My first was also my last. Countess Elizabeth, a frequent visitor to the Castle, much admired by all, it seemed. Though her more public assignations were always with the gentlemen of the Royal Court, in private she insisted on being served by a girl. Indeed, very soon she had insisted it was me.
"Good evening, Lady Elizabeth," I said, slipping in through the not-so-secret door.
She smiled at me warmly. "Belinda..." She was lying naked amidst a mess of sheets, and at the sight of me she spread her legs invitingly. "I hear this is your last night."
I crawled onto the bed. "As a Rose Girl? Yes, my Lady. Thank you, my Lady." I lowered my nose to her sweet, aristocratic pussy, and breathed in appreciatively.
"I? I had nothing to do with it."
"Every time you speak my name, I am rewarded." I kissed her clit, and licked a pearl of cum from her thigh. "How many gentlemen have you had the pleasure of tonight, my Lady?"
"Sadly, only two, though what they lacked in stamina they certainly made up for in enthusiasm.
"It does seem their aim was sorely lacking," I said, and my tongue swept her sensitive, cum-splashed inner thighs.
"On the contrary. Lord Reginald greatly admires the sight of his own member, and took great pleasure in marking me thus."
I grinned up at her. "The quantity is impressive."
"I would have preferred it within, so that I would have an excuse to keep you there for hours."
"My Lady needs no excuse for that. She needs merely ask."
"But what of tomorrow, my lovely Belinda? Who will serve me when you are no longer a Rose Girl? I will surely miss you."
"No, my Lady. For ten years you have commanded my service. Tomorrow, and for as long as I am a Blue Belle, you will receive it willingly."
As my tongue teased at last between the deliciously wet folds of her labia, she murmured, "I pray that is forever."
*
Ten years as a Rose Girl. I can't say it was all good, and that there weren't many nights where I cried myself to sleep, feeling abused by life, sick of the disparity of wealth that created our accursed aristocracy. Lady Elizabeth was one of the very few good ones, but even she could - and perhaps would - have crushed me like an insect, had I ever displeased her.
We Rose Girls had it good. As long as we embraced our role as the Castle's harlots with enthusiasm, giving and occasionally receiving pleasure, then we would serve for a minimum of ten years before being promoted to the Blue Belles. Those who fought against this fate... disappeared.
The Scarlet Women were seldom seen, and were regarded fearfully. According to rumour, they were kept in the Castle's dungeons and subjected to tortures on the whims of the aristocracy. They wore the same uniforms as us, though their corsets, skirts and stockings were scarlet red, and they wore, in addition, steel collars and wrist cuffs with rings. Some were men, and some woman, but all, like us, wore steel chastity belts.
Rose Girls were not allowed in the dungeons. An exception was made in my case, because I was an apprentice electrician and my master, an elderly Blue Belle named Jack, needed my assistance replacing the cabling in the Castle's underbelly.
Truly the dungeons were a place of horror. Jack called them the Circles of Hell, where not only Scarlet Women but also aristocrats paid for their sins on Earth above. The Queen dealt with her enemies ruthlessly.
The lucky ones were those who had had their spirits broken, the wildness in their hearts tamed by the cane. Those who resisted endured torments that made my blood run cold. There were some even who had had their limbs replaced with macabre clockwork. What I witnessed there still gives me nightmares to this day. What I experienced there was but a taste.
I was allowed into the dungeon to work, but I was not guaranteed safety. If an aristo wanted to use a Rose Girl, even in the dungeon, I couldn't deny her. She was a tall woman with short, dark hair, a cruel sneer about her lips, and eyes that blazed with hunger. She bound me to a low table, gagged, my arms pulled painfully wide, my legs spread by chains that pulled my ankles towards the ceiling until my bum was lifted too.
I screamed through my gag as she whipped my inner thighs, alternating left and right, hard enough that it left me with scars, and when I was sure I was going to choke on my own tears, she harnessed herself with a huge strap-on dildo and fucked my ass while whipping my bare arms. More scars there.
Satisfied with my misery, she let me go and wandered off in search of other victims. How long I lay sobbing in Jack's arms, I don't know, but I needed his comforting more than anything in my life.
Had I needed an incentive to enjoy my work as a Rose Girl, that would have been it. The alternative did not bear thinking about.
