1653 06-76 Which sacrament is this, father? (Chas)
1655 06-76 I’ve never dressed like that before, sir (Chas)
PREVIOUSLY: Queen Channah has decided to take an opportunity to teach Hanim Qahramanah about how to train her girls, and combines the occasion with an early start to her honeymoon. The girls are blindfolded and bit-gagged with cuffs on their wrists and ankles. NOW:
Last Chance to Run
“Last chance, girls, to prove you’re still wild and free things before we bind you,” she offered archly from her squatting position by their sides, looking up at them, curious to see how they reacted, while Esmeray looked at her like she was crazy. “What?” Channah asked innocently, standing and walking to the box to look through it for what was left.
“You’re practically daring them to run away,” Esmeray protested. “Implying they’re… domesticated little rabbits if they stay.”
“Ooh… I like that idea. But they are my domestic little pets. If they love me. If they respect me. If they trust me, they will stay and wait for whatever their Domina decides is best for them.”
“So much for ‘establishing control’ and ‘limiting variables,’” Esmeray exclaimed, exasperated.
Channah laughed, deep in her throat, perhaps a faint pink of embarrassment touching her features. “You’ve got me. I’m sorry, you’re right. This is definitely a case of doing what I say, not what I do. Do you know how long I’ve been controlling girls?”
“Some say five thousand years. Others insist you were born at the dawn of time itself.”
“Is there a difference, darling?” Channah asked loftily. “A long time. Sometimes I long for something… anything! New and challenging. And you are hardly one to complain about people who are too impulsive and defiant to follow good advice!” Apparently in a mood, she looked up and snorted. “Penny, dear, I would have expected you to offer some valuable and insightful riposte here. Oh, wait, you can’t because we’ve gagged you!” Both women seemed to think that was hilarious, and even Chas grunted behind her gag, while Penny, chagrined as she was, could only shake her head.
The sight of the brass crosses distracted Esmeray from her giggling, and she held one up. “I want to use these, er…. Whatever they are?”
“The fact you can’t figure out what they’re for, dear girl, should suggest to you they’re rather advanced equipment. I promise I’ll teach you how to use them… when the girls are ready. We can keep them here and see if we feel ready next weekend. If we tried them today, the girls might bolt after all!”
“They didn’t think that was quite as funny as we did,” Esmeray observed.
“They won’t think it’s as funny when we use them, either. But let’s just start with these.” She handed Esmeray several pieces of heavy gold jewelry, each a good-sized ring with a spring-loaded hinged segment.
“I haven’t seen these before,” she frowned.
“Carabiners. My operatives discovered them recently in the Holy Roman Empire. I like to wear them on my wrists so I have them whenever I need them,” Channah demonstrated, stacking three on her right wrist and keeping the fourth ready in her left hand before walking behind Chas again, tugging her wrists behind her, and pulling the clasp back long enough to interlink it with the smaller gold rings attached to Chas’s wrist cuffs, securing her hands behind her.
Esmeray smiled and did the same to Penny, but said doubtfully: “These are very convenient, but not very secure. If they were left alone for a bit, they could probably escape.”
“Oh,” Channah laughed. “You’re right. We have locks and more-secure rings for leaving slaves bound. And heavier ones still for unwilling partners and other prisoners who are more masculine. These are made for one of two situations. First, situations where you’re paying enough attention to the girls to prevent them from escaping. That’s something these cuffs give you ample opportunity to accomplish, even with two brats on your hands. Or second, to secure your bitches in a position where they can’t reach the rings no matter how hard they try.”
“How would that work?”
“I look forward to showing you, love,” Channah smiled happily. “But the purpose of these is to allow you to actively control your partners, and to easily reposition them for your pleasure. You’ll be amazed how effortless it becomes. For you.”
Channah pulled two more brass frames from the box, these simple straight rods with rings at each end and periodically along the length. She set them over her right shoulder as a soldier would carry a polearm to march, while she stepped beside Chas and took her by the arm with her left hand. Esmeray again followed her example, but a little more impersonally, holding Penny’s upper arm in her hand and using her sleeve as added leverage, rather than intertwining their arms. “Because they can’t see, you have to guide them and keep them safe, and they have to trust you, completely and implicitly. In all things.”
“They’re helpless and dependent as infants,” Esmeray grinned.
“Like this, they are. And they have to be as trusting as infants. Whereas we can do anything we want with them.” The girls shuffled nervously as this conversation transpired.
“Or to them,” Esmeray’s face darkened as her expression hardened.
“Breathe, Esmeray. Breathe.”
“I don’t know if I’m ready for this.”
“You’re ready,” Channah assured her, holding her eyes and calming her.
“How can you be so sure?”
“Because you’re ready for…” Channah shrugged “whatever you’re ready for.”
“What does that even mean? Mistress,” Esmeray added, recognizing her skepticism came dangerously close to sassing.
“I mean, you’re the one in control, sweetheart. You get to decide what you and Penny do tonight. Or don’t do. Or if you do anything at all. Look at poor Penny.” Channah made a pouting face. “She’s blindfolded so she can’t see, she’s gagged so she can’t speak, her arms are locked behind her back so she can’t do anything with her arms or hands… She’s not going to be deciding anything, is she? What she wants or doesn’t want from you doesn’t matter at all.” Esmeray perked up a bit, nodding thoughtfully, as Channah continued: “You’re the one who brought us here. Otherwise, my housegifts and I might already be celebrating in paradise. And you were right to do so. I’m already overflowing with… all sorts of ideas. Penny’s possibly the gentlest, most innocent girl her age in England. She would positively bore women looking for adventure and a challenge—sorry, sweetie,” Channah patted his cheek, maybe sounding a little bit sorry even as she sounded a great deal spiteful, “But that makes her the perfect first plaything for you. Even so. If you just want to enjoy the feeling of her stockings? That’s up to you. If you decide you don’t want to do anything with her? It’s your prerogative as her Qahramanah.”
Staring into space and swallowing, Esmeray took a deep breath, and looking Channah in the eye, reached down into the box and removed an item made of leather dyed black. She breathed: “Is this….”
“Oh, yes,” Channah confirmed. “Like the cuffs: for you to use on the girls, not to be used on you. Unless you want to—”
“No,” Esmeray shook her head decisively and matter-of-factly.
“I certainly don’t need to use it,” Channah smirked. “Unless you really want to punish Penny hard—and I won’t let you do that right before my honeymoon!—you’re also going to need this.” “I guess,” Esmeray shrugged, unconvinced, but accepting what Channah had proffered to her.
Literature Section “06-76 Dance of the Qahramanat XI”—Part 76 of Chapter Six, “Le Saccage de la Sale Bête Rouge” (“Rampage of the Dirty Red Beast”)—1212 words—Accompanying Images: 1653-1657—Published 2025-04-28—©2025 The Remainderman. This is a work of fiction, not a book of suggestions. It’s filled with fantasies, idiots, and criminals. Don’t believe them or imitate them.