Rebeck drives the air-car back to the Spire. Only Vaia sits in the back. Sash decided to stay and hang out with the Squat racing crew a bit longer.
After they land and go inside, Rebeck immediately attaches the leash to Vaia's collar, smiling as she reminds her slave of her status.
"Well then," she says, stroking Vaia's long hair. "It's just you and me again."
Vaia just nods. She's alone with her mistress again, and she hasn't been given permission to speak.
"You're so committed to being a good girl for me, aren't you?" says Rebeck. She thinks to herself. "Why aren't you afraid of me, Vaia?"
"You like to use me, Mistress. Hurt me. I know you won't damage me too much, because then you'd be denying yourself ... your own pleasure."
Rebeck smiles. "You're confident about that? I do like to push at the limits."
"I know," says Vaia softly. She shivers with excitement as Rebeck strokes her cheek. "That's what excites me most, Mistress. I don't know what you'll do. How far you'll take it. But ... I want to trust you. I will trust you, Mistress."
"You're so sweet." Rebeck leans down and gives her a kiss. "But I do owe you further punishment. I think it's time you had another new experience. Follow."
She walks ahead of Vaia, leading her by the leash back to her bedroom.
"Strip," Rebeck orders.
As she complies with her mistress's commands, Vaia is astonished at how fast she finds herself incredibly aroused. She's out of her Van Saar body-suit in a matter of seconds. Vaia starts towards the washroom to fetch her fun-suit, but is stopped by a tug on her leash.
"No, need for that." Rebeck picks up a set of cuffs and approaches her. "Hands above your head, slave."
Vaia bites her lip, but complies with the order instantly.
Rebeck locks the cuffs into place, linking them above Vaia's head. Then she adds a ball-gag. And a blindfold. Vaia doesn't know what's happening. She can hear Rebeck moving around, but she can't tell what's going on. Her nipples are hard. Ohh ...! She's so turned on ... She feels hands on her. Lifting her. Her cuffs ... hook onto something!? Yes. She's hanging from the ceiling. Suspended in the air. Oh, this is ... She can't even see what's going on. She's helpless to resist. And ... she loves it. She loves her mistress! Rebeck ... She loves Rebeck so much.
She feels her fingers on her hips, her thighs, her ass. Between her legs. Touching the plugs in her cunt and ass.
"Did you think I was being kind?" asks Rebeck. "Just using these smaller ones?"
All Vaia can do is nod, and make a noise into her gag. She wants so badly to tell her how excited she is right now. Although, she's pretty sure Rebeck can tell.
"The truth is," Rebeck whispers, "these ones have some other features."
The plugs in Vaia's holes start to vibrate.
Vaia moans into her gag. Her pulse accelerates. She kicks her legs uselessly. Oh, it's feeling so good already!
She feels the heat of breath on her ear.
Rebeck giggles. "I thought you might like that, bitch."
A tongue slides into her ear. Into her gag, Vaia screams out an attempt to tell her mistress that she's coming.
"I know you're coming, slut," says Rebeck, drawing away. "I can see you dripping all over my floor."
Vaia writhes and shudders. She can feel fluid trickling down her leg. Then, the vibrations intensify.
And she's coming again. The pleasure is incredible. She's helpless to stop it, or to prevent her body from convulsing. Her restraint and powerlessness are somehow more frustrating, and thus agonisingly exciting, than usual. Especially as her legs are free to move, flailing around but never reaching anything.
"You've told us how much smut you enjoy," Rebeck says, "so I'm sure you know how some masters would use these. Activating them when you're in public to humiliate you."
Vaia knows. She ... doesn't think she wants that, but ... If her mistress requires it, she'll learn to enjoy it.
She feels Rebeck's hand cup her ass-cheek. "But that's not something I'd do. In public, I want you to blend in. To be a successful worker. A respected member of your House. A contented person. Only you and I, and Sash, will know just what happens to you when you come back to me."
Vaia can hardly concentrate on her words. This is too much!
The hand withdraws, and she hears steps as Rebeck walks round her.
"Someone else might leave you here like this, with no idea when she'll return. When you'll be freed. Left hanging like this, with no sense of time. Would you try to keep track by number of orgasms?" Rebeck chuckles.
Vaia imagines it. She's already hanging in space, lost in the dark. Unable to escape or to speak. Incessant pleasure flowing through her from between her legs, contrasted with the growing ache in her arms as her whole weight hangs from them. If this went on and on, for hours ... For her to be taken down only when her mistress had use for her ... She squirms.
"You might like that, I think, slut," Rebeck says, her voice coming from behind her now. "But as you know," now her voice turns stern, "I prefer to be more hands-on in the ways I treat you."
Crack!
A whip lashes Vaia's back. She arches, and yelps into her gag.
Crack!
Pain surges through Vaia's body. Tears start to form in her eyes, though she blinks them away frantically.
Crack!
Rebeck continues to whip her. Vaia begins to swing and spin from her restraints with the impact. There are ...
Crack!
The whip must have multiple tails, Vaia realises. Each lash is making multiple small impacts across her back.
Crack!
The pain is ... Ohh!! Why does it make her feel like this. Vaia makes a long, low moan into her gag as she climaxes again.
Rebeck takes a pause. Coiling up the cat, she halts Vaia's spinning and moves in front of her. She takes out Vaia's gag.
"I came again, Mistress," Vaia says, as soon as she can speak.
Rebeck can't help but burst out in genuine laughter. "I suppose that saves me from asking if you're enjoying yourself!"
She dials down the intensity of the vibrators and raises Vaia's blindfold. There are little tear tracks, but the girl is smiling at her ... adoringly.
"Listen, Vaia," Rebeck begins seriously. "You've been really good about everything that's happened. Other girls ... I remember one who was convinced that she'd be into it, and begged us to pick her up. Within an hour, every time the gag was out she was screamingly furiously at us that she'd send her whole House after us for this!" Rebeck smirks. "We didn't bother with her again."
Vaia laughs a little, and keeps listening.
"You, on the other hand ... You've done really well, Vaia. And you know we like you. But, if you want, this can stop right now. I'll take you down. We'll watch some vid shows. You can use our spare bed tonight. Then tomorrow, we'll take you back to your home level, and you'll never have to see us, or go through anything like this again." Rebeck wipes away Vaia's little tears. "What do you say, Vaia?"
Vaia looks down. She's almost disappointed that her mistress would give her a chance to back out like this! When she looks up, she stares straight into Rebeck's eyes, and tries not to smile. "I would say, Mistress, that I still need to be punished!"
She's never seen her mistress look so happy.
The blindfold comes back down. The gag goes back in.
Vaia waits.
The pulsing of the vibrators starts to increase.
Vaia tenses in anticipation.
Crack!
***
After fifty lashes, spread out over almost an hour, Rebeck decides that Vaia has had enough.
She turns off the vibrators completely. Then she takes the ball-gag from her slave's mouth and removes the blindfold.
When she takes Vaia down and uncuffs her, the tired, sweaty girl clings to her adorably.