Seeds of Heroism - Chapter 53
Chapter 53 – content: >!castration threat, knives/cutting, monster girl, castration!<
*[A guide to the world of Bythos!](https://imgur.com/a/poZLPkK)*
The wind whipped up some sand, striking Ina in the face, but the green-tinted lenses of her goggles did a sufficient job in protecting her eyes. Leaning over the pommel of the saddle, she grinned, not caring for the few grains of sand finding their way into her mouth. “By the way, I don’t think we ever thanked you for accompanying us! I don’t think we could’ve got used to the lizards this quickly if you hadn’t helped us,” she shouted.
Vivi turned slightly and gave her a thumbs-up. “No worry! Good chance for me to get out!”
She had never felt as free as she did at that moment. Sure, when she opened her inn in Smâhspera, she felt like she had made it, but suddenly being thrust into being a store owner, an innkeeper at that, came with its own, entirely new duties and obligations. But here and now, nothing but the hot wind and the scaly back below her mattered. Riding the akka, the red-and-blue giant lizards the dwarves were keeping in the dark caves outside their outpost, was exhilarating. Even if her companions didn’t see it that way.
Chloe was sitting atop her saddle cross-legged, looking bored out of her mind and somehow retaining her balance as the lizard ran. It had taken Ina an hour to get used to the shifting run of the reptiles since they swayed side to side much more than a horse, but Chloe seemed used to them from the get-go.
Jim, meanwhile, was bent over his saddle, moaning in pain. Which, to be fair, he could do nothing about. Except maybe ignore the pain and enjoy the ride like she did? “Come on, Jim, don’t be such a sourpuss! This is really fun!”
“Ooooh…” he answered and looked a bit green around the gills.
The reason for his discomfort was, of course, Despina. Ina sighed. At sunrise, she had knocked on her door and demanded to be handed Jim’s balls. Eventually, the auf had given in just so she could get back to sleep. She didn’t know what the princess had been doing those first hours, but once they headed out, it was obvious she had stuffed the nuts into her boots because why else would she suddenly be a few inches taller?
And they had all seen the redhead shake the nuts out of her boots before they got on the akka, then curse and spend the next five minutes slapping and rubbing the white ovals to get the sand off of them before she stuffed them down her panties. Ever since then, she had been sitting on them. There was a tense moment right before the nuts were put safely next to her snatch, where Vivi had to intervene because Despina’s akka thought she was offering it a tasty snack, its tongue latching onto the nut and trying to pull it out of the princess’s hands. She refused, of course, fighting with the animal over the ball. Ina had to eventually teleport the testicle out of the akka’s mouth just so Vivi could show the girls how to handle the animals. Jim had watched from the sides, nursing his empty sack.
Jim was, therefore, mostly occupied feeling sorry for himself and for his nuts getting squished inside Despina’s stuffy panties. The redhead, meanwhile, was busy bouncing up and down with each step her mount took, enjoying the ride in a different way.
Ina shook her head. This was too fun to worry about the others, so instead of trying for more conversation, [she leaned forward, pushed the goggles tighter against her face and tried her best to keep up with Vivi.](https://imgur.com/a/oLswhvk)
They caught up to the caravan in about half a day. The dwarves had started while Vivi was still teaching them how to ride the akka, but were slowed down by the sand sleigh loaded with lots of little, sturdy vats of moonsilver.
They were greeted by the other dwarves with solemn nods. “Not much for talking, are they?” Despina asked while still bouncing up and down in her saddle.
“Excuse them,” Vivi said, nodding as she spoke to keep eye contact, “they not used with strangers. Normally, this trip very quiet, very introspective, especially the part coming up.”
“Sorry, hah, about Jim, he can get, very whiny, when it comes to, his dangling weaknesses,” Despina said between bounces.
“The part coming up?” Ina asked instead.
Vivi nodded. “See how dunes rise here and no more metal towers? That mean it start of what beastkins call the cursed sands. We get close to sea now but ground much harder to walk on.”
“Why do they think it’s cursed?”
“You will see soon enough. But beastkin are superstitious, do not worry. For us, is just called alabaster coast. Try not to get lost in the dunes!” Vivi shouted but then turned around once more. “If you are lucky, maybe I get to show you something fun!”
