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Pearls Before Wine (MC, Fdom, preg) By Deedee and Homer Vargas [vargas111@yahoo.com]
"The invading army of a small Queendom gets a pleasant surprise." PEARLS BEFORE WINE
Queen Fanuta smiled wryly as she looked up from the parchment in her hand. The messenger who brought it offered to interpret it into her language, but she had no need of translation. She read and spoke Corthon almost as well as she did her own Nurian. Her mother who had been Queen before her had seen to that by giving her the son of her Corthon slave, one of her many lovers, as her playmate and later as her own first boy. "Our neighbors to the North are ambitious, my dear. One day they may come calling. I want thee want to give them a 'proper' reception." The carefully scripted words on parchment indicated that day she and her people had been preparing for had now arrived. She re-read the brief document.
*
Honored Fanuta, Queen of the Nurians. Hail!
Marius Portius, Emperor of Cortho sends thee greetings.
Fame of the richness and splendor of thy realm, Nuria, has spread far beyond thy frontiers. It has come to my Imperial Knowledge that many enemies covet the prize of thy land. I, Marius Portius offer thee the protective embrace of Cortho. Within the fold of my Empire, Nuria would be safe from the predators which round about her compass as wolves about the defenseless lamb. Thy ascent to our gracious offer cannot be doubted. In three days my armies will be at thy frontiers. In three more, at thy gates.
Open then, the gates of Nuria to Cortho, as a maiden to her betrothed. Make ready a banquet for the nuptials of our kingdoms. Hail!
Ah! The insolence of the Corthon Emperor! "Safe from predators?" Indeed! The lamb that has been eaten need fear the wolf no more. "The nuptials?" Speak clearly, Marius! Thou meanest the subjugation of Nuria, our absorption as yet another province of the Corthon Empire, another source of gold and women. "No, Marius," she smiled. "Nuria will not be an appendage to thy Empire. Nuria will fight thee, nay, vanquish thee as we did the Thrussians and the Sirtaphs before thee," she smiled, "and thou wiltst never know the battle has already begun." Fanuta clapped her hands. "Run, Rini," she said to her serving girl, "call the High Priestess Dolphia and the other priestess from the Goddess's temple. I would see them in council." They had six days to prepare a banquet. More than enough for a night Marius and his would never remember!
*
"Everything will be done, My Queen, even as thou hast spoken," Dolphia smiled confidently. "One of my priestess will be at each officer's side to lighten his heart. The praetorians will be similarly entertained. I will accompany mighty Aldos the Strategeon. And of course Marius Portius is thine, My Queen."
"What of the lesser officers and who will not be at the banquet?" Fanuta asked.
"The women of the city have been informed, My Queen, and are more than equal to that pleasant chore," Dolphia chuckled. "After all, we keep our husbands and brothers happily tamed and they KNOW our wiles. A few thousand foreign soldiers will be in no mood to be troublesome that night, even without the Zuma we will infuse in their officers' wine."
"The Zuma, have we enough?" Fanuta inquired.
"Enough and to spare," spoke up Munira, Dolphia's deputy. "The women of Azunia were so grateful for our assistance in putting down the revolt of their that they have supplied us with seventeen cartloads of the finest leaf. Thy temple priestesses even now are extracting the essence in abundance. In two days hence we shall have enough Zuma to tame several barbarian armies," the woman concluded proudly.
Gassara stepped forward scowling. Towering over the priestess and even the Queen, the Captain of the guard commanded respect. "Do not underestimate these barbarians, my sisters. They are not like the soft and weak-minded Nurian men. Their custom is to take pleasure from women, not allow themselves to be pleasured. And my spies tell me of a custom that makes them not so easy prey. Corthon refuse to drink from a woman's self. Nor will they take a nipple into the mouth. They believe this to be penetration by the woman and that a must never be penetrated. So, my sisters, ye shall not be able to drug them with the Zuma-rich fluids of your sex," Gassara concluded.
"This is grave news, My Queen," spoke Dolphia. "The Zuma in wine makes a man's mind soft and open to a woman's words, but only his worship at her temple makes him fully her own."
"Fear not, my sisters," Fanuta replied. "These Corthons have never met women like ye. What a thinks and believes in the cool bright air of Cortho, may be very different in the warm vapors of a Nurian bedchamber. Somehow I doubt they will know the difference between taking their pleasure and merely receiving it, when ye make their semen to boil up inside ye. As for the city women, give each a pitcher of wine for her "guest." It will do our work even though the woman understand not the power of Zuma. Go now and adorn yourselves, my lovelies. Let us make our visitors glad they have come before they regret it -- if they ever do," she added, to the gathered women's giggles.
