As was usual since I had joined the household of my Mistress, I went to her chambers towards the end of the afternoon. I knocked, although I knew she was not there but out riding in the park. I went in, took off, folded and placed my silk tunic on a side table, and took up my position, kneeling naked, head upright, back straight, knees spread, palms upturned one on each thigh. Nadu. It was thus that it amused her to find me upon her return from the park.
The wait that day seemed longer than usual, the stones of the floor harder and cold. The day had been a warm one—I knew it from my morning duties in the garden—but now a cool breeze had sprung up, flowing through the open doors that gave access to the stableyard. Raising my eyes for a moment I glanced towards the doors and saw the fine grey curtains rise and fall in the breeze. My knees were sore, my back ached. The breeze raised the hairs on my sunburnt skin, and the finer hairs between my legs where I had been shaved. In spite of myself, in her chamber, I began to come aroused. I fought to resist. At length, by staring at the hard stone floor, I managed to clear my mind.
'Slave!' I came swiftly to attention. My mistress's entry had caught me off guard, but she seemed not to have noticed my distraction. 'Boots, slave!' was all she said and, as I had been taught, I went to her, crawling on hands and knees, my head lowered, to where she sat on the edge of her couch. I drew off one leather boot, the right, and at once the scent filled my nostrils, a moist odour of dust and leather and skin glowing warm. At the second boot, I felt my arousal returning. I bent quickly to my work, hoping she had not noticed.
To begin with, I put my lips to either foot, pressing them to the warm skin in a kiss. Then I went to work on the right foot, tasting, licking, running my tongue between the toes—she laughed—before taking the largest gently into my mouth, feeling it slide between my lips.
There came a knock on the door and my mistress's voice. 'Come in.' And then, 'You may tidy.' I was aware of the slave girl's movement about the room as I moved from right foot to left.
As I continued my progress my mistress laughed again from time to time, or rested her right leg on my back, using it as a stool. She took up her riding crop then and ran its tip along the cleft of my buttocks, first caressing and then raising the crop, bringing it down full force on one buttock and then the other. And then again caressing. Thus did she school me in my worship of her feet, while the slave girl moved about the room, tidying.
'Nadu!' she commanded and I rose into a kneeling position, making sure to keep my eyes lowered, fixed upon her feet. My face was damp and my tongue tender.
I felt her foot beneath my chin, tipping back my head so that I was forced to look up along her bare leg and over her loose robe of royal blue, forced to meet her eyes. 'Open wide, kajirus,' she commanded. As I did so, she pointed her foot like a dancer and slipped it between my teeth. I held still as she slid her delicate foot, first the toes, then the smooth ball of the foot, finally the instep between my lips, spreading them painfully. All the while she held my gaze, forbidding me to lower my eyes. My jaw ached and my lips felt like they might tear apart. 'What a picture you look,' she said and laughed cruelly.
She turned aside to take a glass of water from the slave girl. As she drank, for half a second, my eyes traveled up her ankle and trim calf, past her knee and on up her silken thigh, exposed as it was by her raised foot. 'Leave us, slave,' she dismissed the slave girl and turned abruptly back to me. I lowered my eyes, fearing that she had noted my insolence.
After some time she slowly removed her foot. I thought she would try the other for size, but she did not. I thought then that she might dismiss me as she had the previous days. She did not do so. 'Your foot service is satisfactory,' she said in a peculiar, amused voice.
I said nothing.
She looked at me, merely raising her eyebrow.
'Thank you, mistress.'
'You may kiss my calf.'
'Thank you, mistress.' I bent to put my lips to her right calf, planting a timid kiss. I went to rise again but she set her left heel to the back of my head, holding it there. 'Continue!' she commanded. I did so. Crouched at her feet, naked, I kissed and licked and sucked and ran my tongue over her smooth skin. Never before had she allowed me such a privilege.
Gradually, with her left foot on my head, she guided me higher. I kissed her knee, turning my head to slip my tongue in underneath where her skin was warm and moist. Still higher I went and she tugged away her robe somewhat, perching on the edge of the couch. She guided my mouth to the smooth pale skin of her inner thigh. I put my lips to it, felt its softness, hardly daring to breathe. Hardly daring to believe what I was doing, I inched higher, bathing her skin in kisses.
All of a sudden, her hand gripped the hair of my head. I thought for a moment she would pull me into her but instead she thrust me back. I looked up at her, pleading. If she noticed my arousal, she made no comment. 'Other leg, kajirus,' she commanded.
Again I went to work, worshipping the ankle and the calf, the knee and thigh. I feared that my manhood might burst its restraint, or that the restraint, bound too tight, might unman me. I could smell her rich scent.
Once again I felt her hand grip my hair, but this time I was not thrust away. Instead my head was tipped painfully backwards. I looked up from where I knelt on the floor among her skirts. There was colour in my mistress's cheeks. This time she chose to notice my manhood. She smiled. 'Does the slave beg his mistress?' she asked softly.
'Yes, mistress,' I sighed.
'Beg me, slave.'
'Please, mistress, a slave begs to . . .'
'To what?'