The valleys between the dunes became more dramatic, the path left for the akka narrowing as the heaps of sand increased in height around them. Strange white shapes poked out of the sand here and there, but Ina didn’t dare take her eyes off the path in front of her – while the giant lizards were quite tame, they sometimes proved to be a bit playful, wanting to break out of running in single file.
Then they ascended onto a rock pan and Ina had some space to look around.
[Strewn all across the sands, gigantic skeletons rose from the sand.](https://imgur.com/a/Qbg7R24) Skulls as large as a three-story house, ribs as tall as trees and so thick, it would’ve taken four of her to reach around them. On her left, what looked like a single claw jutted out of a dune, polished to a perfect white by sand and time.
“What ARE these?” Ina asked.
“The beastkin call them the old ones, or the ancestors. We dwarves call them leviathans. They lie all over coast here, mostly covered by sand since time immemorial. But sometimes, dunes shift, and leviathans expose themselves.” Ina snorted. “Sometimes, if you lucky, a new skeleton exposes itself, and you get to see something really strange.”
“Stranger than dead fishes as big as a city block?” Despina asked. She had momentarily stopped crushing the manhood beneath her to inspect the massive remains.
“That is exactly where you go wrong, princess of Calvino,” Vivi informed her. “You see, the leviathans, they had… ah! We might be in luck!” With a whistle she signalled the caravan to keep going while Vivi and the party slowed down.
She jumped off her akka and approached a bit of bone sticking out of the ground. With her hands, Vivi started shovelling sand away and uncovered the strange bit of bone.
“Ta-dah!” The dwarf threw out her arms as if presenting a prize.
“That’s… uh…” Ina stammered.
“Luiset kivekset!”
Despina was the first to get over her shock. She laughed loud and hard, so hard that she had to hold her sides. There was no mistaking it, the two curves that formed an upside down heart-shape, the wrinkles all over it, it was-
“Testicle bones!” Despina yelled and doubled up with laughter.
“Huh? I’ve never seen something like that. These things had testicles that were part of their skeleton?” Ina tilted her head in confusion.
“Looks like so!” Vivi answered. “But no one ever saw them alive, so we cannot know for sure. But…”
“Just look at them, of course they're nuts! That’s hilarious!” Despina guffawed and turned to Jim. “Bet you wish you had nut bones, right? Although, I *definitely* would have broken those already.”
“How useless,” Chloe said with a sneer. “Loveorbs in bones? Then there’s no leather to wrap around me!”
“You could make tools out of them? Either way, since men are not supposed to have luiset kivekset, beastkin say they are unholy, and the coast here is cursed. They actually pay us when we come through for any bone balls we smash. And we believe is good luck, so…” Vivi took her sledgehammer and held the handle towards the group. “Who wants to do honours?”
Ina was about to thank the dwarf and decline, but Despina had already grabbed the heavy tool. “Me! I want to do it!” Excitedly, she dragged the hammer through the sand behind her. With a moan, she lifted the hefty weapon above her head and took aim. “Goodbye, balls! Rest in eternal nut pain!”
With a woosh, the hammerhead zoomed down and obliterated the osseous gonad remains in one fell swoop. As it did, a gust of wind rushed past them, whistling in the shards of nut that sounded strangely like wailing.
But Despina wasn’t done. Again, she smashed the hammer into the bony nuts. “Break! Break! And then break some more! Stupid ancient nuts, I’ll grind you to dust!”
“Princess? That’s enough, we don’t want to lose sight of the-”
“Break, shatter and pop! That’s what you deserve!”
“Despina? We really need to-”
“I will crush you to nut dust!”
Chloe stepped up next to Ina and put a hand on her shoulder. “Can I try?” The auf, getting a little annoyed now, gestured for the pink-haired adventuress to go ahead.
She waited for the right moment when the princess spread her legs for a secure stand, then smashed her foot into the redhead’s dainty flower hard enough to lift the girl off the ground.
Instead of Despina, however, Jim cried out and slumped to the ground. Despina, on the other hand, leaned on the sledgehammer’s handle, her eyes fluttering, and cried out in pleasure.
“Oh… Ooooh!” she moaned. Trickles of clear fluid stained her pants and dripped into the sand. “Th- they’re squishing against my kitty- I, I’m-”
She raised herself onto her tiptoes, thrusting out her tongue, then collapsed to the ground, twitching and with a huge smile on her face.
“Ah, there we go,” Chloe said. “For a moment I thought she wouldn’t go down…”
“Had to reach a peak first, I suppose…” Ina muttered.
