Glorifrir's view

When I was growing up I did not suffer from Qi burning. In fact, I had only heard of it in passing and that it was a chance that I could get it. I did not put much store by it so I forgot. I was more interested in the running of the Dwarven kingdom and expanding our domains influence.

I was in my 40s when people started telling me that I must start looking for a wife to spend my life with but I kept laughing them off. I originally started getting marriage proposals from the girls themselves, to which I would politely reply and refuse them. I really was not interested. 

One day a different sort of letter arrived, I still remember reading it. 

"Dear Glorifrir,

I am writing this as I know people are hounding you to marry. I do not think just any girl could suit you our prince, so it is with great pride that I can refer this girl for you to check out.

Her name is DebraLee Au Ruairc. She is the daughter of King Tighearnan in Ireland. She has shown great aptitude for work and has been helping us dwarves mend the damaged bit of the keep that her father tasked her to mend.

She has been working between the labourer guild, the mortar guild and stonemason guild, that I know of, probably more as I have seen her over by the forges too. The reason she is between so many guilds is because she has been working us out of our own jobs.

She is rather pretty too as far as human women go.

I hope you consider her,

Fecca the labourer"

It was not just her that sent me letters, everyone who had worked with her had. After so many letters, I decided I would see this Princess that they were begging me to consider marrying, so I went to the human world and went as an emissary to King Tighearnan. My first attempt was insulting, so my people said to ask DebraLee for a room.

I had her brought to me and when I met her I was captivated. I wanted what my people wanted for myself so I followed her to the room she gave me and then first thing in the morning I went before King Tighearnan and asked for her hand in marriage.

There were 5 of us there wanting the same thing. King Tighearnan bought out his other daughters and none of us wanted them - they looked entirely too self entitled. The king at this point was looking decidedly worried but he said that he had one more daughter, if it was not her then we could not do business.

She arrived then and all of us said, "That's the Princess I want to marry". We all felt rather worried at this point. I was thankful I had not left it any longer or I would not have had a chance at all, judging by the quality of suitor before the king.

"What!" Bellowed her Father, looking flustered by the situation he found himself in, "I am sorry, but only one of you can!" 

Caspian spoke out then, preventing any fights from occurring as a result, "I disagree - you failed to take into account her Goddesses law."

"What did you say?" everyone asked at once, curious as to how he came up with this.

"You fail, to take into account her Goddesses law." He repeated.

"What do you mean by that?" Tighearnàn au Ruairc asked. It looked like he suddenly remembered a certain Goddess he had little to do with, as he was Catholic, turned white and muttered "surely not her!... Who did you choose to serve DebraLee?"

DebraLee looked confused as to why it matters who she served but answered "I chose to serve the Goddess Aine."

The looks of worry on the faces of all the princes vanished, except for the human prince - his face looked frustrated, but as for the rest, our faces turned to smiles.

Her Father was still ashen white, "Of all the Gods and Goddesses you had to choose her! I thought that we hid her. I would have preferred you were Catholic like your Mother and I."

"Is there a problem Father?" she asked.

"DebraLee, do you know of the Goddess you serve at all?" her Father enquired.

"No, I don't, but since I chose her, I have seen a pair of wild white bunnies, who let me play with them and I rode a Ruby red horse who seemed to take me elsewhere before bringing me back home. I have also been kissed 4 times by 3 of these men." she reported to her Father, indicating to the Princes who were asking to marry her.

"There's no doubt then, tomorrow DebraLee, you will be married." her Father decreed.

"To who Father?" Assuming that he had picked just one of us that was in line for her hand.

"As you chose Aine my daughter" her Father said sadly "And she clearly has chosen you, each representative race who wants to marry you can."

"Huh?" she said stupidly, "What do you mean?"

"It means that as many races there are... you can marry one man from each race, should you choose. Tomorrow you must marry those representatives here today. As of this moment, my dear daughter, you have 5 fiancés and tomorrow you will have 5 husbands. Unless any of them wish to withdraw their offer of marriage to you?" He said looking at all of us Princes.

We princes, were all smiling and nodding in relief, except for the human Prince, who was scowling, but he looked too proud to relinquish his request for her hand.

"How will this work?" she asked, "5 husbands?"

It was then the Fairy Prince speak. "Our order Princess is decided by the dream you had last night, and Princess, I will not share you with any more than is here this day, even if one of us should die."

