The Ritual of Synn (Part 3)

Author: Taarhal

Rowanne stumbled along behind the Felsteed, the bottom third of her yellow dress caked in mud , a large leather pack strapped to her back and an imp sat on top, pulling at her long black hair as she moved.

The girl looked up at Synn who rode the mount, looking all the world like a queen from her lofty position.

“ummm my love , do you think we could stop and rest soon, my feet are getting very sore, maybe it would have been better had you let me wear some boots instead of going barefoot….” Rowanne held her breath, hoping her words did not cause to much of an outburst from the succubus.

Synn looked back at the bedraggled girl following the Felsteed “really girl, I agree to take you out on an adventure , which is what you wanted and when I do, all you do is complain and whine, I don`t wear boots and you don`t hear me complaining about being sore”

“but…umm, my love…you have hooves and not feet, feet are much softer, and umm also your not walking your riding my mount”

“Oh…so its my fault, is that what your saying girl?, its not my problem that you have inferior body parts that don`t enable you to walk is it!, we will keep going another few miles then I may allow you a break, now stop your complaining and entertain me with a song”

Rowanne bit her lip, not wanting to anger the demon any further, and started to instead sing a rather vulgar song about drunk pirates at sea , much to the delight of Synn, but a delighted Synn was much better than a grumpy Synn, Rowanne thought to herself as she sung the words, words a lady of her noble upbringing really shouldn’t have been uttering at all.



The sun slowly moved lower in the sky as they trudged on and the promised few miles seemed to increase with every step for Rowanne, who more and more opted to walk in the mud at the side of the track, rather than on the hard sharp stones of the roadway which hurt her feet more. Finally and to Rowanne’s relief Synn moved the Felsteed off the track and into some woodland, which after a short walk then opened up into a shallow grassy glade with a clear fast flowing stream running through the lowest part.

The Demon dismounted from the horse and looked around the glade, then peered over at Rowanne whose lower half was caked in mud and her hair clung to her face from the sweating on the long hard march to get here

“you really do look a state girl, how you ever managed to do without me I will never know, take yourself down to that stream and make yourself presentable, then you may come back and eat something”

Rowanne unclipped the heavy pack from her shoulders and dropped it to the ground, several more imps clambering out from it as she did, rubbing their eyes after waking from the nap they had been having inside, she then walked slowly down towards the stream the lush slightly damp grass feeling so good on her sore bare feet, a couple of the imps followed close behind her chattering in demonic and cackling amoung themselves.

She stopped as she reached the waters edge, the stream was fairly fast flowing, the water crystal clear, and sparkling like diamonds as it caught the rays of the setting sun.

Rowanne pulled off her mud caked dress and pulled off her under garments and then dipped a toe into the water, gasping to herself at its icy touch, but she knew she didn’t have much choice, returning unwashed would just lead to Synn thinking up a worse method to get her clean and after all she thought to herself, this is part of the adventurers life, its what I wanted, I can`t expect nice hot warm baths as an adventurer.

She slowly stepped down into the water and waded out until she was waist deep, inhaling sharply with each step as the cold water rushed over her bare skin, but it felt good to get the dirt off and her feet felt far less painful too. So she took a little time rubbing her dirty body and humming softly to herself as she did and despite the effort of the long and hard walk getting here she had to admit Synn had picked a beautiful spot to camp.

When she felt she was finally clean and her legs and toes were numb with the cold she waded back to the river bank and stepped out, water dripping from her to the grass , she looked around noticing the imps that had followed her down were gone, but more alarming to her was that so were her clothes that she had left in a pile on the grass, she looked quickly up and down the bank, wondering if she had come out in a different place than she had entered, but there was no sign of the imps or her clothing. She cursed under her breath and looked up the glade to where Synn had a fire lit and smoking, she shivered in the chill evening air and starting moving quickly towards it, covering her modesty with her hands as best she could, despite the fact there was no one really around to see her nudity.

Synn smirked at Rowanne as she reached the camp “where are your clothes dear, did you lose them?”

Rowanne huffed as she stood near the fire, getting some much needed warmth back into herself “no my love, I think the imps took them, I don`t suppose you noticed what they might have done with them did you?”

Synn looked from the naked woman to the fire , then back at Rowanne “Oh well I did wonder what the imps were using to make the fire, never mind”

Rowanne stared down at the fire, able to see the last traces of her yellow dress burning in the flames “they burnt my clothes!, what am I supposed to wear?”

Synn shrugged “You know what the imps are like dear, there not very smart and there as lazy as anything and i`m sure when you took your clothing off they assumed you didn’t need it anymore, you can hardly blame them!, and i`m sure you have something else packed you can put on, don`t you?”

“Umm no my love because when I was packing you told me I was taking to long and to stop fussing over dresses, so I didn`t put anything else to wear in my pack”

Synn chuckled softly “oh well dear, never mind , let me have a think about it and i`ll come up with a solution, while I do that, go get yourself some food and warm yourself up, you look like your catching a cold standing there like that”

Synn grinned as she watched Rowanne move over to the pack, thinking to herself how amusing this adventuring was proving to be, so much better than any adventures she had been on before.