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This post contains scenes of female masturbation, attempted rape, and
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violence... not to mention elements of plot and character. If any offend
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you immensely, I advise you to stop reading.
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Preface:
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From "The History of the Second Empire, Vol. 3," The Final Decade, page
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237.
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"Rammerg V was to be the last crowned head of the Second Empire. When he
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ascended the throne, he brought with him an oddly distorted version of
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R'Ternogian philosophy, due without doubt to his worship of Nelemi.
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Rammerg V enacted the "Edict of Predestiny." With this one law, Rammerg V
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triggered massive civil unrest. And although the Imperial Army initially
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stood by Rammerg V, they, too, soon turned on him. The problems arose when
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the Grand Captains say the Edict of Predestiny as the restoration of their
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guaranteed positions next to the throne, while the Line Officers saw it as
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a death warrant for the men who had been fighting the centuries-long
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campaign against the eleven lands in K'Raugne.
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"It is possible that the split in the military that for so long had kept
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the throne safe would have healed itself, but as it happened, with one
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slip of a dagger, an officer ended the Imperial line with Rammerg V."
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Part One: The Front
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Chapter One
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Grand Captain DePolarno generally didn't like traveling to the front; he
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liked confronting the Line Officers even less. They always seemed to be
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caked with mud, blood, and even more horrid, inconceivable substances.
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Their uniforms were always in disarray, their weapons always nonstandard
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issue, and they always glared at him with cold, icy eyes, as if it was his
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fault that the Great Nelemi had given the Emperor the wisdom to restore
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the natural order.
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"After all," he had boldly told one particularly brazen officer who dared
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question the wisdom of his orders, "if you and yours were Grand Captain
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material, this campaign would have ended a century ago."
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The officer, a common Captain of the Lance, had called him names of an
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unsavory enough sort that DePolarno had successfully brought treason
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charges against him, and the common Captain had thrown himself upon his
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own sword in the Hall of Justice at the Imperial Court. If only the
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Military Judge hadn't offered him the opportunity to say some final words:
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DePolarno could have done without being insulted by a man who was about to
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kill himself.
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However, this trip to the front would prove somewhat more pleasant, he
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was certain, for he had returned to this disgusting pit of vulgarity
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bearing good news from the Grand Captains: a successor had been named to
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replace the officer who had so brazenly mouthed off to DePolarno. As this
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officer was the child of a fellow Grand Captain, he would be one officer
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who would undoubtedly treat DePolarno with the respect he deserved, for he
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would understand the privilege and honor that came with the rank of Grand
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Captain.
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"Sir," said the young soldier who had escorted DePolarno from the
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courtyard into which his adjunct had magically translocated him and into
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the mazelike halls of the command complex of the 234th Lance. He gestured
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casually at a door. "Lieutenant DePinder is in there, sir."
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DePolarno looked at the young man, who's boots were unpolished and
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spattered with mud, who's uniform jacket was partially unbuttoned,
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revealing a bare, hairless chest, and who's tussled hair reflected the two
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or three day's of beardgrowth on his chin. He straightened his own dark
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blue coat over his ample paunch and made sure the goldbraids on his right
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shoulder were hanging straight. "I would think you will have to adjust
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your sloven ways when a real Captain of the Lance takes charge here," he
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said coolly.
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"Yes, sir."
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"And you will also have to obey every order as it is issued, _when_ it is
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issued."
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The soldier sighed. "Sir, as I tried to explain, Lieutenant DePinder
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asked that I--"
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"As Grand Captain, my desire to see Captain DePinder overrides his desire
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to alerted to visitors. I have important news regarding his future in the
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Imperial Army, and I'm sure he would like to hear first breath of it from
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me, not some useless, lazy, lackey.
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A strange expression appeared on the soldier's face, a look of doubt and
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amusement all at once. "He would, sir? You really think he feels that way?
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"Yes, I do. And are you questioning my judgment?"
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Doubt vanished from the soldier's face, leaving only amusement. "No, sir.
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I have learned from the example of my previous commander. I have no doubt
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that you understand the mind of Lieutenant DePinder better than I. After
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all, you and he are closer in the castes than he and I." Without so much
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as a click of his heels, the soldier turned and started to walk away.
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"What's your name and unit, soldier?"
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"Sav Corbayne," he replied without turning back or even stopping. "234th
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Lance Corps Command."
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Irritated, DePolarno turned to the door, and opened it, striding forward
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like a man who was used to getting what he wanted when he wanted, and
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going where he wanted when he wanted to go there.
