected in a wide circle around her and lit, bursting from embers to flames. Within minutes the chill of the wetlands was entirely replaced with heat. One of the centaurs sprinkled something into the fires that made them grow until they were large enough to engulf entire trees.
They chanted words into the flames that she did not know while the one with bandages continued to watch her. He made her the most nervous out of them all.
She wasn’t ready when he approached her.
“I can move you now,” he said, coming to a stop at her side. “If you’re cold. The fires will help dry your skin and draw the moisture within the ground. You do not have to stay where it is wet.”
“I’m not cold.” She quickly suppressed her fake shivers, not wanting to be touched by him again. “Did you kill him?” she asked, her throat tight.
The centaur canted his head. “Does it matter?”
“Yes,” she snapped.
He went silent for a moment. “The minotaur has fallen, and if he has not yet died, he will soon. Do not worry, human, he will not hurt you anymore.”
Aldora pursed her lips. The thought of Vedikus lying in the muck, bleeding out from his wounds, clinging to life, haunted her. He was there because of her.But I’m here because of him.She’d grown used to him, had come to rely on him in the short time they’d been together and now, as she watched the centaurs, she wished she was back by his side. She missed his overwhelming presence and wanted it back.
“Can you take me to him?”
“Are you looking for proof?”
What to say? She knew little about what these new men wanted with her, from her. If their cocks were any indication, it wasn’t something good.