*
Dressed in the finest of diaphanous silks that hid nothing of her full and large dark nipples, queen Fanuta watched the triumphant entrance of Marius and his officer into the palace precincts. Siting proudly upright she faced the Emperor as he slowly approached her portable throne. Her eyes fell on his narrow hips and broad shoulders. Glancing over at Dolphia, she smiled, wondering if the High priestess was making a similar appraisal of the rugged Strategeon. She could not refrain from comparing these beautiful specimens of males to the nobles of her court. She noticed Marius's large powerful hands and feet. "Large feet, large ..." she mused. None of the in her kingdom, delightful as they were with their practiced worship, measured up. Before handing the realm over to her, Fanuta's had insisted she should produce a as heir as soon as possible, but Fanuta dreaded allowing herself to be made fat with the child of an effete son of one of the scheming baronesses who coveted her crown. Least of all Utafi.
"This light-skinned barbarian may serve me in other ways as well," she caught herself thinking. "And my priestesses." Fanuta knew that Dolphia's and Munira's almost constant night play was more frustration with their pretty-boy mates than real predilection for women on their part. Indeed, the extended visit of the barbarian army could be "very fruitful." Rising to meet him, Fanuta was aware of a growing wetness between her legs.
"... In sum, My Lord Emperor, I, Fanuta of Nuria welcome thee and thy to our city. Even thought we cannot conclude any treaty or high business of state with ye during Thirteenth Moon Festival, we wish ye to remain as our guests throughout the celebrations. In honor of the happy visit of thy Imperial Majesty we offer ye the toast of "Pearls before Wine." Hail!
At her word, the woman at each officer's side reached to her necklace and quickly removed one of the many pearls that adorned her neck. Fanuta did the same and before the astonished eyes of Marius dropped the shining pearl into his wine flagon as did all the other women. "What hast thou done, Queen Fanuta?" Marius asked. "The pearls will dissolve in the wine; their beauty lost to the world for ever."
"Not lost, My Lord Emperor, transformed into thy further glory and of thy warriors," she replied. "And to cover the first taste of the Zuma," she discretely refrained from adding. After a few droughts, the tongue no longer detected the bitterness of the essence. "Now let the banquet begin!" Fanuta smiled, raising her goblet in toast.
The feast proceeded as planned with platter after platter of delicacies, the flesh of exotic animals, fruits unknown in Cortho's colder climes, seafood from Nuria's southern coasts. Each dish was prepared with just a little more spice than necessary and Marius and his partook liberally of the wine that never ran short. If they had been more attentive, they would have noticed that their flagons were refilled from different pitchers than those of their smiling tablemates.
But the men's attention was already elsewhere. Except for campfollowers, none of the had been with a woman in weeks, certainly none like the exotic beauties now at their side: high cheekbones, gleaming ebony-smooth skin, hair that hung in hundred of tiny plaits interwoven with silver and copper-hue threads. The eyes of the were assaulted with images of voluptuous black bodies, that pushed against the flimsy upper body ties, bare waspish waists, and ample womanly hips.
"The hospitality of Thy Highness surpasses even the fame of thy beauty," Marius said and he toasted Fanuta yet again.
"My Lord is too kind to the Queen of a small people," Fanuta replied with downcast eyes, but she read in Marius's gaze more that mere flattery. He was smitten. As well he should be. Her garment was of sheerest silk and wound so as to display her dark breasts. After the first goblet of wine, his eyes seldom traveled far from them except to gaze deeply into her dark eyes. Fanuta noticed a massive bulge beginning to show itself beneath his tunic. That was good; she had plans for it. By the time she finished softening it, Marius would have taken the first steps to his eventual enslavement.
It had been a day of surprises for the tired Emperor. Fanuta smiled, remembering her powerful visitor's amazement when he first saw her. Apparently, his intelligence had not informed him to expect a woman of her age and with her beauty -- and black! Nor was he prepared to be greeted in capitaline Corthon without the whistled "s" that betrayed his own provincial origin. The luxury of the banquet brought further amazement and she watched with amusement as Marius's face reflected the gradual shift from arrogance to mere contempt, to acceptance, to admiration, and now fascination with his scantily clad hostess.
As the night wore on, a large torchfire was lighted in the center of the couches. Marius and his reclined around the circle and pretty, flirty serving girls continued to bring around plates of food and flagons of wine. The torch burned down and a pounding drumbeat was gradually growing louder. The serving women were now bringing more drink than food and their clothing had grown skimpier. Large unencumbered breasts were dangled in front of the men's eyes as the women leaned down to refill their drinks. The loincloths barely covered their provocative little pussies. And when a stood close enough to a seated man, he couldn't avoid smelling a in heat.
