The Traitor's Son Chapters 72-73
By Zelamir, adapted by Pueros

This story is intended for ADULTS ONLY

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Herewith are the next chapters of the saga of Marius, son of the traitor, Sejanus. The original story was by Zelamir but, with the author's permission, has been adapted and rewritten for Nialos by Pueros.

The rewrite conforms to Pueros' own style and the text has been substantially expanded, with significant additions and changes also made to subplots. For example, recent chapters, including these episodes, are all the work of the adapter. However, the main thread of Zelamir's original story has been maintained, namely what ultimately happens to young Marius.

Pueros hopes that his rewrite does Zelamir's original story justice!
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Chapter LXXII

By now, Marius, or 'Cycnus' as he was known in the 'House of Ganymede', should have been accustomed to upsetting changes in his life. After all, after being the son of the very rich and powerful right-hand man of the Emperor and living a comfortably privileged existence mainly on a large rural estate, the boy had since not only been extremely humiliated and hurt, as well as enslaved, but also become a prostitute. However, along the way, he had additionally managed to make and subsequently sadly lose some close friends, such as Sulis.

Nevertheless, Marius found deeply distressing the sudden disappearance of Narcissus from the 'House of Ganymede'. The event had occurred about four weeks after they had been humiliatingly compelled to beat each other publicly, during which period the older boy had been forced to service the very happy Major Domo sexually on many occasions.

No announcement was made about the long-serving Narcissus' departure, or any attempt allowed to permit him first to say farewells to anyone. After all, he and his fellow young prostitutes were not human beings but instead commodities to be traded however and whenever their owners' decreed.

Marius made discreet enquiries about Narcissus' fate amongst his fellow young prostitutes. However, this action produced little information.

One young prostitute did advise that he had seen Narcissus leave the 'House of Ganymede' one morning with the adult German slave but he had at the time thought little of this because the pair could have been going anywhere, such as to an external client. However, the fact that the older boy had not been seen since suggested to Marius that he had been sold, either at slave market or directly to a customer or, as the Major Domo had hinted four weeks earlier, to a lower class of brothel.

Marius appreciated that Narcissus had his faults. The younger boy had perceptively recognised the selfish and sadistic streak in the older boy, which had sometimes caused him to inform Felicia about other prostitutes' misdemeanours, which invariably led to their punishment. However, he could understand such an attitude.

After all, Narcissus' background might have been very unpleasant, causing mental scarring. Certainly, his lengthy service in the 'House of Ganymede', despite being an up- market boy brothel, would have encompassed many disagreeable happenings, even if he had become accustomed and begun to enjoy some of the sex.

Selfishness could also arise from being a slave. Many of such servile status sought only to live as pleasantly as possible from day to day, even at the expense of others, knowing that their existences could alter in a moment at the whim of their masters.

Even if slaves had nice masters, the death of the latter could change their circumstances dramatically. The heirs, if there were any, could be far nastier or sell them on to other owners who were or gave them functions that were distinctly worse than previously occupied.

Despite Narcissus' faults, Marius had come to like him and consider him a budding friend, especially after their mutual punishment. They had subsequently noticeably become talkatively close when circumstances permitted.

Narcissus had also never treated Marius less than helpfully, apart from when they had been forced to beat each other. The two boys had additionally shared a lot together, albeit, as that punishment proved, not always enjoyably.

Despite his curiosity and unhappiness in relation to Narcissus' sudden disappearance from the 'House of Ganymede', Marius, of course, dared not enquire about the older boy's fate either with Fabius or Felicia or the Major Domo and the other adult slaves. He rightly feared being slapped or being subjected to even worse for speaking without permission and being too nosy about the brothel's affairs.

Consequently, Marius just had to accept the presumption that Narcissus had been sold and the younger boy began to wonder whether he would ever discover the fate of the older or whether they would ever meet again. Such solemn considerations also caused him to shed privately a few more tears when resting on his dormitory mattress because they additionally often brought other sombre thoughts.

