***All characters are over the age of 18.***
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It began gently, like a kiss good night for an already sleeping little princess: so soft and cautious it may not have even happened. Stray flickers of sensation, playful, almost a tickle. Just enough to prick the mind before it passes again, more deeply, into slumber.
In her mind, she is in between satin sheets, a heavy, cashmere wool comforter weighing her down into the mattress. She is safe, even in the darkened room. The low, thrilling hum of electricity inside of her and over by the south wall are the only sounds in the room. The mechanical ticking of her rotating "Starry Night" night light lulling her to sleep.
As she drifts deeper and deeper into the dark rippling pool of her mind, she forgets for a brief moment where she is, who she has become - what she has become. And all that is there is the insistent, comforting vibration in her pussy and in the hollowing darkness of her empty mind.
Sleep, Daddy often says. Sleep and be still.
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Drip.
Drop.
Drip. Drop. Drip... My eyes slowly open to the sound of the dripping water. It makes no sense that there would be a leak, Daddy would never allow it. At first, everything is a hazy green color, so green it makes my stomach turn, but I peer through it to find the source of the leak.
"Daddy?" I call, looking every which way. As soon as I call his name the green dissipates like fog burned away by the sun. The sound of the dripping is sharper now, clearer. I must find the leak and close it, or Daddy will certainly be upset.
A princess does not tolerate imperfection, Daddy often says.
I realize that I am still in bed, and move to get off of the bed, when I become aware of how big the bed actually is. I peer over the side; the bed towers at least ten feet off of the ground, and even when laying spread eagle on the bed, I realize that I take up only a quarter of the space.
I am so small, I realize, and my Daddy is nowhere to be found.
The sudden understanding that I am much too small to safely climb down instills a low panic in me, and coupled with the infernal dripping I so desperately need to seek out, the leak that must be fixed before Daddy finds out, I am rapidly becoming a messy bundle of nerves. I breathe deeply and try to calm myself, and the room seems to expand around me, the shadows darkening and beginning to dance. The stars on my ceiling are nowhere to be found despite the mechanical sound of the night light suggesting they should be there.
I try to think of the stars, to will my anxious mind to see them, but the effort only seems to bring the shadows closer to me. "Daddy!" I call, uncaring that I will be punished for such an uncontrolled display of weakness. I need comfort and I need safety but he does not come.
I do the only thing I can think of, and I scramble back to the center of the bed, curling up and throwing the blankets over my head.
"Poor little one," a gurgling, watery voice coos to me. I feel the bed dip, the metal frame squeaking and shuddering as the weight of something I refuse to let myself see joins me on the bed.