No sooner had the drake tossed us into a subterranean treasure room than he spun around and left the cave. I quickly made my way to my feet, looking around the room desperately for a means of escape. From what I had been told, encountering a drake was essentially a death sentence for everyone involved. They were much rger than a wyvern. Where a wyvern was about the size of a big horse, a drake was the size of a house. They were said to be faster, more dangerous, and smarter too.

  I was hoping at that moment that the intelligence part was exaggerated. I heard its rge feet thumping outside of the cave. If there was anywhere we could escape, then I would take the opportunity immediately. I didn’t know why the drake had snatched both of us, but I hypothesized that it wanted me for a snack and my sister for something even worse. Other than our predicament, I also worried whether everyone else made it back to the cave safely. With the drake showing up, all of the wyverns had fled, which meant that they should be safe. That didn’t speak to the presence of my mother, who had still gone missing almost a day ago by that point.

  The treasure room was filled with piles of treasure, which made seeing from one end to the other difficult. I worked my way up the rgest pile I could see, only slipping a few times before I made it to the top. This treasure room was a massive cavern, but the only escape seemed to be directly above us from the hole in the floor it had tossed us down. It seemed that it did have at least enough intelligence to know there was no either way for us to leave this room unless we could fly.

  The most surprising thing of all of this was the sheer size of the treasure room. This was easily enough treasure to make any kingdom fall to its knees. If I could even take a hundredth of this wealth, I could live the rest of my life as impossibly rich. The hole itself was massive, rge enough for five drakes to enter it.

  So, why did the drake take off as soon as dropping us off? Wouldn’t he rather have his fun? Well, it wasn’t like I was compining. Since the hole was at the top, I was looking for a rope or some way of scaling the walls.

  “D-david…” I heard Lucille speak in a somewhat breathy voice.

  She was on the ground, a pained look on her face. I had been the one to take the brunt of the fall, so I hadn’t thought she would be engineered as well.

  “Are you alright?” I asked.

  Lucille’s eyes locked on mine for a second, and I saw an intensity in them. Her body shook for a second, and then she looked away. I remembered the strange way she had acted while we were under that rock earlier. Drake’s were typically attracted to women, specifically aroused women. I had pnned to use this to my advantage, particurly where Saria was concerned. After climbing up to the top of the canyon, it was likely Lucille would have been outside Baba’s safety net that contained out scents.

  At first, I had assumed the Drake had come because Lucille had cast magic on that wyvern. However, if I thought about it, that Drake arrived far too quickly. He would have had to be already on top of us to swoop down so shortly after. It was more likely that he was already coming our way.

  “Lucille…”

  “Are you going to find us a way out of here?” She spoke up before I could say anything else, her tone sounding slightly upset.

  I opened my mouth to answer her, but that was when I heard more thumping noises. The Drake was coming! We needed more time. Several of the objects in this treasure room were magical. In other words, if I used magic in here, I wouldn’t immediately be noticed as Lucille had been. It was time to toss the dice. I immediately ran over to Lucille and grabbed her. She let out a cry as I found a pce under a rge pile in the corner where we would be mostly hidden from sight.

  As I shoved her down, I used my pinky nail which I had steadily allowed to grow longer, and then sharpened to cut my palm. I drew a quick spell that would deepen the shadows. We were plunged into a yer of darkness and shadows. It would be enough to cover use up. Unless he went rummaging through the treasure, there would be no easy way to find us. With luck, he’d temporarily forget about us. Out of sight, out of mind, or something like that.

  I ended up on top of Lucille. I expected her to understand the situation, but she suddenly began to panic. She started to shove me, trying to get out from under me. As she opened her mouth to speak, I instinctively put my hand over her to block her voice. At that point, the drake peeked its head out into the pit… and then something fell. I heard a cnk as several pieces of treasure fell onto one of the piles. The creature didn’t wait any longer than the st before. It immediately spun around and let, thumping as it went back outside.

  No, I was pretty sure that this drake was different than the previous one. The markings on the face were different. Was there an entire drake family there? It made sense that there were multiple drakes. After all, the cavern was so rge and they had so much treasure. I felt like I was missing something though. My thoughts were immediately interrupted by the feel of a tongue on my hand. It was at that moment that I realized the hand I had covered my sister’s mouth with was the one I had cut.

  I tried to pull my hand away, but Lucille grabbed onto my hand with both of hers. She was sucking on my hand, her lips tched onto my cut, and began to suckle it. She was drinking my blood in an aggressive way that even Aeryn wasn’t bold enough to do.

