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(MMf, nc, rp, v) *** PART 3: Clerical Problems The young lady of the manor was breaking her fast with her two favorites; Gregory, the captain of her much depleted guard force who had been out among the tenants trying to recruit a few young men; and Roth, the brave knight she had inherited from the Grant estate by dint of helping to rid the old duchess of her foul son. She now enjoyed them alternately, much to their satisfaction as well as her own. The sprightly girl, still not twenty years of age, was so demanding in bed that a day of rest between multiple couplings was of great benefit to the men concerned. As the young woman chewed her roasted venison from last night's supper, sipped her mead and dipped bread into a bowl of oil, she considered a large sheet of rolled parchment which had been delivered by a monk on a donkey and sealed with wax and ribbons. It was, obviously, an ornate and illuminated form with the date, her family's name and estate filled into the blanks and in it lay the local bishop's demand to know why her annual tithe had not been paid and when payment could be expected. Threats were added, including damnation and excommunication, almost as an afterthought. Tamsyn studied the signatures and wiped her lips, amused as well as annoyed. "Fetch me the green ledger from the library," she said to Gregory, and then smiled and added, "please," a word she had seldom used before her father's murder and her insane brother's gory demise. Tamsyn, when she thought about, realized she had been a spoiled and headstrong child, but she did not think about the past very often. The huge tome was produced, Tamsyn found the right page, and pursed her lips. The previous year, her father had indeed paid about ten one-hundredth of his income to the church and into the hands of Bishop Alfred, whose scrawled signature stood at the bottom of the fancy parchment she had received. "Bring that monk up here," she said to Roth, and then with a blood-warming smile, "if you please." The young knight had been most diligent between her legs the previous evening and, she noted with a small smile, had a bit of a limp today. Her own insides, she was becoming aware, were still recovering from her foul torture which was now some six weeks past. The knight summoned the poor mendicant who was still at his meal of gruel and cider in the back of the hall where the dogs usually lay. Tamsyn finished lacing up her crimson corset, raked back her dark hair, sat him down beside her, offered him some bread and meat, and then pointed at the page with her dining blade. "Do you see this, reverend father?" she said. "No, no," he interjected, "I am but a poor brother, and a novice at that." "Then see here, brother, what my father got from his tenants last year. There and there. Right?" "I cannot read, my lady," the scruffy man said. Tamsyn studied him and tried to ignore his stale smell. She wondered when he or his clothes had last been washed. "I will tell you then. Can you remember?" He nodded rapidly. "Oh yes, my lady." "Well then," she tried to think of equivalents since the manor's income was in bushels of grain, haunches of cured beef, pork and venison, reeves of dead birds, kegs of beer and wine and strings of smoked hams for the most part. No money was involved, neither gold nor silver, not pounds or ducats, florins or royals, farthings or pence. Tamsyn closed her eyes, took a deep breath and said, "Perhaps the equal of twenty English pounds, gold coin you understand, nothing clipped, in shillings perhaps four hundred. Twenty then was his income so two was his tithe. Understand?" The man nodded, counting on his fingers. Tamsyn was well aware that her father's income had been much greater and that it had been gathered in at other places and in other barns where the bishop's agents would not find it. The demesne itself had fed the manor but that was not considered income. The apprentice monk nodded and Tamsyn flipped pages. "Now here is this year just past, these totals, our true account which I have reported. Note please, sir, income, nil, just a few token sheaves of corn, tokens, naught but symbols, a small flask of weak beer." She tapped the page with her blade. "The drought, sir monk, and the troubles that spread across the land from the uprising in Dover in the spring and in Wales later not to mention the Scottish disaster in the fall, just at harvest time when the fires raged as you will recall." The monk nodded, showing his bare tonsure and dirty scalp. He looked not to have shaved for a week, and Tamsyn wondered if his order did not include a surgeon-barber. "So," said Tamsyn patiently, "what is a tenth of naught, eh?" She paused but he only stared. "Naught is the answer. Tell the lord