Aareesha returned to her bedroom late at night. She had been dismissed to bed after she had again been cruelly disciplined for an hour by the emerald necklace. This had been another session of her twice-daily discipline for her earlier failure to properly address the king. She deeply regretted missing, on her first day here, the now-obvious signs. She was severely paying, again and again, for failing to properly address the king.

She retrieved her hidden dildo from her bed. Once retrieved, she touched it with her finger and spoke.

“Sir, master, can you hear me?”

Bon replied through his device, “yes. What have you learned?”

“King Intaanoo has sworn fealty to Emperor Vrentanee the Cruel and Deathless. The emperor rules another continent named ‘First.’ As of today, the emperor rules two continents, his continent ‘First’ and our continent ‘Fourth.’ In exchange for the king’s fealty, and the king’s promise to provide many female elves to the emperor, Emperor Vrentanee will aid in wiping out all humans on this continent of Fourth. The Emperor has some sort of large and heavy sphere that constantly kills humans within 20 miles of it. The plan is to bring the sphere to this continent through the wormhole and use a massive wagon to move the sphere from place to place. Once the human cities and most humans are eliminated, the remaining humans will be hunted down and killed by elven males. The emperor will temporarily provide some additional soldiers to aid in this final extermination of humans here. Like all male elves, King Intaanoo loves power, but the king’s blood lust for revenge on humans is greater than his lust for power.”

“How will this happen?”

“I’ve learned it’s normally impossible to establish wormholes to connect between continents. It’s too far and there are other problems as well. Both sides do possess magical devices that can create wormholes. They are working to fully synchronize the devices with each other. The emperor’s device is especially powerful. The elves here on our side have managed to obtain four power orbs and can use them all to simultaneously power the mechanism. That much power is enough, barely, to allow physical transport between the continents. They’ll need copious amounts of rock mouse blood for this extreme distance to work, but they have that.”

“When will this happen?”

“It will happen in a few days. They have to wait for some kind of lunar alignment to briefly enable the extreme range.”

Kadn responded, “don’t bother trying to add an impurity to the blood, it won’t change anything. Our party can’t take on that many elves. No army is near here. We don’t know where their headquarters is, so we can’t ask for an army to be sent there. There’s probably no army close enough to there anyway. The best solution is to steal a power orb. They’ll be able to talk between continents without the full set, and create wormholes in this continent, but without four orbs they won’t be able to transfer anything physical between the continents. I don’t know how they managed to find four power orbs. I doubt they’ll ever find another on this continent.”

Bon asked, “how do you remove an orb?”

Kadn replied, “that requires magic, but orbs require daily cleaning. I expect that the power orbs are taken out one at a time for cleaning. That would be the easiest time to steal one. If she brings a power orb to us, we can bring it somewhere to destroy it.”

Bon said, “that sounds like a plan. Aareesha, find where they clean the orbs, steal one, and bring it to us.”

Aareesha paused, then replied back, “Please, sir, master, please don’t ask me to do that.”

“Why not?”

“I have revealed elven secrets to you. I have done all you asked of me. Please, master, please don’t ask me to directly act to betray my kind or my king.”

“You understand why we want you to do this?”

“Certainly. You want to save the humans. The humans who destroyed my city and killed my family. The humans who took my nobility and title and chances for pleasure from me. The humans who enslaved me. The humans who tortured me and degraded me and humiliated me. The humans who are unworthy vermin compared to elves.”

“The male elves don’t exactly treat you well.”

“You humans are to blame for that, too. As a princess I would never be subject to the humiliations that my kind will force me to suffer now. It’s not like humans treat me with unbounded kindness. In any case, I have a deep desire to never betray my own kind. Female elves were crafted to pleasure male elves. Protecting elvenkind, and serving elven rulers, is part of pleasing male elves. I never want to betray my kind or my king.”

“We can’t get to where you are. The only option I can see is for you to bring an orb out.”

