"2567-25" - читать интересную книгу автора (Jerome Bigge - Warlady 5 - The Warlady Of Dularn)"THE WARLADY OF DULARN" 2567 A.D.! By Jerome Bigge Chapter Twenty Five "What!" Carol gasped, whipping out her sword as she saw the "movement" there in the darkness of the forest before her! Her keen shining two foot long slim thrusting blade now held at the ready as she instinctively took the position of the swordswoman! "A `friend', mistress," La-ra answered, forgetting for the moment that she was now a "free" woman under Carol's own command. "This is San-sha, Leaderess of the Free Women." Carol nodding, sheathing her sword, smiling to herself there in the darkness. She sensed the movement of others there in the darkness, recalled what Maris had said about these women. They could be "useful"! "And you?" San-sha asked, standing there in the darkness. "Carol Simmons, Warlady of Dularn," my brownette answered. "You are a `Warlady', Carol Simmons," San-sha smiled back. "I `do' what I have to," Carol answered, extending her hand. "We outnumber her by five to one," Darlanis pointed out to the tall stern featured brunette now giving her orders for the night. Lorraine nodding, speaking in low tones to an officer. Men were posted, armed with crossbows, backed by female archers. "Maris has a `Warlady'," Lorraine answered Darlanis back. "You act like you were facing yourself," Darlanis said. "Perhaps I am," Lorraine said, not explaining further. "You don't `need' to do `that'!" Maris said to me there in the darkness of the bedroom as she laid beside me on the bed. I supposed she could tell by the "shaking" what I was "doing". I hadn't "jacked off" now for over a dozen years. I visualized Carol dancing before me, undressing herself, reaching out to me! The orgasm was sudden, the "release" like the breaking of a taut cord. I didn't care much then what Maris thought of such things! I could "face" Carol when she came for me knowing that I had been indeed "faithful" to her. That I had not "succumbed" to Maris! Or to Keri, who had been pretty "obvious" about "it" too, I knew! "Lorraine will never forgive you," Carol warned, well aware of what could happen to San-sha's band of "Free Women" if the Warlady decided to rid herself of such an "annoyance" regardless of the "cost". The "power" of the Imperial Legions was something no group of runaway slave girls ever wished to face, especially not with the Warlady of California in "command" of such a Legion. "In Dularn a woman is not just `pussy'," San-sha answered. "You will be `welcome' on the North Star," Carol replied. ***************************************************************** "Earth," Aurora spoke, her hand on the shoulder of her be- loved granddaughter, the Moon now a glowing crescent to one side. She wondered if she should have "asked permission" to make a landing on the planet, although it always "annoyed" Aurora con- siderably that suddenly the Priestesses of Lys controlled it all! "It'll be good to see Darlanis again," An'na spoke, her hand touching certain controls, changing their settings slightly as the Starfire passed the orbit of the Moon, thus entering Earth's space. Where it now passed under the control of the Priestesses of Lys according to the "agreement" made between those of Mars and the true rulers of the lovely green and blue world there be- fore them. "Stand on the surface of a world where you can breathe the air without having to wear an oxygen mask like Mars." The gravitional field generators now acting against the Earth ahead of them, slowing them down from their initial seventy mile per second speed to a much slower speed suitable for a landing. The new computer controls requiring only a pilot to fly the ship, although for cautions sake one stayed at the controls while the other slept. Monitoring the radar, watching for meteor swarms. The Earth was an "exciting world", unlike Mars with its arid cold deserts, a world where life was hard and sometimes dangerous too. Aurora's own mother having died there on the surface when Aurora was only a child from lack of oxygen when her "rover" had suf- fered a mechanical failure and her calls for help had not been received. Now there were radio satellites in orbit around the planet to prevent just such "accidents", but back then the Lorr had paid little heed to such. Feeling that the life of a Woman, who they considered as slaves, was not really worth such trouble! The Lorr viewing human beings much as humans might dogs and cats! "Useful" creatures to keep around, but not really truly "Lorr"!!! "A violent cruel world, where human life is nearly value- less," Aurora answered her in level tones. She was Leaderess of the Women, sharing power with Raspa, First