"Dependency on water matters not," Vespira hissed, "As you can ssee, I can attend to ssuch ssimple needs." It was disappointing to hear that the offered servant would not even be a Vodrani. Even more disappointing was the fact Myra offered only one servant in exchange for a priceless artifact. Put simply, the offer was insulting in a deal such as this.

The Gorgonian noticed Myra struggling in keeping focus. Was this why the Princess decided to offer artifacts in exchange for another? Of course, the ring was practically useless to someone like Vespira. The ring healed non fatal injuries. So in essence, it merely sped the recovery of someone who was in no real danger. The main benefit was the restoration of limbs. But even that was of little issue for the Gorgonian. If Vespira was in a position where her arm could be severed, she most likely could be killed as well. There was also the matter if the severed limb happens to be the one that had the ring in the first place.

"An artifact for another artifact?" Vespira replied, "Unfortunately, a ring has lesss presence than a necklace and the abilities are uselesss to me. It sseems you are not really interessted in having thiss item. What you offer is nothing short of inssulting. You offer things I could gather with current technology. You offer sservants of lessser speciess and positions. Leave it to nobility to only offer what is of no rissk to them. Your devotion to your ssearch is dissapointing."

What did she want? It had appeared that anything she had to offer was just going to be dismissed out of hand. She did not have any miracle device and it seemed that everything else was just going to be dismissed as something she could get other wise from some source or another.

The Trackers that she had to offer as servants did no good, nor the means to learn the instant whereabouts of her marked possessions which made their recovery easier.

A Vodrani servant would have been of no use really either seeing that only the clergy had the capabilities to travel off planet and all of those were royalty since you had to be royalty to acquire that position.

“Then there is nothing I can offer that you just couldn't not get elsewhere, save for Vodrani magic though I doubt you have a use for water magic,” the scales had been making it tough to focus and Vodrani water magic could not really be traded, maybe some other water dependent species could pick it up though a Top Sider unless gifted probably would just learn their own magic that had a greater use, more variety to it and the only interested parties would probably be those living on islands or along the coast.

“Our values of what is and is not important differ. What is it that interests you the most and rather than playing guessing games I can determine what the Vodrani have on such a level, it would make things that much easier and avoid cultural and species misunderstandings.”

"Giving up sso easily?" Vespira replied as she lifted Myra's chin and gazed deep into her eyes, "Do all Princessess lack ambition? What will you tell your people? Your role is to undersstand other speciess and be able to interact with them. You are failing in your duties as a Priestesss." The Gorgonian's voice would echo inside Myra's head, seemingly growing stronger the more she was drawn into that hypnotic gaze.

"You like to ssay you want ssomething but only if it is within your means," the snake woman continued, "You know what I was willing to do to get thiss necklace back? Anything. No expense was too much for getting back what belongs to me. That is the difference between you and I. You claim you are on a holy crussade to gather ancient relicss but that is far from the truth. Anything that is mine, I keep. Anything I want, I take. And I do not let anything sstand in my way."

"That is why the necklace is around my neck and not your own," the alien crime lord stated simply, "You are Princesss yet you make no decisions on your own. You musst check with others. I have no interesst in making a deal with your people. I am making a deal with you, Myra V'al. Now tell me, what would you do to get thiss necklace and bring it back to your people?"

If not for the calming effects of those scale Myra would have been getting annoyed. “I merely see no point in playing guessing games. Everything I have offered has been discarded as something you have no use for or could get by another source so it serves to save time to cut to the chase.

But if she valued the necklace so much then what could possibly be worth the trade? This had been as good as saying that it was not up for trade, nothing seemed good enough or remotely interesting and she was not suggestion anything that she would rather have indicating to Myra that she had no intention of making a trade in the first place and was just going to rebuff anything offered up since what may interest her simply did not exist as far as Myra knew and thus she could not offer it. It seemed as if the Vodrani were simply going to have to wait for this one, she could not take the piece to the grave and if she did grave robbing to get it back wasn't beyond the scope of Vodrani capabilities.

