The Accidental Necromancer
A Little More Evil

We went downstairs together, and I unlocked Talos’ cage to let Valeria into it. I was tempted to try to move my phone or the laptop to listen into their conversation, but was I honestly going to eavesdrop on them for the rest of our lives?

Instead, I lay down on the air mattress, and Gren cuddled up next to me. “Sleepy slut,” she said, her voice low.

“Did you just call me a slut?” I asked.

If the shoe fits.

“It started with the right letter. And how many girls is it? Xyla, me, Jill, Valeria.”

“I’m not doing anything with Valeria.”

“Except tying her up.”

“Except that. Also, there’s Sandra.” I didn’t want to be hiding anything. “But –”

“It’s not a bad word,” Gren said. “Not among trolls, anyway. Would you prefer strumpet?”

Super-genius starts with s.

“I would not.”

“Let me take these pants off you.”

I nodded meaningfully over to the paladins.

“Just a second. Get up so I can move the mattress.”

“But I want to rest.”

“You will. I’ll do all the work. Just move.”

So I moved, and she moved the air mattress so that it was on the other side of the coffin table from Talos’s cage. We would be shielded from view, as long as we stayed low. “Lie down,” Gren said.

She didn’t have to ask me twice. Then she untied my robe, and pulled my pants off. They were loose enough she didn’t have to unzip them.

Having the beautiful troll undress me got me to half-mast. I looked down, past the twin hills of my breasts. “Rest,” I said, reminding her of what I needed.

“Yes, please rest.”

She took her top off.

“Restful rest,” I said.

“The best rest,” she agreed. “The rest you’ve earned.”

Then she went down on me.

I moved the pillow under me. I wasn’t a selfish lover, but I was very tired, and not up to much more than just accepting what she offered. She didn’t have any difficulty getting me fully hard, and I lazily played with my breasts while she slurped away.

She stopped, and I wondered if she intended to frustrate me. But she moved up, straddled me, and slid me into her very wet pussy, without even bothering to take her skirt off.

The table, I noticed, was about even with her lower ribs, which meant everything above that was in full view of the cage. I wondered if that was fair to the paladins, but I wasn’t going to stop her now.

“Oh, yes,” she moaned. “So good, Abby. That feels amazing!”

I wasn’t doing anything, except letting her move on me. She was doing all the work.

She bounced up and down on my cock, her breasts bouncing with her. In the state I was in, they were mesmerizing. “Yes, like that. Oh!”

Was she trying to give Talos some visuals for his spank bank? I wouldn’t put it past her to be trying to show him that troll women were super sexy, after his derisive comment earlier. Or, equally likely, perhaps she was trying to make Valeria jealous. Or just stake a claim.

She soon had me close to orgasm, but even tired I wasn’t completely selfish. I held back for her pleasure.

I think she knew, because she reached down and started rubbing her clit. “Yes, Abby, yes! Oh, you’re the bessssssst!”

When I felt her pussy clamp down around me, I couldn’t hold back any longer, and I came deep inside her. She moaned as her own orgasm subsided, and then rolled off of me, only to roll back in order to cuddle.

Oh, Abby, you’re the best! Enash mocked. That’s my body that’s being the best, I’ll have you know.

Ugh, he had to remind me of his existence then. I did my best to ignore him, and rolled over and enjoyed Gren spooning me.

She was still there when I woke up, however many hours later. I reached for my phone, but it had run out of juice, and I didn’t want to get up to deal with it. But Gren woke up the moment I moved and got up.

“The prisoners are all accounted for,” she said.

“Could you put a top on or something?” Valeria asked.

“Or not,” Talos said. “Either way.”

I sat up in time to see Valeria shrug. My robe had come off during the night.

She stood up and pressed against the bars, as if trying to see over the table. Well, fine. If she was curious, I was happy to be mysterious. I put the robe back on and wandered over to the boxes to find some clothes to wear for the day.

I decided on red underwear, red tennis shoes, jeans skirt, and a powder blue halter. I wondered whether I would look good in pink. Pink had seemed too girly when I’d first been shopping, too feminine, but it didn’t feel that way anymore.

