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Shalvi

by Leem

This story is inspired by a brief scene from The Incomplete Enchanter
by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt:

The air was stuffy inside. The first \nthing Shea saw was a pile of dirty dishes. Dolon was evidently not the \nneat type of bachelor. Beyond was an object. that made his scalp \nprickle. It was the life-sized nude statue of a young man, stiff, at one\n side of the room, emitting a faint bluish glow. It held aloft a torch, \nwhich Dolon set alight.

The enchanter noticed Shea’s glance of \ninquiry. “A former ’prentice of mine,” he remarked. “I found he was a \nspy from Queen Gloriana’s court, where a few of those high-born grandees\n practise a kind of magic they call ‘white’. So there he stands, with \nall his sensations alive and the rest of him dead. Eh, Roger?” He \npinched the statue playfully and laughed. “I’m really the best humorist \nin the Chapter when I’m in the mood.”

All I’ve done is change the “victim’s” sex and add a few embellishments here and there.

----

“Shalvi,” said the sorceress, “you have been singing to birds again.”

Shalvi and the sorceress Kalidris were standing in the great, \nmarble-pillared hall of the sorceress’ sumptuous mountain palace. The \nhall contained some of the most priceless works of art Shalvi had ever \nseen. Magnificent paintings were hung so thickly that the marble walls \nwere almost completely hidden, while the aisles were lined with hundreds\n of statues depicting every conceivable erotic act.

The silver alone in this hall could buy whole kingdoms, let alone the\n gold and jewels, and enough marble had been used in its construction to\n build a small palace in its own right. But the sorceress’ ambitions had\n never been small. In all the world it was said that there was no other \ncollection that could compare with it...save one. But today it was not \nthe collection that Kalidris wished to discuss with her servant.

“A curious pastime, don’t you think?” said Kalidris. “I was always under the impression that it was their pleasure to sing for our benefit.”

“S-singing to birds, mistress?” stammered Shalvi, averting her eyes. “I...I don’t understand.”

Kalidris sighed and reached out a hand to turn Shalvi’s face toward her.

“Yes you do, Shalvi,” said Kalidris. “You understand perfectly.” Her \nvoice was quiet, but held all the menace of an approaching storm.

The sorceress was rumoured to have lived for centuries, but had the \nface and figure of a twenty-year old. Shalvi thought her the most \nbeautiful woman in the world...save one.

“I have heard you, Shalvi,” the sorceress went on. “I have seen you. \nSurely you of all people realise that I have ways of seeing and hearing \nthings even when I am not physically present.”

As she spoke the sorceress gazed deep into Shalvi’s eyes. Shalvi felt\n as though the sorceress were seeing into her very soul...which indeed \nshe was.

The sorceress sighed. Such a pretty little thing, and yet so naive....

“You cannot lie to me, Shalvi,” Kalidris told her. “No one can. I \nhave seen you singing to the birds that visit your window ledge. But the\n songs you sang were in no language that I recognise, and I am familiar \nwith all the tongues of this world.”

Shalvi tried to swallow, but her throat was dry.

“It was Chelamis, wasn’t it?” said Kalidris. “She sent the birds to \nyou. It was she who taught you to sing in a language of her own \ndevising, so that when the birds flew back to her she could read their \nminds and hear the songs. Quite ingenious really.”

Shalvi said nothing, but her eyes momentarily turned in the direction of the great crystal window at the end of the hall.

Beyond that window, on the other side of the almost-impassable \nvalley, stood another huge,glistening palace, upon a vertiginous \nmountain crag that was twin to the one upon which Kalidris’ palace \nstood.

The palace of Chelamis was a constant reminder that Kalidris’ \nambitions did not go unchallenged; that there was another who stood in \nher way.

Kalidris turned to face the window, and Shalvi breathed a momentary sigh of relief.

“Chelamis,” muttered the sorceress, her voice barely concealing her \ncontempt for the name. “I could have become ruler of this world long ago\n had it not been for that woman’s constant meddling. She has blocked my \nevery move. And now this.”

Turning back to Shalvi, she demanded: “What did she promise you, \nShalvi? What could she possibly give you that I could not? Wealth? \nPower? Immortality? Sex?”

Shalvi shrank back from the intensity of Kalidris’ stare.

“Shalvi, I could have given you all of those things and more. You \nwere a good servant, and I was prepared to reward your service beyond \nyour greatest dreams. I could have made you an empress, Shalvi. In all \nthe world you would have been second only to me.”

Kalidris sighed and ran a hand across her forehead. “Shalvi,” she \nsaid sadly, “You of all people understand how vast my knowledge is. I \nknow how the stars shine and why crystals form. I understand the nature \nof time and the structure of matter. I can explore the surface of the \nmoons and the depths of the oceans. I know how to inflict infinite pain \nor exquisite pleasure, or both at the same time.”

