I have been asked why my protagonist had to be tattooed on the forehead. Frankly I'm not quite sure. Remember I didn't write this story...it wrote itself and I merely transcribed it.
It is possible that no explicit purpose will arise for the tattoo. However, in the back of my mind I was aware that these ladies are insecure. (Not that that is a criticism - I would certainly feel very insecure if I had been treated as they had been, and I suspect most of you would too.)
I felt that ladies deserved a semblance of security with their captive. At least at the start Michael was in no position to make promises to them, and I felt that the tattoo would add just a little to their shaky confidence that Michael would not flee at the first opportunity. And as you will see in a short while, such an opportunity is just around the corner.
In addition, I wanted to make Michael's first days with the Lady Brigade as horrific as possible to contrast with what lay ahead. It was a sort of test for him. (And you will see that the testing hasn't quite finished.)
*****
It must have been over a minute before she spoke. "This isn't turning out as I had expected. I don't know what we're going to do with you."
I told her I had some ideas, and she agreed to listen to them. She ordered drinks for both of us, and I started.
"I don't want you to think I'm being too egotistical, but on the basis of the ladies with whom I have spent time I have a consistent picture that the way I am being used is inefficient. They all want sex, and I know I am their only option for heterosexual sex, but there is something else they have been missing, and that is even more important to them. It seems to be exactly the same for me.
A week ago I would never have believed I would ever think such a thing, but in the last few days I have been getting all the sex I could possibly want, and possible just a little more than that. And with the loveliest, sexiest and most enthusiastic ladies I could ever have dreamed of. And yet I want more; well not so much more but something else too.
I want to spend time with them and enjoy their company. More importantly for you, I think they want the same. Sex, or at least intercourse, is not the most important thing they want from me, and it is not the most important thing they need from me. They will take time out of the very limited time they have set aside for sex in order to chat with me and learn what this strange and entertaining species called a man is really like.
"But there is yet another completely independent fact that I believe you need to know. For the first time in my life I have a mission in life: to make a contribution to a society where I have the capacity to make a difference. The sex is a part of that, but a bigger part is fulfilling a gender role. To put it another way, I am the solitary yang to the overwhelming yin here. Now that your ladies have been exposed to yang, they crave it. Even those who have not yet spent time with me seem to have increased their demand for it. And being essential to someone has been a corresponding experience for me - now I feel that I would fade away without this new meaning to my life. If, today, you allowed me to leave, I would want to stay. And no, this is not a trick to try and get you to drop your guard - you are welcome to leave your security measures in place.
"There is yet a third issue. I am having a great time except for my recent injures which were unfortunate accidents. It has been wonderful having a stream of stunning (no pun intended) women literally lining up for my services. I am not at all sure it is working so well for the ladies. Even if I were able to keep up the rate of four a day five times a week, that would mean each lady would get three hours with a middle aged, unfit, tired man less than once a fortnight.
"These are supremely fit, healthy ladies with a correspondingly healthy libido, ladies who have been denied sex, or at least heterosexual sex, for a long time. They have a great deal of catching up to do and one man to share between over forty of them. That is a dramatic imbalance that was bound to cause problems. I can tell you that from my observations those problems are starting to exist. I know I am going to regret saying this but the only answer I can envisage is to have other, younger, fitter men available to your ladies. However, what I really want to do is to talk to the ladies all together. No exceptions and you included. You should address them too. There are forty four resourceful, intelligent, committed people here. They have a right to have a say in what happens, and the chances are that they will have a better idea."
That was as far as I got...frankly I was surprised to have got that far.
"Well I have a list of responses to that, but I'll start with the fact that you are a very presumptuous slave. I'll be lenient with you because you are trying to help and because you have been injured by our carelessness. Second you won't regret your suggestions to have another man here because it is simply not going to happen. Not under any circumstances. You'll have to get used to being the only man here. However, I accept that there may be a better way to apply our resources to our needs, and I agree that it should be the subject of an open forum including all members.
"I want to know something about you, however, because you seem very different from the other men we have had here. Tell me about your personal thoughts about sex and women. Thoughts that existed before you came here. I want to know these things about you to help me... to help us decide how best this can work."
I wasn't sure where to start, so after a moment to think I started with my earliest recollections of my interest in women; well, back then it was girls. "I know there must have been a time before I took any special interest in your gender, but I have memories from before my teenage years of longing for these people with their mysterious and even then fascinating anatomy. Back then I had no idea what actually I would have done with one if I had had the opportunity, but the fascination was there.
"As my knowledge about women and sex developed, my interest developed correspondingly. I couldn't say it increased because I cannot remember it ever being less than it is now, and that is all-encompassing. I find a woman's body fascinating far beyond the simple acts of penetration and my own orgasm, and a woman's mind always seems different and just as fascinating too.
"I certainly derive enormous pleasure from an orgasm with a sexy, enthusiastic woman, but there is far more. I enjoy their pleasure seemingly as much as I enjoy my own. I know that sounds like a contradiction and it is hard to explain. Perhaps the best way I can put it is that exploring every aspect of a woman's sexuality seems to be one of my most basic drives. It works along with, but separately from, my own sex drive.
My experience with you just now was wonderful in more ways than I can possibly say. I feel in one small way disappointed that I was unable to be present, or at least conscious, throughout the entire episode, but the combination of your pleasure and mine, enhanced by the focus of your loving Princesses, was simply more than my brain could take. I felt as if I had died of pleasure, except that I have been brought back to life to feed hungrily yet again at this feast of perfect womanhood you have laid down before me.
"I still feel grossly inadequate to do even one of your ladies justice, let alone all forty-four of you, but I feel that every single one of you is a perfect companion for me. I feel that I am being selfish, that a complete sacrifice to your Brigade of everything I am is a woefully inadequate exchange for what you are giving me, but I love you and, ridiculous though it may sound, I love every one of you even though I don't even know the names of you all. Some I haven't even spoken to, and yet I love them. I am yours, Goddess, and I am yours, Lady Brigade. The ridiculous thing is that every time I try to give you something, you repay me far more in return. You need to know that I belong to you heart and soul."
I had opened my heart to my Goddess, and her only response was to look at me calmly and nod slowly before giving me a gentle hug and saying: "I am starting to understand you and I am starting to understand that pure dumb luck brought to our front door the very type of man we had been crying out for. I don't know how rare you are, but I have never met such a man before. We belong together, all forty-five of us." For some reason her saying the number forty-five made a deep impression upon me, as if we were a family of forty-five now, rather than a family of forty-four and me.
The Goddess continued: "You are going to rest again now. When you awake you can have something light to eat and Dr Yulia will examine you again. If she permits it there will be a general meeting this afternoon in the great hall."
She pressed a button and Nadezna walked in about two seconds later. She spoke briefly to Nadezna who helped me to my feet (not that I needed it, but she was very persuasive) and walked me out. When we were out of the Goddess's suite she told me that I was not permitted to discuss with her the business that the Goddess and I had spoken about. She was to take me straight back to my room and do anything I wanted. She looked me in the eye and said that the Goddess had told her that meant
anything
, not just sexual requests. I pointed out that "not
just