Untouched Concubine

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Authors: Lisa Rusczyk, Mikie Hazard
is his offer, we may as well enjoy it, though it will not satisfy.”
                Mandia finally spoke the words Jass instructed her to say, and to say it loud enough for him to hear. “Why are there so few of you?”
                The soldier turned back to her. “We are the dedicated. We stayed when King Herean was slaughtered. Our Gray Goddess Sella has not abandoned us; in fact, she demands us to continue in her name, and that King Herean now sits at her right hand. We will all be blessed by her once vengeance is ours.”
                Even more loudly so Jass could hear, she said, “This is all of you? Everyone else left?”
                He got close to her and reached for her naked hip. “Enough talk.”
                Then the screams.
                Jass was everywhere at once, swinging from vines with his daggers out, slashing throats and switching hands, hopping off one vine onto the next, taking down at least five shocked men this way. He landed by the pool and looked at Mandia with admiration.
                She gave him a little smile. She mouthed the words, good luck .
                Now Jass had six men coming at him and everything happened so fast, his speed unable to be accounted for, and his blades and arms turning red with blood.
                Mandia gasped only once, when the soldier who she’d spoken with jabbed Jass’s leg with a thick sword. Jass acted and moved the same as though nothing happened and expertly cut the man open.
                How long did this slaughter go on, and how could any one man do this?
                Mandia didn’t know, but she felt a primal pride in her for him. As the last man fell, Mandia heard her mother call again.
                She felt and smelled her before she looked into her eyes. Her mother sobbed., holding Mandia in her arms. “I thought you were dead, I’d never see you again. I thought I’d die here, in this place, in that…pool.”
                Mandia pulled back so she could look her mother in the eyes. Such sadness mixed with joy. “May I speak?”
                “Of course, oh, yes, of course!” She continued to weep gently.
                “The man? The one who just did this? The one they are all cheering now?”
                “Yes? Is he the one who you were sold to as concubine?
            “Well, yes, but…It’s a long story.”
                Jass joined them, and wrapped Mandia in a colorful blanket. He bowed low to Mandia’s mother. “ Your Majesty,” he said.
                She looked at him curiously. “I know you. I do. I know that face, but younger.”
                He smiled at her.
                “You’re Jasper, my husband’s protégé! Of course, I remember you! You…” She looked at Mandia . “And you? Are you?”
                They grinned at each other and Jass’s bloody hand clasped Mandia’s .
                “Oh,” she cried, “My husband knew about you two, said his high goddess Kila who spoke to him told him…” She laughed one short laugh, then passed out in shock and joy.
     
    ~~~
     
                Three weeks later, Jass and Mandia were helping clean up the city. The rampage hadn’t been as bad as it had at first seemed. Jass’s killing of King Herean did have the desired effect, but there were a few true followers who didn’t give up, thus what damage had been done to the city and the trap at the haven.
                Jass bought her mother and set her free, inviting her to live with them. Her mother was quite pleased with her private room overlooking the city. And Mandia was glad it was on the other side of the house at night when she and Jass lost themselves in pleasure.
                Each time she bathed, she carefully re-braided the red

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