Fanuta saw her women tittle and whisper to their delighted guests, making sure their wineglasses remained filled. The grew tipsy and boisterous as their tablemates teased them. Seeing that all was in readiness, she gave the signal. Suddenly silence welled up like a cobra rising from its basket. At the sound of a gong, each man's companion leapt into the circle and positioned herself, one in front of each man. Talking, laughing, and ribald remarks ceased as a temple priestess began to writhe slowly before each man, her movements in time with the imperceptibly accelerating drum.
The officers were riveted by the swaying of the women's hips and bouncing breasts, none more than Marius himself by Fanuta. She was taller and heavier and a little than the others. But what she lacked in youth, she made up in a sultry sexiness. Like the others, she had a bright silver disk dangling from her neck in from of her large round tits. Marius could not take his eyes off of those tits and so he stared too, at the shining, flashing disk.
As the dance accelerated, each woman inched closer to her prey, forcing him to look up at an uncomfortable angle at those wonderfully round, bouncing boobs.
The drum was louder now, as well as faster, and filled the ears of the transfixed as the flashing disks filled their eyes. Slowly, Marius and his were falling into the power of the Queen and her court. The were being "tamed!"
Now the drum grew still louder and the rhythm more frenetic. The dancers ground their hips in the faces of the men. Their stares became glassy, their bright blue eyes growing dim. Equally noticeable were their hands. Quite unconsciously, the had begun to slowly stoke their rigid cocks. Suddenly the drum and the dancers stopped. The hardly reacted, so deep was the spell they were under. Perfect!
Yet Fanuta noticed a bit of light creep back into Marius's gaze. He was a strong man, a willful man, not an easy to "tame," by the looks of it. Slowly, as if waking from a dream, he began to look around him. The other dancers had fallen on his entranced comrades. Even Aldos was lying cradled in the arms of the busty Dolphia, placidly nursing her breast, his eyes closed in a docile, beatific smile as she stroked his face. His own aide-de-camp's head was thrown back as he the of Munira who kneeled over him, slowly jacking him off. Two others -- Marius couldn't see who in the dim torchlight -- were lying with their tunics up around their waists, their heads lolling, as two smirking women methodically rode them toward orgasm.
Like a lonely, cornered animal, Marius instinctively sensed the danger and poised for fight or flight. Fanuta looked down at him and saw his partially successful efforts to throw off the spell. Her nostrils flared to think of the powerful mind as well as body that soon would be hers. Immediately, she stepped forward, dropped her skirt, and thrust her crotch in his face. The scent of a hot must have hit Marius with the force of an assagai. She watched Marius fighting the powerful aroma of her rank, dripping love slit. Marius was no longer looking around at his vanquished followers; he was staring straight ahead, straight at the wet, bushy cunt in front of his eyes. Fanuta was looking down at the big man, aroused but amused. She could see him weakening; subject to the one instinct she knew that could overcome the anger leading to resistance, the fear leading to flight: lust.
In a desperate effort as if to ward off the enchantment, Marius brought up his hands, just about high enough to shield his eyes from the bewitching sight before him, enough perhaps to push away the tempting vision that held him fast. He stretched forth his hand and -- with a lunge, grabbed Fanuta's ass and buried his face in her warm snatch.
A kind of cheer went up from the watching women as the barbarian leader went down to defeat. The Queen allowed the slavering to fill his mouth and nose with her lust inducing juices for long seconds, then dropped them both to the couch placed nearby for that purpose. As Marius lost himself between those plump, delectable thighs, nimble fingers removed his clothes and the Queen began stoking his hardened prick.
*
At an early-morning meeting of her Council, Fanuta looked around at six contented, if somewhat tired and disheveled women around the mahogany table. "Did all go as well as your faces tell me?" Fanuta asked.
"Indeed, My Queen," reported Dolphia. "The are all still sleeping. A whisperer is with each filling his mind with lustful thoughts. She has at hand a sleeping potion if her charge should stir. Not one will not leave our beds until he is our slave."
"No, Dolphia. I do not desire them to be taken thus. If our foreign guests disappear into our palace to quickly, the remaining troops may become restless. Remember, our sisters in the city can only entertain the army. They are not skilled in the use of Zuma and we cannot let them use it in the powerful mixtures as we do. It can be many months before the soldiers are so besotted with Zuma and soft bodies as no longer to prove dangerous to us."
