Nuana's Crucible - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Emily:

I hear the rooster outside welcoming the rising sun and I hurry out of bed slipping into my wool dress and I hurry downstairs and through the door to get started on my day taking care of the farm with mother and father, it has been a tough year, a strange blight has hit many of the other farms, but luckily we have been spared so far. I heard father talking about it with mother, after having talked with the other farmers, it is a blight like no other in the past, as it does not only affect plants, but animals and people too, it starts with tiny bright red spots that spread tendril like veins across the leaves or skin and each of those end in another red spot and the older spots grow bigger and paler and the leaves of plants turn brown, red spores are released from the spots, on animals or humans the skin turns pale and the spots also release red spores, I am not sure what spores mean.

I walk into the hen house and pick some eggs and place them in a basket, I then give the hens some old bread crumbs and mixed seeds and I see that they need more water so I hurry over to our well and lower the bucket down slowly with the creaky crank.

The church of Ka supposedly has a cure, but it costs a hundred gold pieces to buy a cure for one person, and if you want your land cured it costs way more than that, only the very rich can afford those cures, but there are also rumours of a woman, an elf who lives in the old woods, supposedly she has the cure too, and it only costs something you have made for her with your own hands to get the cure, or so the rumours go. I think they are true since I heard that Hans and his father and mother were sick and their farm blighted, and my friend, his sister Lyssa made a pie with the last flour and apples they had and gave it to the woman and I have seen Hans in market after I heard that and he looked as handsome as ever.

I feel the rope slack as the bucket hits the water and hear a sploosh then I start cranking it up again, it is much heavier filled and I look around to see if father is around as he usually helps me in the morning, after quite some effort I get the bucket up and fill a small tin decanter and go to refill the water for the hens. The rooster watches me warily, luckily he missed me taking the eggs, he can be a bit of a handful if he sees you trying to do so, he once scratched my legs really badly defending the hens and eggs, until I hit him several times with a broom.

As I exit the hen house I see mother standing in the door to the house and she is crying, I rush over to her and she holds up a hand "no stop!"

"What is it mama?" I ask and she pulls her skirt up a bit to reveal her legs, I see a red dot and red tendrils and I just stand there for several moments and my heart races and tears well up in my eyes.

"Your..." she sniffs "your father and I..." she lets her skirt drop back in place and starts shaking "we are sick, you need to leave so you don't get sick too. Father says to ask Lyssa about the cure. I would rather you just stay safe, the old woods is a godless place, wild and unpredictable and I do not want you to get hurt. Ask Hans father if he will repay the debt to us by letting you marry his son and live with them." she is crying and as I step forward by instinct to hug her and comfort her she hurries inside and closes the door and I hear her put something against the door on the other side and I can't open it "mama! papa!"

My tears fall on the eggs in the basket I am still holding and I look at the door for several minutes through my tear filled eyes and then I decide to go ask Lyssa about the cure, and I am determined to get the cure, no matter the cost.

As I round the house to start heading down the dirt path I spot dads pipe weed plants all red and brown and surrounded with a red haze luckily for me far from me, but I can see the nearby plants also having been touched by the blight.

I hurry down the dirt path as fast as I can without dropping the basket and the eggs inside it. I get none of my usual enjoyment of feeling the dirt under my bare feet, as I hurry along the dirt path. I know that there is not much time, the blight can kill a person in a week, and a farm our size in less than a month. It seems only the old woods are immune to its spread, trees older than the farms and villages seem to stop the blight, or ground protected by the priests of Ka. I am in a daze barely seeing the fields and young woods around me as I wander along the dirt path.

Around noon I wander up to Hans's farm and Lyssa sees me, she is picking her famous purple carrots. I walk up to her and sit next to her "mother and father... our farm... the blight" is all I manage as I break down crying.