"Nor will I," said all the other Princes, including me.

"So; who is first?" The Fairy Prince asked, so we at least knew in what order we would be with her, "I know that I am last, as you brought me already to your dreamscape."

"The Ogre was first, followed by the Dwarf, then the human, then the Dark Elf and as you said you were last." she said looking at us in the order of her dream.

We all looked happy with where we were placed and lined up in that order to say goodbye to her.

"Till tomorrow princess" we said as we kissed her and left.

That night I waited on her to call me to her dream and we hit it off straight away. She was both fiery and passionate in one. A good thing for me since I had a tendency to over think everything. Once she left me for the next husband, I got up and made a special wedding ring, one that represented all of us her husbands but represented how our lives would now intertwine and intersect. I made it out of white gold, yellow gold and rose gold, the center band having sapphires in it to act as an engagement ring that she never got. Each of the bands I engraved with the symbols of our people - the ogre, the dwarf, the human, the drow and the fairy. 

The next day we were married. I had never seen such a lovely site as the one where our wife walked down the isle to us. I had distributed the rings before she had arrived and shown Caspian how to interlock them when it came to him. He took a few tries before getting the idea. We all said our vows and kissed her. I was thankful for being second.

We were taken to a huge wedding feast and Raiden whisked her away for his time shortly after she had eaten enough not to starve. I could not blame him, she was on all our minds that way. Some of us had to wait longer. Thankfully I was not one.

I was rather nervous and when Raiden came back and sent me too her I was beside myself with nerves. I did not know what to do nor what she would expect of me. So it came as a relief to me when she looked at me, after exiting the bath, picked me up, and covered me in kisses. She took me to my room and undressed me while she explored and kissed me.

I rather enjoyed kissing her kissing me like this, she was sweet like vanilla cheesecake. I undressed her as stealthily as she had undressed me. I am unsure she even noticed that she had lost her clothes, but I was starting to need more then her kisses and gentle touches.

"For Aine's sake, woman, hurry up and take me" I groaned, as we lay together, mostly undressed, our skins touching. I loved the feel of her skin against mine, it felt better than wearing silk the finest cloth of all which wasn't available to us until later.

She removed the last bit of clothing we had on. I was stunned, then as she started to play with my member out of curiosity, I was amazed at how much her touch could effect it. Nothing prepared me for her trying to taking my manroot into her mouth. It made me groan and buck with desire.

"I can't take much more of you teasing me like this" I said, desiring her, "hop on me." I instructed.

"I don't know how," she hesitantly admitted to me, "You're just so big."

I found this incredibly funny, I had been told this by the women trying to hit on me when I was swimming in the public watering holes, so I laughed, "I was always told that, I never believed it till now. Well, what do you want me to do? Whatever it is, you have to remain in charge, nothing turns me off faster than if I am." Although I said this, it was not quite the truth, the truth was I did not want to be in control and fail. It was far easier to let her control and lead the situation.

"Oh, I will try then" so she knelt over me and guided me into her, stopping every now and then to adjust to me being in her. To my surprise, and delight, she was able to take all of me and once I was fully in, she rode me like a pony. When we finished, she collapsed onto me, and buried her face into my neck - my length still in her.

"That was perfect princess" I said as I hugged her to me, running one of my hands up and down her back, the other firmly resting on her hip. She seemed reluctant to move, so I stayed, enjoying that feeling of being in someone.

"Why did you want to marry me Glorifrir?" She asked, out of the blue.

"As I said, my people recommended you to me. I wanted to meet you though, before I took their request seriously. I am like my father in that regard. We only seem to like beautiful women, my mother is beautiful, and how she fell in love with my father is beyond me... he's very much a typical dwarf. I take after my mother except for my eyes and hair and size, those are my father. When I saw you, I knew I could not be without you, but I don't know how I will go sharing you, as I don't like to share." I admitted bashfully.

"I am confused. You married me because I am beautiful to you and your people wanted it?"

I nodded smiling at her, "I trust my people's assessment of you. We will do well together, I'm sure."

She nodded and then fell asleep on me. I studied her face for awhile before falling asleep myself.

We woke up an hour later, only to kiss again, the kiss seeming to affirm our relationship as husband and wife and our desire for each other. We then separated to bathe. Once I was bathed I went back to the feast and sat down. When DebraLee came in I smiled at her.

