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Teller of Tales
I know, I know, I said "Jungle Hell" would be the last Trabbian story. But, then, Jon Smithie said how much he liked the Priya character, so I told him that if he reviewed "Trabbian Justice" (favorably or unfavorably) and wrote another chapter of his "Mina" story, I would do another Priya story (a short one). Jon held up his part after a bit of time (the review was even largely favorable) so it's time to hold up mine.
For those who have followed this saga of judicial corporal punishment, this piece takes place right after Chapter 20 of "Jungle Hell", but before the Epilog. For those who haven't followed the saga, but, for some reason, would like to, here are the links http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/trabbian-justice.5427/ http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/trabbian-justice-comes-to-america.5484/
http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/trabbian-justice-jungle-hell.5527/
Now, without further ado, I present, "Like Mother, Like Daughter". If you like it, thank Jon. If you don't, blame the author...
It was a long flight from the Trabbian capital of Pranda back to New York, via Bangkok and Hong Kong, giving Priya Raman plenty of time to think. Dr. Fong’s offer to become Medical Director of Trabco Pharmaceuticals, in charge of testing their wound healing cream in US clinical trials, had arrived in her inbox during the layover in Hong Kong.
It was tempting to say the least. Besides the very large salary increase over her job as the doctor supervising judicial canings at the Female Corporal Punishment Center #3 in the town where she had attended Dorsbury College as an undergraduate almost fifteen years ago, there were stock options involved. Priya wasn’t sure how much those would be worth in the end, but she could ask the guy who handled her and her husband Sanjay’s investments for his best guess.
As nice as the money would be, that wasn’t the major factor in Priya’s decision. She and Sanjay were comfortable and his computer consulting business was doing quite well. The main attraction for Priya was that the cream worked. In fact, it worked incredibly well, better than any of the drugs currently on the market in the US.
Priya knew this from personal experience, as the cream had been used on her butt and back after the canings and floggings she had suffered during her visits to Trabbia and even the worst wounds healed quickly and with only faint, barely visible scars. Why shouldn’t Americans have access to this wonder drug-not just the criminals who received corporal punishment under the recently enacted laws, but people with cuts, burns, and other serious wounds?
But, on the down side, it meant working for the evil and perverted, Dr. Fong, the man who had bought the right to fuck her and whip her tits when she was a prisoner in Warden Noba’s labor camp, and then, only days later, treated her like a professional colleague and offered her this job.
What would it say about her that she would accept a job with such a monster, even if his cream really could benefit humankind? Could one be a benefactor and a sadist at the same time? Could Priya trust him enough to work for him? And what about Noba? What was her role in all this? It was enough to make Priya’s head spin.
She supposed there wasn’t much Fong could do to her since she would be based in the US, but what about when she went to Trabbia for meetings? It was a country where if a powerful person wanted you to be convicted of a crime, you would be. And Fong’s money and renown certainly made him a powerful person.
Priya would have to give this offer some very careful consideration she decided as she collected her luggage at JFK and made her way through customs and found her car in the parking lot. It was covered with several inches of snow. Priya brushed it off and let the heater run for a while before hitting the road to Dorsbury, which she hoped would be in decent shape. The weather was certainly nicer in Trabbia.
By the time Priya pulled into her garage, it was almost midnight. Sanjay was sleeping and she got into her nightgown and crawled into bed next to him. He barely stirred. They’d talk in the morning-she didn’t have to be back at work until noon.
Priya would tell him, of course, about the job offer. But would she tell him about her experience at the labor camp, volunteering to be slave labor, being whipped and tortured and compelled to prostitute herself? Or about the time she had been caned and whipped in Trabbia back when she was a student?
Would she dare admit that she got off watching women being flogged and being flogged herself? What would Sanjay think if he knew the truth? Would that be the end of her marriage? Priya would have to think long and hard about telling him.
When Priya arrived at work the next afternoon, she was greeted warmly by the two Correctional Officers assigned to the Female Corporal Punishment Facility #3, Sergeant Sue Miller and Officer Beth Timmins.
“It’s great to have you back Priya,” Sue told her. “Doc Smithies filled in for you, but it just wasn’t the same.”
Priya smiled at the complement. Smithies was a rather dour older man, who probably wasn’t as free in his banter with Sue and Beth as she was.
“How was your trip?” Beth asked.
