It was nearing sunset and Nameless was sitting on the porch of the cottage, a blanket over his shoulders to ward off any chill and a faithful cow at his side, holding his limp hand in hers.
He stirred against her, his fingers twitching in her palm.
“Milly.” He mumbled.
The Minotaur froze, her heart pounding harder in her chest from hearing her name spoken aloud.
She waited, and a few moments later he said it again, stronger this time.
“Milly, where am I?”
A deep low reverberated around him as her emotions got the better of her, but she quickly got hold of herself and explained.
“You are home Master, at our cottage where you belong.” She replied shakily, tears already seeping down her cheeks.
His hand came to life again, his fingers gripping her palm tighter.
“Is that... the sun I feel on my face?”
“Yes.” She sniffed and quickly wiped her face, smiling now; “We’re on the porch, watching the sunset together.”
He drew in a deep breath, his blank eyes closing as he let it out in a long sigh.
“It’s warm.” He mumbled and snuggled up against her.
Epilogue:
Legend
As was already a matter of course, the various Amazon tribes loved and revered Nameless.
While the Undines could not stop talking about the size of his cock after he showed it to three of them during his first mission with the Aegis, never mind all that he had accomplished with their Sacred Current.
On top of that, members of the Aegis decades his senior respected him as one of their own, while the esteemed Longinus family of Antlions wanted him to bond with their youngest daughter.
But none of that compared to the monster girls he had pulled out of Evadne’s worst memory.
Because although they remembered little from their time as Tenebrae beyond blood and horrible violence, they remembered him.
They remembered his voice when he called to them, the selfless love he showed to drag them back into the light, and above all they remembered the pain that he endured to save them.
If things had gone just slightly differently in the maelstrom of their shared psyches, he could have found himself with several thousand bond-mates.
Milly would have been thrilled.
Were he still an Empath, he would suffocate in their feelings for him: desperate gratitude, fanatical devotion, and always overwhelming love.
Before the Battle of Wayfelt, he was the new Empath, a rising young star in the Aegis, a mysterious hero, beloved by the Amazons.
Now, even outside of those he saved, monster girls lusted after him and revered him even to the point of making their own precious bond-mates slightly jealous, an unprecedented occurrence.
Soon his deeds were known across all of the city states, his story becoming as commonplace as that of the goddess of creation who was believed to have brought the monster girls into being.
Myrina One-Eye was soon named warleader of the Saenga Amazons, and despite her misgivings about it, Tiana likewise became the leader of the Brael tribe.
With Yana disgraced, Booker stepped down from the Aegis council to help her recover her spirit again, the two of them and Juni going into a sort of self-imposed exile.
Their long struggle finally over, Xalanth and the Lady Essig soon disappeared from the Bastion, but not before formally leaving the massive structure in the hands of the Aegis as a parting gift.
Nameless and his bond-mates had retired to Kettering intent on living out the rest of their lives together in peace, their days of service to the Aegis more or less cut short with his new disability.
The orphan had a long way to go in order to come to terms with the loss of his powers, not to mention his blindness, something that not even the magic of the Dryads could rectify.
It helped that after a time, and a lot of soul-searching, Kriss the Chameleon began to visit on occasion; her new home in Wayfelt was only ten miles from her brother’s cottage, so she really didn’t have an excuse not to.
With the deaths of Evadne Contrail and her human puppet, Jonathan Pym, the world settled again.
For a time at least, as Nameless was young and his story was far from over, while the costs of the conflict the wretched Chimera had orchestrated were both far-reaching and unpredictable.
If one wished to call this an end, they could, but for those willing to press on, just know that there are more stories yet to come:
The revelation of Tiberius Augendus’s true identity and the recounting of the impossible truths surrounding the Armistice Crisis that followed.
An Antlion Queen’s quest to find her autonomy again amidst the well-meaning machinations of her family.
The heartbreaking account of a broken Alchemist, trying to salvage his soul.
The tale of Volka Gundrsdotter seeking out the halls of her ancestors, as well as aiding Milly and Erica as they delved into their respective pasts.
And let us not forget the greatest adventure of them all that Nameless himself would soon face: fatherhood.
But these are stories for another day.
For now: rest...
As your dick must hurt something awful.
The End... For Now
About The Author
Make no mistake gentlemen, the time traveling space cat known as Lieutenant Archibald Bradford (Pronounced left-ten-ant like the British say it, because it sounds more dignified) loves to write smutty books. But unlike all the other deviant housecats out there, he likes his books to have interesting characters…
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Other Books By The Lieutenant
The Heartstone Saga
Book 1 - Empath Rising
Book 2 - Legacy of the Valkyrie
Book 3 - Home of Consequence
Book 4 - Dark Empathy
Book 5 - Light of the Aegis
*Erotic Collection - Amorous Interlude
**Heartstone Second Movement
Book 1 - Empath Broken (working title)
Book 2 - Armistice (working title)
Book 3 - Primary Monogyny (BIG time working title)
Book 4 - Alchemical Solutions (working title)
Book 5 - How we Began (working title)
Pixie Hazard
Book 1 - Junker’s Paradise
*Book 2 - Scion’s Son
*Book 3 - Danger Close
*coming soon...ish
**coming eventually, like: ‘not even sure of the order of the books yet’ eventually.
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