Chapter Four
"It appears that the rest of your dormitory are still out training. That bed at the end must be yours as the linen is on it ready. Make it up neatly and then you may stay in here until the other women come back," stated Miss Dawson before she turned rapidly and left Hannah alone. The ominous clang of the iron gate at the end of the dark corridor made her jump and a shiver ran down her spine at being locked up. Sighing deeply, she walked to her bed and started to put the sheet over the thin mattress, folding the ends in to make hospital corners before she draped the single grey blanket over it and set the pillow in place at the head. My bed for the next few months, she thought miserably, heart sinking before she looked around to try and take her mind off that terrible truth.
The room was small and four iron bedsteads were crammed into it along one wall with wooden lockers at the foot of each one. The drab grey colour of the walls matched the blankets arranged neatly on each bed whilst a pair of small windows set high up in the wall allowed some light to enter. Hannah wrinkled her nose in distaste as she noticed the edge of a chamber pot peeking out from under a bed then smiled slightly, wondering just why she should be so fussy when she had just been enjoying sticking her tongue up inside another woman's anal tube.
A sudden noise from outside broke into her thoughts and she looked up and watched as three other women marched into the room and stood by their beds like soldiers. A single, stocky guard followed them in and stood there glowering for a few moments before she turned her attention to Hannah.
"You there. Stand up straight when a guard enters the room!"
"Yes, miss," answered Hannah quickly, straightening up abruptly.
"Name?"
"Miller, miss," Hannah responded as the guard stepped closer, dark brown eyes observing her closely.
"Miss Davis and don't you forget it!" the guard hissed malevolently, idly running her fingers back and forth over the short leather strap in her palm. "Or you might just suffer for your lack of politeness, Miller, like young Gregan is going to now!"
Relieved, Hannah sighed gently as the woman walked away and stood in front of the small but curvaceous girl nearby whose fingers were clutching at the hem of her thin dress nervously.
"What did you forget to do, Gregan?" the guard snapped suddenly, making the girl jump slightly.
"To stand up and curtsey when the Governess entered the training room, Miss Davis," the girl answered instantly.
"Six strokes then so bend over the bed now!"
"But I was..."
"A full dozen now for answering back, girl. There is no excuse, is there?"
There was a moment of silence before Gregan capitulated and agreed with the guard, face reddening swiftly as she turned and bent over the end of her bed, pulling up her dress to bare her bottom cheeks when Davis snapped at her again.
Hannah had a good view of the white expanse of flesh and she felt a frisson of excitement slither up through her body as the girl's arse cheeks quivered gently whilst Miss Davis stepped to one side and gently teased the end of the leather strap down the crease. The guard's arm moved quickly and the strap swung swiftly through the air and struck the bare flesh hard, leaving a red welt even as Gregan squealed out in pain.
"One, thank you, miss," the hapless girl muttered and then came the next stroke whipping across the paleness and imparting pain once again.
The count went on almost monotonously and Hannah stared, unable to tear her eyes away from the fascinating scene. She didn't know why she was so intrigued by watching and yet she was, arousal squirming deep down in her belly as the strap beat its painful message into the girl's vulnerable flesh. Hannah was imagining herself there, bent over the bed, fearing the pain yet eager for its harsh fingers to tear into her flesh as well. The shame and humiliation of being watched by all the others as her arse turned red and she made little grunts and groans just as Gregan was doing. She could feel her pussy moisten in response and her tongue flickered across her parted lips as the final couple of strokes snapped agonisingly across the girl's bare buttocks, eliciting wails of pain that echoed round the room.
"Right, ladies, I'll leave you all to get acquainted with your new room mate before I come back to take you down for your dinner," stated Miss Davis, tucking her strap away in her belt before she left the room, a thin smile etched across her plump face.
"Bloody bitch!" hissed Gregan with some feeling as she straightened up slowly and painfully. "How was I meant to get up and curtsey when I was on the prong?"
"If you had then she would have whipped you for getting off it, Flo," replied one of the other two women, the oldest of her room mates, hair a striking shade of coppery red, before casting a glance at Hannah and adding, "So who are you then?"
"Hannah Miller and you are?" inquired Hannah politely, holding out her hand in an automatic gesture.
"Ooh, got a posh one here, ain't we?" mocked the third, a woman who appeared to be just out of her teens with a short, bobbed crop of dark hair.