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- Journal Entry 247 / 0514@END_FILE_ID.DIZ
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-
- "Mind if I sit here?" said a friendly and familiar voice.
-
- "Hi!" I said, looking up to find Aaden standing opposite the table,
- tray in hand. "Yeah, yeah, sit down, sit down," I said. He scooted the
- chair back and sat, placing the tray on the table. "That's your lunch?"
- I asked. On the tray was a rather small salad.
-
- "I'm watching my weight," he said, smiling. "So where's Lynn?"
-
- "Said she had to see her medico. It's not like there was any
- agreed period. She just came up to me two days ago and said, 'On your
- knees.'"
-
- "What was it like?"
-
- "What was what like? Being topped by Lynn, or just being topped by
- a woman in general?"
-
- "Both," he replied.
-
- "Well, being topped by a woman I've only seen as an ELF before was
- pretty new, but it was harder, generally, to let myself by topped by a
- woman. And I'll tell you, with a strap she was brutal. I still can't
- sit down comfortably."
-
- He laughed. "You were good last night."
-
- "Was I?"
-
- He nodded. I felt very comfortable sitting and eating lunch with
- Aaden, and that very comfort made me feel uncomfortable. Usually, Aaden
- and I are standing on opposing ends of an SM session. "Aaden, can I ask
- you a question?"
-
- He thought for a second and said, "If I don't answer, will you be
- upset?"
-
- "No."
-
- "Then ask."
-
- "Are you a top, a bottom, or switchable?"
-
- "Bottom," he said, clearly.
-
- "Just wondering. Even that one time in the Underground, you were
- taking orders from P'nyssa, weren't you?"
-
- He nodded. "I don't know why you didn't notice that earlier.
- Although if you want to be techincal, that was the first time I was...
- 'topped' by a woman." He glanced up and over my shoulder. "Hello," he
- said.
-
- "Hi," said another familiar voice behind me. "Can I join, or are
- you two..." the question trailed off.
-
- I turned around. "No, no," I said, finding Ally Dowling standing
- behind me. "Come on, sit down." She grabbed a third chair from the
- table to my right and turned it around. She had grabbed some sort of
- steak sandwich from the buffet. "How are you doing?" I asked.
-
- She shrugged. "Okay, I guess."
-
- "Cedza leave?" I asked.
-
- She nodded. "I don't know what I'm going to do now."
-
- "Well, what do you want to do?"
-
- She shrugged again. "Dunno. I-" She was broken off by a sudden
- high-pitched moan from Aaden. "Are you okay?" she asked.
-
- "Huh?" he said, smiling. "Oh, yeah..."
-
- "Aaden, what was that?"
-
- He smiled and said, "Oh, it's a little something Borodir gave me."
-
- "What is it?" I said in the voice I usually reserve for kids who've
- something hidden behind their backs.
-
- "It's a cockring... just a little one."
-
- "So what was that little scream you gave?"
-
- "It's made of copper on top and zinc underneath..."
-
- It took all of two seconds to remember my chemistry. "Are you
- saying you've got a galvanic cockring?"
-
- "Sort of. The metals aren't enough, but Borodir shaved a small
- ring of fur from around my sex and when I sweat, a small capacitor set
- in the interim builds up a charge until..."
-
- I shuddered, smiling. "That's looney."
-
- His muzzle crested a little and he said, "I like it."
-
- "Whatever," I said, trying not to laugh.
-
- "I just realized," Ally said, interrupting us. "I don't have a
- napkin. Have either of you got one?"
-
- "Not that isn't used," I replied. Aaden indicated the same.
-
- "I'll be right back," she said, rising.
-
- When she was gone, I looked back at Aaden, who said, "I can see it
- on your face. Go for it."
-
- "Aaden, I can't do it! It doesn't make sense. Why should I top
- her, if only for one day? I know nothing about her."
-
- "Well, then, this is the perfect place for it." He shuddered
- again.
-
- "Will you stop that!" I said. "It looks like you've got a short in
- your biocybe." He laughed.
