"How long has it been?"
A question she spoke to herself, her axe hefted upwards. The blade gleams with malice, the cold metal long turned rust colored with blood.
"How long has it been since I've struck fear into their hearts?"
The soft sound of an axe's edge against a grindstone, metal scraping against rock. The air is cold, the breeze bringing about the scent of smoke and blood.
The half blood is out and about in camp. She walks through the expansive site, barking orders or partaking in drills to ensure her warband is up to snuff.
Once she finishes and returns to her hut, she sits by the entrance. A sigh leaves her.
This is the future. The dark future that awaits all who oppose her. Your wives, sisters, mothers, lovers. All of them bound to her, womb full of her spawn and enslaved to her cruel will.
It is where they belong.
It is their /fate/.
See? Is it not better to surrender? Give up your body. Give up your free will. Give it all to this beast of a woman and accept your place underneath her heel.
@aslaveunwilling A sound cold and cruel comes from behind the small girl. Then a voice, feminine in nature. However, every word is distorted by a growling undertone, like a beast barely restrained.
"Suckling your finger like a child, girl? Surely there are better things to put in your mouth."
Illya rises from her bed, leaving her toy for the night quivering on it. She'll come back to it, once she's done with her duties as commander of her forces.
@MistressofMoors A nod. Those terms were enticing. Her men would certainly enjoy them. However, her gaze ended up drifting up and down Maleficent's body.
"Very good terms. I will add one more. You. You will share my bed. Be the queen during the day. At night, your body belongs to me."
@MistressofMoors "Hrmph. And what can you promise to me? What offer can you give that I could not take for myself? After all, no person works for free when the job is killing people."
Reminder about Illya:
Parentage is Orc Father, Elf Mother.
The arm that seems to be covered in armor is actually a prosthetic created by magic.
She's violent, not stupid.
@MistressofMoors A harsh, barking laugh. It almost sounds like the mocking laugh of a hyena.
"Nobles? I was born a slave, raised in the dirt and bloody mud of an orc camp. I have had my revenge a thousand times over. I have crushed my enemies beneath my heel like insects. But please go on."
@MistressofMoors Her lips curl into a scowl, arms crossed underneath her chest as the other speaks.
"Of course. But I have no need for stations or titles."
A whetstone scrapes along the edge of a sword, the half blood focused upon her work. Over and over, she sharpens the edge with an almost mechanical efficiency.