“The Battle ahead”? Ludd laughed. “They have no idea!”

He followed the party as long as he fancied but something else took his attention and something not very close at hand at all. ~ ~ ~

~ ~ Across the land ~ ~

Ludd spied a girl, lean in body, simple in mind, ample in breast, fine of face. “Perfect” ! he hissed. “She will be perfect.” He raised his hand and floated close to her, whispering on the wind. “Come to me girl, closer…that’s it, closer.” The simple girl followed the eerie voice across the field of purple lavender until she set her eyes upon a man. This man in black, tall and lanky, muscular but agile, he smiled and held his arms open wide, “Come to me girl, your father awaits you.” He smiled. She went willingly into his arms and as she fell into him he closed them about her. “My sweet girl”, he assured her as he stroked her hair, and slowly closed his hands around her neck. He quickly closed his fingertips around the supple flesh tightly and twisted, “SNAP” the bones cracked and she fell limp in his arms. He laid her down upon the ground and moved away. Looking down upon her he formed an evil grin. “Ahh yes this body will do nicely.” He dipped the toe of his boot into the ground and dug a small circular trench in a circle around him and the dead girl, then thrust his hands out to his sides and cast his head upwards and closed his eyes “ATHRG POR MAHEDRA FOND RONDU RESTA MAB” He cried, “ATHRG POR MAHEDRA FOND RONDU RESTA MAB” He called again, louder, “ATHRG POR MAHEDRA FOND RONDU RESTA MAB… VON DU TOR PANIG VOARDIAGT!!!!! ” He yelled to the sky and at the end of his chant there was a blinding cylinder of light that formed a shaft straight up and then it exploded into smoke….

All was still

….The girl pushed herself up and stretched out her arms…. He smiled, wide and happily.

She looked around, pleased. She felt her arms then moved her hands down the length of her body and stood on her feet. She smiled too, her corporeal state pleased her. She turned around and saw him there, standing rigidly, watching her. She moved closer and fell against his chest biting into his neck, “You are happy to see me my lord?” she asked, laying her head against his chest.

He smirked, “I summoned you, I gave you a body, what do you think?” He spat, grasping her arms and pushing her away from him, swinging his arm up in an arc and drawing the back of his hand across her face knocking her to the ground at his feet.

She drew her fingertips to the corner of her lip and then tasted the blood, having a body had certain disadvantages but then she didn’t mind. She sucked the blood from her fingertips then rose to her knees and bowed her head in submission, knelling before him, “I am yours my lord, as I have always been and ever will be.”

Ludd set his boot upon her shoulder and kicked her onto her back, “See that you remember that … THIS TIME.” He shouted. “This is your last chance MAB, LAST UNDERSTAND?”

She nodded an affirmation.

“I have granted you a body and your full powers as well, DO NOT DISAPPOINT ME MAB FOR IF YOU DO IT WILL BE THE END OF YOU!” He squinted, “Do not test my benevolence. It has a short life I assure you.”

He curled his fingers, itching them in the air, signifying her to rise and come to him. She rose quickly and then fell against him and he kissed her sucking her tongue into his mouth then biting it sharply until he drew blood. He sucked the font of the thick liquid, drinking it in, and then released. She liked her lips, covering her mouth with traces of the crimson fluid, her eyes wild and gold. “It is as it was.” He gasped, caught in the human emotion lust; he grasped the back of her neck and ripped the front of her blouse then buried his face in her cleavage. She gripped a hand full of his hair, happy to have something to hold onto, she could not count the time that she had existed in the ethereal, without his touch.

“Yours my lord,” she gasped, “take me, take me please, make me remember the pleasures and pains of the human flesh.” She moaned.