Taking Shalvi’s face in her hands once more, she said: “Yet for all my knowledge, the human heart still holds mysteries for me.”

Shalvi’s own heart was pounding. She could feel herself sweating, and\n her throat was parched. Shalvi felt certain that the sorceress’ \nreference to inflicting pain had been a concealed threat. Transfixed by \nterror she could do nothing but stare at Kalidris, wishing that she \ncould pass out.

“Why did you do it, Shalvi?” whispered Kalidris. “Why did you betray \nme? How did my enemy persuade you to sing my secrets to her birds?”

Shalvi’s voice was a dry croak. “Mistress, I...I cannot tell you.”

Kalidris considered this. “ ‘Cannot’ or ‘will not’ I wonder? But no, \nof course she would have put a spell on you to prevent you from \nspeaking. Well, anything she can do, I can undo. While I’m at it I guess\n I’d better slow your heart down a little. No use you dying of a stroke \nbefore I can get the truth out of you.”

For a few moments the sorceress chanted quietly as if\n to herself. Sure enough, Shalvi felt her heartbeat slowing and her \nanxiety washing away. Even her mouth was no longer dry. She knew that \nshe ought still to be afraid, but was no longer able to summon up her \nown terror. She could only wait in terrible calm while the sorceress \nprepared to question her.

“There,” said Kalidris triumphantly. “I have removed Chelamis’ \nspells. I always told her there was no spell of hers that I could not \nundo, but she never would believe it.“

Kalidris’ eyes bored into Shalvi’s.

“Now tell me, Shalvi. What did Chelamis say to you? How did she persuade you to spy on me?”

The sorceress’ voice seemed to emanate from the end of the universe. Shalvi could do nothing to prevent herself from answering.

“She said you were evil,” said Shalvi dreamily. “She said your \nambition and lust for power would someday destroy the world, and that \nyou had to be stopped for the sake of humanity. She made me feel proud \nto be helping her in such a noble cause.”

Kalidris snorted. “How typical of her to twist the truth like that. Surely any fool can see that she\n is the evil one. I do not seek power for its own sake as she does. I \nonly wish to rule the world in order to bring an end to war and greed \nand human folly.”

Gazing at the rival palace once more, Kalidris said, “I could almost \nforget that we were once inseparable... that she was my sister... my \nfriend... my confidante... my lover....”

Kalidris turned back to Shalvi.

“And now, to think that she has come to this. To plant a spy in my \nown household. I can scarcely imagine a more treacherous act. Although I\n am forced to admit that using birds as couriers was quite an ingenious idea.”

Once more Shalvi heard the sorceress speaking as if from infinity.

“So tell me, Shalvi,” she said, “what exactly did you tell the birds,\n that they might tell Chelamis in turn? Which of my secrets did you \nbetray?”

“I told her the secret words that open the doors and magic portals within the palace,” said Shalvi.

Even as the words left her mouth, Shalvi knew she had condemned \nherself to death. But she could not stop talking; she did not even have \nthe will to try.

“I told her the location of the secret artifacts, the magical cups \nand swords and gems and grimoires and rings and robes of power. And \nabove all, mistress, I told her where you sleep and how to break the \nspells that guard you while you slumber.”

Shalvi was relieved when the compulsion to speak finally ended, even though her words had quite thoroughly condemned her.

“So,” said Kalidris, “you told her everything, did you not? \nEverything of importance, at any rate. Everything she felt she would \nneed in order to defeat me.”

“Y...yes, mistress.” Shalvi lowered her head, as if readying herself for the axe.

But the blow did not come just then. Instead, Shalvi was surprised to hear Kalidris chuckling quietly.

“You told her what you thought was the truth,” said Kalidris. “And so she will not suspect that her information is false. Oh, some of what I told you was true, Shalvi, but some was not. I was testing you, you see, and you failed.”

Kalidris stared across the valley at Chelamis’ palace.

“Let her gloat,” she said. “Let her revel in her triumph for a little\n while. It won’t be long before she realises she has failed, and then I will be the one to gloat.”

The sorceress turned back to Shalvi once more.

“But as for you, Shalvi....”

Shalvi could not meet her eyes.

“You betrayed me, Shalvi. I cannot believe you were taken in by my \nsister’s lies. And how could you have been so naive as to think I \nwouldn’t discover your betrayal?”

Kalidris shook her head sadly.

“Oh, Shalvi, if only you had not betrayed me. You could have anything\n you wanted. Anything. You could have been a goddess. You could have \nruled beside me with Chelamis grovelling at your feet, if only you had \nnot been so foolish as to believe her. As it is, I have no alternative \nbut to punish you. I have to make an example of you so that others will \nnot be tempted to follow you.”

