Chapter 4 - Amelia Jane Has a Long Day Ahead of Her
I was conducted to a new room by my handler using the chain of the coin box as an impromptu leash. The room was small and bare and windowless. In the centre of was a narrow grating, such as might lead down to a drain or sewer. There was a wooden bucket in the corner, a small cloth hung over the rim. On a table was a small vial. Next to the table a chair, upon which my handler sat down.
At his indication I knelt in my default position, my legs spread wide, my arms pinioned behind my back. The first thing he did was to remove my earrings. This bemused me a little, especially when, with surprising delicacy, he placed small metal keepers, little bars, in their place.
I squirmed a little as his fingers felt the lobes of each of my ears in turn, securing the keepers in place. He had done this delicately, without hurting me. I whimpered softly.
I looked up at him.
He grinned at me, "Steady, little animal," he said, "We are here for work, not play."
He undid my cuffs, freeing my hands. He then took the sodden cloth from the bucket and threw it at me. It was cold as it hit me on my chest, water dripping down my body. He pointed to the centre of the tiny room, where the grating was.
"Wash yourself," he said.
I struggled, carrying the heavy bucket the few paces to the centre of the room, and knelt. I dabbed at myself with the wet cloth, slowly taking away the accumulated grime of the pens. Several times I wrung out the cloth and dipped it again in the bucket. I was distressed to see how dirty was the water that was wrung out.
It is hard to keep oneself clean in the pens. It is not an environment particularly conducive to scrupulous cleanliness. I wondered if I smelt. It was good to feel the water on my body, cold though it was. I felt my nipples harden, as the cold water refreshed me.
"Everywhere," he admonished.
I blushed. I was to be afforded little privacy, it seemed. I complied with his instructions.
He pointed to the markings on my breast that I had been informed corresponded to my number, '44'.
"Clean them off," he said.
I dabbed and wiped with the little damp cloth. At first the blue smeared across my breast, but I was gradually able to diminish and finally remove the dye to my handler's apparent satisfaction.
I did not need a number any more. It had been replaced by a name, although that name was essentially a derogatory term. I wondered if it were better to be known by a number or by a name such as 'hole'.
I was not sure.
I cupped my hands and poured cold water over my head, my fingers running through the long golden strands of my hair, cleaning my unkempt tresses. I did this again and again, enjoying the sensation of having clean hair and skin once more. How good it felt, even though I was only washing with water from a bucket on the floor, and not from my normal panoply of expensively perfumed oils and lotions and such.
I looked up at my handler and smiled, showing my gratitude, my wet hair dripping on the ground.
He strode across to me, and grinning, lifted the heavy bucket easily, pouring the contents of it over my head. I gasped as the cold force of the dirty water splashed on my skin.
I gasped, surprised.
He laughed at what seemed to him, I suppose, an enjoyable joke.
I was cold and wet, and shivering.
He led me to the little table and fastened my hands once before behind me in the cuffs.
He took the vial and opened it.
"This, slut," he said, "is wine for you to drink. Open your mouth wide, and hold your head back."
I obeyed swiftly. I was certainly ready for a drink after the hard work of my cleaning, and wine sounded a real treat. He pinched my nostrils and poured a draught of the liquid onto my open mouth.
I had never tasted anything so foul. Its taste would be impossible to describe, but certainly had no resemblance to what I had previously known as wine. I tried to expel the liquid, but his hand was already over my mouth, ensuring that I could not do so. His fingers pinching my nose meant I could not breathe.
"Swallow, little animal," he said, gently, "Swallow your slave wine."
I tried to shake my head, my eyes wild. I could not think of swallowing the vile liquid.
His right hand remained implacably on my mouth, his left pinching my nose. Stinging tears came to my eyes as the foulness washed around my mouth. It would seem that I could either die from swallowing the grotesque concoction, or through lack of breath. His hands held my head in a grip of iron.
Choking, I swallowed the vile fluid.
Eventually he took his hand away. He wiped it on the cloth that had been using for my cleaning. I was weeping and spluttering.
The brute smiled at me.
"So now we don't have to worry about you getting pregnant," he said, casually.
I wondered at the import of this remark. What could the foul liquid have to do with the matter of my impregnation?
I looked at my handler blankly.
"You will be given slave wine regularly," he said matter of factly, "It will suppress your personal cycles and fertility. You will not become pregnant so long as it is administered to you."
I gasped, realising the implications of being a nude slave girl in the pens, available, without any risk of the inconveniences of impregnation.
I swallowed hard. I was not a virgin, but not particularly sexually experienced at that time. I more often used to employ my mouth and tongue to give pleasure, and that generally seemed to satisfy. Was this about to change? I was after all nude and helpless in front of my handler.
He sat back on the chair and pointed to his sandals.
"Kiss them," he said, almost casually.
I shook my head, still gagging from the horrid taste of the prophylactic that had been so cruelly administered to me. Who did he think he was?
"No," I said, "I won't do that."