"One bad girl, reporting for punishment!"
Yana couldn't hide her grin. She knew that being cocky was only going to get her into even more trouble, but she was hard pressed to see that as a negative.
"You seem awfully happy about it. Almost as if you misbehaved just to get a date with me." While Amalia was just as naked as Yana, everything about her, from her self-assured pose to the way she looked at Yana made it unmistakably clear who was higher up in the hierarchy.
"What if I did? I'm always up for some kinky one-on-one with someone this sexy."
Truth be told, Yana had misbehaved very much on purpose. Not with the intention to be sent to Amalia specifically, though that was a nice bonus. No, there just hadn't been going on much in the mansion lately, so Yana had decided to spice things up a little. Quite literally so. During her latest kitchen duty she might've let her hand slip when adding the chili powder. There was no way she would've gotten away with this stunt, of course, but the sight of all her fellow slaves sweating and frantically scrambling to get something to drink, it had been well worth whatever punishment she'd earned herself.
"I should tell you that flattery will not make me go any easier on you. Just the opposite, really."
Yana kept grinning. It was hard to feel threatened by Amalia. Despite her air of authority, there was an undeniable cuteness to her. She looked the kind who'd kiss you rather than bite you. And yet this adorable face allegedly hid a fiendishly sadistic mind.
"Are you well rested?" Amalia asked.
"Rested and ready for action." An exited tingle went through Yana's body as she remembered what the other slaves had told her. "Is it true that you're gonna pinch my nipples all night?"
"I wouldn't say pinch. Just play with them."
Yana knew that if her punishment was going to be only a harmless bit of sensation play, they wouldn't have given her the entire afternoon and evening off to rest and gather her energy. But still, now that she was here, brimming with energy, she hoped that the punishment wouldn't go to waste on her. Compared to most other slaves, Yana's nipples were pretty boring, far too unresponsive to have much fun with them. Sure, she wasn't gonna complain that a hottie wanted to fondle her breasts, but she felt there were better ways to teach her what a bad girl she'd been. Like a juicy over-the-knee spanking for example.
Amalia led her to something like a leather chairs with two long extensions going diagonally up from the seat. Yana had gotten to know this kind of contraption quite intimately. Once you sat down and had your legs strapped to these extensions, they were spread wide open with no way for you to close them. The top of the backrest sported two cuffs to fix your wrists over your head. Compared to most other bondage devices, these were comfortable to a fault. In a way that was what made them so fearsome. Since there was no safety concern with having a slave strapped in for pretty much as long as you felt like, they were usually used for sessions that wouldn't be over quickly. And even the most comfortable bondage in the world didn't help much when you were forced to present all your sensitive private parts and had no way to protect them from whatever abuse they were made to suffer.
"Take a seat."
It sounded more like a genuine invitation than an order, but Yana still knew better than to refuse. She sat down and soon her legs and wrists were inescapably fixed to the chair. It made her feel deliciously exposed. Hopefully Amalia would find time during her nipple play to give her pussy some tough love, too. The anticipation of being at Amalia's mercy had gotten her pretty hot already.
Amalia let a shiny red ball gag tangle over Yana's face. "Remember: The safe word is three hums in regular intervals."
"Isn't it always when you're gagged?" Yana asked, slightly confused. These reminders were usually only for the newer slaves. Once you'd been to the mansion for some time you knew all the safety protocols by heart and there was no need to interrupt play time for a reminder.
"It is. I'm just telling you because you're going to need it." Amalia smiled deviously. "In fact, so far every girl I've punished like this has safeworded at some point."
Yana's stomach clenched. The others had told her that Amalia's punishments were intense, but not that they were literally unbearable. Then again, if there was someone who could make it through some nipple torture, she'd be a prime candidate for the position. And knowing that Amalia had a record of breaking slaves made it all that more exiting to be helplessly bound before her. "Guess I'll have to be the first then."
Amalia giggled. "Maybe. I wouldn't get my hopes up, though. Mistress is so sure you'll fail, she's already issued a backup punishment."
Yana tried to play it cool, but she couldn't stop her voice from shaking a bit when she asked "So... what happens if I safeword?"
Amalia caressed Yana's cheek with the hand that wasn't holding the ball gag. "Well, first of all, I'll release you and cuddle you until you feel better, of course. And then, in the morning, you'll go to Mistress and she'll give you two options. You can either have your nipples clamped for half an hour or get a CBC"
"What? Why would I ever choose a CBC? That's, like, a million times worse."
"Let's see how you feel about that once I'm done with you."
Yana didn't argue against her, but she very much doubted that anything could make this choice even remotely equal. A CBC was one of the most excruciating punishments you could earn at the mansion. It was short for "complete backside caning", which summed it up well enough: Mistress (this punishment was always carried out by Mistress personally) would take a cane and get to work on your backside. On all of it. And she wouldn't stop until every square centimeter was beaten raw.
It hadn't even been two weeks after Yana had moved into the mansion as a slave that she'd got to witness this spectacle first hand. Not as the punished one, but close enough. A CBC was so intense, that the victim was allowed to pick another slave to serve as a so called cuddle toy to stay with her and care for her until she'd fully recovered. And at the time, a slave called Lyvia had asked Yana to be her cuddle toy.
In all her life, Yana had never seen a woman as resistant to pain as Lyvia. She was the type to take a tit whipping without even flinching. She was the one who'd once sat down in a patch of nettles and then stuck her tongue out to an overseer just because she'd wanted to see what it felt like to get spanked on a blistered ass. There was no shortage of pain sluts in the mansion, but no one could hold a candle to Lyvia. Unless it was to drip hot wax onto her, of course.
Yana vividly remembered how Lyvia had been almost high from excitement. They shackled her wrists and fixed them to a beam in front of her, but that was the only bondage involved. Slaves were supposed to hold their posture on their own when they were beaten. Mistress took out the special cane she reserved for this very occasion: A shiny rod, maybe a tad thicker than usual, made from hard, yet sufficiently flexible wood. It had a padded grip, so the wielder wouldn't risk any blisters even when the session took longer.
"Get her ready, cuddle toy!"
It was the first time Mistress had addressed Yana directly, safe for the introductory conversations they'd had before she'd moved in. Yana got down on her knees in front of Lyvia. The smell hit her immediately. Even in her short time as a slave she'd learned the smell and taste of female arousal well enough to recognize Lyvia's state even without seeing her shaking legs or her glistening pussy lips. Lyvia was more than ready for her and Yana dug right in.
One of the job of the cuddle toy was to edge the punished slave with her mouth during the caning. When she'd first heard this, she'd assumed that this was to add yet another layer of agony to the ordeal. In reality it was a much needed act of mercy. Pain became far more bearable when in a state of heightened arousal, especially if one was already a masochist.