Shalvi fell to her knees weeping.

“Spare my life, mistress, I beg you,” she sobbed. “You’re right. I \nwas weak. I was foolish. I was taken in by her lies. How could I help \nit? She was so persuasive. She was the most beautiful woman I had ever \nseen, until I saw you, mistress, and she used her beauty to seduce me. \nWhen she made love to me it was... it was like... I can’t describe it. \nShe promised me that once you were defeated she would take me as her \nconsort forever. So she taught me her secret language and the spells to \nsummon her birds, and then I went to your footman and begged admission. \nAnd that’s the truth, mistress, I swear it.”

“I know,” said Kalidris. “What you tell me of my sister rings true. \nThere will be a reckoning between us two some day, but not yet. Perhaps \nnot for a thousand years. But that does not excuse your actions, Shalvi.\n Still you must answer for them.”

“Spare me, mistress, that is all I ask,” Shalvi wept. “I will do anything for you, mistress. Anything at all.”

For a moment Kalidris did not speak. Shalvi found the wait agonising.

Finally the sorceress knelt before Shalvi and whispered:

“Anything?”

Shalvi swallowed. “Y-yes, mistress. Anything at all. Only name it.”

Kaldris took Shalvi by the hand and raised her to her feet.

”Well, now,” said the sorceress, brushing the hair back from Shalvi’s\n tear-streaked face, “I suppose it would be a pity to kill you.”

Kalidris brushed her hands gently across Shalvi’s face, and at once the tear-stains vanished.

“Ye-s,” muttered Kalidris. “It really would be a shame to destroy such a pretty face.”

Kalidris ran her hands over Shalvi’s dress and her own and they \nimmediately vanished, leaving them both naked amidst the naked statues.

“Oh, yes,” whispered Kalidris in Shalvi’s ear. “It would have been quite heartbreaking to have destroyed such a beautiful body.”

For several minutes no words were spoken while Kalidris and Shalvi gently explored each others’ bodies with their hands.

Then Kalidris effortlessly picked Shalvi up by the waist and swung \nher over to a marble square in the centre of the aisle. It looked no \ndifferent from the others, but the moment Shalvi’s bare feet touched it \nthe square block began to rise from out the floor until it was a marble \ndais about half a cubit in height. At the same time Shalvi’s body began \nto tingle all over. It was not an unpleasant sensation, but there was \nsomething that did not feel right about it.

Kalidris meanwhile had begun gently stroking Shalvi’s bottom and nibbling her breasts.

Through her growing arousal, Shalvi was beginning to feel apprehensive.

”M...mistress?” she said, forcing the words out between moans of \npleasure. “Mistress... I... can’t... seem... to... move... my... \nlegs...!”

Kalidris’ only response was to kneel down, caress those motionless \nlimbs with her hands, and begin caressing Shalvi’s labia with her mouth \nand tongue.

Shalvi’s legs were frozen. Her arms slowly moved of their own accord \nuntil they took on a welcoming posture, and then they too froze.

“M... mist... resss...” cried Shalvi, “I... c... c... caaa... n’ttttt....”

And then she could no longer make a sound.

A moment later she couldn’t turn her head. She couldn’t even moan in her ecstasy. A benign smile was frozen upon her lips.

Kalidris stood up and examined her.

“Excellent,” she said. “The perfect pose and expression.”

And with that she began rhythmically stroking Shalvi’s vagina with \none hand while caressing one of her hardening nipples with the other.

Shalvi pleaded with her eyes. Kalidris saw the plea, but merely shook her head.

“I told you I had no alternative but to punish you, Shalvi. You \nbegged me to spare your life, so I have spared it. But I cannot take the\n chance that you might betray me again, and so from now on you shall \nnever move again.”

Shalvi was thinking, No! Dear gods, no! Anything but that!

But her face remained an impassive mask as Kalidris’ fingers brought her closer and closer to orgasm.

“I shall come and keep you company from time to time, when I’m not \nbusy,” Kalidris promised. “In the meantime you’ll have all the time in \nthe world to look across at Chelamis’ palace and recall how she tricked \nyou into coming here. But don’t be too sad. From now on you shall be the\n pride of my collection. You shall stand among my statues... as the most\n beautiful statue of them all.”

And at that instant Shalvi was brought to the most beautiful, intense\n and prolonged orgasm of her life, and all her fears and regrets were \nwashed away.

Epilogue
A thousand years later

The feathers gently caressed the statue’s neck and \nshoulders before languidly working their way down across her breasts, \nstomach and abdomen and finally slipping into her vagina.

“There. You like that, don’t you?” grinned Thula.

“Thula!” came the sorceress’ voice. “Are you still dusting? Don’t forget we have an important guest coming.”

“No, mistress,” Thula sighed.

