[This is a part of a series of stories set in Scalpel Bay, an Urban Fantasy setting: a city of modern mundanity for some, a place of fantastical debauchery for others.]
The night's assigned girl didn't moan when the hand first found her flesh. Nor scream. Instead, she let out a soft 'No', delayed by five seconds from when the nervous palm made impact. A paltry impact, one that left no mark and pathetically slid off her tanned asscheeks. She tilted her head down, what little hair she had on her blonde pixie-cut fringe obscuring her eyes as she rolled them.
"Heh!" dressed in a suit that barely fit, the buttons barely holding across his belly, the stuttering elf giggled. The tip of his ears red from drunkenness, "*hik* y- you l- like that bitch!"
"No sir, but I'm a bad girl and I deserve to be punished," she wiggled her behind forcefully, rotating her hands, as they were locked in the stocks alongside her neck. Trying to put on a show. There wasn't a hint of motivation at all in her voice, no breathlessness or lust. Her boredom, though, echoed through the well-furnished ballroom.
"This blows," taking a sip of overpriced champagne, Duchess Mary leaned her head against the back of the fine leather. She hated how she's come to associate lacing her up her latex dress and throwing on her fur coat with another night of boredom. She watched the girl get whipped. Rolling her eyes at the pithy remarks from the power-tripping drunken socialites, businessmen and government officials. They weren't even hitting her that hard.
"No, dear, what's so incredibly boring about this is that it precisely doesn't blow," Chagerine tugged on his tie. A black tie, on a black suit. A harsh contrast to his porcelain pale skin and short white hair. Cut into a buzzcut above a face with sharp elven features. He poured himself another shot from the overpriced bottle of whisky he brought along with him. God's know he'd need it.
"Are you asking for a-"
"No, you know what I mean."
"Because if you're asking..." she lifted a long, brown hand. She took Chagerine's hand off the armrest and drew it down to the smooth latex of her dress. She smirked as she ran it over her crotch. Her cock bulged prominently through the latex, despite still being flaccid.
"Hm," he tried to hide his interest with a face of stone. Her eyes, accented by red contact lenses, narrowed at him.
"Keep pretending you don't want to get out of here and have more fun by ourselves. I love it when you're so hatefully stoic," she moved his hand up and down her length under the skirt.
"No," he looked forward again. A skinny young woman had now stumbled drunkenly up to the girl, laying a playful spank across her round ass. Again, only a very light one, "why the hell are they only going for her ass?"
"You don't feel like straddling my cock while pounding my ass into the-"
"No. Right now I'm more concerned with whatever the fuck these pithy excuses for masters and mistresses are doing," just as he said that the young blond groped the barley-grazed ass in front of her. She was dressed in a skimpy gold dress, with a small sparkling top barely covering her tits and letting her midriff bare. Certainly not the attire for a playroom. Then again, this technically wasn't a playroom. She stumbled around, under the influence of something that was barely lust. All control with no respect. It was obvious that she was a sugar-baby of one of the many rich men in the room, invited along because why not.
"You like that you- you ughh...bitch!"
"They're really divvying out the moral judgements tonight aren't they," Mary jeered sarcastically, taking another swig of her champagne, "so uncreative."
"Tell me about it," Chagerine took his hand off of Mary's skirt and rested it on his chin, "they have no idea what they're doing. There's no coherency to it, no theatrics, nothing. They're not playing off each other or anything like that. It's barely a scene."
"A scene? Chagerine, you optimist. I highly doubt anybody in this room aside from us would know what a 'scene' even is," anger tinged her voice. Anger and disappointment, "just a bunch of rich fucks slapping a bored girl's ass. Nothing interesting to it."
"True, however, we are also rich fucks."
"Yeah," Mary watched the drunk socialite stumble back to the table of lecherous, drunk suits. At least one of them had to be her sugar daddy.
"You know, I find it so, so incredibly funny," with a mouth full of snark, the suited elf leaned over. With a change in infliction, he shifted to a mockingly ominous tone, "you hear whispers of the secrecy of the Black Ribbon Society in the tabloids. A cacophonous orgy of most gold-laden of ivory-tower denizens. Clad in leather they make the devil blush with what they do in the dark-"
"...Because as everyone knows, it has to be something so devious and sick-minded."
"Of course! It's a bunch of rich and affluent men and women who pull the strings of the world and barely hide it! So, when they have something to hide, it must be just awful. And yet..."
"...and yet, they are the most pretentious, weak-handed band of fake dominants I've ever seen."
"I'm somehow both relieved and devastated."
"I'm almost disappointed!" Mary's deadpan response made Chagerine splutter. Holding his hand over his mouth, he tried to stifle his laugh. The socialites around them cast side-eyes at their laughter. The socialites...and the girl. The girl was looking directly at them, with innocent green eyes. Chagerine felt his cock stiffen. Oh, he loved eyes like that. Eyes like that look so wide and hopeless it's almost pathetic. So pathetic that the schlubs in here could never know how to do her justice. Justice, through punishment. He could though.
"I'll tell you what, if I may stroke our egos for a moment," Chagerine smiled, getting up from his seat. A crack erupted from his thin neck as he tilted his head to the side, "we are rich fucks who are good at this." He grabbed the empty shot glass sitting next to him and tipped his porcelain pale, perfectly smooth neck back. Downing it in a gulp.
"Oh?" Mary gave him a smile she only gives to her submissive. Pride. He returned the expression.
He strode across the room, faces briefly looking to him as he daintily but intentionally approached the stocks. As he approached, taking off a silky white glove, the girl in the stocks rolled her eyes.
"Oh no sir, please whatever you do, don't-"
"Shut up you prattling whore. A good sex-toy doesn't speak. Not that I mean you even deserve the position of a good one," he smiled at her, the kindness in his smile betraying his words and his intentions. Her face changed too. A slight frown. A tiny tilting upward of the sides of her mouth. Anyone else would miss it. He didn't. She knew that he knew what he was doing. She only hoped he could do it well. He bent down slowly, tilting his thin face-up, making sure it was always above hers as he squatted next to her. Faces only inches apart, he ran a long finger from the corner of her eye to the bottom of her chin, "there seems to be an issue here, an imperfection on your face."
"Really? What is it?"
"You've been here for two hours, and your makeup isn't running," with those words she drew a sharp breath. Her legs quaked instinctively at his cadence. Hushing and quiet, yet tinged with an airiness, "I intend to change that." He leaned in deep, positioning his mouth right above her ear slowly and muttering words every slave willing to tie themselves up should hear, "what's your safeword?"
"Oh! Umm," she blushed, "I um...it's- my safeword is Lia"
"Lia?" Chagerine frowned, "that's certainly an interesting safeword."
"It's- it's my mother's name," she blushed harder, "I- when I think of what she'd think seeing me like this, it- I don't know...it's just- my safeword is Lia..."
"Oh!" with a wide and toothy smile, Chagerine chuckled. Her whole face was turning red, her eyes facing the floor. She felt embarrassment. An embarrassment that made her aroused which made her embarrassed even more, "that is delightfully filthy." He stood up, lifting his hand to reveal a tattoo, stark black against his clear skin. A spiderweb on the back of his hand, different alchemic symbols caught up in the web.
"I-"
"I don't recall asking for you to speak."
"Sir, may I talk candidly," pleading eyes looked up to him. He narrowed his own.
"If it's absolutely necessary."