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Beyond the door was a large room that was part office and part
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bedchamber. Near a set of large bay widows stood a broad desk in which
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hundreds of documents were arranged neatly in stacks. A comfortable chair
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was pushed back from it, and a muddy uniform coat, white shirt, and belt
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with a sheathed sword had been tossed in the seat. Near the chair,
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DePolarno saw were an equally muddy pair of black uniform pants, and a
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pair of mud-caked, knee-high boots with the spurs still on them. His eyes
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followed this trail to the large canopy bed where curtains obscured the
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matress and bedding from prying eyes. For the first time, he noticed a
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faint rustling of cloth from within and an even fainter creaking of wood.
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"Must be sleeping," DePolarno thought, and was about to raise his voice
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in a firm, very military-like command to arise that he was certain a Line
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Officer could appreciate. But then he heard a new sound, louder sound... a
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breathless moan.
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"Uuuuh," the voice came from behind the curtains. "Uhhh...."
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DePolarno's words stuck in his mouth, even as he felt a stirring in his
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crotch. The young Lieutenant was fucking some harlot, and doing a decent
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job at it from the sound of it. DePolarno knew that moan she'd uttered,
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even if the Lieutenant himself was being awfully quiet and gentle about
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it; no sounds of flesh slapping together, of lips sliding off each other,
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and the whisper of the sheets was barely audible. A gentle lad,
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apparently, which might mean he was poor officer stock.
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The woman moaned softly again, and sheets brushed against one another.
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This would have to be investigated. His penis hardening, straining
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against the confines of his red-piped uniform trousers, DePolarno went to
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the foot of the bed and parted the curtain ever-so-slightly.
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There was only one person in the bed, a slight, almost boyishly built
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woman, but there was no doubt she was a woman, for her thighs were spread
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wide and DePolarno started directly into her slit as two of her fingers
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twisted and probed deeply within her, past the lips that were covered with
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red hairs. Her hand and inner thighs were moist with her juices.
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"Oh gods," she said sharply.
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DePolarno's gaze shot to her face, but found that her eyes were closed
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tightly, as her other hand pressed against one of her small breasts and
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she arched her back to shove her hips up to meet her rigid fingers. She
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hadn't noticed him at all.
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"I need you," she said loudly. "I want you."
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DePolarno looked around the room, and, finding that he was, indeed the
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only other one here, returned this eyes to the woman in the bed. Her
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delicately built, finely muscled body was covered with a sheen of sweat,
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the short-cropped red hair on her head was damp and plastered to her
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scalp. Her face, shoulders and breasts were covered with freckles. She
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gyrated her hips, her fingers twisting inside her, as she moaned again.
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The hand that had been working her breast moved to her slit. Even as three
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fingers plunged into her, her other hand slid up her body, leaving a wet
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trail across her stomach, chest and neck, until she started to lick the
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her own juices from her fingers with a glistening tongue. Her eyes were
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still tightly shut.
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DePolarno rubbed his penis through his pants. It was harder than a
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mace-handle. He breathed deeply through the nose, enjoying the smell of
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the woman's passion as it flowed across her fingers. Lieutenant DePinder
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was a fool, he decided, for not being here with his harlot. Maybe he's not
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a gentle lover, but he certainly takes his duties much to seriously if he
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allowed something to pull him away from this horny piece of meat.
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The woman groaned and thrust both hands against her wet slit, crossing
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her wrists. DePolarno saw the wetness stream past the four fingers she
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drove deep insider her, as she gyrated her hips and thrust them toward
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him.
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He was about to cum in his pants and saw no reason to waste it. His
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swordbelt was off in a second, and his trousers were undone almost as
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quickly and shoved down the tops of his boots. He lowered his knees onto
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the bed and crawled forward, between the woman's widespread thighs. She
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was undulating, up and down, up and down, and didn't even notice the added
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weight on the bed.
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Her scent struck him again, and he thought briefly about shoving his face
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into her sopping slit, just shoving his tongue in between her fingers and
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drinking her sweet nectar, but then he was once again struck by her narrow
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frame, her slender hips...
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There was a saying among the Imperial Officers and Soldiers: "A man knows
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he's a man when he's killed a woman with his dick." DePolarno knew his
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penis was large--it had brought many a compliment from the harlots of the
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Golden City, but he had never thought it was big enough to finally prove
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him a man--but he had never tried to fuck any woman as small as this one.
