Episode XIX
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Magya pulled her closer as they walked quickly through the empty halls.
Doralea was in an area she did not recognize.
All the doors here bore identical plastic tags, dark brown surfaces routed down to expose white underneath: "VR-8", "VR-5", "E-4".
None of it meant anything to Doralea as she sped to keep up with the tall EurAsian's long strides.
Magya could scarcely contain her delight. It bubbled over in spontaneous rippling laughter.
However, she moved too fast to allow for conversation or investigation.
Suddenly the red-head pulled up short at a door labeled "ES-S".
As she unlocked the door, Magya spoke for the first time since they had left the studio, "We're here."
She pushed the door open and stepped up a quarter-meter into the dark room. She flipped on the lights and turned back to look down a Doralea.
Reaching out a hand to help, she said, "Come on in. You're gonna like this."
Doralea stepped up into a room crammed with video and sound control equipment,.
A large microphone stood out from the desk like a serpent erect to strike.
Video monitors covered one entire wall.
Half of the desk-top was devoted to buttons, sliders and switches, all labeled in the same enigmatic way as the doors had been: "ED-SI", "ED-S2", ED-L", etc.
Most of the monitors, labels matching many of the slider labels, showed views of porches, doors and street scenes.
Magya was leaning over the desk, her long, firm fingers dancing quickly over the control deck and making several adjustments.
She straightened and spun a tall-backed chair, offering the seat to Doralea.
"Sit here, lovely. Sit, and watch."
Doralea sat, watching the various monitors.
"Recognize this door?" Magya tapped on a monitor labeled, "ED-SI"
Doralea looked at the porch, the street beyond.
Magya leaned over, her breast pushing against Doralea'z shoulder, her breath in Doralea's ear.
She twiddled a joy stick.
Suddenly, Doralea was startled to realize that she was looking, from the point of view of the camera, at the porch she had stood on, taking the Commitment and applying for entry.
The mingled feelings of embarrassment, excitement, surrender and determination flooded back and her face and neck flushed hotly.
Magya sat in the other chair and watched Doralea's reaction.
The tall woman smiled and reached out to touch her face.
Doralea turned to the red-head and smiled, weakly.
She leaned over to kiss the peach-bow mouth.
Magya returned the kiss, warmly, but briefly, then pulled back, her elbows on the armrests of the chair.
The EurAsian smiled, then looked down to Doralea's lap where she was still absently fondling the smooth, cool leather of the quirt she had lifted from the studio.
Magya reached to take it from her.
"You like this, eh?" She turned the quirt over, examining it, taking its measure.
She touched the hard handle to Doralea's cheek.
The tall woman ran the handle along Doralea's jaw, and down the pulsing line of the veins in her neck.
The stiff handle nuzzled under the neck-line of the loose robe and slowly, deliberately, lifted it off Doralea's trembling shoulder.
Doralea's breath husked heavily as the robe slid over her shoulder and down her upper arm, to stop only when it bunched into a heavy pile in her lap.
The other front panel of the robe still hung from Doralea's left shoulder, straight down, the rolled trim resting along her sternum.
Magya toyed the quirt over Doralea's sole naked tit, pressing into the yielding softness and tapping the nipple.
The fluted handle traced the undercurve of the resilient mound, setting the luscious tit swaying.
Magya directed the quirt lower; Doralea arched her back to offer tall woman access to her belly.
She thrilled as the EurAsian lightly ground the rim of her sensitive navel with the hard, rounded tip.
Magya smiled at Doralea's panting attempt to encourage the exploring leather whiplet.
She traced the tingling skin of her waist and snaked under the pile of the robe.
As the corrugations of the stiff handle chattered along her thigh, it pushed the robe off, to fall away, exposing Doralea's right hip.
Doralea looked down to watch as Magya traced the sensitive tracks beneath the skin stretched over her pelvis, the hard tip of the quirt tracing the edges of the tangled curls between her thighs.
She noticed the tattoo again, nearly forgotten in the recent swarm of events.
She reached down to trace the rose and the thorn-torn gap as Magya toyed among her pussy-hair.
She allowed her leg to fall more fully open to allow the tall woman easier access to the hot congestion of her cunt.
The handle pressed through the convoluted furrows at the entrance to her trough.
"There she is. Get ready." Magya suddenly leapt to her feet and stood behind Doralea, pointing.
Approaching along the street framed in the monitor marked "ED-SI" was a woman in a pine-green dress, a lovely brocade bodice topping a loose, pleated mid-calf skirt.
As she approached past the townhouses and the trees in their iron fences, she glanced nervously along the streets.
She saw nothing, there was nothing to see.
She checked a slip of paper in her hand, then checked the addresses along the street.
"Actually," Magya spoke into Doralea's ear, "We own the whole block. She could come in through any of the doors. But the address she is given is determined by how she hears about us -- who has set her up to be sent here."
Standing behind Doralea, Magya reached round with the quirt to flick at the still-naked nipple with the oiled tip.
Dorala stiffened with excitement.
She watched as the woman discovered the number over the door, just as she had herself not so long before.
As she mounted the steps, Doralea watched her, assessing her.
The woman was about average height, and her chubby cheeks indicated a soft over-sufficiency of flesh.
Her hair was bound back with a babushka, the color of which matched her dress yet still set an odd conflict of style.
The two women in the booth watched as she steeled herself and pressed th brass-ringed button.
Magya pointed out a script on a clipboard, hanging from a hook on a wall.
"Just read that. Press that button and speak into the mic. Clear, calm, easy. Do it, now."
Doralea pressed the button and spoke, "State your business."
Magya patted her on the shoulder still covered by the robe. She gently slid the robe off that shoulder as well, and Doralea sat, naked from the waist, watching the woman on the monitor.
"I have come to seek 'The Commitment'."
Magya pointed to the script, directing Doralea to speak her part
"Do you seek admittance?"