He was joyous at her words, as joyous as a wicked Demon like him could be, the thought of her mounting her white steed, her lithe legs wrapped about him, forcing him to accept her as a rider, teaching him his mistress was.
Then came her next question and he pondered on answering that.
"Jelenis' father was Demon, a Prince like myself, but of an enemy House. He fell in love with a mortal woman and married her, he mounted her on their wedding night and his seed took within her and she became with child." He began softly.
"Though he could not stay, things in his dark kingdom took priority and he left before the child was pushed out into the world. An odd disappearance to the distraught woman, everyone believed him killed on a hunting trip and she was now a widow."
He stretched like a long lithe cat against Flori, kissing her neck, wanting more affection from her, like when she had traced circles on his abdomen in the Inn.
"He did not want his child unprotected, so he summoned two of his most trusted, you met them Bel and Trayder, and through an act of most unkind spite, an enemy, binding him with a spell to protect the brat day and night."
He turned to lay on his back glaring at the ceiling as he remembered it.
"I watched day by day, shackled by the Protectorate Demand, I killed people that tried to hurt him. A school master went to cane him once for getting his numbers wrong...I had to act...I shoved the cane up inside the man and broke his neck....but all I wanted was to see the boy beaten...it was what he deserved!"
"Flori I was forced to serve Jelenis, he was able to banish me for short periods, such is humiliating to my kind to be banished by a half blood...he delighted in it....but still I served him, part of me loved him...and I hated myself for it...I told him this the night I found you....that I loved him....and he banished me!"
He turned his dark eyes to her, hoping she would feel sorry for him and hate Jelenis even more.
"Then I felt it that night...a weakening in the Protectorate, somewhere his father was dying, it was the only explanation, and I managed to break free and find someone that would truly love me...you...my Honey Flower....my Dark Queen....someone that would help me make Jelenis pay for his behaviour."
He stroked her cheek softly.
"He is a very spoiled brat my Flori...one that has never felt punishment....one that is wilful...defiant....we can teach him my Love....make him pay for his father's act and for all the subsequent acts of cruelty visited upon me....yes...?"
He half sat up now in his passionate anger, the palest of pink, highlighting his skin on his cheeks, his moonlight hair glowing so silver in the dying firelight.
"I have made him into the prettiest pony for you...a stallion that would be prized...all for you my Flori...I want to see you tame the stubborn animal."
His smile was hot with the need for revenge.
"Then I can turn him back when you want...and you can tame the Human...like you started to in the shop. Hurt him for me Flori....Humiliate him....make him low and servile!"