>>5303315“You used royal command again,” Glowie acknowledges softly.
Her thighs are squirming against one another, her pupils dilated, voice husky with the same hungry desire which fills her expression. You say nothing for a moment, then hastily turn your gaze from the altogether too-lewd sight. You cannot help but take attention, though, or to stand bolt upright as she settles into place beside you, tail touching yours, then beginning to intertwine
“Have thought about offer?” she whispers. “I’ve been thinking about it… A lot.”
You feel your <appetite> stir.
“Kobolds would make good egg-attendants,” the disguised glow-worm notes, “Or food for larvae. If you fertilize me now, maybe we start empire right here…”
You clear your throat, and shuffle away, pulling your tail from her own tail’s embrace.
“Excuse me,” you say, “there is still work to be done.”
And indeed there is, though the sun has began to set and to restore some modicum of darkness to this blindingly bright world, their reddish ending rays setting the Bloodrise ablaze with the rich, fiery colour which gave it its name. You and Glowie stop and stare for a moment, unable to contain your wonder. Such vividness of colour, such grandiose spectacle… Neither of you, having been born and reared in cramped darkness, have ever seen its like.
“Amazing,” Glowie gasps, clutching your arm.
You just nod. Eventually, you wrench your gaze from it to ask for a report from your forces.
“The kobolds are under control,” the Bastard informs you. “The Translator and I were able to work out how to get more precise information out of them in their own dialect, about their excavations. It seems that the Pretender closed off their mines to them after becoming ‘Dragonwrought’, so as to keep whatever treasures they found to himself. They pivoted to raiding as a basis for their wealth, instead. They’ve seen signs of human settlements nearby strengthening their garrisons in response, and a few said they’ve seen adventurers—renegade, freelance humanoid operatives—in the area, and have been engaged in skirmishes with them. Survivors who escaped those clashes, or the capture of this village have spread news of the kobolds, making this region well-known as a place ripe for exploitation by such extra-governmental operatives."
