The Hilaria
In ancient Rome, the Hilaria was a festival that coincided with the beginning of spring and it centered around the goddess Cybele, the mother of the gods, who later would become synonymous with Demeter. The festival took place around the timeframe of our modern day "April Fools" merriment. In fact, the ritual of pranking evolved from some of the festival activities as it transitioned from a religious observance into a more secular one. I hope it fits in well enough to the theme for everyone. Remember in the old religions orgies weren't all sex, fun, and games and the tricks sometimes were nasty.
Of Butterflies and Candles
Hina's body was bonded with brightly colored but rough, hemp ropes in an elaborate diamond pattern down her breasts and belly. The duel cords formed the crotch tie were already cutting into her pussy and ass well before she was placed on the wooden horse and her legs were shackled at the ankles to it. Slowly the hojojutsu master began to bind her long, graceful arms to her sides. "Had she gone too far?" She thought. Her tears had started to well up in her eyes, as the rope dress that restricted her breathing became increasingly torturous.
He was an older man muscular, bare-chested and sweaty -- his shirt was pulled down and left draped in his pants band. His assistant, a young carbon copy of his master, strapped a soft rubber gag into her mouth then turning her head to the side and he pinned it down with his weight. The gag was inflated until her jaw was frozen in place. They and the room smelled of extended strenuous physical activity.
The master began to kneed the skin and layer of upper muscle on her back until they seemed to separate painlessly from her body. "Just remember to relax and breathe." A deep voice whispered. "I know it will be easier said than done. However, you will be lovelier than you can imagine."
Slowly the master began to insert the pointed 3-foot wire into her raised flesh. An exquisite pain gripped her, Hina's struggled but she could not move between the bonds and the man holding her head in position.
"Only seven more to go."
At that moment Hina either came or passed out, perhaps both, in the silent room she thought she heard the patter of her own waters lick the stone floor.
The old man's voice brushed her ear, "You'll be fine."
As the last knitting needle thick rod slid into place she relaxed her own perspiration soaked her skin. The event had been a grueling marathon of agony, endorphins, and a peculiarly unique pleasure from its end. Exhaustion had long since robbed Hina of her will to resist and nearly her consciousness. Slowly, the master and his assistant began clean the blood from her back -- a torment in its own right -- and to knot colorful silks between the spines -- each brush of the fresh antennae startled her awake.
"Bring a mirror that she can see herself."
The assistant rolled a full length mirror into position so that Hina by just lifting her head ever so slightly -- an immensely painful act as it stretched the skin of her back along the rods -- could see her metamorphosis. She appeared winged as a fairy in a children's picture book. She was as beautiful as any specimen in any butterfly collector's collection. Brilliantly colored and winged free in appearance but in reality pinned, bounded, and owned -- owned... again she started to feel slick. Like a butterfly pinned to a board in a picture frame.
The rope-master lifted up the bindings that held her ass and forcefully inserted an egg shaped device with a wired clip attached to it in her before letting them snap back into position. She bristled at this final abuse. Small electrical shocks ran across her as he fixed the delicate clamp to her clit. Orgasm flickered in her, she began to rock trying to reach it only to be denied as the static between her legs ceased.
"Did you think it would be so easy? I doubt you will ever reach what you want." He called out, "She is ready."
Two large double doors opened and four men entered and started to remove her from the sawhorse with speed and precision.
"Take her to the lapidary and set her in place. The guests will be here soon and the mistress' vignette must be ready."
The men moved quickly down the hall. Hina could only gauge the speed by the passing of the checked tile floor as she could not raise her head but so much and only for so long due to her fresh wings. Occasionally the wind from the speed of their movement would catch her wings or the egg inside her would come to life sending her into a fit that her bonds and the men easily controlled.
As the floor became slate the men laid her upon it. The men bound her knees and ankles together. On to her dress they began to attach ropes with carabineers. When the last one was fastened, she began to be hoisted into the air. She at last understood why the two men that had created her looked so tired -- half-a-dozen creatures such as herself dotted the air around groups beautiful young men tied together coated with candles --they had be made into chandeliers.
"Moths to flames." She thought.
The boys squirmed with a pleasure she could not imagine and that they could not resist as each quiver spilled hot wax upon their softest areas. Each of the women seemed locked in the same delicious agony as her. Although some of them were not appearing to enjoy it as much as her and some much more. Of course, they had all been hanging longer than her.
She watched a large table being brought in and set below them. In the background there was the faint sound of a calliope playing carousel music.
"As if everything was not already surreal enough." Hina thoughts left her, as small flashes of heat lightening began to build across her sex. It seemed the night would be endless but at this point there was no way out but through. Just a she began to rack the stimulation stopped.
"Almost there ... damn."
Carrousel Ride
Xochi knelt on the bare wooden prayer bench, the hardwood already bit into her knees. She wore a short, pale melon colored silk robe and a collar that is tethered to a ring bolted to the floor. The very nature of the evening and its many excesses had left her questioning even her own eyes.