Chapter 6

It was Sylvie. She said, "Master Handor, please come out. Jamal says there is a problem."

Jamal was waiting. He said, "Sir, a Virginian girl was overheard talking to a man taking her. She was asking if our women would be put to use or killed. The man told her that the men would be killed first and then the women would be sliced or pegged."

I said, "Gather the men like we were going to have a group orgy. We will fight our way out. The Primary would make a good target or hostage." I had noticed that these Virginians didn't employ the bow and arrow. They may know of them but we had some good bowmen in the Brigade. We gathered and I told the men to laugh at my remarks like we were readying an orgy. I told them the plan and why. I said, 'If we're going to be killed, let's take a bunch of them with us. Better still, we might get away particularly if we can kill the Primary or take him hostage. I think the others are held in thrall by him. Are you with me?"

The men agreed by making sounds like we would be having all the women. One man said, "This is what I will do to the Primary!" He said it quietly and moved his hips in a back and forth motion. A number of the others grinned.

I said, "Okay, depart and arm yourselves quietly. Each small group of you, take a girl with you. Arm them, too. They will be just as dead after torment if we fail." I took Susan and Katina with me. Susan took my spare bow and some arrows. She also took a long knife. Katina took a knife. I knew she had no skill. "Stay between us, Ti. Keep to my right." She nodded. All three of us were nervous. I gave each a kiss and said, "Let's go." We joined the men who were making noise and playing up their "intentions." We had an audience including our guards who were watching and growing lustful. "Margie, Sharna, take off your clothes where the watchers can see. Make it sexy." I needn't have worried. Neither could do anything that wasn't sexy.

Not only the guards, but also my men were panting by the time the two women were naked. With the guards' attention attracted, two of my men had slipped around to make sure the guards were the only ones who could see us. When I received their nods, I whispered, "Now! Shoot!" My two best bowmen readied an arrow each and shot quickly. The two guards died quickly and quietly. The pretense could be dropped. "Ladies, get dressed. We go on the attack."

Neither put on clothes though they took up weapons. Margie said, "We can be distracting again if necessary."

I nodded, "Katina, carry their clothes." We left in a group heading for the Primary's residence. There, we found two guards who were dispatched with an arrow each. We crowded through the door and began to search for the Primary killing any men we found. Margie and Sharna each took out a man by walking up to him with a hand behind them. Once close, each one had swung the arm that held the knife and plunged it deep into their man's body. A couple of my men had been following each one of them and silenced them until death made it permanent.

We found the Primary asleep in his bed. Susan went over to him and pricked his throat with her knife. He was a sound sleeper. It took a second prick at his throat to wake him. Margie and Sharna had resumed their clothes. Katina only had her knife. As the Primary started to wake up, she removed his cover and put her knife at his cock. She held his cock and had the knife ready to cut his cock off close to the root. He started to shout and Susan said, "If you shout, it will turn into a scream until Katina stuffs what's left into your mouth."

He let his breath out slowly and lay back. "I will not shout."

I came up and adjusted Katina's hold on his cock and the placement of the knife. Now, if he moved, he would remove his cock with minimal effort on her part. I then looked up at him and said, "I guess you're our prisoner. We heard what you were going to do and decided to take preemptive action. You are our prisoner until we are free of this horrid place."

He looked at me and said, "You'll never get away. Holding me hostage will not work. My men will let me die to kill all of you. Those are their instructions. Another waits to take my place. It is our way. You cannot win. Surrender and your deaths will be merciful."

I responded by saying, "Since you are no use as a hostage, we will kill you now. That way, we won't have to bother with you as we try to escape."

The Primary's eyes widened at that. Katina moved her knife slightly cutting him a little and making him wince. He said, "Maybe, we can work something out. I can countermand my orders and arrange for your release."

"I'm not sure. I don't want to leave a canker sore so close to the Lu's. One of my mates was a Lu and I respect the Lu's and their leader, Stephanie. You, on the other hand, are a piece of trash and the world will be a better place without you." I hadn't decided whether or not I was bluffing but, the more I thought about it, the less inclined I was to let him free under any circumstances.

I nodded to Susan to move down and assist Katina. I took a rope I had brought and tied it in a slipknot around his neck tightly. Going to the other side of the bed from my ladies, I turned him to his side facing them. I pulled his hands behind him and tied them. If he tried to move them down, he would choke himself. He couldn't move them up without breaking his arms. Then, with the same rope, I tied his legs pulled up behind him. Moving his legs would pull on his arms and choke him, too. I gagged him with a piece of cloth and Susan pulled Katina back from his immobilized body with only a tiny knick on his cock with the blade. He tried to scream but my gag was good. Mandor, Glenda, and one other from Squad Three were with us. I told them to stay and guard our prisoner with his life. I emphasized that, while he was probably worth more dead than alive, he was not worth any of them even being hurt.

Mandor nodded acknowledgment of my instructions. Glenda said, "My knife is ready. I saw his orders regarding those three women. He can die painfully, too."

I grinned at her as we left to figure out how we were going to get out or take over. Susan said, "Handor, are you thinking of something other than escape?" She sounded alarmed.

"Yes, Susan. Getting away will leave these bastards here as a threat to your mother and the Lu's. I'm not sure that's a good idea."

"How are you going to do that?"

"I'm working on it. One thing, the Primary's men are the only trained fighters around other than my Brigade. I don't think the rest of the Virginians are war-like or there would have been more resistance when these idiots took over. All that needs to happen for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. I heard that somewhere, I think from John Moore.

"Let's do something. We need a prisoner who will talk and who we feel will be honest."

"How about one of the executioners? They know what can happen and, usually, don't want to be a victim."

"That might just work. Let's go to that meeting room." We arrived there to find Jackson and his men there with Hazel and Sharna. One of the executioners was dead on the floor. The other two were standing against a wall with spears at their chests. "Ladies, do any of you know where the horses are stored?" I saw two nods, one from Sharna and the other from Susan. Sharna, take two men and get the horses."

They left. I went to the two men and said, "Now, I'm going to kill one of you to determine if the other wants to talk. If neither of you will talk, then both of you will die painfully and slowly. Now, who dies so the other will talk?"

One of them said, "How do you know the one you chose to talk will tell the truth?"

"That one will die in even more pain if we catch a lie." I smiled briskly. "That won't matter to one of you because one of you is going to die first. Now, you can both strip completely or you will receive help. You won't like the help." They stripped. I had already decided that the weak one would be first and I would "relent" and permit him to talk rather than die if he really pleaded. Otherwise, he would die and we would start on the other one.