"Yes madam?"
"How long have you been my servant?"
"Exactly five years madam; ever since your 18th birthday and your assuming control of your family's estates."
"You have been excellent in managing all the slave girls I own. You seem to have a very discerning eye concerning slave girl qualities."
"Thank you madam."
"I have had certain strange yearnings lately. Tell me, would I make a good slave girl?"
"I have no idea madam."
"But you are an expert in such things."
"True. But I have never seen madam in a slave girl capacity. Madam has always worn her noble robes and veils. Madam has always adhered to proper Gorian protocols involving the social graces between Nobles."
"I have these strange feelings and urges. I would like to know..., I am unsure. How do you access the potential of a new slave."
"Surely madam has seen it done many times. Your balcony here overlooks one of the spots where it commonly takes place. The new slave is taken there, put through various slave positions, and is thoroughly examined. The process reveals various slave strengths and weaknesses. From those the slave is accessed."
"It feels chill here for a moment."
"I felt nothing, madam."
"Do you ever use the same process on a free women?"
"The same process is employed on women who have yet to be branded. In a sense such women are in a way technically free. The process is helpful sometimes in deciding on the type of brand and on where it should best be applied to enhance the particular slave."
"Are you sure you felt nothing? I felt another definite chill."
"I failed to notice anything madam."
"Can not a free women undergo that process, and then just continue being a free women."
"To what purpose madam? Any assessment process is almost immediately followed by the branding. There are occasionally exceptions."
"For example?"
"Oh, well, for example if the woman needs for some reason to be accessed in one particular place and yet needs to be branded at a different place. For example if the branding needs to be viewed by a large audience."
"Why would there be such a need?"
"It is not uncommon if the woman is sufficiently noble."
"Hand me that shawl. You still felt nothing?"
"Madam? Yes, nothing. Should I drape it on you?"
"No, I will do it. Or rather, perhaps it is somehow because I am over dressed. Here help me remove some of my robes."
"Madam, here outside, in public?"
"We are high up. No one can see if we step back a bit."
"Madam has always maintained the decencies when I have been in madam's presence."
"Step back. At once. Now."
"As you wish madam."
"Have you ever been in charge when a noble woman who has chosen enslavement is stripped naked."
"A few times. It does not occur often."
"So you know what to do, how it is done?"
"Of course madam, it is simple enough. The soon-to-be slave simply removes items of clothing upon command, until..."
"Until she is nude?"
"Exactly. Until the soon-to-be slave is completely naked."
"Could you do such a thing here, on this balcony, and follow it with the process of a slave assessment."
"It would be somewhat cramped for space here."
"But if for some reason it had to be done here?"
"If it had to be? Yes, it could be easily done here?"
"Could you do it now?"
"There is no candidate here now."
"Yes there is."
"Madam, where?"
"Here."
