The Tome of Fantasies · Part 1 (1/2)
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Julia Croft was rappelling into the hole she had dug up. The cave was deeper than she had expected, but she had given herself more rope than she thought she needed. She reached the floor after a few minutes into her descent, hitting the stone floor softly. The only light in the cave was that of the glow sticks on the floor and the headlamp she was wearing. She turned her head towards the temple's facade, light illuminating the different shapes and statues, when she stopped on the face of a stone sculpture. It was a statue in the likeness of Eris, goddess of strife and discord, and this was her long lost temple. Julia smiled to herself, it had taken her years, but she finally found the thing people kept telling her was impossible to find. Croft jumped at the crackling in her ear before Carlos voice came through : “So, is it there?”
Julia smiled wider, she would never tell him this, but she always found his voice comforting, soothing even. She never really knew why, but it had always been so since their teenage years.
“Oh yeah, and it’s magnificent!” she replied.
Carlos laughed softly over the comms. Then added, “As always Miss Croft, you were right! Your name will go down in history.”
She didn’t reply at that but kept smiling, cracking a few extra glow sticks then throwing them closer to the temple's entrance. The cool and damp air of the cave gave her goosebumps, or maybe it was the strange look of the statue. Julia could swear it was like it was following her around with her stare. She shrugged it off and kept moving towards the gateway, being careful not to slip. Not that it was hard, she had spent most of her life not only getting her degree in archeology, anthropology and Greek mythology but she had also trained herself in mountain climbing, horse riding, boxing, bow hunting and firearms. All of this had made her a formidable person to deal with.
Smart and with an amazing body. Fit and curved in all the right places. She was well aware of the effect she had on the opposite sex, and rather enjoyed it, but could never have more time than the occasional fling due to her pursuit of education and physical fitness. Not that she minded, her passion was exploration, and right now she was in heaven.
“No witty comeback? Wow, you must be really concentrating,” said Carlos.
Julia laughed and replied, “Yeah, sorry, got distracted by these statues, so hauntingly beautiful. Here check it out…”
At that Croft took out her cellphone and took a picture of Eris, and sent it to her friend outside.
“Statue is in pretty good state, you would think after over a millennia it would have collapsed,” replied Carlos.
Julia agreed, it was rather strange. The gateway must have been at least 20 feet high, no door, as is the Greek temple fashion. Once inside, she was on high alert. She had already been in old temples where some of the traps were still deadly. She let Carlos know where she was. He acknowledged then stayed quiet. She appreciated the communication she had with him. They always understood each other, like an unspoken bond. When you know someone that long, it just becomes natural, she guessed. Somehow, while going through the motions of cracking glow sticks, taking pictures and making sure that there were no deadly surprises, she found herself thinking about her friend upstairs.
She may have never had time for a relationship, but she kind of had one with him. They were living in the same house (mansion really, inheritance from her parents), worked together and she never valued anyone’s opinion more than his. If she were to have sex with him, then they’d be officially a couple.
Julia started to fantasize about her best friend. He was thin but not skinny, a wonderful swimmer's back that would turn any woman’s knees to jelly, tanned skin all year around, a nice face with intense black eyes and a smile that always made her happy. Julia paused and shook her head. She was wondering why she was getting these thoughts now? Sure, she’d thought about him in that way sometimes, not often and never during an expedition. Maybe it was the fact that it had been a few months since her last fling? She had a healthy collection of toys for when she was home to entertain herself, but it never matched the real thing. Horniness may be affecting her perception of him.
When Julia snapped out of her reverie, she noticed she had reached the inner sanctum of the temple. It was a circular room with only one entrance/exit, inside on the walls were beautiful murals of the goddess in several states of undress and multiple partners sharing in the pleasure. “Good for them!” thought Julia. On the floor, all around the chamber, she saw pots, golden plates, and unlit candles. She used her old zippo to light them all and give herself a better view of the room. This is where she noticed two things. First, the murals were indeed of the goddess and her different partners enjoying themselves, but she also noticed that in some of them, people were tied up or in shackles, sometimes the goddess herself. And second, in the middle of the room was a pedestal, with a leather-bound book with the corners covered in what seemed like gold.
