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Tamsyn - 3
by Realoldbill (address withheld)
***
Our young heroine is troubled by the local bishop's
demands for money and visits and lies with her liege
lord to seek his help but is captured and tortured on
her way home. (MMf, nc, rp, v)
***
PART 3: Clerical Problems
The young lady of the manor was breaking her fast with
her two favorites; Gregory, the captain of her much
depleted guard force who had been out among the
tenants trying to recruit a few young men; and Roth,
the brave knight she had inherited from the Grant
estate by dint of helping to rid the old duchess of
her foul son. She now enjoyed them alternately, much
to their satisfaction as well as her own. The
sprightly girl, still not twenty years of age, was so
demanding in bed that a day of rest between multiple
couplings was of great benefit to the men concerned.
As the young woman chewed her roasted venison from
last night's supper, sipped her mead and dipped bread
into a bowl of oil, she considered a large sheet of
rolled parchment which had been delivered by a monk on
a donkey and sealed with wax and ribbons. It was,
obviously, an ornate and illuminated form with the
date, her family's name and estate filled into the
blanks and in it lay the local bishop's demand to know
why her annual tithe had not been paid and when
payment could be expected. Threats were added,
including damnation and excommunication, almost as an
afterthought. Tamsyn studied the signatures and wiped
her lips, amused as well as annoyed.
"Fetch me the green ledger from the library," she said
to Gregory, and then smiled and added, "please," a
word she had seldom used before her father's murder
and her insane brother's gory demise. Tamsyn, when she
thought about, realized she had been a spoiled and
headstrong child, but she did not think about the past
very often.
The huge tome was produced, Tamsyn found the right
page, and pursed her lips. The previous year, her
father had indeed paid about ten one-hundredth of his
income to the church and into the hands of Bishop
Alfred, whose scrawled signature stood at the bottom
of the fancy parchment she had received. "Bring that
monk up here," she said to Roth, and then with a
blood-warming smile, "if you please." The young knight
had been most diligent between her legs the previous
evening and, she noted with a small smile, had a bit
of a limp today. Her own insides, she was becoming
aware, were still recovering from her foul torture
which was now some six weeks past.
The knight summoned the poor mendicant who was still
at his meal of gruel and cider in the back of the hall
where the dogs usually lay. Tamsyn finished lacing up
her crimson corset, raked back her dark hair, sat him
down beside her, offered him some bread and meat, and
then pointed at the page with her dining blade. "Do
you see this, reverend father?" she said.
"No, no," he interjected, "I am but a poor brother,
and a novice at that."
"Then see here, brother, what my father got from his
tenants last year. There and there. Right?"
"I cannot read, my lady," the scruffy man said.
Tamsyn studied him and tried to ignore his stale
smell. She wondered when he or his clothes had last
been washed. "I will tell you then. Can you remember?"
He nodded rapidly. "Oh yes, my lady."
"Well then," she tried to think of equivalents since
the manor's income was in bushels of grain, haunches
of cured beef, pork and venison, reeves of dead birds,
kegs of beer and wine and strings of smoked hams for
the most part. No money was involved, neither gold nor
silver, not pounds or ducats, florins or royals,
farthings or pence. Tamsyn closed her eyes, took a
deep breath and said, "Perhaps the equal of twenty
English pounds, gold coin you understand, nothing
clipped, in shillings perhaps four hundred. Twenty
then was his income so two was his tithe. Understand?"
The man nodded, counting on his fingers. Tamsyn was
well aware that her father's income had been much
greater and that it had been gathered in at other
places and in other barns where the bishop's agents
would not find it. The demesne itself had fed the
manor but that was not considered income.
The apprentice monk nodded and Tamsyn flipped pages.
"Now here is this year just past, these totals, our
true account which I have reported. Note please, sir,
income, nil, just a few token sheaves of corn, tokens,
naught but symbols, a small flask of weak beer." She
tapped the page with her blade. "The drought, sir
monk, and the troubles that spread across the land
from the uprising in Dover in the spring and in Wales
later not to mention the Scottish disaster in the
fall, just at harvest time when the fires raged as you
will recall."
The monk nodded, showing his bare tonsure and dirty
scalp. He looked not to have shaved for a week, and
Tamsyn wondered if his order did not include a
surgeon-barber.
