A half dwarf, half dark elf cultist?

As the three of you bare down on the archer, Elric gets ahead and lunges at your attacker. Before they can even get up from the ground Elric is already on them. They’re trying to struggle, yet Elric seems to easily over powers them grabbing their wrist, and pinning them above their head.

“No no, let me go!” The assailant screams in a feminine voice.

That’s when you finally get a good look at this unknown archer. To your surprise she actually rather small in height. She keeps struggling around, but your pretty sure you can tell she’s only about 4,5 feet in stature. Besides that you can’t really tell much about her, as she’s wearing a intrinsic purple, and black robe, that has yellow symbols all over it. Along with that she has a cloth mask with a yellow spiral in the middle that only has two holes for her eyes. With that her clothes obscure pretty much any sort of identifying features besides her immediate form.

“Here master, I got this if you want to capture them.” Mira says producing a bit of rope from one of her pockets.

“Ah good thank you.” You say.

“Mira grab her legs please, Elric hold her wrist sill hold.” You command, as you put a knee on the girl’s stomach to help Elric pin her down.

With all three of you kneeling on the archer there’s very little she can do but, squirm as bind her with the rope. Quickly you tie her hands together leaving her pretty much defenseless. Yet you weren’t just going to stop there.

“Almost there.... got it, okay now then Elric pull her arms down to her stomach, and Mira tuck her knees into her chest” You say ordering your minions to **** your assailants wrists, and ankles as close as possible.

You then use the rest of the rope to secure, a knot around the archer’s feet, looping a bit of rope between her ankles, and wrists. With that the archer is left in a very strict hogtie, any significant movement by her silenced by the rope. All she can do now is squirm helplessly in the bondage as you look down at your handy work with a small grin.

“Huh she’s kinda small isn’t she?” Mira says bending over to get a good at your prisoner.

“Is she perhaps a child?” Elric suggests, taking notice of her small stature as well.

“Let’s find out shall we?” You say as you bend down and, pull off a the archers mask.

To your surprise what’s revealed is a humanoid creature with, light grey skin, and sharp pointed ears. While she is short Elric was wrong in his assumption that she was a child, while young looking her features were that of person in their early to twenty to perhaps eighteen years of again. She Her face is oval shaped, with pair of soft cute eyes, which have long eyelashes. There is not a blemish on her, with her skin looking silky smooth. Her irises are red, with the part of the eye which normal would be white for a human, instead a even darker almost black red. This gave her a bit of strange, yet a quite exotic, and a bit attractive appearance. Above her eyes are a pair of thin feminine looking black eyebrows. All in all the girl has kind looking face, ironic since she was just trying to kill you. She straddles the line between looking cute, to almost down right adorable.

“Oh wow a dark elf!” Mira claps her hand excitedly as she’s gets right up in the elf’s face.

“I’ve never seen one up close before!” Mira says as she playfully pokes the dark elf’s cheek.

The dark elf tries to squirm away from Mira’s probing finger, she pouts as Mira pokes, and prods her like a caged animal.

“You sure it’s a dark elf I don’t think their that small.” Elric says still skeptical about what race this person was.

While you yourself didn’t have much experience with the other noble races, you don’t remember any mention of dark elves being so short. Even in the books you read which contained mentions of the so called mer of the moon, they were always described as being the same average height of a human. With that you conclude that this wasn’t a dark elf, though at least not fully. Presumably this is might actually be a half race, a dark elf father, and a halfling mother? Ehh something along perhaps, that isn’t really important right now. What’s important is deciding what to do with her.

“Ah hold on I heard...” Mira then pulls down hood that is still on the dark elf’s head.

As she does so a long bit of silver hair falls on to the dark elf’s face. Her hair is swept to too one side with it a bit unkempt and messy at the end, giving her a bit of a wild look. On the back. and the sides it falls down her shoulders. With the front bit of her silver hair, falling down to cover half of the left side of her face. Hiding her left eye away behind a curtain as hair as well in the process. This some how makes the dark elf even more adorable, and makes you feel a bit nostalgic. As it reminds you of some of the more gruff yet younger girls from the work house you lived. The ones who always liked to rough house around with the teenage boys like you.

