Circle Star Slave 01
(This story is set in a world where legalized, non-hereditary slavery is commonplace for serious crime, unredeemed debt, or voluntary self-indenture.
All characters who are enslaved or have any intimate/sexual contact with slaves are 18 years of age or older
. This is fiction; no one should ever be deprived of free will nor used sexually without his or her uncoerced permission.)
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Erin Hutchinson's viewpoint
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"The jury having found the defendant, Erin Hutchinson, guilty of three counts of embezzlement, I sentence the defendant to twelve lashes followed by eight years of criminal enslavement. Sentence to be carried out immediately." The gavel banged down. Then, without pausing, the judge looked at the bailiffs and ordered. "Strip the slut."
I was in shock. OK, so I had "borrowed" some of my bank's funds for a speculative investment, but I fully intended to restore those funds, with interest--until the market crashed. That meant I owed a lot of money, but not, in my entitled mind, costing me my freedom.
My high priced lawyers had appealed the first conviction, gaining me this new trial. Up until 30 seconds ago, when the jury foreman read out the guilty verdict, I had been certain I'd win. How had this happened, I wondered frantically?
With the bailiffs and judge staring hard at me, I reluctantly began removing the plain business suit that I had worn for my trial to convince the jury I wasn't rich. I flushed even more as I unhooked a black lacy bra, allowing my C-cup breasts to spill forward, unrestrained and bouncing slightly, and then I slipped off my matching black panties. For some reason, my damned nipples were erect as if I ENJOYED this humiliation. Before I could even cover myself, the head bailiff ordered "collar," and I realized that he expected me to kneel like a slave--which I suddenly was!--with one hand holding my hair away from my neck. The tight leather collar he installed felt like a hangman's noose. Turns out, "white collar crime" in the South now means you end up in a brown (slave) collar. Who knew? Then the bailiffs cuffed my hands behind my back, preventing me from covering myself.
The judge spoke again, and in my helpless condition he sounded like the voice of doom. "Tie her to the jury rail." Two burly bailiffs lifted me almost entirely off the ground and carried me forward, bending me over the rail in front of the jury box and tying my elbows to the rail. Since the jury were still in their seats, that meant that my face and naked boobs were on full display less than two feet away from the front row of people who had just found me guilty of embezzlement. Then someone thrust a rubber-coated bite stick between my teeth and secured it across the back of my neck.
"Carry out the lashes," came the dispassionate sound of the judge's voice. A second later, a line of fire burned across both of my exposed butt cheeks, eliciting an involuntary howl that was significantly muted by the bite stick. Like clockwork, about ten seconds apart, eleven more lashes from that rubber strap seared into my bottom--each one was exactly the same in force, but where one stroke cut across the path of a previous blow it inflicted much greater torment. I felt as if every inch of my once-beautiful (I'd been told so often enough) rump was reduced to hamburger. I'm sure my face was equally red as I sobbed and moaned and squirmed in helpless agony. Finally, that unseen strap ceased falling, and I felt someone spray my rear end with a cooling mist of painkiller. Thank heavens that was over, I thought.
Only that turned out to be just the opening act. The bailiffs untied my elbows and pulled me upright, paused for ten seconds to give the jury a full frontal look at my nude body and tear-stained face, then walked me out of the courtroom, past the gawking spectators and reporters and down the hall to a room with the ominous label "Branding." Up to this point, my mind had refused to contemplate the full horror of my enslavement, but now I recalled that the State of Texas always branded enslaved criminals on their ass cheeks! As soon as I was strapped down and immobilized, a guy wearing asbestos gloves and a leather apron showed me the iron he was about to use on me. Glowing white hot, the branding head consisted of a five-pointed star, similar to that on the state flag, but in this case the star was surrounded by a circle that made it look like a Western lawman's badge--the "Circle Star" brand that marked a convicted criminal slave. Cringing at the impending trauma suggested by this branding iron, my mind sought refuge in an irrelevancy--"Good thing I don't wear bathing suits very often," I thought, reflecting that my butt would be marred by that brand for the rest of my miserable existence.
The bailiffs hadn't even bothered to remove the bite stick from my mouth, since they knew that this brand, superimposed on the raw meat that had once been my tushie, would evoke an ever greater outcry than the strapping. I must have cried out, but I don't remember because I fainted from the intense pain, layered on top of my helplessness and hopelessness; fainting was the only way to escape, even temporarily, from a waking nightmare of pain and humiliation.
*****
I awoke some undetermined time later, face-down on a paper-covered medical bench. My entire rear end was screaming in pain, but the sensation of someone gently touching me back there caused me to twist my head until I saw a guy in a lab coat gingerly wrapping my lacerated buttocks in gauze.
I couldn't resist. "Usually, I get dinner before I allow a guy to handle my ass," I murmured. The guy working on me had the grace to laugh, but then another voice--which I recognized as that of the head bailiff--replied, without any emotion, "Don't worry, slut--from now on EVERYBODY gets to feel your ass and the only dinner you get will be slave kibble." That brought me back to the full reality of my plight. He was right--I was now nothing but a piece of (tenderized) slave ass at the mercy of any free person who controlled me. No more elegant dinners in business suits--hell, probably no more clothes--for the next eight years. I had to struggle not to cry again.
The slave vet, or whatever he was, finished quickly, but the head bailiff had more to say. "While we're on the subject of using your body, you need to thank the Doc by giving him a nice blow-job." He could see the shock on my face. "Look, slut, for the next eight years, most of your interactions with free men will involve you giving them pleasure on demand. You can do it freely on your knees, as a sort of thank-you that MIGHT earn you a little consideration when he treats you again, or you can do it with your body tied down and your mouth stretched around a ring-gag, which will make it more fun for me but not for you. This first time, I'll give you a choice--I suggest you learn from this opportunity."