<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/P7bMJyq.jpg) </div>A wave of the guardian's hand and some murmured incantations and the things which had been toying with Reiko's breasts vanished as quickly as they had appeared. Having done as much the kunoichi was set aside as the creature rose, and then he too departed with only a slight diminishment in speed compared to his arrival. Thus without any ceremony following the carnal affair the monster had retreated back to whatever other things such a creature did.<br/><br/>Left alone in the corridor Reiko was able to recover her clothes, which incredibly enough were only a little torn, and continue her progress, of which there was little more to note. The slight breeze did not guide her directly to her goal, but near it, for it led to a gap in the worked stone wall which suggested the outside. Once there she was able to pick up on the whisper of a brook down another corridor, which terminated in her destination; on a stone pedestal in the middle of a roughly hexagonal chamber sat a pale blue gem of obviously ceremonial purpose.<br/><br/>Retracing her steps was not difficult either; Reiko's training combined with being able to reference the breeze as a landmark meant that she had no real difficulty finding where she had initially entered the labyrinth and thus was able to climb back up the gap in the ceiling and through the trunk in the tree.<br/><br/>It almost seemed like the trial itself had been incredibly... trivial? Certainly it would have been difficult for an ordinary person who may have gotten lost in the maze or been unable to descend and ascend as Reiko had, but still... the guardian was clearly not a threat per se. Perhaps something about the way Reiko gave in had neutralized the creature? If she hadn't been so naturally alluring, would it have instead attacked her rather than, well, fucking her? It didn't ever seem outright hostile; from the beginning its movements and intentions seemed lewd, albeit certainly forceful. What exactly was the purpose of a guardian which seemed only interested in carnal distractions? Even the sucking things it had summoned could have had little purpose beyond pleasure.<br/><br/>Perhaps the creature had once been used in the fantastical orgiastic rites of the old faith, and now without the proper follows of that religion it had no real purpose, and simply wandered the ruined halls of its former masters aimlessly, enjoying the wanton in accordance to its nature whenever opportunity presented itself.