How had it come to this?
The words resounded in her head resonating deeply as if seeking pale-echoed form deep in her very soul.
The question might well have been some ancient jest formed for rhetoricâs celebration of its own teasing nuance. Of course, she knew exactly how she had come to this.
She knew the road down which she had travelled to arrive at this moment, this sweet predicament.
Words.
Simple words.
They had woven this snare, this sweet captivity.
Words had stormed the tedium of life's cliché,
and a âlibrarianâ stepped free of self-wrought, bookish, restraint. Restraint bound by words in bonds of fantasy's deceptive captivity.
Yet she had stepped free to soar, joyous, on the rising waves of pure feeling, richest sensation.
Inwardly she danced in praise of liberation. Yet, that dance showed as a simple tremble, a glimmering, emotional frisson expressed as what seemed a physical shiver that rippled through every cell of her craving body.
Appetite,
hunger,
satiation,
craving,
yearning,
fear,
ecstacy.
These were words she had read and processed, written and reformed. Over and over she had seen them, absorbed them, prayed for a salvation in their realisation. Now they were wrought real, as if forged white hot on the so soft anvil
of her flesh.
They were writ vastly on the virgin vellum of her secret soul. In other moments, more bookishly hidden moments, she may well have sneered at the hackneyed alliteration of her words.
The hand jolted her from thought as, unannounced, it cupped the down hanging fruit of her  breast. Swelling under its own urging her nipple offered rubber hard resistance to the fingers that lay either side of its swollen awareness.
The fingers squeezed, never soft, and slow growing harder.
Her teeth pressed down on a full lower lip as the inbreathed air sounded,
a low 'Hfffffffff  sound.
That one touch, such a simple contact, almost made her legs collapse under her.
"Tell me why you are here." His words so quietly spoken,
low in tone,
but deep in a resonance  sounding through her with a reverberating insistence bound to shame any great gong or ancient temple bell.
"You told me to come." She also whispered, but her sound was a tremor.
The hand moved away, and there was silence.
Her silence, for she knew SHE had made it grow.
"Please." She murmured. This, a delay cast in to buy time with which to explore raging thought. The silence seemed to grow until it possessed a mass, a body of oppressive proportions threatening to crush her.
"Why are you here?" he repeated the question, even more softly than before. That gentle toneâs unimaginable strength locked her in the most powerful grip of control she could imagine. Every word celebrated a simple yet resounding fact. He did not need chains and rope to bind her.
All he needed were his words, and her own will.
"I am here because I wish to learn how it feels to come face to face with my own submission!" A finger traced the curved contour of her breast.  She relished this, her reward.
"I am here," she hurried on,â to submit to you, but also to kneel before my own rights and submit to their self-destructionâ.
Two fingers again squeezed her nipple. The sensation, her reward, tore through
her. Its intensity might have been pain, but, if so, it lay wasted amid the storm of her joy at its presence.
"I am here because I want to step beyond my own control." she whispered the words, gasping them as a shadow of fear cast itself across the reality of this moment.
"And what brought you here?" His hand trailed away from her breast, tracing its languid path over the taut, gentle ridges of her ribs.
"Your storyâ. she uttered as she recalled reading his  words posted on a 'site dedicated to erotic literature.  She had read his words and known they were for her, about her.
He had written of the janus-faced female who hid within herself.
She who was innocent
and guilty,
saint and sinner,
virgin and whore..
She had read a tale of exposed clichés where weak men posed as Dominants and hid their shallow reality, and infantile fears, behind feeble palisades built on the presumptuous high-ground of base deception, falsehood, and sham. Deception, crafted in posturing words, in labels demanded as Sire and Master, Lord and Sir. Their falsehood and sham crafted in paraphernalia and accoutrements, and borne on faltering crutches enacted as acts of trivial torture.
His tale of possession raised her awareness beyond that oftâ plied mirage of assumed BDSM reality. He had offered her fact. Offered a choice, a risk, and abject submission. She had emailed him to say how she had enjoyed his words, adding, 'that she wished she could experience them.'
His reply had been simple. It had said 'she could'.  All she had to do was submit to her own predilection. She was, by her own admission, secretly submissive. She was not unique in this, far from it. Many understood this need lived within themselves.  Many more hid from it, stifled it, and sacrificed its truth to the evil prejudices that had always stalked the free expression of female sexuality and need.
Generation after generation, century after century, had taught the world that 'good girls'
donât
.
Donât what?
They donât want, donât need, donât yearn. Not good girls. Oh No , those who  did own such feelings were sluts,
cheap filthy sluts
, werenât they?
Thus the teaching had unravelled through time. Imagine how  much worse it must be, they would have taught, to seek to revel in being a manâs toy, his possession.
She had known her hunger sought just that as its satiation.
She wanted to be a plaything,
A possession,
A toy,
A cheap filthy slut
.
She craved to drink deeply of the feeling only known when one said 'use me as you will'. She needed to revel in the liberation found only in embracing the soul-cry to damn their puritanical prejudice and fear, to spurn the ludicrous chains of pious sanctimony set to confine any womanâs hunger.
She had told him so, in so many words. She had written of her need to feel, not just think, her desires. Her words admitted the dizzy rush accompanying ideas that offered freedom to remake her imaginings as fact.
Simply, he had said, âsuch is your choice, and yours alone, So make it.â He had said it so simply.
She had read it,
at first casually,
as suggestion.
But only at first. Reread the words became advice.
Yet, each review shaded their meaning.
Soon a deeper awareness of his statement evolved. It was also a command. In three closing words he offered a depth of learning she would never have imagined. In three syllables he wove patterns of translucid clarity myriad haiku might never achieve.
Perhaps it had been prevarication when she 'mailed him that  'she did not know how'. His next response had  soothed her even as it seemed to laugh at her.
It told her
'she did know,but perhaps she did not dare'
.
It asserted that she simply
'feared what all feared'
.
The Risk,
The gamble,
The Commitment.