Zoe Aames returned home to find her mother in tears.
"Oh baby," she sobbed. "I'm so sorry."
"Mom, Mom, what is it? What's the matter?"
Sandy Aames turned and directed her eyes towards the opened letter on the kitchen table. Zoe was dumfounded as to what could be so bad to make her mother cry like this and apologise to her. Had someone died? Zoe's grandparents were long gone and neither of her parents had siblings, so no cousins, aunts or uncles. She'd seen her father and brother that morning, so if something had happened to them, it wasn't going to be in a letter.
Before Zoe could pick up the letter, her mother grabbed hold of her and hugged her tight.
"It's from the L.T.N.P. They're sending a representative to see us both."
"The L.T.N.P.? The nudity thing?" asked Zoe.
"I'm sorry sweetheart. She's due any moment."
"To do what?"
Zoe began to feel agitated. She'd heard rumours of these visitations. They were done short notice so as to not give anyone a chance to react. Or escape. Realising this could be it, brought tears to Zoe's eyes. "No! No, Mom, I don't want to. Don't let them do this."
"I'm sorry baby, there's nothing I can do."
The two women hugged even tighter than before. Zoe, a slender 18 year old with long brown hair, was still in her school uniform. The doorbell rang.
"Mom, don't answer it."
"I've got to sweetie. The consequences for not are..." She shook her head in a far from positive way.
Mrs Aames headed for the door and opened it to find a completely naked woman standing there, holding a briefcase. She was attired in only a tie and shirt collar. And of course, the obligatory tail.
Zoe watched as her mother let this nude woman into their house. She was beautiful, about 5'6", early to mid thirties, long black hair tied up in a beautifully quaffed arrangement.
"Hello, Mrs. Aames? And you must be Zoe. I'm Miss Green. It's nice to meet you." She held out her hand to shake and then walked over to Zoe and offered her her hand too. "Please don't be afraid. I don't bite." Her sparkling blue eyes, deep as the oceans, qualified her words, letting Zoe know she spoke only the truth.
Zoe took the hand of the nude woman and couldn't help it when her eyes scanned down the body before her. Miss Green had large breasts, totally natural and a far cry from the tiny AA cup bee stings Zoe had. And they were punctuated by two of the largest bright pink areola she had ever seen. Then between her legs was the mass of dark pubic hair. All on display for anyone to see.
Miss Green didn't seem in the least bit perturbed about being ogled in all her glory by the teenage girl. Around her neck she wore a white shirt collar and had on a black tie that was short enough to come to a stop right between her breasts.
When Miss Green turned back to Zoe's mother, Zoe caught sight of the tail. A proud looking thing shaped like a reverse question mark, emanating from the woman's bum, rising to waist height before spraying backwards away from her body.
Zoe dreaded what she feared was to come for her and her mother. After all, the visit could only be about one thing.
"Please will you have a seat Mrs. Aames? You too Zoe."
The three women sat down around the breakfast table. Miss Green lifted her briefcase onto the table and clicked it open, pulling out a thin blue folder. She shut the briefcase and placed it at her feet. "That's for later," she said.
Zoe and Sandy Aames sat on the edge of their respective seats, biting their lips and holding hands under the table, terrified of the moments ahead. Miss Green sat up straight, got her documents in order, clicked her pen and took in a deep breath.
"Okay, um... I can see you're both nervous, so shall we just get stuck in?"
Mrs. Aames faintly nodded as Zoe wiped away a tear trickle with her free hand.
"I'm afraid it is what you think it is."
"Oh my God!" burst Mrs. Aames. Zoe immediately shook with fear and started sobbing. "No, please, please, I'll do anything, please. Just don't make my daughter do it too."
"I'm sorry Mrs. Aames. The documents I have here are for both of you."
Zoe turned to her mother for comfort. She was crying her little heart out.
"Zoe, I know this is very, very hard right now," said Miss Green. "But I assure you it gets better. And it gets better quickly too."
"Noooo!" Zoe balled into her mother's embrace.
"Zoe, Mrs. Aames. I was like you too. Once. A naked woman came to our door, dressed as I am now, carrying a briefcase and wearing a tail and I cried my eyes out. I cried so much, you couldn't even see my eyeballs anymore, my eyelids were so red and puffy and closed up. But here I am, more than two years later, doing this for a living. My term was up over a year ago. I choose to be this way now, because my year of forced nudity gave me confidence and strength and courage to do anything. I face the world and nothing phases me. I go out naked everyday, proudly. I wear my tail and my collar and I defy anyone to say something. But you know what, they don't, because they know I'm not one for messing with."
"I can't do it, Mom, please, do something."
"Oh baby, what can I do? I'm helpless here."
"Yes," said Miss Green. "Right now, you are both helpless. But your initiation into this scheme is going to end that. You're not going to be helpless, you're going to be strong. Going out into the world naked is going to make you strong and everyone knows it. I can walk naked into a bar at night, a bar filled with horny young boys, I walk in and they go silent. I have power over them. They don't dare step out of line in my presence because they know the consequences if they do. They know that with one call, I can have them taken away, stripped and paraded naked through town, just for making a rude remark. I assure you Zoe, in a very short time, you will see this for yourself and you will come to adore the sense of 'can do' it instils in you. Men crumble at your feet. Women gasp as you go by. The women of the L.T.N.P. command respect and that's something you already know to be true."
Zoe's crying had subsided a little. She had listened to every word Miss Green had spoken and even though she remained scared to death of what was about to happen, she had been given a small glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel.
"Miss Green? Is there nothing I can do to protect my daughter from this?"
"I'm very sorry Mrs. Aames, but you know there's not. And please, I'd like you both to call me Eva. We are all in this together, after all."
"Eva Green? Like the actress?"
"Yes," she chuckled. "Just like the actress, though I'm not French. Don't speak a word of it except for Bonjour and Merci!"
"You look a bit like her too."
"Well, thank you. I don't know her films all that well, she takes her clothes off a little too much for my liking."
Zoe finally lifted her head from her mother's chest and was about to say something when she noticed the wry look in Miss Green's eyes.
Miss Green smiled. "Icebreaker! Put you at ease!"
Zoe actually managed to giggle, despite her obvious discomfort at the situation.
"Okay, let's see what it says here," Miss Green scanned down the first loose page inside the opened folder. Sandra Denise Aames, age 45, date of birth February 9."
"Yes," Sandy Aames nodded as Miss Green turned to the next sheet in the folder.
"And Zoe Joey Aames, age 18, date of birth September 27?"