"What then wouldst thou have us do, My Queen?" Dolphia frowned. "Our spell upon them is well begun. Shall we now allow our captives to slip from between our fingers -- and our thighs?" Dolphia added with a chuckle.
"Nay, my clever minions," Fanuta replied with a smile. "Our new foreign friends will not escape from your skilled hands or your lusty loins. It is a foolish fisherman who pulls hard on the line when the fish has just begun to nibble. Play with your fish until your hook is deep into his mind. For now allow him to awake each morning with memories of a night of unspeakably intense sex. I trust ye had no difficulty with that 'chore.'"
"It is even as thou sayest!" Munira blurted out causing the women to giggle at her enthusiasm. "Lucas may be a barbarian, but he is skilled in wielding his manly weapon. I have never passed such a night before. He brought me unto a woman's pleasure nigh unto a dozen times."
"'Lucas' is it?" Fanuta teased her companion. "Methinks were it not for the Zuma in the drink of the Emperor's aide-de-camp, thou wouldst be in HIS thrall." Munira blushed and the other women tittered before Fanuta continued. "'Tis well, Munira. Cortho is our enemy, not Lucas. Take thy pleasure from the youth, Munira. Thy sisters did the same. Their quarters are not so far from mind that I did not hear THEIR cries last night." Fanuta looked around grinning at the other women whose embarrassed silence confirmed her words. "I did even so with the Emperor. His weapon is long and thick, but fortunately I have a sheath that is the equal of it." All the women smiled and nodded.
"We want our guests to tarry long with us. Let's make their stay here a pleasant one. I shortly will be awakening the Emperor Marius with a delightful surprise. Do ye likewise. Later today I shall be showing him the sights of our beautiful city. But I do not doubt he will wish to share my bed again tonight. In fact I suspect he will not wish to wait that long to drink again from my womanhood and allow me to melt the steel of his weapon in my furnace. If anyone should venture to the Generalife gardens about dusk this evening," she grinned, "please do not let thyself be seen."
*
Fanuta judged well when her captive would awaken and she was at his side when his eyes fluttered open. "What...? Where... Oh, my head!" Marius moaned. Then he saw the beautiful black woman smiling down at him.
"Good morning, My Lord, the Emperor," Fanuta smiled and kissed him softly on the lips.
"OH, my head!" the Emperor moaned. "What? What happened?
"I fear thou didst partake too liberally of our Nurian wine. As for later ... Surely My Lord has not forgotten last night. I never shall! My Lord was magnificent!" Fanuta's flattery was purposeful, but not insincere. She had indeed come many times on the barbarian's cock. The Zuma weakened only his will; it fortified and stimulated his body. "Thou didst slay me with thy spear and gladly was I slain! Never has any filled me as didst Thou. Aye! My Lord!" she gasped, her eyes widening in partial surprise, "I scarce can believe my eyes! Thy weapon is again ready for battle."
Marius winced at her words. Fanuta knew he was well aware of his erection, an inevitable result of seeing her firm just inches before him. Aware, but not pleased at that moment. As his large penis throbbed to life, so his head throbbed with pain. He moaned again, partly with arousal, partly the ache in his forehead. "I feel thy pain, My Lord. Here, take this potion; it will assuage thy torment."
Marius shook his head, "'Tis nothing,"
Fanuta smiled and persisted, pressing a goblet she had prepared to his lips. It was sweet to his tongue and he drank. "Yes, My Lord, drink it all. It will cause thee to sleep and thy pain to cease."
"Sleep again? But I have just awakened. The day is well begun. My officials will expect me at noon for Council," Marius protested.
"Ah my brave, noble Lord," Fanuta smiled. "Do not concern thyself for them. Thou didst not battle alone last nigh. I heard Aldos slay Dolphia many times, last not long before dawn. The Council can wait."
"Nay, Queen Fanuta. Duty is everything for a Corthon. We cannot allow the weakness of the flesh to deflect us from our appointed tasks."
"It is as I feared, My Lord. Thy strong will is preventing the potion from giving thee its balm. Rest thy head on my bosom and I will make thee to sleep."
"I must ... not" Marius replied, struggling not to pillow his head on the Queen's perfect breasts. Fanuta could see the potion beginning to make his eyes heavy. It was time to take him one step further.
"My Lord, it is thy weapon, drawn and ready for battle that does not allow the to sleep. Let us battle again as we did last night, thy sword and my sheath. Gladly would I have thee conquer me again!" And before the drowsy and aroused Emperor could react, Fanuta had straddled him and positioned her moist lips at the tip of Marius's engorged cock. "The sheath of thy sword awaits thee, My Lord."