Lyssa hugs me close "Emily, don't worry, Nuana will save you and your farm and family" she says and smiles "you even have a gift to give her already" she says and points to the eggs. I cry a little while before I manage to pull myself together "can you show me to her please?"

"Yeah, I will bring some carrots too, they have grown so much better since she helped our farm." she says and brushes the earth off some of the carrots and place them in my basket and then she gets up and helps me up too and she leads me along another of the dirt paths, and then into the natural paths the animals have made in the young forest, through a meadow and then into the old forest she explains to me "you see these wind chime amulets up in the tree?"

I look at what she points at "yeah" I say and just then the wind makes them sing their beautiful song "that flint arrowhead points the way to Nuana's current home, always, she moves through the old woods, but she has hung these up to let people who need her find her."

We follow the arrow heads, though they do not point in a straight line they do point out paths that make travel possible in the old woods, shallow parts of streams, well hidden rope bridges over ravines, and such, night falls before we reach an old huge oak tree and it has a very odd looking door on it very decorated by symbols I do not understand and as I move up to knock the door slides into the bark of the tree and I see a stunningly beautiful woman, her hair is black and reaches down her back to her butt as she sits cross legged on the floor, she is really beautifully curved and her skin has a beautiful exotic dark olive tone to it, she is sitting there nude and I am seeing her slightly from behind, in front of her sits a mirror and I can see her flawless skin, and her intense deep violet eyes gaze into mine "I am Nuana, please come in, you will be my guests for tonight, welcome." I see her ears poke out of her hair slightly, she must be one of elves or fey, I am not sure how to tell the difference, I have only heard of them from stories.

It takes me several long moments before I can even see anything else but her, especially her eyes, but she seems to release my gaze and that is when I blush fiercely and look around the rest of her home trying to not stare at her naked body as I was told that is impolite. I also feel really ugly compared to her, I have scars and I am so bony compared to her and my hair is brown and my skin freckled, pale under my dress and red where the sun can touch me. She is even more beautiful than Lyssa who has some curves too and golden blond hair. Then it strikes me how large the interior of her home is, several times larger than the tree it is supposed to be inside, the room is shaped like a seven petalled flower, she is sitting on a beautiful silk, I think, pillow it is violet, only not quite as intense violet as her eyes. In the petal left of the door is a large wooden tub, then clockwise a large bed with violet silk sheets it looks very messy, and there are lots of pillows of various sizes, one is long and round and has a very wet spot near the middle, a picture enters my mind of Nuana hugging herself to it and grinding herself against it and I feel myself get wet at the thought of doing the same or watching her do it, I don't know where those thoughts come from. The next three petals have what looks like a very colourful garden with herbs and plants, most of them I have never seen before, floating over them are several glowing orbs that pulsate with very pleasant light, on the petal opposite the bed is a lot of equipment I have no idea about, I recognize a mortar and pestle, and vials, but most of that is completely beyond me, and behind those things are shelves with some thick books and some scrolls, the final petal on the right of the door has what looks like a kitchen. I look back to the centre of the room at the mirror and then I step inside like she asked me to.

Lyssa follows me inside and blushes a bit as well and she seems a bit excited, the door slides closed behind us and as the cool evening air dissipates the wondrous scents of Nuana's home becomes much clearer, they calm my worries and at the same time makes me feel like when I dream of Hans and awaken with my hand between my legs and on my breasts, my nipples go hard despite the warmer temperature of the room, and I feel the wetness between my legs seep along my inner thighs all the way down to my feet.

Nuana looks to Lyssa and then to me and says "so what can I do for you my guests?" she asks.

I feel my mind focus as those words of hers register and I recall why I am here, but my sadness is kept at bay, not allowed to manifest somehow. "My mama, papa and our farm has been struck by the blight. I heard you could cure it, please cure my mama and papa, and our farm and I will forever be in your debt."

Nuana nods "ah, yes I can cure your farm and all who live there, all I ask in return is that you provide me with something made on the farm, and if you want you can keep me company tonight and share in mutual pleasure, though that is not required, and also if you want you can help my friends the spirits of old to be happier and they will help your farm in return."

