The Hunt - Chapter 3
The Prey's Flight
"Oh goodness," Alice found herself completely alone now; she had run down the path without thinking of anything but escaping the gigantic she-beast and her... her... appendage and the trail was the only option she had.
'I am so... indecent!' She thought she appraised the rags that were once her clothing; her corset, though still together, was getting looser; her breasts were heaving from the exertion and covered in a sheen of sweat. Streams of perspiration now trailed down between her breasts, from her head and neck. Below her waist were shredded rags. She was glancing around at the growth that surrounded both sides of the path.
'Those bushes and brambles would tear me to pieces!' Then, realizing she had no choice, she ran on as quickly as her legs could carry her, that is, until she fell and twisted her ankle.
"Blasted vines!" She glared down at the finger-thick vine nearly hidden in shadow, the very vine that had tripped her.
'Bloody shoes!' She removed the offending articles, shoes she had only purchased a few days before. They were carefully chosen to match her dress which now lay in tatters back along the trail. Shoes that were more hindrance than a help. In stockings alone, she cast the shoes off into the undergrowth.
"I doubt it will help much, but no sense in leaving an easy trail." She got back onto her feet, the right ankle still angry. "Oh, Hatter, where are you?" She implored the forest to answer, but it remained silent.
She started back down along the path. 'Where did that woman come from!' She searched her memories of Wonderland and could find not fragment of such a creature. Indeed, there were oddities aplenty in Wonderland; in fact, she thought she was the only 'normal' thing she could recall meeting there. However, the creature chasing her was an altogether different sort.
'She is magnificent' she found herself walking now, not running, making her way mindlessly down the trail. "She is very tall, and her face," In truth, she was not thinking of the woman's face, but the rest of her that Alice was focused on, "And she was soooo nude."
'My, my, it is warm out today,' Alice reached to wipe sweat from her brow, then ran her hands under her breasts to wipe away moisture there as well; her action forced her engorged nipples to rub lewdly and so deliciously against the fabric of their confines.
"Stop it, Alice!" She forced her hands down to her side and into fists. "Remember what Mistress said!"
Mistress
was her title now, but originally it was
Nanny,
the title taken by the governess hired by father's business partners after mother's death. It was a horrible day when Nanny had caught poor Alice playing with her breasts and touching her flower while in her bath that she took to relax before bed.
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"What are you doing!" Nanny had rushed into the bath, "How dare you to touch what is not yours!"
"I am sorry, it feels good. Why should I not...." Alice was confused, 'It is my body, isn't it?' She knew her mother had never denied her access to her own body, nor had she ever spoken anything to indicate that she should not. She rose from her bath; Nanny gave her a towel.
"Dry yourself, then come to my study just as you are, mind you! You think that your body is all yours to abuse, then it should not both you to display it!" Mistress then marched from the bath.
Alice had disobeyed; she had never gone nude in her rooms and would not make the trek from her room down the hall to Nanny's in a state of nature. Alice put on her silk knickers and camisole, then her light dressing gown, all gifts from her mother. She was covered, but the material was so delicate she felt still nude. She checked in her mirror to be sure she was covered, if not decent.
Her reflection showed the lovely young woman she had become, although she would never have admitted it or recognized the truth -- she was beautiful. Brilliant blue eyes noted her long blonde hair was running down her shoulders in gentle natural waves, to end neatly cut well past her mid-back. Her clear porcelain complexion was reflected in her face but was simply a sample of her entire being. All those blessings she was familiar with, all she had had since youth.
What disturbed her was the horrible truth. Though covered, the delicate silk hung just so; her curves were on full display. Her apple-sized breasts filled both her camisole and dressing gown, with her swollen puffy areolas and prominently hard nipples making their presence known all too clearly and thus could not be hidden. Her narrow waist, caused the knickers and gown to draw in then flare outward, left little to the imagination. The only saving grace was her new knickers followed the trend of being fully closed over her treasure so she might not expose herself on her trip to Nanny's study. However, she could not finish what she had started, and now her arousal caused an embarrassing dark shadow that had formed directly under her sex. It might not have been so noticeable if Nanny had not told her to trim her pubs close 'it is summer, and you will sweat less,' she had said, now without that cover, her knickers showed every detail of that unsatisfied portion of her body.
Shrugging her shoulders, which caused her breasts to dance under their thin disguise, "I shall have to keep my gown close; there is nothing else for it."
Alice picked up the small framed photo of her mother beside her dressing table, "Oh mother, why did you die?"
She missed her mother profoundly but never so much as when Nanny appeared on the scene not a week after the funeral; Alice's mother was a good woman who doted on Alice since her father was lost to both of them. "I miss you so." She put the photo face down on the dressing table again.
"Time to face the music." She walked resolutely to the door and turned the knob.
Alice checked both ways in the hall; the course was evident as she scurried toward the room that had once been her mother's private study but was now Nanny's study and sewing room, although she had never seen Nanny sew.
Her hand on the door, Alice listened at the door, when suddenly the knob was pulled from her hand. Alice was unbalanced by the sudden opening and fell forward onto the carpeted floor. She did manage to catch herself before she fell flat-faced, but still, she ended up on all fours; it was not at all graceful.
"Come in, Alice..." Nanny seldom had a smile. Usually, her expression was neutral; that neutral expression quickly melted into a frown. "So, you can not follow the simplest instruction."