Julia spoke through the comms to her partner, “Well this is interesting.”
Carlos answered quickly, “What is? A huge pile of gold?”
“Hahaha, no, dufus, but there is a book here, surrounded by some kinky murals. The book looks new, it makes no sense…"
“I’m sorry, did you say KINKY murals?”
Julia laughed again. “Yeah, seems Eris liked tying up people and getting tied up, if we are to believe these drawings."
At that Julia took pictures of everything, never really losing focus on the book. When Carlos received them, he whistled into the mic, slightly chuckling to himself. That DOES seem interesting, he thought to himself.
“There’s nothing in the lore or myths about a book of Eris… do you think someone set us up?” Carlos asked Julia.
“No,” she replied, “everything is old and clearly untouched, even the mural is kind of falling apart. No, the book is just… well preserved…”
Julia trailed off, she could not explain it, but it felt like the book was calling to her. Without thinking, she took it off its stand. A rush and a chill went through her, hardening her nipples and sending a pleasant shiver down her back, like when a lover kisses the nape of your neck. She snapped out of the reverie and looked at the book. Although she could swear there were no words on it before, it now said ‘The Tome of Fantasies’. Julia quickly put the Tome in her bag, grabbed a few other oddities and decided to go back.
By the time Julia was out of the hole, Carlos was deep in research mode.
“OK, so I was wrong, there is a very obscure but unconfirmed story regarding a book and the goddess Eris. It says here that Eris may have created a book to detail her tricks and mischievousness.”
Julia wasn’t listening, she was opening the book to read it, but unfortunately it was in a language she did not recognize.
Carlos, noticing this, said, “well let’s go home and start working on a translation.” Julia agreed and put the book away.
Over the next few days, bureaucracy took over. Informing the government of the find, signing the papers to confirm Julia would get the credit of the discovery, then donating the find to the Greek government. In all of this, Julia never mentioned the book. She kept it for herself, only trusting Carlos with that information. Carlos thought it was slightly odd that she kept it secret, but he trusted Julia to know what she was doing.
A week later, they were back home, and Carlos started the process of scanning the Tome of Fantasies to be able to translate it. Julia would spend more and more time looking in the book, unsure of what she would find, but unable to leave it alone.
A week after that, while Julia was in her room, trying to read the Tome, she started getting a familiar feeling. She hadn’t played with herself since coming back and she was feeling the need to rectify that. She put down the book on the bed and went into her closet, to her bag of goodies. She pulled from there her favorite vibrator, it was purple, 9 inches long and 1.5 inches wide and had multiple vibration settings.
She took off all her clothes, admiring her figure in the closet mirror, then went to the bed. She started slowly, massaging her clit slowly, rubbing the vibrator slowly over her slit, noticing she was already wet with anticipation. She started to push it into herself, still rubbing her pleasure button, but a little bit faster now. Once she felt her toy was all in, she turned it on to a low steady vibration and started to pull it out halfway, then push it in again, repeating the process over and over until she was close to cumming. Then she released her clit, turned the vibratory to full and proceeded to penetrate herself while playing with her nipples. Not long after that she came hard, her body shaking, toes curling, trying hard to not make a sound.
Once she regained her composure, she went to her bathroom to clean her purple phallus, when a thought occurred to her. A deliciously wicked thought. What if Carlos had heard? What if he had seen her pleasure herself? The humiliation would be too much but… why was she getting turned on? Especially so soon after such a wonderful orgasm?
Julia found her mind drifting to the murals in Eris temple, trying to imagine what it would be like to get tied up and used by her best friend. She did a double take, ‘used’ and ‘by Carlos’ were surprising thoughts. So vulgar and impersonal. Did she really want to be not in control, submitted to her friend? She was biting her lip and her hand was making its way to her damp pussy. She stopped herself, realizing that the temple definitely awoke something in her. It was true that in the past she had enjoyed sex a bit more if her partner would have a take charge attitude, but actually submitting? That was new for her, but not unwelcome.
And Carlos…if there was anyone she could trust completely, it would be him. But there isn’t a way to suddenly bring that up to a friend. What if he wasn’t interested in her that way? Sure, she had noticed checking her out, but full on dominating her? He might freak out. She wished there was a way for her to have her cake and eat it too.