bishop that the Westcombridge keep will, I hope, pay next year after the harvest and pay its rightful tithe in full." The man licked his lips and looked at the lovely girl with dull eyes, unblinking. "Please repeat my message," she said. "Last year was good and you paid your proper share. This year was bad and you have nothing to pay for nothing is due." "Fair enough," the girl said and dug an old silver penny from her leather purse, a dinarius, and handed it to the man. "This is for your trouble." He bowed and departed, a crust of bread in his hand, leaving his smell behind. "Do you know this bishop?" she asked Roth. He shook his head. "I've seen him, in his fancy robes and gored sleeves, his decorated alb, slippered and barbered, always with his fancy staff in his hand. He is, they say, planning to build his own cathedral." He stopped, considered, and continued. "I have heard that he prefers young boys' asses." "I thought that time had passed; the cathedral building I mean," said the young woman, holding back her smile. "Hasn't the land enough churches? Every village has at least one." The knight shrugged, feeling himself beginning to be aroused as usual when he was near his mistress. "How goes the drainage work?" she asked Gregory. "You were out there in the new assart for a long time yesterday." And so, they all assumed, the question of the tithe was settled. A month after the letter from the bishop, the portly man himself arrived in a sturdy carriage pulled by four horses, unexpected and unannounced. He came through Tamsyn's open portal along with a train of servants, guards and supporters numbering, her gateman told her, more than a dozen. Tamsyn was in her library and hurriedly put on her good kirtle and bodice, raked her dark hair into place with two combs and tied it back, slipped into her soft boots with their fancy tops and went down to the hall where the lordly bishop, his meek secretary and two robed priests waited, all four looking peevish and impatient. "Where is the lord of the manor?" the bishop's thin- nosed secretary asked when Tamsyn swirled in followed by her knight, his huge sword at his side, his high boots shining and cod piece tightly cinched. Her guard captain was off after some poachers, and Roth had served her within the hour, a refreshing tumble at mid-morning that had left both of them breathing hard. "I am Tamsyn, this is my keep," said the proud girl, lifting her chin and swallowing a smile. "Duchess of Westcombridge is my title, sir. This is my land, my home, my inheritance. And who are you?" "This is his excellency, Bishop Alfred," the pantalooned man said with a bow and a wave, "and I am John Bosely, his scribner or secretary. This is Father Ralph and that is Deacon Ignatius of the diocesan treasury, a holy monk as you can see. We are riding a circuit, you might say, visiting many manors and keeps, plus a few minor castles and kirks. Collecting the tithe, the overdue tithe." "And to what do I owe this honor for I have no tithe to pay. I fear our hospitality is limited, but I can offer you some of our new wine and bowls of pottage." Tamsyn looked from man to man and saw that they were a sour looking bunch. She wondered what they had expected and stood up a bit straighter, lifting her chin and narrowing her eyes, in control of both her breathing and her temper. "We had been told," said John Bosely, "that the duchess of Westcombridge was a whore and that her estate was in rebellion and allied with the Scots or perhaps a rebellious clan. Is this not so?" Tamsyn took a deep breath and moved around to sit on the dais and behind her dining table so that she put all the men, including the haughty bishop, a foot or so below her. She sat and clasped her hands on the tabletop, holding her seething temper in check, knowing her cheeks had reddened. "Did you get my message about tithing," she asked, looking directly at the bishop's florid face. "I told that smelly monk you sent." His secretary answered. "We did, but your response, if it was yours, is not satisfactory. We are building a cathedral and need money, lady, coin, gold. We have been told your father hoarded his wealth, concealed it." Tamsyn took a deep breath and licked her lips. Her late father's hoarded wealth, as far as money was concerned, had consisted of two Spanish gold pieces of uncertain worth which his daughter had used for his wake, his burial and his so-far undecorated stone. "Fetch my strong box," she said to Roth, omitting her now common, "please." "There is," she said directly and coldly to the bishop, ignoring the others, "no truth in any of what you believe, what you may have heard from my enemies, perhaps from my murderous brother's foul friends. He had many of those, sycophants. I am not a whore. This is not a house