Capítulo 21: Judgement On Ark (2)
The Great Protector pointed to the runt.
"Runt. No, Lily now, is it not?"
Lily was nervous and her body wanted to shit badly, but she tried to be brave for Husband. She had spoken about what happened, being chosen by Prima to be the third to receive Husband's big seed. About Husband not being rough with her from the start like he was with Jewel. About Husband talking with her, trying to make her feel good, and keeping her warm through the night when her belly was full of his big seed. When Lily wasn't in a good condition to hunt for food the morning after, Husband shared his big piece of fire meat with her after putting Lily in his lap, giving her more big seed as they ate together. Her belly was many times full, and when Husband had enough meat, which was only part of one side of a big redboar's hind leg, he let her eat the rest so that strong ones inside of her would be strong from the start because of having much meat to eat.
Lily was the runt of the tribe, last in all things. Lily was shown care by Husband and when she saw Husband cared also for Berry, who had such immediate circumstances with his seed, she went to hunt rabbits so Berry's strong one would be strong from the start as well. Because she was sure Husband would want that.
And that Husband now was choosing to die because he was not allowed to help care for Berry and her strong one.
The Great Protector had of course already discerned this, but still wished to hear the thoughts of the goblins who carried his seed. They were the children it rescued from a fairly large subjugation party of strong human adventurers some time ago. It knew the goblin tribe wasn't innocent by any means, as it had a breeding pit with a dozen or more human women being used as birthing sows, the children who were left were still young and not yet brought up to fight and kill humans as the Old One among them, who hid them safely, had been.
Perhaps there was still a chance to salvage this situation for the better of the tribe?
"You." It cut off Lily and pointed at the tall one to speak about the human now. "The Stone-seeker."
Jewel had carried a pouch with her and bent down to pour out some colored gemstones from it onto the floor before the Great Protector.
She explained how after Prima, she was the next goblin chosen to receive Husband's big seed. She was left with her body sore, fuckhole sore, belly full, and legs like reeds for most of the day afterwards. She enjoyed coming to see Husband many times, and got more big seed each time she did. She too was upset Husband was not allowed to care for Berry and her strong one, and began to explain about what had led to this point with a different perspective than she had heard from the Old One.
"I don't want Husband to die. I don't think Husband would try to kill any of the goblin tribe. He only wanted to use shiny stone magic to dig a wall for Berry because she can't right now. I think one of these stones might be the topaz Husband needs, but I don't know which one."
The Great Protector stared at the small stones. One of them was even shiny enough to covet, but only as a pebble compared to the many better and more beautiful gemstones it already possessed. However, the only one among those stones which were topaz, was an ugly brown and unrefined one, easily mistaken as no different from a dirty rock.
The Great Protector had pieced it all together now. The human wanted to use magic when it realized it would take a damn long time for it to hit the wall with the sharp stone in the mother goblin's room. And the Guardian goblin it entrusted to watch over the human had not bent even a little on the matter as per its orders. This was good, since the Great Protector's commands were being followed properly, but it was a complex matter as well now, because it was a clash of bending a rule for the sake of prosperity of the goblin tribe as a whole, and as the human said, a matter of compassion which was not something that readily existed with goblins by their very nature. It was almost humorous how the human was completely willing to play the part of the providing Husband, the hero, and the villain, while in the powerless state he was in.
"Guardian."
This time, the Great Protector knew some of the responsibility for this situation fell on its own shoulders, since it had given clear instructions about what this human would be allowed to do, and what it would let the guardian decide in terms of its freedoms. He had to be bound when being taken out in the sun, he was not allowed to be given a weapon or access to magic, and was to be fed each day as long as he cooperated and provided his seed to them.
There was a bit more to the instructions, but those were the most important points.
He had tried to violate one, which the Guardian goblin was absolutely right to not let him.
But it was a sour note as to why.
Goblins were not naturally compassionate.
Prima, much to the surprise of the Great Protector, even though she was now the target of the human's spite, also didn't want him to die. But she couldn't trade the safety of the goblin tribe nor allow him to violate the Great Protector's instructions over what was essentially an inconvenience to one lone unfortunate goblin with a strong one in a small cave-hole that by comparison wasn't really all that small to begin with.
Even when it was revealed the human was the one to suggest Prima put a spear to his neck while using magic, she still couldn't allow it. So when the human cursed Prima, the tribe's guardian, with the human magic known as spite, saying some choice things like cursed little seed and the like, the Great Protector was almost amused, and understood why the Guardian goblin stood as sentry at the entrance to the breeding room when it had arrived.
The Great Protector had no doubt things would be interesting around here in the future.
It used a trickle of its own magic to levitate the ugly topaz stone from the ground and separated it from the others, letting it fall at the feet of the one who brought them.
"Stone-seeker. Whether to let him use magic or not is your responsibility now. That stone is the topaz you seek for him."
The shiny yellow stone was also levitated upward and brought before the Great Protector for a moment, merely to be inspected, of course..
"Great Protector wants my shiny yellow stone?"
A rumbling throaty chuckle came from the Great Protector.
"I have no need for it. But do keep it hidden from the human for now. If you choose to let the human use magic, you will make sure he is being carefully watched, and if you deem his magic a threat, kill him."
"Jewel swears."
The Great Protector let the shiny yellow stone fall down onto the ground.
"I am done here. Aside from the matter of his magic, the human remains your responsibility, Guardian. You have done as I asked, even at great cost to yourself. Speak with the human, perhaps he will change his mind about wishing to die now."
"What about the wicked grand human magic he used? What about his cursed little seed?" Prima had asked it out of turn. She was worried about her own strong ones which she truly believed Ark had cursed.
"Talk with him when he wakes up, Guardian. Human curses are too bothersome to deal with. What he has done, can be undone, if he has a good enough reason to. If he dies, I will bring another human in a few moons. But I think he may still care for the strong ones he has put inside your belly, their bellies, and the ones he will yet put into the rest of the goblin tribe. I would not have chosen him if I thought he did not have the… capacity to."
The Great Protector chuckled as it stood up and the throne of dirt it had sat upon collapsed.
"I am leaving now. The human will wake soon."
The Great Protector walked out of the breeding cavern and out of the goblin's cave. In the clearing in front of the cave and before the fire pit, it spread its wings wide and prepared to take to the skies.
"Great Protector!" The Old One among the goblins who had followed behind at a hurry had called out to it before it took off. "Why did you not kill the human?"
"Old One, aside from the human, who among the goblins offered to dig the wall in the mother's cave-hole while the scarred one tended to her strong one?" The magic intrinsic to the Great Protector that allowed it flight began to manifest. "That is my answer."
And the Great Protector had taken off into the skies after having said that, leaving behind a confused elderly goblin who neither understood the importance of the question it had asked, nor the importance of the answer that should have been given…
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