"So," said Tamsyn patiently, "what is a tenth of
naught, eh?" She paused but he only stared. "Naught is
the answer. Tell the lord bishop that the
Westcombridge keep will, I hope, pay next year after
the harvest and pay its rightful tithe in full."
The man licked his lips and looked at the lovely girl
with dull eyes, unblinking.
"Please repeat my message," she said.
"Last year was good and you paid your proper share.
This year was bad and you have nothing to pay for
nothing is due."
"Fair enough," the girl said and dug an old silver
penny from her leather purse, a dinarius, and handed
it to the man. "This is for your trouble."
He bowed and departed, a crust of bread in his hand,
leaving his smell behind.
"Do you know this bishop?" she asked Roth.
He shook his head. "I've seen him, in his fancy robes
and gored sleeves, his decorated alb, slippered and
barbered, always with his fancy staff in his hand. He
is, they say, planning to build his own cathedral." He
stopped, considered, and continued. "I have heard that
he prefers young boys' asses."
"I thought that time had passed; the cathedral
building I mean," said the young woman, holding back
her smile. "Hasn't the land enough churches? Every
village has at least one."
The knight shrugged, feeling himself beginning to be
aroused as usual when he was near his mistress.
"How goes the drainage work?" she asked Gregory. "You
were out there in the new assart for a long time
yesterday."
And so, they all assumed, the question of the tithe
was settled.
A month after the letter from the bishop, the portly
man himself arrived in a sturdy carriage pulled by
four horses, unexpected and unannounced. He came
through Tamsyn's open portal along with a train of
servants, guards and supporters numbering, her gateman
told her, more than a dozen. Tamsyn was in her library
and hurriedly put on her good kirtle and bodice, raked
her dark hair into place with two combs and tied it
back, slipped into her soft boots with their fancy
tops and went down to the hall where the lordly
bishop, his meek secretary and two robed priests
waited, all four looking peevish and impatient.
"Where is the lord of the manor?" the bishop's thin-
nosed secretary asked when Tamsyn swirled in followed
by her knight, his huge sword at his side, his high
boots shining and cod piece tightly cinched. Her guard
captain was off after some poachers, and Roth had
served her within the hour, a refreshing tumble at
mid-morning that had left both of them breathing hard.
"I am Tamsyn, this is my keep," said the proud girl,
lifting her chin and swallowing a smile. "Duchess of
Westcombridge is my title, sir. This is my land, my
home, my inheritance. And who are you?"
"This is his excellency, Bishop Alfred," the
pantalooned man said with a bow and a wave, "and I am
John Bosely, his scribner or secretary. This is Father
Ralph and that is Deacon Ignatius of the diocesan
treasury, a holy monk as you can see. We are riding a
circuit, you might say, visiting many manors and
keeps, plus a few minor castles and kirks. Collecting
the tithe, the overdue tithe."
"And to what do I owe this honor for I have no tithe
to pay. I fear our hospitality is limited, but I can
offer you some of our new wine and bowls of pottage."
Tamsyn looked from man to man and saw that they were a
sour looking bunch. She wondered what they had
expected and stood up a bit straighter, lifting her
chin and narrowing her eyes, in control of both her
breathing and her temper.
"We had been told," said John Bosely, "that the
duchess of Westcombridge was a whore and that her
estate was in rebellion and allied with the Scots or
perhaps a rebellious clan. Is this not so?"
Tamsyn took a deep breath and moved around to sit on
the dais and behind her dining table so that she put
all the men, including the haughty bishop, a foot or
so below her. She sat and clasped her hands on the
tabletop, holding her seething temper in check,
knowing her cheeks had reddened.
"Did you get my message about tithing," she asked,
looking directly at the bishop's florid face. "I told
that smelly monk you sent."
His secretary answered. "We did, but your response, if
it was yours, is not satisfactory. We are building a
cathedral and need money, lady, coin, gold. We have
been told your father hoarded his wealth, concealed
it."
Tamsyn took a deep breath and licked her lips. Her
late father's hoarded wealth, as far as money was
concerned, had consisted of two Spanish gold pieces of
uncertain worth which his daughter had used for his
wake, his burial and his so-far undecorated stone.
"Fetch my strong box," she said to Roth, omitting her
now common, "please."