of pleasure or of sinfulness. This is my rightful land. We are, I hope, a godly people. I have pledged to my late father's liege lord, the Earl of Winchester in Hampshire, as best I can, in writing, my perfect fealty. We are and have always been loyal to the house of Plantagenet, to King Edward, and neither my father nor I have any hoarded wealth." Roth appeared with the small, iron-bound box and sat it down. Tamsyn opened it was a tiny key on his cincture and dumped out its contents. Two pieces of paper and some dust fell to the table. "The papers," she said with a small smile, "are promises to pay from two of my oldest tenants, to pay last year's rent in one case and two years in the other. He broke his leg in the spring." The bishop stood, banged his ornate crosier down on the stones and said, quite loudly and spraying spittle, "I do not bargain with corrupt women. Why have you no man here, a chamberlain at least?" "My brother is but of ten years, lord bishop, barely that, and in school with the holy nuns," said Tamsyn with a wave toward the distant convent on the moors. "The last lord, my father, was slain by his son, who was, we assume, possessed, and I killed him, my father's murderer, and thus by succession made myself lord of this land, of this manor." "Impossible," said the bishop, his voice rising. "Arrest her. She killed her liegelord, her own brother, the rightful heir; foul fratricide shall not go unpunished in this realm. It is just as I have been told. The holy inquisition shall have the truth from her." He made a smile like a grimace. "It is the flames for you, foul bitch." The two priests in their long cassocks approached Tamsyn who stood where she was, behind the long table with the overturned box on it, her hand at her ivory- handled dining knife, her gorge rising. Roth stepped down to the stone floor, drew his wide blade with a hiss of steel and held it across his body diagonally, his teeth bared as he faced the clergymen, smiling. The priests stopped, looked at the bishop and backed up a step or two. "Arrest her. He won't kill an anointed priest and go to hell. Grab her." The bishop pointed and cried loudly, his wattles shaking. "I am her knight, m'lord bishop, properly sworn. I will protect my lady with my life," said Roth clearly. He did not smile as he pointed his big blade at the robed man, but he showed his teeth. "You will not only burn in hell, woman," cried the bishop, pointing at Tamsyn with a shaking finger, "I will have you burned at the stake after I impale you. You are anathema, unclean. Come, we are leaving." The bishop pulled his decorated robes about his portly frame and stalked toward the doorway. Tamsyn, followed by Roth, hurried and got there before him. "Lord bishop," she said. "This is unjust. I demand an inquiry, a hearing. I have done nothing wrong." "You are a foul woman, a whore, and I have already denounced you," he cried, reaching out his hand to push her aside. Roth stepped between them, his sword in his long scabbard but his hand on its hilt. "You will die with her, knight. I'll peel the flesh from your bones, both of you," snarled the bishop as he turned aside and stomped out into the sunlight, called his retinue together and they left quickly in their carriage and on horseback. "Well," said Roth, watching the dust cloud blow away at the gate, "it was getting rather dull around here." "Come," said the furious young woman, "my blood is aboil. You must soak the heat from me with your thick rod before I explode." Roth followed her up the winding steps to her bedroom where they both disrobed quickly, watching each other with some eagerness and then leapt up on her high bed and joined their hungry bodies. Roth lunged into her and she arched her limber back and wound her legs about his muscular middle. He came quickly, excited by the arguments in the dining hall, and Tamsyn rolled him over, pushed herself up on his loins, smacked his flanks loudly and rode him like her stallion until they both were sated and lay together, puffing and gasping. "We must be serious about his," she said to his hairy chest while his big hands stroked her and his spent male member quivered within her. "Yes, he has threatened to burn you," Roth whispered as he kneaded her firm buttocks and felt her hard nipples on his ribs. "I will visit the earl. You must come with me and Greg can manage here." "Danger may lurk on the way. He had three men-of-arms with him, pike men, and a cross-bow as well." Tamsyn kissed his nipples and then his belly before she kissed his limp cock and nuzzled his swollen balls. "You know I'm spent after what we did last night and this morning," said Roth as the girl nibbled on his foreskin and licked his cockhead. He trembled and moaned. "Of course you are, poor man," she