Author's Note: Thank you all so much for the support for this story so far! I'm excited for the direction this story is going, and I hope you all are, too. I didn't want to make this chapter abnormally long, so I split the events into two chapters. The second of them (Chapter 4) will be released much faster than my usual publishing timeline. Stay tuned for more muscled-up witch dominatrix shenanigans coming soon. As always, comments are greatly appreciated, and feel free to reach out with any ideas you may have for the story. Peace!
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In a realm adjacent to our own, all thrives in darkness. Time flows all at once, while simultaneously failing to exist. Anything that has ever happened, happens now, or has yet to happen in the Earth realm is able to be observed from this world.
Some would associate this omnipresent observance with the idea of divine protection, or guardian angels. Any being that oversees with this much power has to be a power for good, yes?
This is no such thing. This is realm is perverse. A purgatory, though not a purposeless limbo. A theater for damned souls to pore over those that live. Like a starving peasant, hours from death, watching his lord engorge in the most succulent of roasts. It is a punishment, a draining cuckoldry. Designed to make those with blackened souls and sinful desires suffer as they're made to watch all that they can no longer participate in unfold in front of them.
At least,
most
can no longer participate.
Some of the damned watch with longing, yearning the love or riches lost. Others spite, cursing those that wronged them in life or betrayed them to death. But a few bide their time. These are the wiser few. Those who've found cracks in the walls of their prison. Those who take what they can, little by little, piece by piece. Until finally, they've garnered enough power, enough strength, to ascend, and escape the withering hell.
One of these few is familiar. Their existence in this realm goes beyond human comprehension, as they both exist and do not all at once in the formless darkscape. But, for the sake of narrative, imagine this familiar, inky black silhouette, vaguely feminine, poring over a an observational viewport. She watches on as her gift is put to use. Though on the smallest of scales now, she feels ever so slightly enlivened, empowered. She is hungry for more.
"Another prospect?" A voice, more masculine in its tone, questions her.
"Mmmm. Angry, boundless, and driven by jealousy," the familiar voice responds, gaze not leaving her spectating glass. Through the glass, a dark-haired girl, strong and tall, holds a frail little woman's face like she is her pet. The male silhouette gazes down at the viewing glass as well, gaining the context of the two's encounter instantly.
"She's barely grazed the surface of what you've given her, it seems."
The familiar voice giggles.
"Yes. But we both sense what is to come. What her future holds."
"Has she experimented with anything that isn't...surface-level to this point? As in, her power to alter beyond just appearance?"
"Give her time. She'll realize the broadness of her abilities soon. She'll start actualizing her little lust-filled revenge plot on an even wider scale, and I'm sure she'll enjoy what comes after..."
The two entities view on as the newly empowered prospect details all that is to come in her little subject's future, the meek little woman trembling in her grasp.
They quiet as they spectate another woman join the two.
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The woman to which the stern voice belonged had rounded the bend of the bathroom's entrance and stood only a few feet from the two. Her dirty blonde hair was pulled back in a ponytail that ran through the back of a baseball cap. She wore a shirt with some local football team's logo on the front that hugged her trim, yet womanly form. Her nondescript black leggings clung to her shapely legs. Her skin was tanned, though just enough to not appear overly fake. She had creases here and there, some visible on her face in a way that told her age flatteringly. She stood at what looked around 5'4" or so, still close to a foot taller than Maria. The Latina guessed she was somewhere near her 40s, and had the sort of natural beauty that would drive all the other mothers at soccer practice wild with jealousy.
Maria locked eyes with the newcomer, an intense, shameful heat washing over her. To be seen in such a compromising, unclothed state was one thing, but to be seen in her changed, shrunken, and pathetic body was immeasurably more embarrassing. Her hands did little to preserve any semblance of modesty.
And the woman did
not
stop staring, a look of abject disdain etched in her expression at the lewd display. The three stood in silence as, Maria guessed, the woman thought of what to say next.
After what felt like an eternity, she finally spoke.
"
Join
you," she mimicked, hardly able to contain the disgust in her voice, "in doing what? This w-weird... sex thing?" She scoffed, shaking her head. "First off, girl, we are in a
public
restroom. This nasty stuff can wait until you and your little girlfriend here go home." She turned her gaze to Emily, locking eyes with the witch and making sure to slick every word with venom. "And second off, I have no interest in any of what you lesbians get up to. You're sick in the head, and we'd all be better off if you just kept quiet and scissored each other in private."
The playful, sinister smile that had encompassed Emily's face for the whole exchange dropped and shattered in an instant. A fire lit in the witch's eyes, completely unlike the pleasure-fueled flame that Maria had seen before. It wasn't a look of playfulness nor of toying sadism. It felt very, gravely, serious. The Latina knew better than to be in the witch's path, and silently crept out of the way, hoping that whatever power she was about to exert on this -
admittedly rude,
she thought - woman wouldn't extend to her own body any more.