She lies quietly in the subdued lighting of the room. Not comfortably but making no sounds or movements. She knows that is the right thing for her, at this time. Already, this evening has gone further than she expected, so she is cautious and watching events as they have unfolded. She loves him and he has brought her much happiness after an early life of deprivation and poverty of spirit.
His voice comes softly out of the darkness. "And what will happen next?"
She stumbles to find the answer she knows he wants but will not suggest her total agreement with it. His voice hardens a little.
"Speak to me. What will happen next?"
"You will tighten my waist."
"Yes."
Then it is quiet again and she can recount her arrival in this situation. Here she lies, in a warm room, on a beautiful comfortable king size bed with silk and satin covers and pillows. But there the comfort ends. Her feet are laced into boots of such stiffness and length that she can make no movement of her ankles or knees. The heels are so high that her feet are held almost in the position of a ballet dancer, and her calf muscles became numb many hours ago. But only after other hours of cramp and strain.
Her wrists are attached to the rails at the head of the bed, with so much rope that her fingers have disappeared inside the coils. All she could have seen would be her arms disappearing into mighty knots as big as her head. He fingers are immobile.
But she cannot see anything, because he has covered her entire head in a hood. It is zippered down the back from the crown of her head to the beginnings of her shoulders, and all her hair is held tight inside it. It must be made to fit her because it is taut across her features and holds her head as immobile as the boots do her legs and feet. Only there are openings for her mouth and nose. She can breathe and speak but hearing is difficult.
Her breasts are tied up as globes by yet other lengths of rope. It took him a long time, she remembers two hours at least, for her breast to be finished and for them to swell into discoloured spheres. And now they are contained also inside a long-line bra which is held away from her body by the purple orbs. They are pointing to the ceiling but she cannot see them. Only she can feel them tight and bloated and held rigidly. A few times he has come to her and fondled her breasts, squeezing them through the fabric of the bra, as if they are melons or great pomegranates or even bowling balls. She has no way of knowing how they look by now but they are heavy and the skin is pulling across her shoulders as well as over her chest muscles and upward from her stomach.
Her ankles are tied to the bottom of the bed, with lengths of soft rope attached to castors at both corners. Her legs are splayed out so that she can feel the cool draught as he moves about, blowing against her labia and her clitoris. She is excited to be so spread out and to be so vulnerable to his gaze and to his hands, if he wishes to touch her.
And now there is the corset. He had made her stand in her boots and hood, and with her breasts pointing forward, whilst he fitted it around her from bra-line to hips. It is so long and so rigid. The busk front fastening has no flexibility. She is hard and straight from her breast bone to her pubic bone. The corset is lifting her back off the bed, as the straightness of its front is exaggerating the curve of her spine at the back. She is an experienced and accomplished fetishist but has never seen or felt such a corset before. There are laces at the back and already he has closed those completely. As he laid her down on the bed, she could tell that there were other laces at the sides, and now she is expecting him to tighten her more. He has told her to expect it, and invited her to imagine how much tightening there could be.
She is imagining. Her waist is tractable; she knows that from all her experience as a tightlacing fetishist. In her normal daily corsets, she lives with her waist at 20 inches or less. For special occasions, she can lace to 17 inches if she has an assistant to exert the force on the laces for her.
About two hours ago, he said quietly, "You'll be surprised, my dear one. Your figure will startle even you. And you will please me more than you can ever imagine. Or perhaps I will please myself if you can't."
So now she is waiting. She senses him near to her and is not startled by his voice.
"How much will I tighten your waist?"
Quietly but quickly she replies, "Very tight."
"Tell me how tight it will be."
"Tighter than I ever had?" she questioned.
"Tell me. Don't ask me. How tight will it be?"
"Tighter than I ever had before."
"How will you know it is so tight?"
"My waist will be tiny."
"Tell me how you'll know that."
"You'll crush me."
"When will I know to stop tightening you?" "I don't know -- I can't answer you. Forgive me, please."
"Shall I tell you?
"Yes please."
"Until I can reach my fingers around your waist. Does that sound very tight?"
"Yes. Very tight."
In fact, they both know that her waist at 17 inches is capable of being spanned by his finger and thumbs already.
"Did you say I shall make it tighter than ever before?"
"Yes."
"Shall I make it for you to reach your hands around yourself?"
She delays, afraid to agree but also afraid to argue.
"Will you answer me?"
"Yes."
"So shall I make it for you to reach your hands around yourself?"
"Yes."
"Shall I make it equal to my collar measurement?"
Quickly, she remembers that his collar was 16 inches and says very quietly, "Yes," wondering if this is even possible.