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House Rules Or The Taming Of The Shrews

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Thanks guys :oops: :oops: :oops:
Ever since I came to the Forums and got encouraging feedback like that,
I've had what I call my Scheherazade moments,
'how can I keep this up for a thousand and one nights?' :eek:
but it's great to know you're enjoying it,
I'm certainly enjoying writing it :D
Yes, keep going. I'm certainly not ready to kill you in the morning yet. ;):cool:
It's a great story. I'm very pleased Una and Duo are reunited. I do hope we see Uli again. Now, if only Junia can get rid of her pesky virginity and the risk of being sent to the Vestals...:devil:
 
After a good three hours trudging around the wine-press, the sisters heard the Overseer calling them,

“Hey you two, Whip-Mistress has come for you! You’d better hop out sharp!”

The two sisters obeyed instantly, and scurried, dripping grapejuice, to the doorway where tall Clementina was awaiting, her instrument of office in her hand. She marched them briskly back up through the vineyards, past the ridge where a pair of freshly-erected fine oak crosses now adorned the garden terrace – the girls noticed with an involuntary shared shiver – and into the slave-yard where the Whip-Mistress signalled to them to wash themselves quickly at the pump.

After this they proceeded along an avenue lined with tall, triumphant cypresses, up a flight of marble steps and through the awesomely vast atrium of Isabella’s villa. A long corridor ornamented with sensuous sculpture and erotic frescoes brought them to the holy of holies, Mistress Isabella’s warm bath-chamber. Clementina gestured to them to wait while she entered and announced them.

Duo glanced at her elder sister, she was feeling quite overawed and very nervous, although she’d faced some scary situations in the last few days, now she felt quite out of her depth. Una gave her a reassuring smile and a wink, “Mistress Isabella’s our goddess,” she whispered, “She’s firm but fair, we’ve nothing to fear.”

Clementina beckoned them in and pointed her whip at the floor, of course the slavegirls fell in prostration, foreheads to the gleaming marble floor. At a nod from her mistress, the Whip-Mistresses flicked their bums to signal they must rise, walk the considerable distance to the edge of the great bath, and stand at the ready by the side.

Mistress Isabella, resplendent in her nudity, was reclining in warm milky liquid with a scent of tropical flowers, a pair of slavegirls knelt in the corners near her feet, massaging her legs. Only Aphrodisia, sitting on the edge clad in a light tunic and splashing her toes in the milk intruded a note of mischief to the courtly scene.

As the slave-sisters Isabella was chatting with her daughter, “The harvest’s all in, and it looks like another great one. It’s time we threw a garden-party.” “Yep, Mam, right on!” Aphro raised her fists, thumbs-up, in gleeful approval, “I’ll get the Steward to start organising straight away – what date?” “Kalends of September. Make sure he invites all the patricians – rich plebs and freemen too, we’ll make it a mega party!”

As Aphrodisia got up to leave, she noticed Una and gave a big grin, turned to her mother,

“You know what I’m thinking, Mam, those new garden ornaments…”

Isabella smiled, “Oh yes, have they been unpacked?”

“Yes, they’re looking good on the terrace.”

“And these two young beauties will adorn them during the party? Good thinking, daughter!”

Aphro departed, with a wink for Una, both the girls were trying not to wriggle too obviously at the prospect of being talking-points for the garden-party.

“Come here!”

Una and Duo desended into the bath and knelt at Isabella’s feet, heads humbly bowed.

“Now, you two are posing a bit of a puzzle for me. I understand your parents decided it would be a good idea to make you slaves for a fortnight, to get your heads out of the clouds, stop your sulking, and bring you down to earth?”

“Yes, Mistress,” the two replied.

“But things have gone a bit pear-shaped, haven’t they? First, I bought Una when your mother hadn’t really meant to sell her, then Duo got kidnapped by bloody Blattus and Pollia had to recue her?”

They both nodded.

