Part five of a multi-part story about a young woman working as an intern at a slave market. It is set in the same world, city, and place as my previous series
Three Sisters
so it may be useful to read that first.
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Note that this story contains bondage, slavery, power exchange dynamics, threats of physical harm including electric shock, non-consensual sexual submission, lesbian sex, bodily fluids, and a character's struggle to come to terms with it all. All characters are at least 18 years of age.
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Kiara, her eyes closed and her lips parted, moaned in ecstasy.
Sitting in her swivel chair in the A-Ops control room, nude from the waist down, her shirt pushed up over her breasts, Kiara had one hand on her dark left nipple, and her other hand on top of Sandy's head.
Sandy knelt on the thin institutional carpeting of the control room, her hands on Kiara's legs, her face in Kiara's lap, her tongue circling Kiara's clit. She was completely nude, and had even untied her trademark ponytail so that her long blonde hair spilled over her shoulders... like Michelle's did when she was collared.
They had gotten aroused watching Michelle lose her lesbian virginity to the tattooed slave β they both agreed it was insanely hot β and one thing had quickly led to another.
Kiara opened her eyes and tilted Sandy's head upward so that she could see her face.
"I'm going to turn around now, and then I want you to use your tongue on my ass like Michelle did to that slave," Kiara said, softly but firmly. "Understood?"
"Yes, mistress," Sandy replied, rocking backwards onto her shins.
Kiara turned around and knelt in the chair so that her beautiful posterior was facing Sandy, then with her chest resting on the back of the chair she reached back with both hands and spread her cheeks.
"Wait, what's happening?"
Kiara sat upright and pointed at the monitor she was now facing. "Someone's moving Michelle," she said.
Sandy stood and looked over Kiara's shoulder. "That looks like Grace from A-Ops; I didn't know she worked the night shift."
Sandy stepped to one side so that Kiara could get out of the chair and move over to the console.
Kiara swung out a keyboard and started typing. "Her inventory number has been changed. Looks like the auditing system caught it and swapped it for an active number, then for some reason it flagged her as being in the wrong pen, and it sent an alert to the overnight crew."
"The auditing system?" Sandy asked, pulling on her uniform shirt. "We have an auditing system that runs automatically?"
"No, we don't," Kiara said. "It's supposed to, but IT never finished setting it up. So the audit system only runs when it's initiated." She looked up at Sandy. "Someone
made it
run."
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The tall man and the short woman had placed Michelle and Zim in a cage on the far north side of the cage maze, the area controlled by the Auction Operations department. It was a much smaller cage than the overnight holding cage they were in before; no room to lie down, and sitting side by side on the small bench they were cramped for space.
Michelle looked around the top of the cage until she saw the surveillance camera. When its red light came on, she started wagging her head back and forth in an exaggerated fashion, which was the agreed-upon distress signal. The camera was on a circuit, so the red light would go off then come back on, and when it did she wagged her head at it.
"Are you okay?" Zim asked.
"No, I am not," Michelle answered, "But it's nothing to worry about."
"If you say so," Zim muttered.
When Michelle looked back up, the red light was steady; she had been found.
A few minutes later, Kiara came
clomping
up in her HCI uniform and tried to unlock the door, but couldn't. She cursed and tapped furiously on her data pad, but nothing worked. She looked at Michelle through the wire and frowned, whispering "I don't have the right access for this cage, and I don't know why not β this has never happened before."
"What do we do?" Michelle hoarse-whispered at her.
"I don't know," Kiara said, "but we'll figure it out, don't worry."
"Kiara? Kiara!" A voice from down the corridor called. "I thought that was you!"
The short, heavyset, brown-haired woman who had taken Michelle out of the holding cage walked up to Kiara. "What are you doing here? The day shift doesn't start for hours!"
"Hey Gracie Lynn," Kiara replied, smiling. "Overtime. What with the liquidation influx they offered me some hours. How about you? You're not on the night crew normally, are you?"
Gracie Lynn laughed. "Nope, I'm same as you. I can always use the extra hours, particularly with school starting up soon and both boys playing sports." She looked at the cage door. "Got a problem?"
"Yeah, we got a message that one of our holds was moved to processing, and I have to move it back, but I can't open the lock," Kiara said. "It says I don't have handler permissions, which doesn't make sense because I've had those since I started in A-Ops."
Grace (aka Gracie Lynn) looked at Kiara's data pad, then pulled out her own and tapped on it while Kiara watched, then the two compared screens. "Huh," Grace said, "Looks like I don't have permissions either, which don't make sense neither. Probably someone clicked on a 'three' when they meant a 'two,' Lord knows that happens often enough." She slid the pad back in her pocket. "I'll bet Walt can open it, he's got manager privileges. Let's go ask him."
Walt β tall, thin, black, bespectacled, perpetually tired, perpetually annoyed, by-the-book Walt β tapped at his own data pad between absently scratching at his chin.
"Here's the reason," he said, angling the pad so the two women could see it. "5850 is marked as special class for some reason, so only managers can move her." He pushed his glasses back up his nose. "I wish they wouldn't hide important details like this in four levels of nested menus," he groused.
"Can you open the cage so I can move her back to holding?" Kiara asked.
"No can do, missy," Walt replied with a weary sigh. "As much as I'd like you to take her off my hands, my duty is clear: special class, marked for first morning auction, no holds, no exceptions, no nothing. But don't worry, we're covered, it's all here in black-and-white pixels." He tapped the pad again. "I just sent you a receipt, so the Intake department is off the hook. We'll get her sold and out of here first thing."
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Michelle watched Kiara hurry past the cage and down the corridor. She hadn't said anything, but the look on her face chilled Michelle to the bone.
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"What exactly does that mean?" Lena asked; she was on the phone again, after having signed off to get a nap.
"It's a catch-all category for slaves that are designated for special treatment, for whatever reason," Kiara explained. "Rather than come up with workflows for every possible special case, they just make 'specials' assignable β and moveable β only by managers. The idea is that management can be trusted to read the notes on the slave's status and act accordingly."
"According to what I can see," Sandy added, "There's no notation along with her status, so I have no idea
why
she was marked. But I do know that without a notation, the SOP is that she gets head-of-line and is sold as soon as possibleβ"
"And the next auction is in a few hours," Kiara finished.
"Why did you not tell them the truth?" Lena said. "That she is not slave and should be released?"
Sandy noticed that Lena's Ukrainian accent was slipping into her speech (Michelle said that only happens when she's upset); she looked at Kiara, and Kiara shook her head.
"Because by doing this we've opened up HCI to a lawsuit," Sandy explained, turning back to the propped-up phone, "not to mention potentially exposed them to a license investigation by the state, or even the feds. If HCI found out, they might very well sell all of
us
into slavery just to cover it up."
Or at least me and Kiara
, Sandy thought.
"Then what are we going to do?" Lena asked. "We cannot let her go to auction. She would be humiliated! And if knowledge of her sale got out, it would ruin her life, there would be no getting in to the medical school or anything."
"If it came to that," Kiara said, "could you buy her?"
"I could," Lena replied. "And if it comes to that I certainly will; but we must do everything in our power to keep her from getting on that block."
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