*
Lady Elizabeth released my nipple from between her teeth and looked down at the chastity belt she was stroking. "I hate that you have to wear that thing," she said.
"My cunt is the Queen's, my Lady. The rest of me is yours to command."
"I know, but we desire most that which is denied us."
"If you desire the Queen's cunt so much, maybe you should ask her for it."
She stiffened with momentary fear. "Don't joke about such things."
"Then forget about it, my Lady, and let us take pleasure in sharing yours."
She laughed, and kissed me. "Promise me you'll always be mine."
"As long as I wear the Blue, my Lady, I'll always come to you."
*
Lady Elizabeth was my first, my last, and my favourite, but there were many others. Too many to count. And though there were times when a whole week could go by without anyone requiring my sexual services, there were also weeks when I seemed to spend the whole day, every day, sucking one cock or another.
Especially around the Quarterly Balls. While my mother was no doubt watching the television, searching for my face amidst the army of black-garbed Servants of the Court, I was probably just behind the scenes, dressed in pink, with some random aristo's cock hammering away at my ass, or with my face buried in celebrity pussy.
And sometimes there can be too much of a good thing.
It was a cruel fate that we Rose Girls had to eat so much cock and pussy while being denied access to our own. Although I quickly got used to wearing a chastity belt, there were many, many occasions when I wanted to scream with frustration. Often I went for months without a decent orgasm. My friend Diane, on the other hand, could achieve orgasm just by having me suck on her nipples for half an hour.
We were both in tears as I packed up my few personal belongings. Diane had been a Rose Girl since a year before I started, but I was the one getting promoted. In time, she too would join the Blue Belles, but it felt unfair that I was leaving her behind. "Until you are a Blue Belle too," I whispered in her ear as we embraced, "I will never be happy."
"See you soon," she whispered back, and pushed me away. "Go, so I can tell everyone how much I hate you."
I brushed away my tears, and nodded. "I may not be a Rose Girl anymore, but I still have the Queen's cunt between my legs."
At least I left her with a smile on her face.
*
My first corset at the Castle had been a plain yellow one, heavy with spiral steel stays and designed for waist training. My second, on becoming a Rose Girl, had been the same, but pink. Each year thereafter I was given a new corset, but these were lighter corsets, and with white embroidery. It was possible to tell how many years a Rose Girl had served by the designs and detail of the embroidery.
The Blue Belles had pale blue corsets with white embroidery. But where the Rose Girls had a set of standard designs, the Blue Belles had individual designs. Because the corsetières were themselves Blue Belles.
If the Rose Girls were the Castle's harlots and general dogsbodies, the Blue Belles were the Castle's craftsmen, its gardeners and plumbers and carpenters and tailors and so on. These were all trades that the Rose Girls - when not servicing the aristocracy - could learn as apprentices, as I had learned to be an electrician. In becoming a Blue Belle, I was no longer a harlot. I would not be expected to yield my mouth and ass to any and every aristo that took a liking to me.
No, I was an electrician, not a harlot. A very inexperienced electrician, and a very horny ex-harlot. It was great to have this relative freedom to choose, but I was in no hurry to abandon harlotry.
But first things first. "I want to continue working with you," I'd told Jack as soon I'd heard about my promotion.
He'd shrugged. "Fine with me, but you'll have to speak to the wife. She'll not like me spending all my days with the prettiest Belle I've seen in years."
I blushed at his compliment. He was fifty years my senior and old enough to be my grandfather. I didn't mind crawling around in ducts with his ass practically in my face, but I didn't have any desire to get any closer to it. And I don't know that I was the prettiest, but I would certainly be the youngest - for a while, anyway.
"Besides," he'd added, "you'll need a new corset, and Daisy's the best there is."
Daisy was half blind. She peered critically at me through thick spectacles. "What's the point of me making you a corset if you're going to spend your life climbing around inside the Castle's walls?" she asked.
I had to laugh. Clearly she didn't expect me to seduce her husband, and she was right about the corset. "Actually," I said, "I need two corsets. Something simple for when I'm in the Castle's walls, and something elegant for when I'm in the Castle's beds."
"You're one of those girls, are you? Got your eye on the Queen?"