“Well, the first thing is, do you want to go back to your parents? Duo?”

Duo only thought for a moment, before replying firmly,

“No, Mistress.”

“H’m, that sounds decisive. How about you, Una?”

“No thankyou Mistress. I’m happy here.”

“So you should be,” Isabella told her with a meaningful smile. “Well, it doesn’t seem your father and mother are all that bothered, judging by their response to Blattus’s ransom demands. It seems I’ll have to decide what your futures will be.”

The lady leant back in her warm bath, signalled to her slavegirl attendants to massage her breats. Una lifted her eyes and spoke humbly,

“Mistress, I truly am happy. Although it hasn’t turned out quite as my mother intended, I’m sure I’ve learnt my lesson, I must say thankyou.”

Isabella was listening, but gave no reply. After a little pause, Duo felt she could speak too,

“I must say thankyou too, Mistress, for letting Polly bring me here. I’ve learnt a lot too during these two weeks, I’m quite a different person.”

Isabella sat up again, looking at her two charges with a kind, yet serious, look.

“You two will stay here for now. Una’s my slave anyway, and I don’t think Pompilius or Augusta will object when I suggest keeping you too, Duo. I’m going to make a proposal to them, an offer I don’t think they’ll be able to refuse.” She smiled a mysterious little smile. “When we come to the garden-party, and you two are decorating my new garden features, I should be able to make some announcements, but there’ll be some business to be done first.” The girls gazed, glad that they were going to be under Isabella’s wings for the time being, a bit apprehensive – but excited too – about the role they’ll be playing in the garden-party, and intrigued at whatever was going on in their Mistress’s mind.

Her expression took on a slightly sterner shade. “But I need to know the truth.” Two pairs of mystified eyes met hers. “I need to know what each of you really, truly, wants for herself.” She paused, both girls looked thoughtful. Her voice grew a little harder as she went on, “And there’s only one way to get the truth out of slavegirls – Whip-Mistress, take them to the Torture Chamber!”
 
It was Una’s turn to look scared now, as Clementina marched the two slaves briskly out of the grand rooms of the villa and out to a yard where a grim grey building with barred windows greeted the girls. Through a roughly made but heavy wooden door, a step flight of steps brought them to a cobwebby corridor lit only by a small barred window high up and couple of sputtering torches. At the far end they stopped outside another wooden door, Clementina knocked loudly, then went in, ordering the girls to wait. “Don’t be scared,” whispered Duo to her sister, who was looking pale now and fighting back tears, “it’s just part of being a slavegirl, it’s what happens to us. Do what you’re told, let the pain flow through you - we’ll cope.”

Clementina summoned the two, they were presented to an ugly brute of a man wearing only a filthy loincloth, his muscular chest and arms looked all too capable of breaking small slavegirls into pieces. Both his new victims knew instinctively they had to show as much respect to him as they would to their Mistress, so they prostrated before him.

“Standard treatment,” Clementina was instructing him, “no special measures. Mistress just wants the truth from them, she’ll interrogate them herself, you just make sure they’re ready to tell her the truth.”

“No problem. But I’ll still exercise Torturer’s rights, yes?”

“Of course.”

“Okay, I’ll get them softened up. Gruntus!”

A youth almost as hideous as the older man, and nearly as naked as the slavegirls, emerged from a chamber beyond where they were, Clementina flicked the victims so they knelt up and presented their wrists for shackling.

Both girls felt a tremor of dread as heavy iron bracelets were locked around their slender wrists. Una was shaking, her only experience of shackling was when she was branded, and the mighty pain she’d experienced then flooded back. Duo, while fearful, felt a more familiar sensation, one that gave her a strange sense of security and simply feeling ‘right’ in slave-chains.

“Now,” snarled the monster, eyeing his quivering captives, their fear-sweat already glistening nicely in the torchlight, “Which one shall we soften up first? EH?” he kicked both in turn, between their parted thighs.