In an attempt to clear her head, she went back to the Tome. To her surprise, now she could read it, for some reason it was in English! The Tome of Fantasies seemed to discuss magic from the gods, but for the mortals to use. Julia laughed, how silly. She must be dreaming. All of a sudden she could read an unreadable book and it turns out to be a book of spells to help her realize her wishes? She was clearly dreaming. Julia pinched herself, but did not wake up and could still read the Tome.
“Well, it’s not like I have anything to lose," Julia said out loud.
She began to read with more attention, and noticed something particular. All of these ‘spells’ were related to tying or getting tied up. There were even ‘spells’ to alter a person's mental state, but these only worked if the recipient was willing. There was even one to temporarily duplicate someone, if the book was to be believed. Julia, of course, was getting curious and aroused. She didn’t believe in magic or the supernatural, but just the idea that these spells could work, was lighting a fire in her pussy that couldn’t be ignored. She made sure her door was still locked, she didn’t want to get interrupted in case this actually did work. Now according to the instructions, she just had to choose a spell and read it out loud.
Getting a bit nervous, she was thinking of forgetting the whole thing and waiting for tomorrow to share the discovery with Carlos. But then Julia thought, I am Julia Croft, I’m not afraid of anything!
She then picked the simplest spell she found: a simple hogtie. She said the incantation aloud, noticing a sudden draft in the room that wasn’t there before. Suddenly, from the book shot what looked like tendrils toward her. She shrieked in surprise before realizing what was happening.
The ‘tendrils’ were actually black rope. Soft on the skin but solid enough that she knew she wasn’t going to break free. They caught her wrists and secured them behind her back and at the same time secured her ankles to each other. Then the rope did a double pass and tied her knees together and her elbows together. Julia was happy she was flexible or else this would have been painful. Instead, because of the softness of the rope, it was comfortable and rather enjoyable. Another rope shot from the book, this one going around Julia's B cup breasts, creating a harness that exposed them prominently.
And last but not least, a rope went from her ankles to her chest harness, forcing her legs to bend at the knee, bringing her feet close to her butt. Then as fast as it started, it was over. Julia was now expertly hogtied on her bed, completely naked. She at first had a small panic attack, but managed to calm down and prevent herself from calling out to her friend and roommate.
She tried to get out of the ropes, but they were quite snug. And all the knots to her ropes were out of reach of her hands, that were stuck to her rump. The surprise now gone, only left with the feeling of helplessness, Julia started to get turned on again. The feeling was electric, she could not get out, at the mercy of whomever decided to come into her room. However she still felt safe, because the spell had mentioned that it would only last for an hour. She stopped trying to free herself and then started to think of a way to relieve that itch in her nether regions. With such limited movement, finding one of her toys was out of the question.
So she made do with trying to hump her mattress, rubbing her waist (and hopefully her clit) on the bed. This, unfortunately, just made her hornier, without any pay off. After a little while, she was getting desperate. Julia considered calling out to Carlos, and letting him have his way with her. That thought brought wonderful images to her head. Just as she was about to call her friend, the book once again lit up, the ghostly breeze returned, and she felt all her bonds loosen, and return to the Tome of Fantasies. Julia didn’t wait a second and buried her hand in her pussy and brought herself to the most mind bending climax she had ever experienced.
Right then she heard a knock on her bedroom door that startled her. Still in the post orgasmic haze, she asked who was at the door.
“Who else, kiddo?” replied her friend.
Cursing at herself, Julia put on a bathrobe and opened the door, making sure she had hidden all proof of her naughty little debacle.
“Hey, what’s up?” she said in her most nonchalant way she could muster, while still slightly panting like she had run a mile.
“Erm, I heard a scream. I was making sure you were ok?”
Julia turned beet red. She couldn’t believe she had actually come so loudly. But if Carlos knew what she did, he wasn’t showing signs of knowing. Julia decided to play it cool.
“Yeah, sorry, I thought I’d seen a rat. Turns out it was a sock, so… Kinda feel dumb haha.”
“Ok, damn, you scared me for a sec. Glad you are ok.”
“Yes, I’m fine. Thank you for asking,” Julia said.
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