“I can’t believe it is true, I heard that some dark elves had silver hair but I didn’t think it would look so pretty.” Mira runs her hand over the dark elf’s head, her fingers softly gliding over her scalp as she feels her silver mane.

“Oh wow it’s so soft master come feel this!” Mira says motioning for you to come over.

You decide to indulge, sitting down you feel the dark elf’s hair. Careful not to cut her head with your sharp nails, you find Mira is right. The hair feels like soft silk, or some kind of fine fur. You wonder if all dark elves have a hair of such fine quality. Hmmm maybe you could make a coat, or pillow out of their hair if you ran into a bunch of them. That would feel sooooo soft that’s for sure. As you, and Mira keep petting the dark elf, she almost seems to relax into your hands. Her eyes look a bit droopy as the rhythmic massaging of her scalp feels kinda good, and is making her sleepy. She blinks a few times, and her eyes slowly start to close.... Then they suddenly snap back open, as the dark elf seemingly realizing was she was almost luled to sleep by the two of you. She then stares daggers at you both, shaking her head vigorously she tries to get you, and Mira off of her. When that fails she glares at you, and almost seems to growl a she then speaks.

“Enough of this release me at once, for I am a servant of the one with many eyes, once my sisters and brothers find you will regret your actions!” The dark elf barks at you with venom.

Though with out the mask to muffle her voice she sounds much more higher pitched, and girly. Hardly the least bit intimidating if you have to say so your self.

“Awwww such a cute voice, master can we please keep her!” Mira says positively gushing over the dark elf as she give them a hug.

The dark elf snarls, biting Mira. Or at least tries her best to, she can’t really crane her enough to get her teeth around Mira’s neck. With the look she is giving her now though, your sure if she was free she would tear Mira to shreds. Mira either doesn’t notice or doesn’t care as she then starts to pet the dark elf’s head again while showering her in compliments.

“Awww, your such a pretty thing, I just want to eat you up, your hair is so nice, and you look actually kinda attractive tied up like that I have to admit, is it getting hot in here, you know I think we could be good friends, or maybe you could be my pet, I’ll take you on walks, feed you, dress you up oh and have you meet master yet he’s great he can do all kinds of...” Mira continues to ramble on a mile a minute as the dark elf looks at her wide eyed.

The elf wonders if this some weird, form of ****. Desperately she strains in her bonds trying to pull herself free to get away from Mira’s incessant babbling. Yet there is no luck the elf is tied to tight. She groans as it looks like she’s just going to have to lay their and, get acquainted with Mira for the mean time.

“Cult... wait of course the symbols on the robes she must be a Jin worshiper!” Elric exclaims, as he remembers seeing something familiar to the symbols once.

“Jin worshiper, what is that?” You ask, standing up and leaving Mira to smother the dark elf with affection, much to the elf’s dismay.

“Jin worship is kinda hard to explain master do you want the long or shot version.” Elric says scratching the back of head with an awkward smile.

“Give me the short version I wish to interrogated are captive before Mira drives them inane.” You chuckle, watching the dark elf who looks like she’s about to lose it as Mira has now gone back to playing around with her face, and is currently pinching and, squeezing her cheeks.

“Okay then, basically some outliers of the dark elves revere, Jin which they believe are other dark elves who died yet they were so powerful in life, or if they performed such impressive deed while their were living, that instead of their souls going to heaven with the gods, they changed into a sort of spirt, and lived in their own sort of realm, it’s an older belief as most dark elves have abandoned this belief for the teachings of the church of light, yet there are a few who still worship Jin, usually criminals or outcasts.” Elric explains trying to be as clear and, use as few words,

“So and so these dark elf cults worship these spirts, I’m guessing the church of light doesn’t take kindly to that.” You say remembering your teachings about false idols from the church.

Wait are you a false idol your self now? No, no your not surely, sure you have servants but, they don’t think your a god. Yeah your probably fine then hopefully.After all you don’t want to bring down the wrath of the gods down on to you. That’s certain more trouble then your willing to get into.

“No they don’t, the church considers all Jin to be evil spirts or demons-,”

“Lies all lies they are jealous fools who condemn what they don’t understand!” The dark elf yells interrupting Elric mid sentence.