For example, Marius wondered what Pannychis and Sulis were now enduring, or whether Dictys and Nisus had been recaptured and crucified or sent to be the fodder of the beasts in the arena yet.

Chapter LXXIII

Months passed and Marius' curiosity about the fates of Narcissus, Pannychis, Sulis, Dictys and Nisus had still not been settled. However, the boy's memory of them had not faded, for they were often in his thoughts and dreams, perhaps because the first four were the only people to have shown him any kindness and friendship since the dreadful downfall of his father.

As well as Marius' twelfth birthday, which, of course, passed unknown to anyone but the boy himself, the months gradually brought a reduction in the young prostitute's status within the 'House of Ganymede'. From being an extremely desirable virgin and subsequent very attractive and favoured fresh face and body in the brothel, frequent use by many clients for a comprehensive range of sexual services had eventually made him increasingly less popular.

Marius still had regular clients, who were particularly attracted to his features and maintained sexual proficiency, even if these attributes were becoming less novel. Nevertheless, the overall number of customers seeking his services markedly declined, as patrons were tempted away to newer and fresher boys, who arrived regularly in the 'House of Ganymede'.

Fabius and Felicia fully appreciated that a high turnover of young prostitutes in such a high-class boy brothel as the 'House of Ganymede' was essential to keep their patrons content. Marius was aware of this policy from noticing many examples of newcomers and out-goers, with Narcissus an obvious example of the latter, and so he wondered how long he too would last before being sold on.

Marius did not relish the idea of being moved on to a lower class of brothel. He correctly believed that life there would be even worse than in the 'House of Ganymede', where he was at least accommodated and fed well. The boy therefore hoped that he would instead be bought by one of the nicer of his regular clients, as occasionally occurred, although he dare not mention his wish to any of them.

By now, Marius was an accomplished boy prostitute and knew it, maintaining a good level of service for both good and bad clients. His young mind experienced a mix of emotions about such recognition of what he had become.

Marius was ashamed that his current role in life was prostitution. However, the boy believed that performing such a function was better than being raped and strangled like his older brother and sister, even if only for the fact that the situation might somehow afford him the opportunity eventually to secure revenge and retrieve a much more honourable status.

Conversely to his shame, Marius also could not help but take some pride in servicing his nicer clients well. The boy's daily routine was considerably boosted when the occasional considerate customer afforded him some praise or left a tip in thanks, even if the gift was only a morsel of food from his dinner table.

Marius additionally had to confess shamefully that, on an ever-increasing number of occasions, he was enjoying the sex involved in his work. Although the boy did not yet ejaculate semen, more and more clear liquid oozed from his cock whenever he climaxed, which was becoming more frequent and pleasurable. Such orgasms resulted either from clients' direct attentions, such as performing fellatio on or masturbating his penis, or from delicious tickling of his prostate through the more considerate acts of sodomy.

Marius' enjoyment was assisted by the fact that his rear orifice had become so flexible through use that only a particularly large or ruthless invader caused hurt rather than pleasure. His own still-smooth genitals had also noticeably increased pleasantly in size and he correctly believed that such a development was not just attributable to the natural growth of a pubescent boy like him. He rightly thought that the number of times that his sexual organs had been played with by the hands and mouths of many men was an additional important contributory factor.

There were, of course, still unpleasant experiences. Marius had never learnt to enjoy performing fellatio and swallowing the resultant product, although, like Narcissus and many other young prostitutes in the 'House of Ganymede' before him, fear of punishment and a strange sense of professionalism encouraged the boy to perform the deed competently.

Some of the unpleasant experiences were, of course, also deliberately manufactured by clients because many of them were not only pederasts but also sadists. Quite a number of customers would try to sodomise Marius as harshly and hurtfully as possible and, even if they failed to achieve their aim because of the readiness of his rear orifice now to accept such attempted maltreatment, the boy would often guilefully play along by faking pained moans.

Other cruel clients would try in effect to sodomise Marius' mouth and throat rather than passively accept fellatio. Such attempts generally did succeed in causing the boy genuine distress, sometimes including bad bruising to his oral orifice. Swallowing semen in such circumstances was additionally difficult and the young prostitute was consequently beaten on several occasions by supposedly dissatisfied customers, who had complained to Felicia about him spilling their precious ejaculate. However, the patrons concerned had invariably sadistically wanted him to be clumsy in order to set up the punishment scenario.