"Fanuta! No! This cannot be! A Corthon never allows a woman to ..." A gasp cut short his words and Fanuta lowered herself over the helpless man's stiff cock. Slowly as first she began to ride him.
"Speak no more, My Lord. Let me ease thy pain. Aye, Thy manhood dost please me mightily. Yea, My Lord, thrust deep and I will please thee, too. Deep, My Lord, my sleepy Lord. Loose the hold on thy body, My Lord. Let me take thee deep. Release thyself into me, My Lord, deep into me, deeper and thou wilst sleep. Release, My Lord and sleep. Release ...release ...RELEASE!"
Fanuta had felt his orgasm building and his consciousness sunk beneath her whispered words. With a final twist of her shapely hips and a clinching of her muscles she triggered his climax. Surprisingly, the flood of his hot seed released an irresistible warmth within her and she collapsed on his hairy heaving chest. It was several long moments before she was again in control of herself, but no harm was done. The Emperor was safely entranced a faint smile on his face. Amazingly, his cock was only now deflating. Fanuta let herself relax a few more minutes in the Emperor's strong, though now limp, arms. She was aware that his penis still dammed up her pussy, not allowing his sperm to drain out of her. It was a pleasant sensation and stirred a feeling of tenderness for her imperial captive.
Her twitched at the thought of what could result if they continued to "battle" thus if she were incautious. Since she had become a woman, her had taught her to drink a potion of Mea every morning on three weeks of each four. "Do so and THOU canst decide when and with whom to have a child, not thy need for a man's organ," her had advised with a knowing smile. Fanuta had done so as did most of the elite of the Nurian women. Now she was beginning to wonder if after twenty-five springs, if the time was not approaching to put in practice the other part of her mother's advice.
*
The treaty as accession was to be signed on the first day of the month after the New Moon festival. The rains had ceased, yet the harsh dry heat of summer had not yet come upon the land. The sun shone merely warm on the lush landscape around them. The treaty was being signed on the portico of the temple of the Goddess overlooking the newly whitewashed city below and the green valley beyond. Originally scheduled for the fourth hour, the ceremony had to be postponed until noon, as Marius and his had greater difficulty than usual in arising from the soft beds and softer arms in which they slept.
Now all was in readiness as Queen Fanuta and her council of priestesses met Marius and his council of warriors. An official of Corthon palace protocol would have been surprise that rather than sitting on opposite sides of the long table, Corthons and Nurians sat side by side. Yet is seemed quite appropriates to the participants, who only an hour or so earlier had been entwined in each other's arms.
The formal toasts over, Marius arose to speak. Fanuta smiled reflecting that unlike the banquet a month ago, no pearls were needed to disguise the Zuma in the wine. The no longer noticed the drug and indeed, would have felt quite uncomfortable were it not supplied. "Queen Fanuta," Marius said, trying to sound severe with the woman whose bed he had so recently shared. "There appear to be some changes in the treaty. It was carefully considered by the Corthon Senate and drafted by our lawyers."
"Aye, My Lord. I asked that a few clarifying words be added in the spirit of thy invitation to join the Corthon Empire. Thou didst ask us to 'open our gates as a maiden does to her betrothed.' I believe My Lord will agree that we have opened more than our gates." The looked embarrassed as the women at their side snuggled closer.
"But this treaty states that no legions, save the Emperor's guard will be posted in thy land," Marius pointed out.
"True, My Lord. Now that we are wedded to the Empire, no enemy will dare attack. Thy legions will be freed to defend thy northern marches. We can deal with raiders as always."
"Aye, My Queen, but internal order?"
"Does the bridegroom send armed servants to watch over his bride, My Lord? I dared hope My Lord would do his own watching." Marius was not sure if it was and accident, but at that moment his eyes fell on Fanuta's ample and he could not suppress a noticeable stiffing of his prick.
"But my Queen, soon I will return to Cortho. Business in the capital demands it."
"Speak not of departure, My Lord. The marriage of Nuria to Cortho is but consummated and the honeymoon is not yet begun. Stay yet the season. Surely thou dost not wish to return to Cortho just as the cold rains and bitter winds of the North sweep thy capital."
"But the Senate will be expecting a report and the first tribute."
"Report the plain truth; the capital is wherever the Emperor lays his head. Do not thy own laws say thus? As for gifts, My Lord, with thy permission, I shall send each Senator, Tribune, Praetor, and Pontifex the finest fruit of our land, a Nurian maiden for to with a rich dowry." Fanuta smiled at her words. Yes, the Nurian women would take dowries that included many large flasks of Zuma essence. Perhaps next year when their new wives became homesick for their native land, a goodly number of Senators and other high officials would join their emperor in Cortho's new Southern capital.