"There is," she said directly and coldly to the
bishop, ignoring the others, "no truth in any of what
you believe, what you may have heard from my enemies,
perhaps from my murderous brother's foul friends. He
had many of those, sycophants. I am not a whore. This
is not a house of pleasure or of sinfulness. This is
my rightful land. We are, I hope, a godly people. I
have pledged to my late father's liege lord, the Earl
of Winchester in Hampshire, as best I can, in writing,
my perfect fealty. We are and have always been loyal
to the house of Plantagenet, to King Edward, and
neither my father nor I have any hoarded wealth." Roth
appeared with the small, iron-bound box and sat it
down. Tamsyn opened it was a tiny key on his cincture
and dumped out its contents. Two pieces of paper and
some dust fell to the table.
"The papers," she said with a small smile, "are
promises to pay from two of my oldest tenants, to pay
last year's rent in one case and two years in the
other. He broke his leg in the spring."
The bishop stood, banged his ornate crosier down on
the stones and said, quite loudly and spraying
spittle, "I do not bargain with corrupt women. Why
have you no man here, a chamberlain at least?"
"My brother is but of ten years, lord bishop, barely
that, and in school with the holy nuns," said Tamsyn
with a wave toward the distant convent on the moors.
"The last lord, my father, was slain by his son, who
was, we assume, possessed, and I killed him, my
father's murderer, and thus by succession made myself
lord of this land, of this manor."
"Impossible," said the bishop, his voice rising.
"Arrest her. She killed her liegelord, her own
brother, the rightful heir; foul fratricide shall not
go unpunished in this realm. It is just as I have been
told. The holy inquisition shall have the truth from
her." He made a smile like a grimace. "It is the
flames for you, foul bitch."
The two priests in their long cassocks approached
Tamsyn who stood where she was, behind the long table
with the overturned box on it, her hand at her ivory-
handled dining knife, her gorge rising. Roth stepped
down to the stone floor, drew his wide blade with a
hiss of steel and held it across his body diagonally,
his teeth bared as he faced the clergymen, smiling.
The priests stopped, looked at the bishop and backed
up a step or two.
"Arrest her. He won't kill an anointed priest and go
to hell. Grab her." The bishop pointed and cried
loudly, his wattles shaking.
"I am her knight, m'lord bishop, properly sworn. I
will protect my lady with my life," said Roth clearly.
He did not smile as he pointed his big blade at the
robed man, but he showed his teeth.
"You will not only burn in hell, woman," cried the
bishop, pointing at Tamsyn with a shaking finger, "I
will have you burned at the stake after I impale you.
You are anathema, unclean. Come, we are leaving." The
bishop pulled his decorated robes about his portly
frame and stalked toward the doorway. Tamsyn, followed
by Roth, hurried and got there before him.
"Lord bishop," she said. "This is unjust. I demand an
inquiry, a hearing. I have done nothing wrong."
"You are a foul woman, a whore, and I have already
denounced you," he cried, reaching out his hand to
push her aside. Roth stepped between them, his sword
in his long scabbard but his hand on its hilt.
"You will die with her, knight. I'll peel the flesh
from your bones, both of you," snarled the bishop as
he turned aside and stomped out into the sunlight,
called his retinue together and they left quickly in
their carriage and on horseback.
"Well," said Roth, watching the dust cloud blow away
at the gate, "it was getting rather dull around here."
"Come," said the furious young woman, "my blood is
aboil. You must soak the heat from me with your thick
rod before I explode."
Roth followed her up the winding steps to her bedroom
where they both disrobed quickly, watching each other
with some eagerness and then leapt up on her high bed
and joined their hungry bodies. Roth lunged into her
and she arched her limber back and wound her legs
about his muscular middle. He came quickly, excited by
the arguments in the dining hall, and Tamsyn rolled
him over, pushed herself up on his loins, smacked his
flanks loudly and rode him like her stallion until
they both were sated and lay together, puffing and
gasping.
"We must be serious about his," she said to his hairy
chest while his big hands stroked her and his spent
male member quivered within her.
"Yes, he has threatened to burn you," Roth whispered
as he kneaded her firm buttocks and felt her hard
nipples on his ribs.
"I will visit the earl. You must come with me and Greg
can manage here."
"Danger may lurk on the way. He had three men-of-arms
with him, pike men, and a cross-bow as well."