The worst experiences of all for Marius occurred when coming across clients who were as intensely sadistic as Maccius. Although such customers were fortunately few in number, the times spent with them by the boy always lingered long in his memory.

Marius could recall one client who hired young prostitutes just to beat them, although fortunately the customer concerned liked to do so to a particular boy only once. His victims often wondered how the man gained his sexual gratification because he never did so in their presence, not even by masturbating himself.

Another especially cruel client did masturbate himself, over the prone naked bodies of his hired young prostitutes. However, as Marius could testify as a reliable witness, the customer did so only after affixing extremely severe and therefore very painful wooden pegs to some of his juvenile victims' most tender and vulnerable body parts, such as their nipples and genitals. The man invariably flicked these small but nasty implements whilst stroking his own cock to climax and enjoying the clear simultaneous agony experienced by the boys.

Yet another cruel client liked using even more painful implements. In Marius' recall, the dildos involved were invariably black, presumably to contrast nicely with the flesh of a white boy such as him, and generally bigger than most of the cocks that he was now accustomed to receiving in his rectum.

The sadistic implements therefore did hurt Marius when being wielded ruthlessly by the client, although generally not as much as the customer thought because the boy was now astute enough to fake much of his distress. As the young prostitute fully appreciated, to do otherwise was only to invite harsher treatment, perhaps from an even bigger dildo.

The exception to this scenario was when the customer, who appeared to prefer cheaper wooden dildos to those made from expensive ivory, used a large implement mottled with little nodules. The latter might have been small but the agony they induced in Marius' rectum was quite genuine, as suggested by the blood inevitably spilt as a result of the wicked device's use.

Coincidentally, Marius happened to be lying on his front on a bed in one of the boy brothel's alcoves, servicing the client who liked dildos, when elsewhere Fabius and Felicia were discussing the boy's future. The customer had just rammed a large black wooden dildo fully into the young prostitute, whilst simultaneously spilling the product of his own masturbation over his victim's bottom, when the 12 year-old's owners reached a conclusion about his immediate future.

Felicia had just commented to Fabius about a forthcoming major festival in Rome. "As usual," she remarked, "lots of provincials will be coming to the city for the festivities, with many men conveniently leaving their families at home. I want to attract as many as possible of the rich pederasts amongst them to visit our establishment. We'll therefore not only have to advertise but also provide exceptional entertainment above the norm in order to tempt the custom."

"I've decided to use Cycnus for the purpose," Felicia went on to advise, whilst as common confronting her husband with a fait accompli, reinforcing where the real power in the 'House of Ganymede' resided. "The brat's not only an exceptionally pretty and proficient whore," she explained, "but also proving very good at acrobatics."

"For advertising purposes," Felicia informed, "we'll send him out naked, under the usual supervision of our German slave, round the places where the revellers will mainly congregate and at the busiest periods. We'll have a sign dangling from the boy's neck promoting the 'House of Ganymede'. Anyone who wants to fondle the brat will be allowed to do so briefly but, if they want any more, they'll have to book some time with him here."

"With Cycnus' popularity for ordinary sex amongst our regular customers declining, however," Felicia related, whilst deliberately not complimenting her husband on the fact that the boy had amazingly recouped his original enormous purchase price many times over, "I recently decided that the time's right to make him multi-skilled. I consequently instructed the Major Domo to assess what he'd be like for the acrobatics' team."

"The Major Domo has just reported back," Felicia continued, "that Cycnus has excellent natural talent, sufficiently so to be an exciting act on his own. However, you know how indifferent much of our clientele is towards acrobatics."

"I've therefore concluded," Felicia informed, "that any act given by Cycnus should encompass danger to excite our clientele, and not just any old hazard but genuine life- threatening peril, which will also be advertised on the sign round his neck when he parades naked through Rome!"

(To be continued)