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twentieth birthday and become claimable by Warrior Law. That Law meant that any groups of
warrior siblings could petition her fathers for the right to claim her. Her mother had told her just
this morning that the Savari Brothers had approached her fathers last night and had claimed their
right as the first to woo her. If she succumbed to them in the next three days she would belong to
them. There were other warrior pairs that were interested in her as well but the Savari’s had been
given first right.
She looked now at were Galen and Arik fought amongst the other warriors. They were both huge
men at six foot eight each with bulging muscles covering their bodies. Galen had long black hair
that hung to the middle of his back. Two braids hung beside his face to keep the hair out of his
way while he battled. He had fierce blue eyes that had always seemed to freeze her. She had seen
him kill before. She had wandered in the forest one day and almost been taken by another group
of warriors. It was Galen who had come to her rescue. She had only been ten at the time and
Galen had already been a warrior of twenty-four years. He had killed both of the other warriors and
carried her back home to her parents’ home. She remembered him shaking her until she felt like
her neck was going to snap off. He had yelled at her about how stupid she was and told her in too
much detail just how the other warriors would have violated her forcing their great swords deep
inside her. She had been afraid of him ever since. She could feel his eyes on her every time he
was near. The thought of belonging to him scared her more than anything else in the world.
His brother Arik was his opposite. He kept his golden brown hair clubbed back and his brown
eyes were always laughing. She had always felt safe and comfortable around Arik. He seemed so
much younger than his brother although they were twins and thus the same age. She had run to
Arik often when she had been a child. He had often bandaged her scabbed knees and elbows
before sending her back home to her mother. The last time he had come upon her in the forest
had been different. She had been seventeen at the time and swimming in the lake. Arik had come
upon her and she had thought nothing of leaving the water to embrace her friend. But he had
been different that day. He had stared at her body as she left the water. When she had went to
hug him he had taken her arms and held her away from him. He had given her a blanket he kept
on the back of his Shebana and wrapped her in it before putting her on his beast and taking her
home.
Galen had been there when they arrived. He had taken her from Arik’s Shebana beast and set her
on her feet beside him while he looked at his brother. Her fathers had been there as well. Arik had
dismounted and spoke into his brother’s ear. Galen’s eyes had darkened in anger as she had
watched. Before she knew it the blanket was ripped from her and she was left standing in front of
them all in her wet veils. All four men had stared at her, her fathers’ in shock and the Savari
brothers with fire in their eyes. Her mother had stepped out then and seeing her had whisked her
into the house and away from the men. She had received a lecture then that she would have to
curb her wild ways and realize that she was a woman. Her mother had turned her to the polished
mirror and shown her how her breasts showed through the wet material clearly and how the wet
veils of her skirt revealed the hidden curls of her sex. Her mother had then tried to explain what
such a sight could bring about in a young and virile warrior.
Erika had been stunned to see herself that way. She never looked in the mirror. She didn’t care
for her appearance. She wore what her mother told her to but spent most of her time in the forest.
That day she had been shocked to realize just how much her body had truly changed. Her breasts
were full and firm with rosy pink nipples. Her hips had spread giving her a lush full look to match
her breasts. Her brown hair, released from its braid, hung to her hips in thick waves as it dried.
Her green eyes grew ever bigger as her mother told her that she would need to begin learning
things in preparation for her claiming in three years.
That night her fathers had grounded her to the house and grounds around it. She was no longer
to be allowed to run in the forest by herself. She heard them talking to her mother later and had
been shocked to hear them say that Galen was right. They had let her run too wild for too long and
now she had to be disciplined. It was all Galen’s fault. Galen was the one trying to keep her away
from her beloved trees. She had hated him since that day. In fact she had refused to speak to
either him or Arik since then unless she had been forced to by her parents.
Now she was to belong to them. She didn’t think so. She would allow just about anyone else to
claim her before letting either of them touch her. She had been lucky to sneak away this morning.
It had been hard in the last three years but she had managed to sneak away often enough to sooth
her soul with a little help from her mother of course. She felt completely at peace among the trees.
