Burgeonie, spoke quietly with Silvonia.
"Silvy, do you ever look at your Guard?"
Her friend looked confused.
The two noblewomen were having a light lunch together in the sanctity of Burgeonie's fortified mansion. Burgeonie, at least, was confined to the house for the entire day by necessity. Her Bodyguard, Baynor, had his day of leave. And Silvy's Guard had gone with him. And the two Noblewomen friends had arranged to spend the day together in their Warriors' absence.
Burgeonie was required to allow Baynor to leave whenever he requested absence, to serve his needs, but she didn't mind. It gave her the chance to speak of something forbidden with her best friend. Something to do with him.
Burgeonie could talk of him now only because Baynor was with the Warrior Whores, having his needs satisfied by many women, as was custom for the Warrior kind.
Silvy looked perplexed, wondering what Burgeonie was getting at.
"Well, no. I have never looked. But it's forbidden for them to look at us. So I just assumed always I did right by the Warriors to not look at them."
Burgeonie blushed, not knowing quite how to broach this delicate subject with her friend. She tried a different angle.
"Have you not ever watched yours while he bathes? As he sleeps? When you take a lover to bed?" Burgeonie stared hard at Silvy, willing her to understand what she feared she could not simply say.
"Burgeonie, their beliefs and their code are sacred. I am ever grateful my Warrior protects me. I respect his way of life. Why do you ask?"
Burgeonie sighed. She'd have to come out and say it. She believed she could trust her oldest friend not to speak of it to anyone else, but still, old habits die hard and they were taught from birth to keep the classes segregated, in life, in deed, in word and in thought. The Warrior class, of all classes, believed in this code with all their strength and heart. It helped them to focus so they could do their jobs.
Taking a deep breath, Burgeonie just plunged straight in.
"I... My Guard is beautiful," she spoke, softly, reverently. "When we met, I saw the most lovely man I have ever seen. But apart from that, I saw something else,
felt
and
heard
something. In his eyes, there was such
hunger
. In his voice, such buried yearning. I think that he loves me."
Silvonia was openly shocked, her mouth hanging open wide.
"Tell me details," she smiled, betraying her own secret curiosity of the strict Warrior men.
Burgeonie looked pained, as if what she spoke of was so sacred, that to utter words would be to sully it.
But finally, she said, "I was so struck by his beauty and the discordance of longing in his soul, that I peeked while we bathed."
Silvonia's brows hit the roof.
"Oh, Silvy. His body is poetry in motion, his muscles are sculpted like an angel, powerful and perfect. His face reflects the beauty of Heaven above. And... I looked at his manhood."
Silvonia gasped.
"Tell me of the Warrior's sword. Oh I'm
dying
to know. I've heard such stories."
Burgeonie rolled her eyes at her friend, but secretly she was greatly relieved to be able to confide in her.
Burgeonie swallowed, closing her eyes as she remembered the sight of her Warrior's naked body and penis. Her body fluttered involuntarily, responding to the memory of glimpsing her own virile example of masculine power.
"It is magnificent. It hangs the length of my forearm, as thick around as my wrist. His sac is heavy, like plums. The cap of his weapon is sleek, like a helmet. And... I have seen it in readiness."
Silvonia's eyes lit up.
"Tell me all of it, in detail."
Burgeonie worried at her lower lip with her teeth.
"Well, when it is engorged, its color blushes to deep pink. It grows in size and stiffens, stretching up high and bowing when he walks. Dewy beads of fluid seeped from its slit. While we bathed, when he thought I was not looking, I saw him grip the shaft in his fist and rub it."
Burgeonie demonstrated the graceful pumping motion of primal male self-pleasure.
"He realized it not, but he groaned aloud.
Ohh
, the sound! It made me wet for him."
"I can imagine. Tell me, have you taken a lover to bed with Baynor?"
Silvy referred to the rule that the Warrior's charges may not ever be left alone, unguarded, not even during intimate couplings.
"Yes. Just once. Baynor looked pained with emotion and his tool bulged in his breeches. Silvy, would it be terribly wrong to ease him? I
want
to feel his maleness. I
want
to satisfy my warrior."
----
The warmth of the water seeped into Baynor's muscles.
He didn't feel aches or pains really but the heat was soothing anyway, and Burgeonie desperately needed the bath to get warm.
He had placed her in the hot pool after carefully removing her clothes, averting his eyes the whole time.
Bodyguards did not mean anything to their Charges, as the law was taught. Guards were there for protection only. And so Baynor pushed aside his own desire to protect his beautiful Charge from the chill of Death himself.
When he'd removed his own clothes and slipped into the large hot bath pool beside her, it was business only. Be near your Charge at all times. Those were the rules.
So he lay on his side facing Burgeonie and tried to enjoy the bath as he waited for her to awaken.
In the four years since he'd been pledged to protect her, he'd been naked with her many times, in bed with her many times, and not one stray thought, not one furtive glance, and definitely no inappropriate touch. That was the code.
He'd been diligent in all aspects of his job. Except one.
Bodyguards were not supposed to care for their Charges.
And he hadn't before. His previous Charges were all business arrangements. He hardly remembered what they looked like, so much he'd avoided looking at them, as was proper.
You don't get emotionally involved. It throws off your instincts and skills. And besides, the Charge should feel like they are always alone.
He'd been in bedrooms dozens of times while his Charges had sexual intercourse, as part of the furniture, though he could hear the liquid sounds of sex, the grunts and groans of fucking, smell the musky scent.
He'd been in showers while they bathed, bathing himself. Ignored by the Charge and ignoring.
But not Burgeonie.