Princess Miri: An Erotic Coming of Age Monster Romance Novel (Miri's Monster, The Complete Series) (15 page)

"Ah! 
That's it."  With a stomp of her foot for emphasis, Fleur said,
"Toodles!"

Allysin
helped Miri back to her room after Fleur left.  She dressed her in the gazebo
and assured her that no one could have seen what happened.  Her friend had
followed her there, told people there was a problem with man-eating plants in
the gardens and she needed to deal with it.  The entire story was ridiculous
and silly, but apparently everyone bought it.  Miri appreciated the assistance.

But
it wasn't enough.  Back in her room, Miri knew she needed to do more.

"Thump,"
Miri said, looking at him as Allysin helped her into comfortable men's
pajamas.  "You can't stay here anymore.  This isn't your home.  You need
to leave."

Thump
stared at her, confused.  This wasn't new, though; he always looked confused
when she said new things to him.  "No," he said once he understood
it.  "Thump stay with Miri."

"No!"
Miri shrieked at him.  Dressed now, and feeling somewhat more invigorated than
before, she stomped towards him.  "You aren't allowed to stay here
anymore," she said.  "Not in this room.  Not in the castle.  Not
anywhere here.  You can't stay here.  I am ordering you to leave!"

"Miri..."
Allysin said, frowning.

"Shush,
Allysin.  Thump is my pet and I tell him what to do.  He can't stay here.  Do
you know all of the problems he's caused me?  All of the bad things that have
happened because of him?  I..."  Miri paused, unsure.  "I don't... I
don't like him."

"Thump
like Miri," Thump said.  He looked at her with those sad, puppy dog eyes
of his.  His mouth curled into a frown, revealing his teeth.  He looked so
horribly depressed Miri almost couldn't stand it.

But
she had to.  She needed to do this.  "I hate you!" she shrieked. 
"I absolutely hate you!  Get out right now or I'm going to have you
executed!  If you aren't out of this room in one minute, you will be killed. 
If you aren't out of the castle in ten, I'll do the same.  Twice!"  Doing
her best to stand strong in the face of uncertainty, she looked him straight in
the eyes.  "Leave."

Thump
left.  Allysin stared at her as if she'd gone mad, then she left, too.  Miri
stood in the room, alone, by herself, for the first time in months.  She didn't
want to be alone, didn't like being alone, but what other options did she have?

She
wanted to fall, right then and there in the middle of the room, but she knew no
one was around now who would catch her if she did.  With feet as heavy as
marble pillars, she trudged to the side of the bed and then fell into it.

Fleur's
words came back to her as she lay face down on a fluffy comforter: "Once
in captivity, they seem to only last for a year or so."

"I
don't want you to die," Miri said, her words muffled in the blankets. 
"I don't want Fleur to hurt you, either.  I love you, Thump.  I love you
so much."

He
was gone now, though.  Somewhere.  Allysin would help him with food from the
kitchens, most likely, and he would return to his home in the mountains.

Silent
tears streamed out of the princess's eyes and onto the bed.  She sobbed,
gasping for air, so dreadfully tired and alone, but there was no way she could
change it.

In
a place far off, somewhere entirely not in the King's castle, and nowhere near
the Princess Miri's room, a servant girl with a name that wasn't Allysin guided
a troll who definitely wasn't Thump through a hallway that couldn't be a hidden
servant's passageway.

"Fuck
that," the girl said.  "She's an idiot.  You're not going anywhere. 
We'll figure this out."

The
troll, who somehow happened to know how to speak in human languages, said,
"No good.  Is bad."

"Shut
up, you dummy.  I don't care what she says.  And, anyways, if she told you to
leave, you're free now, right?  If you're free, you don't have to listen to
her.  You do whatever you want to do."

The
troll looked confused.  This was a typical expression for him.  Once he figured
things out, he had a multitude of words to express his thoughts on the matter.

"Yah!"

