As I understand it, two of the main reasons for owning a slave are so you have someone who is always ready, willing and able to have sex with you, and also for the entertainment value.
I had been passed around to at least a dozen different women and taught how to use my tongue to bring them pleasure. And around about the time I became famous for my skills at cunnilingus, I was introduced into ways that slaves can entertain their masters and their mistresses.
One form of entertainment that slaves in Verborgen provided for their masters and mistresses was something called Oda's Path.
Oda's Path involves a long circular path, similar to the type we humans use in NASCAR or horse racing. Only instead of race cars or horses, naked slaves are forced to race against each other. Usually, six slaves are chosen to race against each other, although sometimes the numbers can vary.
Now, when I was back home, athletic competitions involving sprinting were simple. The sprinters would wear some sort of spandex bodysuit and some running shoes and the first sprinter to cross the finish line would be declared the winner.
But in the Faerie Kingdom of Verborgen, they did things differently.
First of all, the slaves competed against each other naked. Second of all, we were gagged, and our wrists were bound behind our backs and connected to our slave collars by a short leather strap that prevented us from protecting our bottoms.
We were led on a leash to the starting line. Our trainers would remove the leash from our collars shortly before the beginning of the race. They then folded the thin, leather leash in half, so it could be used like a leather strap to whip our naked buttocks during the race.
You see, our trainers ran behind us as we ran. Whipping our naked bottoms was considered "encouragement" to help us run faster.
We slaves had our own opinions as to why we were whipped. We believed it was done because the Sidhe enjoyed watching naked humans suffer. It was a form of entertainment for them.
I was competing against five other slaves, Alya, Amber, Clarice, Ira and Rose. Amber was in the lane to my left and Clarice was in the lane to my right. Before the race even started, both women looked nervous and on the verge of tears.
The gags we wore forced us to keep our mouths wide open, so unless we swallowed constantly, we ended up drooling on ourselves.
I found myself developing crushes on some of the other slaves, or at the very least, strong emotional attachments. For instance, I wanted to take Amber in my arms, hold her naked body tightly against mine and tell her repeatedly that everything was going to be all right. I wanted to take her away to Fairhaven and snuggle her, take that look of fear from her eyes and rub my naked body up against hers.
And it wasn't just Amber. I felt that way about Clarice and a number of the other slaves. I had a girlfriend back home named Anna, but my feelings for slaves like Amber were powerful and only the stern overlords that kept the slaves in line, kept me from grabbing my fellow naked slaves and engaging in actions that would make it extremely clear how much I cared for them
Well, I suppose I wanted to do more than just take their fears away. I also wanted to lick their wet, throbbing clits and make them shudder in mind-shattering orgasms. Then I wanted to cuddle them as they sighed in post-orgasmic bliss.
Oh, and let's not forget Nuri. She enjoys being a slave, but I have strong feelings for her as well. Sometimes I have dreams about her sneaking into my bed and probing my vagina with her fingers while I'm chained down, spread-eagle. In many of these dreams, I moan and cry out shamelessly as she fingers me to orgasm.
Slaves aren't supposed to have orgasms without permission, not even while they're sleeping. If I told anyone about my exquisite wet dreams, I'm sure I'd be punished.
Anyway, getting back to Oda's path.
I had a trainer named Knetel. When she started training me, she seemed a lot like a track and field coach, except for that fact that I was never allowed to wear clothing and was always forced to run naked.
Running the track was much scarier than I thought it would be. I've run in footraces before, but I wasn't accustomed to running while naked, with my arms bound behind me and a cruel gag shoved into my mouth. And the pain of my poor bottom being slashed with that wicked, leather strap made it impossible to swallow my fears. In addition to all that, the noise of the race was very disconcerting. All around me were naked slaves, suffering the same fate as me. The sound of leather straps striking the naked skin of multiple slaves all around me was a constant distraction, and even though we were all gagged, I still heard my fellow slaves whimpering and gasping in pain or fear. It was like being in a group of panicked gazelles being chased by deadly predators. And the fear and distress of my fellow slaves fed into my own feelings of distress. Add that to the shouting of our trainers as they yelled curses and threats as they urged us to run faster and my heart nearly burst with fright as I was forced to compete against my fellow slaves.
Running naked, bound, gagged and getting my ass stung by a leather strap would have been humiliating enough, but after ten or eleven days of training, Knetel added an extra layer of humiliation to my training.
"The more motivated you are to win, the more passion you'll display for the spectators," Knetel explained as I stood at the starting line before a race. Then she placed a hand in between my legs and rubbed her fingertip across the folds of my pink pubic lips.
"Mmmff," I cried out inarticulately through my gag as her fingers opened my vulva and slid inside of me.
"Candice, I need you to pay close attention to what I'm about to say," she said as her fingers impaled my sex and explored and found all of my most responsive nerve endings.
"If you win this race, you get a reward. You'll get the orgasmic release that your body is currently and desperately in need of. If you come in second, or third or something even more disappointing, you suffer in sexual distress for the rest of the day. Do you understand?"
My eyes flew open, and I made an urgent noise in the affirmative as I nodded my head. My whole body was alive with libidinous hunger. I absolutely needed the release that Knetel spoke of. I would run all out and do my best to leave the other slaves in the dust, if it meant I would get the reward Knetel spoke of.
"Good girl," Knetel said as she withdrew her fingers from my vagina.
I ran like my life depended on it, and my heart pounded madly in my chest as I sprinted down the track. Knetel whipped my naked buttocks over and over again as I ran, but I barely noticed as I was fixated on my shameless, sexual desire and my brain wasn't capable of perceiving much else. I ran for the finish line, because I knew if I got there first, my throbbing pussy would get the attention it so desperately craved.
I left most of the other slaves in the dust. Alya was the only slave who gave me any sort of competition. She caught up to me several times as we sprinted across the track and attempted to pass me, but each time she attempted to pass, Knetel would whip my ass with that wicked strap and I'd find inner reserves inside myself and I somehow pushed forward even faster.