Chapter 146
His brow crinkled a little as he looked at me. “Why would you do that?” he asked curiously.
“It feels good for humans, you might Like it, too.”
“Please go on,” he said motioning to his feet.
Starting with the bottoms I rubbed and massaged. When I was about done and ready to start on his legs he told me to go and do it to his brother, pointing to Master Christof.
I made my way around the entire room. By the time I was done with the last man they had all stretched out on their chairs. Their eyes were all closed and they were breathing like they were asleep.
Never in all the time that I had been with them had they slept in chairs. I wasn’t sure if I should just let them sleep or wake them.
Their positions didn’t look uncomfortable and the room was warm.
I opted to leave them be. Stretching out on the rug by the fire, I laid my head on my kneeling place. I guess we’d sleep out here tonight.
I felt a warm hand on my arm and heard Master Christof‘s voice. “It is cold, Brothers. Give me the blanket,” he said as I opened my eyes.
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The room was mostly dark as Master Christof wrapped me in a blanket and picked me up off the floor. I was chilly. The fire had burned lower and the room wasn’t so comfortable anymore.
My stomach took that chance to remind me it had not had anything since lunch and rumbled. Master Christof walked us into the table area.
“Did you eat an evening meal, Ciara?” he asked.
“No, Master Master Christof,” I answered snuggling into the warm blanket. My never dressed state did not allow me to be comfortable in a cool room.
“It will become sick if we are careless,” Master Kein commented wrapping his hands around my icy feet. “It should be in the sleeping room after the sun has set or at least in a room with a stoked fire.”
His hands were warm and felt good, rubbing briskly he took the chill out of my feet. Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!
Master Bane took something out of a cupboard in the kitchen area. The men all took some to eat. Master Christof held me in his lap and fed me. It tasted like smoked meat and quelled my restless stomach.
I Looked up at Master Christof’s face and was surprised how much better it looked. Across the table I could see Master Bane’s wounds were also smaller. They healed so quickly. I commented on it and Master Damien smiled.
“Perhaps you are just a slow healer, Ciara,” he told me popping more of the meat into his mouth.
“I’m not sure how we would survive the women if we weren’t fast Healers,” Master Evan said.
The question was Leaving my lips before I could stop it, “Why do they hurt you at the couplings? Do you force them to have sex?”
“Force them?!” Master Damien asked, “They come for sex, but they enjoy fighting us almost as much. They separate us and take whichever man they want. They sometimes pretend to let us bind them to reduce our injuries, but not often.”
“I don’t see how the shopkeepers survive it,” Master Kein said.
“I think,” Master Christof said, “they treat us differently. I could not be sure, but I heard the Large woman that owns us speaking to other women while I was in the mountains. She told them it was young shopkeepers at the coupling and to be gentle.”