15 Overheated
Copyright Oggbashan November 2013
The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary; the settings and characters are fictitious and are not intended to represent specific places or living persons.
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If this is the first Shelacta Tale you have read, please go the appendix to learn about this world.
Julia has an unusually strong scent trap. She knows that she has and takes precautions to avoid inadvertently trapping men at random. While she has several slaves to her trap, she has chosen them with care.
Her scent trap is her own personal odour which becomes much stronger when she exercises. She showers three times a day and applies a significant level of perfume to reduce her own scent.
When she does exercise - several times a week, she visits a sports club on women-only times, and a country club where she can run in the open air, carefully entering the building next to the women's showers.
Julia's care has ensured that she hasn't activated her trap except by her intention when she wants a particular man to be her slave.
But one day several things went wrong. Each one on its own would have had no real consequences. Together? The circumstances led to disaster.
It was winter and the temperature was forecast to be below freezing all day with sleet, snow and strong northerly winds. In winter Julia's trap was rarely a risk. Even at work her office environment was kept well below anything that would cause her to sweat. Her duties didn't involve much physical effort so she would be unlikely to become warmed and certainly not heated. Even so she would take a cool shower during her lunch break.
Last night Julia had been with a group of her female friends to see a movie in an air-conditioned venue. Even if she had become heated there, the presence of her friends would mask her scent trap from any passing male. But they had gone from there to a bar, and to a coffee house, and had left to go home in the early hours of the morning.
Julia overslept. She grabbed a couple of cereal bars and a bottle of water as she rushed out of her apartment to catch a train. She didn't have time to shower. She thought that wouldn't matter because it was cold and once she had logged on to her computer to prove she was on duty, she could slip away for a few minutes and shower at work.
Most of her journey to work was on the above-ground part of the network. Only the last two city centre stations were below ground. In summer Julia would get off at the last above ground station and walk the last three quarters of a mile. In winter, especially with wind-driven sleet, Julia would ride the whole distance. She didn't have time to walk the last part if she was to get to work on time.
But, this morning a train had failed and delayed the whole network. As Julia squeezed into a very crowded coach everyone was tightly squashed together with no room even for one more standing. Julia tried to get herself between two women but there were also three men sometimes touching her body as the train jerked and shook. Other women might have been afraid that the men might touch them inappropriately. Julia was afraid for the men.
Despite the weather, she had decided to get off and walk. She was dismayed when an announcement came on the train's intercom as they approached that station.
"We apologise. The next two stations are closed because of an incident. The next stop will be City Centre."
Julia was committed to riding the whole journey. She tried to keep herself calm, and more importantly, cool. If she started to sweat? The consequences could be awkward.
They passed the last above ground station and entered the tunnel. The train slowed and passed the first below ground station carefully. Through the closed doors and windows Julia could glimpse crowds of people filling the platform. A few hundred yards beyond that station the train shuddered to a stop. After a few minutes there was another announcement.
"We regret that there is a signal failure. We are working as hard as we can to repair the fault but there will be a delay until we can get moving again."
Julia tried to stop herself panicking. The tunnel was hot. The train was overcrowded and everyone was heating up. So was she. Her scent trap would be activated within minutes with every man who became aware of it Julia's inadvertent slave. She kept telling herself that it wouldn't be long, she had to keep calm and stop herself sweating. But you can't control your sweat glands.
Julia was one of the women who knew when a man became her slave. It was a sensation in her skin, not unpleasant, more of a light twitch than anything stronger. So far, she hadn't felt a single twitch. Perhaps she would get to work without a problem.
Another announcement.
"We regret that we have to switch off the power for about five minutes so that our engineers can access the faulty equipment. The lights will go off. Don't be alarmed. The emergency lights will come on."
The lights went out. A few dim bulbs, the emergency lighting, reduced everyone to dark silhouettes. But the air conditioning switched off as well. Julia knew she was in real trouble. Within thirty seconds the three men close to her had succumbed to her scent trap. She felt each one as he surrendered to her. She was trying to prop two of the men up, to stop them falling. That made her sweat more.
Within three minutes she had lost count of the men she had trapped. Was it twenty, thirty, fifty? She didn't know. There were men slumped on the floor, if they had space to fall. Many were propped up by the crush, totally oblivious to everything except their sexual surrender. What Julia did know was unless the air conditioning came on soon she would enslave every man in that carriage.