Katarina comes and saves the day.

Gilly still tried to resist feebly. She mumbled some words and wriggled in the grasp of the two imps, but already she felt her resistance crumbling away. It was almost as if she stood in front of a huge door, and she knew that behind the door; pleasure awaited her. Pleasure and bliss beyond her imagination. All she had to do was to open the door and walk through. And somehow, opening that door was tightly connected to... using her lips and her tongue. Sucking the sweet pastry in her mouth, sucking, sucking, until the ambrosia, hidden inside would gush out and...

She heard a shriek and then the harsh grip on her hips was gone.

THUD.

A body slammed to the floor behind her. Dazed and disoriented; Gilly stopped what she was doing. Dimly was aware that her mouth was empty, that the demon in front of her reached frantically for the dirk on his belt - and then she saw a spear piercing the creature's chest. A shriek. Another thud.

Gilly drew in air, that alone seemed to free her mind a bit and move some of the clouds away. Suddenly, her knees felt sore, her jaw ached, her bottom felt like fire. She turned around and gasped when she saw Katarina, the smith's daughter, towering over her with a spear in hand. She seemed to be scanning the room.

Gilly blinked. Another deep breath. She could think again.

"Don't hurt me!" she mumbled, but the words didn't seem her own. Katarina looked at her. "Don't worry, you're safe now", she answered. Gilly tried to push through the clouds. Why would she think that Katarina wanted to hurt her. They were childhood friends. They had played together naked in the pond behind the village. They...

Naked.

She was naked. Gilly jolted into a kneeling position trying to cover herself. She remembered. The creatures had overpowered her, had stripped her naked and... taken her. And Katarina had seen it all. Gilly blushed.

"You are safe, Gilly." Katarina insisted. She crouched down next to Gilly and put a hand on her cheek. "Oh, Gilly, I am so sorry I wasn't here earlier. They are everywhere, it seems. They came to the forge as well. I barely escaped..." Gilly saw her friend shudder. She closed her eyes. Gilly heard the storm and the rain raging outside.

"We must run." Gilly croaked. Her jaw still hurt from... from what that creature had done to her earlier. She saw Katarina nod.

"Yes, we do", the smith's daughter answered. But there was doubt on her face. "I am just not sure it's wise to flee through the storm", Katarina added. "There is something very unnatural about this storm."

"But you said there might be more!", Gilly hear herself squeaking. She did not want to fall into the hands of those creatures again. More so, she did not want to experience that strange soothing desire for... for what was behind the door.