"Naomi, Katrina, Evgenia and the "Open Drawers" live drawing session"
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Naomi flicked off the light switch and pulled the door shut behind her. She walked down the corridor towards the staircase. It had just turned 6:00 pm, the end of her Tuesday afternoon office hours. Several of her colleagues saluted her as she walked past their doors.
"Gunnight," said Randall in his pronounced Aussie accent.
"Goodnight," she responded, with a faint hint of her Israeli accent.
Randall, like most of her male colleagues, was both infatuated with and intimidated by Naomi.
Naomi was 32 years old. She was distinguished professor of clinical psychology at the medical school attached to the Gotham Institute of Technology, and the youngest ever to hold an endowed chair. Her path-breaking research was situated at the intersection of endocrinology and epigenetics. Her focus on the subject matter was driven by her own harrowing personal experience.
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Naomi was born on a kibbutz in southern Israel, with both Sephardic and Ashkenazi blood. Early on, her extraordinary intellectual faculties became apparent. She had a photographic memory. As a thirteen year old, her parents would have her perform parlor tricks for their dinner party guests: a guest would write down on a scrap of paper a random twenty five character string of letters and numbers. She would study it for ten seconds, hand it back and then recite the sequence flawlessly.
Given her precocity, she advanced several grades ahead of her peers and at the age of fifteen entered university, studying electrical engineering. At the age of nineteen, she had completed her PhD. And then she joined the army. Her reputation had already drawn the attention at the highest levels of the military hierarchy and she was assigned to the bureau of counter-intelligence and special operations.
With her stunning beauty, Naomi cast a spell on her army comrades. She had thick, jet black hair, olive skin, generous lips that opened into a broad smile, gleaming white teeth, a fine upturned nose and hazel eyes. She had strong thighs and buttocks, toned arms and - for a girl - very defined biceps. Her tummy was flat and taught, accentuating her pubis which jutted out defiantly. Attenuating this masculine physique were two feminine features - her hips were quite broad and her breasts soft and full, with dark pointed nipples.
Hers was not a desk job. She was trained in firearms, knife fighting (Kabar and Spero) and hand to hand combat. She mastered lethal strikes from Krav Maga and other martial arts.
On a nighttime mission in enemy territory with five teammates, Naomi was separated from the group and taken captive. For seventy two hours she was held by her captors and subjected to harsh interrogation and brutal sexual abuse, which will not be described here.
Her captivity triggered a massive response, dictated by the Minister of Defense himself. A team of commandos operating with drone support liberated her, and pulverized - literally - her captors. She bore only two permanent scars from the ordeal, a knife cut carved inside her left thigh, and a small notch cut into her left labia majora. But she suffered intense psychological scarring and PTSD.
In convalescence for several months, she was treated by expert behavioral therapists, who had only limited success alleviating her trauma. But then she underwent an experimental course of treatment with psychedelic drugs. This treatment had immediate and dramatic results. Naomi's symptoms disappeared virtually overnight. But the treatment had two unforeseen consequences.
First, her "fight or flight" reflex was completely extinguished. The most extreme stress elicited not the slightest acceleration of her heartbeat, nor rush of adrenaline or cortisol - it was as if ice water ran in her veins. Naomi became literally fearless - at times almost a spectator outside her own body.
Second, and as though her nervous system was compensating, she began to experience overpowering sexual urges and fantasies. The "old" Naomi, purely cerebral, had shown little interest in sex. The "new" Naomi took a clinical interest in her own sexual urges and her tastes ran to BDSM. More particularly, she oscillated unpredictably between the desire to dominate and humiliate, or to submit and be degraded.
Naomi embarked on a new life and a new career path. At the age of 25, she moved from Tel Aviv to Gotham, where she enrolled in medical school. Three years thereafter, she had obtained her MD/PhD degrees in her new discipline and a position on the faculty.
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