“About 50 degrees warmer than here,” Priya said. “Do I look like I got a tan?” she asked.
Beth and Sue stared at her. Priya knew that with her dark coffee colored skin, these women wouldn’t really be able to notice if she had gotten a tan, though she had spent several days toiling virtually naked under the tropical sun.
“I’m kidding,” Priya said. The two guards looked relieved not to have to comment on Priya’s skin color. “It was interesting. I learned a lot,” she said enigmatically. “What’s on the calendar for today?”
Sue gathered some folders that were lying on her desk, laying them out on the table in the center of the room. “These two were done this morning, so all you have to do is discharge them tomorrow. So you can get caught up on your paperwork.”
“There’s never a shortage of paperwork, is there?” Priya said. Beth rolled her eyes. Priya picked up the two folders of the morning’s sufferers and skimmed them quickly-nothing special with those two. One was a blonde girl from a small community a short distance outside Dorsbury. Speeding, second offense within six months, six strokes. The second was a tough looking Hispanic girl who had punched another woman who was sleeping with her boyfriend (or at least she had thought so). That had earned her an even dozen.
“What about those?” she asked, indicating the other folders on Sue’s desk.
Sue picked up the three documents. “These are for tomorrow, Doc. You remember that demonstration on campus when the Attorney General came a few months ago? Students Against Caning, or SAC? They seem to think what we do here is cruel and unjust.” Sue chuckled and nudged Beth with her elbow. Beth chuckled as well.
Priya vaguely remembered reading something about it in the local rag. It was a largely peaceful demonstration, though a small group of students, male and female, had thrown eggs at the AG’s car and gotten arrested. The male ones would be dealt with at the Male Corporal Punishment Facility nearby.
She picked up the first folder. Pamela Drake, a somewhat butch looking girl with short dark brown hair. Address was an off-campus apartment in the student ghetto. Priya scanned down to the sentence. “Wow! Eighteen strokes!” she exclaimed. “That’s pretty harsh for egging a car.”
“It was the AG’s car and it was Judge Powers,” Beth said. Judge Powers’ nickname was “Maximum Marty”.
“They went to trial rather than take a plea and used the occasion to make political speeches,” Sue added.
Priya shook her head. “These students really don’t know what they’re in for, do they?”
Sue cackled. “Serves the little fuckers right!” she pronounced. “Caning is the best thing that has happened to this state. It’s exactly what criminals deserve and we don’t need a bunch of rich college bitches sticking their noses in.” Beth nodded her agreement.
Priya looked at the next folder. Keisha Melrose, a very pretty African American girl with dreadlocks and an address on the same block as Pamela Drake. She was also sentenced to eighteen lashes.
She picked up the third folder. Rebecca Goldman had curly hair and an attractive face. What Priya couldn’t help noticing was her strong resemblance to Priya’s former Professor, Susan Gelden, who had led Priya and two of her classmates on the archeological trip to Trabbia, an adventure which had ended up with them all being caned on trumped up charges.
Priya had had a crush on her professor that had developed into a lesbian romance under the stress of their ordeal in Trabbia. Susan had left Dorsbury shortly after their return and was now a professor in Chicago, though Priya had seen in Pranda that Susan was still working on projects in Trabbia, unearthing antiquities.
Priya remembered that Susan had a daughter. She had run into Susan on campus with her one time and if she calculated correctly, the daughter would be around twenty now. Given Susan’s connection with Dorsbury, it wouldn’t be unusual for her daughter to go there.
But Rebecca’s name was Goldman, not Gelden. Priya checked the address in the file. It wasn’t in the student neighborhood, but in an area of town where many faculty lived. Of course, her father, one of Susan’s exes, could very well be a Dorsbury professor and she might be living with him, as she had done when Susan traveled. Priya made a mental note of the address.
“Looks like we’ll have a busy day tomorrow,” Priya said.
“George’s arm will be sore,” Beth said, giggling. George Greider was the man who actually did the caning.
“Maybe you can give him something, Doc,” Sue said, cackling.
“Yes,” Priya said. “He just has to ask. I had better check our supplies, then,” she said, excusing herself and heading to the clinic where she examined the offenders to ensure that they were healthy enough to stand their punishment and treated their wounds afterwards.
