The Imprisoned Shrine Maidens by PomDais, literature
Literature
The Imprisoned Shrine Maidens
Summary: A priestess and her twin daughters are blessed by the presence of a fertility goddess while in prison. (CW: Contains graphic depictions of rapid pregnancy, labor, and childbirth) Deep in the recesses of a destroyed land stood a stone prison, protected on all sides by hardened ironwood fencing and metal bars. The prison was built for common criminals, so it was lightly protected by lazy guards carrying shoddy naginata. At least, it was once. Ume, a tremendously beautiful woman with black silken hair that nearly reached her knees, peered anxiously out of her prison cell. She had been in the middle of an elaborate dance to invoke peace for the country before the Sun King’s soldiers had raided the temple. Because she was the most mature and experienced of all the priestesses, she still wore her very intricate white and crystal-colored susohiki gown, which flowed in many flower-colored patterns down to the floor. Every delicate movement she made was accompanied by a rustle
“This story contains themes of mild incest and some sexual philandering, so reader discretion is advised.” In a time of great strife across the realm of Nictus, the forces of good and evil met hand in hand withforces in equal measure, their representing might and divine awe shifting the balance of power in the world as the populations all around were afraid of their whole world ending in this great theomachy, yet a miracle sprang from the ashes of the divine war: an order of great sages named the Seeds of Revival had harnessed the power of the slain god of fertility and the harvest, Hilluz, to help foster and flourish the faltering peoples of the plains, now broken and beaten down, yet never defeated in the face of the oncoming silence of no gods to worship and answer their calls to and no masters to be chained to as mortal slaves as the virile dusts of the divine entities’ remains blow across the realm, seeding it all with all kinds of life and death. Agnes prayed to the spirits