I was really about to do this. This didn't seem like me. This really didn't seem like me. This was... about as unlike me as anyone who knew me thought I could be. But I had to give it a try.
Specifically: I'm a twenty-something guy that had watched some (probably a bit much) BDSM porn, realised I liked it and decided now was the time to make it a little more real.
I'd done my homework, found someone - a pro-Domme - with her own establishment, and booked an appointment. And now here I was.
Goddamn it, the reality seemed more scary than the website had made it sound. The house was very theatrical; I don't know if I'd outright call it *Gothic* but it was the kind of thing I'd... uh... read about or seen online somewhere... and it seemed entirely the sort of thing that seemed somehow apt.
I mean, if you're going for 'a torture chamber' or 'a dungeon' you want to get in there and do the full Gothic Horror vibe, right? It was things like that which had made me pick this establishment, the complete experience if you will.
And I'd remembered the questionnaire she'd made me fill out. The special "first timer" edition, she referred to it as. It left me with the feeling of being understood; as someone doing this for the first time, I wanted to feel like not only someone understood me - rare enough in the real world - but that someone was willing to entertain my seemingly ridiculous notions. I'd dutifully filled out the form of things I thought I was interested in, what I thought I could handle, and a list of things that didn't work for me. I didn't even know what some of the words meant, and was savvy enough to realise searching for them might end poorly.
I will never forget her standing there in the doorway. Heaven and Hell in human form.
Imagine the scene for a moment. Gothic house. The kind of thing Halloween would be envious of. The door opens, and this... I could only hope she was human and not a devil incarnate. This woman standing there.
Before I could look at her, I noticed the trident-like candlesticks behind her giving her the illusion of a crown of fire. The polished marble floor.
The screams of tormented souls. I wasn't clear if they were in pleasure or in pain. Maybe both. Probably both. Hopefully both. It was... just a little unsettling for a first-timer.
And then I turned to her. Somehow I saw her face first, I had to look upwards to her for it. Her perfect pale skin, accentuated with dark red lipstick, deep midnight-blue eye-shadow surrounding oddly greenish eyes, long beautiful hair that was somewhere between brunette and red-head. The collection of colours wouldn't sound like it'd go but for her... it was somehow emblematic. I'd learn exactly how the chaos of colour would work out, soon enough.
I couldn't quite take it in because this was something off my questionnaire. Somehow she knew it would be *me* standing here, right here, right now. She knew I'd have the confidence to arrive, the sheer audacity to engage in enabling my darkest fantasies, for something as trite as *money*.
I think a few seconds passed where she allowed me to look at her, to visually drink in everything she had already done, seemingly just for my benefit without even a word being exchanged.
The outfit was too on-the-nose for it to be for anyone else, like she'd reached into my mind and taken it from one of my filthiest dreams. Maybe she had.
I'm not embarrassed about spelling it out here. Maybe I should be, but in the telling now, I'm not.
Sat atop the face, a leather cap - stylish but a little peaked, not the baseball kind, but the more elegant kind, without veering quite into leather biker territory. Then that auburn hair tied into the most elegant braidwork I'd ever seen - like it took hours to do - draping it elegantly down her back.
Then at the collar, the most smartly tied black tie/white shirt combination I'd ever seen, with the tie reaching down over her busom, and resting above the corset setting under her bust and reaching down to her waist, cinching it in just enough to accentuate her curves. The sleeves running down to a double-cuff with a very smart cuff-link at each wrist with some emblem I didn't recognise, almost like some miniature coat of arms, then from the wrists down, smart leather gloves.
Beyond that, a tight leather pencil-skirt, almost tight enough to look like some kind of hobble skirt, just above the knee, with black shiny leather boots running from below the knee to very steep stiletto heels.
I suspect even without the heels she had a couple of inches on me.
Then she smiled. A radiant winning smile. "Welcome! You're right on time." That voice. Oh my, that voice. Throbbing, sensual. The kind of voice that you'd want to record just to have jerk-off porn to listen to, and not even need to touch yourself for.
Between her appearance, her voice and her apparent capacity to read someone, it seemed only natural that this would be her line of work.
"Come inside. We have much to talk about." She stepped to the side, gesturing towards the hallway.
Just as I was about to step one leg over the threshold I heard another of those unsettling screams. I guess my hesitation must have been visible.
A winning smile. "Another *very* satisfied customer."
Those eyes flashed for just a moment. "If you'll just head down the hall, first on the right." But the voice was so pleasant, so I did.
Part of me somehow expected a very medieval torture chamber, shackles and manacles on the walls, lines of implements in various sizes of ever-larger intensity. I was somewhat relieved, then, to find it was none of these things but a light, airy room - light beige, I think - with a few modern chairs and a small table, on which was my questionnaire. The room had a large window overlooking a large garden, quite a way from any other buildings, and a small breeze coming in, and a second door at the far end of it.
"Please, take a seat."
"So, you are new to what it means to be a submissive. Are you afraid?"
"A little, but I'm also excited."
That smile again. "As you should be. Not everyone gets to experience their inner most feelings in this place."
I found myself breathing quite fast, feeling my heart pounding a little more than I wanted.
"Please, just relax. We're going to talk for a moment, then we'll see about you discovering your true self." That smile, with that voice, so soothing, relaxing and yet entrancing.
"The first rule is that this room is safe. Nothing will happen here in this space, it is a place of calm before the storm - and after. Here you may relax before I... have my way with you, and to unwind after I have done so. You may find the experience... intense."
"The second rule is that beyond that door," she nodded her perfect head ever so slightly in that direction, "you do not look at me, unless you have been given permission. This is the first step in understanding your place... in there, you are mine. I will do with you as I please. And it pleases me to know that you will want to gaze upon me, feeding your inner lust upon my form and outfit choices, and that you will have to fight your inner desires. Failure to do so will have consequences."
"The third rule is that beyond that door, you will obey me. This is not an instruction, it is not a request nor a command, it is simply how it is. You will obey me. You will, in time, *want* to obey me. You will take everything that happens as it happens. Out here you are perfectly safe. In there, you are *mine*."
That smile. "Do you understand?"
My mouth went dry. My cock yearned to free itself from my trousers and answer yes for me.
"I think so."