  “Wh-what are you doing?” I hissed, finally freeing my hand from her.

  Her face pulled away, her lips tinged dark red. She was panting, and her cheeks were flushed. Her eyes had a slightly wild look to them. She slowly licked her lips, looking up at me with desire in her eyes.

  “Do you understand what you just did?”

  “I did what you’ve been wanting from the beginning, haven’t I, Brother?” Her voice was low, but it wasn’t angry. “Don’t you want to fuck me?”

  “Lucille, what’s gotten into you?” I demanded.

  Once again, this sister of mine seemed to have suddenly changed. I would say she was bipor given her extreme mood swings. If Lucy was hot-tempered and Olivia was calmer and more logical, then Lucille could most be described as unpredictable. It was hard to tell just what to expect from her after each moment.

  “I tried to fight it.” She gave a helpless ugh, seemingly looking at nothing. “I tried to fight you. However, I can’t fight it. Mother told me not to come, but you would have come and it would have been worse. So, I walked into hell, to try to save Mother. Now, we’re both going to die, so I might as well dance with the devil and enjoy myself one st time before I go.”

  Was she having some kind of mental breakdown over her fear of death? I supposed after the st few days, it’d be enough to make someone suffer from trauma. It was probably more arming that the other girls had managed to handle all of the things we had been through in stride.

  “We’re not going to die,” I told her in the sincerest voice I could muster. “I’m going to get us out of here.”

  “What does it matter, now?” She smiled sadly. “It’s already too te. I can’t go back. There is no going back.”

  “You’re not making any sense.” I was starting to grow frustrated with her.

  “Come on, Brother. I know you’ve fucked Olivia. You’ve tasted Lucy too, haven’t you?” She reached down, grabbing at the belt to my pants and trying to undo them right there.

  I grabbed her wrists and shoved them back against her, holding Lucille down. Her body was writhing, ready to go despite the danger we were in.

  “Stop it! Why are you acting this way?” I demanded.

  She narrowed her eyes slightly, a slightly confused expression on her face. “Don’t tell me that you don’t remember?”

  The tone of her voice caused me to stiffen. There was a history between us that I was missing. However, I was someone who could read the situation.

  “Of course, I remember. Then you ran away.” I responded, making my face appear bitter.

  Her eyes widened, with the bit of mobility she still had, she reached out and grabbed my hand. “It wasn’t like that. I didn’t want to leave you. However, they caught us together, and the next thing I knew they were shipping me off for mom. I didn’t want to leave!”

  I was shocked to see tears forming in her eyes. So, it was like that after all. David had already had a sexual retionship with one of his sisters. His older sister and the former him were together. I had thought that she was the only sister who had skipped the curse of being sold off, but it was quite the opposite. She had been forcefully removed to end our retionship.

  “Then, why have you acted so cold until now?” I asked.

  Lucille closed her eyes, her head ying back. “Can you bme me? You did this to me. It was just a drop of blood, but I was young and I didn’t understand. The agony was horrible, but I was afraid to tell everyone. The only relief became you. You were my drug. I was addicted, and then I became your sve. When they found out, they couldn’t send me away fast enough.

  “Mother taught me how to resist my urges. She told me that anger was enough to resist the hold you had on my heart. She told me all of these things… about devils, about you. I started to believe them. Then, Olivia came, pregnant with your baby. I felt betrayed. What about our baby? What about me? I told myself I was coming here to keep you from mom, but the truth was I came for myself. I wanted to prove I didn’t need you anymore. I wanted to prove I was cured.

  “However, I can’t fight it anymore.” Tears began to flow down her cheeks. “I’m not able to resist you. I love you, David. I need you. I want you. I want to be your everything. I don’t care that you ensved my sisters. You can have them all. Just, have me too, please.”

  I had hoped that as long as I pyed along, she’d reveal more, and she did exactly that. Her story did have a tragic twist to it. At some point in our youth, she had been exposed to my blood. This had caused her body to become infmed with lust. However, she was too young to understand and too afraid to be caught, so she lived with it.

  It was hard to say exactly what was in the devil's blood, nor how it worked on people. In theory, it just made someone more and more aroused, and the only relief to that building arousal would be exposure to a devil’s other fluids. This meant they needed to become exposed to devil semen. This would give the devil an opportunity to impregnant the woman, thus making her his sve.