Princess of the Lorr. "A world where people go armed all the time, where swords are of- ten red with blood. Where war is still a common part of life." Aurora mentally adding to herself that she was glad that the Wom- en had now left the Earth for good. Leith was now abandoned af- ter being inhabited for tens of thousands of years as a "base of operation" there on the Earth. A second city, its exotic name now forgotten by everyone, had gone down with the island of At- lantis some twelve thousand years ago. Tais had "hinted" to the jade eyed Aurora that the Women were not all that "welcome" now. Only their base on the far side of the Moon was still inhabited. And no "weapon" or device of "destruction" was now allowed there. "And a world with `MEN' on it," An'na answered. She won- dered what it would be like to "make love" as Earthlings did. A question she had asked Aurora many times, although Aurora had not viewed such "activities" as being anything but "degrading" for a woman. Saying that it was both "painful" and "unpleasant" to have one's body so "invaded" by the fertilization organ of a man! "The `fact' that your mother `enjoys' such things does not mean that they are either `enjoyable' or `proper'," Aurora said. "A woman's `touch' is far more `gentle' than a man's, and unlike men, we Women can live in peace with ourselves, which they cannot do as history has proved in the past thirty five thousand years." "You allowed a man to `touch' you once," An'na retorted then. He had done more than just "touch" her, of course, but in An'na's mind sexual intercourse was something mysterious, exotic! "I was `young', foolish, and what did it `gain' me"? Aurora pointed out in reply, looking down into the lovely eyes of the only true daughter of Darlanis. The Leaderess gasping with shock as suddenly a shimmering figure seemed to materialize before the ship, the figure of a blonde haired woman dressed in a white gown of a style that might have reminded another of Greece and Rome!!! "What we're `seeing' isn't `there'," An'na spoke softly, adding, "And we've just come to a dead stop too," the "implica- tions" of that something that left no doubts as to the true na- ture of what stood there in airless space just ahead of the ship! "Impossible!" Aurora breathed, well aware of what would have happened to them had the ship been suddenly stopped from a speed of seventy miles per second! And she had felt nothing at all!!! "Why do you `doubt' us so, Aurora?" First Priestess Tais asked, suddenly now standing there beside the Martian Leaderess! Gently placing her hand on the shoulder of the attractive blonde! Aurora, like many of the Women of Mars, being "blonde" thanks to the genetic work of the Lorr many centuries before in modifying the Neanderthals into a more "modern" and "useful" form of life! "And the hostility you give off towards me concerns me too," Tais said, her eyes, an azure blue, now meeting the jade of Aurora's. "You have your world, the rest of the solar system to `exploit'." "Why not?" Aurora snapped back. "You took away my dreams!" "Dreams" of a world where one might live without oxygen tanks, the many precautions that one had to take on the surface of Mars. She understood now why those of the Earth had done what they did. Why The War of 2047 A.D. had "happened" back then just as it had. "We acted only to protect other forms of intelligent life in the Universe according to the Teachings of Lys," Tais answered. The Lorr and the Women had been warned not to trespass beyond the confines of the solar system, the Oort comet cloud the limit be- yond which they were not now allowed to go with their spaceships. There had been considerable anger among the Women at such orders! Talk even then of some sort of "action" against the Priestesses! Aurora, "wiser" than many, had known the "folly" of such an idea! "We're not `barbarian savages' like those down there!" Auro- ra snapped back, indicating the Earth there ahead. An'na sitting there at the controls, content for the moment to take this all in, while keeping her own "opinions" to herself. An'na too had been "disappointed" that the starship Valkyrie had been taken from them by the Priestesses, but on the other hand she had no doubt that the Priestesses of Lys had done the "right thing" re- gardless of how her grandmother looked at the issue! An'na re- called the "plans" that had been made to colonize another world! The comments that had been made by members of the Women when the possibility of intelligent life upon the planet had been dis- cussed. Aurora's comment that such "savages" could be "civi- lized" if necessary with "blaster rifles" had summed it all up! "There is no `difference' between Lorraine