“Please Sir,” volunteered Duo, “let me be first.”

At once he hauled her to her feet, “Lock the other one’s wrists behind her, Grunt – that’s right – you can stay here and listen to the screams!”

With that, Duo was frog-marched off into the adjoining chamber, the ‘softening-up cellar’, the junior Torturer took the torch and slammed shut the door, Una was left kneeling and manacled in darkness save for a small opening high in the door through which fiery light – and, no doubt, shrieks and groans – could flow.
 
It was Una’s turn to look scared now, as Clementina marched the two slaves briskly out of the grand rooms of the villa and out to a yard where a grim grey building with barred windows greeted the girls. Through a roughly made but heavy wooden door, a step flight of steps brought them to a cobwebby corridor lit only by a small barred window high up and couple of sputtering torches. At the far end they stopped outside another wooden door, Clementina knocked loudly, then went in, ordering the girls to wait. “Don’t be scared,” whispered Duo to her sister, who was looking pale now and fighting back tears, “it’s just part of being a slavegirl, it’s what happens to us. Do what you’re told, let the pain flow through you - we’ll cope.”

Clementina summoned the two, they were presented to an ugly brute of a man wearing only a filthy loincloth, his muscular chest and arms looked all too capable of breaking small slavegirls into pieces. Both his new victims knew instinctively they had to show as much respect to him as they would to their Mistress, so they prostrated before him.

“Standard treatment,” Clementina was instructing him, “no special measures. Mistress just wants the truth from them, she’ll interrogate them herself, you just make sure they’re ready to tell her the truth.”

“No problem. But I’ll still exercise Torturer’s rights, yes?”

“Of course.”

“Okay, I’ll get them softened up. Gruntus!”

A youth almost as hideous as the older man, and nearly as naked as the slavegirls, emerged from a chamber beyond where they were, Clementina flicked the victims so they knelt up and presented their wrists for shackling.

Both girls felt a tremor of dread as heavy iron bracelets were locked around their slender wrists. Una was shaking, her only experience of shackling was when she was branded, and the mighty pain she’d experienced then flooded back. Duo, while fearful, felt a more familiar sensation, one that gave her a strange sense of security and simply feeling ‘right’ in slave-chains.

“Now,” snarled the monster, eyeing his quivering captives, their fear-sweat already glistening nicely in the torchlight, “Which one shall we soften up first? EH?” he kicked both in turn, between their parted thighs.

“Please Sir,” volunteered Duo, “let me be first.”

At once he hauled her to her feet, “Lock the other one’s wrists behind her, Grunt – that’s right – you can stay here and listen to the screams!”

With that, Duo was frog-marched off into the adjoining chamber, the ‘softening-up cellar’, the junior Torturer took the torch and slammed shut the door, Una was left kneeling and manacled in darkness save for a small opening high in the door through which fiery light – and, no doubt, shrieks and groans – could flow.

Fiery light, shrieks, and groans....:eek:

Imagination will complete the picture :eek:
 
They took Duo into a chamber with simple furnishings – a bench with a couple of whips, wall and floor of blood-splattered cement, a drain in the middle with a pair of chains hanging above it.

The girl knew what she had to do, she went and stood without needing any command, arms raised. As she felt herself heaved up onto tiptoes, then her wrist-shackles locked to the chains, she felt herself switch into punishment mode, focused, not fighting it, just ready to receive…

She shuddered a bit as she glimpsed the weapons the two men took, they were small but vicious little nine-tailed scourges, their slim thongs knotted near the tips and sealed with tiny lead studs, cruel as cats’ claws. She shut her eyes, shifted herself about slightly, swinging on the chains, trying to get some firm contact between her bare toes and the rough floor each side of the blood-drain.

The first lash didn’t bring a scream. She wasn’t stopping herself, she was ready to scream, she’d already learnt that screaming helped, but the shock of the pain was so great it took her breath away. But the second and third blows, across her breasts and then her lower parts, got her going, shrieking and yelling, kicking and squirming, Una shivered as the sounds rang in the darkness of her cell.

