The red crystal calls

You stir as you feel the call of the crystal cavern, rising from the bed where the adventurer sleeps still. You tuck her in before donning your initiate's robe, and leaving the farm house, but are surprised to find you are the only one on the path towards the cavern. Despite your recent exertions, you feel your loins stirring with the familiar need, beckoning you onward as you enter the cavern.

As you pass from the dark tunnel into the main hall, you are again struck by the lack of your fellow cultists, your brow furrowing lightly in confusion. At the back of the cave, the door to the inner sanctum, normally closed until the climax of the ceremony, stands open, pulsing red light, seemingly in time with the aching throb in your sex, pouring forth into the room.

Unconsciously you drop your robe to the floor, taking a step forward, then another. Your heartbeat quickens as the light envelops you, warming you and stoking the flames of your desire ever higher. The crimson radiance is overwhelming as you step over the threshold, all but blinding you while the door closes behind you.

Gradually your eyes adjust, and you make out the source of the light, the red crystal itself at the centre of the room. It calls to you, not through sound, but through desire, lust, passion. Your inner thighs are slick with moisture. You touch yourself, wantonly, giving yourself over to the crystal's radiance, but retain your feet. You have never been so close to it as you are now. Never before luxuriated for so long in the light of lust. And yet it is not enough.

You reach out a shaking hand and place it on the crystal itself. And scream as burning power surges into you, for just a second, a second that feels like eternity as you drop to your knees, fingering yourself in a frenzy. Molten fire courses through the veins of your arm in that moment of contact, glittering red traceries beneath your pale skin and then it's gone, and the glow slowly fades as the crystal becomes inert.

Panting heavily you slide into unconsciousness.