Part One
Imagine yourself in this way, my love.
You are helpless, on your knees; there is a blindfold over your eyes, a thick leather collar around your neck. Soft and supple, you can feel the weight of it and the slight pressure it add to your throat. Just tight enough to make you notice every breath being controlled and every swallow being measured. With eyesight gone, your other senses are in overdrive. The cool air floating over your skin causes you to shiver with anticipation and trepidation. You hear nothing but your breath, your heartbeat, quickening, your own mind's idea of what will happen to you. Why you are kneeling, naked on the floor waiting for me. You smell your sweat, your anticipation, me, somewhere around you.
I have left you waiting, in near agony, for what feels like an eternity to your poor body. You dare not move for fear of reprimand, but your knees are aching, your back is stiff. You long to stretch, to release yourself and the tension you hold but you cannot. Bound by my command alone, you kneel. You hear the faint creak of a floorboard and know I am there, you can feel the air shift around your body. Your tight body winds even further, waiting for my touch on your heightened skin.
You know I am there and you yearn for my touch, my voice, anything to release you from your own thoughts. Finally, fingers barely touching, skim up your shoulder to your throat, curving around and up the nape of your neck to the braid in your hair. They wind underneath and in by your scalp. You are shaking now, panting, wanting to speak but knowing that you would be punished. The fingers begin to pull, forcing your head up and back, until your neck is stretched fully accessible to me. You feel my breath close to your ear now, steady compared to your shallow, wanton panting.