Thank you all for your voting and your comments, favourable or otherwise. I appreciate the negative feedback just as much as the positive; it all helps me understand what you want to read. However, I don't have much input into the story... the characters seem to do as they please, and each episode just appears in my brain in an almost complete form. I can only imagine what a psychiatrist might make of that! My input is limited to transcribing these messages from my subconscious and translating them into a language I am familiar with - British English.
I have received a message asking where the title Irkutsk came from. The details are contained within the first episode, but in short, I wanted to my story to be based in an area outside my own experience and outside the experience of most of my readers. I decided on Siberia and Irkutsk seemed sufficiently exotic. I had no idea (really!) where the story would take its characters, me the writer and you, the readers, so I didn't have much upon which to base a title. Irkutsk seemed to be a name that would catch the ear, and so Irkutsk it was, and is.
I repeat, for the benefit of anyone who comes from Irkutsk, or anyone who knows it and can tell me that my descriptions of it are way out of line, that I mean no disrespect to Irkutsk or Irkutskians (or is that Irkutskovites?) I apologise for any offence given. Frankly my research into the area during my writing of this story suggests it would be a lovely place to visit... with or without the Lady Brigade!
Plenty more to come...
My first weekend, but no Saturday off!
Saturday midday meals and Sunday breakfasts were, as I would learn, much more formal meals in this community than other meals. Whereas most meals were a passing parade of people grabbing food as and when they could, on weekends all available members of the community sat down to a formal meal. The only ones who did not were a few who were serving (and all took turns at this, even the Goddess) and one or two others in essential duties around the area.
I slept very late indeed. Although I was in pain from my "war wounds" to the point where even walking was difficult, I was relaxed and at peace. On this, my first Saturday lunch, I would see more of the community than I had ever seen before at one time.
Once seated at the table I counted nearly forty lovely ladies sitting, and two more serving. There were five tables each capable of seating eight. Although I was at the main table, my position was clearly of lower status than the others. I was about to learn another lesson, that these two meals every week had some formal status for reasons other than eating.
After we had all finished our meal everyone relaxed, but there was an expectant air around the table. Tina stood up. She, and possibly Dominika and one other lady I had seen, were the most physically powerful looking of the ladies. She approached my table, or to be more to the point, her Goddess's table. She knelt next to the Goddess, her head bowed low.
I waited for the Goddess to respond. "What on earth are you doing that for? You know you can speak openly to me about anything."
Princess Tina spoke hesitantly. "I want to make an unusual request my lady". She was told she could speak openly about anything now, provided she said what she felt. Tina then spoke more freely, gradually gaining confidence as other Princesses nodded.
"I know you said anyone who wanted should have the opportunity to spend their time alone with Michael before you took your turn, my lady." There were nods of approval around the room. "But we all believe that you should know what we are experiencing as soon as possible. We
all
want you to spend time with him today, and we want to be part of the experience with you. We all love you, my lady, and we all owe our happiness and our security to you. We want you to experience without further delay what many of us have already enjoyed and what others hope to enjoy. We need you to understand first-hand what is happening, both because we want you to share in our pleasure, and because we want our leader to know what is happening within the group. Those of us who have not yet had the experience have indicated they are willing, even happy, to wait just a little longer if necessary. Please, my lady, and I speak on behalf of every one of us, even those who are not here at the moment; please my lady, will you allow us to have you share in this today?"
The Goddess did not speak, but one by one she looked directly at each of the Princesses present. Each one of them indicated their consent by nodding or by speaking a few words.
Then she looked at me. "And what do you say, Michael?" She was
asking
me? "I'm happy to do whatever I can that will contribute to your society."
"Even though we have kidnapped you and placed you in sexual servitude?"
"Goddess, I know a little of the background of your Brigade. I have learned here how it feels to be needed, or at least wanted, for some reason other than my legal work. In my brief life of what you call sexual servitude, not only have I had some of the greatest experiences of my life, both sexual and emotional, but I have also felt for the first time in my life that I have a real purpose. All of this, the changes to my own life and the creation of a community for all of these Princesses, I understand to have been your doing.
"You have done a great thing. Certainly you have achieved the respect of every one of your Princesses. On that basis I am happy to play my part in cooperating any way I can with this community, which means I will do my best to fulfill whatever role I am asked to play. Even from the most selfish point of view, you are extremely attractive and I would enjoy intimacy with someone so sexy. My only concern is that I will be unable to play my part properly - I am old and unfit, and no matter how much I try I could never approach the strength and fitness that you consider normal. I don't want my frailty to impede your enjoyment."
I then got a little insight into the Goddess's love for others. She looked at me with a warmth that made me feel worthwhile and told me that my best would be plenty for her. She could have said that I was the only man available, but not only did she not say that, she made me feel as if it would have been me she would have chosen out of every man in the world. It was a wonderful feeling of belonging. No wonder the Princesses wanted her to be happy.
After my meal, two Princesses came to me and led me away from the table and through an impressive doorway I had seen before, but never seen used. It led to a luxurious suite, and I was taken to a side room. Yulia and five other Princesses were awaiting me there.
Yulia looked at Petrova's fingermarks bruised into my thighs. There was a clear pattern of bruises on each side, four on the outside of each thigh and one on the front of each, where her thumbs had gripped me. The marks at the front were still very slightly indented. Our species' much vaunted opposable thumb had been put to good use!
Yulia put some sort of cream on each bruise and gave me a tablet - an analgesic I presumed. She told me that the bruises would look spectacular but would not impede my activities as long as I (and anyone else concerned) was careful not to press too hard directly upon them. Yulia then left.
One princess spoke to me while the other four undressed me. I was told to go along with whatever was happening, even if I was worried. I was to place my trust in them to get the best out of me and to keep me safe. Also to keep their Goddess safe. By now I was naked and my face was being shaved. I was told there may be some pain, but it would be worth it. I had had some experience of this already and had some understanding of what they meant. I was now being cleaned all over and then oiled. There was also some gentle massage - and all of this at about 2pm!
Eventually I was lifted up in a lying position, carried into a huge room and placed on an unusual low frame with padded supports for my head, shoulders, waist and hips. I was quite comfortable, but my hands, feet and knees were supported by Princesses, not by any part of the table. My hips were higher than the rest of me and my head was tilted back almost to the point of discomfort. Almost, but not quite. It seemed similar in some principles to a gynæcologist's chair and I was similarly vulnerable, although in a very different position. I was relaxed - too relaxed for my task. Then I felt a needle being injected and I knew the relaxation would soon change into erect readiness. I was gently massaged for about ten minutes, after which time I was indeed ready in every possible way.
Then I saw in the corner of my eye several princesses carrying the naked Goddess into the room. She was also oiled. Despite the overwhelming lustfulness of the sight, despite her nakedness and despite what would usually have been seen as an undignified position, she still exuded class. She had an aura of calm control even though the other ladies were in complete charge of what was happening.
She was immediately lifted directly above me in a sitting position. I was again told to relax, an order which I did my best to obey without complete success. The Goddess's bearers, as I considered them, aligned us carefully and then gently lowered her onto me, and then up a little, then down again. And again. And again. The cycle continued.