The Chainer - The Lair of the Beast
Copyright 2024 by Otto26
With thanks to neuroparenthetical for his editing work and Elayne for her permission to rewrite our online roleplay as a story. This is the third chapter of The Chainer.
The journey through the fortress was enlightening. To begin with, there was a clear delineation between the temple/harem, The Chainer's quarters, and the 'public' areas. The temple and the quarters had guards to prevent access by the unauthorized. The public areas did not appear guarded at all, nor highly traveled. It bolstered Elise's confidence that she would be able to move around within the space as soon as she could slip supervision. What people were present, however, had a dangerous attitude towards slaves. She was groped more times than she cared to count, and not just random grabs at her breasts and ass. By the end of the journey, she was relatively certain she'd have been raped but for the presence of Lysetta. The walk she'd learned had certainly invited the attention of passersby, but she was forced to concede that Lysetta's walk made hers seem like a newborn foal's.
Hogan's chambers were packed floor to ceiling with boxes, books, papers, chests, and then clutter seemingly just for the sake of it. The room was lit by candles, lanterns, and various things that glowed, yet none of them were strong enough to pierce through the darkness. Elise had phenomenal night vision, and her inability to see into some of the darkness made her much warier of the goblin mage. She'd been warned that Lysetta was the subtle one, but Hogan did spare at least some thought to keeping secrets.\r"Kneel, slut," Lysetta purred.
Elise took care to quickly and carefully kneel as Chugka had instructed her. "Yes, mistress," she added for good measure. The floor was soft, almost spongy, beneath her due to layers upon layers of rugs. She examined the room, careful not to break her posture, assessing the terrain of a possible battlefield. She wasn't sure, but she thought that something big was lurking in a particular patch of shadow.
She had several minutes to assess the room before the door opened and Hogan walked in, accompanied by a male slave.
"The new slave," Lysetta said with a gesture towards Elise.
"Yes, yes," the goblin replied. "The new gift from the King. A Knight of the Golden Order. Nobility. From a very old family. Very old, indeed." The rotund goblin waddled forward to peer more closely at her. "She has good form, Lysetta. She lifts her breasts; she displays her cunt. You've done well with her in so short a time."
"I anticipated The Chainer would be interested in her and have personally seen to her education," the drow effortlessly lied.
Elise pondered what sort of game the drow was playing. If Knife was to be believed - and she thought he was - then it was a very, very long game.
And she didn't call him 'master.' That's interesting.
The goblin reached out a hand and touched a ring on a taloned finger to Elise's new collar. "You may go, Lysetta. You may go."
"Very well, Hogan. The Chainer wishes to see this one at court tonight. I'll be by to collect her." Lysetta didn't wait for a reply. She simply glided out the door into the hallway.
"Very little time, then," the goblin said with a frown. "A short session. Quick work. Quick work, slave." The male slave scurried across the room, staying well clear of the suspicious patch of darkness, to open a door on the far side.
"Enter the room, cunt," the goblin ordered.
Elise rose to her feet and then immediately dropped to her knees, hands clawing at the collar that was throttling her like a rabid rapist.
"Crawl, stupid cunt," the goblin growled, pure malice oozing out from behind his somewhat comical demeanor.
"Yes, master," Elise choked out, falling to all fours on the rugs. The pressure at her throat eased as she crawled across the room, her breasts swaying gently. She wondered if Lysetta would hear about her failure, and if there would be other consequences for it. She followed the goblin and the male slave into the new space.
The room was a stark contrast to the first. It was white tile, from top to bottom, brightly lit, and sparkling clean. The walls held a variety of objects that ranged from readily recognizable to Elise to not at all. There was a collection of saws, another of knives, and another of hammers, but near to them were objects that Elise could only silently dub mechanical in nature. There were glass bottles containing liquids, and things in some of the liquids, some of which appeared to move. There were chests lined up along the floor as well, and some sort of sculpture in the center of the room: a frozen flame composed of porcelain tendrils reaching upward.
A torture chamber
, she thought. It wasn't a pleasant thought, and she had a sudden urge to empty her bladder, which she suppressed. Knife's words came back to her:
"A few hours with him and slaves come out, changed: cowering in fear, consumed by lust, incapable of rational thought."
It wasn't a reassuring memory.
But they need me in one piece for the court tonight
, she reassured herself,
and Knife said he's a mindfucker. I've dealt with that before. I can do it again.
Not having any further direction, she stopped moving when she was fully in the room, remembering her training and ensuring that her legs were spread. The male slave was following the goblin about the room, opening and closing chests. The click of talons on tile told her the goblin was barefoot.
She sensed the movement behind her before she heard anything, but didn't move. They were trying to surprise her. They'd failed, but she knew she still couldn't move.
They won't kill me,
she promised herself.
Not yet,
an unbidden part of her mind added.
She kept her head facing forward, straining to hear or even feel what was behind her. There was the sound of a faint indrawing of breath and a sensation of the air moving next to her sex, then a low, rumbling, growl entirely too close to her in any circumstances, let alone the ones she found herself in.