Try to take over the guard

“Brim,” Tally mumbled under his breath so that his captor wouldn’t hear. “Brim, you need to do your thing with that guard.”

“I can’t do anything on my own,” said Brim. “I have no body, can only empower yours. You just need to make physical contact. I’ll handle the rest.”

Tally assessed his situation. He couldn’t very well sidle up to the guard to use his special touch without her noticing. He would need to be sly. He nonchalantly swayed on the spot a little- whistling, so as to appear extra casual. The guard on the gate eyed him incredulously.

Tally tried to get a feel for what his range of movement was like. He couldn’t go far from the spot the stake was planted, not without getting choked round the neck. He wasn’t sure if he was close enough to get to her.

Tally cleared his throat. “What do you want?” The guard said. “My, uh… my collar is kind of tight. Could you come loosen it for me?”

“Tough,” the guard said. “Wait until the general comes back, take it up with her.”

“Right,” Tally nodded understandingly. Plan A was a flop.

If he couldn’t get the guard to come to him, Tally had **** but to go to her. But he couldn’t approach with any sort of subtlety. His only chance was to make a mad leap for her, but what if the leash didn’t extend that far?

He waited for the right moment- and it came. The guard paused to take off one of her boots to try and fish out a pebble that had been bothering her all day. Tally used this moment of distraction to take a couple steps toward her, which gave him just barely enough clearance to tap her on the shoulder. But that tap was on clothes, he needed bare skin; so when the guard looked up, he used the very last of the slack from the leash to shove the palm of his hand straight into the guard’s face.

The guard made a muffled noise of indignation, but Brim’s magic acted quickly this time. Before she could even complete the motion to smack Tally’s hand away, the guard had decided she really liked the feeling of his hand, and so instead she pushed her face even deeper into it. She grabbed Tally’s wrist with both hands and started rubbing it all over her face, enjoying this strange wonderful feeling that was spreading into her. It only took around ten seconds for her to fully turn, far less than Mi had done. The guard’s moan from the orgasm was luckily muffled, since she still had her mouth pressed into Tally’s hand, which came out in his favor as he didn’t want to draw any attention.

As soon as she’d been fully converted, the all-consuming joy from touching Tally’s hand faded away, and the guard came back to her senses. She lifted her face out of his hand and looked at him, mouth slightly agape. “Would you mind taking this collar off?” Tally asked her. “Uh, sure,” the guard said, and quickly got to work undoing Tally’s restraint.

“I want to get through this gate,” Tally said, while the guard fiddled with the leather collar around his neck. “Okay,” she nodded, “give me just a second.” As soon as she had freed Tally, the guard started going through her ring of keys again. “Got it,” she said when she found the right one, and unlocked the gate. She opened it as quietly as she could, allowing Tally to squeeze through to the other side.

“Wait,” the guard said, holding onto the bars of the gate that now separated her from Tally. “You’ve had all your stuff taken away, haven’t you? Here, take this,” she reached behind her for the handle of an axe she carried on her back, and slipped it through the bars of the gate for Tally to take. “Thanks,” Tally said, weighing it in his hands. “Is there anything else I can do for you?” the guard asked hopefully.