CHAPTER TWO - PROCESSING
The doors opened automatically, and Gemma moved forwards as if in a trance. She had not been quite sure what to expect, but now she could see there were more attendants waiting ahead of her in a small room, which had a long corridor leading away from the rear side. The previous girl was disappearing down the corridor, walking steadily behind her chain. Just when Gemma reached where the attendants were standing, the chain stopped, or rather the gantry paused and the chain tightened until the collar was starting to choke her, and she had to resist raising up onto her toes. A strange thought passed through her mind; somewhere back through those doors, the next chain was already presented in position for another girl who was entering the system.
She looked wide-eyed down her upturned face at the group of lab-suited attendants who would start her processing. Her breathing was heavy, laboured. The oldest woman, kindly but professional, moved forwards with a hypodermic.
"Gemma -- 73-398P is your number, now but NRS employees will refer to you as 398 from here on - this is just a mild sedative to help you. It's all going to be quite overwhelming, and even some of the older women get, well, a bit hysterical. I know you are young and it's all quite a thrill, but try and stay calm and enjoy what's happening. We don't want you to overdose on the thrill. After all, you've enrolled voluntarily and I can see your body has responded very -- expressively -- to your circumstances, so I'm expecting it will not be an unpleasant process for you. But this injection will help you enjoy the extra processing we do for cows that have made your choice of duration."
As she struggled to absorb the meaning of what the woman had said, Gemma felt the prick and the feel of the needle entering her well-developed buttock, and then a warm glow started spreading through her body.
My choice of duration? That could only mean that permanent milkers were processed differently to what she had seen in the advertisements and online! And she had only chosen the last option because her family received a much larger payment from the National Resource Department.
Although the form had given applicants the choice of five or ten years, Gemma had chosen the final option 'when milking ceases', thinking it was more flexible as well as better rewarded. And now she was worriedly wondering just what that meant. None of the information site or advertisements had covered this.
Another attendant moved to her side carrying an aerosol with a long flexible tube extending from its top. "Open wide, 398. This is a temporary de-voicer until we can get you properly set up."
The tube slid down the back of her tongue, the spray was cold, and then a dizzy Gemma felt her throat going numb. Even her tongue was going numbish. Already everything was very intense. Scary things were being done to her, very rapidly, and she was feeling very strange from the injection.
The next item on the processing list was more mundane - a blood sample. Gemma stood motionless and glancing nervously around her while the catheter drained a vial of her blood from her arm, a small plaster applied afterwards to the needle point.
Her clothes were being methodically cut away from her with shears. Gemma had a moment of apprehension, because she had not envisaged that they would be discarded. Even though she had a Plan B, she had assumed they would be labelled and stored and returned to her when her period of milking had finished. Now this seemed far more final.
Once her clothing was cut away from her torso, her heavy breasts swung free of her T-shirt and her soaked panties were dragged unceremoniously and kicked aside. Her vulva and naked mound were coated in aromatic mucus from her arousal, dribbling down her inner thighs. She stood there fully naked, unable to cover herself, yet not particularly bothered by that. She had spent the last few years wandering around the sport shower-rooms with nothing on, so this was nothing new. It was a little embarrassing to be so publicly turned on, but there was little she could do about that, and after she'd walked through those double doors, after she had pressed that fateful remote, none of this was her responsibility.