This is the second part in the I, Succubus series. Your comments and messages are welcome. Thank you for taking the time to read it.
I want to talk about punishment.
After my first challenge to the incubus, he who mastered me, I needed to be punished for my insolence. I deserved to be punished for my weakness. I ached to be punished for my failure. And he felt these feelings in turn, wanting to discipline me, to show me my limits, to exert his control. But on a primal level, the level incubi and succubi relate to one another on, the level of our unspoken challenges and desires and contests and battles, it's so much simpler.
I wanted to be punished and so he wanted to punish me. He wanted to punish me and so I wanted to be punished.
He gave me a day, a day to acclimate, a day to rest, a day to let anticipation build and my desires to rekindle. When I awoke there was, beside the bed, slave's raiment and collar. Prior to our combat such a thing would have been an insult. Now, it was a gift and a blessing and I took it as such. I placed the collar around my neck, the furred inner surface brushing over his runes, and garbed myself in the slave's raiment that accompanied it.
The raiment was translucent white and shot through with tiny gems, designed to draw attention to the wearer and to her subjugated state. Loose-fit and cut low, the top fastened with knots above the shoulders for simplicity in disrobing and the sides did not fasten at all. It was like wearing a thin, skimpy sheet in front and behind that billowed and flowed with motion and the wind, revealing my naked body beneath at the slightest twitch. A slave may be stripped at any time, and the raiment served as a constant reminder of that.
I stepped forth into the corridor, felt my master's mind calling to me and I followed the call, followed it into a large room well-suited to the task of punishment and discipline. Racks and chains and whips and all manner of fun and inventive torture implements abounded, some in standalone cases, some lying on tables. It was the sort of room designed to intimidate a prisoner, the kind of thing kings order their torturers to serve as architectural advisers on.
Gods above and demons below, it made me wet.
He stood in the center of the room, naked but for a loincloth, and the sight of him sent thrills and tingles through me. I walked to him slowly, relishing my slow progress, putting more than a little sway into my walk, letting my tail swing from side to side, curling around in a tight spiral, then uncurling, an expression of my anticipation.
I reached him, dropped to one knee, inclined my head. I hadn't planned to, had thoughts of testing him with defiance, but those thoughts evaporated like morning mist. I felt myself kneeling and, as I did, it felt right and proper and natural. Fish swim, birds fly, suns burn, and I kneel to him and only to him.
I wordlessly tilted my head as I knelt, offering up my collared neck, and he took it, curling one finger into my collar, placing just enough pressure on my collar to make me feel it, not so much that it was a source of discomfort. The point was to remind me of the collar. The point was to remind me of my submission. The point was to fan the flames of my arousal and it worked, those embers eager to erupt.
"Rise, slave," he said, and I did, standing before him, meeting his eyes. I wanted to stare my submission in the face. I wanted to see strength greater than my own. I wanted to be overpowered by my master's will, and I was. His gaze held me, pinned me, pierced me, and I stood, collared and owned. More than owned, I was truly, completely seen. He looked at me, through me, walked the corridors of my mind and soul as if he knew every dark turn and twist by heart. I held his gaze, determined not to look away, and I didn't for a long moment, a moment that stretched to the boundaries of eternity. I held his gaze until I couldn't, until it was too much for me, and I dropped my eyes and only then did I realize I was shaking, gasping for breath, my heart racing, my body pulsing with need. Need to be bound and punished and used and fucked and more, more, more. I walked into the room aroused and anticipating. I stood now before him boiling with need.
"Raise your arms," he said, and I did, without question, without hesitation, without even thinking. There were cuffs dangling from the room's high ceiling, cuffs separated by a spreader bar, and he bound my wrists one at a time, the bar holding my wrists apart. The cuffs were comfortable but very, very secure. I risked a glance upwards as I thought of testing them, got the slightest fractional nod, and I pulled hard against them, but there was no give at all. I'm strong, strong even for a succubus, but all my strength availed nothing and I ceased my exertions with a feeling of satisfaction at being well-bound, well-restrained, well-mastered.
I thought he'd bind my ankles the same way but instead he gestured and the floor itself rose up to bind me, rising up as if I stood in quicksand, surging up around my feet until I was ankle-deep in solid stone. I later learned that spell. It's quite useful. And absolutely binding unless magically broken. I'd heard of it but never seen it, and it immobilized me completely. I could lean forwards and back a little, I was in no danger of injury, but there was no chance of me escaping. I was locked in place until he released me, and that knowledge stroked my mind like a tender kiss.
I was eager. Hungry. I felt myself completely in his power and it aroused me, and at the same time I could not cease that desire at every succubi's core. I wanted to feed, wanted to feel his strength flow into me, wanted to take it even as I knew he was my master and I existed now to serve him. And he knew my desires, knew my lusts, knew my needs as well as I did and more.
With a gesture he caused a tray to float over in front of me, a tray bearing things that made my sex flood and my nipples hard and my heart race. There was a whip, long and coiled, made of the leather of some exotic beast or other, magically enchanted somehow, and just the sight of it was enough to make me want to feel it striking me, make me want to feel its painful touch again and again and again. There was a chain, a chain that looked as if it were made of some star-touched metal, glowing far brighter than the room's dim light. It was in the shape of a Y, and at each end was a clamp and, well, I knew what those clamps can do to one who wants them, and I wanted them.
"Choose," he said, but you and I and he all know that there was no choice to be made.
"Both," I purred, and it was submission and challenge and temptation all at once. He'd known I'd make that choice. I'd known I'd make that choice. But still he offered and still I chose.
He picked up the whip in one hand, the chain in the other, and with a gesture sent the tray back to its table. He brought the chain down and hung it in midair, the three clamps hovering before my nipples and clit, hanging just an inch from my body, tormenting me with their proximity, toying with my mind as they rested so near and yet so far.