"...and there's more...unfortunately, it's even worse..."
Charity sat trembling as she listened to the latest voice message from her abducted lover, Blue. So far, Blue had admitted that the chastity belt that was currently locked around Charity's waist was a mysterious and ancient relic.
Charity's first thought was that Blue's sanity was slipping. She had been locked in isolation for so long, maybe her brain was inventing reasons behind her situation. Maybe this was all a desperate attempt to make sense of her current reality.
Still there was more to the message...
"...unfortunately, it's even worse... You're not the first woman on whom I've locked the belt..."
Charity felt her stomach twist and she looked down at her crotch. This piece of metal with which she had such a personal relationship, such intimate contact... The thought that it was worn by another woman first... For some reason she felt a sense of disgust. Then she felt anger - anger towards Blue. Then she felt guilty for feeling anger towards Blue.
"Tam. Tam Fir - the woman who was my girlfriend before you. She and I used to play tease and denial games too. I convinced her to wear the belt for longer and longer periods of time. After each release she would have earth shaking orgasms. She loved it. We were having a great time.
"I convinced her to wear the belt for a full menstrual cycle and she agreed. We locked everything down - her in the belt, me in the key collar. At the end of a month, Tam was ready to get out of the belt. But, she hadn't started her menses yet, and I convinced her to wait another week.
"It seems that her periods were suppressed somehow. I convinced her to wait a second additional week. After that week she was so desperate for relief she was not sleeping well. She was starting to have trouble concentrating. She wanted out, but after a long argument, I convinced her to stay in it for a third additional week.
"Tam started having memory issues. She couldn't think of longer words. At first I thought it was exhaustion, then perhaps something akin to Alzheimer's disease. It was different though. While her brain seemed to become duller, other senses became sharper. Her vision, for example, improved to the point that she did not need glasses anymore.
"I was curious. By this time, I was not so much convincing her to keep wearing the belt, I was forcing her to do it. After two full months she had still not had her period and she was still wearing the belt. She began having extreme difficulty using a computer keyboard. She began to have trouble differentiating between p's and q's and g's when she was reading.
"Finally, the straw that broke the camel's back is when, inexplicably one day, she forgot how to drive. I mean, she sat down in the driver's seat, but she couldn't remember what to do to make the car go. She never even put the keys in the ignition or anything.
"Of course, despite her growing list of handicaps, she knew exactly what was causing her problems. She stormed into the house and demanded for me to remove the belt. Of course, I relented, finally. We had the angriest sex ever. She was begging me to slap her and bite her neck and her breasts. It was kind of frightening, but, holy shit, it was hot. And she actually passed out during one of her orgasms.
"I thought that once she no longer had the belt on and her sleep returned to normal, her mental problems would resolve. I retaught her how to drive. Some words had completely been eliminated from her vocabulary. I thought she'd remember them, but in reality she had to relearn them. Her dyslexic-like symptoms never really resolved.
"We resisted the chastity belt for a while. Finally, I talked her into it. We'd just go for 24 hours. As soon as the belt was on, her libido was off the charts. She was cuddling and physically needy and restless. Then she became really anxious. 'Take it off,' she begged. 'I have to go to the bathroom'.
"I reminded her that she could go with the belt on. It had never been an inconvenience. Still... She complained, yet she never actually got up and went into the bathroom. She became more and more angry with me. Finally, she could hold it no longer, but rather than actually use the bathroom, she went to the corner of the room and squatted and peed on the carpet. She had forgotten about the existence of toilets!
"She was utterly horrified with herself. She knew that peeing in the corner was the wrong thing to do, but she had no idea what the right thing was. She also knew exactly why she was forgetting things again. It was the belt.
"Of course I released her. But Tam had had enough and she moved out. That was the end of our relationship. Tam was terrified of the belt and, of course, I was utterly curious.
"Then I met you and we became lovers. You enjoyed the belt and I was always very conservative with the length of our games. I monitored you to make sure that you never showed signs of any kind of mental degradation. But, how could I have ever imagined what has happened?
"I have no idea how long I've been here in this room. It feels like a year. It could just as well be two months.
"I worry constantly about you, Charity. How long have you been forced to wear the belt? What has it done to you? Has the belt affected you the same way that it did Tam? Are you being transformed? And if you are transformed, what is the end state?
"That's why you need someone to take care of you. You need to forget about me. I think that you will forget about me. One day I'll just disappear from your mind... You need someone who will take care of your physical needs... at least as best possible. Choose someone in our BDSM community. Find someone who is interested in pet play. Find someone who won't mind keeping you in a cage. Because, I think that you are going to need a cage. A big, strong cage. It will need to be very secure, because I'm not sure what might happen if you are out in the world. There are people in the world who will hunt you down and put you somewhere and study you. A lover's cage would be better than, say, the asylum. There will be no one to love you in the asylum. Stay away from Perit..."
There was a popping sound and the voice message ended.
"Fuck!" Charity thought. Her hands were trembling. "What's happening to me?"
It had been almost five months since she had been wearing the belt - more than twice as long as Tam had worn the belt (supposedly). She could still drive and use a computer. Charity quickly opened a document in her browser and typed the alphabet as quickly as she could...
"abcdefghijklmnoqprstuvwxyz"
"No problems with that," Charity thought thankfully.
Sure. She was always horny as hell. But maybe she was immune to whatever had affected Tam. She had no trouble driving her car. She remembered what the purpose of a toilet was. On the other hand, she had been having trouble remembering words when she was talking sometimes.
What did this story tell Charity about her lover, Blue? She always thought that she and Blue had a beautiful, special romantic relationship based on mutual love and respect. Sure. Sure. Charity had told Blue that she would be her slave. But that was the spice that made their relationship special. After listening to this story, though, it sounded more like Blue was some kind of sociopath incapable of empathy, using people in ways to satisfy her own curiosity.