Lady Sally was eager to give her Uncle Clitovsky a tour of
The Corseted Domme
, and to demonstrate her two automatons. So, after tea the group returned to the airship.
The count was impressed The airship was magnificent, its silver coating gleaming in the sun as it lay secured to the mooring tower. It was vast, taking them twenty minutes to walk around the whole airship to admire the sleek, bullet-like shape of her fuselage. The interior was just as impressive, with its teak and brass fittings everywhere, especially Lady Sally's private quarters, which were the most sumptuous.
Lady Sally let the captain take her uncle on a tour of the engine rooms and the internal frame of the airship He returned to the control room amazed at the gleaming duralumin structure and the massive air bags that kept the airship afloat.
"She is incredible, dear," he remarked, once the tour had been completed. He sighed, "you see the Russian Empire does not have technology as sophisticated as yours or the Prussians. I don't know how we will fare if war should come as we have nothing to defend ourselves against these superior machines."
He was even more amazed by the demonstration of the automaton co-pilot, Clarissa.
Lady Sally extolled her virtues, "the skill of her brass moulding, the sophistication of her gadgetry, and the precision of her gauges are remarkable. But, she's only designed to sit here in one place and pilot. You must come and see my other automaton, Borghild, in action if you want to appreciate an automaton with full working parts."
They returned to the dungeon playroom to see her guests stripped naked and the automaton, in her blonde wig and still dressed in gleaming red latex, stood there holding a whip. Count Clitovsky, being familiar with Lady Sally's particular predilections was not in the least phased by his niece's behaviour.
"I've been training her. Watch this." She pointed to the banker. "Hog-tie," she commanded.
Borghild's photo-sensitive cells had been programmed to lip-read. She had no auditory function but, as long as she was looking at Lady Sally, she could interpret any spoken instruction.
She set to work. Her eyes clicked, whirred and swivelled around to the banker. She put the whip down and picked up a coil of rope. She began by securing his wrists, coiling several loops of the rope around them before pulling the cord through the loops and tightening them with a knot. Taking up more rope, she wrapped it around his upper arms above his elbow and across his chest before tightening with a knot. Lady Sally noted how the rope dug deep into his flesh. Pushing the banker in the back, she forced him onto his knees and left him in that position, allowing him to gaze up adoringly into her unforgiving brass features. Then she pushed him face down on the floor. She rested her ankle-boots on his back, digging their sharp heels into him. She completed the hog-tie by winding more rope around his ankles, securing it with a knot and then bending his legs back for the remaining loose rope to be tied to his wrists.
"Her rope work is a little untidy, and does not have the elegance or symmetry of mine," commented Lady Sally, "but that will improve with time. How much she has learnt to mimic in such a short time is amazing."
"The complexity of actions she can perform with those brass fingers is incredible," added the count.
The banker's two bum cheeks, either side of the threads of rope tying his ankles to his wrists, were left accessible. Borghild dug her metal-tipped heels deep into the flabby flesh of his arse, making him squeak in pain.
"This one is a squealer. I think I should put a stop to that," Lady Sally said, retrieving a ball-gag from the row of brass hooks.
Lady Sally lifted his head, thrusting the rubber ball in his mouth before tightening the buckle behind the back of his head. She was pleased with this. The balls were made at the manufactory at the rubber plantation and shipped to Rudston Hall where her own craftsmen attached them to the leather straps to create the ball-gags. Lady Sally loved them and had several in different sizes and colours because her slaves had big mouths and often needed silencing.
