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>>8667574

It was the story "T'sais" from the original "The Dying Earth" book of short stories. Etarr is forcibly cuckolded by the witch Javanne.

>But presently I found that Javanne was one of dark urges that the love of man could never quell. And one midnight I found her in the embrace of a black naked demon, and the sight twisted my mind.

>"I stood back aghast. I was not seen, and I went slowly away. In the morning she came running across the terrace, smiling and happy, like a child. 'Leave me,' I told her. 'You are vile beyond calculation.' She uttered a word and the rune on my arm enslaved me. My mind was my own, but my body was hers, forced to obey her words.

>"And she made me tell what I had seen, and she revelled and jeered.

Vance wrote these stories in the Forties while he was still struggling to have his first story published.