Ever have an epiphany in bed? Master was staying with me a few days this past weekend. He had affixed my new collar and sleeping rope to the bed and I was laying cuddled against his side, near sleep, catching my breath from pleasuring him while we spoke softly in the dark warm bedroom. A room that is decorated as a love note to my Master.
In our personal times of high protocol black and red have significance. Black are the nitrile gloves he wore when he pierced me, Black is his old combat uniform that just SEEING him in puts me on me knees. Black the big leather chair that I bought JUST for the nook in my bedroom, for him to lounge on handsomely and hopefully comfortably, while I wait at his feet. Black is my heavy wooden bed that we are installing additional hardware into. The rings on the headboard and eye pins along the lower rails all around, All the better to tie me with.
Red is my slavery. Red Ropes hang in the closet to bind me. Red sheets one the bed beneath us. When the red collar is the one he chooses to put on my throat it's not just playtime, it's something a little more serious. It's time to not be bratty. It's important to listen, to obey, and even to know he expects to be causing me pain.
The walls of my bedroom are crimson, the big cushion to place at his feet, the linens of the Master bath, and the lead rope that hung from my throat. Even the artwork on the walls and the lampshades on the night tables. All rich crimson, the shade of the blood that has occasionally been coaxed from my body during our roughest scenes.
It's come in little stages. Going from wanting claimed as his, to being his collard sub to admitting he was my Master not "just" my Sir. Even when I changed my profile from Sub to Slave a few months ago I didn't really I think, GET it. It's been little changes that I've come to call " I'm getting tame" - things like not making a hiss or a snarky comment - not because I was afraid of a repercussion from my Master, but because I either didn't' want to disappoint him or actually caught myself thinking, "He deserves BETTER than that from me."
So it was in bed, one of the times when I've been allowed to pleasure him as we settled sleepily into the fresh brand new sheets, feeling the slight pull on the lead rope attached to my throat as he gathered the red coil in his hand and stroked the back of my neck. I don't remember how exactly it came to be that I made my realization. It was this slow dawn not just one flash that told me, "I'm broken"-but it started to occur to me how I'd BEEN broken.
It was never pain, or blatant manipulation or punishment or anything big and dire. It's taken somewhere around a year while I healed and let wounds another had put on my soul bleed and seal. While I've learned to trust. While I've learned not just how much I love and respect him but WHY I do. Why I stop and don't DO things i normally would .
Things like sticking out my tongue at him, Things like some mornings when my body aches from use and I don't want to obey my set tasks, such as wearing the anal toy he's chosen for me that day for example. I catch myself stopping, thinking about that while he may not know, while I COULD just tell him I do a certain thing and not get caught in the wrong doing because he's usually about 3 hours drive away -- its... wrong. Not morally wrong (though there's that too) it's wrong to not DO what he wants. I'm intelligent, I have free will... sort of, I COULD defy my Master. I COULD be willful, There's nothing coercing me to do these things.
Except this. . . MY will. It's part of ME.
My will has bent to accept his. Broken under the slow, relentless, and yet careful strength of his.
So softly it starts.
I'm reminded of a scene from one of my very favorite books. This feral horse refuses to step into small space to be washed with sheep dip or something similar. he plants his feet and becomes The Immoveable Object. His handler doesn't tug, beat, coerce. Does not even raise his voice to the creature. He ties him to the fence so he cannot back away, but could move forward when he gives in. And just waits. Occasionally making a soothing sound and telling the horse to "walk on" Until slowly the horse figures out that the man and he will stand there until the moon has risen and set again if that's what it takes. And he moves forward as asked.
I think what I asked of my Master as I lay with my head low on his belly, the taste of him still on my tongue. Thinking, head spinning a bit, was "Our first scene, that night when I thought I had 'won" because I never called red? That scene never actually ended did it? "