Tamsyn kissed his nipples and then his belly before
she kissed his limp cock and nuzzled his swollen
balls.
"You know I'm spent after what we did last night and
this morning," said Roth as the girl nibbled on his
foreskin and licked his cockhead. He trembled and
moaned.
"Of course you are, poor man," she said and then she
tongued his swelling member into her warm mouth and
sucked him hard in a minute or two.
Roth then took his lady from behind while she grasped
the top of her high bed, and he held her smooth hips
and hammered into her, long strokes, over and over.
His fatigue vanished in lust as he made the bed rock
with his hip action and half-foot thrusts.
"I'm dying," he cried as her young body grasped at his
striving ram each time he tried to withdraw. In-out,
in-out, in-out, she was tireless and he was spent.
"Then die, but first drive deeper, deeper, deeper."
Tamsyn wriggled like a snake on his thick spit.
The knight fluttered his fingers across her mound as
he humped, his muscles afire, and she arched and
climaxed on his thrusting phallus just before he
ejaculated into her ruined depths with a cry of
relief.
And so within the week Tamsyn and her knight traveled
south on decent roads, some left from the time of the
Romans, to see the Earl of Westminster. They arrived
at his flint stone castle with its wide bailey and
single turret at high noon on the second day after
spending the night in a good inn and exhausting each
other under a swaying canopy. The Earl chose to see
them almost at once in his high ceilinged great hall
with a mosaic floor of colored stone. He was a tall
man with a sardonic look on his pitted face and there
were many papers on the table before him. His clothes,
for the most part, were dun colored and his shoes
soft.
"Tamsyn of Westcombridge," he said as one of his aides
handed it a thin book with a silk marker in it. "You
wrote that both your father and your brother had gone
on to their rewards."
"Yes, m'lord," said the girl, still down on one knee.
Her knight stayed at the back of the hall hung with
banners and watched. He had never been in such a place
and was awed by the richness he observed.
"Just so," said the earl. "And why are you here?"
"To swear fealty in person and to beg a boon, a favor
shall it please you," said Tamsyn, rising at his
gesture. Except for her long skirt, she looked quite
boyish with a bright sash across her bodice.
"Why have you not married? You are surely of age,"
said the earl, stroking his hairy cheeks while he
turned a few pages. "Send for the young viscount."
"After my mother's death, sire, my father kept me at
home as his hostess and to manage the estate since my
older brother was, well, he was profligate, a wastrel.
When my father came to serve you, as he did twice,
once for nearly two years, I was in charge most of the
time although I was barely weaned; my brother at
games, at play, often in France I believe."
The earl nodded. "My son, my youngest son, has been
seeking a bride for some time. I have offered him
several girls, but he has rejected them for various
reasons, mainly vanity I suspect. Ah, here he is."
In strode a slight young man in a fancy doublet and
hose with a large codpiece embroidered with
multicolored flowers that was the size of a man's
fist. He bowed to his father and glanced at Tamsyn.
"Tamsyn of Westcombridge, this is the Viscount William
of Westminster. How old are you, boy? My memory fails
me these days."
"Fourteen, sir," he said politely, making a leg.
"Old enough. I wed your mother when I was but twelve.
Would you like to marry this young woman?"
The boy blinked at her. "She is very fair, father."
The earl smiled. "Indeed. Were I younger, I might have
her for mine own. How would you like her for a step-
mother, eh?" He slapped his thigh and laughed.
"My liege," said Tamsyn quietly, "I have sworn an oath
not to marry before my brother is of age." She
invented this on the spot, but had considered the lie
previously when pressed to marry.
"What kind of oath?" asked the earl, looking puzzled
if not angry. "Chastity, celibacy? Explain."
Tamsyn licked her lips. "No sire, simply to keep my
single state until I am no longer needed by my late
father's land, his manor. That is until my brother can
do the job."
The Earl nodded. "And your reasons?"
"A married woman is surely her husband's chattel, my
liege, his serf as it were. I do not wish that state.
I am your vassal but serve no one else except God. And
then there is the church, of course, which does not
grant woman any status, surely not on the same level
as men."
"This is true, very true," said the earl. 'Well,
William, will you have her if she wishes, would you
like to have Mistress Westcombridge here as your wife
and take charge of her land?"
Tamsyn was disturbed but held her tongue, turning to
stare at the youngster who was obviously in some pain
and embarrassment.