“It is clear that our values are different, what is important to you might not be so for me and vice versa so I cannot offer up a trade without knowing what is of value or interest to you. I could list off a thousand things that you would have no interest in when you know your wants better than I.” In such a case she had not seen her interactions with a new species as a failure when it was apparent that all Vespira had to say that the necklace wasn't for trade, toss out some ridiculous treasure she had wanted to see if the Vodran could attain it or simple supply what would be an adequate trade. Was this a game? She lacked contact for the most part with everyone save for her companion Reika that got her into hot water at times when she was unable to gather the adequate information but guessing her interests were as likely as her guessing what was going on in the courts of her planet, were they at war or peace? Matters were a little dicey last time with the Nereids though war was avoided in the end and a prisoner exchange made … of course she had been that prisoner after being captured by the Nereids but that all worked out in the end.

There was a constant dislike of the Undine though she doubted that they were at war with them at the time having the occasional conflict with them or their Craiglord thugs but she honestly had no idea. Her task was to go out their and recover the artifacts that were lost when the colony ship was stolen. It wasn't her first assignment though her first real assignment after graduating from a novice Priestess.

“I offer what I can acquire or have. It makes no good establishing a trade for something I do not have. If I have to work to get to something then I shall do what I can. As a Princess I am fairly low of the birth order, at the bottom and for the most part I do not spend much time on Vodran so I have to check with what is on hand. What good does it do for either of us to arrange a trade and the item in question. no longer exists? It just wastes times.

“Whatever is in my power to accomplish I will offer up, I cannot make promises that may go unfulfilled or not be carried out for reasons beyond my control. There may be something I am sent to do or acquire that simply eludes me despite the resources thrown at it so any arrangements would be tentative.

“I will not promise something that I cannot do. Despite my determination I cannot survive in the vacuum of space without equipment no matter how determined I am to do it so I cannot hope to survive without it and thus I wish to stick to the obtainable or at best make arrangements for something that could be acquired and have an idea of what to focus on and get or perish in the attempt to get as the case maybe.”

"No ambition, sso boring," Vespira hissed as she slithered way, "No one is throwing anyone into sspace. You merely have to make a promise worthy of my attention. Insstead of attempting to do sso, you wasste my time. You claim you do not know what I want and yet you claim I know what you have. Your idiocy truly has no limit. I can only hope your sissters are much more capable of making a decision."

The coms came on briefly, signalling Vespira that preparations had finished. "Mm... Sseems your room has been prepared," the Gorgonian replied, "I trusst it will be much more comfortable than the airlock. Without your ship, you will be sstaying here for a bit longer. I was hoping you would be more... entertaining. Do not worry. I will find a use for you. At leasst the Undines provided ssome level of excitement."

Vespira summoned her servants to escort Myra away. Did Myra ruin her chance? The Gorgonian was not very pleased with this priestess. For a role that was meant for interacting with other races, this one had little offer. Were the others this spineless. A lost artifact was before this one's eyes and Princess literally just gave up. At least the Undine were willing to put forth the effort to steal it despite the obvious dangers.

But it mattered little. Myra would become more entertaining one way or another. The slaves led the Princess to another room. One of the crew quarters was cleared out and a large pool was added in. Myra would smell the salt water, a welcoming scent compared to just filtered open air. "Food is on the table," one slave stated, "Please check the water to see if it is to your liking."

Despite Vespira's disappointment, there was at least some hospitality given to the Vodani. Meanwhile, Vespira had the two Undine removed from their respective vats. The drugs would leave their bodies twitching and cumming weakly. Clean water would be used to wash any remaining drugs from their system. Vespira crossed her arms as she sat on her coils, looking over the two. "There is a Vodani on board," Vespira stated simply, "If you break her, perhapss you may be allowed to live a bit longer. A fair trade no?"

The water in Myra's room seemed to be clean. She would have an opportunity to rest and consider her situation. She was still trapped on this ship with that crazy snake woman. But how was going to get out of here and how was she going to get the Uhran's Bastille? Hidden cameras would watch Myra's actions. Once the woman started to soak or doze in the water, potent aphrodisiacs and other drugs would be filtered lightly into the pool.