P
rincess Miri was, by all accounts,
a bitch.  She used to demand the guards throw people into the castle dungeons
when they annoyed her.  She'd complain about anything and everything, even if
it was small and inconsequential.  If someone knocked on her bedroom door when
she didn't want them to, she'd yell at them.  If they talked to her when she
was in a foul mood, she'd scream at them.  If anyone so much as did anything
that she disliked, she would make them regret it for hours, days, or years.

Perhaps
some even regretted it forever, but seeing as it was impossible to know someone
for that long, she didn't care much about any of those people.  Why did people
feel the need to bother her?  She didn't know, and she disliked it.

Now,
though, something had happened and it disturbed her.  She couldn't quite place
her finger on it, and wasn't absolutely positive what it was, but she disliked
it.

"Miri,"
one of the servants said to her, scurrying down the hallway just to talk to the
princess, "we're planning a small gathering for Allysin's birthday party,
and everyone was wondering if you wanted to come.  You can bring Thump, of
course."

Thump
being her pet troll, who she'd recently banished from the castle for personal
reasons.  He was kind of a lout and dumb, very idiotic.  He listened to
everything she said without question, and he spent most every waking hour with
her, when she could drag him along with her.  She'd also, well... they probably
shouldn't
have, or more like Miri shouldn't have because Thump was a troll and maybe he
didn't know better, but they'd had sex.  Multiple times.  A day.  For months.

So
she'd banished him, because.  Just because.  Why?  Because she could, because
she was the princess and she could do as she liked.  She was a bitch,
afterall.  Right?

"Miri?"
the girl said.  "It's nothing fancy, I know, and..."

"Why
are you talking to me?" Miri asked.

The
girl looked at her, dumbfounded.  "What do you mean?"

"You're
not supposed to like me!  You're not supposed to talk to me, either.  You're
supposed to be scared of me."

"What? 
Well, I'm not really.  I used to be, but then Allysin said, and you always
treated Thump kindly, and..."  The girl babbled on about this or that. 
Honestly, she made Miri sound like some kind of
nice person. 
What the hell?

Miri
stared at her blankly, growing more and more upset with everything the girl
said.

"And
you don't have to
bring
anything,"
the servant girl said.  "If you want to, that's fine.  It's just a very
quiet affair, you know?  A nice party, but it will be amongst friends.  If
you'll come, it would be, oh, so nice.  Allysin would like it, too, I know. 
Thump's welcome, also, and..."

Nice? 
Friends?  Miri had had enough.  She couldn't handle this anymore.  "I've
banished Thump," she interrupted.  "He is no longer welcome in the
castle as my pet, under threat of execution, so if you see him let me know and
I'll call the executioner immediately."

"That's
not very nice," the girl said.  "Did he do something awful?  I'm sure
you'll forgive him in time..."

"I'm
not a nice person!" Miri screeched.  The girl looked at her, shocked, and
Miri decided to tone her voice down a bit.  "I'm just not a nice
person," she repeated, more reasonably.  "Also, I'm not going to
forgive him.  He's not allowed in the castle."

"Oh,"
the girl said.  She looked very confused.  "You can still come to the
party if..."

"Why
would I go to your party if I'm a mean person?" Miri asked.  "I don't
care if it's for Allysin or not."

"Oh." 
The girl stood there with her mouth open, looking like some idiotic guppy. 
"Actually, I don't think you're mean.  The other day you helped me get
something off the top shelf of a closet.  It was very nice and I appreciate
it.  It was you and Thump, do you remember?  He picked you up and you grabbed
it and it really helped.  I was so worried, but..."

"I
didn't do it for you!" Miri said.  "I did it... well... I did it
because I felt like it.  I don't like you at all.  I don't even know what your
name is, Jenny, so..."

"You
just said my name, though.  It's Jenny."

"I
was just saying any name.  Not yours in particular.  It's such a common name
that I picked it out randomly and it happened to be yours."

Jenny
huffed and put her hands on her hips.  "If you don't want to go to the
party, you can just say so.  If you change your mind, you're welcome to come,
but leave your sour disposition at the door.  No one wants you messing up
Allysin's birthday."