Raudri fed her then dragged her off as soon as he could. Later she asked us why he was like that and why we weren't. We said it was because of AIne. It was true, Aine allowed us all to have her, maybe not to our hearts content, but enough so our hearts were content. So when she went out to talk to Cormac I was sent out after Ruaidri as Raiden thought he was up to no good. 

Raiden's instincts were right. I basically was keeping our wife decent and away from prying eyes as Raudri took her again on the balcony. I had to remind him that he could not just do this anymore, he had to consider his fellow husbands. I put our wife back together as he just walked off leaving her in a state of undress. It made me livid to see her so disrespected, but it was not up to me to control him, it was Raidens, one I did not envy him at all as I really disliked conflict.

When we were discussing our marriage rites I was surprised that Raiden gave his turn up as he would be getting her for the first year and DebraLee requested me every night. I had just started eating and her decision surprised me so much I started choking on my food. Raudri wanted the night time but it was denied him. I had to make sure that I was present for her or lose my time with her to Raudri. Something neither of us wanted.

 We were together for perhaps 3 nights before she went on the road to Dublin. I was going the fae roads so we would be there ahead of time. I wished her goodbye but she did not realise I was going, I felt really let down with how she said goodbye to me, although she explained later that she had been expecting to see me later not have me disappear for the entire trip to Dublin.

I had begun travelling the fae road and it was the second day when I discovered I was cursed. 

Qi burning I discovered was no fun. I had no choice but to work to even gain a modicum of control over my life. I needed DebraLee to survive and yet she was not with me nor would she be for sometime.

It was at the Oneach Tailtann she found me, I thought I was hallucinating as I looked at my very pregnant wife. I felt Raiden's presence through his mark as if he saw me too and how I had been affected by the Qi burning so he allowed her to stay with me. 

After that time all my fellow fae husbands would look out for me as they knew the price of one cursed with Qi burning. I won the jewel crafting section there. Not surprising really, considering all I had been doing was jewelcrafting since being affected.

I took DebraLee home with me the second year of our marriage. She was still nursing at the time and was really uncomfortable with it. I remember her saying she would love me forever if I sucked on her breasts to relieve the tension in them. They were like rocks to feel from the milk built up in them. So I took her at her word and drank from them.

The milk itself was super sweet and filling, but I only drunk enough off to ease the tension. I was afraid to take from the babies if I drank too much that may happen.

DebraLee fell pregnant to me then with twins. She did not know it and I did not enlighten her of our magic to talk to our children, but I did talk to the girls every night. I was afraid then that I would lose one of my precious babies to Raudri like Raiden did so I hired a dwarven lass that was due the same time to look after them. I think this upset DebraLee a little but she did understand my reasoning.

The girl herself was familiar with our royal ways and could teach the girls adequately what would be expected of them as Dwarven Princesses. I later hired a tutor to specially train them in court matters and how to run the court as my father had me when I was growing up.

I knew I would not be able to be King with my qi burning so I prayed almost daily that neither girl would receive the curse of Qi burning.

DebraLee fell pregnant rather easily so we all got offspring to her to carry on our kingships. My children were Faith and Hope. Faith ended up marrying a child of Cormac's before he died of some stupidity. Luckily she had twins too before his passing. She did not marry again nor was she interested in anything but ruling the kingdom thereafter.

A thousand years flew by rather suddenly and our intimate world was interrupted once more by humans coming to the fae. Leonfrir one of my great grandchildren was the last fae ever to make it to and from the fae due to the weakening of the magic between the two realms. He mentioned he found his wife there and started exhibiting the symptoms of qi burning.

I took him under my wing then as his family did not think that he was telling the truth about his wife, but I did. No one would willingly subject themselves to qi burning. Leo tried several times to get back to the girl he had married, but the portals were all closed, even the strongest.

It was 10 years after Leo found his wife that she somehow tumbled into the fae with 2 young girls, both of them finding themselves either married or engaged within a week of entering here. It was unfortunately caused by a lack of education, but Lee made sure they knew as soon as possible thereafter and she also taught them to defend themselves.

Susan, Lee had hoped would take over as Priestess of Aine, and she did for awhile before she had some altercation with Aine and her and her husbands disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again.

