40 minutes later

True to his word, Gaul let her rest, but there was another cast away hidden in the diminutive room, a quiet voyeur that saw everything that happened to the princess, and didn't say anything. He also though the princess wanted to rest, but she started to touch herself rather intimately after about half an hour, and that picked the tiny beholder's interest.

The princess pulled up her dress, and lazily started to massage her no longer virgin anus. On some level she was glad it was her rear entrance, for she understood the implications were it her pussy. "It could have been war". She also started to hub her pussy entrance, but she soon noticed the mesmerized floating meatball, and opened her mouth to scream

"Quiet" The thing ordered, and a ray shot from one of its eyestalks and hit the princess, compelling her to obey. "I am a friend. I only hid here. I mean you no harm" Each of the short phrases was articled by a sharp fanged mouth, but it appeared more comic than threatening. The meatball wasn't larger than a melon, and had no wings, it had just four tentacles coming from the meatball, each ending in a green eye, it also had a much larger central blue eye. How could it remain afloat?, Liandra thought.

"I am Princess Liandra" She introduced herself, and suddenly remembered her exposed sex. She covered herself again. "Call me Chive. I am a beholder" It was even kind of cute, Liandra though, and touched one of his eyestalks as if she was shaking his hand.

Apparently Chive ran away after his mother sacrificed herself to let her litter run away from an evil magician. It was very uncharacteristic of a beholder, but his mother, and himself, really, didn't always behave like beholders should "We are aberrations" Chive said sadly.

They spoke for several minutes, but then it neared the time when the cook was supposed to come back, so Chive hid away. "Why don't you stay with me? that way you don't need to hide" . The beholder kin was unsure, but decided he could trust the princess for some reason.