She had a birth mark on her right buttock in the shape of a tree. Besides she was more than able
to take care of herself. Her powers had begun developing when she was thirteen. She could
make the earth tremble, make the trees bend and shake. She could move rocks and small
boulders with a flick of her hand. She had the power of the earth hidden deep inside her and she
could feel it growing stronger every day. She would need no warrior to protect her.
With one last glance to where Galen and Arik practiced with the other warriors she turned and
headed deeper into the forest. She could feel the earth calling to her, a whisper in the trees
drawing her deeper to where the pond awaited. She would take a cool and refreshing dip in the
water there. She could already feel it lapping at her naked flesh. Yes, she had learned her lesson
well from Galen and Arik. Now she stripped her clothes from her body before stepping into the
pond. She would allow for a few minutes when she was done for her skin to dry before
redressing. Then no one was the wiser to her swims. The pond was the closest thing to heaven
she had ever felt. The feel of all that water lapping at her body, licking at her nipples, teasing
between her thighs was sheer heaven. She had even less use for a warrior than she thought.
Smiling in anticipation of what awaited her she never even noticed the shadows that followed her.
Galen caught the movement out of the corner of his eyes and felt his anger mount when he
realized what or more accurately who it was. The minx was defying them yet again. Oh he knew
that she snuck away often in the last few years but he or his brother had always been some where
nearby or at least close enough to hear her if she yelled for help. She had been promised to them
since he had rescued her when she was ten. Her fathers had offered her to him then and he had
accepted on behalf of himself and his brother. He had thought she would grow to be a beauty and
he had been right. She was all that and more with her long brown hair and her big green eyes. Her
breasts were lush and full and her hips were made for a warrior. He and his brother had helped to
watch over her since the day of her rescue.
Then Arik had come upon her in the pond when she was seventeen. She had been soaking wet
and her clinging clothes had revealed all of her body’s delights for anyone who came upon her.
Galen had been grateful that Arik was the one to find her as another warrior may not have
controlled himself as well. Arik though had held onto his control by the skin of his teeth and
brought her to her parents’ home. When Arik had explained to Galen that she had run to him with
her body revealed in her wet clothing Galen had saw red. He had ripped the blanket from her
shoulders and saw for himself the fullness of her breasts, the lushness of her hips, the glimpse of
curls on her woman’s mound. Lust had lit a fire in his body that left his cock swelling huge inside
his pants. His brother had suffered the same.
Erika’s mother had appeared then and seeing the display before her had rushed her daughter into
the house and away from the eyes of too many warriors. Galen had been furious and laid down
the law then. If Erika was not properly chaperoned and watched then she would be removed to
the protection of the Savari household until she reached her twentieth year and was claimable. As
they were from a different caste that would mean that not only would she suffer removal from her
parents’ home but from their part of the village as well. Her fathers had agreed and Erika was
restricted to the house and immediate area around it for the last three years. And she had been
cold to Galen and Arik ever since. She refused to speak to them unless one of her fathers or her
mother made her. She no longer sought out Arik for comfort or just to talk a fact that damn near
broke his brother’s heart. She was punishing them for what she saw as interference.
So he had waited anxiously for the time when he would be able to take her in hand himself. That
day was finally here. She had belonged to him and Arik for almost ten years and now with three
days till her twentieth year, she was finally within his grasp. Although they could not make her lie
with them before then they could seduce her into wanting them into allowing them to consummate
their claim. If she invited them between her thighs then they could take her. And once they had
mated with her she was completely theirs from that day on. He had waited long enough. Today he
and Arik would claim her.
He felt his brother’s eyes on him and turned to look at Arik. Arik had seen Erika too. He saw that
Arik had reached the same decision that he had. Nodding at each other they both moved away
from the practice field and headed toward the trees. They would find her and make her theirs
today. The time had come for them to make her aware that she belonged to them and only them.
Today she would know what it was to be mated to a Savari Warrior.
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