dreaming of fifty four gun frigates to conquer Dularn and yours of taking over the worlds circling another star with a fleet of starships," Tais an- swered in level tones. "Nor would I consider you any more `civi- lized' than those now inhabiting the Earth there before us." There suddenly came then an instant of "blurring", as if they had stepped through one of the "Portals" used to travel between Mars and Luna to their scientific base there on the "farside" of Luna. "Hey!" An'na gasped, Mars now floating there in space before them! A hundred million miles of space having been crossed in no time at all! The ship having been "teleported" right back home! "I think it best that the two of you stay on Mars right now," Tais smiled, now suddenly disappearing as swiftly as she had come. "Teleporting" herself in an instant back to the Earth! "We have prevented what could have been a disaster from tak- ing place," Tais spoke with the power of her mind to those now seated around the semi-circular table before her. "Had the Star- fire landed on Earth it might have been `used' in ways forbidden to those of this world," Tais spoke into the minds of those who sat there nodding in agreement. It was possible to "look" into the future, although one could not be "sure" whether or not the "future" you saw was actually the "future" that was to be. Even for the Priestesses "time" was still a mysterious thing, some- thing that was barely understood. Time travel itself dangerous. Not so much for the time traveler herself, but for what she might do without knowledge of the consequences centuries in the future! The fact that Carol would never bear children had been the major reason she had been "selected" to become Dularn's new "Warlady". Tais' subtle "adjustments" of Carol 's mind there in 1988 had done the rest. Carol herself of course had no knowledge of this. "It is now time to give Carol her `test'," Tais then spoke to those seated about the semi-circular table. The Priestesses now joining hands, closing their eyes as they concentrated their awesome mental powers, a horrible "monster" now suddenly being teleported by the power of their minds over seven hundred miles! "The tyrannosaurus has now been positioned," Tais spoke, raising her head. The rest would be up to Carol now. Would her courage and abilities to "command" be sufficient against such a monster? "THE WARLADY OF DULARN" 2567 A.D.! By Jerome Bigge Chapter Twenty Five "What!" Carol gasped, whipping out her sword as she saw the "movement" there in the darkness of the forest before her! Her keen shining two foot long slim thrusting blade now held at the ready as she instinctively took the position of the swordswoman! "A `friend', mistress," La-ra answered, forgetting for the moment that she was now a "free" woman under Carol's own command. "This is San-sha, Leaderess of the Free Women." Carol nodding, sheathing her sword, smiling to herself there in the darkness. She sensed the movement of others there in the darkness, recalled what Maris had said about these women. They could be "useful"! "And you?" San-sha asked, standing there in the darkness. "Carol Simmons, Warlady of Dularn," my brownette answered. "You are a `Warlady', Carol Simmons," San-sha smiled back. "I `do' what I have to," Carol answered, extending her hand. "We outnumber her by five to one," Darlanis pointed out to the tall stern featured brunette now giving her orders for the night. Lorraine nodding, speaking in low tones to an officer. Men were posted, armed with crossbows, backed by female archers. "Maris has a `Warlady'," Lorraine answered Darlanis back. "You act like you were facing yourself," Darlanis said. "Perhaps I am," Lorraine said, not explaining further. "You don't `need' to do `that'!" Maris said to me there in the darkness of the bedroom as she laid beside me on the bed. I supposed she could tell by the "shaking" what I was "doing". I hadn't "jacked off" now for over a dozen years. I visualized Carol dancing before me, undressing herself, reaching out to me! The orgasm was sudden, the "release" like the breaking of a taut cord. I didn't care much then what Maris thought of such things! I could "face" Carol when she came for me knowing that I had been indeed "faithful" to her. That I had not "succumbed" to Maris! Or to Keri, who had been pretty "obvious" about "it" too, I knew! "Lorraine will never forgive you," Carol warned, well aware of what could happen to San-sha's band of "Free Women" if the Warlady decided to rid herself of such an "annoyance" regardless of the "cost". The "power" of the Imperial Legions was something no group of runaway slave girls ever wished to face, especially not with the Warlady of California