Of Gods & Valkyries: Book Three

Conquests

– J O H N –

She had a glorious set of breasts.

They both did.

I rolled silently onto the balls of my feet as bare as the day my mother had regretted my very birth. The hair of the maids spilled across their backs in the rising morning sun. The perfect time the Gods deemed it necessary for a man to take his leave.

I palmed my clothing under an arm and my boots in another hand. With the deftness of the finest lover and even finer craftsman–I lifted the latch to the door without a sound.

Only the faint groan from the wood told anyone a whisper to my presence. I checked the women. They still breathed slowly and peacefully... I stole one final glance and the brunettes' smooth backside–then I let the door close with a click.

I turned down the hallway and froze.

A huge naked tree stood there with nothing but a helmet covering his decency.

"Kaden?" I hissed.

"John?" He got out, almost losing grip on the knight's helm over his privates.

A moment slipped between us in awkward shock. Then the snickering began.

"For god's sake man I thought you a guard!" I murmured accusingly, turning my back to him and slipping on my trousers.

"At this hour?" He rumbled behind, making for the direction of our own rooms. Once I was suitably furnished I turned to him and fought another snigger.

"She left you nay else to your name?"

A wolfish grin broke across his face as he shrugged between holding the knight's head against his crotch.

"That cat had claws she did..." He answered simply.

My grin vanished as we rounded a corner and collided with a man at arms from the household. His friend caught him and stumbled back in disbelief.

I lost my words.

Kaden dropped the helmet.

We all stared at each other a moment. 

Then the fool drew his sword to Kaden's chest.

"Those were the maids quarters!"

"Now we have a strong grasp of the obvious..." I muttered, subtly reaching into a pocket.

"Now lads–I just had a bath–" Kaden tried.

"Like hells!" One growled, angling the blade closer and eying me with equal distain. "I shall not have ye filth sully these halls!"

"Believe me boys I don't think the help has had a good sullying in winters–"

"You're dead!" The armed buffoon snarled, preparing to plunge his blade.

I acted faster than a thief while Kaden bat his sword arm aside like a broomstick.

The hallway exploded with red smoke setting them both aside with gasping breaths. We had the sense to not take a single sip of air but it still burned my eyes like a gods damned flaming shit storm.

"Best we took our leave to Vayleron my man!" I called to Kaden at my rear as we ran for the rooms.

"Yanu is in my quarters! Gear up and head for our weapons!" He returned, thundering alongside me now. I dropped him a quick nod and shouldered my own room open.