“Come, friend Despina.” Vivi picked up the hammer and then lifted the blissful princess onto her akka. “You too, friend Jim. We make haste and then you will rest on the ship.”
Ina nodded, surprised. It made sense, but she hadn’t thought about it. She was about to take her first ride on a ship!
“Where are we sailing to, anyway?” Technically, there were only four destinations they could have: the south-eastern, most remote part of Cillia, the vast rainforests of Kumarbi, the Bosalmakian archipelago or the arid regions around the free cities. Unless landing somewhere remote, like the unexplored south or uninhabited lands south of the vast steppe of the orcs was an option.
“Destination changes sometimes but if I remember, today the ship is sailing to Tohu’Nui. Great fortune for you!” Vivi said and smiled.
They arrived at the sea a mere half hour later. Rounding a massive dune, suddenly everything was deep-blue and sparkled in the sun.
“Woah, this is amazing!” Ina slid off her akka and pulled down the goggles. “I can’t even see the other side!”
“First time, friend Inacea? Is always a great sight, though, not as great as snow-topped peak of the Kilpi Vuoret.”
The auf dreamily stumbled around the little beach they were on, not even glancing at the small trading ship anchored just a few metres away – or Chloe walking past her, straight to the edge of the water. Kneeling, she put a hand into the water and lifted it to her mouth.
“Ech, it’s salty!” The pink-haired adventuress let the rest of the water dribble out of her mouth, staining her coat. “Actually, reminds me of darling’s lovesack…” She hesitated, then cupped more seawater into her hands and took a big drink.
“Do not!” Vivi shouted at her. “Drinking the sea is bad for you!”
“Why stop her, one less headache to worry about,” Despina said, now standing beside Ina.
“Oh, are you feeling… well?” Ina asked.
“Never felt better,” Despina answered with a glow to her smile. “Nothing like cumming to some squished balls to refresh yourself. So, how long will this journey take?”
“If all go well, maybe two week? But usually it take a bit longer.”
“Well then, no time to waste. Let’s get on board and go!” Despina started marching towards the boat when something in Vivi’s demeanour made her stop.
“I guess that it, then. I really enjoyed your company!” the plum-haired girl said with a bitter-sweet smile on her face.
“You’re not coming with?” Ina asked in surprise.
“No, I cannot. My place here, with captain Heta. And someone needs to lead akka home.”
“But… without you, how will we find your sister?” Jim croaked.
“Oh, do not worry, others can point you in right direction and you can just ask for Tarja. You find her no problem. She have hair like me and famous for being the best blacksmith, everywhere!”
“Then… I suppose, it’s time to say goodbye.” Ina gave the dwarf a hug, an awkward gesture as her head was right at the auf’s chest level. With a twinge of jealousy, Ina noticed the dwarves breasts stopped Vivi’s head from reaching her own chest.
“I am thankful for how you and your people have treated us. I will be sure to remember this favour once Calvino is liberated from Bruna’s control,” Despina said and put a hand on Vivi’s shoulder.
“Later,” was all Chloe said.
“We will greet your sister from you. Thank you, Vivi,” Jim said, his thanks heartfelt, even if his voice was still a little higher than usual.
Vivi hugged him tightly. “I enjoyed our match, friend Jim. I would not mind doing that again… maybe next time to prove yourself worthy for marriage?”
“Y-yeah, maybe…” It was hard to ignore Vivi’s massive breasts pressing against his crotch and it brought back memories of his battle against her… in the nude… in front of so many people… He also remembered how she had hurt his nuts. In fact, he could remember it so well, it almost felt like she was squeezing his nuts right now…
“Aaah!” He broke off the hug to clutch his nuts but found that his sack was empty.
“Alright, that’s enough, loverboy. Let’s get moving,” Despina said. In her hand was one of his testicles, whitish-pink, mostly round and marbled with a web of veins. Her other hand was pinching the top of it between her thumb and her finger.
“Despina, you- you don’t have to-”
“Oh, I do, believe me. And I will. I’ve got your nuts all to myself for two more days, remember? I wonder if they’ll pop before we arrive in Tohu-Nui, don’t you?”
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“Urgh, I can’t believe I have to deal with this stupid sack again!”
“Come on, you know Ina just went for a nap, she’s still a bit haggard from the fights and teleporting she did- no, wait, I mean you don’t have to deal with anything! My balls are right where they belong!”