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He licked his lips, one hand closing around his swollen, rockhard shaft,
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as he reached forward with the other. Her moist lips appeared to be
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tightly stretched over the fingers that she had driven into herself as she
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gyrated and groaned, and she looked so small that he was convinced he
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would not only tear those lips but probably displace her intestines as
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well. His dick might even push into her stomach, he thought.
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As the woman began to moan again, DePolarno grabbed her wrists and shoved
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them upward, pulling her fingers from her slit even as he drove his dick
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into her. It slid into a tight wetness unlike any he's experienced; this
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woman was tighter than tight. And she let out a scream, that was a mixture
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of surprise and pain, but DePolarno knew he'd soon turn it to pleasure...
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a deadly pleasure.
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"Just enjoy it, bitch," he snarled, staring into her face, which bore a
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horrified expression, her eyes--mint-green in color--wide. He shoved
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harder, pushing her across the sheets as his dick entered her spasming
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pussy.
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She threw her head back, crying out and he pushed her hands to her side,
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still holding them tightly in his steely grip. He felt her thighs closing
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around his hips, her legs folding across his lower back, he felt her hips
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twisting, the lips of her pussy moving delightfully as he drove into her.
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"You're going to make me cum too quickly, bitch," he shouted, gleefully.
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He was about to continue, when her legs tightened even further and he felt
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her thigh-muscles tighten and pull his forward, As she did, her upper-body
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swung upward. The twist of her body yanked her wrists free from his grasp,
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but he felt his dick enter her completely.
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And then he felt her forehead crack against his the bridge of his nose.
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He jerked away, tumbling backwards out of the bed as her legs released
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him. His head smacked against the floor, as he let his hands reflexively
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fly to his face instead of attempting to break his fall. "You'll pay for
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this, you cunt," he shouted, blood streaming past his fingers and
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star-shaped bursts blurring his vision. "You don't know who I am!" He
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started to get up, but then felt the cold, sharp edge of a swordblade on
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his throat.
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"And you obviously don't know who _I_ am," the woman hissed. She had
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grabbed the sword from the deskchair, and was pressing it against
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DePolarno's throat, her glistening body standing over him, no longer
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appearing so small.
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DePolarno tried to react with the attitude dictated by his station. "You
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are committing treason against the Empire, twice-fold. You are touching
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the sword of an Imperial Officer, and you are using it to threaten a Grand
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Captain."
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"Do you know what I do with rapists, Grand Captain?" Her green eyes fixed
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on his, twin blazes of fury. She kicked him, her bare heel connecting with
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his still-erect penis and his balls. The sharp pain caused him to jerk
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upward, and the blade nicked his throat. And, despite the pain, her kick
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caused him to ejaculate, his sperm shooting so far it hit him in the face,
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mixing pastely with the blood streaming from his nose. "I have them
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impaled!"
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"You're the Lieutenant's woman," DePolarno said, tears of pain welling up
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into his eyes Even through the haze, he could see her hateful green eyes.
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"I'm a Grand Captain... that make's you mine..."
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"Corbayne," the woman shouted. "Corbayne, get your ass in here, _now_!"
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` The door to the room opened, and the sloven, disrespectful soldier who
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had brought him hear appeared. "Yup?"
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"What the fuck is going on here?"
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"Grand Captain DePolarno insisted on seeing you, sir. He saw no need for
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me to alert you to his presence, for, as he correctly pointed out, his
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orders override yours."
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The sharpened edge withdrew from DePolarno's neck, and the woman moved
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away, crossing toward the desk. "Grand Captain, I apologize for the
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confusion," she said, placing the sword on the surface and picking up the
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white shirt. She slipped it over her narrow shoulders and started
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buttoning it. Her lightly muscled legs were still alluringly naked, but
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DePolarno was in too much pain to care. "It appears my adjunct has had
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some fun at the expense of both of us. He doesn't take well to pompous
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asses, and his judgment is clouded when confronted by them."
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DePolarno pulled himself to his feet, hunched over from the burning pain
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in his crotch. "Your adjunct?"
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"I am Lieutenant DePinder." A look of distaste crossed her face. "For
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Deyave's sake, cover yourself!"
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DePolarno pulled up his pants and fastened the latches gingerly. His eyes
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met the woman's green ones. "How can you be, you're--"
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She held up one hand as she reached for the muddy trousers. "Don't
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bother. I'm not in the mood to explain anything to you, but I'll agree
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with your unspoken point: I'm a woman, so I can't be an officer of
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Lancers."
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"But--"
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"What did you wish to see me about?"
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As the pain in his crotch eased, DePolarno's mind began to work again.
