'Well, this is a little awkward…'
Ixion and Zabaniyah stood in the King's Chambers just staring at one another.
'This is unlike anything I've dealt with before!'
Ixion often called women to his room.
These women usually showed a scared, shy and reserved reaction. Ixion would feel them out and let them go if it were clear they wanted out.
Some showed the opposite.
A reaction of a woman in heat.
Seeing Ixion not as a king, or the treacherous bastard ruling over them. But as a sexy man who desired them.
But unlike most…
Zabaniyah showed no reaction at all.
No desire.
Neither for nor against.
That's not to say she was a sociopath or psychopath, but that she'd suppressed and hid her emotions for so long she'd forgotten how to properly express them.
Beyond that, Zabaniyah was also quite close to Ixion and the only one other than the wanderer who knew his end goal.
There wasn't love between them.
Ixion knew that much.
But they were close in a way like how a crow treats a human who saves them.
Not necessarily buddy-buddy, but by no means distant in their relationship.
Zabaniyah had also read 'No Regrets.'
'I wonder what possessed her to do that?'
She was usually very obedient and only did what was ordered, so doing something of her own volition was quite odd.
Anyways, she knew of his list he'd written when oddly horny. One which he had listed, 'Fuck one of the Royal Assassins.'
Number 9.
That's not to say he intended for Zabaniyah to be that Royal Assassin, but he was by no means against it.
And neither did she seem to be either. In fact, to Ixion, it seemed like Zabaniyah was looking forward to it.
'But, who knows with this woman?'
"Zabaniyah, what's your experience?"
The taciturn assassin cocked her head to the side, then muttered:
"You already know. I've prepared to withstand all forms of torture."
'How morbid! That wasn't what I meant!'
Well, it was vaguely related…
It was a sad affair, but women assassins often had to train to go through torture involving their lower region. Mainly, the many things that could be stuck up there that shouldn't belong.
In fact, many women assassins had even scarred themselves intentionally and fried their nerves so they went numb.
But that also resulted in the inability to feel pleasure and bear children…
'We live in an awful world.'
Zabaniyah wasn't one who'd gone to such extreme lengths, being strong enough to justify it and joining the order later than most, but she'd still gone through the basic training and whatnot.
Ixion shook his head and drifted away from the pessimism.
'But still, that wasn't what I meant!'
Ixion meant to ask if she had ever lain with a man.
'It's clear that the answer was no.'
But it was also clear that a plethora of things had been…
'Stuck up there.'
Things which definitely shouldn't have been.
But perhaps that's irrelevant.