The discovery of the buried and hidden cities and artifacts from the ancient sunken continent of Lemuria marked a sea change in 21st century science, history, and civilization. Expeditions into the Antarctic wastes, the undersea ruins, and the massive pockets of air hidden deep in the earth where the advanced, pre-human civilization retreated to (before vanishing entirely) have only just started--but already they have yielded bizarre and disturbing relics, objects of an advanced, inhuman technology, and copious pictograms and wall carvings and documents depicting a society with intense sexual and social domination. As the world tries to cope with, and understand these new discoveries, the cultural norms and behaviors have begun to shift rapidly towards what it appears Earth's first intelligent inhabitants (who for the most part appear very much like humans) engaged in.
This is nothing to say of the sometimes disturbing finds that the barest exploration into these newly uncovered realms have brought back.
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Hamilton Student Union building - Naomi
Naomi was one-hundred percent pissed off. The lady at the Student Services desk had sent her to the back of the queue for violations of the student dress code! It turned out the campus student handbook specified "neat, acceptable, and clean clothing"! Her jeans, Nami ripped skinny jeans, which she had bought two days ago and enjoyed wearing on campus were SUPPOSED to look like this. They weren't 'dirty' and they weren't ACTUALLY torn.
The old bitch had first suggested, in a low voice, that she go home and change into something more 'appropriate.' When she'd told the stupid woman that these were 'in style' and 'she wasn't about to change for some dried out crone, the woman had sent her to the back of the queue. She'd waited there, awkwardly, until the boy behind her had asked if he could get help. The bitch was clearly not going to help her until she did her time back in the back of the line--so, furious, she had stalked off and gone back behind the six people waiting.
She'd felt their eyes follow her. Oh! She hated this. She ALMOST gave up on this shit and went back to her dorm--but she needed to get a slip for the computer center. She stewed and growled and glared, until FINALLY, she was next in line. It wasn't until the security girl appeared at the help desk that she realized she might have made a mistake.
"Naomi Cartwright?" the woman in the campus security uniform asked. She looked like she was in her mid 20's and Naomi thought she had a friendly-looking face. However, the woman knowing her NAME was unsettling. She pretended not to hear, but when the woman shifted her hands to her hips, she felt a tingle of concern. Reluctantly, she gave up her place in line and came around to the the side of the help desk.
"Yeah?"
"Naomi?"
"Yeah," she said again, letting it drawl slightly. She felt a little thrill of the insolence. Normally she wasn't really brave enough to mouth off like this--but oh, she'd wanted to! Letting the help-bitch have it was something she's wanted to do in various cases for quite some time. Now, looking at this rent-a-cop woman, she decided that SHE was paying THIS GIRL'S salary with her tuition!
The security girl nodded. She had a yellow pad of forms in her hand.
"This is a Student Disciplinary Council referral form," the officer said. "If you cooperate, I won't write you one. If you don't, I will--and a bad one--" she showed Naomi the form, it had a set of checkboxes from MILD BAD BEHAVIOR to SEVERE BAD BEHAVIOR. The woman tapped the last one.
Naomi stared at it. She wasn't normally in a lot of trouble--and she wasn't a hundred percent sure what the 'Student Disciplinary Council' could do--but with a sudden shuddering grip of fear, she remembered Stacy in her dorm being referred to EACH of her teachers for a 'personal spanking.'
She'd found it outrageous and insane... and kind of hot--but Stacy had been utterly undone! Having to present herself to each professor and confess that she'd tried to plagiarize an English paper and ask for... a spanking!? Apparently Stacy had begged pleadingly before the asshole Council members! Apparently her groveling HAD made it slightly better--but, Stacy was red-faced, just thinking about the show she'd made.
Stacy had cried in the bathroom for the rest of the week as she'd worked through her sentence! Naomi was suddenly horribly aware that if this security woman gave her the fucking referral slip, she might get the same! Worse: having to beg on her knees for a tiny sliver of mercy was unthinkable!
Staring at the woman, she realized she SO did not want a referral. The immediacy of what might be done hit home and she shuddered. "Sorry," she stammered. "I'm sorry--I lost my temper with the--with the lady--can I just go? I'll leave."
The woman shook her head.
"When she sent the message to campus security, I asked her what she wanted--and she wanted to make sure you learned not to behave that way before you got in REAL trouble with someone less forgiving."
The security girl glanced at the woman behind the desk, helping another student. Did the woman look... smug? A little triumphant? She didn't look over, but surely she could tell the security officer was lecturing Naomi! Shit!
"O-okay..." Naomi started. What was she going to do. She COULDN'T get one of those awful referrals!
The security woman nodded, apparently ready to 'get started.'
"Two demerits," said the woman, holding up two fingers. "The first for dress-code. The second for, well, for rudeness."
Naomi felt her face go hot. Blush--but she nodded in misery.
"You are going in Time Out for forty five minutes, and we're going to have a private correction in the girl's bathroom. Buck me and you get the referral and I'll make sure they put you through the ringer. I want a well behaved young student, here, got it?"
Oh... fuck. Naomi nodded.
"Yes, ma'am?" the officer prompted. Fuck!
"Yes, ma'am," Naomi said haltingly.
"Good. Now all you have to do is as you're told." She took Naomi's wrist and marched her across the Student Union to the bathrooms. Naomi was blushing with wild misery, her face shining. Like a nightmare, she felt like EVERYONE was watching her.
A glance back at the help desk and she saw a satisfied--but sympathetic look on the face of the woman. A worse spike of dread. Oh, she HAD been rude! She KNEW better--but it had been SO TEMPTING! She'd felt SO EMPOWERED!
The officer pushed into the girl's room and led her past a girl washing her hands to the end stall. It was unoccupied and the officer led her in.
"Take those pants off," snapped the officer. Naomi felt like she might literally swoon. There was no doubt the girl outside could hear that clearly--and the look on the officer's face made it clear what their destination had implied!
"Please," she whimpered.
The officer rolled her eyes. "Naomi--you are old enough to take a spanking with, if not dignity, at least obedience. I'm going to spank you and then--" she held out what looked like a plastic package--"take you to your Time Out. If you behave, and properly apologize to Mrs. Higgens after this, it'll be over. If not, I WILL write that referral and you'll be VERY sorry."
Apparently Naomi's miserable little nod was enough to get her to continue.