“Mira gag her please.” You casually say to Mira.

“But I like to hear all the nice noises she makes master.” Mira pouts.

Still she obeys taking out what looks like a handkerchief.

“No, no don’t you dare-mhhmhmmm!”

The dark elf girl’s cries are quickly silenced as Mira shoves the balled up handkerchief in her mouth. She then uses another piece of rope to then secure it in place, tightening the role around the girls head.

“Mmmhmmmh mmhmm mhm him!” The dark elf girl says, screaming something ineligible behind the gag.

“Actually now she’s seems to be making all sorts of cute new noises!” Mira giggles bopping the girl playfully on the nose.

Mira then runs her hand over the dark elves side, and she tries to squirm away. Mira’s eyes light up, and she again runs her hand over the side of her stomach. Same reaction from the dark elf. Mira then grins ear to ear.

“Hey master I think she’s ticklish, can I you know!?!?” Mira asks excitedly.

“Yes, yes just don’t break her okay, I wish to interrogate her later.” You motion dismissively to Mira with out even turning to look at her.

The dark elf fumes, yet theres little she can really do at this point. A look of horror then comes over as Mira raises her her hands up high, and slowly, teasingly lowers them towards the sides of the elf’s stomach. You and Elric then move a few feet away to give the two a bit of alone time.

“Uh right then...” Elric says looking at his friend continue to “torment” the dark elf.

She has always been a bit playful, yet now all he can say is that he’s glad it’s not him getting her full attention. As he then hears a loud muffled laughing, accompanied by a bunch of couchie couchie chooies he almost shivers. He’s never seen her in such a frisky mood. Elric wonders if it’s because their master is here that Mira is so giddy. Maybe once you helped her she let go of all her inhibition, and this is just Mira finally being herself, and cutting lose. Either way he clears his throat and, gets back to it.

“The church considers them to be demons, or evil sprits, which may be the case as some of the Jin requires a lot darker acts such as pain, ****, or out right chaos in their name, though others ask for more mundane things like money, or pray or just preforming acts in the Jin’s name, either way the church considers all Jin foul creatures that need to be the destroyed even the more harmless ones.” Elric says taking a breathe after the long winded explanation.

“You seem to know quite a lot of these Jin how is that?” You ask remembering how you thought there was a little more to Mira, and Elric then they being just simple adventures.

Elric looks away, and starts to seem nervous. For a moment you think he might defy you by not answering your question. Yet he then breathes in deeply then exhales as he looks in the eye again.

“I was once a paladin, so I have more then a bit of knowledge of unholy or thing that are considered unholy master.” Elric says, seeming to shift uncomfortably as he speaks about his past.

“A paladin, are you sure about that because when I first came upon you and Mira you were being overwhelmed by skeletons, turning such lowly undead should have been a snap for the magic of a paladin.” You tap a finger to your chin with a bit of a sly grin, as you tease Elric.

“I uh, broke my oath I don’t have my holy magic any more master s-sorry.” Elric winches as he speaks, he seems to be really uncomfortable to be talking about this.

“And how did that happen hmmmm.” You grin as you lean closer to Elric with a toothy grin.

You have to admit it is kinda amusing to see your servant squirm a bit.

“I-it’s a long story, a painful story, truth be told master, it’s not that I don’t trust you but to think back on those days it hurts my heart really.” Elric says now looking more sad, and upset more then nervous.

Oh, suddenly pushing this isn’t so fun anymore. While you could **** him relay his tale you have no interest in being emotionally hard on your servants. Least of all not for curiosities sake.

“Ah well never mind then.” You say waving your hand away at the notion.

“Thank you master.” Elric says with a grateful bow of the head.

“It matters not anyways, you and Mira are my dear servants now, what happened in your past means nothing, only your future with me is what I am concerned with.” You grin as run your hand down Elric’s cheek.

A gentle, soft, residual tingle lingers on the young man’s face as your finger tips slowly part from his skin. Hopefully this soft caress will be enough of an apology for you making him bring up his past. This indeed seeming to be the case as the young man’s face goes flush, and his eyes glaze over for a s split second.

