As Phillipe bent down to kiss her still wet lips he suddenly became a unicorn, or at least that's how it looked to Clarisse. A horn seemed to grow out of his forehead. She screamed as she realised it was in fact the tip of a sword that had been plunged into the back of his head. As she watched, horrified, his eyes grew dim and he collapsed across her kneeling body. She screamed as hot blood coursed over her bared breasts.
Unknown hands pulled the body away and threw it to one side. Phillipe's assailant withdrew his sword with a sickening sucking sound.
He ran the sword through his glove to clean it of blood then replaced it in its scabbard.
He walked over to Clarisse
"Please Monsieur" She wept, terrified, "Please don't kill me!"
" He leant down, grabbed her shoulder and hauled her to her feet.
" Sorry to break up your party" He said " But these are my woods! Anything and anyone that strays into them either dies or belongs to me! Now your friend there died.." As quick as a flash she felt the point of a stiletto knife prick her throat.
"..You gets a choice!"
"You" She gasped "I belong to you!"
" Ah How sweet! It must be my uncommon good looks! Right get walking! That way!" He pushed her in the direction of the heart of the forest and away from the road.
They walked for what seemed like hours. Clarisse had somehow managed to tie up the ripped ends of her bodice to cover most of her breasts but by now modesty was the least of her worries. She had lost her pretty little court shoes some kilometres back and she good feel blood oozing from her blistered feet.
"Stop!" she raised her eyes from the ground to find herself in a little clearing. The dawn's early rays lit up a small timber hut at the far edge.
"That's my place! A few basic rules before we get there. What I says goes. What Beth says goes. That's it. On you go!
" Monsieur.. Your accent.. It is strange!"
" Oh yeah. One more thing. From now on you speak English!"
"Mais..."
"English! Frog hurts my ears! On!" They covered the last hundred yards to the hut. As they approached, its crude front door opened and an attractive woman came out tucking an errant strand of blond hair behind a pretty ear.
"What you got there Tom?"
"Aristo being damn near raped back by the Calais road!"
"Bastards! What's your name love?" She smiled kindly
"Clarisse!" Well you comes with me! Looks like you could do with a hot drink!"
In the small, but warm and comfortable, hut Clarisse learnt the odd couple's story. Tom had been a sailor in the British Royal navy. After a contretemps with a bullying boson (Which the boson lost along with his life) Tom had had to run away. He'd got word to his wife Beth and she had, by a circuitous route, joined him here in these woods where they had lived for the last six months. Strangely, the revolution had made things safer for them. The republic didn't take kindly to armed British marines searching the French countryside for runaways.
Beth was so sympathetic to Clarisse's tale of flight and assault by her groom that she found herself telling her about her strange feelings of desire during her forced pleasuring of Phillipe.
"Bless you child!" laughed Beth "Them's just a normal eighteen year old's desires!"