She accepts her fate

Teysa's exploration of her environment didn't take long. The cave was small and contained no furnishings aside from the glow-jars. There were a couple of pads of webbing, areas where it was spun thicker; Teysa supposed those might be sleeping nooks. One corner held a pool of water that fed from a tiny waterfall pouring out of a crack in the wall. The water was startlingly clear and Teysa cupped her hands to drink from the falls. It was crisp and refreshing. Looking around she could see there were dozens of spiderlings crawling or climbing through the webs. Most of them shied away from her, but a few ran over inquisitively. Teysa didn't feel particularly maternal towards any of these; she gently shooed them away with one hand.

Aliara groaned as she came around. She folded her legs beneath her, wincing as she sat up. "Tey? Tey, are you there?"
Teysa crawled over. "Yes, Li. I'm here. I'm here." She wrapped her arm around the other woman's shoulders. "How are you feeling?"
Teysa grimaced. "Well, I'm really, really sore." A half-smile crept across her face. "I feel a little more sympathetic for mothers, though. I used to think they had picked the soft option."
In spite of everything, Teysa found herself smiling. Li really was irrepressible. "Li, a drider came in while you were out. Not the big one, a smaller one. She... I don't know what she did, some kind of magic, but it let her communicate with me. This is some kind of nursery, I guess. They want us to raise the... uh, the children."
"Raise them?" Aliara gaped. "How the... how are we supposed to raise a bunch of spiders?"

Teysa shrugged, before realizing the uselessness of the gesture. "How do you raise a human... er, humanoid child? I don't know, I wasn't planning on that either. I don't think they're going to kill us, though. She seemed to think it was an honor. I think we have some leverage."

Aliara considered this. "Leverage? Well, maybe they can fix my eyes. Can't hurt to ask, right?" She stared blindly at the wall. "I hear water. Is there water?" Teysa took her by the hand and led her across the room. "There's a little pool here. The water's good." She held out Aliara's hand under the water, and the half-elf drank eagerly. "It is good! I feel like I need a bath, too. How long were we hanging from that wall?"

Both women gingerly eased their way into the pool. It was large enough for two and, while cool, the water was not unpleasantly cold. Teysa winced as the water reached her sex, but as she relaxed and soaked she felt tension ebbing out of her muscles. The water clouded as Teysa and Aliara scrubbed each other's backs. "Ahhhhhh," sighed the half-elf, "speaking of things I didn't think I'd get to do again. This feels nice." She held her hair under the waterfall and rinsed it as best she could.

The webbing proved absorbent enough to dry them both off nicely. Afterwards, they sat together, brainstorming. Aliara was trying to plan an escape, but Teysa was more cautious.

"Li, think about it. Even if we got out of here, where do we go? No offense, but you won't be leading us to the surface in your condition. And I certainly can't do it! That tracking stuff was always your job! We'd need weapons, armor... I think ours is probably somewhere in this cave warren, but where? Let's walk before we run."
Aliara pounded a fist against the floor in frustration. "I know, Teysa, I know. You're right. It's just... I feel like there's a sword hanging over our heads. What happens when they don't need us here anymore? Are we food? Or do they just stuff us full of eggs again like brood sows?"

Teysa couldn't gainsay that-- she had considered the possibility herself. But what could they do? If they couldn't fight off the driders as a party, prepared, with armor and weapons, what chance did they have now?

Some time later the smaller drider returned. She proffered her breast to Teysa, but instead of taking it, the paladin insistently gestured towards her friend. The drider looked confused. Teysa opened her mouth and pointed at the drider, then at her own ears. Understanding, their captor incanted again.

{what do you require?}

Aliara started. "I heard that! Tey, what's going on?"

Teysa hushed her. "My friend here is hurt. She can't see. Can you help her?"

The drider paused for a long time. Just when Teysa thought she was going to leave, she gave an uncertain nod.

{i... shall see. i will not pledge/vow/oath to you. do you hunger?}

Aliara stumbled forward. "Yes! Please, yes!" She had missed the first feeding, however many hours ago it had been. _She must be starving. _The half-elf nearly fell face-first into the drider's ample bosom. Planting her mouth firmly over the drider's right teat she began to suck in great, greedy gulps of ambrosia. Teysa followed a bit more hesitantly. She sipped from the left breast. The ambrosia was warm and filling and, she figured, she would need to marshal her strength.

When she pulled away her companion was still drinking. Finally Aliara toppled backward. Her sightless eyes rolled back into her head and she wiped her mouth with the back of one hand. The drider watched her for a moment.

{i will ask about your request. i go now.} With that she retreated out of the cave.

Teysa and Aliara fell into a routine. After feeding, the spiderlings crawled around them. They spun gossamer webs, climbed the walls and tussled with each other like dogs. The two women praised the webs, watched the climbers carefully and separated combatants. The spiders were intelligent and curious creatures. They couldn't speak, but they seemed to understand after a fashion. When one of their mothers spoke, they crowded around to hear. They enjoyed the stories of adventure best. Teysa regaled them with tales of enemies smote by the power of the sun (a foreign concept to them, best explained as a giant glow-worm) and Aliara kept them on edge with stories of narrow escapes and **** battles. After a day of caring for the spiders both women would bathe in the pool and fall asleep cuddled together under a blanket of silk.