“And if you’re playing with Shalvi again, just remember that you \ncould be joining her on a pedestal of your own if your work fails to \nsatisfy me.”

“Yes, mistress.”

But Thula was kind and considerate, so she did not leave at once but \ncontinued to caress Shalvi’s genitalia with the duster until the \nstatue-girl’s pupils dilated and her face took on the tell-tale flush of\n orgasm.

A single tear fell from the corner of Shalvi’s eye. Thula reached up \nand kissed her, licking away the tear, and then wiped her face and \ngenitalia with a fresh cloth.

“I often wonder what it’s like to be you,” whispered Thula. “I really hope you’re not sad all the time.”

“Thula! Confound it, girl, where are you?”

Thula sighed. “Gotta run,” she said, giving Shalvi another peck on the cheek.

Presently Kalidris entered the great hall with Thula \nin attendance. They were accompanied by another woman whose face bore a \nstrong resemblance to Kalidris. Thula had never seen the other woman \nuntil this day, but as they stepped in front of Shalvi, Thula saw the \nfrozen girl’s eyes widen involuntarily. It was obvious that she \nrecognised the newcomer, but as Kalidris’ servant it was up to Thula to \nperform the introductions.

“Lady Chelamis,” she said, stepping forward and curtseying, “I am \nsure that you recognise your former servant Shalvi, erstwhile servant of\n Lady Kalidris, and for many years since by the Lady Kalidris’ grace the\n most priceless of all her statues. Shalvi, the Lady Chelamis, here by \nspecial invitation of the Lady Kalidris.”

Thula curtseyed again and stepped back.

Chelamis stepped forward and smiled at the paralysed girl.

“Hello, Shalvi,” she said, reaching forward to place a hand on her \nnaked breast. “I was wondering if I’d ever see you again. It’s so nice \nto know you have a position here.”

Turning to Kalidris, she said, “In case you were wondering, I turned your spy into a bathtub. The faucets are her nipples, and the drain hole... well, I’m sure you get the idea.”

“It’s interesting that neither of us executed the other’s spy, isn’t \nit?” said Kalidris. “Instead we preserved them and allowed them to \ncontemplate their helplessness forever. It seems we really are more \nalike than we thought.”

“Shall we drink to that?” said Chelamis. “I’ve taken the liberty of bringing along a very fine 163-year-old wine from the dwarf vineyards of Dimension 306 Alpha.”

“Yes,” agreed Kalidris, “we must see how it compares to my stock of Demonbrew 3500. The grapes are fertilised in dragon dung, which gives them a quite unique flavour.”

Shalvi was quite forgotten. The two sorceresses went off chatting about wine with Thula in tow.

Later that evening Thula returned alone to the great \nhall, spoke the words that caused the central aisle’s magical lights to \nshine, and approached Shalvi.

“Mistress gave me the evening off,” Thula told Shalvi. “They’re getting drunk and fucking each other blind.”

She gave a sigh and hugged Shalvi tight.

“You’ll have gathered they’re friends now,” said Thula. “Their little\n war that lasted for thousands of years is all over, and they can rule \nthe world together in peace. Until next time they fall out, I suppose, \nwhether that’s tomorrow or in a thousand years’ time.”

Thula was silent for a few moments, lost in thought. Then she cried: \n“Oh, Shalvi, it’s so unfair. The only reason Kalidris turned you into a \nstatue was to punish you for serving Chelamis. Now they’re at peace and \nthere’s no longer any reason for your punishment, yet they’re \njust going to leave you as a statue anyway. And that other girl Chelamis\n talked about, that became a bath. The sorceresses have betrayed you \nboth. I can’t imagine what you must be feeling right now.”

For a while Thula wept on Shalvi’s shoulder. Then she dried her tears and hugged the statue-girl again.

“Shalvi, I know I’ve teased you in the past - you know, about being a\n statue and everything. I’m sorry about that. I really didn’t mean to be\n cruel. And all the times I’ve done sexual things to you... well, I hope\n you understand that they weren’t just for my pleasure, although I did \nenjoy them. What I mean is, I hope they gave you pleasure as well, \nand... and I hope you don’t mind if I keep on doing them, because now \nthat I know what my mistress is really like it will never be the same \nwith her again.”

Thula momentarily stepped back from Shalvi’s permanently outstretched\n arms and said, “I’d really like to start now, Shalvi. As long as the \nsorceresses are occupied, I’d like to make love to you. I promise I will\n do my best to give you pleasure as well as myself.”

It might have been her imagination, or a distorted echo from the \nsorceress’s chamber far below, or some magical residue that the palace \nhad absorbed from thousands of years of sorcery. Whatever it was, Thula \nwas certain that she heard a voice speaking clearly into her mind:

“Yes, Thula. Yes. I forgive you. I love you. Yes. Yes. Yes.”

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