The dwarf they were sharing a cabin with was familiar to Jim, she was the brown-haired girl with amber highlights that had asked if she and her friends could practice on Jim. He had agreed, not knowing that would mean practising how to put his balls through the ringer. Eevi had introduced herself to Despina, not saying anything about her previous encounter with Jim, but the wide smile she gave him was unmistakeable. “Now, I don’t mean to be rude but, like, will this be going on the whole night?”
“Hmph! It wouldn’t if someone had the decency to stop hiding their jewels in a wrinkly sack!” She stomped her foot down, narrowly missing the swollen sack.
Jim crawled a few steps back, eyes wide with fear. “I’m not hiding them, that’s just where they naturally are! It’s not my fault Ina’s spell ran out right after she retired to her cabin for the night!”
“Oh please, you expect me to believe that? Hah!” Another stomp caught the base of his scrotum, painfully pinching skin and nerves but more importantly, trapping his nuts at the base of his sack.
“So, is this a kink thing for you two?”
“No!” Jim yelled.
“Yes!” Despina yelled. “Stop being so difficult. I get full access to these big lumpy things for the next two days and normally, I have a friend help me with that. But *suddenly*, someone decides that they want to go back on their word!”
“I never promised anything, that was Ina! Plus, you said you were going to use your magic on my junk, there’s no way I’d let you do that!”
“I just wanted to do some light twisting. Just twist them back afterwards or something, I don’t know. It’s hardly the worst thing I could to your plums. I can produce shearing forces strong enough to pulp them, you know. I tried.”
“Right… well, in the interest of getting some sleep, mind if I show you a little trick?” the dwarf said and plunged a hand down her cleavage to retrieve a small pocket knife. “It’s usually done with something else, but I should be able to do it with his stones as well.”
“What? What’s going on?” Jim asked but Despina, who had turned to their cabin mate, unceremoniously sat down on top of him, muffling Jim’s pleas for more information beneath her pert butt.
“Go ahead, I’m always eager to learn something new. But don’t castrate him! I’m still working up to that bit.”
“Shouldn’t be a problem. Probably. My hand is more steady when I’ve had something to drink, and his bollocks are so big, that might make it difficult… ah, it’ll be fine. I’ve practised this some because I thought it would impress captain Heta.” Eevi sat down in front of Despina, on Jim’s stomach. She froze when she felt his thick rod wedge itself between her cheeks as she sat down, but with a shake of her head, she focused and ignored the sizable phallus beneath her.
He let out a breath at the dwarf’s weight, and the princess purred appreciatively.
“Hey, what the hell are you doing? What’s that knife for?” he asked nervously, but Despina’s bottom and particularly the puffy mound in front of it that she pressed against his mouth muffled most of it.
“Mhm, it seems he doesn’t like that…” she breathed.
“It is fine, he won’t be harmed,” the dwarf replied.
“You can hurt him *a little bit*, or even a lot, just don’t snip them off.”
“Uh… right. Anyway, this is usually done with a hand, but I don’t see why it shouldn’t work with bollocks like his, that have enough give. With small balls that don’t stretch, you can’t really… well, you can, but you’d probably cut them off instead. First, get a good grasp on his stones, like this.” She did her best to take hold of his balls, which was easier said than done. The sea was getting rougher and his balls rolled around on the floor like a pair of billiard balls.
She swiped her hand over the floor to grab the nuts, then yanked on them. The skin stretched taut, displaying the myriad of wounds they had collected. “I didn’t notice that when I busted hi-… Ahem, are you sure you haven’t played this before? Whatever, now you separate his stones by curling a finger between them.”
Her middle finger did just that, separating both testicles in their individual little pouches of scrotum. “This might be easier if you tie off each nut with a little bit of string. If his nuts stretch far enough and his tool is long enough, you can also flop that on the ground between each plum but for some reason, most boy’s tools shrivel up when someone plays this game with them. And the boys around my age, well, they’re eager enough to get a girl to touch them, but oh man, are they *tiny*… Oh, and there’s the added benefit that if you tie off the balls, they make less of a mess if you make a mistake.”
“U-uhuh,” Despina breathed. She had leaned forward. Thankfully, the size of a dwarf made it easy to spy over her shoulder.