“Ah-h master...” Elric whimpers, as a small gasp escapes his lips.

He wishes, longs for your touch, to feel your flesh against his again. Taking a step towards Elric moves to try to embrace you, only to stop as you hold up your hand for him to stop.

“Later my, boy later, we have work to do now.” You reassure him, as you get back on track.

Elric gives a disappointed frown but bows his head obediently.

“Now then I think it’s time I finally interrogate our new friend.” You say as you start walking back over to Mira and, the elf.

“How has our captive been Mira based by the laughing I assume she’s in good spirits.” You grin as you stand over the elf.

“Mmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmh!” Is the only response you get from the dark elf as Mira digs her hands into her sides.

She looks to be a bit sweaty, as well as her hair seems to be out of place. More then likely due to her attempting to find any respite from Mira’s tickling. Not that anything she can do slows down Mira one bit.

“Alright that’s enough for now Mira, I need to talk to her a moment.” You say motioning for her to get off the elf.

“Ok master, let’s play later cutie.” Mira says to elf, as she gives her a kiss on the nose.

She then gets up off of her so you can converse with her.

“Now then are you going to be willing to answer a few of my questions elf.” You ask as you undo the rope gag, and take the handkerchief out of her mouth.

“Burn in oblivion!” Is the dark elf’s only response.

“Okay, never mind then I’ll just get my answers another way.” You say forcing the handkerchief back in dark elf’s mouth, and re-doing the rope gag.

Then you start to reach out with your mind, and start to probe into the elf’s own. Instantly information, rushes into your head as you pull basic facts about the elf from her memories. For one her name is Ressha and she is half dwarf, as well as dark elf.

“Hmm a dwarven mother how interesting.” You smile, a toothy smile as more about Ressha into your mind.

Like her consumption between her mother, and father not being entirely willing. It’s a sad story really, with Ressha’s mother being **** upon by her father after she was captured by the cult tracking in the woods one day. Her mother then was kept captive, by the cult until she gave birth Ressha, after which her mother was then sacrificed to Jin her father worshipped. It seems from there Ressha was then raised in the cult, yet still she was treated harshly as her fellow members despised her due to her dwarven half.

“An outcast, among out casts ay?” You say as you then try to search for more recent memories in her mind.

While it is interesting to learn of Ressha’s life this way, you need to find out what she is doing here. Where the rest of her cult is, if they were in the cesspools, and if their Jin was around as well. As you try to look for memories containing anything relevant to any of those thing a sharp pain suddenly enters your head. It’s like your brain is on fire, and is being torn in half at the same time!

“Aggggghhhhhh!!” You shout as you collapse to your knees, and your **** out of Ressha’s mind.

“Master!” Mira, and Elric say in unison as they both rush over to your side to check if you were okay.

Luckily as quick as the pain had come
It had gone, yet you still wondered what exactly was that.

“Agh my head it felt like something was turning it inside out.” You say as Mira and Elric both help you to your feet.

“What happened masters are you alright?” Mira asks, a look of concern on her face.

“I think so, I was looking through the elf’s mind and just about to search for what she was doing here when that pain happened.” You explain rubbing your temples.

“Hmmmm that could possible be the Jin’s doing, lots of them have many different unpredictable powers, I wouldn’t be surprised if this one had some for of defense to prevent their worshippers minds from being searched by magic.” Elric says

“What, why didn’t you say something before master tried to enter her mind!” Mira says with a anger glare.

“H-hey like I said Jin have many strange and different powers from one another it’s almost impossible to tell what each on can or can’t do alright?” Elric huffs, annoyed at Mira.

“Still master I wouldn’t recommend doing that again, it seems that the Jin has laid traps in the elf’s mind.” Elric says to you.

“I see...” You say thinking as you look at Ressha on the ground.

She appears to be smirking behind her gag, happy to see you suffer. However she then has a look of confusion as you smirk right back at her.

“None the less I still want to extract as much information as possible from this dark elf before we press forward in the cesspool, if her fellow cult members are out their lying in wait I want to know.” You say taking a step towards Ressha.

“And if I can’t read her mind I’ll just have to get the answers out of her the fun way.” You say as a wide smile crawls across your face.