said and then she tongued his swelling member into her warm mouth and sucked him hard in a minute or two. Roth then took his lady from behind while she grasped the top of her high bed, and he held her smooth hips and hammered into her, long strokes, over and over. His fatigue vanished in lust as he made the bed rock with his hip action and half-foot thrusts. "I'm dying," he cried as her young body grasped at his striving ram each time he tried to withdraw. In-out, in-out, in-out, she was tireless and he was spent. "Then die, but first drive deeper, deeper, deeper." Tamsyn wriggled like a snake on his thick spit. The knight fluttered his fingers across her mound as he humped, his muscles afire, and she arched and climaxed on his thrusting phallus just before he ejaculated into her ruined depths with a cry of relief. And so within the week Tamsyn and her knight traveled south on decent roads, some left from the time of the Romans, to see the Earl of Westminster. They arrived at his flint stone castle with its wide bailey and single turret at high noon on the second day after spending the night in a good inn and exhausting each other under a swaying canopy. The Earl chose to see them almost at once in his high ceilinged great hall with a mosaic floor of colored stone. He was a tall man with a sardonic look on his pitted face and there were many papers on the table before him. His clothes, for the most part, were dun colored and his shoes soft. "Tamsyn of Westcombridge," he said as one of his aides handed it a thin book with a silk marker in it. "You wrote that both your father and your brother had gone on to their rewards." "Yes, m'lord," said the girl, still down on one knee. Her knight stayed at the back of the hall hung with banners and watched. He had never been in such a place and was awed by the richness he observed. "Just so," said the earl. "And why are you here?" "To swear fealty in person and to beg a boon, a favor shall it please you," said Tamsyn, rising at his gesture. Except for her long skirt, she looked quite boyish with a bright sash across her bodice. "Why have you not married? You are surely of age," said the earl, stroking his hairy cheeks while he turned a few pages. "Send for the young viscount." "After my mother's death, sire, my father kept me at home as his hostess and to manage the estate since my older brother was, well, he was profligate, a wastrel. When my father came to serve you, as he did twice, once for nearly two years, I was in charge most of the time although I was barely weaned; my brother at games, at play, often in France I believe." The earl nodded. "My son, my youngest son, has been seeking a bride for some time. I have offered him several girls, but he has rejected them for various reasons, mainly vanity I suspect. Ah, here he is." In strode a slight young man in a fancy doublet and hose with a large codpiece embroidered with multicolored flowers that was the size of a man's fist. He bowed to his father and glanced at Tamsyn. "Tamsyn of Westcombridge, this is the Viscount William of Westminster. How old are you, boy? My memory fails me these days." "Fourteen, sir," he said politely, making a leg. "Old enough. I wed your mother when I was but twelve. Would you like to marry this young woman?" The boy blinked at her. "She is very fair, father." The earl smiled. "Indeed. Were I younger, I might have her for mine own. How would you like her for a step- mother, eh?" He slapped his thigh and laughed. "My liege," said Tamsyn quietly, "I have sworn an oath not to marry before my brother is of age." She invented this on the spot, but had considered the lie previously when pressed to marry. "What kind of oath?" asked the earl, looking puzzled if not angry. "Chastity, celibacy? Explain." Tamsyn licked her lips. "No sire, simply to keep my single state until I am no longer needed by my late father's land, his manor. That is until my brother can do the job." The Earl nodded. "And your reasons?" "A married woman is surely her husband's chattel, my liege, his serf as it were. I do not wish that state. I am your vassal but serve no one else except God. And then there is the church, of course, which does not grant woman any status, surely not on the same level as men." "This is true, very true," said the earl. 'Well, William, will you have her if she wishes, would you like to have Mistress Westcombridge here as your wife and take charge of her land?" Tamsyn was disturbed but held her tongue, turning to stare at the youngster who was obviously in some pain and embarrassment. The boy shook his head. "She is too pretty, sir. I could not keep her, I fear." "By damn me, the lad is smarter than I thought. You are dismissed, back to your lessons. Lady Tamsyn, you were asking a favor, or about to do so." The earl was now much more relaxed for some reason. He pushed his book and some papers aside. 