“And then you get to stabbing! Ideally you can get another boy to join but that’s really rare, so to make it harder and add a bit of excitement, I spread my thumb and pinkie out at the sides. You start at the far side of your thumb, then between your thumb and his testicle, back to the start, then between his balls… and so on, until you reach the end and either start over or do the same in reverse, getting faster each time.”
The knife produced a hollow noise as it was lifted from the rough wood of their cabin. With a hefty *thunk* it hit the wood between the Eevi’s digit and Jim’s lone nut.
His vision obscured by Despina’s butt and mouth gagged by her dampening quim, his other senses were sharpened and it felt like a giant had just stomped the ground, right next to his exposed nuts. The knife withdrew, away from his manhood, then chunked into the wood again, so central that he was ready to scream, convinced that it must have stabbed his nuts.
Eevi finished her presentation after one whole trip around his balls without injuring them. “See? Easy, but fun. If you make a mistake, you hand the knife to someone else and you see who can get more stabs in without hitting something other than wood.”
“You do this often, then?” Despina asked. She fidgeted around on Jim’s face, rubbing herself against him.
“Never with balls, no.” Jim’s muffled protests at that revelation were firmly shut down by the redhead on top of him, pressing her flower against him. “But I’ve seen captain Heta do it in the tavern! She often does this when one of the boys in the outpost gets fresh with her.”
“Goddess, it would be so easy to slip and cut something away…”
“Yeah, but the captain is really good. She’s crazy fast and never misses. Her opponent, however… Well, let’s just say there’s a guy among Mika’s friends whose chance of ever having kids was cut in half that day, and then Heta’s opponent had to pay the captain’s tab on top of that,” Eevi laughed.
“Hnngh, is that so…” Despina moaned.
“Alright, let me see how fast I can get.”
Once more, she started jabbing the knife at the ground but this time, after the first stab, she quickly got much faster. Despina watched the knife dance between the bulging ovals with her breath held, waiting for the dwarf to make a mistake.
The moment she had hoped for came on the third go around. Eevi held the knife at a bit of an angle and slammed it into the wood. But the bulging testicles on either side of it left too small a space and the blade sliced into the left testicle, the wound barely a millimetre deep, but she had indeed stabbed not just wood but gonad as well.
Jim let them know immediately with a terrible scream, bucking against the two girls sitting atop him.
The sight of the nut stabbing as well as Jim thrashing and screaming into her loins brought Despina over the edge and she joined him in her own, much more aroused scream.
“Oh, it’s harder to stab between these fat nuggets than I thought… Uh, Despina was your name, yeah? Are you alright?” Eevi asked.
“Y-yea… j-just give me a moment…” she moaned, holding onto Eevi’s shoulders.
The dwarf girl shifted uncomfortably, a blush creeping across her face. Only now was she realizing what her display had just triggered in the admittedly attractive redhead. The girl was dainty, especially to a dwarf like her, so fragile, but also so graceful and… feminine. This was the first time she ever set foot out of the outpost for more than a little ride on an akka. What if she got a little adventurous in more ways than one…?
A warmth blossomed in her own core, suddenly making her much more aware of the pulsating shaft she was sitting on. Listening to Despina ride out the waves of her climax, she set down the knife and let her fingers inch closer to her own bud.
“Oh… wow… can I try?”
Eevi didn’t answer immediately, distracted by the jolts of pleasure her own body was feeling as she pushed and prodded just above her pearl. “Uhm, y-yeah, go ahead. I’ll sit behind you and w-watch…”
She got up and stood next to Jim’s face, watching him grimace in pain. His mouth was coated in a silver shimmer of the redhead’s honey.
“E-evi, I need to-” he began but the young dwarf simply stepped over him and bore down on his face. Her much larger peach shushed his protestations immediately.
“Shh, i-it’s fine, Jim. This is just some more, uh, training, yeah. So let’s practise some more…” With that, she started subtly rocking back and forth.
Despina swapped positions with Eevi, and with alarm the dwarf noticed that she had left a little damp spot on Jim’s shirt. But thankfully, the redhead was too preoccupied with the sight of injured nuts spilling out on the floor before her to notice.
She sat down on the exact same spot and Eevi sighed. The dwarf gently took hold of Despina’s hips and leaned forward.
*Goddess, she smells so good…*
“Alright, now grab his-”
“Grab his stupid nuts, got it.” She slammed her hand into the middle of his sack, enjoying the noise it made, while Eevi got to enjoy Jim groaning into her folds.
