He did not dally, it never boded well to keep his father waiting once he had been summoned. He walked up the corridors past the guards into the North Wing and knocked on the door to the King's private rooms. Sabre's stomach was turning over, what if someone had given him away with regards to Abigor?
"Enter." Came the sharp voice of Jaris and his son stepped opened the door and stepped into the ante chamber to find exactly what he had surmised, his father speaking with the physician, he turned on seeing his son.
"Sabre good....I had expected you to be resting after your ordeal but Ana said fresh air and exercise were better, I suppose she knows best when it comes to the raising of children." He said softly.
Sabre felt words stick in his throat unable to speak so he mutely nodded, the king looked from his son to the physician.
"You know what has to be done Saberion, especially after what news reached me about how you fared in the Temple.....what was attempted."
The physician stepped forward, a cool smile on his narrow face.
"Come my Prince...it is nothing that you have not experienced before.....no need to be afraid.....is there." He oozed softly.
"Take off your clothes Sabre.....the more quickly you comply the quicker this will be over." The King said coming to stand by his son's side.
Sabre looked imploringly to the King.
"Father....nothing happened....I did not let anyone violate me....I swear.....please.....don't make me do this."
The king stared down stonily at him, his face set, there would be no relent.
"It is for your own good Saberion, I can not have my son used by lower demons....you are to remain pure....it has to be so!" He said sharply.
"Now undress!"
Sabre closed his eyes and unbuttoned his shirt and removed it laying it on a chair, then his boots and breeches and undergarments until he was shivering and naked before them. The physician gestured to the large table in the centre of the room.
"This will have to suffice as we are not in my rooms....lay on the table Prince Sabre...bend your knees and part them for me please."
With tears in his eyes Sabre sat up on the table and then laid back staring at the ceiling his legs parted as ordered.....now came the humiliation....the touching....the instruments....the shame of telling the truth to them and not being believed and having to do this. He felt the first instrument touched to his manhood and the chanting of the spell to attest purity, the horrible crawling sensation through his skin. There was a bright flare of white light and the physician stepped back.
"He is pure with regards to using someone....such has not happened my king." Came the snide voice who seemed to be enjoying this a little too much.
The next was worst, an instrument pushed slightly between his buttocks and the same spell, this time the pain was worse, the crawling sensation more like a dagger.
"He is pure my lord....none have used him here."
Sabre felt tears rolling down his cheeks as he laid there, waiting for the inevitable order to clothe himself which came in short measure.
"I told you the truth." He said in a soft whisper as he sat up and slid from the table and reached for his clothes.
The king dismissed the Physician in short order and turned his back as his son dressed.
"You know it has to be done boy.....stop your tears!" He said gruffly, not wanting to look Sabre in the eyes whilst he cried.
He knew what he made Sabre endure was humiliating and painful, but the boy must not lose his innocence....he must not end up slave to that Warp Hag and her plots and plans. He knew he was hard on Sabre, he was an incubus and to be as he was went against the very nature of what he was. Most young men his age had lost their innocence in the Tenth, done what normal young demons did, experimented, knew pleasures of the flesh....but this could not be so for Sabre.
"Go back to your room and cry in Ana's arms and be soothed, be glad I do not punish you for acting less than the Prince you are!" he snapped.
When Sabre left the room Jaris turned and listened as the footsteps fled down the hall, he gave a soft sigh.
"I am sorry my son......truly I am." He whispered.