At each clever reply, Fanuta saw the Zuma-addled heads of the Corthons nod ascent. "Set thy had to the treaty, My Lord, and let the marriage celebrations begin." She smiled over that the Emperor who was gazing at her almost in adoration. As she placed a quill in his hand her other hand found his manhood beneath his tunic and gently squeezed. Marius's doubts and objections floated away. He certainly did not want to feel the miserable cold of a Corthon winter. Less did he wish to leave the bed of this delightful woman who filled his nights and days with pleasure beyond his previous imaginings. Carefully appended the initials to the document -
C. I. M: Corthun Imperator Marius.
The heat of the dry season arrived making it difficult for Marius to conduct Imperial business around mid-day. Not that he conducted very much at other times. Marius held Imperial court personally only during mornings, mornings that grew shorter and shorter as the Emperor, exhausted by long, vigorous sessions of lovemaking with Fanuta, arose later and later. Marius was introduced to the delightful custom of siesta after the mid-day meal, a custom made more delightful still by Fanuta's company in bed. He took his meals with Fanuta and so it was quite convenient for her to lead him to her bedchamber. There beneath pukahs moved by beautiful servant Fanuta let his suckle her until he was moaning with arousal and the send him to sleep by riding him to a volcanic climax that left him almost comatose.
Marius did not realize it, but more and more Imperial affairs were transacted in his name by Fanuta and her court. She now wore the imperial Signet. It had been thus since the arrival of the Santhian Ambassador. News had reached Marius in Fanuta's chamber just after a long slow siesta fuck that, as usual, had left the Emperor quite drowsy. Fanuta gave his eyelids a little kiss and offered to attend to the matter. It had not seemed proper, but Marius was just too sleepy to refuse his lively bedmate, who slipped off his ring and scurried to great the visiting dignitary. Marius never remembered to ask that she return it. A couple of times he started to speak about it, but Fanuta was feeling amorous and soon the Emperor was on his getting a marvelous fuck.
As Fanuta spent more and more time on Imperial business, she introduced Marius to her servants to keep him sated and happy. His vanity stroked by being told he was "too much for one woman," Marius accepted them into his bed during the long afternoons. It was difficult to satisfy so many pretty women, but he tried.
As the summer drought burned the landscape to dull brown, a challenge arose. The wild tribes of Zaria in the West were causing increasing trouble. A decisive blow was called for, but Fanuta did not wish to rouse the Emperor from the lethargy she had crafted. The danger, she decided, could become an opportunity and set a plan in motion. Several weeks later a messenger reached the palace with news from the frontier and Fanuta was summoned. Leaving the Emperor in the post coital bliss of an early morning ride, she rose and persuaded the messenger that he should refresh himself before delivering the message to the Emperor. The man's "refreshment" in the arms of two temple priestesses gave Fanuta time to complete preparations.
She arranged for the messenger, exhausted by the priestesses, to stumble into the imperial chambers just after the Emperor had come most satisfyingly in his royal lover's warm wet pussy.
"Grave news, sire! The Zarians have attacked Quoma. The Nurian defenders fled and the women were taken away." Fanuta smiled secretly. The Zarians had taken the bait. A few years with Nurian wives would tame the tribe, but meanwhile for form's sake, they must be chastised.
"Villainy!" roared the Emperor, trying to arise from the couch. Guards! Bring my armor. <gasp> Bring my sword." The unaccustomed exertion told on the Emperor who was growing flabby from too much food, wine, and sleepy lovemaking.
"Do not concern thyself with the Zarian raiders, My Lord," Fanuta smiled and pushed another goblet of wine into Marius's limp hand. "I shall deal with these swine in thy name. Thou hast more important matters to attend."
"My Queen, it is not meet that thou shouldst deal with affairs of state while I remain always within the palace. Of what 'more important matters' dost thou speak?"
"The most important matter of all, My Lord," Fanuta smiled. "I have brought thee the of a powerful prince and if I err not, she is ripe this night for thy potent seed."
"What? Thou wouldst that I remain behind to bed a foreign wench while thou leadest our soldiers into battle?"
"The woman is Mai-te, from the Chen, My Lord. Make her womb swell with thy child, and another kingdom will be mine, er, thine."
"Can I not service her another day? I would smash these insolent Zarians with mine own strong hand!"
"Strong it is, My Lord, but stronger still the weapon thou wieldest here, in thy loins! Lo, I feel it stir mightily!" the wily woman said, placing her hand on Marius's cock.
