A Career Change is in Order
"Mistress Morena," Alyssa said, entering the parlor. "I didn't expect you to travel all this way to check up on me. Have I offended you?"
Morena rose as Alyssa entered, as did Stella. Not exactly protocol, but it seemed polite.
"I did not mean to insult you, Alyssa," Morena told the huntress. "I am in somewhat desperate straits and needed to feel like I was doing
something
to solve my problem. An outing to the Uplands seemed like a good idea at the time."
"Please, sit," Alyssa told them. "I see Dosay has gotten you refreshments. And I have gotten you your half dozen. But there is a small hitch we need to discuss."
"A small hitch?" Morena asked, sitting back down with Stella following suit.
"Yes, a small one, I assure you," Alyssa told her. "You will have your product and in sufficient quantities, for the Festival."
Morena was visibly relieved... but suspicious.
"So what is the small hitch? Do you want more money? And how can you guarantee the necessary quantities from a mere half-dozen?" Morena wanted to know.
"No, I don't want more per-head money," Alyssa explained. "I want to go into business for myself."
"Excuse me?" Morena was confused. "I don't understand. You
are
in business for yourself..."
"I mean as a supplier, to you. Kind of a subcontractor Rancher. I'd procure and maintain my own stock and supply high quality, high volume product to you. You pay me fair prices and you get the credit. And it would be both my sister and me runnin' the business."
Morena and Stella both turned and looked at each other with exactly the same thought running through their minds:
Here's our 'other Rancher' to partner with...
"What kind of 'fair price' did you have in mind?" Morena asked, trying not to seem too elated.
"That's the hitch..." Alyssa told her. "I don't know. But you do. I'd need start-up equipment and probably training to do the more extensive genetic testing. And for storage. I can already check for count and motility, radiation and mutation. But I don't have any long-term storage beyond normal refrigeration and I can't do the genetic matching the Matriarch wants. And I'm going out on a limb here and presuming the heat is on because she's your client."
"That's the rumor, such as it is," Alyssa told her. "According to the street, you're the sole supplier and incidentally her only contractor. I don't want to compete with that. I want to partner with you."
"Funny you should say that," Morena told her. "I was just thinking along the same lines. I was going to pay you six thousand for your studs, total. I can tell you it will take almost three times that just to set up your lab. Twice that if you only want Level-1 genetic testing, for diseases and such, plus long-term storage."
"But you seem pretty confidant you can deliver, and not just on one order, but over time. So here's what I can do. 70cc of Class-A product is worth 150. The same of Class-AA is 200. I'll stand you to twenty thousand to get started. You pay it off with product. When you're paid off, we convert to cash at the going rates."
"What would Class-AAA be worth to you?" Alyssa asked.
Morena raised an eyebrow. "If it existed, it'd be between three to five hundred. You hit the mother lode or something?"
"Or something," Alyssa told her. "How long for you to process a sample, to see I'm not blowing smoke?"
"On the off chance you'd had some success, I brought most of what I need in my coach," Morena told her. "You have a sample for me?"
"You want to come get it yourself?" Alyssa asked.
Now Morena was definitely intrigued. This woman was way too confident to be bullshitting. She accepted.
Alyssa stood and told the women to follow her, leaving their servants outside, and she took them down to Dosay's dungeon.
Morena was surprised to see six very healthy looking males resting in the cage. In fact, two were playing some kind of card game. All six looked up as the women entered and although wary, none showed any sign of maltreatment or abuse. They were all watching Alyssa, with furtive glances at the newcomers, and it was obvious she was the Alpha in the room... with the possible exception of Dosay, who seemed to garner the same respect.
Alyssa nodded to Dosay, then walked over to the cage.
"Gentlemen," she addressed them. "This is Mistress Morena, a Rancher of some renown, and her assistant Stella. They are interested in your cum. Which of you wants to volunteer a sample?"
Six hands went up and Morena almost fainted.
Docile???
she thought to herself.
Complacent??? Cooperative??? That must not bode well for their genetics... or Alyssa has them eating out of her hand... or pussy...
"Stella," she said, "go get the genetics field test kit from the boot, would you?"
Stella smiled slightly and turned to go get the kit. She had a feeling Morena was going to start without her. Well, it wouldn't be the first time...
Alyssa turned to Morena.
"It appears we have a number of volunteers, Mistress," she told her. "Would you care to pick one? Or two? Or all of them?"
Morena looked around the dungeon. Must be Dosay's influence, she decided. Doesn't seem like Alyssa's style. Then she spied a padded bench just about the right height for what she wanted.
"Let's wait until Stella gets back," she told Alyssa. "In the meantime, does that bench adjust in height?" When Dosay assured her it did, she commented, "then let's set if for about cock height for the men. And I'll check all six, if it isn't an insult to you and your sister, Alyssa."
"We have no problem with you making sure you're getting what you're contracting for, Mistress," Alyssa told her, then set about determining the average height of the men's cocks and adjusting the bench accordingly.
Over in the pen, there was a hushed conversation going on.
"That's the infamous Mistress Morena?" Roe was asking Gann. "Doesn't look like a mean old hag to me..."
"No, she isn't, obviously," Gann whispered back. "Maybe mean but definitely not old and not a hag."
"She's supposed to run the largest and best quality stable anywhere," Hecht whispered.
"If we are sold to her, we will never see the light of day again," Lott put in. "It is said she keeps all her men locked up and milks them twice a day, and whips them if they can't produce, and sells the ones she doesn't want to Pasture, who sells them to the Amazons."
"I don't know about the twice a day and the whipping," Gann whispered back, "but I know for a fact that she sells the underperformers to Pasture, who really does sell them to the Amazons, among others."
"Has anyone escaped her?" Heath asked.
"Not while in her custody, that I know of," Gann told him. "The only one I know of for sure, escaped after he was transferred to Pasture."
"I take it cooperation is the only way to survive," Sawgrass interjected. "Does she do the poison pill, like our Mistress?"
"I haven't heard of it," Gann told him. "I know she does collars and cuffs, and has trustees to move the stock around and take care of them."
"I can't decide if I want to succeed and live life as a sperm donor," Roe whispered, "or fail and find out what Alyssa does with the rejects."