"I brought some eggs, but I promise to bring you more food and I can make you a wool dress next time I shear the sheep and make yarn" I say to her, hoping that will be enough. I also blush about the sharing of mutual pleasure and bite my lower lip "I... um... I would like to keep you company tonight too, but I don't know what to do." I blush more "about the pleasure I mean."

Nuana giggles "put your basket over there" she points to the kitchen area next to the stove "then please get out of your travel clothes and get into the tub while I make the cure against the blight."

Lyssa pulls her wool dress over her head and tosses it next to the door and heads over to the tub and gets in and I watch her beautiful figure with some envy and I walk over to the kitchen area and put the basket where Nuana said I should put it and then somewhat self consciously I pull my wool dress off and cover myself as much as I can with my hands.

Nuana gets up off her pillow and walks up to me caressing my cheek "you have no reason to be shy, you are beautiful" she says as she slides her hands down along my arms and pull them away from me and place them on her own hips as she kisses me, my fingers tremble as I feel her perfect skin against my calloused hands, her skin is as smooth as silk or smoother, and feels amazing wherever she touches me and her scent is really amazing, her taste and as she breaks the kiss I try to stay with her and she giggles happily "Emily, go join Lyssa in the tub" I get surprised at her knowing my name as I forgot to give it to her, her eyes sparkle with amusement and I move to the tub and slide in with Lyssa.

The water feels amazing on my skin, and has a wonderful scent to it, and it also seems to contain something that makes my skin get really smooth and soft and even my tangled messy hair gets straightened out quickly and all the dirt from my skin and feet dissipates from the water making it get completely clear, the water is also really nicely warm, bordering on too hot, and removes aches and pains from my legs and feet immediately.

I look from the tub over to Nuana and she sings a beautiful song and dances as she caresses the plants in her garden, making them grow as she picks flowers, leaves and a few roots, mushrooms and scrapes some lichens off some stones in the garden and dances over to her mortar and starts grinding them up pouring some fluids into the mortar with them as she keeps singing and moving her body in a dance as she stands there working, I see some violet light and when I do I feel a tingle along my spine as if a powerful lightning storm was inside the room with us. I think that must be magic, the priests of Ka has told us to be wary of people who do strange things and report them to them or the paladins that patrol the streets around the church in town. I do not want to report Nuana though, especially not if she cures mama and papa and the farm.

Lyssa slides up closer to me in the tub and caresses me along my leg and giggles "look Emily your scars are gone" I am pulled from my enraptured gaze at Nuana's dancing body to look at my leg where I used to have my scars from the rooster attacking me and I caress where I remember the scar having been and I feel for my other scars and my skin is perfect, even the soles of my feet are smooth now, rather than leathery, I am not sure that is the best though, I wonder if maybe pebbles will hurt me again now, but I do like how my skin feels, we both soon end up caressing each other while watching Nuana dance and listening to her singing. I have no clue how long this takes, but finally she dances over to us and slides into the tub between us, it gets much more close and she wraps her legs around my butt and leans against Lyssa who cups her breasts as Nuana and holds up a vial on a leather cord that contains violet glowing fluid "when you get back to your farm, you need to pour this into your well, or wherever the farm gets its water from, then wait until the water stops glowing and then you must water all the plants and give all the animals and people water to drink, this will cure the blight and protect your land, plants, animals and family from it for some time, I think at least seven years, but if you help the spirits of old they can extend the protection longer, or you can come to me in seven years for more help." she slides the strap around my neck and fastens it and it rests on my chest between my breasts. I can feel a tingle as it rests on me, it must be its magic. I can't help myself and I slide up close to her and hug her tight "thank you so much!" I say and despite the strong suppression of sadness in this place I cry, but not really of sadness, but of relief.

