Mistress then says "If you prove yourself tonight, I might consider the numbers should be hours next time, instead of mere minutes. Tell me, worm, how many days is 480 hours?" I say "Twenty days, Mistress." As I say it I'm thinking to myself "Fuck, that's three weeks!" Mistress knows me well; she reads my mind, senses the fear in my voice, and hisses "Insect! You dare to defy me? If I say you need three weeks confinement that's what you will have. Think about that while you are here tonight. In fact," she continues, "I'd better check those dice again now. They may in fact have been hours dice, not minutes dice! If I don't come back for you in the morning you'll know they were really hours dice, and Fate means for you to be here twenty days."
I don't believe her for a second of course, she's not crazy! But she loves messing with my mind! But I do know she is very serious about the eight hours. She has a great respect for the decree of Fate, the voice of the Universe which speaks through signs and symbols, like dice, if we dare to ask the questions, and can bear to listen to the answers.
My clever Mistress is also very practical. She gets the camera out, turns it to video mode, and says "now, tell the judge why I shouldn't go to jail." We've talked about "insurance policies" for risky play before. Accidents happen: people die jogging, while watching TV, walking the dog even, and sometimes people die while they're tied up. The jogging didn't kill them, or the TV, or the dog, but for some reason people think people die from being tied up, and the people who tied them up get the blame. So, insurance. She turns the camera on, I look into the camera, and I say "I am willingly, eagerly, voluntarily getting my friend to restrain me and confine me and abandon me here in this cage for the whole night. I take full responsibility for any unforeseen consequences." Mistress turns the camera off and puts it in her pack.
Mistress then delights me further by taking a leather hood from her pack and putting it over my head. To keep it in place she ties a rope around my head which squeezes the leather against my closed eyelids. I am now in total darkness. I cannot see any light at all. I can breathe freely, and I inhale the smell of the leather surrounding my face. The perfume and the texture of the leather arouse me instantly, and the firm pressure of the rope around my head is exhilarating! I whisper a dozen passionate thank-yous to my gloriously magnificent Mistress.
Without another word she closes the cage door. The click of the padlock locking causes a surge of adrenaline to pulse through me. The reality of abandonment actually happening right now is pounding in my heart. I hold my breath and strain to hear her delicate footsteps down the passage, the gentle click of the light switch going off, the basement door closing with a dull thud, the rattle of the combination lock going into the hasp, the metallic clunk as it locks, and finally another rattle as Mistress turns the combination rings. Then silence. So she's not doing that trick of pretending to leave but really staying to watch me. No, to get those sounds like that she really has left, she really did close the door behind her and lock it from the outside. My brain reels for a moment: Will she remember the combination? She had to ask me for it when we came in! I have to have so much trust in her.
A few moments later I think I hear the flat door close gently somewhere inside the building. What is she going to do? Watch TV or a video? Will she fall asleep and leave me too long? So many things we didn't discuss in detail. Will she come back soon to check me before going for the long haul? What have I got myself into! I could die here and no one would know for eight hours!
The silence and the darkness and the stillness are all-encompassing. I realize the temperature is perfect, very comfortable. Something else to thank my Mistress for, for choosing this night. My naked body exposed to the night air is singing, vibrating with the intensity of the sensuality of the situation. My emotions are a swirling mix of joy, delight, anxiety, apprehension, and exhilarating, victorious fulfillment of this long-imagined fantasy!
The physical reality of the situation, that I need to stand strongly upright to avoid strangling myself, is amazing! The longer I have to be strong, the stronger I feel. The straighter I stand the prouder and more confident I feel. My life depends directly on me and me alone, and I am strong and capable. The weight on my balls is perfectly balanced to keep me fully aware of them and erotically stimulated, with no fear of circulation problems. My Mistress is so thoughtfully skilled and knowing of my body that she has given me this precious gift.
The passing of time is a mystery. The world is asleep, silent, giving no clues to mark minutes or hours. But I know I will hear the night ending, or rather, the sounds of the day beginning, so I have no fear of missing that. My Mistress will release me in the morning, and I will be reborn a free spirit in grateful servitude to her forever. But for now, for these next eight hours, my mind will buzz and hum and merge and soar in celebration of my own senses and my powerful body.