1.
When my Mistress finally appeared after what seemed like hours, but may have only been a few minutes, my heart pounded as Her footsteps approached. It wasn't that I feared the punishment -- I wanted to atone for what I had done. What worried me was that I might not be able to.
As she approached me I still couldn't look at Her. Finally she lifted my chin with Her hand and I had no choice but to stare into those steely, probing eyes. "I want you to think about what you've done," she said. "Jealousy is one thing. It's not attractive, but it's unavoidable sometimes. But to throw a temper tantrum...." she shook Her head sadly. "Like some toddler...."
I didn't know what to say. "I'm sorry" didn't seem like enough now. I felt like something was expected of me, but I didn't know what it was.
Walking around behind the platform, my Mistress picked up a metal restraint that was attached to the wall by a long chain. Extending the chain as she went, she came over to where I was sitting and clicked the restraint onto my right ankle. Then she turned onto her heel and was gone without a word.
2.
There is no day or night in the dungeon, no windows to look out of; I quickly lost all sense of time.
The worst of it was imagining what Sukhi and my Mistress were doing upstairs without me. It was only later that I learned that my Mistress had sent Sukhi home shortly after chaining me up -- my little outburst had ruined the mood for her.
As time passed I cycled through anxiety, boredom, despair, and hope. I mentally reviewed pretty much every decision I've made in my life and found many of them wanting. Finally I decided that I was not going to be released anytime soon and might as well settle in for the night.
There's a little half-bathroom down here and fortunately the chain is long enough to let me get to it. I found a blanket in there that I draped over myself as I lay on the platform trying to sleep. For a long time I thought I was going to be awake forever, but I must have drifted off at some point, because when I got up to pee I found a bowl on the floor with some scraps of meat in it.
If my Mistress had been there I gladly would have gotten down on my hands and knees and eaten like a dog -- it was no less than I deserved, I knew. But instead I picked up the bowl and gorged myself like a ravenous beast, suddenly realizing that I was starving.