Her task was more artifact hunting then interactions, such was secondary though and she had to consider what had been said. The Undine being better in just about any category burned her pride a bit as a Vodrani and seeing the fate of the Undine it was clear that patience was the best option here. Had she tried to steal the artifact it was pretty obvious that it would wind up back on Vodran sooner or later and while it would have been tough to infiltrate the xenophobic people it was perhaps easier to back someone like the Undine into attacking a settlement and looting a temple.

For that reason a hidden vault off world worked best in keeping things less obvious though when all things were considered she had thought things through better then the Undine who were doomed to fail from the start for even if they did pull off their theft they were not likely to be able to come back into civilized parts of the galaxy and would need to be careful on the fringe.

Of course there were other Vodrani clergy that specialized more in the interactions department not that she wasn't required to do her fair share of it when it came up. She was often left alone to work on her artifact hunt.

Still, even with things looking bad for her and not able to think all that well a room had been prepared. “Thank you,” she then follows the servants, mulling over details in her head.

Still, a use for sounded a bit ominous …

The smell that hit her olfactory senses had been divine, the saltiness in the air refreshing and she checks the water, blessed water! She smiles drawing her hand back and nods. “Yes, this will do. Give your Mistress my thanks.” Blue eyes take in the assortments of foods and being away from her world as often as she was she was more open to a galactic diet than her counter parts.

Left alone, Myra has much to consider. Without the scales it was a little easier to think though the problem was twofold. She was still here after all and had to offer up something for the necklace as well as her ransom too but what could be so appealing. Clearly Vodrani artifacts were out, her people probably would not consider trading them for a prison so low on the scale of things, one that had already cost them a royal Nereid prisoner.

Money had been out and most of the tech she could think of was too. What was different could be duplicated in other fashions. So she soaked and swam shifting her legs into a tail as she moved about the pool. There was Reika too, her companion or what other species considered pets … her eyes widened at a thought, though it would probably be discarded it could prove interesting.

All the while as she thought she could swear the water temperature was growing a little warmer ...

Much like the Undine, Vodrani required the sea in order to survive. It was not something they could remedy by just drinking alot of water. Their bodies must be one with the sea in order to be revitalize, an easily exploitable weakness. As Myra soaked in the salt water, her body was absorbing the potent drugs that polluted it. This would gradually arouse the Vodrani Princess while also making her lovely form many times more sensitive. The more of the drug she absorbed, the more the effects would grow.

Small sonic emitters would hum quietly to life. They would send steady pulses through the water, aimed directy at the Princess. The Vodrani woman would feel faint strokes across her body. The touches would focus and linger around Myra's erogenous zones such as the hips and sides along with those lovely breasts and even through the scales of her fish half. The steady thrum would adjust in frequency and power, reading the Vodrani's reaction to produce the greatest amount of stimulation possible. Slowly, the pool would be sealed over the top, attempting to trap the Vodrani inside the chemical bath and sonic vibrations. Soon, Myra would experience a similar fate as those two Undine.

Being aroused had been nothing new to the Vodrani Priestess. Being off her world so often she had never been around on those rare occasions where the Spawning urged them to mate and this being a mild Psionic trait had thrown her off balance as it did with any other Priest or Priestess that had been away for an extended period of time.

So when her nipples stiffen from the drug induced waters she isn't alarmed thinking that she was going through one of her normal bouts.

Her hand squeezes a breast beneath the pink bikini top, her other clothes out side of the tank near the edge not to be ruined when she shifted form. At the bottom of the tank she closes her blue eyes and lays there, the water feels so good as does her hand on her breast a finger brushing around the hidden folds of her sex prompting scales in a particular region to reveal the pink passage beneath, wet despite the surrounding water she purrs out a moan as the pleasure only intensifies building up but for the moment those are still normal levels and she is still not alarmed. When they increase further though something was not right. She recalled the pair of Undine and grew alarmed.

