"We should teach her a lesson, shouldn't we?" Mathilde blurted out when the trio left the hallway. The stout woman had been silent while they had marched Annie out of the cell block and back into the big hall. Yet, her previous defeat by the hand of her prisoner seemed to bother her still. When Annie turned her head -- the little it was possible with her neck confined by the tight leather collar -- she could glimpse the angry look in her piggy eyes and how upset she was about the incident.
"This little monkey has no respect for older people, shoving me around and all ..." the peeved woman ranted on.
"And what do you have in mind?" Bethany answered dryly, while she kept a tight grip on the leash, pulling her captive mercilessly forward. Her neck bent back from the rigid collar, Annie was unable to watch the rough stone floor in front of her and needed all of her attention to avoid stumbling over her feet. Scarface and his fellows had been treating her in many wicked ways she had never experienced before, but these two hags seemed to be right on the way to top these scoundrels easily.
"Sir Malcolm is out on some errand for the duke, so during the next days he will not have time to pay much attention to this little bitch." Mathilde mused, "In the meantime we could have some fun with her and then put her into the cistern until he returns."
"Fun?" echoed Bethany, "You always think of fun! Doesn't your old man satisfy your needs anymore?"
"He does," replied Mathilde, "he still gives me a good shag now and then." Licking her lips, she eyed Annie's ample bosom with a lewd glare, "But that's not as good as what this backstabbing weasel has to offer. Look at these soft and feisty tits! I bet her cunt is as soft and smooth as them!"
Annie cringed with shame while she listened to how the assets of her body were praised like a cow sold on the market fair. Desperately she wreathed her wrists in the leather cuffs, trying to pry them free, but the tight leather bands held them firmly in place.
"Hehe, you teased that horny cunt with all your chatting," Bethany cackled, while she watched Annie's feeble attempt to free herself, "No worry, Mathilde is really good to have it off with bitches in heat. Aren't you?"
"Sure, sister," Mathilde nodded approval and grabbing one of Annie's arms she whispered into her ear with a cheesy grin, "I can already feel your cum oozing from your horny cunt."
"I would never allow such filthy crones to touch me!" Annie pressed out between her clenched teeth, while she tried to shake Mathildes greasy hand off. Even the single touch of the obnoxious woman on her upper arm nauseated her, how much more disgusting it would be on her intimate parts. She tried to behave bravely, but inwardly she knew that her words were hollow threats. Fettered up and helplessly manacled she could do nothing to hinder Mathilde to have her way with her.
The chubby wardress seemed to think the same for she snickered shortly, "You are so wrong girlie, first I will have your nice clothing and then see what fun I can have with your body!"
After some more walking Annie was dragged out again into the big cavern. Crossing it almost diagonally Bethany headed for another doorway. Stepping under it, they entered a broad, sparsely lit hallway that let towards more sturdy wooden doors at its end. Opening one of them on creaking hinges they ushered her captive into a small circular room with a vaulted ceiling disappearing in dark shadows above Annie's head. There were not many furnishings inside besides a sturdy table, some chairs and boxes, all made of old worn wood.
Annie hadn't had much time to recognize all the things inside the room before she was led to the middle of it. A sturdy chain with a thick iron ring at its end was dangling from above, its other end running up to a pulley attached to the ceiling. From there it went to a heavy winch mounted on the wall of the chamber. While Mathilde kept her standing under the chain, Bethany went to the winch to start turning the handle. With a creaking and clicking sound the ring lowered down until it hovered in front of Annie's face. Mathilde grabbed it and then Annie heard the click of a padlock as the ring was connected to his counterpart, fixed at her leather collar. After that Mathilde removed the leash and stepped back, waving shortly towards Bethany.
Standing alone in the middle of the room Annie twisted her arms behind her back, trying to reach the collar or even the chain holding her in place. But the cuffs on her wrists wouldn't allow it and the chains between them and the collar were too short to reach the padlock connected to one of the front rings. She took a hesitant step forward but to her annoyance she discovered that the chain holding her in the middle of the room hadn't much slack and immediately went taut against her neck.