'Yes m'lord. Bishop Alfred has banned me, named me anathema and threatened to burn me at the stake." "I know him, a slight popinjay, well buffeted I supposed. What brought this about?" "We did not pay a tithe last year because of the drought and the troubles across our land. He is anxious to have a cathedral." "Nothing?" asked the earl, flipping pages in the slim book where he had found her name. Tamsyn shook her head. "My father's accounts showed no income so he paid no tithe." "It was a bad year. I will take it up with the church authorities and give you a paper, a bull of sorts, stating that you are not to be tried or punished for not paying your tithe if you pay this year. The church is really beyond my reach, but I have some influence." Tamysn smiled and curtsied. "So I have heard. Thank you, my lord." "Will you dine with us?" the smiling man asked. "And rest here this evening?' "Thank you again. My knight, Roth is his name, is with me. I assume he is also welcome." Tamsyn turned and smiled at the man who stood about twenty yards away. He bowed to the earl. And so they stayed and they dined with Tamsyn at the Earl's left hand, sharing his trencher now and again, and Roth out with the other young knights in the hall. Viscount William sat at his father's right, looking sullen. The banter was light and Tamsyn was at ease, her cup never left empty by the servants. When the meal was done; the earl rose, took Tamsyn by the elbow and led her up a winding stair to his large bedroom. Roth did not even see them leave since he was dallying with one of the serving girls who seemed unable to keeps her bulbous charms within her loosely laced corset and open blouse. As he shed his doublet and pulled his long-sleeved shirt over his head to revel some colorful scars, the earl said with a laugh, "I was very happy to hear you had not sworn chastity for you are a very comely woman and have roused my long dormant lust. My son was right. He could not have kept you, and I might well have betrayed him with you if I could." "Oh I doubt that, milord," the girl said lightly as she tossed her outer dress on a chair and loosed her mob of dark hair with a toss of her head. "I have very sharp teeth and long nails. Were I your son's wife, no other man would occupy my bed without a fight." Shed of his shoes and breeches, the earl came and gathered up Tamsyn, still in her shift, and took her to his bed, his thick cock flopping about before him. He was a lover of long experience and a patient man so that by the time their bodies were joined they were both more than ready for their pleasure, indeed eager for it. "Yah," cried the earl as he entered the girl's tight confines and bludgeoned his way deeply into her squishy and cruelly violated depths with his stiff manhood. "Oh, my lord," Tamsyn cried as she rolled her pelvis higher so he could plunge deeper still and wrapped her legs about the earl's strong body, rocking to and fro as they ground together. "Um," gasped the earl as on his first withdrawal as she grasped him tightly with muscles no woman had shown him before, rippling along his stiff shaft, and when he rammed, he found Tamsyn undulating on his proud phallus, her whole body writhing with joy as her legs spread open and lifted high. "Ah, ah, ah," sobbed Tamsyn as she felt her flesh being cleaved by his old but mighty rod. He was twice her size and nearly three times her age, but a very diligent and satisfying lover. After that their grunts were matched and many, their movements of a kind and arching fiercely. They rolled over thrice in the big bed, and Tamsyn nearly fell off the side before the earl pulled her up, turned her over and reentered her from the back, both hands filled with her wonderful young breasts as they leapt like broaching dolphins. "I feel it coming, my dear vassal. Are you ready?" the earl announced as he slapped their flesh together and his scrotum clasped itself to his thrusting shaft. "Do you want my potent juices in you or shall I withdraw?" "Deeper, deeper, sire," cried the girl. "Give it to me, please, please." He ejaculated and gasped in relief, something he had not done for years, at his shattering and prolonged climax. Immediately two of his retainers entered his bedroom, swords drawn, but when they saw their lord and master still at his game, his back bent, still lancing the bare girl who lay kicking before him, they withdrew, smiling at each other. When the earl was spent and collapsed on Tamsyn, she wiggled free of his embrace and cuddled next to his tired body, kissing his ear and shoulder. He rolled to his back and took a deep breath, "I am emptied, spent, my dear," he said, his arm about the girl's warm