-
- Ally returned a few moments later, two or three cloth napkins in
- hand. We ate for a while, enjoying the sunlight that fell on the upper
- dining hall in daylight, watching the birds fly by. Once I spotted a
- dragon, flying low and fast just to the spin of us. I pointed it out.
- Ally's reponse was less than heartening.
-
- "Ally, you can't just mope all day," Aaden said.
-
- "What do you know?" she said. "Cedza and I were this close for two
- years, living here, working out of here. Even when I was on assignment,
- he was with me, and we always came home to Rhysh. Now he's closed down
- his residency in town and left Rhysh, left me. He burned my contract
- last night, and I don't know what to do." A small tear appeared in one
- eye. I reached out to brush it away.
-
- "Ally," I said quietly, fishing my notebook and pencil out of my
- jacket pocket, "Let me see if I can help you find someone. Not to
- replace Cedza- I know nothing will ever do that. But just someone to
- take your mind off of it. How do you like to be treated?"
-
- She smiled and said, "I appreciate it, but-"
-
- "No 'buts.' What do you like?"
-
- She pursed her lips for a second and said, "Okay. I'm a quick
- submissive, so I don't want someone who's looking for a fight."
-
- "Fair enough," I said, writing that down.
-
- "I like to be tied. I like to be made to serve. And I especially
- like to be slapped."
-
- "As in spanked?"
-
- "No, slapped. Across the face. Open hand."
-
- "How hard?" I asked.
-
- "As hard as you can manage," she said.
-
- "Aren't you afraid of losing a few teeth?" Aaden asked.
-
- "Not anymore," she said with a smile. The implications of that
- statement chilled me. I was suddenly thinking that this might be a bad
- idea; I doubted I had the resolution to hit a woman across the face with
- that much force.
-
- I decided to keep going anyway. "What about... watersports?
- Blood?"
-
- She made a face. "No, and no. A little blood during a whipping's
- okay- I've done that lots of times. But not as a goal."
-
- "Then I assume no piercing of either kind."
-
- She thought for a second. "I've always wanted my ears decorated.
- I've been told you're good at that." Ally's ears are beautiful, large,
- and feline, which is not the norm for Satryls- their ears are more human
- than feline. Actually, Ally's ears are big even for a Felinzi. But
- they are in good proportion to her hair, which is usually teased out to
- the point of being a mane. In any event, they're quite a good job of
- constructive surgery.
-
- "Minimal," I replied. "Three piercings, and I got lucky. And why
- are you assuming I'm going to be the one doing it? This isn't for me;
- we're trying to find someone good for you. Besides, you're not my
- type."
-
- "What is your type?" she asked, mischeviously.
-
- "Fem. About 160 cents, slightly overweight. You're nearly tall as
- I am, and as far as I know, I've never gone for hardbodies. And you,
- Ally, are serious hardbody."
-
- She laughed. "That's true." And she is. 180 cents, small-
- waisted, and not an ounce of fat on her. Muscles so well defined
- there's just a hint of blood vessel showing on her tanned and oiled
- skin. She is, quite simply, a work of very personal art. The art of
- bodybuilding.
-
- "So," I said, "what else?"
-
- "Well, my safeword at the time was 'Rhino.'"
-
- "And you want to keep it?"
-
- "Oh, yeah. I'll never remember a new one if a top gives me one.
- My memory is lousy."
-
- "How many times have you called safeword?"
-
- "Twice. Both times for broken teeth." The sensation that I was in
- far over my head crawled up on me again. I tried to send it away.
-
- "Anything else?" I asked.
-
- "Not really."
-
- "Not really?" I asked. "What about, oh, group scenes, orgasm,
- fisting, theatre. There's a lot we haven't gone over."
-
- She shrugged. "Well, orgasm's not really important to me. I just
- like to be a good bottom. Group scenes are okay, I guess."
-
- "But no enthusiasm."
-
- "Not really," she said. "I've done fisting, it's not for me.
- Theatre's great, though. I LOVE the scene last night with Grell and
- Debard."
-
- "Hmm... That sort of scene would require some setup, I imagine.
