Almost dinnertime... but not yet
I kneel pretty. Head up high and proud. Smiling and batting my eyelashes at any Mistress who looks at me. Shoulders back even though my wrists are shackled close to my collar. Back straight, Tits out. A coy "Mona Lisa" half-smile on my face when I don't know if any Mistress is watching or not. I scratch my nose and hope a Mistress didn't see my slip-up. I wait patiently. A slave has to be patient. Sometimes we're chained for days in a cell praying someone remembers to feed us. I think of a million things and nothing. That's what you do besides try to look pretty so you avoid the whip.
Other class 9 girls all kneel chained to table legs like me. I think they all look fabulous and hope I look as good.
I watch the preparations continue but there's not much more to do now till the Dommes chose to arrive. I see a class 8 girl burdened with like nine or ten bottles of wine. Her serving tray strapped around her waist and held up by chains to nipple rings sags down low, pulling her boobs far down. She has to lean back ever farther than usual to keep from spilling her tray while still walking in ballet boots and her eighteen inch ankle chain. I'm sure she's sweating bullets praying she doesn't drop a bottle. She'd be tortured for that for sure. She's finishing stocking one of the two bars in The Great Hall. Along the two side walls are fully stocked mahogany bars. At each one a grade 7 girl is ankle chained to be the bartender. "Grade 6 girls could carry more on their backs," I think but I know they're not allowed in The Great Hall unleashed. I know that no Mistress would want the bother of leading a 6 girl around.
Back before I was enslaved I'd seen photos of regular castles, not Clitoris Alliance castles. Some of them have suits of armor standing up on display in their main hall. We've got something like that. Between the pillars along the walls all around the room are what look like suits of armor or metal statues. They're not. Inside each one is a low slave, locked into the form fitting highly polished steel.
One looks rather like the hood ornament of a Rolls Royce, the famous "Spirit of Ecstacy," sometimes also called "The Flying Lady." That steel sculpture has the girl standing leaning way forward, her arms held out straight back, her tits stick straight out and high in front.
Another chrome steel sculpture has a girl inside with her body bent over backwards in an arch, tummy up, just her fingertips and toes on the floor, her pussy thrust high up in the air.
There are others but those are the ones I've been in. They all look beautiful from the outside. They all completely enclose a girl except some featured body part. Luckily for us slaves, there are hidden air holes in aesthetically correct places. The girl who's locked in the "Flying Lady" for example, just her nipples and areolae are not covered. You would have to look hard to find her air holes hidden oddly behind her stylized flowing hair.
The girl bowed like an arch, her twat is exposed. I've been in that a few times when i was grade 5. I guess They have to do something with all the grade 5 slaves. It's really not bad at all. You're completely supported even if you can't move a single millimeter. Rather comfy actually, as a slave judges things. Besides, the Dommes do come over to toy with you. Those are popular spots for Them to stand around chatting, sipping Their drinks before dinner starts. When you're in the arch one you're frequently used for a bench to sit on and a Domme might idly doodle around fingering you for a while. Nice! Just pray that if you're the arch, a Mistress doesn't use your twat for an ashtray!! They can not hear you scream through the steel and the long convoluted air passages, not that They would really care anyway.
Juanita, Samantha, Sarah, and the other grade 8 girls are being herded to different spots around the hall by a Mistress who is the Maîtresse d' of the feast event, all in leather with a quirt in Her hand. She's placing girls near the entrance, near the bars, near the steel sculptures. I become nervous. The event must be about to start.
Somewhere in the distance, from a couple different directions, several antique clocks all chime seven o'clock. Very pretty. They all chime in unison. That's good. Otherwise the slave girl who winds and sets them would be punished for sure. That's a job a 6 girl might get to do.
My tummy fills with butterflies. I get to serve as a 9 for the first time. "I must be perfect," I think. I hold my back perfectly straight, I smile pleasantly, spread my knees a bit more, and wait, and wait, we all wait.
They're never on time. They're women. They're dominant women. They secretly control the world. They keep slaves. They do exactly whatever They please and we had better make it work perfectly for Them.