body, "but next door lies my son William, who has probably been playing with himself as he listened to us. I suspect you would likely frighten him to death or send him to the priesthood tomorrow should you attempt to lie with him." He sighed. "Your brave knight, I was told, took two of the serving girls to bed with him, so I suspect he is busy if not exhausted for my girls are strong and hearty." He patted the girl's back and kissed her forehead. She kissed his chest and threw a leg over his groin, kneeing his fat cock that lay inert and nerveless. "But," he said, slapping her buttocks loudly, "If you sleep a while and let me rest, we may yet enjoy each other in the dawn. What say you?" "William is a fine lad," said Tamsyn, swallowing her chuckle. "I think I may go pay him a visit. I am much in need of a man." The earl held up the little finger of his left hand. "His manhood is, I fear like that." Tamsyn sniffed and kissed one of his nipples, her knee now firmly kneading his cods. "But he looked very brave." "Oh he is," said the earl, petting her head as she kissed his navel and swirled her tongue in it. "S'bones. But his codpiece is stuffed with knit stockings and old rags. Go easy there." "Let us sleep then," said Tamsyn, mouthing his spent cock and biting it gently, just gnawing, her hope still alive. She was about to suck his limp penis into her mouth when she heard an odd sound. She ran her hand along the big man's bony chest to his neck and mouth and found it open. He was snoring. Never, ever, had Tamsyn had a man go to sleep while she was trying to make love to him. She took a deep breath, smiled, rolled over and stepped down off the high bed and used the nightjar. Then she crawled back into the earl's big bed and curled up on one corner, covered her naked body and slept, reasonably pleased with herself. Roosters woke her at first light, and Tamsyn stretched and knew at once where she was and who lay beside her. She turned toward the earl and studied his long, barely covered frame. He showed no sign of an erection and she was disappointed, but then, she told herself, his hair was graying and his beard showed white at his firm chin. She nuzzled his shoulder and let her seeking hand slip over his belly and into his tangle of bristly hair. "Um," sighed the earl, still half asleep as the girl's fingers reached his well-satisfied member. After several minutes of diligent stroking and ball kneading, Tamsyn concluded that the earl was not going to rise as he had promised so she slipped from the bed, found her clothes, dressed and went down to the castle's kitchen where several woman and lads were hard at work. An hour later, her treasured letter from the earl safely in the bag at her side, Tamsyn and Roth were well on the road toward home, both of them enjoying the day and bantering with each other about the night's carousing. They spent another night in the same inn and enjoyed each other to exhaustion and then were on the road early, hoping to reach the manor while the sun was high. In a densely forested area where the road was poorly maintained, they had to ride single file. Tamsyn turned at a loud clacking sound just in time to see the crossbow bolt emerge from her knight's chest. She screamed as he tumbled from his horse and a heavy fowlers' net engulfed her and pulled her from her mount. Roth struck the back of his head and lay motionless as a half-dozen men appeared from the woods. The man with the crossbow on his back climbed down from his perch. His long bolt had entered high on the knight's left shoulder and had broken the man's clavicle before emerging in his front. The bowman decided to leave it in him and climbed on the back of the wagon where Tamsyn lay, her forearms bound behind her, admiring her bare legs and fair face. The bishop should we well pleased with this days work, thought he, hoping he might have his turn on their captive as the first of the bishop's men-at-arm mounted the young woman, ignored her cries and curses, and horsed her vigorously, grunting like a hog as he held her long legs up on his shoulders. When Roth awoke, he rolled over and vomited until his heaves were dry, and then he sat up and tried to pull the arrow from his chest. He almost fainted as his broken collarbone was scraped by his efforts. So he stood, leaning on a tree and became aware that his sword was missing. He shook his head and wondered where it and his mistress had gone. He used his right hand to tuck his left into his jerkin and began walking, pausing very half-hour or so, drinking from the streams he crossed and bathing his wound which did not seem to be bleeding any more. He arrived at the manor when the moon was high and roused the sleepy sentry with a kick. While Roth's wounds were tended after the crossbow