The boy shook his head. "She is too pretty, sir. I
could not keep her, I fear."
"By damn me, the lad is smarter than I thought. You
are dismissed, back to your lessons. Lady Tamsyn, you
were asking a favor, or about to do so." The earl was
now much more relaxed for some reason. He pushed his
book and some papers aside.
'Yes m'lord. Bishop Alfred has banned me, named me
anathema and threatened to burn me at the stake."
"I know him, a slight popinjay, well buffeted I
supposed. What brought this about?"
"We did not pay a tithe last year because of the
drought and the troubles across our land. He is
anxious to have a cathedral."
"Nothing?" asked the earl, flipping pages in the slim
book where he had found her name.
Tamsyn shook her head. "My father's accounts showed no
income so he paid no tithe."
"It was a bad year. I will take it up with the church
authorities and give you a paper, a bull of sorts,
stating that you are not to be tried or punished for
not paying your tithe if you pay this year. The church
is really beyond my reach, but I have some influence."
Tamysn smiled and curtsied. "So I have heard. Thank
you, my lord."
"Will you dine with us?" the smiling man asked. "And
rest here this evening?'
"Thank you again. My knight, Roth is his name, is with
me. I assume he is also welcome." Tamsyn turned and
smiled at the man who stood about twenty yards away.
He bowed to the earl.
And so they stayed and they dined with Tamsyn at the
Earl's left hand, sharing his trencher now and again,
and Roth out with the other young knights in the hall.
Viscount William sat at his father's right, looking
sullen. The banter was light and Tamsyn was at ease,
her cup never left empty by the servants. When the
meal was done; the earl rose, took Tamsyn by the elbow
and led her up a winding stair to his large bedroom.
Roth did not even see them leave since he was dallying
with one of the serving girls who seemed unable to
keeps her bulbous charms within her loosely laced
corset and open blouse.
As he shed his doublet and pulled his long-sleeved
shirt over his head to revel some colorful scars, the
earl said with a laugh, "I was very happy to hear you
had not sworn chastity for you are a very comely woman
and have roused my long dormant lust. My son was
right. He could not have kept you, and I might well
have betrayed him with you if I could."
"Oh I doubt that, milord," the girl said lightly as
she tossed her outer dress on a chair and loosed her
mob of dark hair with a toss of her head. "I have very
sharp teeth and long nails. Were I your son's wife, no
other man would occupy my bed without a fight."
Shed of his shoes and breeches, the earl came and
gathered up Tamsyn, still in her shift, and took her
to his bed, his thick cock flopping about before him.
He was a lover of long experience and a patient man so
that by the time their bodies were joined they were
both more than ready for their pleasure, indeed eager
for it.
"Yah," cried the earl as he entered the girl's tight
confines and bludgeoned his way deeply into her
squishy and cruelly violated depths with his stiff
manhood.
"Oh, my lord," Tamsyn cried as she rolled her pelvis
higher so he could plunge deeper still and wrapped her
legs about the earl's strong body, rocking to and fro
as they ground together.
"Um," gasped the earl as on his first withdrawal as
she grasped him tightly with muscles no woman had
shown him before, rippling along his stiff shaft, and
when he rammed, he found Tamsyn undulating on his
proud phallus, her whole body writhing with joy as her
legs spread open and lifted high.
"Ah, ah, ah," sobbed Tamsyn as she felt her flesh
being cleaved by his old but mighty rod. He was twice
her size and nearly three times her age, but a very
diligent and satisfying lover.
After that their grunts were matched and many, their
movements of a kind and arching fiercely. They rolled
over thrice in the big bed, and Tamsyn nearly fell off
the side before the earl pulled her up, turned her
over and reentered her from the back, both hands
filled with her wonderful young breasts as they leapt
like broaching dolphins.
"I feel it coming, my dear vassal. Are you ready?" the
earl announced as he slapped their flesh together and
his scrotum clasped itself to his thrusting shaft. "Do
you want my potent juices in you or shall I withdraw?"
"Deeper, deeper, sire," cried the girl. "Give it to
me, please, please."