Her feeble try to release herself was interrupted by the clicking sound from above her head and a rough cry escaped her pursed lips as she felt the slack gradually begin to disappear in the chain. Slowly but firmly Bethany now worked the winch and the retracting chain pulled her back to where she had been standing before and then continued, drawing her up onto the toes of her slippers.
Feeling the sturdy leather collar tightening around her throat, Annie's breath was gradually cut short and her whole body tensed in anticipation for the moment when her feet would leave the ground and she would be dangling in the suffocating grip of the broad leather band from the ceiling. Before this could happen she heard a last click and the rise of the chain came to an end. A small sigh of relief escaped her lips, but she still felt quite uncomfortable, awkwardly teetering on her tiptoes, forced to rely partially on the collar around her throat for support to keep her balance.
Busy with her fight against the uncomfortable posture, she didn't notice that Mathilde had returned to her side until she felt her hands on her wrists releasing them out of the manacles. She tensed for a moment as both of her hands fell down on her sides, releasing her tensed shoulders from the pain cursing through them.
Although she thought immediately about using the freedom of her hands to claw at the collar around her throat to loosen its choking hold she refrained from lifting them up when Mathilde grabbed her shoulders.
"Tsk, Tsk ... Better you keep your nice little hands where they are and don't move them, my sweetie! Look, one false move and old Bethany over there will pull you up straight to the ceiling to let you dangle there for the rest of the day. You don't want that, do you?" she told her desperate prisoner with a malicious grin on her face.
Annie gritted her teeth, but followed unwillingly Mathildes command.
"Now, for your nice bodice," Mathilde crooned and then Annie felt her feisty fingers opening the bow which held the strings in front of her chest together and started to unlace it.
She winced when the garment came apart, releasing her chest out of the grip of the tight-fitting fabric. Both of her breasts came free to be released into their natural position showing how well provided her bosom was, even though still hidden by the white linen covering it. Mathilde must have recognized this too, because she licked her lips with relish and pulled the open bodice with a swift move down from her shoulders and off her body. With an appraising look she folded the garment neatly together and put it on the table. Next followed the chemise. To remove it, she had to untie the small strings at the back which held the plain shirt in place. As soon as the knot was opened, the white linen was pulled from Annie's shoulders, leaving her whole upper body as well as her breasts naked and for everyone to see.
Suddenly the dungeon air felt cool against so much of the bare skin. She shivered and drew up her hands to warm her naked flesh but also to cover her chest, hiding both of her breasts from the leering glare of Mathildes eyes. But the feisty woman had other things in mind. Impatiently she grabbed one of Annie's wrists and pried them away, bending them towards her back and fixing them as before with the leather manacles to her neck. In the first moment Annie tensed her muscles to give her tormentor a fight, but when Bethany pulled the chain up with a sudden jerk, which threw her almost off balance, she let go with a stifled curse. Mathilde didn't think twice and secured Annie's other wrist too, leaving her and also her bared breasts exposed to whatever she had in mind for them.
"Are you satisfied now? You got your bodice after all. You can let me go now!" Annie couldn't disguise the rising annoyance in her voice when she turned her head to address Mathilde. Her wrists held as painful high in her back as before, the pain had instantly returned to the muscles and tendons of her arms, forced again into this unnatural position.
Yet the crone didn't dignify her prisoner with an answer but instead started to open the knot which held the woolen skirt riding up on her hip. After some fumbling the string went loose and with a soft whoosh the heavy garment rushed on its own down along her legs to the ground.
A hint of fear crept into Annie's voice, realizing that Mathilde was determined to follow through with taking all of her clothes away and leaving her helplessly fettered and naked in this ineffable dungeon.
"Please, please can't you leave me at least the underskirt?" she pleaded desperately, although she hated to prostrate herself before her captors.