The newly enslaved Samantha slept in the pantry on some old sacks. She had to sleep on her stomach because of her awfully sore bottom. All through the night she was visited by nightmares, until the dawn rose and N'Sisi woke her by thwacking her backside with a rod.
"Wakey wakey, white girl. You go to orchard today and learn proper how do what you told."
The slave girl was given a bucket of water to wash herself.
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The maid marched Samantha out of the house and down a long path to the orchard. N'Sisi carried a wooden paddle with her to make sure she didn't encounter any disobedience from N'Pana's new plaything.
There were rows and rows of trees seemingly going on as far as the horizon. The slave girl had never seen the particular fruit hanging from the branches before, and asked about them.
"That fruit make slaves fruity" N'Sisi laughed.
Samantha didn't have a clue what was meant by this.
"Am I to pick fruit today?" she asked. This didn't sound too distressing or humiliating. "I'll work hard. Please don't give me another caning," she said in her plummy Cotswold voice.
"Yes. You work hard, get in good shape. Now slave give me clothing. You dress different in orchard," the maid barked.
Samantha sighed and pulled off the smock, handing it to N'Sisi. She stood covering herself with her hands. She hoped no-one else would come along while she was getting changed.
The nude slave girl could hear the sound of voices and footsteps.
"Please, N'Sisi, can I have my other garments? I'm quite naked and other people are coming!"
The footsteps got louder and louder, and eventually from behind the trees the other slave girls appeared, led by an overseer. Six slender black girls. All were quite nude apart from their collars.
Samantha suddenly realised how she was to dress. She couldn't believe her circumstances.
"All of you line up and display yourselves" shouted the overseer.
"That include posh white slave, too," said N'Sisi, smacking Samantha's naked bum.
******
The bare Samantha Barrington positioned herself in the line of naked slave girls, with her legs apart and her hands behind her head. She stood out as she fidgeted with discomfort, and had to be reminded not to try to cover herself with her hands. The other girls stood as though they were quite relaxed with being au naturel. They had all been left standing for an age while the overseer and N'Sisi casually passed the time of day. The fact that she was left so forcibly exposed while they calmly chatted was particularly humbling. It was being made perfectly clear to Samantha that she was now owned.
"Make sure you whip backside if she not work hard," said N'Sisi.
"You not worry" said the overseer. "She be toned and fit before you know it."
"We get silly white girl basted, then you get her working," said the maid.
Samantha was ordered to face one of the trees and lean against it, with her legs apart.