On the first full day after their arrival at Illie's home. Hope drew a triangle in the dirt. Two of the lines represented major creeks, while the third represented a series of cliffs at the far end of a meadow. Hope made it clear that Charity should remain inside these boundaries. She pointed inside the triangle. "Ho-e!" She pointed outside the triangle. "Em-hoo-sa!"
The instructions were clear and Charity had no plan to disobey the rules. Certainly, life with Illie and Hope would be much better than Empusa.
"What are you going to be..." Charity started.
"Shh!" Hope said. "No!"
"Fuck! Hope!" Charity said, balling her hands into fists. "I have to be able to talk! Or I'll forget..."
"No! Pet! Shh! Pet.. are shhh!"
"I'm not a fucking pet, Hope!"
Hope said, "Illie..." she pointed at her eyes and then at her chest. "Me! Pet!" Next she held up one finger. "Illie!" Then a second finger. "Ho-e!" She used her other hand to make a circling motion around the two raised fingers as though they were united in some way. Then she pointed to her eyes and then to Charity. "Chai-ree are pet." For emphasis, she pointed to her eyes, then to the Charity's chastity belt. "Pet!"
Illie stepped out of the tree with a frown on her face. Hope said quietly, "Pet! Shhh!"
"Shh!" Illie confirmed.
Charity sighed in exasperation. She wasn't completely sure what to make of the conversation, but it sounded like Hope had detailed the pecking order. And it sounded like Charity was clearly on the bottom - a pet's pet, apparently - even in Hope's eyes.
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Within a week, a routine had developed. After Illie fed Hope and Charity a morning meal, she and Hope usually went off to do whatever they needed to do to survive on this planet. They basically abandoned Charity, leaving her to her own devices. She explored the area around the home tree, which was several square miles. She enjoyed the meadow the most. She would hike up there and then run wild and free whichever way she felt. It reminded her of Hazel and Garnet.
One day when she arrived in the meadow, there was a herd of some sort of deer-like animals. As she approached them, they watched her, but did not seem afraid of her. They were eating some green bell-shaped fruit that had fallen from a tree. She picked up one of the fruits, but dropped it again when she determined that it was covered in worms. Instead she picked one of the fruits from a limb, and after determining it was worm free, took a bite. She recognized the taste as something that Illie had fed her. It was very flavorful! After finishing one, she picked another and held it out to one of the deer-like creatures nearby. After a bit of sizing one another up, the "deer" actually started to eat out of her hand. Charity thought she could probably even pet the deer, but she remembered that it is impossible to understand what a wild animal is feeling. They could become violent suddenly for reasons a human could not conceive.
She noticed that a lot of the fruit growing on the lower limbs was being snatched by the herd. Charity looked at her thumbless hands and determined that she needed to improve her grip strength. She needed to learn how to climb trees.
She also found a tree that had recently fallen over. She walked out along the trunk and discovered that she had developed really good balance. She just needed a bit of practice and confidence and she would be able to skirt along the high limbs of the trees like Illie and Hope did.
Charity spent her time napping in warm patches of grass and bathing in creek pools. She enjoyed exploring the forests and watching the strange animals that lived in the area.
Every night, she would be waiting when Hope and Illie returned, simply happy to see another human. She would hug Hope and sometimes Illie would smile at her and pat her on the head. She would kneel submissively with her hands crossed behind her back as Illie (and sometimes Hope) hand fed her. At night, perhaps after servicing Illie with her tongue, she would climb up into her hammock over the nest and glow with lust as Illie teased Hope to orgasms.
One day, she found herself running through the meadow amongst the younger deer who were playing around her with no fear. Her belt was glowing so brightly blue, she could see the light even out from the cover of shade. She suddenly realized that the last memory that she had was of teasing her own nipples to hard points by a fallen tree in the forest. She had been so incredibly horny, it was almost painful. But, she could not remember deciding to walk up to the meadow. She didn't remember approaching the herd of deer. She was living in a libidinous haze.
That evening, she determined that she was going to have to communicate with Hope. Hope was about to slip a slice of fruit into Charity's mouth, but Charity bobbed her head to the side. "Hope... I... I... need to..." She looked down at her crotch, which had started to glow blue.
"Shh!" Hope said, quickly glancing around to see how far away Illie was.
Tears of frustration began to form in Charity's eyes. She pointed at her crotch and then to Hope. "I... I need... I need you to..."
"Shh! No!" Hope said, but she was starting to look nervous, or unsure for some reason.
Charity was becoming angry. Things couldn't keep going on this way. She was losing her humanity. "No, Hope! You have to... fuck me! You have to! To fuck me!"
Hope threw the fruit on the ground and began to walk away. That made Charity even more angry. Suddenly she couldn't take it anymore. She leapt up from the ground and landed on Hope's back knocking her to the ground. Charity grabbed a handful of Hope's hair, pulling her head back. She grabbed Hope's arm and tried to turn her over. She yanked her over and jumped on her again.
Suddenly, Charity was pulled up into the air. She flew a few feet and tumbled into the dirt. Illie was standing over her screaming at her. What the hell was happening here?
Charity cowered on the ground, curling up to be as small as possible. What was she doing? "I just attacked Hope," Charity thought to herself.
Illie was pushing Charity around in the dirt. She was unwrapping the chain leash from Charity's torso. Next she was dragging Charity across the ground to a large tree. One of Charity's hands was covered in blood and there were many small puncture wounds on her chest.
Illie had wrapped Charity's leash around the tree and locked it in place with a link removed from her head chains. Charity was crying now. She pulled her knees up to her chest and lay on her side. "What have I done?" she thought to herself. She had attacked Hope! Her sense of shame was overwhelming. "What have I become?"
Out of the corner of her eye, she could see that Hope was standing and walking around. She was okay. She was speaking with Illie, though. Their voices were raised. They seemed to be arguing.
The sun had set before Hope approached the tree that Charity was chained to. Charity crawled up to her knees and bent over with her hands crossed behind her back. "I'm so sorry, Hope. I love you. I'm so sorry!"