“Please don’t ask me to do that, sir, master. Please don’t. I am literally begging you, master. Please don’t ask me to do that.”

“I see. Would you obey such a command?”

Aareesha paused. She tried to keep her mouth closed. She held on for a moment, then another, then another. Her resistance finally failed. She whispered, “Yes, sir, master. I must obey you. I have vowed to obey you and please you to the best of my ability. No matter what you command. I cannot resist you, no matter how much I want to. I will obey you if you clearly order it. I will do my best to obey your commands. Even though every moment of such actions will be torture for me and I will deeply regret those actions for the rest of my life. Even though doing so will make me a target of revenge by all elves.”

Bon said, “Fine. I order you steal a power orb and bring it to us, to the best of your ability, so we can destroy it. Please me.”

She replied in a broken voice, “yes, sir, master. I will obey. You motherfucking low-life human bastard. Oh gods, forgive me. I will obey. I will obey.”

Aareesha hid the dildo. She went to her door and carefully gummed up its latch with congealed rock mouse blood she had stolen earlier. She was normally locked in her room each night. By gumming up the latch, she could sneak out tomorrow morning even though it appeared she was locked in her room. She knew this trick would only work once.

She sighed. So far no elf had done any checking to see if her mind was being controlled. Elven hubris about elves’ innate superiority had once again created subtle weaknesses. Aareesha agreed that elves were innately superior to humans. Yet she wished other members of her species had been more suspicious.

No elf had even considered that an elf, especially a high elf, would end up being mentally controlled by a human in less than a year. Female elves did become submissive over decades when fucked by male elves. This was well known. Some male elves knew male humans could also tame female elves over the same time frame. Yet Aareesha’s short time of absence had given the elves here no reason to suspect anything about Aareesha’s loyalties to elvenkind.

She also hadn’t been asked any questions about the humans. In spite of the elves’ many losses, the elves here were remarkably uninterested in learning more about their enemy. It was well-known that humans reproduce rapidly, like rabbits and fleas. This was attributed to humans being a lower form of life. The elves knew that a fraction of humans were warriors. They knew that a small percentage of those warriors were spell casters. She was limited in what she could say to gain more information about what the elves knew. Yet she could at least infer, from what others said, that much was not known. The elves seemed to know little about human cities. None of the elves seemed to have heard about runes or collars. In fact, the list of things the elves didn’t know about humans could fill a book.

The elves’ ironclad belief in the superiority of the elves had made most of them confident that they had no need for more information. They had lived with enslaved humans for hundreds of years. The elves’ familiarity with humans, combined with elves’ loathing of humans, had led the elves to believe that there was nothing else to learn. Elves knew humans reproduced often and that humans sometimes produced warriors. The elves believed that was all they needed to know. The elves viewed the humans’ war as a natural disaster, like a swarm of locusts that had gone out of control. The elves believed the cause was clear, as was its solution. In Aareesha’s eyes, the elves’ self-assurance that they didn’t need to learn more about the humans was a serious flaw in their thinking.

Female elves were generally not considered important in elven society, other than as sexual commodities. Male elves did severely punish female elves. This was primarily because the males enjoyed being cruel to the females. The males also wanted to instill such fear that females would learn to obey and devote themselves to the elven males who were the females’ guardians. Almost all female elves, through fear of pain, addiction to pleasure, or the taming through their cunts, obeyed and tried to please male elves. Besides, females elves were still elves. Most female elves had the same disdain for humans as male elves. Rumors claimed some female elves had betrayed elves to humans millennia ago, but that had been long, long ago. Practically no one expected that a female elf would take an action against elven society today.

The elves were generally unprepared for a betrayal of elvenkind by an elf. Especially a female elf. To her utter shame and horror, unless someone soon detected that she was being controlled by a human, Aareesha knew she would soon try to betray her own species. She feared she would succeed. If she failed, she would be happy, at least until she started receiving her punishment for treason. She knew she would lose either way.