Although Tracey felt like she badly needed to touch herself, in response to the effect the events of the day were having on her submissive instincts, she also knew that she badly needed a shower after spending the day in the hot Zongan sun. If her former needs were not going to be satisfied, at least she would be clean, which represented in an improvement in her situation, albeit a small one. In fact, so acute was Tracey's need for a shower that only after she had turned the water on, and she was halfway through with washing herself, did she notice that there were no towels. There had been no towels in the room, nor did there appear to be any towels in the shower room. There was a terry cloth bathrobe waiting for her outside of the shower room, but that was no substitute for a towel. Tracey supposed it would have to do.
That prompted a horrifying thought: Her robe was OUTSIDE of the shower room, along with her badge. Would it actually be waiting for her, or could some passer-by have grabbed it? And if some passer-by had grabbed it, that would leave her both without a robe and without a badge, walking around the resort naked, with no way to identify herself, in a country where slavery was both legal and commonplace. DAMN! She wanted to touch herself. She looked around to see if anybody was watching her, and saw the woman showering next to her turn off the water.
Tracey quickly resumed washing herself, but out of the corner of her eye she also watched the other woman to see what she would do after her shower was over. As soon as the woman turned off the faucet, she pressed down on the middle of the knob, and air started blowing out from a group of holes in the wall. Similar holes were embedded in the wall near Tracey's shower head, but now Tracey could see what they were for. It appeared to be similar to the hand dryers that could be found in many public lavatories, only this was for the whole body. So, one mystery was solved.
Tracey finished her shower and turned the water off, and was surprised by how quickly the warm air dried her. Unfortunately, she had neither a brush nor a comb, so she had only her fingers to use on her hair, but she made do the best she could. She walked out of the shower room, and although she hoped the hallway would be empty, there were several people walking by. She tried to be as nonchalant as she could as she walked out. Fortunately, she found her robe hanging on its hook, undisturbed, with her badge securely attached.
A few minutes later Emily emerged from the shower room and the two women started searching the labyrinth-like corridors for the lift. When they finally found it, they proceeded to address their second most pressing need: food. They were safe from any immediate risk of enslavement, they were freshly showered, and they were (sort of) dressed. Once they had some dinner they might be able to start enjoying their holiday.
The restaurant was easy to find once they reached the lobby, and at the entrance they were greeted by an olive-skinned hostess who wore nothing but a rhinestone bikini and a thick leather collar around her neck.
"Welcome to the Majestic Restaurant miss," said the hostess humbly. "May I see your badges?"
Tracey was taken aback by the hostess' demeanor. This was the first time anybody in Zonga -- even a slave -- had spoken to her so politely. Tracey and Emily removed their badges from their robes and handed them over to the hostess, who kept them as she led the two women into the dining room.
The atmosphere was opulent, and most of the guests were dressed up. The men wore jackets and ties, and most of the women wore evening dresses, albeit a bit more revealing than Tracey was used to seeing in England. Tracey and Emily were not the only women there who wore terrycloth robes, but there were few enough to make them feel out of place.
The hostess led Tracey and Emily to their small table, and as they took their seats Tracey noticed a woman at a nearby table stand up and start dancing, seductively, to the music that was playing in the background. The man who was sitting with her at the table watched attentively as she started giving him a lap dance. She uncapped the badge from her dress and handed it to to the man, and he took it while she unzipped her dress and slipped out of it, slowly and seductively.
"Is she the entertainment?" asked Emily, taken a bit aback at the scene.
"No Miss," replied the hostess. "She is a guest, just like any other."
"Then why the strip tease act?" persisted Emily.
"She is living out her fantasy," replied the hostess. "Don't worry, she is perfectly safe. No lady friendly guest can be enslaved on resort property. So, as they say, what happens in Zonga stays in Zonga."
"But didn't she just give that man her badge?" asked Tracey.
"Yes, she did. A lot of girls who come here with their boyfriends or husbands do that -- it gives him control over her fate. But she wouldn't do it unless she really trusted him."
As Tracey and Emily contemplated the idea of trusting a man so completely that they would put their freedom into his hands so completely, the hostess said, almost as an afterthought, "by the way, here are your badges," as she placed them on the table and walked off.
Eventually a waitress, clad in an outfit similar to the hostess, came and the two women ordered their meal. From time to time, they were interrupted by some woman doing a strip tease act either for a man she was with, or for some other male guest. Tracey was intrigued, and she could see Emily was as well.
"Don't they realize the risk they are taking?" asked Tracey.
"Are they though?" replied Emily. "I mean, nothing seems to be happening to the girls who perform like that. Except maybe they turn the blokes on."
"So, no risk," said Tracey, more to herself than to Emily. "And no consequences..."
"I think maybe that's the idea," said Emily, whereupon Tracey stood up.
"What are you doing Tracey?" asked Emily.
"What I came to do. No risk, right?" A flabbergasted Emily looked on as Tracey stepped away from the table and started dancing, seductively, in her robe in the middle of the restaurant floor. Several of the men sitting at adjoining tables looked on, and some whistled and catcalled. Tracey playfully undid the drawstring on her robe, and flashed one breast, then the other. She then closed her robe and spotted a young man seated at a table alone and approached him. She turned his chair, sat in his lap, and opened her robe slightly to expose herself only to him. The men seated at the surrounding tables cheered.
Eventually, much to the disappointment to onlookers who seemed to be expecting a fully nude performance, Tracey got up.from the man's lap and went back to her table, only to be greeted by Emily, with her mouth stuck open.
"My GOD Tracey, I can't believe you did that!" said Emily. The truth was, Tracey couldn't believe it either. If anything, Tracey was normally the more prudish of the two. But the events of the day, as frightening and humiliating as they were while she was experiencing them, had awakened in Tracey latent submissive urges that demanded an outlet. This appeared to be the safest outlet she could find.
Tracey was not inclined to explain this to Emily, since, frankly, it was none of her business. In any event, going to Zonga in the first place had been Emily's idea, so it was hardly her place to judge Tracey if she wanted to test the limits of the "lady friendly" protections the resort offered.