Nuana hugs me back and caresses my hair and back "you are welcome Emily, please do not worry, everything will be fine." she caresses me gently in her embrace and I hug myself close to Nuana.

Lyssa giggles "let's get to bed so we can enjoy each other easier."

"But we are all wet" I say, normally when I bathe in the lake I let myself dry in the air before I get back in my dress and I usually wash my dress at the same time and let it dry while I bathe.

Nuana giggles "my bed is magical, it will let us dry just enough to be comfortable and it cleans itself when I want it to." she points at it "look."

I look over and the wet spot on the body length pillow dries up and the sheets glow faintly violet and the pillows and sheets move until they are all placed in a very orderly fashion all smooth. I giggle at that it is so absurd and amazing. "If you are sure Nuana I will."

"I am" she says and slips out of the tub and walks over dripping the lovely bath water all over the polished wood floor and rather than soak into the wood the water evaporates into violet mists that dance around her and then around us in the tub and drip the water back into it. I slip out of the tub and giggle as the water does the same as it drips off me and Nuana jumps into the bed and jumps on it and giggles and that is enough to make me fully relax and just enjoy myself and I jump into bed and jump with her and soon enough Lyssa joins us and we grab each other's hands and dance around in a circle on the bed giggling and then one we are all dry and exhausted from jumping on the bed just collapse in a heap in bed. Nuana on one side of me and Lyssa on the other and they both gently caress my stomach and Nuana leans over and kisses me and cups my breast and caressing it, Lyssa cups my other breast and leans in to kiss my nipple and lick it, my hands trace down their backs and hesitantly I cup their butts.

Nuana slides her leg between mine and her thigh rubs up against my pussy and I feel her pussy rub against my thigh and then I feel Lyssa's leg join Nuana's between my legs and together they spread my legs while Nuana rubs my pussy Lyssa rubs her pussy against my leg, I moan into Nuana's kiss. I have never been with someone else like this, and to have such beautiful women as Lyssa and Nuana do these things with me, things I have only done to myself, making me feel amazing not just physically but emotionally as well. Nuana trails kisses from my mouth down my cheek and neck and above my breast and finally she kisses and licks and sucks on my nipple, and while she is on her way down Lyssa starts trailing licks and kisses up until our lips meet and she kisses me and I feel Nuana slide her thigh away from my pussy and let Lyssa take her place with her thigh. I caress up their backs into their silken hair and their legs hug mine and they moan and gyrate their hips against my legs and I moan too as they rub their thighs up against me and I feel my pleasure build slowly and then Lyssa cries out against my neck on the way down and Nuana rubs faster against me and I feel myself just at the edge and then Nuana sings out her orgasm and bites my neck, not painfully hard but that and their cries of ecstasy is the final drop that breaks my dam and I arch my back under them and cry out and Nuana keeps rubbing against me and so does Lyssa as my orgasm floods into me and I try to squirm away as I get sensitive but they do not let me and then I feel my wetness go from a trickle to a flood, and I feel so embarrassed thinking I have peed myself and then I hear both of them cry out and I feel them do that to me as well we all become really wet. Finally Nuana and Lyssa collapse on my shoulders and Nuana giggles "mmm I am so glad I could get you to squirt, that means you really managed to enjoy yourself, you are so beautiful Emily."

"But... I... I made your bed all messy!" I cry and feel so messy and embarrassed.

Nuana giggles and kisses and then I feel like my entire skin is being tickled all over my feathers and the soggy wetness on our skins go away and the violet glowing mists dance around us and they fly away towards Nuana's garden. Nuana breaks the kiss "oh and thank you for nourishing my garden and me and magic itself with your pleasure, your lust and love."

I get lost in her gaze, her eyes are so much more beautiful now that her pupils are wider like that and I drown in them and I also feel myself feel so very relaxed and tingly and I am not sure exactly when it happens but I fall asleep in both of their loving embraces.

Continued in Chapter 2