"Have I not convinced you, Master," she asked, "that a slave has certain powers?"
"Perhaps some piteously limited powers," I said, "such as might characterize any owned beast."
"Of course," she laughed.
"You are truly a pleasure slave, aren't you?" I asked.
"Yes," she said.
"You seem much different now from Miss Millicet Aubrey-Welles, the upper-class girl, the debutante, from Pennsylvania," I said.
"That little chit," she laughed. "She, too, was a pleasure slave, and in her heart she knew it. The best thing that ever happened to her was to be brought to Gor and put in chains."
"Perhaps," I said.
"There is no doubt about it," she said.
"Do you remember her?" I asked.
"Of course," she said. "But I am no longer she. I am now Winyela, only a slave."
"That is true," I said. Only a slave, I thought to myself, refully, only a slave! She was exciting and beautiful, and owned. It was all I could do not to seize her and put her mercilessly to my purposes. How natural it seemed that the men of Gor should keep such women in cages and chains, and force them, under whips, to please them.
"To be sure," I said, "I see that you have powers which mere Millicent did not."
"Yes," she said. "I now have the powers of a slave." That was true. It could not be gainsiad.
"We must go to the lodge of Canka," I said.
"But you have not punished me," she said.
"No," I said.
"Canka wanted me punished, you know," she said.
"I do not know if he really wanted you punished or not," I said.
"Of course he did," she said. "He is a red master."
"I suppose you are right," I said. I recalled that Cuwignaka and Grunt had also, both, been of this opinion.
"But you did not do so," she said.
"No," I said.
"I am unpunished." she said.
"Yes," I said.
"Punish me," she said.
"No," I said.
"My master wanted me to be punished," she said. "I am ready to be punished. I want to be punished."
"It is all right," I said.
"Punish me," she said.
"No," I said.
"You have no intention, then, of punishing me?" she asked.
"No," I said.
"Canka wanted you to have me," she said. "Do you not find me attractive? Do I not have at least the negligible charms of a slave?"
"You are attractive, and beautiful," I said. "And, if you do not mind my saying so, you have been somewhat blatant about your charms."
"In a collar, a girl may flaunt herself," she said.
I nodded. It was true. The collar as an interesting effect on female sexuality. It liberates the girl to be herself.
"Will you not give me but one kiss?" she asked.
"No," I said. "It is well known to what the kiss of a slave girl must lead."
"What?" she asked, innocently.
"Her ownership, domination and rape," I said.
"Oh," she said.
I snapped my fingers.
The girl, immediately, stood.
"You see, pretty Winyela," I said, "you are ultimately powerless. I snap my fingers and you must stand, prepare then to follow me, unquestioning, your will nothing, to your master's lodge. Your clever tricks now avail you naught."
She put her head down.
I laughed with triumph, seeing her standing there, her head down. "You see," I said, "you are ultimately powerless."
She lifted her head, and smiled. "I am not completely powerless," she said.
"What do you mean?" I asked, puzzled.
"I will show you," she said, "how a slave can seduce a man."
Suddenly she reached out and putting her lovely, bared arms about my neck, pressed her lips to mine. "Ai!" I cried, in anger and fury. But I could not, then, for a moment, release her. She was a female slave. It is not easy to surrender to a female slave from one's arms. Then, angrily, I pulled away from her. Her kiss, that of a female slave, burned on my lips. I shook with emotion. I was furious. The kiss, too brief, delicious, startling, warm, soft, raged in my body. It was like a chemical agent, a catalyst, introduced unexpectedly into my system. Reactions and transformations, eruptive, excruciating and compelling, irresistible and violent, seemed to explod in every compound and tissue in my body. Then she lifted her lips again to me. "Taste again of the lips of a slave, Master," she said. Then she was in my arms, crushed to me, and it seemed that there was only she, and the thunder and light in my blood. Then she was lifted in my arms. "See my collar?" she laughed. "I see it," I said, angrily. "I am a slave!" she said. "Yes," I said. "Do you like the taste of a slave, Master?" she asked. Then she reached out again to me, her arms about my neck, and, again, our lips met. I was then furious. I hurled her to my feet.
"Slut! Animal! Slave!" I cried.
"Yes, Master," she said, laughing.
She rose to her hands and knees and looked up at me, delighted. "I do not think you will resist me now," she laughed.
"Slave!" I cried, angrily.
"Yes, Master," she laughed.
I then, to her horror, strode to the side of the lodge and picked up the kaiila quirt which lay there.
"Please no!" she said, frightened. "Do not whip me!"
But I laid the quir to her well, five times, first striking her from her hands and knees to the robes, and then, as she twisted and rolled, helpless to avoid the blows, lashed her upon them.
"You wanted to be punished," I said.
"I did not want the punishment of the whip!" she wept.
"You will take what punishment your master decides to give you," I said.
"Yes, Master," she wept, her body marked, at my feet.
"On your back," I snapped. "Make slave lips. Throw apart your legs!"
Swiftly the girl complied, tears in her eyes. She then lay there, her lips pursed to kiss, her ankles widely spread.
I looked down at her. She looked up at me, tears in her eyes.
A girl who is commanded to make slave lips, or who receives the command, "Slave lips," must form her mouth for kissing. She then, commonly, is not permitted to break this lip position until either she kisses or is kissed. Needless to say, a girl cannot speak when her lips are in the unbroken, fully-pursed slave-lips position. The command which commonly followes the «Slave-lips» command is, "Please me."
I threw the quirt down beside the girl. She looked at it, there, gratefully. No longer was it in my hand. To be sure, it was where I might easily seize it up.
I then crouched beside her and lifted her to a half-sitting position. She closed her legs somewhat. I then kissed her, and this permitted her to break the slave-lips position.
"I do not think you will now hesitate to have me," she said.
"I do not think so," I said.
"It will be a great indignity for me, a great punishment, to be had by you," she said, "for you, too, are only a slave."
"Doubtless," I said.
"Following the instructions of my master, Canka," she said. "I am to yeild to you, fully, irreservedly, as a slave to her master."
"Yes," I said.
"I am to hold nothing back."
"No," I said.
"But even were I not under such commands," she said, "I know I could not help but yield to you. I have felt your hands before. I know that you can, if it pleases you, make me cry myself your slave."
"Perhaps," I said. I had handled this slave before. We both knew what I could do to her.
"I am ready," she said. "Please being my punishment."
"Very well," I said.
She lay back, softly, in my arms. "That was a splendid punishment," she said, "Master."
I said nothing. To be sure, I had enjoyed administering it to her. It was pleasant to take a woman and reduce her to a cringing, cuffed, orgasmic slave.
"I am yours for the afternoon," she said.
"That is true," I said.
"It is still early," she said.