bolt was cut and withdrawn from his back, the way it had entered him, his mistress lay huddled on the floor of an almost airless stone cell under the croft of the bishop's manse. She had been viciously raped by four men on the floor of the jouncing wagon that brought her from the forest and had received neither food nor water. She slept fitfully, worried about the future and very sore, her thighs bruised deeply. In the morning, with her bodice torn open and her skirts stained with several men's spend, she stood before the smiling bishop in his library, her hands still bound behind her. "What is this?" he demanded, waving the earl's letter at her. "A message from my liege, the Earl of Westminster," she said, purposely omitting the honorifics he expected. The bishop rolled the letter back up, handed it to his secretary and said, "Burn it." Tamsyn sighed, licked her parched lips and controlled her emotions, both her anger and her fear. "We are awaiting a friend of mine, a Spanish priest skilled in the ways of the holy inquisition. He should be here in a day or two. I'm sure you will not mind waiting and entertaining some of my men. Let's take her outside to the post." The bishop rose, smiling. Tamsyn was led out the side door and across the yard to a thick post from which chains and manacles dangled. Her hands were untied and then lifted over her head and her wrists clamped to the chains. "Bosely,' said the bishop, "since her capture was your good idea, would you like to start?" Smiling, the man stepped before Tamsyn, pursed his lips, and said, "Strip her." Tamsyn could see that he was sexually aroused. Her new jacket, fancy shirt and linen chemise were quickly cut and torn from her and her good shift lay in shreds on her hips. The girl leaned back against the rough post, her mind on her thirst as the bishop's lean secretary produced a long quirt of the type used by wagon drivers which he slapped loudly against his boot. He bowed to the bishop for whom a chair had been produced and then, standing five or six feet away, slashed the girl across the face with his first blow. Tamsyn cried out in surprise as her cheek split open. He whipped her young breasts, both left and right, aiming for her prominent nipples and then, when she twisted away, flailed at her back and shoulders, forehand and back hand until he stopped, panting for breath and the bishop, said, "Well done, enough. Deacon, have you a whip for this apostate?" "Indeed, sir, I brought it from my room, a cat of ancient lineage, its knots tied by my grandsire." He showed the bishop the many-tailed whip. Tamsyn thought her knees were going to fail her, and she would then hang from her hands. Her body pulsed with injuries and seemed afire in places. She felt hands at her hips and then her skirts were pulled down and fell to her feet. She took a deep breath and stood tall, eyes closed, her back pressed to the wooden post. "This whip," said the deacon, after turning the girl about, "was made for an ass like that." He patted Tamsyn's smooth butt, his penis rigid. He then slashed at the Tamsyn's buttocks until his arm grew weary and bright blood was running down her legs. Tamsyn bit her lip until it also bled and refused to cry out as her rounded buttocks were lined with cuts and welts. "Let her hang so the flies can feast on her," said the bishop. "Enough for today. You men can have her if you wish." The bishop and his staff went back into his house, and the largest of the three guards pushed Tamsyn back against the post, dropped his codpiece and drove his huge cock up into her, lifting her feet from the bloodstained dirt, and rubbing her injured butt cheeks against the upright log again and again. From a hillside above the village, Gregory and Roth watched as their mistress was beaten and assaulted. Roth's arm was in a sling and Gregory had his longbow, but the two of them decided not to attack a group of eight or ten men despite their lady's suffering. After all three men in the bishop's livery had used the girl, they watched her being taken down some stairs to an underground room, a cellar of some sort. "Tonight," said Greg, looking determined, "tonight we will get her out." "I need my sword," said the wounded knight. "I feel naked without it. And I did not see it on any of those foul men." "I will bring you one to question," said Gregory, watching a pair of guards leave the bishop's home and stroll toward the nearby ale house. He set aside his bow, made sure his dirk was free in its scabbard and hurried down the hill and into the town. Knowing he would be spotted as a stranger at the tavern, he waited for the guards to reappear and then shadowed them back toward the manse. At a place where the shade was deeper and the jesting pair stopped to piss, he stepped behind