Jenny
stomped away, just like that.  Miri stared after her, flabbergasted. 
Seriously?  Gods!  Miri was the one who should be upset.  Miri should have
screamed at the girl and ordered the nearest guard to throw her in the
prisons.  She'd recently had them emptied so that she and Thump could use them
for private purposes(which mostly involved sex games, but she tutored him in a
few basic lessons, too), but with Thump gone she could start repopulating the
prisons any time now.

Except,
she didn't really want to.  She didn't hate Jenny, and she actually appreciated
the party invite.  Miri did want to celebrate Allysin's birthday, since Allysin
was one of her only friends.  That's what she thought, which made it odd to
have this girl insinuate that Miri was one of their friends, too; friends with
more of the servant girls.  When had that happened?  She needed to be more
strict with these people and yell at them more often and order them to do
things they hated, or else they'd think her soft.

She'd
do that later.  Right now she felt horrible.  Last night, she'd ordered Thump
out.  Leave, she screamed at him.  I hate you!  He did leave, but not before
looking so horribly depressed about it.  It hurt so bad to do it, but Miri
needed to.

She
should have
wanted
to do it, she thought, except
she didn't, not really.  Thump was hers, her possession, her pet troll slave,
and she could do with him whatever she wanted.  If she wanted to toss him out
of the castle like some piece of trash, then she had every right to do it.  Her
father wouldn't care, because her father let her do everything; he was a nice
person like that.

She
didn't want Thump to go, though.  She really liked Thump.  Maybe—though maybe
this was because she was so depressed—she loved him, too.  How ridiculous was
that?

Fleur
said the trolls captured for the Millicent keep never lived longer than a year,
though.  They grew frail and weak and after approximately a year Fleur's
father, Lord Millicent, disposed of them in the forest nearby.  Fleur was the
one who gave her Thump in the first place, and she was the one who exploited
him and told the troll to put a magical image capturing device in Miri's room. 
Fleur owned multiple copies, framed and all, of paintings involving Miri and
Thump's first ever sexual encounter.

What
had Fleur wanted out of the blackmail?  Her idiotic boyfriend!  Miri didn't
even want him anymore—Roy bored her—so she'd told Fleur to go ahead and take
him.  Giving the daft girl what she wanted apparently wasn't enough, and Fleur
ordered Miri to have sex with Thump right then and there in the garden gazebo! 
As if Miri would stoop so low!

She
did it, though.  She needed to in order to keep Fleur from spreading the
pictures throughout the kingdom. 

"I
want you to have sex with the troll right here and now while I watch,"
Fleur had said with a smug, over-satisfied look on her face.  "Prove you
don't like it, because I don't believe a word you say.  You sure looked like
you liked it to me."

Miri
grated her teeth, remembering everything that happened.  The main problem was
she did like it!  Thump's cock was marvelous and massive and extremely
satisfying, and while she tried to mount him and act nonchalant, she couldn't
keep up the facade for long.  Fleur saw, watched pleasure wrack through Miri's
body as she spasmed in ecstasy, and then Fleur had urged her on to more.  More,
more, while Thump lay on the ground, smiling up at her, adoring, and Miri rode
his cock to multiple orgasms.

Allysin
came and saved her, somewhat.  Her friend, the servant girl, acted surprised to
see Miri there, which delighted Fleur.  Fleur told Allysin to humiliate Miri if
she liked, never knowing that Allysin already knew Miri and Thump were intimate
together.  Afterwards, Thump's cum gushing out of Miri's pussy, Fleur left,
laughing.

And
so, really, Miri had no choice but to banish Thump.  Right?  First, she didn't
want him to die in captivity.  Mind, he wasn't much of a captive and could do
what he liked, but Miri doubted that mattered.  Trolls lived in caves in the
mountains, and hunted in the forests, and whatever.  She didn't really know
exactly what they did, but the fact was they never lived in castles, and so it
wasn't his natural habitat.  Or something.  It didn't matter much, because the
way Fleur said it, it was rather clear Thump was going to die if he stayed with
Miri.

Second,
she needed to get rid of him so that Fleur couldn't cause him any harm.  This
was more of a theory than anything else, but Miri assumed that if Fleur told
anyone, and that person told someone else, and word reached her father or his
advisors about his daughter's indiscretions, then something bad would happen. 
Her father let her do what she liked, but would her father accept her having
rough, primal, passionate sex with a troll?

