Primordial Red Goblin

"I have ten thousand gold, you can have it all if you give her back." Roux begged.

"You took your daughter for granted, now she is a member of my family." I said.

Roux then turned to Ginger’s father in anger.

"This is all your fault. You sent her to that post after I told you not to. Now look at what happened." Roux yelled.

"Mom, please stop. It’s okay, he treats me the same as he treats his wives." Ginger said as she hugged her mother.

Roux hugged her back and cried. I let them talk for half an hour before leaving the arena. As we left I pulled Ginger close to me and held her as we walked.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

"Yes, I’m fine." She said as she leaned into me.

I held her as I walked to the Goddess’s temple. Once at the temple I gave the priestess the third communication artifact and a pouch of gold coins with instructions to give it to the sisters sent to replace the ones going with me. I informed her that we are leaving tomorrow and will be gone for several months at least. Then Ginger and I returned to the caravan.

"Lucy still hasn’t returned from visiting her mother." Sarah said.

"Okay. How are the preparations going here?" I asked.

"Good. Twenty of the wagons are packed to capacity and one is about half full. That leaves eight of them empty, do you want to get more supplies to fill them with?" She asked.

"No, I still have five storage rings filled with supplies. We should have everything we need to stay out there for several months." I said.

Sarah then looked at Ginger hugging my arm and put her hand on her shoulder.

"Are you okay?" Sarah asked her.

"Yeah, it’s just that my mom was so upset." She answered.

I walked through the caravan checking on everyone. The cook slave had set up a small cooking area and was feeding the children. The guards were on the perimeter doing their job. After half an hour I heard a commotion at the front of the caravan and went to check it out. I found Roux talking to Sarah. When she saw me she turned away from Sarah and ran over to me holding out a slave collar.

"Please take me with you. I just went to the temple and divorced that son of a bitch. I want to go with my daughter. I’ll do whatever it takes, you can even put this collar on me if you want." She said.

I looked down at the collar in her hand then at Ginger still clinging to my arm.

"Ginger, what do you think?" I asked.

Ginger looked up at me before looking at her mom.

"I don’t know, is there room for her in the caravan?" Ginger asked.

"I can think of a job for her." Sarah said grinning.

Ginger looked at Sarah and laughed.

"Oh dear, I can imagine what you have in mind." Ginger giggled.

"How soft are your hands?" Sarah asked.

"Huh? What?" Roux stuttered.

Ginger lost her composure and began laughing loudly.

"Are you going to get her a new nightgown too?" Ginger asked Sarah.

"Absolutely, why wouldn’t I?" Sarah answered.

"Before you agree to have my husband put a collar on your neck you need to agree to join his harem. If not then you won’t be joining us on our trip." Sarah said.

"What? Join his harem?" Roux repeated.

"Yes. Join his harem or stay here. You said you will do whatever it takes to go with your daughter right?" Sarah said.

"Yes I said that but I didn’t think that’s what it would take." Roux answered.

"If you want to go with us that is what it will take. And you will have his babies just like the rest of us." Sarah said.

"What? Babies?" Roux stuttered as her hands moved to her stomach.

She looked at my wives, then at Ginger, then at me.

"I’ll do it. Just let me stay with my daughter." Roux said quietly.

"Looks like the decision is made, let’s go to a slaver. Drop that collar, I won’t have any of my slaves wearing those tacky hunks of iron." I said.

Roux looked at the iron collar in her hand before looking at the collars on all of my slaves. Then she put the collar in her storage ring and followed me, Ginger, and Sarah. Once at the slaver I picked out a choker style collar similar to Ginger’s and had it put on her. Then told her she was prohibited from telling anyone what I am and that she is to obey any order Sarah gives her as long as they don’t contradict any orders I give. Then Sarah took her shopping for new clothes. Ginger and I then made our last trip back to the orphanage and entered the tunnel with the dwarves. I showed Rollo the map and told him to dig toward the center of the forest so the orphanage can eventually be connected to my new village. Then I gave him a storage ring and a pouch of coins to buy a few months worth of food and construction supplies. Then Ginger and I returned to the caravan. When we returned Lucy was sitting with Lyra watching the kids play. Half of the sisters had taken half of the kids to the bathhouse. I walked over and began scratching behind one of Lyra’s ears.

"How is mother doing?" I asked Lucy.

"She is fine. She still refuses to spend your money on anything except groceries and birdseed. I told her she needs to get out and enjoy herself." Lucy answered.

"Did you tell her we are going to be gone for awhile?" I asked.

"Yes. She told me to tell you to be careful out there." Lucy answered.

"Such a wonderful lady your mother." I said.

Just then Sarah returned to the caravan with Roux. Roux was now wearing a sundress and flats similar to those worn by my other women. They walked over to me and stood beside me.

"I got her the same things as everyone else." Sarah said.

I stopped scratching Lyra’s ears and pulled Roux against my side opposite her daughter.

"Welcome to the family." I said.

Ginger covered her mouth and began laughing as Roux blushed. I held both of them against me as I spoke with the others. Sarah stepped behind me and wrapped Roux’s arm around my waist and grinned at Ginger who was still laughing into her hand.

"When the sisters and the kids are finished with the bathhouse start sending the slaves. Make sure to let the slave women bathe in the women’s bath so they don’t have to bath with the men." I said.

"Okay, we’ll do that." Lucy said.

Lucy and Lyra got up to relay the message to the slaves. While still holding Ginger and Roux at my sides I began walking around the caravan to check on everything. Once I was finished inspecting the caravan Amber and Lyra had chosen the first group of forty slaves, twenty men and twenty women, to take to the bathhouse.

"After everyone else is finished bathing we will take our turn." I told my wives.

"Okay." Sarah said.

Sarah, Lucy, Amber, and Lyra then took the slaves to the bathhouse. I then sat by the fire the cook had used and pulled Ginger and Roux onto my lap.

"Is it okay if I ask where we are going?" Roux asked.

"Sure. Now that you are collared I don’t have to worry about you leaking our secrets. We are going deep into the western forest." I answered.

"What?" She gasped.

"Yes, we will travel through the forest for about three months. Then once we are roughly in the center of the forest we will stop and begin building a village where my family will live." I said.

"Three months?" The center of the western forest?" Roux mumbled.

"Yes. According to the map the forest is roughly two thousand miles wide in every direction. If our caravan travels twenty miles per day we will reach the center in fifty days. So just under three months." I said.

"Why do you want to live in the center of the forest? There countless monsters in there." Roux said shakily.

"I will explain that later in the privacy of a hot bath." I said.

She looked at her daughter worried.

"Did you know about this?" She asked Ginger.

"Yes I did." She smiled.

"And you let me beg to go with him?" She asked.

"Why not? You seemed to want to go with us so much you agreed to join his harem and wear his collar." Ginger shrugged.

Roux seemed to suddenly remember part of the agreement and quickly looked back at me.

"Is my daughter part of your harem too?" She asked.

"Yes she is. She joined it willingly just like everyone else." I replied.

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