"Sold, for 4,000 gold pieces, the job lot of five brand-new slavegirls! A round of applause for one of our favourite buyers, equestrian elf par excellence Mistress Penelope!"
The crowd clapped as the five stark naked girls were handed over to their new elven owner, a commanding but small woman with long dark hair, decked out in a white and black leather equestrian outfit. She clamped a thin, polished steel collar around each of their necks, and shackled their hands behind their backs. Linking the collars with a long chain, she led the five frightened girls out of the auction house and through the thronged city streets, on a long walk to the stables and paddocks that she owned in the rolling green fields just outside the city.
The recently captured slaves sweated in the noonday sun as they were marched into their new lives. Right in the middle of the line was a slim brunette who was struggling to remember her name. She could sense its absence, a ghost in her thoughts, could almost feel its outline, but something, some magic, had blocked it from her. She knew who she was - a wealthy girl who, until very recently, had attended one of England's best finishing schools with three of the others in the lot she had just been sold in. She couldn't remember their names either, nor those of the stable girl who made up the fifth of their number. In her case, she wasn't sure she'd ever paid enough attention to know it.
The past three days had been a living nightmare. In the middle of a fire in an empty stables, which had trapped all five girls inside as they worked to get it ready for four new horses, an impossible, shimmering portal had opened up to rescue them. The very moment they had stepped through it, all five girls had been wrestled to the floor by these strange women with their pointy ears and haughty stares, then stripped naked and caged like animals until someone had come to collect them.
The girls had been displayed together in the market, always collared, shackled, and for some strange reason, completely unable to speak in words, though they could cry and moan. They had been well fed, and had been made to wash thoroughly every day under warm showers before going back on display.
The brunette knew three of her fellow captives as intimate friends, but not as anything more than that. Over the past few days, they had all seen each other bound naked, stripped of their body hair, and groped, fondled and inspected by a hundred or more elven women looking for their next slave to purchase. All the girls' tears had flowed freely, but the brunette had been most shocked by how many times each of them had suddenly orgasmed without warning while on display. She knew by heart the faces and sounds each of them made as they came, and she blushed as she realised the thought made her a little wet.
As they passed through the city and out into its surrounding areas, all four of the finishing school girls pulled against the chains, just to test them, to slow up their new 'owner', to see if they could get free, but the fifth girl, the stable hand, never resisted. The impossibly strong elf just kept dragging them along, until she grew tired of pulling and slashed at the girls' round bottoms with a fierce crop to make them speed up. The elf marched the five of them into a paddock and tied their collars to a post by long leashes, then she clicked her fingers and from across the wide field, two human slavegirls appeared, driving a cart that was pulled by two magnificent, muscular ponyboys.
The cart brimmed with tack, which barely jiggled as the vehicle glided across the perfectly flat, well-tended field, and the brunette slavegirl's heart pounded as she took in the elaborate leather harnesses that the otherwise naked ponyboys wore, and compared it to what was on the cart. Could it be ... for her and her friends? She looked at the ponyboys, blinked, looked again. Their legs ended in what could only be real hooves, which the altered humans walked on with grace and perfect balance, and their arms, which were linked to their collars on a short chain that held them up near their nipples, terminated in a smaller hoof. How did they ever eat? How did they ever wash? Were her eyes deceiving her, or did they have pointy ears too? She lost her train of thought as her new owner spoke.
"You, slavegirl," said the elf, pointing at the curvy girl with the mousy brown hair who had worked in the stables, "you may speak."
"Um ... er ... thank you, um, Mistress?" she replied.
"Correct, slavegirl. One point for you - you've obviously been paying attention while these frightened little things have just been trembling and worrying. You, and you alone, may make a choice today. You may choose the life of a ponygirl, or you may join Zoe and Jeanie here, and become a trainer by day and my personal slave by night. Which is it to be?"
The brunette slavegirl watched the voluptuous stable hand make her choice, which she did by sizing up the trainers, her new mistress, the ponyboys, and finally the four finishing school girls she had been enslaved with. The brunette caught her eye, saw the wickedness there, and started to wish fervently that she'd paid the curvy commoner more attention when she'd been telling her how to look after the brunette's horse.
"Trainer, please, Mistress!" said the former stable girl, as a smile crept across her face.
"Good girl - an excellent choice. Zoe, find my new slavegirl some long boots like yours to wear, and help her on with them, then get her a crop. Slavegirl, what was your name in the human world?"
"Ruth, Mistress."
"I like it! You can keep it, for now. Zoe will undo your shackles and let you loose, but I want you to try and contemplate using that crop you've been given against me, or escaping from my service. Try it now."
Ruth almost doubled over, and would have hit the floor had Zoe not been ready to catch her. Her face was suddenly ash white and drawn, and she heaved in breaths to keep from being sick.
"I have complete power over your minds and have already made much use of it on the journey here. That shows what will happen to you if you ever resist me, your owner. Got it?"