He ejaculated and gasped in relief, something he had
not done for years, at his shattering and prolonged
climax. Immediately two of his retainers entered his
bedroom, swords drawn, but when they saw their lord
and master still at his game, his back bent, still
lancing the bare girl who lay kicking before him, they
withdrew, smiling at each other. When the earl was
spent and collapsed on Tamsyn, she wiggled free of his
embrace and cuddled next to his tired body, kissing
his ear and shoulder.
He rolled to his back and took a deep breath, "I am
emptied, spent, my dear," he said, his arm about the
girl's warm body, "but next door lies my son William,
who has probably been playing with himself as he
listened to us. I suspect you would likely frighten
him to death or send him to the priesthood tomorrow
should you attempt to lie with him." He sighed. "Your
brave knight, I was told, took two of the serving
girls to bed with him, so I suspect he is busy if not
exhausted for my girls are strong and hearty." He
patted the girl's back and kissed her forehead.
She kissed his chest and threw a leg over his groin,
kneeing his fat cock that lay inert and nerveless.
"But," he said, slapping her buttocks loudly, "If you
sleep a while and let me rest, we may yet enjoy each
other in the dawn. What say you?"
"William is a fine lad," said Tamsyn, swallowing her
chuckle. "I think I may go pay him a visit. I am much
in need of a man."
The earl held up the little finger of his left hand.
"His manhood is, I fear like that."
Tamsyn sniffed and kissed one of his nipples, her knee
now firmly kneading his cods. "But he looked very
brave."
"Oh he is," said the earl, petting her head as she
kissed his navel and swirled her tongue in it.
"S'bones. But his codpiece is stuffed with knit
stockings and old rags. Go easy there."
"Let us sleep then," said Tamsyn, mouthing his spent
cock and biting it gently, just gnawing, her hope
still alive. She was about to suck his limp penis into
her mouth when she heard an odd sound. She ran her
hand along the big man's bony chest to his neck and
mouth and found it open. He was snoring. Never, ever,
had Tamsyn had a man go to sleep while she was trying
to make love to him. She took a deep breath, smiled,
rolled over and stepped down off the high bed and used
the nightjar. Then she crawled back into the earl's
big bed and curled up on one corner, covered her naked
body and slept, reasonably pleased with herself.
Roosters woke her at first light, and Tamsyn stretched
and knew at once where she was and who lay beside her.
She turned toward the earl and studied his long,
barely covered frame. He showed no sign of an erection
and she was disappointed, but then, she told herself,
his hair was graying and his beard showed white at his
firm chin. She nuzzled his shoulder and let her
seeking hand slip over his belly and into his tangle
of bristly hair.
"Um," sighed the earl, still half asleep as the girl's
fingers reached his well-satisfied member.
After several minutes of diligent stroking and ball
kneading, Tamsyn concluded that the earl was not going
to rise as he had promised so she slipped from the
bed, found her clothes, dressed and went down to the
castle's kitchen where several woman and lads were
hard at work. An hour later, her treasured letter from
the earl safely in the bag at her side, Tamsyn and
Roth were well on the road toward home, both of them
enjoying the day and bantering with each other about
the night's carousing.
They spent another night in the same inn and enjoyed
each other to exhaustion and then were on the road
early, hoping to reach the manor while the sun was
high.
In a densely forested area where the road was poorly
maintained, they had to ride single file. Tamsyn
turned at a loud clacking sound just in time to see
the crossbow bolt emerge from her knight's chest. She
screamed as he tumbled from his horse and a heavy
fowlers' net engulfed her and pulled her from her
mount.
Roth struck the back of his head and lay motionless as
a half-dozen men appeared from the woods. The man with
the crossbow on his back climbed down from his perch.
His long bolt had entered high on the knight's left
shoulder and had broken the man's clavicle before
emerging in his front. The bowman decided to leave it
in him and climbed on the back of the wagon where
Tamsyn lay, her forearms bound behind her, admiring
her bare legs and fair face.
The bishop should we well pleased with this days work,
thought he, hoping he might have his turn on their
captive as the first of the bishop's men-at-arm
mounted the young woman, ignored her cries and curses,
and horsed her vigorously, grunting like a hog as he
held her long legs up on his shoulders.
