[Take Thalk hostage]

Another moment of stillness, the opportune timing robbed of its momentum. With that gone, you attempt a read on Thalk's face. Fear... Hope. But you can't tell the lies from truth.

Is there even a queen? Is she trying to buy time?...

...

You know you can't do this forever. There's movement in the cave. Rustles and clicks of wood. The sound of rock striking rock. The goblin had retreated inside and he's shouting for reinforcements, rallying everyone against you.

"Don't move," you order Thalk, pointing your sword her way like a naked porcupine on its last hair.

Her ears drop instantly at the sharp tip. Her arm pulls from your chest and hangs weakly by her side. "Thalk don't move..."

Keeping the blade hovering at her throat, you circle behind her and place the steel against her neck, your left arm wrapping across her body in a tight hug to keep her arms pinned. Kaasx and Elx swallow once as they watch, as if it's their necks on the sword. But they stay rooted to the log.

You feel Thalk's breath hitch against your chest, her pulse gently nudge your sword, shoulders trembling as she weighs between complete surrender and a gamble with her life on the line.

"Don't try anything," you whisper against her ear.

As much as you want to tell her you don't want to hurt her, you're not about to show your cards. Instead, you hug. Tighter. Harder. Just in case.

"Human, gentle... Thalk no harm human," Kaasx says, vouching for her friend.

You agree...

She hasn't harmed you. However, you need a safety net.

"I don't play with threats," you reply, glancing softly at Kaasx. "I don't want to do this either."

"Thalk no threat..." Elx promises, shifting closer with a pleading look on her face.

"That's not it." You glance toward the cave mouth, half-expecting a goblin horde to come charging out. Instead, you see a silhouette slowly walk into the light.

Its hips swing with every step. There's a feminine bearing to its walk. Then come the legs, completely exposed all the way to the hips, with only a draping piece of cloth hanging from a narrow strip of leather. It swings and curls ever so slightly, but reveals no more than what she wants to show.

Higher up, her chest sags like two sacks of hay, cleavage deep enough to nest a family of squirrels. Her medium hair with curly ends, brown and silky even looks the part of an acorn. If there's one difference between her and the others, it's in the eyes. Blue. Sharp. More human than beast. More intelligence than instinct.

"Will-" she tries in a seductive voice, but falters the instant her eyes register the scene.

Kaasx glances over her shoulder, hoping to catch her highness' gaze, but the Queen's eyes lock onto the red handprint on her ass instead. Then the dried cum she clearly didn't clean well enough. Then your still-lubed cock swinging like a cursed earthworm. Then at Kaasx's breastwrap, now worn like a hunting trophy on your belt.

She looks again at Kaasx, who is completely naked save for a necklace. Then at Thalk, held tightly with a blade to her throat. Her lips part. She blinks.

With Kaasx like that, it's hard to tell if Thalk has it worse.

"Ehm..." the Queen mutters to herself.

At least Elx's doing well?...

"Will human release this queen's aide...?" she tries again, meekly this time. The seduction's gone. She's realized she's not walking into a negotiation. She's walking into a situation. She's dealing with a madman. A goblin fucker at loose.

Behind her, you see a few curious faces and long noses sticking out. The same goblins who had charged you this morning, meat-swinging and drooling for pinkskin, now peek like children behind a mom. Once they take in the sight as well, they also pause in a stun.

...That's it! Overpower by confusion.

You loosen your left arm just slightly. Thalk's ears perk up straight again, and she glances up at you, as if to ask if she's free to go.

Of course... not.

You catch her jaw in your hand before she can process your grin. And what a mouth-opener. She doesn't see it coming, lips hanging open from the surprise. And you strike. You drop to her level, mouth pressing against her. A full, unshackled kiss.

"Uhm?!..." Her breath catches, eyes wide and unblinking, darting to the queen instead of you. The queen returns the look, but only watches on in silence, trying to make sense of what she's seeing, again.

Eventually, your tongue catches Thalk's. She moans what sounds like a few questions, definitely confusion, but doesn't pull away. Your tongues wrestle back and forth, one chasing, one pursuing. Breaths are sucked from one mouth to another, then back once more... And then, a tiny pebble clicks into her mouth.

More moaning. More surprise. More questions... She's been making such a big scene for you to spit, and now that you do she acts shocked.

"Ah!... Elx's candy! Give back!" Elx jumps up once she hears the click from Thalk's mouth. Apparently, taking it is one thing. But eating it? That's a no-no.

"...Oh..." the Queen breathes, voice thinning with disbelief. Her eyes flick from your goblin-cream-slick cock, to the sword still brushing Thalk's throat, to Elx's mouth hanging open like a whore waiting for candy to rain.

"...Human like her?... Human... human can have her, then. Can have everyone here." She steps forwards, hands spreading as if presenting the entire cave like a gift, but her grand entrance is anything but at this point. "...This queen need king."

"...?" Her confession lands like a drunk pissing himself mid-speech. Even the madness pauses for a moment.

Thalk's eyebrows raise, eyes even wider. Elx gasps and claps, making a delighted squeal. Kaasx grins, her breasts bouncing as she hops slightly in place.

At least someone's welcoming.

But you?...

You're not sure.

You've been fucked, kissed, begged, threatened, and now offered a crown. One surprise after another.

What is she expecting you to say?...

"Oh, boy! The human goblin king! Of course!"

...

At least your dick's more honest.