It's the morning after.
Every muscle and joint in my body aches, after a night of restless sleep stored in Alia's closet like I'm part of her footwear -- which, admittedly, I am. And now, a bright and sunny morning has risen over the first full day since my complete enslavement.
It feels somewhat wrong to see the sun outside, know people are carrying on with their lives, studying, working, falling in love, chasing their dreams. All things I will never, ever get to pursue for myself, because something in my stupid brain makes me go dumb over women's foot scent, and I deserve to be reduced to something less than human.
Kneeling in Anbar's room, all prim and proper in my humble devotion, I don't dare look up to the goddess and the queen -- sitting in the gaming chair and on the bed respectively -- as I proffer them the essay I wrote last night.
I used the full hour at my disposal before Alia turned off the lights. It's the most devastating, soul-rending piece of writing I've ever put together. It illustrates, in excruciating detail, why I'm not good enough to be a person.
Why I'm poorer, fatter, dumber, uglier than Alia and Anbar. Why I'm putty in their hands. Why their foot scent drives up my nostrils like an intoxicating drug, sapping me of all will and all IQ. Why, now that I live here full-time, the constant exposure is disassembling and rearranging my mind in novel ways even I don't fully understand -- and making my pussy spasm at the thought.
Why I'm so receptive to their training, as they slowly break me down. Why cleaning on all fours is the only task I'm suited for. Why I will devote every living minute of my time to slobbering all over their feet, lapping like a dog, licking, kissing, sucking.
For the rest of my life.
I'd say I've put my heart and soul in this essay, but the truth is, I don't have either anymore. What I've done is, I've put in my dignity, my self-perception and self-confidence, my very personhood. I've admitted to everything the sisters say about me, and more besides. And now I'm offering this piece of paper to them, like it's the most precious thing I own.
Except that's wrong, too. I don't own anything. Only people can own stuff, and I'm not a person -- just footwear.
Anbar ignores the proffered essay, but Alia bends forward lithely, picking it between thumb and forefinger. "There's a good piece of footwear," she says like she's talking to a dog, giggling. "Are you proud of what you've put together?"
"I've done my best, your Majesty."
"Is it a love declaration to me?" Alia asks, batting her eyelashes.
My cheeks blush.
"It's... everything."
"Be patient, sis," Anbar tells Alia. "We've drained all her brains away. She's not good with words anymore!"
"Let's hope it's irreversible!"
As usual when it comes to my newfound limited intelligence, the sisters break out in fits of hysterical laughter.
Alia throws the essay one final sidelong glance, then places it on the ground. Her eyes match mine, and she flashes me the most evil of grins. Then, her naked, sweaty feet land straight on the page.
I stare, in equal parts shocked and horrified, as Alia begins to rub the sweaty soles of her feet into my essay.
"You know what happens when you open your mouth like that," Anbar says, as one foot hooks behind my neck and the other plunges into my gaping mouth. I offer no resistance as she brutally impales me on her foot.
"Dumb bitch. Always looking for something to suck on."
"Like a pacifier," Alia says, amused.
"Or a cock."
That makes Alia cover her mouth as she titters. "She can only dream!"
"Doesn't matter, it has the same effect on her -- she goes all docile! Keep sucking, slave."
I obey punctilously, of course, bobbing my head up and down on Anbar's foot, keeping my eyes closed, distending my facial features like I've seen girls do in porn. Anbar seems to appreciate the show -- her foot thrusts more and more energetically into my slutty mouth.
"While you do that," Alia says with a giggle, "let's talk about the new rules we promised you."
I'd almost forgotten about that. Oh god, what more could there possibly be?
"There's no easy way of saying this, so I'm just going to be blunt," Alia says. "We own your consent."
What?
I mumble a wordless question of horror and dread around Anbar's foot.
"It's not that hard to understand, peasant girl. You can't date without our permission, Zainab."
Again, the poison laced in Alia's usage of my name makes me feel like I'm being stabbed right through the heart.
"Not that dating is a likely prospect in your case," Anbar says, luxuriating in the tongue bath I'm giving her foot. "God, can you imagine?"
"I know she barely ever dated before we put her in her place," Alia says, smiling malignantly, and the casual cruelty of the observation is like a stab right through my heart.
Especially because it's true. "Let alone now. No boyfriends for you, Zainab! You have our feet to focus on, after all."
"That's not all," Anbar says. "We can also grant your consent without involving you in the discussion. Not that anyone would possibly want to have regular adult sex with a foot-smelling androgynous blob like you, but just in case someone wants to use you for their relief, we decide whether the answer is yes or no. Definitely not you. Got it, slave?"
"Mmmmppphh," I mumble, utterly defeated. Alia had already mentioned passing me around at Yasmin's birthday party a few days back for the sexual relief of the guests, and I wish I could say that this latest power play surprises me. But it does not.
I don't know how far Alia and Anbar will go, but I've learned to live with the idea that I'll have no barriers left, by the time they're done with me.