Casus Belli Ch. 09: Pleasure Slave

"So it's a deal?" Denora inquired.

"Yes," Bashuk said, "it's a deal." He then switched his attention to Syldan and Polly, who were looking nervous. "The two of you don't look very convinced," he determined with a chuckle, "are you sure about this?" After a short hesitation both girls nodded, and with that they became soon-to-be pack girls too.

A short silence fell, and then Denora spoke again. "I've been wondering," she said, "how you orcs arrived at the idea to take over Nigawa and replace the orc females you lost with human females in the first place..."

Cassandra felt fingers slide beneath her chin, and then her head got lifted until Bashuk could lock eyes with her. "You told them?" he asked.

Se swallowed, "Y.., yes..., wasn't I allowed to?"

He shook his head, "I told you not to speak unless being spoken to. That goes when I'm not around too..."

"I..., I asked her," Denora reacted. Bashuk's gaze switched to the auburn haired beauty, and he locked eyes with her, but he said nothing. After a moment Denora started to blush, "I..., I'm sorry. It's just..."

"This is what got you into trouble in the first place," Bashuk interrupted her, but he didn't sound angry. "I know you just want to help her," he continued, "but you aren't. So no more of this, alright?" Denora dropped her eyes, and nodded. "That goes for the lot of you," Bashuk said, while his gaze passed over the other girls, who dropped their eyes and nodded also. His eyes locked with Cassandra's again, "It's okay, just don't let it happen again." She nodded too, and then she snuggled up to him, to show him she was sorry. The big hand on her back started to gently caress her in response, and she relaxed in his arms.

"Well," Bashuk said, addressing the girls again, "as my prize apparently already told you, we came to Nigawa to take the place of its nobility. We didn't shy away from war to achieve this, because such a war would ultimately serve our purpose. One of the certainties of war is that lots of young men die in it you see, which then results in a surplus of lonely young females, which is exactly what a victorious army made up of widowers needs. Now to what gave us the idea in the first place. Last year, in spring, all green orc tribes got summoned by the great council, and were ordered to form an army in order to repel an ogre invasion threatening the eastern borders of our realm."

"We defeated this ogre army in a number of huge battles, and then we chased its remnants back to where they had come from. When we finally returned to our lands though, in autumn, we found our kin had been largely slaughtered. With the help of the survivors it didn't take us long to figure out what had happened, but it was already too late in the year to cross the Leviathans, so we decided to settle the score with the black orcs, that had been the instigators of the disaster, first. During this punitive expedition, which saw the offending black orc army annihilated, we acquired just over a dozen young human females, whom the black orcs had enslaved during their raid on Nigawa that summer."

"The black orcs had used these females as their whores, and as they weren't really part of their tribe we didn't make them our prizes, but freed them instead. It was these females, and the black orc offspring growing inside their bellies, that convinced us to re-settle in Nigawa. By the time the mountain passes had cleared though, in spring, they were giving birth, and to our astonishment they all either killed their newborn half-orc cubs, or they simply abandoned them. As we were planning to mate with human females to ensure the continuation of the tribe this was cause for alarm of course. So we did some research, and with the help of these freed human females we learned a lot about human mating behavior and practices."

Cassandra's head had come up at the mentioning of the captured, and then freed, Nigawan women. "What happened to them?" she blurted out, and then her eyes grew big, and her head dropped, as she realized she had broken the rules again.

Bashuk sounded irritated, "You just earned yourself a good spanking girl!" He then sighed, "After we defeated your army, at this place you call the Weeping Valley, we saw them reunited with their kin in the northern part of your country."

"Thank you my Lord," Cassandra said softly, "for freeing them and seeing them home I mean." She blushed, "I'll thank you properly later..." Bashuk smiled. "Would you like to spank me now," she added, "so they can all see?"

He chuckled, caressed her face, "You learn quickly...," and then he pulled her against him again, and she was pretty sure she just got acquitted again. "Anyway," the big warlord resumed, addressing the girls again, "based on what we learned about human behavior, we made some changes to our plans. The most important one of those was that we dropped any intention to simply enslave all of Nigawa, and force the human females into breeding with us, like the black orcs had done. The fact that, by then, our tempers had had a couple of months to cool down helped with that of course. So we decided to create circumstances in which human females would join our packs out of their own free will instead, to prevent us having to guard thousands of our offspring against their own mothers..."

Denora looked at Cassandra rather pointedly, and Bashuk sighed. "Whores are considered a risk where it comes to that, but we hope prizes won't be. So whores will be separated from their cubs at birth, but prizes will only be separated from their cubs should problems arise."

"I would never..." Cassandra started, looking up at Bashuk, and then her head dropped again, and she whimpered softly.

The huge orc sighed, and then he lifted her head by her chin, until he could lock eyes with her. "It's part of being a prize," he said softly. She swallowed. "How far in your cycle are you?" he then asked.

Cassandra felt tears gather in the corners of her eyes. "I'm at my most fertile," she whimpered.

His eyes lighted in response, and he hugged her. "That's good news, and you just need some time to get used to it," he said, while one of his hands caressed her belly. She felt anger about being enslaved, and being used for breeding, without her consent. She also felt sorrow, for the terrible loss he had suffered, at the hands of her own people, in the crown's name. He was owed a wife, and cubs, and it was only appropriate that she, as the former Nigawan ruler, were to be the one repaying that debt. Cassandra curled up against her master, her mind in turmoil.