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My heart began to beat faster.

I tried to remember what my deprogrammer had said.

It’s not real

The Allfather isn’t really there

But he also said a lot of things that weren’t true. Like

Your brother can’t find you now

As twilight streaked across the sky and Osric spread his feet on the ground, I felt a shiver of fear all along my spine.

He began the Seeking by pounding with both hands on the gnarled old table, and I felt goosebumps raise on my skin as the rest of the Congregants joined in, beating hands and feet in a rhythmic, harsh symphony.

My brother began to stomp too, rising on the balls of his feet to slam his big shitkicker boots down on the ground in unison with the other men.

The rhythm began to vibrate through my body, angling up my back, tingling up my spine until my whole body felt alive with the power.

Both of my brother’s hands were on my hips now as his strong voice rose in the chants. I risked a little glance back at him as his voice moved into the harsh, guttural holy tongue, his throat working.

He looked wild, untamed, the veins standing out in his arms with how tight he gripped me.

I felt a trickle of sweat drip down my lower back and hastily looked forward.

His movements on my hips were steady and rhythmic too, the motions forcing my wet cunt in a slow, deliberate drag over his hard thigh.

Panic sliced through me as I realized what was buzzing and growing in my cunt was

Arousal

Deep and low, dirty and wrong

No!

But trying to wiggle away only ground my cunt deeper, and now my cunt was wet for another reason, my own slick heat pooling on his work pants. My pussy lips felt engorged, the pressure on my clit dragging me to the precipice of a shattering orgasm, then his hands pulling me back again.

I tightened my lips so he didn’t know what he was doing to me.

But then I felt his length pressing on my bare thigh, his heavy naked cock hard again, balls thick with need for me.

I felt flushed, heated with hated desire.

I wanted to come

In the cities this would have been unthinkable.

Out here,what my brother wanted he got.

His deep chanting began to be punctuated with deep groans and grunts, not bothering to hide what he was doing, the depraved wrong desire he had for me as he thrust his cock against my thigh over and over, still in time with that hypnotic, earth-deep beat. I felt bound to the earth, bound to Rhyder, swept up in terrifying power and obsession, my arms frozen at my sides.

“Who dares to know the Allfather’s will?” Osric called out, and Rhyder leaned up, pressing his chest against my back so his voice vibrated my ribs.

“I do,” he called out, and the Congregations responded.

Seek and destroy

Seek and know