A choice of fate

Given you have no way of telling what time it is or even how much time has passed you quickly fall into a routine to keep yourself sane though having Kern and Dorothea to keep you occupied in the way of company does help and you take to your new role as guard with surprising speed. Switching shifts with Kern that you guess to be every three to four hours, Kern and you will watch the women, letting one or two walk around at a time to stretch their sore muscles and squat into the chamber pots to relieve themselves.

There is even a room with a bathing pool off the main chamber and you and Kern take turns leading small groups of captives into the water so they can wash off the grime and clean their tear-streaked faces. More than once you climb into the water with the girls and the games of playful splashing and chasing about the thigh-deep water are not unlike the ones you and your friends played back on the riverbank of your master's plantation. As often as possible you take advantage of the situation to grope and squeeze the young noblewomen's lithe bodies.

You follow Kern's example when it is your watch allowing the captives no more or fewer liberties than the veteran, all the same the young women test you several times. On your first watch two of the captives insisted that as noblewomen they could not use the chamber pots while you were watching, and they demanded to be allowed to use the privacy of the latrines. With a laugh you dragged both their sorry asses back to the coffle and chained them back in their spots; as a ****, you learned long ago that anyone can shit and piss anywhere if they have been holding it for long enough.

Later that same day, a tall dark-skinned student, sat boldly on one of the couches instead of walking and defiantly refused to return to the chains. You bent her naked butt over the back of the couch and used a cubit length of leather strapping to tan her brown cheeks until they glowed a cherry red. After that, you had little trouble with women challenging you. Instead, you began to receive offers of sexual favors in exchange for preferential food and drink or more time out of their bonds. Some of the offers were harder to resist than others, but you remembered Caderos' admonition about cherry picking, and besides you had Dorothea waiting in your tent to fuck the minute Kern took over guard duty.

Dorothea is slowly growing more and more accustomed to her role as your sex toy, and she has a perverse desire to see her former tormentors humiliated and abused. Of course, whenever you tease her about how cruel those ideas are, she denies any wrongdoing and states that she's only doing the duties of a ****. Dorothea's tormentors in particular have been living a rough life since you took you particular interest in them.

Cleaning Dorothea's body of your cum was only the first of many indignities inflicted upon them as you pass the long hours. Kern used their spread thighs to teach you how to determine if a maiden's hymen was truly intact (all three of theirs unfortunately were) but you have no doubt that the public examination was for this trio, as bad if not worse than anything you did to them in the privacy of your tent.

You haven't fucked any of them of course, but you have shaved each of them bare and fingered their tight little slits with a carefully oiled finger like Kern showed you just for fun. By the time you finished shaving Mindi and Lellis and gently fingering them you have pretty much turned the two lackies against their former ringleader. You had the pair hold down Altheia by the edge of the bathing pool as you used Kern's razor to shave her as bald as her friends. Her **** struggles as you slipped your finger into her well-oiled pussy only added to the experience, and you could tell that the other two girls liked seeing Altheia brought down a peg or two as much as Dorothea did.

Your decision to focus your attention primarily on these three confuses your grey-haired companion who had discovered other options were available. Two of the former students, one from your coffle and a lovely blonde from Kern's select group, had no hymen and even one of the Athenian temple instructors had lost her cherry before falling into her current fate. The blonde student swore that they had never slept with a boy, but the other confessed in tears that she had been **** by an associate of her father; the priestess refused to answer any questions. How these three lost their cherries was irrelevant. There were now three more women to fuck, and you tried out both the students leaving the Priestess for Kern. The change was nice, but unlike Dorothea, sex with the three was almost routine. The better of the two turned out to be the shy-looking brunette with long hair and big brown eyes from your coffle.