Priya sat down at her computer, called up the Dorsbury College website and clicked on the faculty directory. There was a Professor Peter Goldman in the Chemistry Department. She looked for a P Goldman in the local telephone directory. There was one with the same address as that listed in Rebecca Goldman’s file. There could be little doubt-tomorrow, they would be caning Susan Gelden’s daughter!
For those who have followed this saga of judicial corporal punishment, this piece takes place right after Chapter 20 of "Jungle Hell", but before the Epilog. For those who haven't followed the saga, but, for some reason, would like to, here are the links http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/trabbian-justice.5427/ http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/trabbian-justice-comes-to-america.5484/
http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/trabbian-justice-jungle-hell.5527/
Now, without further ado, I present, "Like Mother, Like Daughter". If you like it, thank Jon. If you don't, blame the author...
It was a long flight from the Trabbian capital of Pranda back to New York, via Bangkok and Hong Kong, giving Priya Raman plenty of time to think. Dr. Fong’s offer to become Medical Director of Trabco Pharmaceuticals, in charge of testing their wound healing cream in US clinical trials, had arrived in her inbox during the layover in Hong Kong.
It was tempting to say the least. Besides the very large salary increase over her job as the doctor supervising judicial canings at the Female Corporal Punishment Center #3 in the town where she had attended Dorsbury College as an undergraduate almost fifteen years ago, there were stock options involved. Priya wasn’t sure how much those would be worth in the end, but she could ask the guy who handled her and her husband Sanjay’s investments for his best guess.
As nice as the money would be, that wasn’t the major factor in Priya’s decision. She and Sanjay were comfortable and his computer consulting business was doing quite well. The main attraction for Priya was that the cream worked. In fact, it worked incredibly well, better than any of the drugs currently on the market in the US.
Priya knew this from personal experience, as the cream had been used on her butt and back after the canings and floggings she had suffered during her visits to Trabbia and even the worst wounds healed quickly and with only faint, barely visible scars. Why shouldn’t Americans have access to this wonder drug-not just the criminals who received corporal punishment under the recently enacted laws, but people with cuts, burns, and other serious wounds?
But, on the down side, it meant working for the evil and perverted, Dr. Fong, the man who had bought the right to fuck her and whip her tits when she was a prisoner in Warden Noba’s labor camp, and then, only days later, treated her like a professional colleague and offered her this job.
What would it say about her that she would accept a job with such a monster, even if his cream really could benefit humankind? Could one be a benefactor and a sadist at the same time? Could Priya trust him enough to work for him? And what about Noba? What was her role in all this? It was enough to make Priya’s head spin.
She supposed there wasn’t much Fong could do to her since she would be based in the US, but what about when she went to Trabbia for meetings? It was a country where if a powerful person wanted you to be convicted of a crime, you would be. And Fong’s money and renown certainly made him a powerful person.
Priya would have to give this offer some very careful consideration she decided as she collected her luggage at JFK and made her way through customs and found her car in the parking lot. It was covered with several inches of snow. Priya brushed it off and let the heater run for a while before hitting the road to Dorsbury, which she hoped would be in decent shape. The weather was certainly nicer in Trabbia.
By the time Priya pulled into her garage, it was almost midnight. Sanjay was sleeping and she got into her nightgown and crawled into bed next to him. He barely stirred. They’d talk in the morning-she didn’t have to be back at work until noon.
Priya would tell him, of course, about the job offer. But would she tell him about her experience at the labor camp, volunteering to be slave labor, being whipped and tortured and compelled to prostitute herself? Or about the time she had been caned and whipped in Trabbia back when she was a student?
Would she dare admit that she got off watching women being flogged and being flogged herself? What would Sanjay think if he knew the truth? Would that be the end of her marriage? Priya would have to think long and hard about telling him.
***
When Priya arrived at work the next afternoon, she was greeted warmly by the two Correctional Officers assigned to the Female Corporal Punishment Facility #3, Sergeant Sue Miller and Officer Beth Timmins.
“It’s great to have you back Priya,” Sue told her. “Doc Smithies filled in for you, but it just wasn’t the same.”
Priya smiled at the complement. Smithies was a rather dour older man, who probably wasn’t as free in his banter with Sue and Beth as she was.
“How was your trip?” Beth asked.
“About 50 degrees warmer than here,” Priya said. “Do I look like I got a tan?” she asked.
Beth and Sue stared at her. Priya knew that with her dark coffee colored skin, these women wouldn’t really be able to notice if she had gotten a tan, though she had spent several days toiling virtually naked under the tropical sun.
