The Princes of Erenes III: The Seduction of Heimos by Kels

Now Kels was the wife of Lamon and the sower of chaos. She was a being of surpassing beauty and loved to dance. So Lamon hid her behind veils, lest others espy her and become enamored of her. Beside her bed he chained the darkling hounds and bid them to watch over her.

 

Now Angest was lame but had eight eyes and they were set in a ring upon his head so that he could see in all directions at once. And Angor was blind but had eight legs, which meant he could run faster than any prince or creature. Together the two stood watch on the bed of Lamon and kept Kels captive.

But Kels often fed the hounds from her own plate and so earned their trust. She was able to tame them despite their massive jaws and sharp teeth. On the night that the princes left Heimos, she was able to bind the Hounds with her veils. She bound the eyes of Angest and the legs of Angor and slipped out of the bed of Lamon. She went naked into the presence of Heimos and there, she danced.

Heimos was filled with lust for Kels and in the darkness of the night he made vain promises to her. The captain of the princes promised to spare his kindled wrath against the other princes and to allow each to go their own way into the Four Lands. When Heimos saw who it was that he promised, he chased her from his chamber promising her death.

So Kels returned to Lamon, her husband, but Lamon was wroth for the binding of his hounds and he put aside his wife. Then he cursed the men of Erenth saying, that whosoever would lay with Kels would become blind, and a eunuch forever.

So it was that Kels came to be with Ris, who was the eldest and most infirm of all the princes and beyond the siring of children.