...and the cave falls away.
i stare, up and down and around; the gravel and blockage that had so defined my barriers for so long are absent without a trace. Where there had been an almost impenetrable wall now stood nothing but empty, cavernous tranquility.
my collar is gone.
my hands fly to my throat, grasping, searching, pleading. Where has it disappeared to? Has She forsaken me?
i feel a delicate, tasteful brush of skin against my own, cold and yielding and goosebumps ripple across my flesh. i look beside me, and sigh with the relief of the possessed. She stands above me, towering, wide eyed with glee and joy at my faltering unto Her presence. my eyes are graced by Her long, slender legs, effortlessly joined in a smart red dress, and my hand tenderly reaches out to praise Her--
-and the moment we connect, a shock of pure erotic lightning thrums into my soul and i fly backward, gasping as my body contorts to Her will and i flay like a writhing ant as orgasm after shuddering orgasm deletes any thought, any cognition, any hope of resisting. i only wish i could witness Her perfection as i endure her insurmountable will.
As the waves of satisfaction thunder across my, leaving every inch of my body alive and electric, Goddess towers over me, smiling widely. I meet her gaze, eyes lidded, smile effortless, drool flowing. i thank her with my coos.
"You are very special", says Goddess to me gently. If i hadn't already been a puddle on the hard ground, the praise would have sent me flailing. But i could tell that wasn't what Goddess wanted for me. She'd tell me what she wanted. Right now, She wanted me to listen.
"Thank You", i whisper, tears in my eyes.
"It took months to bring you to your place. How you fought and struggled." She pauses, looking up, at something beyond. "You would have been proud of her."
"What the hell is going on?"
i know that voice. i know it well. It seizes me, jolts me from my stupor, sends me scrabbling to stand. i'm... yes, it's my costume. It can't be called a uniform anymore. It had been torn off me weeks ago, when tonya and i...
...we'd...
...wait a minute...
i seek her, and find her, cowering behind Goddess, a leering grin on her expression. her gaze flickers to me, and her grin widens, maniacally. i stare at her, nonplussed. i've seen her ruined, collared, chained, broken, mad, and yet she mocks me from eyes that haven't aged a day.
"Rachel!"
i know that voice. i know it better than my own. Like a command, like Goddess herself had ordered me to react, i lift my head.
Penny pleads with me from the bottom of her cotton candy soul, and all the muscles that ripple across her wilt with the total powerlessness of a hopeless cause realized. i recognize her, recognize every curve that i've felt so alone without. But it's clear she doesn't recognize me.
And why would she?
Rachel is dead.
I killed her.
"While what remains of your little convent stares like dumb, mute animals, days and weeks have passed--for us three", says Goddess lithely. The Twins, apparently, don't count as people.
Fuck that's hot.