  However, there was too little known about exactly how it worked. For example, was it all hormonal, or was there a magical element? What would happen if someone wasn’t cured? The books all said that the woman went insane with lust. I didn’t believe this to be the case. Based on my time with the women in my life, I had discovered various things. First off, the blood became less effective the more times a woman was exposed and then cured. A resistance to it could be built.

  A small reason that I liked to infect the girls with my blood before relieving them was to encourage the buildup of this resistance. I felt there would be a time devils might get involved, and I wouldn’t stand it if a devil attempted to seduce one of my women. Another question would be what would happen in children who hadn’t yet developed sexually. The answer seemed to be right in front of me. They became infatuated.

  I didn’t know how long Lucille waited before being with me, and I didn’t know if I was even at an age where I could give her relief. However, I predicted that I had somehow altered her biochemistry, changing her forever. As she had stated, I had become a drug to her. Baba also seemed to enjoy drinking my blood. I wondered if there was some corretion there. Had Baba also experienced a devilish blood-induced psychosis at some point in her life?

  Either way, Lucille had started a sexual retionship with the young David, and as dumb kids tended to do, they eventually got caught, but not before David accidentally impregnated and ensved her, or maybe he did it on purpose? I didn’t know the answer. I had never had any of David’s memories, and everything I knew was things I had gleamed out on my own. Up until that point, I had been depending on my sisters knowing almost nothing about me, but it seemed I had stumbled across a sister who knew me too intimately.

  Her strange behavior, a jealous, bitter, and angry former lover who was still helplessly infatuated, started to make sense. I also figured my mother must have had something to do with it. At the very least, Lucille seemed to have a much more affectionate feeling toward her than I’d suspect, although if she lived with a woman who hated me and encouraged her daughter to hate me, I could see her leaning away from her real mother and favoring and idealized version of her.

  This news left me with a lot to think about. It also gave me some good news too. Lucille was already ensved, so that part was already accomplished. Furthermore, if she was pregnant with my baby, and my mother hadn’t sought to kill that baby, then Olivia was also likely safe.

  As I was thinking all of this, I realized that Lucille was still looking up at me, her big brown eyes filled with tears, her round ears perked as she tried to figure out just what kind of man I had grown up too. It probably had scared her seeing me with so many different women. I was even married and spending time with Saria.

  “Lucille… I…”

  There was another thudding sound, and I pushed back down on Lucille as I watched the hole overhead. Another drake popped its head out, and more treasure rained down into the pit. This one was not one of the first two, because it was a different color. This was the third drake I had seen, and this wasn’t reted to the first two. I thought that perhaps they were a couple and child, but the more I thought about it, the less sense that made.

  The drake fled as quickly as it arrived. It seemed to almost be fleeing like it was afraid of where it was. I had heard the drakes basically ruled the pteau, and they were also very territorial. It was more likely that they would fight. Instead, they were all coming to this mountain and dumping anything of value that they could here. It was almost like they were making some kind of tribute.

  “T-tribute?” As soon as the words entered my mind, my eyes popped open.

  With me pressed against Lucille, she had lost herself again. She was kissing my neck, her hands roaming up and down my body in a very familiar way. I wasn’t against satisfying her, especially to confirm her status as my sve, but this was hardly the time to do that. There were drakes everywhere, and we had no clue where we were. I pulled off of Lucille and stepped out of the shadow we had been hiding from. She gasped like she had just been doused with cold water. I tried to ignore her as I walked around a pile of treasure.

  Something wasn’t right. The ground wasn’t very ft. That could just be because the floor was a cave and it was at an angle, but something told me that wasn’t it. The floor was too warm. In fact, this entire room was warm and cozy. I reached down and slide a bunch of loose gold coins away, revealing the ground underneath.

  “R-red….”

  The ground was red. It was red, and it was warm. I began kicking aside more and more coins. Lucille remained where she was, her clothing disordered, her cheeks pink. Perhaps, she was too afraid to trust herself if she moved. I didn’t mind. I kept pushing back the coin until I reached the edge. The ground stopped at a clear point, and then a second simirly red ground came from just under it and continued. I reached down and tried to pull up the top stone yer, but it didn’t budge at all.

  “What are you doing?” Lucille finally asked.

  “What is this?” I asked, “It’s like a giant… scale!”

  “A scale?” She blinked.

  That was the moment it dawned on me, although I didn’t have a chance to act on my newfound information. The ground decided to start moving at that moment. It lowered down, pulling away from the cavern walls like the floor wasn’t connected at all. That’s because it wasn’t connected. We weren’t in a cavern at all. We were standing on the back of a dragon, and it just realized we were there.

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