"Fa -nu -ta!" he groaned.
"Yeah, My Lord, the sword of thy strength is ready. Plunge it into her belly and make her thine." The Queen clapped three times and two serving led in a tall dark beauty with almond eyes, fighting to break free. "Look on her My Lord. See the proud breasts, that thou wilst make heavy with milk to give suckle to thine offspring. See the wide hips that shall bear thy child. Is she not comely? Aye! Thy sword leapeth in mine hand."
"But is this not the one brought in chains, but days ago? Did she not cry aloud that she would never consent to be my concubine?" Marius asked, unable to take his eyes from the gorgeous woman.
"Indeed she is, My Lord, but she is but a woman. Her mind is weak and her body is susceptible to the potions and philters of thy priestesses and enchantresses. She has been with them for these days. Now she burns with lust for thee. Even now her temple weeps with the joyful anticipation of thy manhood. Lie with her until the new moon and thy seed will find its fertile field. Her belly will grow fat with the fruit of thy loins."
"But Fanuta, Th-The..." he swallowed as his eyes feasted on the scarcely clad maiden in front of him, unable to formulate his sentence.
"Zarian raiders?" Fanuta finished his implied question. "My Lord, surely thou wilts not let this beautiful flower wither on account of a few Zarians who are foolish enough to defy thee." The queen lifted one of the thin veils that barely hid the young woman's charms. Her olive skin contrasted with the alabaster thighs of her imperial captive.
"My Lord, thy humble servant will deal with and rid us of this Zarian nuisance. Thy kingdom and thy people need the issues of thy potent loins to remain strong." With a tap of her hand, she made the writhing woman spread her thighs a little.
"Behold My Lord, this ready vessel. The high priestess assures us she has never born fruit. At Thy command my serving will ready her that thou mightest pour her full of thy potent liquor.
"But how knowest, my Queen, that the time draweth nigh for conception? Perchance we shall return and she be yet ready."
"Ah, my proud Lord! I am a woman and I know the signs of a woman's body when it crieth out for child, but verily, I pray thee, prove my words."
Fanuta nodded to the woman. "Shew thy readiness to My Lord, wench!" she commanded.
The servants released the writhing and Marius suddenly realized her struggles had not been to escape, but to fling herself on HIM. In a twinkling, she had flown to the couch where Marius reclined and had thrust her into his face. Without thinking Marius drew her to him and began to lick the copious fluids that leaked from her vagina.
Fanuta smiled as she saw Marius loose himself between the woman's ample thighs. "Taste and prove, but carefully, My Lord, lest the potions she has been given affect thee, too. Do not drink too deeply of her flowing fount or the desire to breed will overtake thee as it has her." Even as Marius ate the aroused woman, Fanuta was slowly stoking him. "Aye! "Thy sword is drawn and ready. My Lord is too generous to his concubine, to pleasure her in this way. Wouldst My Lord make her come with thy powerful tongue? Lo! A woman's pleasure is upon her! Her cup overfloweth. Drink it not My Lord!"
The Emperor's enchantment was too deep to heed Fanuta's ironic warning. As the woman's squirted onto the helpless man's face, the crafty Fanuta she gave his cock a final jerk and made him erupt into her hand. "Ah, My Lord, my generous Lord! Thou hast spent thyself giving pleasure to this foreign woman. Even if thou willest, thou canst not now accompany thy troops as we smite the Zarians. I perceive that slumber overtaketh thee. Thy concubine is similarly spent. Sleep with her, My Lord. Take her this night and every night 'til my return. Fill her with thy efficacious seed and make her grow heavy with thy child."
Marius looked up at Fanuta through sated eyes, almost pleading. "Do not speak My Sweet Lord. I know thy eyes grow heavy. Thou wilst sleep and I will go. And when I return, the woman will shew forth the fullness of thy handiwork. Thou wilst breed her well, My Lord. But now thou must sleep. Sleep deeply, My Lord. Thine eyes close softly. Thy thoughts are scattered and drift away from thee. Sleep, My Lord. Sleep."
Fanuta smiled again as the woman gathered Marius's head to her and he began to suck softly. The woman looked up at Fanuta who winked. This clever foreign prostitute Fanuta had procured would keep the silly happily occupied for the next several weeks, she thought. Several more weeks of drinking her drugged wine and eating her potion-laced food would keep her imperial "guest" too drowsy and horny to think about anything but this and other nubile women in the harem Fanuta had carefully assembled for him. Each was an enchantress in her own right, skilled in enflaming the lust of any and using that lust to keep his will soft and pliable. Fanuta herself had taught Marius to allow a woman to mount him, pacify him with her and draw forth his sperm, sating him with sleepy pleasure. As Marius lay abed letting one woman after another drain and enervate him with pleasure, Fanuta would gather the reins of power to herself. Soon the Empire would be hers alone! Just one more thing was needed.