“I’m kidding,” Priya said. The two guards looked relieved not to have to comment on Priya’s skin color. “It was interesting. I learned a lot,” she said enigmatically. “What’s on the calendar for today?”
Sue gathered some folders that were lying on her desk, laying them out on the table in the center of the room. “These two were done this morning, so all you have to do is discharge them tomorrow. So you can get caught up on your paperwork.”
“There’s never a shortage of paperwork, is there?” Priya said. Beth rolled her eyes. Priya picked up the two folders of the morning’s sufferers and skimmed them quickly-nothing special with those two. One was a blonde girl from a small community a short distance outside Dorsbury. Speeding, second offense within six months, six strokes. The second was a tough looking Hispanic girl who had punched another woman who was sleeping with her boyfriend (or at least she had thought so). That had earned her an even dozen.
“What about those?” she asked, indicating the other folders on Sue’s desk.
Sue picked up the three documents. “These are for tomorrow, Doc. You remember that demonstration on campus when the Attorney General came a few months ago? Students Against Caning, or SAC? They seem to think what we do here is cruel and unjust.” Sue chuckled and nudged Beth with her elbow. Beth chuckled as well.
Priya vaguely remembered reading something about it in the local rag. It was a largely peaceful demonstration, though a small group of students, male and female, had thrown eggs at the AG’s car and gotten arrested. The male ones would be dealt with at the Male Corporal Punishment Facility nearby.
She picked up the first folder. Pamela Drake, a somewhat butch looking girl with short dark brown hair. Address was an off-campus apartment in the student ghetto. Priya scanned down to the sentence. “Wow! Eighteen strokes!” she exclaimed. “That’s pretty harsh for egging a car.”
“It was the AG’s car and it was Judge Powers,” Beth said. Judge Powers’ nickname was “Maximum Marty”.
“They went to trial rather than take a plea and used the occasion to make political speeches,” Sue added.
Priya shook her head. “These students really don’t know what they’re in for, do they?”
Sue cackled. “Serves the little fuckers right!” she pronounced. “Caning is the best thing that has happened to this state. It’s exactly what criminals deserve and we don’t need a bunch of rich college bitches sticking their noses in.” Beth nodded her agreement.
Priya looked at the next folder. Keisha Melrose, a very pretty African American girl with dreadlocks and an address on the same block as Pamela Drake. She was also sentenced to eighteen lashes.
She picked up the third folder. Rebecca Goldman had curly hair and an attractive face. What Priya couldn’t help noticing was her strong resemblance to Priya’s former Professor, Susan Gelden, who had led Priya and two of her classmates on the archeological trip to Trabbia, an adventure which had ended up with them all being caned on trumped up charges.
Priya had had a crush on her professor that had developed into a lesbian romance under the stress of their ordeal in Trabbia. Susan had left Dorsbury shortly after their return and was now a professor in Chicago, though Priya had seen in Pranda that Susan was still working on projects in Trabbia, unearthing antiquities.
Priya remembered that Susan had a daughter. She had run into Susan on campus with her one time and if she calculated correctly, the daughter would be around twenty now. Given Susan’s connection with Dorsbury, it wouldn’t be unusual for her daughter to go there.
But Rebecca’s name was Goldman, not Gelden. Priya checked the address in the file. It wasn’t in the student neighborhood, but in an area of town where many faculty lived. Of course, her father, one of Susan’s exes, could very well be a Dorsbury professor and she might be living with him, as she had done when Susan traveled. Priya made a mental note of the address.
“Looks like we’ll have a busy day tomorrow,” Priya said.
“George’s arm will be sore,” Beth said, giggling. George Greider was the man who actually did the caning.
“Maybe you can give him something, Doc,” Sue said, cackling.
“Yes,” Priya said. “He just has to ask. I had better check our supplies, then,” she said, excusing herself and heading to the clinic where she examined the offenders to ensure that they were healthy enough to stand their punishment and treated their wounds afterwards.
Priya sat down at her computer, called up the Dorsbury College website and clicked on the faculty directory. There was a Professor Peter Goldman in the Chemistry Department. She looked for a P Goldman in the local telephone directory. There was one with the same address as that listed in Rebecca Goldman’s file. There could be little doubt-tomorrow, they would be caning Susan Gelden’s daughter!
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