V
"Who the fuck are you?" were the words by which the two girls were woken just a few hours later. They raised up their weary heads from the hard straw pillows which had come to seem so incredibly comfortable, and blearily focused on the towering figure of a woman dressed only in leather boots and leather shoulder-pads. This in itself made the woman a formidable and intimidating sight, but this was reinforced by a body which was more muscular than either Sharon or Tracey were sure a woman's body should ever be. But she was clearly a woman, and one who shaved her vagina as well. Although nearly naked, rather a lot of heavy iron and leather decorated her, dangling from pierced nipples and vagina. She wore a leather belt around her waist from which dangled a long holster for a truncheon and a collection of buckled leather bags.
"We're friends of Primrose," explained Sharon wearily.
"They're tourists, Tiger Lilly dearest," added Primrose who entered the room at that moment. "I found them lying under the baobab, absolutely exhausted and suffering from heat stroke. I don't know how they'd got there, but it was obvious they couldn't stay there forever. So I thought I'd bring them back home to keep them away from trouble."
"By bringing trouble here to our fucking cottage, you mean!"
"Tiger Lilly, what harm does it do? As long as they're on their way soon we'll be alright."
"It's not for us to harbour foreigners. They might be fucking spies or something! We should hand them in to the authorities so that they can be properly processed."
"Like processed meat, you mean, Tiger Lilly. Do you want then to be raped and humiliated by the police. It's obvious they're not spies. They're just ignorant tourists. They probably just got lost going to the beach." Primrose smiled indulgently at the pathetic sight of Sharon and Tracey's peeling sunburn and raw red marks on their upper chest. "I mean, I know you're police yourself, but if we took them in you don't think your colleagues won't give you a bit of rough interrogation as well. Once the police get their hands into anything, they usually leave more battered bodies and corpses around than there were to start off with. They'd suspect the heir apparent if he happened to be passing by. No, Tiger Lilly sweetheart, things'd only get worse if we took them to the authorities. Leave them to relax. No one'll tell the police, and you know it."
Tiger Lilly snorted reluctantly, and let Primrose escort her out of the bedroom, leaving the two girls slumped on the bed. Sharon was feeling ever so faintly sick and Tracey had a persistent burning sensation on her shoulders and on the top of her bum which just didn't seem to want to go away. Within seconds, they collapsed back into a feverish sleep, their naked bodies intertwined to stop themselves falling off the edges of the single bed.
It was about an hour later that Primrose returned to the bedroom with a faint smile. "We'd best get you two tidied up!" she said, handing the girls sleeveless white cotton blouses which would come down to the base of their breasts and no further. They had no chance to put them on, as she then produced a small tin bowl in the warm steamy water of which was floating a large sponge. Then with no evidence of ceremony, Primrose started vigorously scrubbing Sharon's face, body and limbs. It was like scrubbing a floor dry. Every few seconds she would squeeze out the moisture from the sponge into the bowl, and then began scrubbing other parts. As soon as she'd judged that Sharon was clean, she started scrubbing Tracey with just the same vigour. When her attention came to the area between Tracey's legs where all her rings were dangling from her reddened and sore stubbled vagina, she paused as if in thought. She then leant forward and briefly kissed Tracey's pierced clitoris.
"That's a lovely ring!" She said smiling. "That would cost me more than a month's wages."
"Is it?" wondered Tracey, who had actually thought it remarkably cheap compared to how much such jewellery would have cost back home. Of course, she'd not actually paid for it, but, even taking into account the cost of the piercing, she knew it was substantially cheaper than any of the countless fucks she'd had in Throb.
"It's beautiful!" Primrose continued, picking up the sponge and proceeding to scrub the dust and dirt off Tracey's legs. "But you tourists just don't know the value of things do you? At least that's what we hear. That you're all stupid and sex-mad, but ridiculously wealthy." She paused thoughtfully. "Is it true, that? I mean, that you're wealthy?"
"What do you fucking think!" snorted Sharon. "Do we look like we're rich?"
"I don't know," said Primrose sadly. "I don't know what rich people look like. I've never seen one in my life."
Primrose finally finished her cleaning and squeezed out the filthy water into the tin bowl. "You're clearly pretty naΓ―ve, aren't you," she continued. "Things in Buggery are quite different to wherever you come from, I can see that. I'd better give you a bit of advice on what to wear here. It's very important you do, otherwise you'll be picked up by the police, and, believe me, that is the very last thing you want to happen. In fact, it could well be the last thing that does happen to you. Fortunately, the police are relatively lax in this district, but you've still got to be pretty careful about your appearance. If you look too much out of place, you'll be arrested and then β¦ Well, I don't know what, but when the police get hold of you, it'll be lucky if you'll survive their interrogation. You mustn't wear anything from the knee to the midriff. The punishment for non-observance is arbitrary and cruel. So, if I were you, put on these old blouses of mine and, if you don't want to attract attention keep your jewellery down to just one ring about here." She fingered the ring she had joining the two flaps of her vulva.
"Who decides what people wear?" wondered Sharon as she detached her earrings and nose-stud, and placed them on the rickety bedside table. She glanced around the room, having recovered sufficiently after her scrubbing to comprehend things. Not only was it very small, but it was very bare. The only decoration was a faded portrait of the king.
Primrose followed Sharon's gaze. "Him, of course. The King. And he changes his mind all the time! Not long ago, people were allowed to wear shorts or little skirts as long as they covered less than two inches of inside leg. But then he decided we all had to have little cunt-rings, and to make sure we were wearing them we were proscribed from wearing anything down there."
"What happened to all the shorts and skirts?"