Kathy merely appeared to my left, on the beach.Kathy merely appeared to my left, on the beach. Naked, she fell to her knees. I rose from the sand and approached my thrall. She kept her head down, her hands in her lap, waiting for the pain she had requested I inflict. I walked around her, admiring her beauty, not for the first time, and as I walked behind her, I slid my fingers under her hair and grabbed a handful. She gasped, a delicious shudder running through her. "Slave, crawl." She lifted a knee and slid forward. On her knees, I directed her over to the unlit bonfire that I had erected on the sand. "Stop." She did, and I said "See that? Tonight, in there, is your request. A mark, a sear to remember me by as you travel back out to the stars. Is that what you want?" I barely heard her over the surf. "Yes." "Then watch." I gestured, and a small charge in the center of the bonfire lit, flicking about, light the rest of the fire. We sat, waiting, as the flame grew. I spread a blanket on the ground near the flame, and directed her to it. A large foam wedge supported her head and back, and I spread her legs. With a small watercolor pen, I marked a small dot on her thigh, about two inched below her cunt, right where I was going to put the tiny brand I'd had fashioned. A Ssphynx I trust, who makes his own leaded typesets, made the design for me, and another smith, this one a Uncia, made the brand for me from Maccus' design. I had built the fire in a tepee design, so that inside lay the small alloy form, less than an inch high, of the Eldar, my symbol, heating until it was glowing white. As the fire blazed, I slowly stripped off my clothing. I don't need all that absurd costumery most purveyors of D&S seem to feel I do; she was my slave, she had been for almost two years now, and that was that. I glanced over at her, leaning against the pillow, her legs carefully and deliberately splayed open. I had long ago removed her pubic hair as an impediment, and her excitement was hotly evident in her swollen inner lips and the firelight glistening of her juices. I reached back behind my neck and undid the clasp of the chain. The tiny key on it slid down into my hand. I crouched down between those lovely legs and with one hand lifted the lock closing her labia while with the other I slid the key into place. |