You used every trick you learned from Eudora about how to please a woman and she came close to coming a couple times, but nothing like the way Dorothea would shudder and cry out when you pushed her over the edge. Both of these young women were nice and tight and were it not for the lack of their maidenheads could surely have passed for virgins, especially the blonde from Kern's coffle who put up a nice fight before you finally got your cock all the way in. In the end you mostly just fucked Dorothea, leaving Kern to enjoy the other three. And, for some reason you can't quite explain, you continued to torment Lellis, Mindi and Altheia.

There were certainly prettier young women, even in your coffle, but you were enjoying breaking the arrogant aura of superiority that these haughty aristocrats had. Even after what must have been about two days, Altheia was still as nasty as ever, but both her lackeys are beginning to improve. You reward each of them with a private trip to your tent where you patiently stroke their pussies until each one screams in climax loud enough for everyone in the enclosed chamber to know what had occurred in your private sanctuary. Dorothea must have particularly enjoyed that because as soon as you had chained Lellis back in the coffle she was waiting and didn't even pretend to resist you when you climbed on top of her lush body. Apparently, she had a long list of ideas for **** hidden away and she is determined to have as much enjoyment out of this time as she can. As you fuck her, she tells you what she'd like to see happen to her tormentors. For your part you do not mind helping her bring these dark fantasies to life. Once these three reach the auction block it's doubtful you will see any of these women again so you intended to get as much pleasure from them as possible while you could.

Many hours and several good fucks later, it's time for a meal and Kern is cooking some kind of soup for the two of you. The slaves had already been fed a simple meal of boiled gruel and were all once again secured; to pass the time you talk with Kern about things. Surprisingly the gruff old man is actually very easy to talk to.

"Wonder if the men up top got attacked?" You ask but Kern just shrugs as he stirs the pot.

"Maybe, we're so deep underground we wouldn't hear it if they did." He carefully tastes a spoonful of the broth before continuing "I doubt they would all die that easily. They're too tough for that," he jokes and elbows you, "but we can dream eh Adonis? You and me splitting this catch down the middle?" He grins broadly enough for you to see his missing teeth.

"Are you sure you could keep up with responsibilities like that Kern?" you tease, and he just slaps your back.

"Bloody cheeky that's what that is!" But he shares a deep laugh with you and starts passing out the bread that has gone a little stale.

"So, what will we do once we get outta here anyway?" you ask and Kern shrugs again "best I can guess that's up to the strategists, but the men in the unit will each get a split of the loot based on how much each one did. Likely, you'll get a little more than most, thanks to your help in finding these pretty little virgins." He motions with a thumb at the chained-up women "You'll probably get your choice of which of these pretty to you want to keep or sell...well within reason," he jokes "I mean, we can't have you leave with all of them."

"I don't think I would make friends that way." Kern's only answer is to grin at you in response.

"As for after this, we might head back to camp and get new orders. Captain's not exactly a regular army so we get all sorts of odd orders after every mission." Kern states and you nod your head quickly finishing your meal by soaking up the rest of the soup with your last crust. Kern suddenly get more serious "So Adonis what you think of the life of a solider, huh?" You have been wrestling with this exact question for days now, but Kern continues without missing a beat. "Being an ex-****, this must be a change for you?" he eyes you with a smirk.

"...Its different." You admit with none of the assumed bravado you usually assume. "Lots of new rules and responsibilities and skills but when you start at the bottom of the latrine pit, the only place you can go is up." and Kern nods.

"Wise words, Adonis." And then he grins again "From someone barely old enough to hold his own prick when he pisses."

Any further conversation is cut off as you hear a faint banging from the stairway above, and the women in the cave scream and cower some thinking they're under attack and others believing that they are being rescued. Kern isn't letting them get out of hand either way.

"Shut it sluts. We'll handle it!" He snaps and looks at you with a nod. You grab your shield and sword leaving the bulky breastplate and spear before following the old veteran up the steps. carefully you reach the door where the banging is coming from. Kern holds up a hand to stop you and you wait a minute as the banging stops and then it starts again Kern listens for a few minutes before he nods his head.