When Roth awoke, he rolled over and vomited until his
heaves were dry, and then he sat up and tried to pull
the arrow from his chest. He almost fainted as his
broken collarbone was scraped by his efforts. So he
stood, leaning on a tree and became aware that his
sword was missing. He shook his head and wondered
where it and his mistress had gone. He used his right
hand to tuck his left into his jerkin and began
walking, pausing very half-hour or so, drinking from
the streams he crossed and bathing his wound which did
not seem to be bleeding any more. He arrived at the
manor when the moon was high and roused the sleepy
sentry with a kick.
While Roth's wounds were tended after the crossbow
bolt was cut and withdrawn from his back, the way it
had entered him, his mistress lay huddled on the floor
of an almost airless stone cell under the croft of the
bishop's manse. She had been viciously raped by four
men on the floor of the jouncing wagon that brought
her from the forest and had received neither food nor
water. She slept fitfully, worried about the future
and very sore, her thighs bruised deeply.
In the morning, with her bodice torn open and her
skirts stained with several men's spend, she stood
before the smiling bishop in his library, her hands
still bound behind her.
"What is this?" he demanded, waving the earl's letter
at her.
"A message from my liege, the Earl of Westminster,"
she said, purposely omitting the honorifics he
expected.
The bishop rolled the letter back up, handed it to his
secretary and said, "Burn it."
Tamsyn sighed, licked her parched lips and controlled
her emotions, both her anger and her fear.
"We are awaiting a friend of mine, a Spanish priest
skilled in the ways of the holy inquisition. He should
be here in a day or two. I'm sure you will not mind
waiting and entertaining some of my men. Let's take
her outside to the post." The bishop rose, smiling.
Tamsyn was led out the side door and across the yard
to a thick post from which chains and manacles
dangled. Her hands were untied and then lifted over
her head and her wrists clamped to the chains.
"Bosely,' said the bishop, "since her capture was your
good idea, would you like to start?"
Smiling, the man stepped before Tamsyn, pursed his
lips, and said, "Strip her." Tamsyn could see that he
was sexually aroused.
Her new jacket, fancy shirt and linen chemise were
quickly cut and torn from her and her good shift lay
in shreds on her hips. The girl leaned back against
the rough post, her mind on her thirst as the bishop's
lean secretary produced a long quirt of the type used
by wagon drivers which he slapped loudly against his
boot. He bowed to the bishop for whom a chair had been
produced and then, standing five or six feet away,
slashed the girl across the face with his first blow.
Tamsyn cried out in surprise as her cheek split open.
He whipped her young breasts, both left and right,
aiming for her prominent nipples and then, when she
twisted away, flailed at her back and shoulders,
forehand and back hand until he stopped, panting for
breath and the bishop, said, "Well done, enough.
Deacon, have you a whip for this apostate?"
"Indeed, sir, I brought it from my room, a cat of
ancient lineage, its knots tied by my grandsire." He
showed the bishop the many-tailed whip.
Tamsyn thought her knees were going to fail her, and
she would then hang from her hands. Her body pulsed
with injuries and seemed afire in places. She felt
hands at her hips and then her skirts were pulled down
and fell to her feet. She took a deep breath and stood
tall, eyes closed, her back pressed to the wooden
post.
"This whip," said the deacon, after turning the girl
about, "was made for an ass like that." He patted
Tamsyn's smooth butt, his penis rigid. He then slashed
at the Tamsyn's buttocks until his arm grew weary and
bright blood was running down her legs. Tamsyn bit her
lip until it also bled and refused to cry out as her
rounded buttocks were lined with cuts and welts.
"Let her hang so the flies can feast on her," said the
bishop. "Enough for today. You men can have her if you
wish." The bishop and his staff went back into his
house, and the largest of the three guards pushed
Tamsyn back against the post, dropped his codpiece and
drove his huge cock up into her, lifting her feet from
the bloodstained dirt, and rubbing her injured butt
cheeks against the upright log again and again.
From a hillside above the village, Gregory and Roth
watched as their mistress was beaten and assaulted.
Roth's arm was in a sling and Gregory had his longbow,
but the two of them decided not to attack a group of
eight or ten men despite their lady's suffering. After
all three men in the bishop's livery had used the
girl, they watched her being taken down some stairs to
an underground room, a cellar of some sort.
"Tonight," said Greg, looking determined, "tonight we
will get her out."
"I need my sword," said the wounded knight. "I feel
naked without it. And I did not see it on any of those
foul men."