in "command" of such a Legion. "In Dularn a woman is not just `pussy'," San-sha answered. "You will be `welcome' on the North Star," Carol replied. ***************************************************************** "Earth," Aurora spoke, her hand on the shoulder of her be- loved granddaughter, the Moon now a glowing crescent to one side. She wondered if she should have "asked permission" to make a landing on the planet, although it always "annoyed" Aurora con- siderably that suddenly the Priestesses of Lys controlled it all! "It'll be good to see Darlanis again," An'na spoke, her hand touching certain controls, changing their settings slightly as the Starfire passed the orbit of the Moon, thus entering Earth's space. Where it now passed under the control of the Priestesses of Lys according to the "agreement" made between those of Mars and the true rulers of the lovely green and blue world there be- fore them. "Stand on the surface of a world where you can breathe the air without having to wear an oxygen mask like Mars." The gravitional field generators now acting against the Earth ahead of them, slowing them down from their initial seventy mile per second speed to a much slower speed suitable for a landing. The new computer controls requiring only a pilot to fly the ship, although for cautions sake one stayed at the controls while the other slept. Monitoring the radar, watching for meteor swarms. The Earth was an "exciting world", unlike Mars with its arid cold deserts, a world where life was hard and sometimes dangerous too. Aurora's own mother having died there on the surface when Aurora was only a child from lack of oxygen when her "rover" had suf- fered a mechanical failure and her calls for help had not been received. Now there were radio satellites in orbit around the planet to prevent just such "accidents", but back then the Lorr had paid little heed to such. Feeling that the life of a Woman, who they considered as slaves, was not really worth such trouble! The Lorr viewing human beings much as humans might dogs and cats! "Useful" creatures to keep around, but not really truly "Lorr"!!! "A violent cruel world, where human life is nearly value- less," Aurora answered her in level tones. She was Leaderess of the Women, sharing power with Raspa, First Princess of the Lorr. "A world where people go armed all the time, where swords are of- ten red with blood. Where war is still a common part of life." Aurora mentally adding to herself that she was glad that the Wom- en had now left the Earth for good. Leith was now abandoned af- ter being inhabited for tens of thousands of years as a "base of operation" there on the Earth. A second city, its exotic name now forgotten by everyone, had gone down with the island of At- lantis some twelve thousand years ago. Tais had "hinted" to the jade eyed Aurora that the Women were not all that "welcome" now. Only their base on the far side of the Moon was still inhabited. And no "weapon" or device of "destruction" was now allowed there. "And a world with `MEN' on it," An'na answered. She won- dered what it would be like to "make love" as Earthlings did. A question she had asked Aurora many times, although Aurora had not viewed such "activities" as being anything but "degrading" for a woman. Saying that it was both "painful" and "unpleasant" to have one's body so "invaded" by the fertilization organ of a man! "The `fact' that your mother `enjoys' such things does not mean that they are either `enjoyable' or `proper'," Aurora said. "A woman's `touch' is far more `gentle' than a man's, and unlike men, we Women can live in peace with ourselves, which they cannot do as history has proved in the past thirty five thousand years." "You allowed a man to `touch' you once," An'na retorted then. He had done more than just "touch" her, of course, but in An'na's mind sexual intercourse was something mysterious, exotic! "I was `young', foolish, and what did it `gain' me"? Aurora pointed out in reply, looking down into the lovely eyes of the only true daughter of Darlanis. The Leaderess gasping with shock as suddenly a shimmering figure seemed to materialize before the ship, the figure of a blonde haired woman dressed in a white gown of a style that might have reminded another of Greece and Rome!!! "What we're `seeing' isn't `there'," An'na spoke softly, adding, "And we've just come to a dead stop too," the "implica- tions" of that something that left no doubts as to the true na- ture of what stood there in airless space just ahead of the ship! "Impossible!" Aurora breathed, well aware of what would have happened to them had the ship been suddenly stopped from a speed of seventy miles per second! And she had felt nothing