[It is not requisite that you first read the earlier stories in this series prior to enjoying this one. However, if you are offended by excretory punishment or infibulation, you should not read the story.]
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Eleanor was one very excited woman as she walked from her apartment to the best restaurant in the city, known simply as The Lounge. Senior Correctional Officer Annette had invited her to this going-away occasion and Eleanor was most grateful to Annette for making her horrible year on infibulatory punishment as tolerable as it had turned out to be.
After all, while Eleanor had suffered public humiliation for her adultery with another woman's husband—her vaginal lips were closed for the year with the surgical insertion of small alloy rings in her labia—and the entire case had been thoroughly reported on in the Woman's Compass newspaper, Annette had made sure Eleanor complied with the requirements set for those under correctional supervision and Eleanor had completed her sentence with no issues arising.
Eleanor now was a married woman herself, ready to move with dear Jackson to another city where they would be far less conspicuous. She entered The Lounge and the hostess smiled when she mentioned her companion and escorted her to a booth. Annette rose and welcomed her and then indicated that there was a third lunch companion, Justice Lesley, one of the three-judge panel that had sentenced Eleanor and also released her from correction.
Justice Lesley was blonde and Eleanor felt a slight bit better about her joining them for lunch because this justice had written the short opinion when Eleanor's prosecutrix, Gail, had tried to extend Eleanor's punishment, an unwise move that resulted in the court, per Justice Lesley's decision, ordering that Gail be caned and that her counsel receive both a caning and some extra Mistress's strokes, that is, imposed on her open vulva.
"Hello, Eleanor," Justice Lesley said with a broad smile. "I hope we might be friends in future. I know you will harbor some resentment towards the court for your sentence but Annette has told me how well you have behaved and we are very pleased with that. And please accept my congratulations on your marriage as well. Dianne informed me [referring to the Chief Justice who had married Eleanor] as to how impressed she was with your husband."
Eleanor smiled in return and told Justice Lesley she was very honored that the judge thought so well of her. Annette then added that she hoped Eleanor would stay in contact with her even when she moved, because after some additional time had passed, Eleanor would be entitled under the code of the Women's Republic to move for expungement of her court record, assuming continued good behavior. "You seem to be a fine candidate for that when it is timely," Justice Lesley noted, "and I will personally review Annette's report when it is completed."
This pleased Eleanor greatly, because it was a signal that she could depend on both of these two powerful women to advance her cause. There had been some good, she now felt, in what she had suffered.
The three ladies celebrated the occasion by ordering a split of Perrier Jouet. They had just finished toasting when Eleanor spotted her archenemy, Gail, walking toward them. She had a nasty look on her face and did not try to avoid seeing them.
When she arrived at their booth, no one invited her to join them. "Thanks for the non-invitation," Gail said with a slight note of disdain, "not that I would want to join any of you for any reason. I'll just wait until this lady"—pointing to Eleanor—"finds out what it's like when her new husband cheats on her."
Justice Lesley saw that this was not a meeting that would make anything better. "I think you had better go on and live without spending any more time here," she said snappily.