"I will bring you one to question," said Gregory,
watching a pair of guards leave the bishop's home and
stroll toward the nearby ale house. He set aside his
bow, made sure his dirk was free in its scabbard and
hurried down the hill and into the town. Knowing he
would be spotted as a stranger at the tavern, he
waited for the guards to reappear and then shadowed
them back toward the manse. At a place where the shade
was deeper and the jesting pair stopped to piss, he
stepped behind them, grabbed one man from behind and
cut his throat with a fierce slice and then twisted
the other guard's arm up his back and hurried him up
the steep hill to Roth's hiding place, threatening to
kill him if he raised the hue and cry.
In short order they discovered how many guards the
bishop had, where Tamsyn was being held and, much to
Roth's delight, the fact that his big sword was now
being displayed in the bishop's library as a trophy.
They gave the begging man a few minutes to pray, and
then Greg cut his throat and his dark blood poured
down the hillside.
When darkness fell and the manse's candles and lamps
were extinguished, two shadows moved silently down the
hill. They entered the manse after Gregory dispatched
the guard at the front door, and Roth soon was
buckling on his sword on with Greg's help. Then they
found the cell in the cellar and freed their mistress,
who wept and hugged them both. Roth winced but did not
cry out, and they left by the outside steps and walked
up the hill, past the sprawled body and into the
woods.
"Now what?" asked Gregory as Tamsyn drank from his
canteen and chewed on the dried meat he had brought
with them and pulled her torn clothes about her
ravaged body.
"I think this bishop must die or the trouble will
never end, he will call down the prelates on our
heads, legions of them." Tamsyn looked at the men.
Both nodded but neither looked happy.
"I will do it. I do not fear the anointed, especially
a cur like Alfred." Tamsyn smiled and held out her
hand. Greg gave her his dirk and belt.
Young Gregory, his face like stone, the one-armed
knight and the determined girl made their way back
down the hill after the moon set. They entered the
house with ease and mounted the stairs. After looking
into two empty rooms, in the front bedroom, under a
sagging canopy, they found the stout bishop and his
skinny secretary, soundly sleeping, the thinner man
quite bare.
Tamsyn and the men smiled at each other. Greg put his
hand on Bosely's mouth and pulled him from the bed.
Tamsyn held the thin man and Greg kept his mouth
covered as Roth drew his big sword and chopped off his
head with only three awkward, one-handed blows. Greg's
boots were drenched with blood as he eased the
headless body to the floor.
Tamsyn turned up the bishop's bedside oil lamp which
had guttered low and set the ghastly head on the
pillow. "Wake, sir bishop," she said loudly.
The man blinked open his eyes, saw what looked like
his secretary's face beside him and screamed. The head
rolled off on the floor with a solid thunk.
"Damn," cried Tamsyn, "guard the door."
"I am going to kill you," said Tamsyn, "and you are
going to hell, you evil sodomite."
"No, no," said the bishop loudly, sitting up in bed
and trying not to look at the gore on his bedclothes.
"I can make you rich. Help!" he cried and the bedroom
door slammed open to admit the deacon, a short sword
in his hand. Roth cut him down with a chop at the
small of his back and then turned him over with his
foot and dispatched him while Gregory met the second
priest with a smile and drove his blade all the way
through the man, lifting him from his feet.
They heard footsteps mounting the stairs and a gruff
voice saying, "What's amiss?" and then the biggest of
the guards came into the bloody room and died on
Roth's broadsword, his belly opened from side to side
and guts rolling out in coils.
The room was filled with the smell of death as
Tamsyn's men cleaned their weapons on the corpses'
clothes. The girl tossed back the covers and found the
bishop naked. She grasped his genitals, smiled, and
then emasculated him and handed his bloody privates to
him. The man fainted and the girl left the gory mess
on his bloated belly, wiped her hands and said, "Let
us leave. Someone else can sort out this mess."
Once they were back out in the dark, Roth said, "Why
not a fire, a cleansing fire?"
Gregory produced flint and steel and together they
started a fire in the dry grass at one corner of the
manse. By the time they had mounted the hill above the
town, the whole front of the wooden building was
ablaze, and they could hear the roar and feel the
warmth.
Continued in part 4...
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This story was written as an adult fantasy. The author
does not condone the described behavior in real life in
anyway shape or form. Anyone tempted to act out any of
the scenarios in this story; should seriously consider
seeking professional help.
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