Mind,
Thump somewhat looked human.  Human-ish?  He was twice her height at ten feet
tall, with bulging muscles all over his body, and a goofy, wicked grin like
some monstrous beast.  His teeth were yellowed, but not broken or rotting. 
Once she taught him how to use a toothbrush, his breath smelled rather nice,
actually.  But still, the point remained; Thump was a troll and not a human.

If
anyone learned of what she'd done, they'd lose all respect for her.  They'd
laugh at her when she walked through the halls of the castle and call her the
girl who fucked trolls.  That other servant, Jenny?  She'd respect Miri even
less than she already had!  In all likelihood, not only would she never invite
Miri to Allysin's birthday parties, but she'd mock Miri in the halls and say
horrible things.  And then what was Miri supposed to do?  She ordered people
around now, and they did as she asked, because they feared her.  If they didn't
fear her, then they wouldn't listen to her, and...

She'd
fail.  Her mother had died years ago, leaving her and her father alone in the
castle.  Miri didn't dwell on it, even if she loved her mother.  The one thing
that worried her was failing, though.  Her mother never failed.  Miri
remembered how the Queen ordered servants around and they did as she asked, not
only with a smile but as quick as possible!  Miri didn't have too many memories
of her mother, because she'd only been eight years old when she died, but she
had enough.

If
she wanted to be as good a Queen as her mother one day, she needed respect, and
to keep her respect she needed to make sure no one ever learned of what
happened between her and Thump.

Still,
she missed him so dreadfully.  It hurt, like someone had sewn her dress too
tight and she couldn't breathe while wearing it, nor could she remove it
because she had nothing else to change into.

Miri
needed a nap.  She needed to lay down and relax and try to forget about
anything and everything involving Thump.  She needed Allysin to return and give
her a hug and tell her everything was alright.  And, now that she thought of
it, why wasn't Allysin back yet?  She'd left with Thump, presumably to get him
some basic goods and escort him out of the castle, but that was yesterday
afternoon.  Allysin really should have returned by now.

Miri
lay on her bed, thinking.  Technically it wasn't her bed anymore, but
Allysin's.  Renovations to the princess's new room should be done this week,
but until then she continued to share her old room with Allysin.  And really,
she didn't mind sharing it.  She wanted to share a lot of things, but Allysin
still
wasn't back. 

The
idea occurred to Miri that she should ask someone if they'd seen her friend,
but she dismissed the thought as soon as she had it.  If she asked anyone,
they'd think her weak.  Oh, look, there's Miri, the princess who can't do
anything for herself so she asks for her friend.

It
hardly mattered, she supposed.  She had the rest of her life to talk with
Allysin, and it wasn't as if either of them were excessively old.  They could
talk tonight, or tomorrow, or... but what if Allysin never returned?  Her
friend looked upset when she left with Thump, as if Miri were doing something
terrible.  Against her better judgement, Miri decided to tell Allysin
everything when she came back.  She would tell her why Thump couldn't live
here.  He would die.  Because that's what happened, because...

Someone
intruded on her thoughts, barging into her room without asking.  She sat up and
glared at the person, then softened her glare in case it was Allysin since
Allysin had every right to barge into her own room.  Except, no, it wasn't
Allysin.

Roy
stood at the entrance to her room, a smug grin on his face.  He kicked the door
shut with his foot and swaggered over to the bed.

"Excuse
me?" she said.  "What do you think you're doing?  This is my
room."

"Technically
it's not," Roy said.  "It's some servant girl's room now, isn't it? 
Maybe I came to meet her.  Me and her are going to have so much fun, actually. 
Would you mind leaving?"

Miri
stared at him, looked at him hard, couldn't understand his audacity.  He had no
right to talk to her like that!  In her mind, he had no rights at all.  He was
merely her ex-boyfriend, some sod she'd stolen away from Fleur on a whim.  Not
even a good boyfriend, either; the one time she'd had sex with him he'd failed
to do
anything
.