Gren came over, and picked up the crop top I’d been wearing earlier. She tried it on, but it didn’t fit.

“Help yourself,” I said, half annoyed and half meaning it. I’d never had a girlfriend I could share clothes with.

“You need to buy me clothes sometime,” she said. “I’ll give you this for them.” She tapped the gold bracelet on her wrist, which had two small rubies and three sapphires on it. I was no expert, but I was guessing the gold and gems were worth 20K or so.

“If we ever get some free time, we’ll go online shopping,” I promised her. “No need to give me the bracelet. It looks nice on you.”

“Good. Thank you, munificent mistress.” Eventually, she managed to put her own top back on, but not before she’d spent a good fifteen minutes walking around topless.

“Abby,” Valeria said, “when you get a chance, could you let me out? If you don’t trust me, you can tie me up again. I think, for that matter, you can let Talos out, too.”

It was a risk. But I thought it was a risk worth taking, with one precaution. “Talos, do you promise not to leave the forest until we reach an agreement?”

“That could be forever,” Talos objected.

“Well, I don’t want to leave you locked up forever, and you don’t want to be locked up, I’m guessing.”

Valeria shrugged. “I think you can trust Abby, Talos. Once she can trust you, she’ll let you leave, if that’s what you want.”

I nodded.

Talos sighed. “Fine. Okay, I do so promise.”

I unlocked the cell and moved the “door” to the side. I hoped I was doing the right thing.

You are not just letting them go, are you? You’re setting a trap, right?

You have used your sex appeal to defeat a Third Level Paladin. You gain 200 experience points.

You have used your sex appeal to defeat a Third Level Paladin. You gain 200 experience points.

You need 1485 experience points to reach third level.

Augggh! Even when you’re an idiot, it works out for you! And how the hell is letting them go defeating them?

“I don’t suppose we get our weapons back?” Talos asked. “And armor?”

“Thank you, Abby, for trusting me,” Valeria said quickly, allowing me to put off answering Talos. “When you are ready to trust me with more, I am eager to be able to do my best to protect that which I promised to protect. In the meantime, would you like me to help carry wood to the trolls?”

Shit, I’d forgotten to send the zombies on their way. My sleep schedule was thrown way off, and time had lost some of its meaning. “I think I still have enough to handle the load,” I said. “But thank you.” I unlocked the front door and gave the zombies their marching orders. They picked up the wood and tromped away. I noticed that Patchwork, as I’d mentally labelled the one who didn’t have his own head, lagged a bit behind.

“I don’t know that I’m ever going to get used to being around the undead like that,” Valeria said. “But I will try.”

I hadn’t realized she’d come out with me. Talos appeared at her side a moment later.

The system notification struck me as odd. I’d thought I’d appealed to Valeria’s sense of logic, but maybe it had been the rope that had swayed her.

Well, both things could be true.

I sort of got it. It was one thing to win them over. But until I took an action that showed I thought I’d won them over, I hadn’t defeated the danger they posed. Even if they were trustworthy, if I kept them locked up forever because I didn’t trust them, I still had a big problem. I got the notification when I decided to trust.

Should I feel guilty for using my sex appeal? I’d only charmed them when I’d needed to subdue them originally, and after that, I’d left them alone. Of course, there was my passive.

Special Attraction: All individuals of the opposite sex have increased sexual attraction to the Seductress if they can sense her with any of their senses.

Well, I couldn’t help that. And I was beginning to believe that “opposite sex” meant pretty much everyone, in my case.

Xyla came walking out of the forest, her lush green body perfectly framed by a pair of oak trees.

“Don’t they need to be tied up?” she asked.

“No,” Talos and I said together.

“Maybe,” Valeria said.

I shook my head.

“Well,” she said. “That’s nice, I guess.” She walked up and kissed me, rubbing my ass for good measure and pressing her body against me. My cock responded, naturally.

I remembered how Valeria felt about girls with girls, but I wasn’t going to let her presence stop me from sharing my love with the dryad.

In fact, now seemed like a pretty good time to say the words.

“I love you, Xyla.”

She started to grin, and then she tried to act casual. “I love you, too, Abby.”

We kissed again, and eventually, Talos coughed.

