Rebellion and New Life

Chapter 6

Over the next three days, Sil continued to keep his food down again, and his energy was doubling. He wanted out so badly. There was no more vomit in the bucket, at least.

"Let me out! Now!" Sil ordered impatiently.

"Soon, SkekSil. Soon." Tek declared. He actually liked him being caged, after all the blackmail he had done to him.

With the order that the Chamberlain was to be set free soon, the Ornamentalist had already started working on his new robes to replace the old ones that had been destroyed to make sure there was no deadly virus on them.

Finally, on the third day, Sil could hear the key dangling and he was waiting impatiently for the door to be unlocked. Tek put the key in the lock and without a second thought, Sil charged the door furiously and pushed his way out.

For the first time in ten to eleven weeks, he had his freedom again! "I'm not going back in there!" he exclaimed.

"I can understand." Tek said.

"No, you don't. You not caged for so long." Sil retorted angrily.

"No, but I was in charge of you for so long. Get out of my lab, SkekSil." Tek ordered. He was actually happy to finally have the Chamberlain out of his sight.

Sil was happy to oblige on that. He wasn't going back to the lab anytime too soon, hopefully. He just wanted to stay away from it for the time being, but would only go back when he had to. He had just become too desperate to get out of that tiny, claustrophobic room.

He ran around the castle with much vigor, just happy to be out and moving again. He found the Illustrator and she eagerly joined him on a walk around the castle, so to finally share a little moment with the Chamberlain and give her hand a break too.

"How does it feel to be free again, Sil?" she asked with a smile.

"It feels so good to not be locked up." he replied. "Couldn't wait any longer to get out of there! And to see you... we should go to our private spot tonight."

"I really missed you, Sil... sounds like a good plan to me." she agreed.

The Emperor greeted them when they went back to the throne room. "So, am I to understand you are fully well again, Chamberlain?" he asked.

"Yes. Fully well again, Emperor." Sil replied with a bow of respect. "Ready to work again."

"SkekEkt has your new robes ready." SkekZok stated.

"Good. Ready to have them." Sil said. He happily left to go get them, with his mate following behind.
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Sil was trying on his new robes now, and he found them satisfactory enough. They looked very similar to his old ones. The Ornamentalist had a talent for making the most beautiful clothes and such. He and La left Ekt's room after he had them on comfortably.

The two of them went down to a private sector of the castle that wasn't visited so much anymore except by them. Sil had missed this place. There were times when he and La had come down here, or stayed in her room together, so many weeks ago.

Despite how pleased Sil was with his new robes, he and La couldn't wait to start making up for lost time. They made love again down there in the tunnels, for the first time in so long.

When they were done and took a moment to just rest, lying together, La had one of her hands on his belly, ever curious. Sil didn't mind it, being her. "Wish we could have known what was wrong..." she said.

"Agree." he replied.
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After his release and being with La again, Chamberlain seemed to have so much energy now, more than he knew what to do with. All the Skeksis felt that way after drinking essence, but he hadn't had it for a little while. This was something else entirely.

Sil just felt so happy and energized. He felt more youthful for some reason. He had a newfound appetite for food too. He began eating almost anything in sight. He was past the most critical part of what was going on with him. His body was desperately trying to gain back the nutrition that it had not been able to keep down for so long before.

Most of the others were suspicious why the Chamberlain was acting differently than he usually did.

He was also a little more playful too. He couldn't help himself when he did play a few harmless pranks on some of the others. They got mad at him, but he didn't care. He was just having some fun after having been locked up for so long.

La was not one of his victims of course. She laughed at his antics when he told her about them. She wouldn't tell any of the others what would be coming their way. To her, he just seemed... happier.

Sil made sure to never prank the Emperor though. He knew better than that.

But the Skeksis leader was indeed noticing something different about his former counselor. He had never been that energetic. Sure, he had always had his own sense of humor, but this seemed like something more.

One day, he had to incur why. "Chamberlain, I have noticed something different about your energy lately. Something you need to tell me?" he asked.

"Nothing bad, my Emperor." Sil lowered himself in submission. "I just have much energy after being able to get free from that caged room. Have to move around. Gain appetite back. Much energy lost from before when sick."

"I see. As long as you are not stealing essence."

"No, of course not, my sire." Sil replied.

"Begone with you then." So ordered. Sil bowed and went on his way.

SkekSo was suspicious of what had overcome the Chamberlain though.

On the plus side, Sil's skin had taken on a shiny new sheen and was softer. His breasts were starting to feel weird too, like tingly, but he ignored it. He wasn't going to have anything ruin his newfound freedom.

When the Illustrator was with him, she noticed something different as well: she knew his scent really well, and lately, it seemed to have changed. It smelt... sweeter. It even seemed to entice her to want to spend even more time with her love, and they did, every chance they got.