Connie awoke from her slumber with a snort. She'd been having a terrible dream where she was human with her
arms and legs tied, lying on a silver platter. An apple had been forced in her mouth while many giants licked
their lips so it was incrdeibly frightening when she awoke to see a giant man lumbering down over her. She
slowly came to her senses as the giant rubbed a sticky cold substance on her pig snout and it took a moment
for her to recognize the giant as the sellsword, Rogan, whom she had hired. He cradled her like a babe while
applying the smooth lotion.
"Easy, girl," he said, gently, "Sorry to wake ya. Just thought I'd treat that nasty scratch on your nose."
"Oh! Thanks..." she said, groggily, "We had a run in with a nasty house cat..."
"Heh, yeah ya friend Dili said," Said Rogan motioning to look to where Dili sat on the floor. Her scratches
had also been treated with the sticky green substance.
"I heard house cats were lethal but thought it was just an old wives tale." He laughed.
"Well, I can sure you they are well capable of killing a piglet!" Connie laughed as well.
"Is that a river I hear?"
"Aye, the River Toby," Rogan nodded.
"The River Toby? You walked us all this way already."
"Well, the horse I stole did." He said matter of fact-ly.
"You like stealing, don't you?" Connie gave her best piggy grin and Rogan barely managed to hold back laugh.
"Its not so much that I enjoy the stealin'." He shrugged, "I just enjoy not having to pay for things."
"Aren't they the same thing?" Connie looked at him puzzled.
"Nah. i'd much rather earn things and have 'em given to me for free."
"Well, you are doing a good job of earning my trust. Carry on this way and maybe when I'm restored I'll give
you something more."
As they day wore on Rogna bathed and shaved in the river. Connie and Dili, still covered in the much from the
pig sty also tried to bath but the river water proved far too deep for piglets and Rogan had to help them by
dipping them in the waist high water and scrubbing them himself, much to Connie's embarrassment.
The daylight soon faded and the trio sat around a makeshift camp fire. Rogan boiled some potatoes in a pot,
doubtless stolen as well. Connie stared into the fire, daydreaming about Rogan's shirtless body in the river
and how he man handled her with his seemingly bear strength arms.
"So... what happened with you and Morgana," Connie asked while trying to hide any hint of jealously that she
knew was there.
"Ah, I suppose you don't mean for me to detail the sordid activities we got into together? Such things are not
for a noble Princess's ears." Rogan grinned and winked.
"It was simple really. I and a group of adventurers I was travelling with at the time happened across her home
which at the time was a rundown little cottage in the arse end of nowhere. We were invited to stay for the
night and we accepted gratefully. She fed us eggs and home grown vegetables but we soon discovered that a
number of her lifelike ornaments were indeed full of life. Harsh words were slung, there was some mild
violence and my companions ended up as wildlife to help the endangered badger and squirrel populations. I,
however, proved resistant to Morgana's spells. Something that confounded and frustrated her to no end. She
tied me up, stripped me and slapped me about weakly in annoyance as she tried to find some magic artifact that
was preventing her magic. Yet she found nothing! Still she didn't give up and instead opted to seduce me to
get me to talk, I gladly accepted her advances and we soon had a romp in the hay but she didn't find anything
and I wasn't going to tell her. She threw herself at me ever more passionately and it amused me greatly.
Eventually she got so frustrated she kicked me out and sent me on my merry way."
"So you never really cared for her?" asked Connie hopefully.
"Nah it was just a bit of fun"
"How'd you do it? How'd you not get transformed." Dili saiad excitedly.
"Well, I'll let you in on a little secret: Ya see, I did have a magical artifact," Rogan pulled a chain from
around his neck that held a pendant, "this magic amulet. I just bought it because of the naked beauty etched
into the metal but it turns out she is powerful Goddess and those that use her symbol are granted her
protection."
"But how come she didn't find it?" the girls asked simultaneously.
"Why that's easy. I shoved it up me arse when I found out she was a Witch!"