Shairi's Resolve.

Shairi’s thoughts snapped back to her reflection. Behind her, she could see her cat, Quiess, sitting on the bed.

“What are you going to do?” Queiss asked. For Queiss, despite what Shairi’s mistress thought, was no ordinary cat. In fact, she had once been a mighty succubus. Meritheir had bound her into a stone, and Shairi had transferred her essence into a stray cat, which now acted as her familiar.

Shairi reached for a pair of panties. Meritheir didn’t approve of underwear – she never wore any herself, and often forbade it to her apprentice. In fact, she often made Shairi wear outfits that showed off her body rather than concealing it, or made her parade nude in front of her guests and slaves. This was all the more humiliating for how aroused it made her.

“I told you,” she said to the demon-cat, “I’m going to leave. By the way, you were out late last night. I could have used your spying. And there seemed to be an awful lot of yowling.”

“Mmm… there was a big black tom-cat. Don’t look at me like that,” she added. “I used to be violated by armies of demons in ways too perverse for your mind to understand. Cats are the best I can manage these days – I’m nearly as hard up as you. And what I meant was, what will you do after you leave? What do you want?”

“I want to learn more magic,” Shairi said, continuing dressing. “and to get this spell off my pussy so I can become a woman.”

Queiss chortled.

“What?” Shairi demanded.

“Well, it’s hardly a great ambition. Is that all?”

“No,” Shairi snapped. “I want… lots of power. To be the greatest sorceress ever. To have power that rivals the gods. And… and to be a queen. To rule a nation, and have an army of slaves serving my every whim. And to be able to bed anyone I want. To have men and women the world over thinking about me when they masturbate, and screaming my name when they cum. I want to rule the world.”

This moment – a moment that would changed history – past unmarked by anything other than Queiss’s scornful laughter.

“You’ll see,” Shairi muttered. “I’ll be a queen.”