I'm not sure how long I was unconscious. I lifted my head and slowly opened my eyes. I felt dizzy; my brain was buzzing.
Had it all been a bad dream? Had I fallen asleep at my condo in Manhattan, sipping a latte while reading the Wall Street Journal, and savoring the promising outlook for my slave industry stocks?
No, I wasn't wearing my jammies and lying on my favorite comfy couch. I was stark naked and lying on a cold cement floor. I ran my hand over my naked breasts, down my flat tummy, and to the top of my sex. No doubt about it: I was 100%, gloriously naked, birthday bare, without a stitch. I let my fingers run between my legs. Despite the coldness of the floor, my pussy was warm, and wet. I gave myself a little rub, enjoying the pleasure of my fingers.
I rubbed myself as I let my mind clear. Where was I? It wasn't until I let my other hand run up and touch the slave collar around my neck that the answer became clear.
Yes, of course. I was at The Big D Livestock and Slave Market in Dallas.
I relaxed and rubbed myself faster. I didn't need clothing, or a purse, or anything, really. Everything about me that still mattered was in computer system I had designed, and the bar code and RFID tag on my collar tied me into the system like any other piece of inventory. I might not know exactly where I was, but the computer did, and any employee could use their tracker or phone app to locate my exact location, status, grade, picture, sexual history, and any other fact they cared to browse. Now that I was naked and tagged, selling me would be as simple as selling a bag of potato chips or a candy bar at a gas station.
The peculiar part was my nudity and helplessness didn't frighten me. In fact, it made me hotter. As I rubbed myself my Slave Yoga mantras buzzed through my mind.
"A slave girl must be wet and ready. A slave girl must be wet and ready. A slave girl must be wet and ready." I was.
I did a quick self-inspection. My hair was dry and neatly combed, and my toenails and fingernails had been trimmed and scrubbed clean of all nail polish. A part of me was pleased to see my nail polish was gone; I had told them to sell the girls in as "natural" a state as possible. Plus the little sluts couldn't dig their nails into you if they had no nails.
"Keep the inventory clipped," I had written, "fresh scrubbed, and ready for the block." In my daze, my mind was still viewing myself in the 3rd person, as if I was looking at slave girl inventory. "Good the little slut is ready to be sold. It won't be long now."
I was awake, but with my brain still cooling off it still seemed like a dream. There was the coolness of the cement, the freedom of slavery, and the pleasure of my fingers. It was only when I heard other voices that I began to orient myself.
"I still don't see why you can't give me some coveralls to wear!" a familiar British accent said. "Or a robe, or something!"
"Coveralls are for employees only," I heard Jasmine replied coolly. "As for bathrobes, this isn't The Ritz, white girl. Relax. Your clothes will be dry in a few minutes and you can get dressed again."
I struggled to focus on my surroundings instead of merely myself. After a few seconds of squinting I realized I was toward the back of the hall in one of the prep areas where the girls were "prepared" after the Cattle Wash.
Seeing me blinking myself awake Jasmine used the leash that had been attached to my collar to pull me to my feet. "That was FUCKING STUPID, SLAVE GIRL!" she shouted. "You're lucky I didn't smoke your tiny brain!"
I looked around, blinking. Jasmine continued shouting at me. "You're so fucking SLAVE STUPID. I should whip the skin off your ass!"
I bristled at the characterization. I had entitled one of my book chapters "Slave Stupid", discussing in detail a pleasure sluts inability to logically reason, make long term plans, or understand anything other than the longings of her pussy and the crack of the whip.
I looked up at Miss Fish-and-Chips, the British reporter. She was entirely naked. Butt naked. Head to toe.
Seeing me looking her up-and-down, our little reporter blushed and tried to cover herself with her hands. "Can I have a towel?" she whined hopefully. "Please? Pretty please?"
Even in my disoriented state, her plaintive and pleading tone pleased me. Her Majesty didn't seem so commanding slave naked.
The psychology of the transformation process had always fascinated me, and it was particularly pleasing to see it happen to the snooty British reporter. When a girl loses her clothes in The Big D, there is a powerful loss of status. This is true even in the mall, where the well dressed woman who is paying to pose for an "auction block" photo at one of the stores will feel a chilling loss of authority once her clothes are removed and put away and the clerk who had been fawning over her begins ordering her about as if she were a real slave. The sharp "taps" on her bottom with the whip won't be actual whip strokes, but the message will be clear. It's part of the experience, to be sure, but I knew from my research that it was also part of the terrible psychology of enslavement, a centuries old process designed to undermine a woman's self-esteem.
Now I could see the process in action. Jasmine's tone with the reporter was dismissive. "Look around you, DUMB-DUMB! Do you see girls with towels? If I give you a towel someone's just going to get annoyed and rip it off you. And stop covering yourself like your tits and pussy are golden. This is a slave market, not a PG-13 movie!"
"Eyes front, slave girl!" Jasmine said, slapping me on the side of the head. "You're in luck. I'd like to send your ass for a week of punishment and training. But we're at level 5. Do you know what level 5 means, stupid?"
Indeed I did, because I had invented it. Level 5 was a state of Severe Inventory Surplus, when The Big D was overflowing with slave girls. When The Big D was in Level 5, all niceties were skipped. The electric motto on the signboard near the clock on the wall stated the current state of readiness succinctly: "LEVEL 5: Whip 'Em & Ship 'Em!"
I had designed Level 5 to get the slave pussy on the block as fast as possible, to maximize revenue and throughput. It was a sound business model, and I had proofed the numbers. But as I hoped Becky Lou was on the way to rescue me from permanent enslavement, now I hoped that the system I had perfected could somehow be slowed down.
"The only reason I'm not paddling your ass right now is because the computer put you on the block in ten minutes. Are you going to BEHAVE, like a good little Prime Minus bitch, or do you want a world of hurt instead?"
Ten minutes! I had not slowed down the system at all. A part of me felt a surge of pride; the system I had honed could not be stopped. I had the option of being punished, and suffering great pain, but my sale would proceed regardless. In ten minutes, my slave snatch would be on the auction block.
Seeing that Jasmine was waiting for a response, I bowed my head, and instinctively responded with the slave mantras I had learned in my Slave Yoga class.