"Do you know what has been going on since you left?" I asked, and Katarina nodded.

"You fought a monster, rescued The Lich Queen, Morgana, and now all the women from the wall are home. Very impressive, and you will be paid well for your services, but I don't understand why I am here?"

"Why and who detained you before?" I asked.

"Melrose locked me in a waiting room the moment that I reached the court. I was going there to talk to them about giving the Easterners back the place where they have always lived. Before I was allowed to say anything, I was grabbed by guards and escorted to a waiting room, where I was left until this morning. After that, I was sent back, in cuffs, with an escort. Truly one of the most embarrassing moments of my life," Katarina explained, and I nodded.

"I am sorry for that, but I am not sure why the Peekaans would lock you up," I said, and Katarina shrugged.

"I wish that I could tell you, but everyone was sealed lips with me," Katarina explained, and I nodded, but that didn't help me.

"You are in here for being in connection with a Blood Witch. There is a person that you have been visiting in Bramma at one of the inns. Who is this person?" I asked, and Katarina nodded.

"Yes, the Bard there has been a good friend of mine for as long as I can remember. What about it?" Katarina asked.

"That person was Xena, the reincarnate from five hundred years ago, and she is a Blood Witch," I explained, but Katarina gave me a confused look.

"Blood Witch? What is that?" Katarina asked, and I paused.

There was no reason for her to know what a Blood Witch was. It would have been more suspicious if a short-lived human were to remember something that the Goddesses barely could.

"Can I ask you to strip?" I said, still not convinced that Xena hadn't done something.

"Pardon?" Katarina asked in shock.

"I need to make sure that you have no marks on you. I still think there might be something controlling you or infecting you. I can't be certain until I look your body over," I explained, but Lady Katarina pulled back.

"You expect me to take off all my clothes for you?! In a place like this?!" Katarina exclaimed, and I sighed.

"Look, I am not doing this to be sexual; I just need to check you over. Once I have checked you over, we will go back to the manor, and we can finish our talk there," I explained.

"You have already taken liberties with my lips, and now you want the rest of my body?!" Katarina exclaimed, trying to back herself into the corner more.

"I get it, but there is no one else that can do this. I am the only person that knows what to look for," I explained.

"I think that we should talk about this more! There has to be another way!" Katarina complained, and I let out another sigh. She was starting to become suspiciously resistant, but I didn't want to just rip her clothes off her.

"Look, there are really no two ways about this. I will turn my back if you are embarrassed," I said, and Katarina crossed her arms.

"Fine, but you have to turn around!" Katarina snapped, and I nodded and did as such.

The way she was acting had me on edge, and I just wanted to get this over with and confirm that there was nothing wrong with Katarina. I already knew who the Blood Witch was, but that didn't mean she wasn't being controlled.

When I had kissed her, there was nothing actively controlling her, but that didn't mean there wasn't a sigil somewhere. When I was done here, I would be going to do the same thing with Morgana.

I was going to see lots of naked ladies today, but only half of them would be for fun. Life could definitely be worse, that was for sure.

"I am ready for you," Katarina said, but in a voice that made my blood run cold.

I turned, and Katarina dove at me naked, her eyes glowing blood red along with a sigil on her waist. I threw up my hands but was pushed back into the bars as I locked hands with her.

But this wasn't Katarina anymore.

"So, you want to take another one of my toys away, do you?!" Xena snarled from Katarina's mouth as she tried to bite me, her large breasts rubbing on my chest.

"Katarina is not a toy!" I snapped and pushed her back into the corner where she had been sitting before.

Darkness was rolling from Katarina, but I used the same spell Tallia had used on me, but the way I had cast it. Pins of light surrounded me and then stabbed into Katarina, pinning her naked body to the corner, legs up.

This really wasn't fair for Katarina, but it was the way things had to be for now. I walked forward, squatted down in front of her, and placed my hand on the mark that was just above Katarina's hairy slit.

"Even if you free her, I will find more, Ophiuchus! I will take everything from you if you refuse to give me anything!" Xena screamed, Katarina's body tensing up, and then it relaxed as I dispelled the mark.

There was a brief pause, and then I looked up at an extremely confused-looking Lady Katarina.

"Umm, Galio? What is the meaning of this? Is this something that I agreed to?!" Katarina asked as she looked around frantically, and I smiled.

"I am really sorry about this. You were infected by someone, and this was the only way to get you free," I explained. "I will release you and let you get dressed now."

"Wait!" Katarina said, and then her face got red.

"Hmm?" I asked as I stopped with my hand still on her waist.

"You have me like this, and you have seen me exposed. I know that I am not really your type, but I really feel like less of a woman after having seen me like this. Do you think that you could give me some of what you have given the other women?" Katarina asked, and I smiled and leaned in to give Katarina's pussy a long lick making her moan.

"That is the least that I could do!"