Adjusting her grip, Despina then used her other hand to stretch each nut away by grabbing it wholly and tugging on it. When she was satisfied with their position, she grabbed the knife.
“You’re a beginner, so maybe start without fingers, and go slowly.”
Despina raised the knife and paused for a moment. The steel glinted dangerously, ready to strike. Both girls breathed heavily.
From somewhere, a bell rang out, and a voice yelled across the ship.
“Alarm! Alarm!” They paused, confused by the interruption.
“Mmph Hmn!” Jim said and Eevi’s confusion yielded to a luxurious sigh.
“What’s going on up there? Are we under attack?” Despina stood up, still brandishing the knife and opened the door to their cabin, peering out. “Come on, we’d better check it out.”
“I- but, I… still haven’t…” Eevi began, then let out a frustrated whimper. “Coming…”
The dwarf stood up and Jim inhaled deeply. “Haah, oh Goddess, I really thought you would… ow…”
“Get going, numbnuts!” Despina called. “I don’t want to have to rescue you from pirates when you trip on your gross sack.”
Jim grumbled while putting his pants back on. “If I would, it’d be because you stripped me…”
Together, they headed back up towards the ship’s deck. At first, they only heard the constant rushing of the waves and the creaking of wood when they hit the side of the ship. Then another sound started to emerge, faint at first, but slowly growing louder.
Despina frowned. “What *is* that? It sounds like… like…”
“… like someone’s singing,” Jim finished.
When they poked their heads out of the companionway, the faint voice they heard became clear. From the wispy tone, it belonged to a woman, singing a melancholic song that nevertheless carried over waves and wind and filled the air.
The scene before them was strange to say the least. [All across deck, naked dwarf men were attempting to climb over the railing, barely held back by their female colleagues.](https://imgur.com/a/qG2hhI2)
“What’s going on here?” Despina, Eevi and Jim asked in unison.
One of the dwarven women helping to hold back a man spotted them. Leaving the woman next to her to deal with the naked dwarf, she started running towards them at full speed.
“Hey,” Jim yelled and waved, “what’s going on? Can we help in some wa- HURGH!”
Without stopping, the dwarf girl converted her running into a spot-on testicle punt as she smashed her foot into Jim’s balls as hard as she could without crashing into him. Her sturdy leg lashed out, fast as lightning, drilling his balls into his body and he folded around the limb, his eagerness to help instantly transformed into agony and crying. As if turned liquid, he flowed down her leg to the ground, grasping what was left of his nuts.
“Hey!” Despina said. “What was that for? Don’t just go around breaking other girl’s toys!”
“Minä pelastin hänet merenneidoista!” the girl said.
“What?”
In lieu of an answer, the dwarf pointed to the naked man she had left behind. Despina and Eevi’s eyes followed the gesture. The dwarf had wrested himself free and climbed over the railing. There he stood, thrust his hips forward and seemed to wait for something.
A blue blur shot out of the turbulent sea and latched onto the man’s crotch. A creature with the upper half of a woman and the lower half of a fish covered in blue and black and red scales dangled from his scrotum. Instead of hair, sparkling fins covered her head as well as her elbows, but her arms still ended in thin, long hands that she used to hold onto the railing.
Her mouth was halfway wrapped around the dwarf’s nutsack, holding firm to it with sharp teeth. With a throaty gagging, she snapped her head forward, taking more of his balls inside of her. She repeated the motion two more times, until she seemed content to have fitted as much of his testicles inside of her mouth as she could. She began chewing as well as throwing her head to the side in an effort to free her spoils from their owner.
The woman that had been trying to hold the dwarf back appeared behind him again, wrapping her arms around him and tried to pull him away from the monster.
With a tearing they could hear over the wind and waves, the monster’s teeth bit through sack and the cords of his nuts, ripping the entire sack away. She splashed into the ocean while the former man and his saviour stumbled back, thrown onto the deck.
It seemed to knock some sense into him, and with trembling hands he tried to grab what wasn’t hanging between his legs any more. Instead of proof of his manhood, his hands came away empty and bloody.
“She says she saved Jim from the mermaids,” Eevi translated.
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*Wow, there's bound to be a lot of travelling, right? I wonder if the author will be able to meaningfully fill all the dead air between plot points or if he will cop out and write about something entirely different while travelling happens in the background, like a hack 🤔*