*
Several weeks later it was a self-satisfied Fanuta who presided over the Great Council. One after another the reports had all been favorable. The Zarians had been chased back over the border feeling lucky the Nuri-Crothon troops had not pursued them to recover the abducted women. She imagined what kind of homecoming the Nurian women had prepared. Nothing more would be heard from Zaria raiders; that was sure.
Messages had arrived telling of the success of the Nurian maidens sent to Cortho. Each had quickly become a cherished favorite of her new husband without raising the ire of the first wife. As the Zuma increased the stamina as well as the malleability of the Corthon men, the first wives found they were getting fucked better and more often than before the Nurian arrived. The Senate hardly met any more; with two horny women at home, Senators had better things to do. In most households both the Nurian and the Corthon were pregnant.
The Corthon foot soldiers were being rapidly absorbed as second husbands for the women in the environs of the capital, although some of the city women sent their former mates back to their elder sisters, preferring the imported to the domestic product. Most of the Corthons had been farmers before being forced into the army and would probably have been quite happy to stay even if without having a woman who wanted to fuck two or three times a day. Surprisingly, the Corthons were able to introduce several new crops and farming techniques that meant greater agricultural output. The extra food would be quite welcome as most of the Nurians with new Corthon husbands were now found with child.
As Marius, Aldos and the other Corthon officials lost interest in matters of state -- for months their sleeping ears had been filled by whisperers making them forget such things -- their captors encouraged them to become more physically active. Fanuta and the other women enjoyed going to the stadium and watch their wrestle, sprint, broad jump, throw javelins and shoot bows, each cheering excitedly for her bedmate. Fanuta was pleased that her Marius was seldom bested except by Aldos, and that only in wrestling, where the Strategeon's greater bulk made him invincible.
"In sum, Nuria had never been more prosperous or more secure. Nuria is, to all intents and purposes, the capital of an Empire that is Corthon only in name. The minnow has swallowed the frog. There is but one thing more that we can do to seal our place at the head of the Empire. I, myself, have already taken this final step," the Queen stated proudly. "The choice is yours, but for several weeks *I* no longer partake the daily draught of Mea."
A little titter went around the table. "I may have softened and blunted the Emperor's will, but I can report that his sword remains rigid and sharp," the Queen announced with a little smirk. "About the time of next Thirteenth Moon Festive, I will bear the Emperor's child!"
Fanuta paused and looked around; then she frowned. She was expecting a reaction: surprise, jubilation, outrage; instead Council appeared merely pleased. Dolphia saw the Queen's consternation and smiled. "We share thy joy, My Queen, but not thy caution."
"My caution? Why I have allowed the Emperor..."
"We well know what thou hast allowed the Emperor," the High Priestess smirked. "But thou art not the first."
"What?"
"My Queen, I am with child since the night of the treaty ceremony, although Aldos does not yet know it," Dolphia announced.
"Lucas and I are expecting before the rains resume. Behold!" Munira stood, lifted her short tunic and displayed to everyone the first signs of her delightful bulge. "I wanted his child from the first night I made him lie with me."
One by one the other Council members nodded and rubbed their bellies. "Even I, My Queen," Gassara smiled at last. "Although in truth I cannot say which of the Praetorian Guards is the father. As a precaution, I have taken the whole lot for my household!"
This announcement at last brought the gasps of amazement Fanuta had expected at her own. Although irked at being upstaged by her followers, surrounded by so many happy women, she could not remain angry. "Well," the Queen laughed, "It seems we need to arrange quickly for a joint marriage ceremony, lest we cause scandal."
"There will be scandal enough as it is, My Queen, when thou and thy entire Council present their swollen bellies before the alter of the Goddess where an equally pregnant High Priestess will meet them," chuckled Dolphia.
"Enough? Oh, perhaps not," the Queen replied with a mischievous grin. "I can think of something else to set the gossips' tongues wagging." No one dared ask, although the Queen's broad smile harbored no threat. "Now that we have gotten ourselves with child, we can begin to share the fathers to be. Methinks Munira is not the only one to have admired fair Lucas," she grinned, glancing at Dolphia who looked embarrassed, "and, too, I would prove the mettle of Aldos sword," the queen smiled again. "Perchance for a few nights my cries will disturb the High Priestess's sleep, as for months hers have mine."
The End?
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