I didn’t apologize.

“Do you need any help in the forest today, love?”

“Help is always helpful,” Xyla said. “Not more trolls?”

“No, that’s done.”

She looked between Talos and Valeria. “One of these two?”

“If they’re okay with it.”

“What sort of help?” asked Valeria.

“Picking up branches, moving small fallen trees, that sort of thing,” Xyla said. “Since the fire, I keep finding more things, some of which I don’t have the physical strength for.”

“I’ll do it,” Talos said. He looked at me. “If you trust me.”

I nodded. “I do.” Would I have trusted him with Xyla, had I not gotten the notification that he’d been “defeated?” I still wasn’t entirely sure what the system meant.

“Good.” Xyla gave me a signal and walked away. I followed, so we could talk privately, and gave Valeria and Talos an apologetic glance. I noticed that Gren was in the doorway, leaning against the one of the double doors that wasn’t open, playing with her knife. She didn’t trust them yet.

“I won’t ask you if you know what you’re doing. I trust you. I just wanted to ask, if we take a break, and I decide to get frisky, is that okay with you?”

“You and Talos?” I was surprised. Xyla had some kind of relationship with Gren before I got there, but she’d never shown any interest in a man before. Of course, the most available men were trolls. Maybe she had seduced many a wandering stranger before.

“If you don’t want me to, I won’t,” she said.

I wasn’t going to institute a One Penis Policy. I wanted to be OP, not OPP. “You are free to do what you want to do,” I said, and then, feeling a little possessiveness, I added, “as long as you come back to me.”

“Of course, love. And I don’t think I will do anything with Talos. He’s not really my type.” She grinned at me. “Just checking to make sure, though. It’s nice to feel that everything is, well, fair.”

I got that, and was glad and a little surprised that she had the discretion not to say all that in front of Talos.

Xyla gestured to Talos. “Come on, I’ll show you. You may look, but don’t touch.”

“How can I move logs if I don’t touch?” Talos asked.

“I meant me,” she said, wiggling her hips. “Ready?”

“Ah,” said Talos. “Of course. You’re beautiful, you know.”

“Yes,” Xyla said. “I know.”

I stood next to Valeria and watched them disappear in the trees.

“She’ll be okay,” Valeria said. “I have talked to Talos, and while I did not give him details because I promised not to tell, he understands that you have something here that needs to be protected. There is no more noble calling for a paladin than to protect others.”

“Even killing evil necromancers?”

“Even that,” Valeria said. “Although it’s close.”

I chuckled.

“When you were kissing Xyla, that was beautiful.”

I looked at her, surprised.

“So much love,” she continued. “So much affection. And of course your bodies are pleasing to the eye. If a necromancer can be not evil – can even be good – I suppose that two women together can be good, too.”

I smiled. “Gren and Xyla bring me a great deal of joy,” I said. “Not just as lovers, but as people who share this journey with me.”

“You’re going somewhere?”

“Metaphorical journey. The journey of life.”

“Ah,” she said. “Now I also share the journey with you.”

“Yes.”

We stood, quietly for a moment, and then finally she said, “With Talos free, maybe it would be safest if you tied me up.”

“Safest how?”

“I don’t know,” she admitted.

“You enjoy it.”

“I –”

“It’s okay, Valeria.”

“Yes, Abby. And I’m a little worried you trust me so much that you won’t tie me up again.”

I shook my head. “No, I’ll tie you up just because you enjoy it. But I’m afraid I’m not really skilled at it. There are people who can do amazing things with rope.”

She smiled at me shyly. “Perhaps you just need practice.”

I shrugged. “I can do it, and I will, but it’s not really my passion.”

“What’s your passion?”

I could have told her repairing houses, or building things, or adding value, but I didn’t think that was where she was going. “I think just having a woman in my arms who wants to be there, and is there of her own free will.”

“Oh,” she said.

I let things sit a little while, and then turned back toward the crypt. “I have a shipment of lumber coming today,” I said. “Would you mind helping me and Gren unload it?”

“Of course not,” Valeria said. “Of my own free will, hmm? You know, Abby, there are times I wish you were a little more evil. Not a lot, just a little.”