Challenge #04849-M100: Stolen Mercy

Victoria Constance Emilia Stanford has become a goddess, enjoying her new form and her husband. Alas, it seems that some desperate folks from a drought stricken land would like to enjoy her powers, for they kidnap her from the shores in the dead of night whilst her husband and father in law slept.

This is unlikely to end well for anyone involved…

Sequel to: https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04815-m066-bride-of-the-son-of-the-volcano-god -- Deathshead419

There was a new goddess, though few in Arunem could pronounce her name. What they did know was that she could revitalise land devastated by disasters. They knew how to spot her from a distance. Skin the colour of marble. Hair that flowed down instead of curling up. And, of course, seedlings sprouted wherever she walked. She lived on the islands of Blessed-By-Maugamu, and all of Arunem had heard of how they prospered.

All of Arunem needed her presence, and the Baushau tribe didn't want to go through any formalities. Their lands were burning-dry and their food plants were dying. Soon, the people would be dying. They landed in the night and made sure she slept with cloth soaked in dreamweed wine, so they could carry her away.

They made sure she was tied up and secure in their canoe before they launched to race to their homeland.

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