I glugged from a bottle of water before reclining into the hot August sands. The secluded cove afforded me little company, although the gulls seemed to echo the noise in my head as I lit a joint and closed my eyes, allowing the heat of the burning sun to penetrate my closed eyelids whilst the burning curves of sand massaged my fatigued muscles.
It appeared to me that there are more things held in our imagination than could or should ever exist in reality and if I ever got hold of the bastard flying insect that was playing hop-scotch on my leg I would...
My train of thought was interrupted by a sigh so soft that I could have believed it was the wind if I didn't know that my girl was laid out on the rocks to my right. I didn't turn my head but she knew I was still there. She wouldn't doubt it for a minute.
Smiling broadly I remembered her cries for more, interspersed with her desperate pleadings. Then I felt a pang of guilt. Mary mother of god... it can't be right to drill holes into millennia old rock... but how else would I be able to secure her so completely.
Turning my head to look at her now I admired the bolts and chains keeping her so securely fastened on her back to the sandstone. Ankles and wrists embraced in iron gleaming hard in the mid-afternoon sun giving me the bone again. How can she make me so hard just by doing nothing...
A small protest escaped from her throat catching my attention once again. She didn't stir, didn't strain. Clever, my girl. I mean, what would be the point? She was going nowhere until I decided so.
Looking out to sea I felt a rush as I saw the tide turn and begin to flow in again. Within 2 hours the cove would be completely submerged once again. I had fastened and unfastened the shackles several times to ensure quick release but even that didn't dispel the possibility that the key could go astray or even that a sudden heart attack on my part could throw a spanner in the works. I hadn't gone so far as to bring bolt cutters.
She knew this. And still she didn't strain. I smiled at how lucky I was to have such an obedient, trusting girl. I do believe she would die for me which only gives me more reason to keep her alive. I love my baby, especially when laid out so beautifully...