Another wait, but not so long as the last one. The chapter isn't as long, either. Sorry about that. They'll probably all be shorter from now on, and more of a collection of vignettes with these characters/in this setting rather than a direct plot. Please enjoy!
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After scrubbing, dusting, and rearranging the future waiting and consultation rooms, I'm exhausted and sweaty. Geoffrey has, of course, been sedately studying all day, and when he comes back to check on my progress he looks calm and unruffled.
"Pretty good," he says, nodding and walking around the waiting room. He sticks his head into the consultation room. "Yep, pretty good there as well. I'm really surprised - I didn't think you'd take to servitude so well. Did you ever fantasize about being a slave back at the university?"
I refuse to answer.
"Let's set some ground rules, Marra. Going forward, you call me 'master' every time you speak. Yes, no, longer answers - whatever. Michal, too, when he's here. Everyone else is 'sir' or 'mistress'. I'm not going to keep forced obedience spells on you, just a magic-blocker, and you're going to do our bidding anyway. Punishments will come whenever I feel you need to be punished. Got that?"
I refuse to answer again.
"You want to get started with punishments? Okay, that's fine. Start as we mean to go on. I thought up a good one while I was upstairs - several good ones, so I hope you keep being disobedient." He goes over to the window, opens it and utters a complex animation spell, then stands back. From his smirk, it seems clear that I'm going to get fucked by something strange. A tree? Oh gods, how would that work?
But instead of a tree, one of the gargoyles apparently decorating the outside of the tower flies in. It's not very big, but when it lands I can see that it's grown an enormous erect cock, made out of stone like the rest of its body. I gasp and take a few steps back.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, master!" I say, ashamed to be pleading to Geoffrey, but without any other recourse. "Please - I won't do it again! Master!"
"Tell you what: if you get down on your knees, put your cheek on the floor, and spread your legs like the slut you know you are, I won't punish you a second time."