A new aquaintance

Flinch had no idea how much time had passed when his eyes fluttered open, but he quickly realized he was not in his cave anymore. He laid on a wooden floor and looked up at more wood just two feet above him. Even with his goblin stature he could at most comfortably crawl around in the space he had found himself in. He noticed that warm, red light flooded in from all sides and when following it with his eyes, he saw that his wooden tomb was secured by metal bars all around him. Finally all the puzzle pieces fell into place, he was in a cage build below a large bed. He shot up, only to painfully bump his head against the ceiling of the cage. As he shook the fog from his head, he heard a voice. It was smooth as butter, sultry but also classy and in all ways pleasant. It was like a hum that gently shook and warmed his entire body, “Look who is finally awake.”.

It sent wonderful shivers down his spine. “W-who are you?”, Flinch carefully asked, “Where am I?”. The mysterious woman chuckled, “No matter who I pick, these are always the first two questions. If I didn’t know better, I would accuse you of being boring.”, she mused for a moment, then continued, “For the boring question, this is a place as real as any other, only time flows very differently here. It is my domain, or at least a part of it, and it is a place I can bring promising individuals to have a conversation in peace.”. She continued to elaborate, “As for me, I am someone capable of fixing the mistake you just made for you.”.

‘Well, I’m fucked. It was a good run, at least I got to fuck a beautiful paladin as my last act.’, Flinch thought, ’Maybe I can beg my way out’. “I apologise, really. I didn’t know what I was doing, I never meant to offend a Goddess. I was just so mad because they tried to kill me, I-“, her laughter cut him off. Even though he couldn’t see her, he could hear her smile as she spoke, “There is no need to apologise and there is no purpose in lying to me, I always know. You tricking and fucking that haughty Paladin is the most interesting thing that happened down there in months if not years. Very rarely does someone manage to overcome such a vast power difference. No, your mistake was impregnating her.”.

Flinch was confused and said as much which lead to another amused response by his captor, “I don’t care one bit that you defiled her, no your mistake was a lack of foresight. For one, the absence of a paladin will be noticed sooner or later and people will come to find her. More concerning and immediate is the issue of your offspring. I don’t need to explain to you that goblin sperm will produce only goblin children regardless of the mother, but they will share the power of their parents. So, in about two weeks you will have a bundle of very strong goblin children in your cave, much stronger than you… you can see where I’m going with this.”.

Now it was Flinchs turn to freeze, he did know where she was going with this. Goblins only respected power, like most other creatures, so his children would soon take over the cave and either make him work for them or throw him out for being so weak. ’Dammit, there is always a catch, isn’t there.’

He thought for a second and then timidly asked, “You said you could help me?”.