It felt so good though but she stops what she is doing only to swim out of the tank except she finds it closed! Panicked eyes look about recalling the Undine and looking for a means of escape. Seeing none she is not totally without recourse though her concentration is harder as she shapes the water slamming it against the tank.

Maybe if she were not so distracted she might have been able to concentrate on that force a bit better but for the time she can do little, a whimper leaves her mouth as she begins to really worry now ...

The sudden increase of pressure against the tank set off the sensors, allowing for more of the drug to be pumped in and dropping all subtle methods. The water felt very warm but the temperature was unchanged. It was Myra's body constantly heating up as breasts and nipples swelled with unending arousal. The sonic vibrations were more powerful and more focused. There was no where Myra could swim to avoid the ghostly touch of these machines and the vile drugs that taint this ocean water.

The Vodrani would feel a rippling sensation run through her body. The vibrations would flow right into her aroused body, stroking and stimulating the cells themselves and spread outwards. Before the first wave ended, more would begin. She would feel the sensation focused into her clitoris and ripple up her spine while another felt like a long thick cock humming in and out of her tight folds. No matter how Myra moved or tried to hide her weakpoints, the sonic waves washed past her defenses time and time again. The waves rippled through her tight passage and echoed inside her womb, lingering over the throbbing g-spot with each and every pass. Remembering the state the Undine were in, was this insanity going to continue until her mind breaks too?

Turned into a fish in an aquarium, if only she could think to concentrate there might have been a chance but there isn't. Unable to brake free and with that heat surging through her, into her there was no denying the pleasant warmth that swept through her.

It was a chore to fight the impulses of her own body as she frantically looked for a means of getting out of the tank. The floors and walls were probably metal behind their facades of being natural so getting out that way wasn't going to happen.

Reika may have been able to escape. He escaped tanks routine but she lacked his compression abilities and assuming the drug did not affect him it would still take time to get out of the cell. There was no escape, none that she found any way and in a final act of attempting to deny the drug she bunched her hands up into tight fists but that did not help other than to dig her fingernails into her palms for a while until she began to finger fuck herself in earnest now ...

Myra fought desperately but soon she curled up in the middle of the tank and trembled. The Princess could not fight off her own desires and proceeded to masturbate there in the water. It was not long before Myra rubbed one off, her sexual juices mixing with the drugged saturated sea water. The release felt nothing short of heavenly. The sonic vibrations seemed to be fucking every cell in her body now, prolonging the bliss while stimulating the helpless Vodrani to the breaking point once more.

With her resistance crumbling, the orgasms came faster and faster. Even as those limbs grew numb from the intense sensations, the sonic waves ensured not a single moment passed that was not under some level of bliss. She was no experiencing what the Undine did first hand. Every moment was a seizure of utter rapture, overwhelming her senses time and time again.

Several hours would pass before the doors hissed open and the two Undine entered. Their feminine forms swayed gently with their light steps. They smirked at each other as they looked into the tank and saw the Princess inside. The two would observe the alien woman for a bit before opening the top of the tank. Slowly, the water would begin to drain after hours of soaking and stimulation. How much willpower would the royal woman have left against her worst enemies?

Saturated with chemicals this variant brought mind numbing pleasure to the Princess. Want and desire built up again and again despite the amount of times she came herself. She had been an exhausted mess at the bottom of the tank by the time the older Undine had entered as indicated by the rarer green hue of their once blue scales, .Dark green webbing existed between fingers and toes while their other scales had been a light green.

Yellow eyes gazed down at her and she instinctively shifted back from tail to legs with the absence of the water, only now seeing the Undine sisters gazing at her. Hatred had been there deep down inside, the aphrodisiac melting it down. If there was still water she would have tried to use it in a feeble attempt for her body was practical unaware of them …

The light blue ones were male and due to their war-like natures they were all male save for the ones that lived long enough before shifting genders. She had never learned if they lost their prior sex organs or they mutated or what not, Undine psychology didn't matter to Vodrani much save for a generalization or what was useful in combating them, this was not and so it was not deemed as important.

