If this is the first Shelacta Tale you have read, please go the appendix to learn about this world.
Fifth Tale: Degrees of Slavery Part Two. Maidâs Servant.
Mona has a problem. Her husband Jonas had been her unwilling slave and Monaâs sexual trap was becoming less effective. Her son Adam had shown signs of becoming a spoilt brat with his fatherâs unpleasant characteristics. Jonas was a miser and would only spend money when Mona ordered him as strongly as she could. She had made him spend money to buy a milkerâs services for Adamâs 18th birthday but events had made that decision an unfortunate one. Jonas and Adam were now enslaved by Mary who was leaving the city. Mary had ordered the men to obey Mona. Would that order be enough if Mary were elsewhere? Even if it was, having her son Adam enslaved to his mother was not an arrangement that could continue for long. It was unnatural situation and not normally possible.
Mary had written a letter to Mona setting out a possible solution to the dilemma Mona now faced. If Mona could obtain the services of another milker who was close to her, Adam could be freed from Maryâs enslavement and protected from other women. Jonas could be enslaved by the milker who could then repeat the order for Jonas to obey Mona. The replacement milker could re-emphasise that order as often as necessary to keep Jonas in subjection and overcome his strong streak of miserliness. Mary suggested someone close to Mona who might be suitable. But was she? That Mona needed to know.
Adam was no longer such a problem. His servitude to Mary had been a salutary shock and had begun to change him. If Jonas could be controlled their son might become a decent man after all. Adam had been shaken by his encounter with Deirdre, the Golden Siren. Even her speaking voice had affected him and made him very afraid.
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Mona thought back to the time a year ago when their household had gained another member overnight. Jonas is a highly sexed man and Mona wasnât as keen on sex as she had been. She had ignored his flirtations. Her only real worry was that Jonas would fall for another womanâs trap but he seemed too wary to risk that. He had been visiting prostitutes. Mona refused to have any sex with him at all when she found out. (Sexual diseases are not as common on Shelacta as they are on our parallel world but they do exist. They are unpleasant but not usually fatal.) If Jonas were to be killed by a pre-fertile woman Mona might have grieved for a few days. Their relationship was that bad.
Prostitution attracts the criminal element in any society and so it was in their city. The prostitutes were recruited from women who had lost their sexual trap but were fertile. The demand was so high that illegal immigrants from third world countries were imported. If pre-fertile they were deprived of their trap by rape but only after a man had been killed by their trap. The man killed was usually an illegal who had refused to pay enough to the people smugglers. The womenâs âownersâ would arrange for them to reach fertility, if necessary on more illegal men. Once the women were fertile but trapless they would be ânormalâ prostitutes serving protected men who could not experience the delights induced by a womanâs sexual trap.
Unprotected men would also use prostitutes because they had nothing to fear from the trap-deprived women. That is what Jonas did until one night when the brothel he was visiting was raided by the immigration service just after he had chosen the woman he wanted. His choice was âforcedâ. The managers of the brothel wanted him to choose the woman he did. They had placed her among a group of less attractive women. Jonas didnât know that some of them had been deliberately made up to be unattractive.
Jonas left the reception area hand in hand with the chosen woman as the raid started. She pulled him to the back of the building and through a hidden door. Other women were rushing through as well. The immigration officers had been covering the back door but were unaware of the third exit leading to a shop front in the street behind. Jonas had parked his car in that street. He climbed into his car and was startled when the woman joined him.
âWhat are you doing?â he asked.
âGetting away,â she replied. âNot just from the raid but from the pimps. Drive! Now!â
Jonas drove away sedately as if he were a normal citizen travelling without a care in the world. He knew better than to appear to be leaving the scene of a raid at an illegal speed. Once he was a few hundred yards and several streets away he stopped the car, reached over to the back seat, and retrieved his raincoat.
âPut that on,â he ordered. âYou canât be seen like that.â
The woman looked down and gasped. She was wearing a translucent dress with her naked breasts exposed. That was everything she had in the world now that she had left the brothel.
âWhat am I going to do?â she sobbed. âTheyâll kill me if I go back. The immigration people will deport me if I go to the authorities. All I have is this.â She plucked at the dress.
âPut my coat on.â Jonas repeated. âThen we can talk about your options.â
She put the coat on. Jonas drove out of town to a lay-by on the bypass where he stopped the car.
âIâm Jonas. You are?â
âElaine. No. Iâm not. My real name is Eva.â
âOK, Eva. You are in a fix. I think I can help you.â
âYou can?â Eva was very wary. She had been promised âhelpâ before.
âI think so.â
That sounded better to Eva. A man who thought he could help was better than the men who had promised her so much before and left her as a prostitute.
âWhat would change the âthinkâ to a âcan helpâ?â Eva asked nervously.
âA phone call to my wife.â
âA what! How will she react to a prostitute?â
âI donât know. Anyway, you are NOT a prostitute. You retired from that career when you got into my car. I hope I can persuade her to take you on as a maid. She is constantly moaning that she needs domestic help. You could be that help until we find something better for you.â
Eva didnât know it at the time, but Jonas was trying to save money again. An illegal immigrant with no possessions could not be choosy. He might be able to provide Mona with a maid for the cost of bed and board for Eva. He could get a limited visa for Eva that would enable her to stay in the country but only if she continued to be Monaâs maid. It would be a trap nearly as inescapable as being a prostitute.
Jonas climbed out of the car and rang Mona. It took some time to explain what he had been up to and what he intended but Mona eventually agreed, not because Jonas asked her, but because she felt sorry for Eva.