Petronella Courcheval, manager of the PainCafe's Gift Shop, looked enthusiastically at F.X. Copeland's newest creation. "It's an android?" she said. "God, it looks just like me."
And it was—black hair in a Cleopatra cut, full lips like purple berries, intense hazel eyes, cantaloupe breasts encased in a purple halter...and long, fishnet legs. It was Petti to a tee.
"Yes'm." Cope grinned. "I had to have a model, a muse, like...you're so cute, y'know."
Petti smiled. Cope was so guileless. He would sooner "cut m' foot off" than cheat on his Muriel of 37 years...but he did appreciate a looker, and this robot thing was a direct tribute to Petti herself.
"Pardon me, are you the manager?" a frosted blonde interrupted. "I'm looking for a good bullwhip. And, that lovely man I tried the cane out on last month...having his buttocks show the weals was marvelous."
Petti smiled. "You want my brother. Sniffen, come here!" A moment later, a middle aged man with gray hair, and an unfortunate pot belly, dressed in a cardigan striped shirt and khakis—"Slave to J.Crew" was how Petti described Sniff—came up, holding a bit of register tape.
"I'm just-just going over the numbers, Petti." Sniffen Courcheval said in a shaking voice. "You said I couldn't go to my Stamp Club meeting early tonight until I worked out the snarl—"
Petti waved her hand. "Forget that. Or no—you have to work it out before you go, but I need you to test bullwhips with this nice lady. Go behind the screen and drop your pants, please."
Sniffen gulped, staring at his beautiful sister as the blonde customer giggled. "B-but you said I wouldn't have to do that anymore—please Petti—"
Petti gritted her teeth. "That's it. You can't go to the Stamp Club OR your photography group, or even Dungeons and Dragons for a month. Get behind that screen!"
Sniffen began weeping softly. "P-please—"
"Do you want me to make it two months?"
And Sniffen bawling, ran behind the screen and there was a sound of a sigh, and the zipper of his pants being pulled down.
Petti smiled at the customer. "Isadora will bring you the whip selections. Do your best to wipe out my brother's sorry attitude, please." The frosted blonde grinned conspiratorially, "You bet." Isadora went past, carrying a bundle of frightening looking implements.
"I would recommend the split hide Spanish cat o nine tails, or the sjambok. It's not shaped like a traditional whip, it's more like a long crop but carved from genuine hippopotamus hide." Petti smiled again
The frosted blonde laughed and went behind the screen. "Grab your ankles, asshole!" In a moment, Sniffen's screams began, but Petti was completely distracted by her bionic doppelganger.
"So what is this?" Petti said, running a scarlet tipped forefinger down the metal arm.
"Well, y'know that there's allus more submissive slave-type guys then dominant women what wants 'em." Cope explained laboriously. "Lotta fellas spend beaucoup bucks on the per-fessional ladies, but that ain't no satisfaction. What about a week-long rental? Mistress Android here, or Miss Andi, as I call her, kin give a guy the ideer he gots a dominant wife, see?"
"It looks a bit expensive. It's a real robot? Or android?" Petti put a crooked finger to her chin.
"Yeah, I got the go-ahead from the PainCafe big boss to borry money from the Vault, an' I promised him you'd be satisfied...my inventions seem t'have worked out so far." Cope said modestly, and Petti smiled. For a non-submissive man, she liked F.X. Copeland very much.
"Well, let's see Miss Andi at work." Petti stood back, and Cope pressed something on his remote control.
The android's lovely eyes began to blink. Such long lashes, Petti thought. Secretly, she wondered if Cope's creation was more beautiful than Petronella herself.
"Well it's about time, Cope." Miss Andi said, startling the hell out of Petti. But Cope only smiled.
"Miss Andi, meet the manager of the Dungeonopolis Gift Shop, Petronella." Cope said smoothly, and the android turned and smiled charmingly.
"Well, I can see we're sisters of a sort." Miss Andi said, taking Petti's startled hand. "Though I'm a little svelter, I think."
Great, thought Petti. She's a bitch already. Smiling, she turned and looked Miss Andi right in her plastic eyes. "Welcome to the Shop. I anticipate you will be the bringer of much revenue, if you've been programmed with any domination ability."
This elicited a metallic chuckle from Miss Andi. "Yes, I think I've got the whole bitch goddess thing down pat, dear." Miss Andi reached out and chucked Cope under the chin. "He already tried me out on a client this past week, didn't you?"
"Really?"Petti asked with interest and some annoyance that she'd not been notified. "Who, may I ask?" Petronella knew most of the BDSM aficionados of Buttermilk Falls.
"His name is Gideon Reinicke, and we had quite a memorable eight days."
Petti smiled. "I know Gid. He is between dominant girlfriends right now."
Miss Andi smirked. "He wanted to give me some lip, our Gideon, Tell me how to be dominant, and I ripped off his clothes and slashed him 'til he was sobbing with one of the legs from his dining room table, yup I broke it off, and then I shoved the leg up Gid's ass and then made him lick his shit off it...and then I gave him a Clorox enema—"
"She's real handy with finding household implements for sessions" Cope commented proudly.
"--And put him in diapers for the night...the next few days were quite cathartic." Miss Andi continued.
"On the second day, after tying him to a hot radiator for the morning, I pierced his nipples with pliers I found in the basement and attached heavy Yale locks to them. And then caned them while he screamed and bellowed. I gave him a boiling maple syrup enema, and then ordered him to call a gay hustler service, and order up three big black guys."
"I'm trained in makeup application, and put Gid in a wig and an old dress of his mother's" Miss Andi continued. "I taught him to walk with a World Atlas on his head, to be a lady for his new friends...it was bad at first, and I had to pull down his panties and throw up his skirt and whip him again--" Miss Andi's hand transformed into a whip for just a moment as an illustration--"But by the time the hustlers got there, Gid was Gillian, such a sexy babe!"
Miss Andi laughed and chills ran through Petti's heart. "I made him give each hustler a nice lap-dance, and thrashed him again for lack of enthusiasm. I told Gideon that even though he was chubby and balding and his teeth were crooked and yellow, he'd better bring all the boys to hard-ons before he sucked them off. I know what you're thinking—did he have any experience with that—any time on the bone? I made sure he'd learned before the hustlers got there."
Miss Andi paused, and something clicked, and a large steel penis shot out of her crotch area. "I gave him a little bit of practice with this, and then Giddie sucked off all three of the black guys, and then they took turns enlarging his rectum. Finally, as he was sobbing and causing serious damage to his makeup, I sent the fellows off with a hefty tip from Gid's wallet, and tied him by his balls from a basketball hoop next door. I told him he'd be there all night--I tied him there at nine-thirty, but by twelve I felt sorry for him and cut him down from his suspension.
"I tied Gideon's hands behind his back, and rubbed tuna fish all over his cock and balls, and then gave his cat a shot of crystal meth and locked them together in a steamer trunk I found in the attic for the rest of the evening...that cat had CLAWS, and though I did put protective goggles on Gid, the rest of his body didn't fare that well...And then the next---" But Petti had had enough. "That's all right. I hope Gideon isn't going to sue us!"