After several weeks of this their regular feeder did not show up. Instead the giant drider who had captured them in the first place came to visit. She had to bend over nearly completely to make her way into the room. She opened her mouth to speak and, to Teysa's shock, instead of the hissing tongue of the driders she spoke in heavily accented but basically intelligible Common.

"Hyou have honored our warren, clutch-motherssss. Hyour sssservice iz noted. I grant you a boon." She fixed her black-on-black eyes on Aliara. "Come forth, child." Aliara stumbled forward nervously. "Yesssss. I feel it. Hyou live in darknesssss. I will lift hyour burden." She embraced the half-elf, pulling her face to her bosom. Aliara's head almost disappeared between the drider's gargantuan mammaries. The spider-woman began to chant again. A nimbus of golden light surrounded her, a thousand motes of glow. They sank into Aliara's skin and suffused her. With a strangled cry the half-elf fainted away.

Teysa leapt forward. The drider held up a hand to stop her and gently laid her friend down on the ground. "Hold. Hyour friend is healed, but she will be weak. Tend her." With that, she proffered one massive breast. "Feed."
The paladin stepped cautiously over Aliara and, squatting, took the drider's nipple in her mouth. Her ambrosia was richer and warmer than that they had enjoyed for the past few weeks. It melted like honey on her tongue. Teysa drank until she was sated and sat back. "T-thank you. Please... how shall I address you?"
The drider regarded her coolly. "I am Matron." With that, she withdrew into the tunnels beyond the cave.

Teysa splashed some water onto Aliara's face. Sputtering a little her companion came around. "Teysa..." she murmured. Her eyes snapped open. They were more focused than they had been in weeks. "Teysa, I can see! It's blurry, but I can see you!" She was weeping for joy. Teysa felt a tear prick the corner of her eye as well. "Li, that's incredible!" Aliara laughed out loud. "I can see, I can see!" She crowed happily and threw her arms outward. Teysa leaned forward, embracing her friend, laughing happily.

And suddenly they were kissing.

Aliara's mouth locked around Teysa's, her tongue questing between her friend's lips. Teysa hesitated before pressing back into the kiss. She moved quickly, urgently, with a need she had never felt before. Aliara's scent filled her nose. Teysa pressed herself down on top of her friend. Her arm felt blindly up and down Li's torso until the half-elf took her hand, guiding it and placing it on her breast. Teysa squeezed and felt warm milk seeping out between her fingers. Beneath her, Aliara gasped, momentarily breaking their kiss. Teysa responded with another firm squeeze as her other hand wrapped around Aliara's shoulders. Both of the half-elf's arms were wrapped around Teysa's back and she stroked up and down. One hand teasingly slapped Teysa's ass, the other twined itself through her hair and pulled her closer.

The paladin was the first to break the kiss. She pressed her mouth down on Aliara's left breast while she continued to squeeze the other. The half-elf bit her lip to stifle her moans as Teysa's tongue ran in circles around her nipple. Teysa sucked fiercely. Her friend's milk was not like the ambrosia of the driders; it was less sweet but had a heady, musky taste. She couldn't get enough. Both of Li's hands were in her hair now, twirling, pushing, pulling, rubbing. Teysa pushed off and began to plant kisses on the half-elf's body. First between her breasts, then on her sternum, her stomach, her navel, and below. Aliara parted her legs as Teysa planted a kiss delicately on her clitoris. She had intended just to kiss, but seeing it flower there in front of her, she parted the half-elf's nether lips with her tongue.

Aliara stiffened and folded her legs around Teysa's back to pin her close. Teysa lapped greedily. She reached one hand around to rub her companion's clit first clockwise and then counter-clockwise. Li's pussy was so wet, and her juices tasted like nothing Teysa had ever had before. She rubbed faster and harder. Her hand blurred as she probed her tongue deeper inside, tasting Aliara, worshiping at her altar.

Abruptly the half-elf's legs began to twitch. One hand still held Teysa's hair and she spasmed, pulling the paladin by the hair. She didn't care. Aliara arched her back and screamed with pleasure as her orgasm overtook her. Trapped between her legs Teysa continued to lick and rub as her friend's spasmodic movements died down. Finally her legs relaxed enough that Teysa could free herself. She slithered up along Li's body and nestled her head against the other woman's shoulder.

"You taste good," Teysa whispered, grinning. "Do I?" replied her companion with a smirk. She kissed Teysa's lips, lightly. "I love you, Tey. Thank you... for everything." They lay there for a while, neither daring to say anything.

Little by little, talk of escape ceased. They were content to raise their children, to splash in the pool, and to love each other freely as the mood took them. Eventually the driders allowed them free reign in the warren and they walked for hours through winding tunnels and wide-open caverns. There was stunning natural beauty down here and Teysa felt pleased that she had someone to share it with. When the time came for another clutch the matron herself asked their permission, and they were happy to grant it. They giggled and compared bellies, both packed with eggs, and when the time for birth came each midwifed the other.

All most adventurers have to look forward to was **** or retirement. This wasn't the retirement Teysa and Aliara had envisioned, but they couldn't have asked for better.

GAME OVER