at all!!! "Why do you `doubt' us so, Aurora?" First Priestess Tais asked, suddenly now standing there beside the Martian Leaderess! Gently placing her hand on the shoulder of the attractive blonde! Aurora, like many of the Women of Mars, being "blonde" thanks to the genetic work of the Lorr many centuries before in modifying the Neanderthals into a more "modern" and "useful" form of life! "And the hostility you give off towards me concerns me too," Tais said, her eyes, an azure blue, now meeting the jade of Aurora's. "You have your world, the rest of the solar system to `exploit'." "Why not?" Aurora snapped back. "You took away my dreams!" "Dreams" of a world where one might live without oxygen tanks, the many precautions that one had to take on the surface of Mars. She understood now why those of the Earth had done what they did. Why The War of 2047 A.D. had "happened" back then just as it had. "We acted only to protect other forms of intelligent life in the Universe according to the Teachings of Lys," Tais answered. The Lorr and the Women had been warned not to trespass beyond the confines of the solar system, the Oort comet cloud the limit be- yond which they were not now allowed to go with their spaceships. There had been considerable anger among the Women at such orders! Talk even then of some sort of "action" against the Priestesses! Aurora, "wiser" than many, had known the "folly" of such an idea! "We're not `barbarian savages' like those down there!" Auro- ra snapped back, indicating the Earth there ahead. An'na sitting there at the controls, content for the moment to take this all in, while keeping her own "opinions" to herself. An'na too had been "disappointed" that the starship Valkyrie had been taken from them by the Priestesses, but on the other hand she had no doubt that the Priestesses of Lys had done the "right thing" re- gardless of how her grandmother looked at the issue! An'na re- called the "plans" that had been made to colonize another world! The comments that had been made by members of the Women when the possibility of intelligent life upon the planet had been dis- cussed. Aurora's comment that such "savages" could be "civi- lized" if necessary with "blaster rifles" had summed it all up! "There is no `difference' between Lorraine dreaming of fifty four gun frigates to conquer Dularn and yours of taking over the worlds circling another star with a fleet of starships," Tais an- swered in level tones. "Nor would I consider you any more `civi- lized' than those now inhabiting the Earth there before us." There suddenly came then an instant of "blurring", as if they had stepped through one of the "Portals" used to travel between Mars and Luna to their scientific base there on the "farside" of Luna. "Hey!" An'na gasped, Mars now floating there in space before them! A hundred million miles of space having been crossed in no time at all! The ship having been "teleported" right back home! "I think it best that the two of you stay on Mars right now," Tais smiled, now suddenly disappearing as swiftly as she had come. "Teleporting" herself in an instant back to the Earth! "We have prevented what could have been a disaster from tak- ing place," Tais spoke with the power of her mind to those now seated around the semi-circular table before her. "Had the Star- fire landed on Earth it might have been `used' in ways forbidden to those of this world," Tais spoke into the minds of those who sat there nodding in agreement. It was possible to "look" into the future, although one could not be "sure" whether or not the "future" you saw was actually the "future" that was to be. Even for the Priestesses "time" was still a mysterious thing, some- thing that was barely understood. Time travel itself dangerous. Not so much for the time traveler herself, but for what she might do without knowledge of the consequences centuries in the future! The fact that Carol would never bear children had been the major reason she had been "selected" to become Dularn's new "Warlady". Tais' subtle "adjustments" of Carol 's mind there in 1988 had done the rest. Carol herself of course had no knowledge of this. "It is now time to give Carol her `test'," Tais then spoke to those seated about the semi-circular table. The Priestesses now joining hands, closing their eyes as they concentrated their awesome mental powers, a horrible "monster" now suddenly being teleported by the power of their minds over seven hundred miles! "The tyrannosaurus has now been positioned," Tais spoke, raising her head. The rest would be up to Carol now. Would her courage and abilities to "command" be sufficient against such a monster? |
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