DebraLee died about 100 years after Susan's departure, she raised her daughter Ahelee to be the Priestess after her as although Elizabeth was doing the job, she was not truly called for it. Elizabeth only ever had one husband, Tyvan who took over from Sylvan. Sylvan and Raiden both died with in a week of DebraLee's passing.

As for me, I expected to die too, but I did not. 

On her death I felt a voice say to me "I am taking this affliction, you are needed in the future." and my affliction was gone as if I had never suffered from it. 

But it did not stop my grief. I don't think I was ever sober in the following 50 years. About the 50 year mark, I heard of the Naga and Spiderling Queens and how they had magic to mimic anyone. So, I packed my bottles and went visiting. I begged them to transform into Lee and they humoured me and did.

I stayed 5 years at the Naga Queen's and she got me sober. She shuffled me on once she had a hutch of lamia's to me. The first since Kai had left, so, she was feeling overly protective.

The Spiderling Queen got me interested in learning, and after studying for 5 years in her libraries again I was kicked out as she too was expecting a hutch of spiderlings to me. I was told later that I had 80 lamia children and 800 spiderling children - way to many children for me to handle. So I headed back to the dwarven capital fully intent never to touch another woman again. I had been cured by the two queens and for this I was truly grateful.

I studied hard over the next 50 years learning everything I could about the fae. But one thing really bothered me and there was no hint to it anywhere. What happened to us when we died? I remembered Susan saying that we had a choice follow the God of Gods live a short life, die and be resurrected for eternity or follow Aine and live a long indulgent life and just die. Those words plagued me and I could not fully get rid of the disquiet in my soul over it.

I do not know why but I started researching dragons and I noted that they had almost all but died out since Lee died. It was as if they were becoming extinct, so I wanted to know why or if there was anything we could do. There was extraordinarily little to be read or found about it. Just a picture of a dragon's egg and that it needed a certain set of circumstances in order to hatch, but the author did not know what those were.

People had start calling me Glorifrir the Sage as they would come to me with questions and I always seemed to have the answer or I could find it. So I had been Glorifrir the sage for about 40 years when Sue-Anne Torbrok came crashing into my life. 

She was a pretty red haired and red eyed girl with an ever so slight lilac tinge to her skin, so I knew she had to be a royal drow, but that did not explain my sudden interest in her.

I was cleaning up my books and she was helping when our hands touched and I with drew it with a giggle, putting my hand behind my head in reflex. I did not want the strange attraction that came with her just touching my hand. I was happy as I was, thank you very much. But it was in cleaning that her dragon egg caught my attention.

"Is that?" I wondered aloud, "It looks like it! Is this a dragons egg?" and I picked up the egg. It was then I seemed to lose all control over my body.

"It is," she said and leaned forward and kissed me, I could not help but kiss her back, for some reason I let all my emotions go into that kiss and I felt it leading to more.

"Not here," I gasped out as we came to the end of the sordid kiss, and I took her hand and ran holding the egg towards my room.

When we arrived I locked the door behind me and placed the egg reverently on the bedside table before turning back around to the girl.

I could not stop myself from picking her up and placing her on the bed in the position that I had taken Lee many many times. I silently begged her "Please stop me before we do something stupid," but she did not stop me. If anything she egged me on more with her moans and actions.

As we made love I was sure that I was being someone's puppet. This was something that I would not have done with any stranger and I was sure that I did not want another woman in my life, and here was I doing the very thing I did not want to do. 

I felt the girl come 3 times while I rode her out to my fulfillment and at the end of it I could have sworn I heard a shell cracking and someone say "Yes!!" but I was tired, I pulled out and the girl objected to me removing myself. So I told her to crawl up the bed, unfortunately in doing so I got turned on by seeing her cute buttocks wiggling as she crawled up the bed.

I crawled after her and took her again, this time I could collapse when I finished and sleep. So I did. I did not even think of the fae law at that time. I had been use to sleeping with Lee for a thousand years so I really was not thinking when I slept beside the strange girl who met me action for action, despite her youthful inexperienced actions.

When I awoke, I realised 3 things.

One I was married again to a stranger.

Two I had made her pregnant, a male child had announced itself to me as soon as I woke up from my slumber.

And, finally 3, there was a dragon sitting amongst the eggshells on the lamp table I had set it on.

The girl awoke then and started to cry. 