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Whatever was happening here, these two cretins were addressing a Grand
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Captain, and they were disgracing the uniforms they were wearing, whether
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there was any possibility they were who they said they were or not. "I
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came to see Lieutenant DePinder about a new assignment, but now I see a
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mistake has happened." He bent to pick up his swordbelt, only to find the
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tip of a sword at his throat for the second time in five minutes. He
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straightened his back, and found it was the young soldier this time. "I
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will have you both court-martialed for treason, whether you are who you
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say you are or not," he shrieked.
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"Brave words for a man who's about to have his throat slit," the young
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soldier hissed. "You assaulted my commander, and I'm sworn to protect
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her," he glanced at the woman who was pulling on a pair of pants that
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hugged her narrow hips tightly, "_him_ at the expense of even my own
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life."
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The edge in the soldier's voice frightened DePolarno more than the
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swordblade ever could. He knew the man was not just threatening him, he
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knew the man would kill him without care for his lofty status as Grand
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Captain. But then the woman spoke again:
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"Corbayne, stop it. You know you can't kill him. We have rules and
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regulations to go by."
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DePolarno looked at the woman. "Harlot," he said, taking great effort in
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sounding officious to hide the fear the soldier was causing him to feel,
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"you may be a liar, but you do the Lieutenant justice, nonetheless
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The woman's eyes narrowed, the look of hate and fury returning. "Even
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before you disgraced Captain Lorfell, I dealt with rapists one way and one
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way only. Now that I am in command, I pass judgment as well. You have been
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found guilty of the crime of rape, and Staff Officer Sav Corbayne is the
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corroborating witness."
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"Yup," the young soldier said, taking the blade away from DePolarno's
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throat.
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"Remove your coat, sir."
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Terror gripped DePolarno's heart. He saw where this was heading. "You
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can't do this."
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The woman--no, as impossible as it seemed, _Luitenant DePinder_--padded
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to the door, as silent as a ghost on her bare feet and called down the
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hall. "I need a detachment of wardens, immediately. A soldier from the
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34th Infantry just tried to force himself upon me!"
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"No!" DePolarno shouted. Suddenly, Staff Officer Corbayne's blade
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flashed. It danced and slashed around DePolarno's upper-body, as the Grand
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Captain took several startled steps backward. "No!"
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When the blade stopped whizzing through the air, both DePolarno's jacket
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and shirt were in tatters and all evidence of his rank were strewn across
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the floor.
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"Enjoy your night in the stockade," Lieutenant DePinder said, her voice
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icy. "Tomorrow I'll see you on the execution field.
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Two blackclad, hulking men appeared behind her in the doorway. "Where's
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the wee bastards," one of them roared.
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DePinder leaned back against the desk, as if supporting herself. She
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pointed at DePolarno and the two soldiers rushed forward. Even before he
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was out of the room, they had broken his arm, and he was shrieking
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incoherently with pain and fear.
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"Keep him alive for the execution tomorrow," Corbayne called after them.
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He then turned to DePinder with a broad smile. "The Captain would've
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enjoyed that."
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DePinder returned the smile with a steely gaze. "I'm not so sure. If that
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officer hadn't been such a buffoon, he might have hurt me. If you weren't
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my friend as well as my--"
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"Come on!" Corbayne sheathed his sword. "He never had a chance with you
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and you know it!"
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"What did he want?"
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Corbayne shrugged. "He threatened me with a new commander who would make
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me dress right."
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"You should wear your insignias," DePinder said, going to pick up the
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Grand Captain's swordbelt. "That might have prevented this whole
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situation."
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"It was justice."
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"It was necessity," DePinder corrected. She found the hidden pouch on the
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back of the swordbelt where important communiques were secreted, in case
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the officer in question fell into enemy hands. Keeping the papers in those
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pouches was tradition more than anything else; everyone, including eleven
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civilians, DePinder suspected, knew of their existence. She pulled the
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paper loose and scanned it. "Once I broke his nose, there was no turning
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back for any of us. Well... this _is_ interesting."
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"What?"
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She looked at him with a smirk on her face. "Either someone in the Golden
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City has made a huge mistake, or Father has been pulling strings again. I
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have just been promoted to Captain of the 234th Lance."
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Corbayne's jaw dropped and he stared dumbly at DePinder.
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The lithe woman sat down on the bed, hooking her legs at her bare ankles
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and studied the parchment that bore the Imperial seal. Her smirk broadened
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to a smile.
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"We can finally do something about winning this war!"
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Continued...
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