This story is intented for adults only. It is only a fantasy and should never be anything else. The author in no ways condones non-consensual sex.
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I'd like to thank LadyCibelle for editing this story and helping with characters etc...
I'd like to thank some very good friends of mine for helping with the names to make them sound somewhat authentic.
This story is set in a fantasy world which is supposed to be like the Iron Age (i.e. no gunpowder, no steampower etc..), but with a few alterations of my own. If you want to get a mental picture of the characters and places described, this is pretty much how I figured it:
Ipiros = ancient Greece
Ibuku = ancient Japan
Vladuis = not a country, but think gypsies
Nordland = Scandinavia (like Vikings and stuff)
Khalib = Arabia
Whantabi = Africa (kinda)
(I might add a few later)
CHAPTER 1: THE JOURNEY BEGINS
It was a beautiful day. Spring had come at last throughout all of Iporos, and the sun warmed the dirt road on which Mary was walking. There wasn't another soul on the road, and Mary was glad about that, because she wasn't really an Iporosian, she was half Vladu?ic?, half NordlΓ€ndare and even though she had lived in Ipiros all her life, and she had a Nordlandic name, she really looked like a Vladu?ic?, and Vladu?is were looked down on by most people. Mary definitely didn't mind not having people pointing at her and whispering things to each other all the time.
She had never really had much contact with anyone except her own parents and her sister, so she didn't like big crowds. Vladu?is lived in their wagons, moving around all the time, so when Mary's mother had settled down in Ipiros with Mary's father, she'd pretty much lost touch with her family. Therefore, Mary had never had many friends, and no relatives. She wasn't used to being around people and often got nervous, and then she'd wind up trying to hide in some corner. She'd never even been in a real city, only in her little home village.
She looked back one more time to see if they were still there. And there they stood, her mother, a woman who had once been beautiful, and Mary's sister, an eight year old girl who, you could already tell, was going to be just as beautiful one day. They were her whole family; her father had died last year from pneumonia and that was the reason Mary had to leave them. She was going to the capital to go look for a job so that she could support her family. She felt good about it though, she had heard so many wonderful things about the capital, Volos. It was, in fact, the second largest city in the world, only Yubinaka, in the far of land of Ibuku, was bigger. Mary had heard from the families of girls who had left for Volos that it was a city where a smart girl could really make things happen; most of the girls who moved there sent home quite a lot of money to their families almost every month, and Mary thought she was a smart girl, a smart and pretty girl. People would often turn around and look at her when she was in the village, and they'd say things like: "isn't she cute? For a Vladu?ic?, I mean," and many of the boys would look twice at her. But nobody wanted their son to marry a Vladu?ic? so despite the fact that the usual age for girls to marry at was sixteen, Mary had never even had any vowers. But today she looked even prettier than normal, she thought to herself. She was dressed in her best clothes: a plain white skirt which reached her almost to the ankles and her finest blouse, the blue one without sleeves. Her mother had decided Mary couldn't show herself in "the big city" dressed in her ordinary working clothes, so since Mary only had one "nice" outfit, and couldn't carry more than she already was, she'd have to walk with it on all the way to Veria. Her long dark hair was tied up in a ponytail though, for convenience, but Mary's mother had given her strict instructions to let it out when she got to Volos, so she would always look her best while looking for work.
She had walked for almost three hours when a cart pulled up beside her. It scared her so much she almost fell in the ditch that ran along the road. She had heard horrible stories about bandits roaming the countryside out here. After a while she dared to look up at the man sitting in the cart. He was a big man, whose arms were almost as thick as Mary's thighs, but he didn't look like a bandit or anything. He was probably in his early forties and around 195 cm tall; next to Mary's 157 cm he looked like a giant. But he was not only tall, he was also a very big man with broad shoulders and muscular arms and legs and a bearded face that looked like it had seen the entire world, even though he had probably never been more than thirty miles from his home village. "Where are you goin' little girl?" He asked her in a friendly voice.
"I'm going to Volos, sir," she answered timidly. She always adressed her elders as "sir" or "ma'am."
"Well, then I can give you a ride to Veria, from there it's just four miles to Volos."
"That would be very nice of you, sir."
"Then hop aboard, little girl."
"Thank you."
With that he took her hand and helped her get up on the coachbox beside him. She was still not convinced he wasn't a bandit, or worse, but she thought he might be offended if she didn't accept his offer, and her feet were already aching. "Name's Janos," he said.
"I'm Mary, it's nice to meet you," she said nervously.
"You too."
When they had been riding for a few hours Janos suddenly put one of his big hands on Mary's thigh. She moved away from him a little, but he just followed her. Then she moved alittle more and he followed her and so they kept on going untill she reached the end of the coachbox and couldn't move any further. She was very afraid now, but the cart was moving pretty fast, so she couldn't jump off. All she could do was sit there while Janos groped her thigh. "See the smoke over there?" He asked her.
"Y...yes, she answered," voice trembling with fear.
"Well, that's Veria, and that's as far as I'm goin'."
She didn't know what to say, so she just remained silent for the rest of the trip. All the while he was pinching and stroking her thigh, but she was too afraid to do anything about it.
It was getting dark when they finally entered Veria. It was a reasonably large city, it even had a city wall, and it was by far the largest city Mary had ever been in. She was a little anxious; she always was when she was around a lot of people. "So, where's a little girl like you planning to sleep?" Janos asked her, "I reckon you ain't got much money."
"I've got seven drachmas, sir," she answered politely, "I thought I could stay the night at one of the inns."
"Oh, but I don't know if I think it'd be nice of me to leave a little girl like you all by herself in this big, scary city."
"I'll be alright sir. Thank you for the ride and..."
She stopped as the big man grabbed her arm and said in a low, frightening voice: "Now come with me Mary, you shouldn't have to wander these dangerous streets alone at night. There are rapists and murderers and even worse out there. Wouldn't it feel safer to come with me?"