"Don't cry please," I begged her feeling awful, "I feel bad enough as it is. I do not even know your name, and yet the first thing I do is bring you to my room and fuck you. I don't know what came over me."

"I do," a piping voice spoke causing us both to look up and over to it.

"A dragon?" we said together.

"Yes, the only way a dragon can be born is through wanton deception. I was beginning to think that I would never be born as you and your husband are married! I needed you to have sex with someone who you were not married too. Garvan would not be swayed and Evan he does not have the thing my husband needs to breed. Thank you Gloryfrir for falling prey to my charm, it made my husbands conception so much easier. In case you did not know, Sue is now pregnant with your child."

"What? No way! I am too old to be a father again," I objected, trying to deny the baby who had just announced itself to me not a minute beforehand.

"And yet you are," the chipper little red brown dragon said scolding me slightly, "Look even Aine approves of the mating."

And lo and behold a red intricate mark appeared on my hip, I wondered at its significance as the girl clearly understood it.

"NOoooo," she groaned out holding her head, clearly upset about something.

"Noo indeed," I said in sympathy as I really did not need a second wife.

"Why?" she asked me, clearly surprised at me agreeing with her.

"I am sure you are a lovely lady, but I was happy with my life as it was. My wife died 100 years ago and for the first 50 years I was a drunken mess. If it weren't for the Naga and Arachne queens I probably still would be. It was thanks to them mimicking my wife I was able to finally put her to rest and move on with my life. Mind you I now have far more children then I ever know what to do with. One more child seems to many. At my age in life, I could not even begin to imagine or want another wife. That was why I ended up becoming a sage. I needed something to do and I had already taken my craft as far as it is possible. I have not even looked at a forge these last 50 years."

"What was your craft?" she wondered.

"I was and I guess I still am a blacksmith. I probably am closer to a blacksmith jeweler craftsman. There is very little I can not make if I chose to, but I have no want nor desire to now."

"I see."

"How about you? Why were you no-ing me?"

"I just got married, and I am happily married. I serve the God of Gods and Aine seems to be all up in my business to have more than the one husband I am happy with."

"Sorry to break it to you both," the dragon piped in, "But both of you are married to each other by fae law."

"What?" I reacted to the dragon's piping, "Oh for Aine's sake, the dragon is right!"

The girl just started crying silently, like marrying me was a bad thing. I figured I would wrap my arms around her and comforted her, wiping away her tears, "You know, we never introduced ourselves." causing her to hic-laugh, "My name is Glorifrir. You're welcome to call me Glory if you want. Now my beautiful wife, what is your name?"

"Sue-Anne, Sue-Anne Torbrok," she smiled at me through her tears, "Nice to meet you."

I was shocked by her name, so I wondered, "By any chance are you related to Susan Torbrok?"

"Yes, she is my great great grandmother, I think I got the right number of greats in there." she answered. "Why did you stiffen at my name?"

"Susan hurt my wife, my first wife," I corrected, "by turning her back on Aine and choosing the God of Gods. DebraLee did not think much of the God of Gods due to her youth."

"I see, does it bother you then that I too choose to follow the God of Gods ways?"

"I do not know, I will not be closed minded though about it since now we by fae law are married. I did not ask for this and nor did you, so I do not really know what to do from here. Isn't the God of Gods against a women marrying more than one man?"

She nodded, "And now I am thanks to Aine's interference. She wants me to marry 3 men."

"That's not so bad, that is just like the first Susan," I tried to comfort her, "So, who did she want me to be husbands with?"

"Kell and Garvan. But Garvan does not know yet, but I think he suspects," she replied. 

Garvan, that punk...Well Aine always did have a maccabe sense of humour, but who is Kell. I know of no Kell's...

"Who is Kell?" I asked.

"My husband, wait, that is not useful." she realised that 'my husband' was not a good explanation so went on to explain, "Kell is Prince of the human fae, also a great great grandchild of Susan, but he is of Susan and Kai and I am of Susan and Coran."

"So that is why you look part drow then?" I asked.

She nodded and my door was broken in on and Garvan and a strange man broke in. I realised that Sue was sitting there in all her naked glory so I quickly pulled the sheet off the bed and wrapped it around her. I did not worry about me as I was use to being undressed before other members of the fae. 

The man that came with Garvan was clearly furious with me, but there was little I could do about it. We had been charmed by the dragon.

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