"Your sister was right. You are the most stubborn person I have ever met," Empusa said to Charity in her proper British accent..
On the other side of the steel bars that formed a sparse cell furnished with only a narrow cot, Charity raised her right hand with her middle finger extended.
Empusa scoffed. "The groomers and stable hands report that you are constantly talking to yourself. I know what you are trying to do! You obviously have decided that if you can hold on to your language then you can prevent the Zoic Amplifier that is locked around your waist from transitioning you to your true calling as a womanimal."
Charity rolled her eyes.
"No one here speaks English. No one can understand a single word you are saying except me," Empusa said. She looked at the woman in the next cell over. "Well... I guess that there is still a chance that Killdoll remembers English..."
Charity glanced over into the next cell. Killdoll had been kidnapped many years ago from Charity's universe. She had been permanently encased in metal and rubber designed to erase her identity and focus her entire being on her arousal. Killdoll was currently standing in the far corner of her cell with her legs spread wide, twisting her torso from side to side so that her rubber, orb shaped hands swung away from her body.
"Whatever she is doing, I assume it is some form of masturbation..." Empusa commented as they watched Killdoll twist and turn, seemingly oblivious to anything else. "She has no way of communicating and even if she did, I'm fairly certain that she is so doped up on dopamine that she hardly cares."
Charity turned back to look at Empusa, frowning, crossing her arms underneath her naked breasts.
"I understand that you have to go through this process of yours... You have to come to terms with the inevitability of your dehumanization... I even encourage you to take all the time that you want. I have patience."
Charity continued to stare at Empusa, doing her best to remain expressionless.
"The truth is..." Empusa's voice cracked a little. Charity gritted her teeth, wondering if this was an act. "The truth is that I really, really miss your sister."
"Oh, fuck you!" Charity said and turned and walked to the far side of her cell distracting herself from the anger mounting within her by watching Killdoll's rhythmic twisting.
"I didn't have a choice!" Empusa stated. "When your Goddess requests something from you, you don't ignore her! I'm in the same position as you wondering why Dammasch would be interested in Faith! I want you to talk to me. Tell me everything about your sister. Maybe I can... maybe WE can understand what it is about Faith that would draw the Goddess's interest. Please! Before it's too late..."
"Too late?!" Charity said, spinning around suddenly. "Your bitch goddess isn't going to hurt Faith, is she?" Her words were slurred by the hardware embedded in her tongue. The 's' sound came out as a 'th'.
Empusa breathed out in disgust. "All life is considered precious here, Charity. We don't hurt people as a means for revenge like in your failed universe. We are much more perfect."
"What a crock," Chastity mumbled. "You just modif... mod... You fucking change the people you don't like into strange monsters, like that... that..." Charity pointed over to the cage that housed an ugly cat woman hybrid creature. Then she let out a long moan. "Oh! Fuck me!" Charity started to stagger over towards her cot, pressing her hands over the faceplate of the chastity belt locked around her loins - her arousal quickly climbing.
In the next cell, Killdoll's twisting suddenly became stunted and she dropped to a knee before slowly tipping over - the featureless steel orb that encased her head made a clanking sound as it hit the floor.
Charity climbed into her cot, no longer concerned about Empusa or her anger or the ugly cat-woman hybrid. "MMmm!" She only cared about her need to orgasm.
Empusa looked at Charity struggling with her arousal in the cot. Then she glanced at Killdoll shaking and stretching on the floor in the next cell over somewhere deep in the throes of another orgasm. She shook her head and walked away, realizing that more conversation with Charity would have to wait now, mumbling to herself. "That's got to suck - never able to orgasm, while you neighbor can do nothing but orgasm all day long..."
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It had been two weeks since Empusa had betrayed Faith. (tick) arrived at Charity's cell and dressed her in a strong leather harness with a sturdy chain lead.
"click oree click ah-ee click in?" Charity asked. She had been trying very hard to learn the native language, determining that any form of communication was better than none. Unfortunately, with a chain half submerged in the flesh of her tongue, she was incapable of making proper clicking sounds. And that apparently made her diction difficult for the native speakers to understand.
Indeed, (tick) looked confused for a moment, so Charity said the words again more slowly. She was simply trying to ask if (tick) was getting her prepared to go for a run with Hazel and Garnet, the paired, armless ponygirls. Finally, (tick) shook the lead chain of the harness that Charity was wearing, then pointed over to the corral where the ponygirls were being fed and nodded her head.
It seemed like for every three words that Charity learned of the native language, she forgot two. Regardless, it seemed like an improvement... as long as she disregarded the fact that she was forgetting English words by the page. Of course, the ponygirls could not speak at all.
Although Charity was no longer living under the illusion that she was anything more than Empusa's prisoner, her daily routine had changed very little since Faith had been taken away. She was tethered to the ponygirls almost daily and they would run freely for miles across the fields bordering the seaside cliffs.
Hazel and Garnet were much bigger than Charity. They were much stronger. Since the three were physically chained together, Charity was always subject to their whims regarding their routes and destinations. On the other hand, the ponygirls were extremely protective of Charity and always gentle.
The closest that Charity was able to get to sexual satisfaction was providing the ponygirls with oral pleasure. They especially loved the metal nubs that lined Charity's tongue. And, in Charity's mind, that made her diction problems completely worthwhile.
Often as they ran in the cool, ocean breezes with the sun overhead, Charity felt that she should simply succumb to the chastity belt, the Zoic Amplifier, as they called it - the device that was apparently sapping away her language, her understanding of the use of tools, and so much more - the device that was turning her into an animal.
Unfortunately, Charity knew that once her transformation was complete, Empusa would not allow her to run with the ponygirls any more. Rather, she would be confined with chains in a cave up at the Promontory where she would be left in isolation to wallow in rabid, unending arousal. She would be a Source Witch. Her arousal would be a power source for Empusa's magic.
So, Charity was determined to cling to humanity for as long as possible. Maybe Faith would be able to convince Dammasch to rescue her. Maybe Hope, Charity's well-decorated native lover, would figure out a way to free Charity. Maybe Charity would eventually find Blue, who wore the key to the chastity belt. Maybe she would again be free of the belt which she had worn for so long now... In fact, she hardly remembered ever NOT wearing the belt. Even in memories that predated Empusa, or Dammasch, or even Blue, she imagined herself as walking through life naked and belted.
In the early afternoon, the ponygirls led Charity into the shade of a small grove of trees. She pulled food from a small bag attached to her harness and hand-fed Hazel and Garnet between her own mouthfuls. They drank from a small creek and found a soft grassy spot to settle for a little while. Charity smiled up at the ponygirls and reached an arm around Hazel's waist. She dropped to her knees in front of Hazel and began to press her tongue to Hazel's sex. She gently grasped Garnet's leg, just to affectionately let her know that she would attend to her, all in good time. This was the standard sequence of events during an afternoon's rest.
Just as Charity began to press her tongue into Hazel's slit, though, on this day, Hazel stepped forward causing Charity to fall over on her back with a squeal. Hazel turned around and knelt down with her knees on either side of Charity's body, pressing her large muscular butt down on Charity's upper chest, easily pinning her to the ground. Meanwhile, Garnet had gently kicked Charity's legs wide apart and dropped down to position herself so that she held Charity immobile.