Noticing the two Undine though she was too exhausted to do much about it save for watch them outside of the tank gazing at her … only a dim awareness that they could not have escaped or if they had they certainly would not be here to rescue her …

The two species did take captives from time to time, usually not common ones though as these held no importance to them at all though high profile prisoners had some value. Often these were killed with their troops though to save the hassle of prisoner exchanges since they had to deal with one another.

Pity? Were the Undine saving her because they experienced this? Very doubtful, an Undine may have gloated at this … she laid their, for the moment she waited ...

With the tank unsealed and drained, the two Undine dropped down lightly and approached the exhausted Vodrani. They gave each other a knowing grin as they grabbed the Princess and held her down on the wet floor. Webbed fingers stroked Myra's flushed skin, rubbing those smooth thighs and that soft stomach and hips. They explored the Vodrani's lovely form as the two leaned in closer.

Warm breaths caressed between Myra's thighs and over the woman's face and lips. One had a tight grip on Myra's hair and forcefully smothered the Vodrani's lips with her own. Meanwhile, the other proceeded to drag her tongue along those still trembling folds. With their much shorter lifespans, Undine knew much about sex not only for pleasure but for the survival of their species. They read every reaction of the captured Vodrani. Fingers grazed and lingered over the tender spots along the woman's thighs and sides. Hands eventually drifted over and squeezed those luscious breasts. Thumbs flicked over those swollen nipples. Lips and tongue suckled on the woman's exposed pearl, the warm muscle swirling teasingly around the throbbing bundle of nerves.

The two took their time, stimulating the already hypersensitive Princess. Every moan produced made the two giggle in amusement, loving every moment they get to prove that this Vodrani Priestess is nothing but a whore like all the others. The Vodrani were rather open about sex but what about against their mortal enemies? One of the Undine embraced Myra once more, sliding her tongue deep into Myra's mouth and throat. "Mm..." she purred softly, kissing the captive Vodrani deeply.

Indeed the Vodrani were open to sex, especially in her case where she had not experienced the Spawning herself for a number of years. Every so often they were compelled to mate during those times they were most fertile and spawned their eggs though at all others they remained fairly gregarious and Myra was along those lines seeing their were few options open to her.

Though they had few taboos one of them happened to be dalliances with the Undine who brought so much death to their world thus far. Her heated body whimpers as the Undine sisters drop into the tank and approach.

Her mind struggles though her body surrenders. She tries to push away the first of the Undine to approach though there is virtually no strength in that limb. She just cannot muster that waning strength.

“Nooo,” she gasps though her body is screaming yes as it twitches against the attention it receives. Her mind may have been disgusted if not for that drug, her reaction an automatic, yet feeble one but against those touches, that heated breath, she's swimming in heaven.

By Vodran's beard this felt good, her body quivering, the ache shooting through her breasts and pulsing with the attention that they receive. Even her lips are taken and it feels wonderful, a delight even without the drug though without it she would have only fought more, such a insidious trap as she is beyond comprehending as to the motives of the Undine, the reasons for the trap … she just needed relief and she need it now.

The two Undine merely giggled as Myra's struggles fade. They had the Princess under their control now. Lips traced down Myra jawline and down her neck, nibbling softly on the glistening flesh. Teeth lightly bit the Vodrani's neck before sucking deeply, tongue lathering those sensitive nerves over and over again. The other woman blew soft breaths into Myra's faintly parted netherlips, teasing them before nibbling down those inner thighs and kissing the back of the Vodrani's knees.

It would be so easy to just rape the Priestess now. But, their orders were clear. They were to break this one, not that they needed any convincing to do so. The two kept away from those netherlips and breasts and instead proceeded to stimulate the other lesser known sensitive areas. They would continue to tease and stimulate the Princess until the Vodrani begged for more or broke entirely.

These were older Undine. They were experienced. They were even able to steal from Vespira despite being caught afterwards. There was no doubting these two had some skill and now they were showing just how much skill they had with tormenting helpless Vodrani. Fingertips traced up and down those silky thighs and tender sides, the two gazing and reading every reaction their prey made.