It's too risky

The Temple of Athena! Your mind nearly explodes with a wild range of emotions. The Temple of Athena was the religious center of the fallen city, as the patron goddess of the city, Athena's Temple would certainly be the richest of all the great marble edifices that graced the Courtyard of the Gods at the foot of the Citadel itself. To capture the High Priestess of Athena and reduce this arrogant woman to a needy **** begging for the touch of a man could bring honor, and prestige in the eyes of the soldiers of the coalition.

The potential upside - unlimited riches, honor and glory and a perhaps most tempting of all a collection of pampered priestesses for your men to capture and chain - was limitless. These priestesses were renown worldwide for their beauty, and it was said that every year men of all classes had despaired when they saw the grace and elegance of these forbidden clerics knowing that they could never feel the joy of their embrace. Unlike the servants of Aphrodite who were trained and practiced in all manner sensual pleasure and whose rituals and sanctified rites mandated the joining of holy flesh with the bodies of lucky worshipers, each of the Priestesses of Athena was sworn to chastity.

Like Cassiopeia, their lovely curves have been touched by no man and this purity, as you just heard, was guaranteed by the zealous inspections of the High Priestess herself. Cities from all corners of the known world sent their fairest daughters to serve in the temple competing with each other for the honor of serving the goddess. Lithesome young maidens of every ethnicity and culture with skin tones ranging from ebony to milky white with every shade in between, and whose bodies and hair colors could enflame any man's carnal tastes were sent each year to serve the goddess Athena in her city.

Furthermore, you knew, only the loveliest of these beauties would be selected to serve in the main temple here in Athenapolis. Each and every one of these captive priestesses and young acolytes would bring a fortune at auction from men who lusted after that which had always been forbidden. You and your men would be richer than the richest merchant families of Athenapolis. Who could blame you if a few of these women reached the auction block with blood on their inner thighs and not quite as pristine as ...

With an angry shake of your head you dismiss the fanciful image that was forming in your mind. The city leaders of Athenapolis had plenty of time to prepare for the worst during the siege, surely all of the treasure and probably most of the priestesses would be safe in the Citadel by now. Even those junior acolytes who lacked the connections needed to secure sanctuary in the Citadel would be scattered across the city like Cassiopeia sent back to seek what shelter she could with her family. You wonder briefly if all of the other teenaged acolytes were as pleasing to the eye as your captive, or as responsive to a man's touch after years of enforced celibacy.

The final factor in your decision was your understanding of just how carefully the plunder of this city had been planned. Just as the generals had sent your squad ahead to cut the drake wires, other squads surely must have been assigned to raid key targets like the Temple of Athena. To risk loosing what you already had - your eyes sweep across the room and take in the sight of the women who you had already claimed - for the tiny chance of a reward (no matter how fantastic) made no sense in the hard calculus of war.

"No Nicia," You tell her, "I think we'll leave the High Priestess' punishment to someone else's pleasure, probably a Lord or General. A junior Captain like myself will have to be content with this lowly young acolyte." You see Cassiopeia blush a lovely shade of pink as your eyes sweep over her naked curves again.

"Besides," You add with a sheepish grin "after last night and this morning, I doubt I could get hard again even if every single priestess in the temple were paraded naked before me for my pleasure."

A week ago you couldn't even imagine such a harem, but they'd all be here this evening and in the mean time you had much to do to secure your holdings. The hoards of soldiers flooding into the city might not be too particular about whose side you were on when they saw this tempting city estate and the luscious fruit that could be found in its gardens.