them, grabbed one man from behind and cut his throat with a fierce slice and then twisted the other guard's arm up his back and hurried him up the steep hill to Roth's hiding place, threatening to kill him if he raised the hue and cry. In short order they discovered how many guards the bishop had, where Tamsyn was being held and, much to Roth's delight, the fact that his big sword was now being displayed in the bishop's library as a trophy. They gave the begging man a few minutes to pray, and then Greg cut his throat and his dark blood poured down the hillside. When darkness fell and the manse's candles and lamps were extinguished, two shadows moved silently down the hill. They entered the manse after Gregory dispatched the guard at the front door, and Roth soon was buckling on his sword on with Greg's help. Then they found the cell in the cellar and freed their mistress, who wept and hugged them both. Roth winced but did not cry out, and they left by the outside steps and walked up the hill, past the sprawled body and into the woods. "Now what?" asked Gregory as Tamsyn drank from his canteen and chewed on the dried meat he had brought with them and pulled her torn clothes about her ravaged body. "I think this bishop must die or the trouble will never end, he will call down the prelates on our heads, legions of them." Tamsyn looked at the men. Both nodded but neither looked happy. "I will do it. I do not fear the anointed, especially a cur like Alfred." Tamsyn smiled and held out her hand. Greg gave her his dirk and belt. Young Gregory, his face like stone, the one-armed knight and the determined girl made their way back down the hill after the moon set. They entered the house with ease and mounted the stairs. After looking into two empty rooms, in the front bedroom, under a sagging canopy, they found the stout bishop and his skinny secretary, soundly sleeping, the thinner man quite bare. Tamsyn and the men smiled at each other. Greg put his hand on Bosely's mouth and pulled him from the bed. Tamsyn held the thin man and Greg kept his mouth covered as Roth drew his big sword and chopped off his head with only three awkward, one-handed blows. Greg's boots were drenched with blood as he eased the headless body to the floor. Tamsyn turned up the bishop's bedside oil lamp which had guttered low and set the ghastly head on the pillow. "Wake, sir bishop," she said loudly. The man blinked open his eyes, saw what looked like his secretary's face beside him and screamed. The head rolled off on the floor with a solid thunk. "Damn," cried Tamsyn, "guard the door." "I am going to kill you," said Tamsyn, "and you are going to hell, you evil sodomite." "No, no," said the bishop loudly, sitting up in bed and trying not to look at the gore on his bedclothes. "I can make you rich. Help!" he cried and the bedroom door slammed open to admit the deacon, a short sword in his hand. Roth cut him down with a chop at the small of his back and then turned him over with his foot and dispatched him while Gregory met the second priest with a smile and drove his blade all the way through the man, lifting him from his feet. They heard footsteps mounting the stairs and a gruff voice saying, "What's amiss?" and then the biggest of the guards came into the bloody room and died on Roth's broadsword, his belly opened from side to side and guts rolling out in coils. The room was filled with the smell of death as Tamsyn's men cleaned their weapons on the corpses' clothes. The girl tossed back the covers and found the bishop naked. She grasped his genitals, smiled, and then emasculated him and handed his bloody privates to him. The man fainted and the girl left the gory mess on his bloated belly, wiped her hands and said, "Let us leave. Someone else can sort out this mess." Once they were back out in the dark, Roth said, "Why not a fire, a cleansing fire?" Gregory produced flint and steel and together they started a fire in the dry grass at one corner of the manse. By the time they had mounted the hill above the town, the whole front of the wooden building was ablaze, and they could hear the roar and feel the warmth. Continued in part 4... Archivist's Note: This author did not provide an email address so it will do the reader no good contacting the archive staff for further parts. Check back at a later time to see if there have been any updates to this story by the author. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ This story was written as an adult fantasy. The author does not condone the described behavior in real life in anyway shape or form. Anyone tempted to act out any of the scenarios in this story; should seriously consider seeking professional help. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Kristen's collection - Directory 74