The men beat Duo slowly and systematically, pausing between lashes to let her experience the full agony and enjoy the sight of her writhing female form. Her legs were unshackled, she was able to kick freely and vigorously, but of course experienced floggers were untroubled by her gymnastic vigour, they just took advantage of the constantly varying but ever vulnerable targets she was offering them in her dance.

And Duo herself was experiencing a fast-boiling mixture of extremes – the pain was dreadful, her bruised skin burning, her arms already aching, after only a handful of lashes she was sure she was going to die, or at least lose consciousness. And yet her hot sweat, her pumping blood, her frantically working muscles, the sense of her naked body hurling and spinning in the clammy air of the torture chamber, aroused in her an astonishing lust for more, a thrilling excitement in fighting this cruelly unequal bout.

She didn’t count, it was probably no more than a dozen lashes each the men gave her, when they put their whips away on the bench she was conscious of a warm, wet throbbing in her girl-parts. “Thankyou, Sirs,” she whispered as they unlocked her shackles and let her fall to her knees.

“We’re not finished yet,” growled the big man, “That’s only a first taste. And now you’re going to get a taste of me!”

He lifted his tunic and exposed a long, strong, quivering ramrod of a tool. Duo knew her duty, she opened her lips, let it enter, closing them slightly to moistened the already dripping foreskin with her own saliva, then lifted her tongue and invited it in with gentle, flicking licks. She was breathless from her beating, her need to draw in air helped her suck at the penis, with deep, long inhalations. The man was pleased, he gripped her fair hair, jerking her head in time with his own pumping.

Cautiously, she closed her teeth on the firm flesh – how does he let me do this? She was asking herself, does he really trust me? Is he so confident in his authority over me? Does he rely on my all-too-real fear of what he’ll do if I hurt him? Or does he even sense that I’m enjoying this? Yes, I really am! She pressed her teeth on him gently, rolling his phallus slightly to and from between them, he grunted with pleasure.

As Una was dragged in by the younger torturer, she heard the older one give forth a stag’s bellow as he flooded her sister’s throat with his warm slime, and the girl’s bruised and bleeding body shook with a tectonic tremor of total surrender, sensing an answering gush of wetness in her own secret parts.

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It seems they’ve strapped Una down for her whipping on a different frame, of course Torturers need variety in their job to keep them fresh!
And she’ll be conveniently posed for invasion via a different route once she’s been well flogged. :devil: :devil: :devil:
 
"She didn’t count, it was probably no more than a dozen lashes each the men gave her, when they put their whips away on the bench she was conscious of a warm, wet throbbing in her girl-parts. “Thankyou, Sirs,” she whispered as they unlocked her shackles and let her fall to her knees.

“We’re not finished yet,” growled the big man, “That’s only a first taste. And now you’re going to get a taste of me!”"

Late as usual with a pic. Continuity is amiss..ropes need to become shackles!!..but that can be easily fixed before producing the book.

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Aha - I think that could be a taster for what's coming soon... :devil:

“Phew! That was some thrashing! Are you okay?”

Duo asked her sister as the two tumbled through a hatch in the floor of the small room where they’d first met their Torturers, down onto damp smelly hay in a dungeon-pit with cage-bars on one side, locked of course, looking out into what seemed another, deeper cellar in more or less total darkness, evening light through a cobwebby little window revealing only shadowy hints of large objects – furniture, machines, instruments of torture? It was impossible to tell, but easy to guess.

“Ouch! Oh yeah, never felt better. Bloody sore, actually. You okay? They laid into you something vicious”

“Yeah. They were tough. I was beaten by Lucius, but that was an ordinary whipping, this was worse, I thought they’d flog my guts right out of me!”

“Clementina whipped me, and that hurt, but nothing like these guys.”

“So much for firm but fair Isabella.”