- But you like the extreme whipping?" She nodded.
-
- I tapped my pencil lightly on the table and said, "Well, there's
- only more thing I can think of."
-
- A few seconds passed before Ally realized it was her turn to say
- something. "What's that?"
-
- "Why aren't you at my feet like a good little girl?"
-
- Her eyes lit up, a big smile crossing her face. She nearly lunged
- across the table at me, hugging me close, her head against my chest as
- she slowly fell to her knees, kissing the cloth of my shirt and jeans as
- she worked her way down to my boots. She stopped there, kneeling.
- "Come a little closer," I said. She crawled forward a few cents, and I
- said, "Right there." From my chair I reached a hand down under her
- throat and held her there.
-
- A friend once told me that you can tell everything about a bottom
- just by grabbing them by the throat. I am in no way a psionic, but I
- have to agree. With my hand open just below her jaw I could feel every
- emotion shooting through her, and I could also tell other things, like
- where she was looking. All that by the tiny tensings of nervousness in
- her throat. I looked down at her, taking my hand from her throat to
- stroke her enourmous crown of hair, then returning to her throat. "You
- know," I said to Aaden, "Lynn's right. One does acquire some wonderful
- toys in Rhysh." I picked up my pencil with my left hand and awkwardly
- wrote on the open page, "Hang around. I may need to talk to you." I
- passed it to him. He read the message and nodded.
-
- We sat in the silent sunlight for a while, waiting for a thought to
- come that would carry one of us to action. I looked up at Aaden, who
- gave me a quizzical look before clamping his eyes shut and shaking
- again. I sighed. He's incorrigible. And as we sat, I began to wonder
- just what in Hell I was going to do next. "What do you think we should
- do now?"
-
- "Well," Aaden offered, "Do what you did with Kathy."
-
-
- "This is not what I had in mind," Aaden said. I offered him
- mustard and he shook his head. Putting some on my hot dog, I handed it
- back to the vendor, who proceeded down the rickety steps of the stand.
-
- "What's wrong with baseball?" I asked.
-
- "I've played it. In fact, I've even played on this field. It is
- not my favorite game."
-
- I smiled and took a bite. "Well, it'll keep Ally's mind off of
- Cedza for a few hours, it'll be good exercise, and I have other reasons
- for bringing you here."
-
- "Such as?"
-
- "I need to talk to you. I don't think I'm cut out for this."
-
- "What's wrong? I saw your face when she talked about slapping, but
- other than that, what can't you handle?"
-
- "Aaden, you're a bottom. So am I. I've only topped once in my
- entire life, and that was a matter of inexperience on both sides. A
- little light bondage, a little spanking, that sort of thing. As a
- bottom, I've taken whippings that seem to go on forever, and I've
- certainly been a spectator at more than one dungeon.
-
- "But, Ally down there is a bottom that in some respects is better
- at it than I am. I mean, she never wears long pants, yet she didn't
- even give me a second look when I told her I was putting her in for a
- quick game of slave baseball, and didn't argue when I ordered her to put
- on jeans. And I know she hates them."
-
- "So?" Aaden asked.
-
- "So, where do I take a woman like that?"
-
- "I think it's more important you ask yourself why you're in this
- predicament. Why did you start this?"
-
- "Because I wanted to take her mind off Cedza, if only for a little
- while."
-
- "And you've done a good job. There she is, out in left field,
- waiting for the ball, doing everything in her power to help the team
- win, because it's what you want. She's doing it because you told her
- to, and it is her strongest wish to fulfill your desires." I looked out
- across the sunlit field to where she knelt, hands on knees, looking
- magnificent.
-
- A quick look around the diamond told me a lot. Slaves, especially
- ones that have no permanent masters, need constant attention. Physical
- sports, especially competitive efforts such as these, provide plenty of
- constant activity, distraction, and excuses later for punishments. And
- some of the people out there were in Rhysh strictly for the exercise.
- It sounds strange, but quite a number of people come to Rhysh because
- they haven't got the will power to exercise on their own. So they come
- to Rhysh and enter the Physical program.
-