Chapter 5, The Dungeon
With all the beer and drinks at the tavern plus the wine that Sean had given them, Alice and Jean, nestling is Sean's embrace had fallen fast asleep. Sean lay quietly for quite a while, listening to their soft breathing, gazing at their naked bodies. After about 15 minutes or so, feeling sure that they were in deep sleep, Sean carefully eased himself from between them and exited the bed. Walking quietly across the bedroom carpet, he came to a door on the opposite side of the room from where the bathroom was, where the girls and tried on the undergarments. The door opened silently, Sean step through and into a room that was already glowing with low subdued lighting. Gathering several items from a table, Sean went back to the bed.
First he took Joan's feet and without moving but only slightly, he fastened a set of leather restraints around each ankle and then fastened them together with a snap caribiner. Then he did the same to Alice. Taking another set of restraints, he brought Alice's hands together in front of her and applied the restraints in the same manner as those on her ankles. Again, he did the same to Jean. His movements were skillful and neither woman stirred from her slumber. Moving to the head of the bed, he gently slipped a black blindfold over Alice's head and positioned it over her eyes. Alice moaned in her sleep slightly but still didn't awake. Going to the other side of the bed, he applied a similar blindfold to Jean, with the same gentle skill.
"Now the hard part," Sean thought. "The gags."
With the same expert skill, Sean lifted Jean's head slightly, opened her mouth with one thumb and inserted a ball gag into it. Jean stirred awake.
"Don't make a sound, Jean." Sean ordered.
Jean opened her eye but saw nothing but black. Panic flashed red color in her unseeing eyes. Sean turned her on the bed so that her feet were almost on the floor.
"OK, now, Jean. Stand up, and don't worry I have you and you will not fall."
Jean tried to speak but the gag was doing its job well and only a muffled sound was all she could muster. Standing up she felt Sean finished fastening the bucket on the strap holding the gag in place.
"What is happening to me. She thought. "Oh, my God, I'm going to die! This son-of-a-bitch is going to kill us." Tear began to roll down Jean's cheeks.
"I'm going to lead you. You just walk slowly in the direction I guide you." Sean guided the hobbled Jean through the door to the darkened room. Against one wall was a wooden frame that was made to adjust in height. The top piece was beveled to a 45-degree angle. Hanging above the steel ring attached to a pulley arrangement. He lead Jean to the end of the frame and lifting her bound hands he attached the restraints to the steel ring with yet another caribiner, and pulling on the pulley rope lifted Jean's hand high above her head until she was pulled up to standing on her tiptoes. He fastened the rope to a hook on the wall. Bending to her feet he unbuckled and removed the restraints.
"Spread you feet a little." He ordered. "Now walk forward so you can feel there is a frame between your legs."
Joan tiptoes forward. She felt the sanded wood graze her inner thighs as she moved forward.
"Stop"
Joan could hear Sean moving something on the frame, and then she felt it. The top piece with the bevel was being raised until it was snug against her crotch.
"Now you wait there until I can get Alice in here to join us."
The beveled piece of wood was not hurting Jean, but she did realize is she tired and tried to let herself down on her feet she would be supporting the weight of her body on her tender most parts. Jean continued to cry but the gag was muffling her sobs.
Sean when back to the bedroom to get Alice. He raised her head to apply the gag. Alice awoke with a start.
"What the fu..." was all she got out before the gag was forced into her mouth.
"Be quiet, now." Sean ordered, "or you will be very sorry you didn't."
Sean finished installing the gag and buckling it. Then he lifted Alice and turned her so she could stand. Then ordering her to follow his guidance as he had done with Jean, he walked her into the dark room.
Against the opposite wall from where Jean was standing on tiptoe was a large cross in the form of an "X". Guiding Alice to it, he stopped her just as her belly was about to touch it.
"Turn around."
Alice turned as best she could with the hobbles and when she was where he wanted her, he held her and pushed her back so her back was against it. Sean unsnapped the caribiner that held her wrist restraints together and one at a time, fix each restraint to the top of a side of the cross. Then he separated the restraints on her ankles and pushing each foot to the side attached it to the bottom of that side of the cross.
In a vertical spread-eagle, Alice stood naked, exposed and vulnerable. Sean ran his hands over her body. Holding and caressing her breasts but not as a lover as he had before but as a tormentor. He pinched her nipples hard enough to make her twist and wince. Then he lifted the blindfold off her face. He could see both fire and fear in her eyes but she was not crying as Jean was. Going to a table, he selected a number if items and came back and stood in front of Alice.
The first item he selected was a pair of nipple clamps connected by a 12" chain. Each clamp was four hooked metal fingers passed through the last link of the chain. A small rubber o-ring controlled the tension of the sharp ends of the metal fingers as they grasped flesh. Sean slipped on of Alice's inner labia between the pairs of fingers of one clamp and slid the o-ring toward the end until the hook ends had buried themselves into the soft sensitive flesh. He did the same with the other clamp to the other labia. Alice winced with pain each time the 0-ring tightened the hooked fingers deep into her. Then Sean took a lead weight with a hook on the end and hung it onto the chain looped between the labia, pulling them down and increasing the strain of the hooks. The gag muffled Alice's screams of pain.
Sean walked back over to Jean, hanging by her wrists. Jean's head had fallen forward between her arms. Her legs had given out and the full weight of her body now rested on the bevel of the crossbeam of the frame. Tears stained her cheeks and her upper body shook with sobs.
Sean turned the handle of the frame and lowered the crossbeam. Jean caught herself and tried to stand up straight. Sharp pains shooting down her legs. A trickle of blood from her vagina clotted on the crossbeam and also some ran down one of her thighs. Reaching up, Sean unhooked the woman's wrists from the pulley and allowed them to lower resting in front of her.
"Come along now." Sean said as he led her away from the painful beam.
Joan shuffled in the directed that Sean was guiding her. He took her to a bench that was about waist high and padded.
"Stop." He ordered. He forced her to bend at the waist and lay her chest on the bench, then attached her wrists on either side of it. He reached up and lifted the blindfold off her head. Joan blinked with the sudden release from the darkness. She could see Alice spread-eagle on the cross in front of her. Their eyes met. Jean watched as Sean went to Alice and unhooking both her ankle and wrist restraints he turned her around and re-attached her wrists to the top of the cross. Then he went to a small table just to one side and picked up something. He had selected a black suede flogger. The handle was about 9 inches long and the falls were about 24 inches long and half an inch wide. There were 30 falls.