“H’m. Well, she was, until you turned up.”

“Oh yeah, bound to be my fault. Actually, we have dear Mama to thank for getting us into all this crap.”

Yep, evil bitch. Whatever happens, I don’t want to see my so-called mother ever again, so long as I live.”

“Me neither. Yet in a way I do feel grateful – she said we’d learn what life’s really like, and by Hades we certainly have, haven’t we? And I don’t know about you but I’m glad I’ve had the chance to be a slavegirl and go through all this stuff… Does it make sense?”

Una stayed silent for a bit, thougtful, then answered, “Yes kid, I know what you mean. Being Isabella’s slavegirl has certainly been exciting!”

“What is your truth, Val? I mean, what are you going to tell Mistress Isabella?”

“What I said to her in the bath, I like it here, I want to stay.”

“You sure?”

“Mm –“ Una hesitated a moment, then added, “Think so. How about you?”

Duo sighed. “I really don’t know. I know I don’t want to go to the Vestals’ Academy.”

“Are you still a virgin?”

“’fraid so. I nearly wasn’t, Iobbus was just going to rape me when the slave-catchers turned up.”

“Iobbus! Oh my goddesses! Well I think he and his father have made sure there’s no risk of me having to marry him. To think you might have been carrying a little Iobbus – yuk!”

Duo giggled, “I won’t ever forget his face when they carried me off! But what am I going to say? I feel really, really right being a slavegirl – honest, I so envy you wearing your brand-mark. And I was happy working with Uli in father’s bean-mill – it was bloody hard, the first couple of days I was sure I’d die, and the overseers are sadistic bitches. And yet, it felt right for me, and Uli’s just lovely, Melissa a great slave-mistress. But it would mean going back to Villa Pompilii…"

She yawned and stretched as far as she could in the confined cage, too small for two quite petite teenagers to lie, sit or crouch in any comfort.

“I’ll just have to hope I find out what I really want while I’m on the rack!”

Una laughed. Although her kid sister could be a pain, she loved her plucky spirit, gave her a big hug,

“Yep, we’d better try and get some sleep. Looks like we’re in for a tough day tomorrow!”

A rat scuttled across the shadowed floor, sniffed through the cage-bars at the still sweating, bleeding girls, they were too tired even to scream.
 
The girls were woken by a giggling Grunt hurling a bucketful of cold water through the hatch. As they struggled into wakefulness, he appeared in the cellar, lighting torches aorund the walls, and then kindling a fire in a large furnace at the far end.

As flamelight flickered over their bodies, Una exclaimed “Ugh, you’re filthy, Duo – so am I!”

“Yeah,” said her sister with a mischievous grin, “let’s clean ourselves up. We girls have to look our best for Torturers, don’t we Sis?”

They licked each other – they were both thirsty, and it seemed they were going to get no other breakfast, this cocktail of filthy water, girl-sweat and caked blood would have to do. They scrubbed one another’s intimate places with handfuls of wet hay. They groomed each other’s hair.

When the Boss-Torturer arrived, he was surprised to see his prisoners thus engaged in their toiletries, “Struth,” he said, “I’ve never seen my victims looking so fresh and dainty!” They smiled sweetly at him as he unlocked the door, and got to their feet, legs parted, hands behind bums.

“Okay then, which of you’s going first?” He didn’t wait for an anwer, “It’s the big one’s turn today, you get the little one trussed so she can watch.”

Gruntus took Duo and led her to a wooden frame, where she had to kneel, her legs tied wide apart, har arms pulled back through slots and clamped fast, so she was leaning back, tits lifted, against a rough board, with a clear view of the piece of furniture to which her sister was being tied.

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It seemed a complex piece of machinery, yet elegantly crafted and basically simple, like half a great mill-wheel set on a pair of iron tracks. Una had to lie back over this, her legs wide apart, her arms behind her head, she was tightly bound in a position that exposed her conveniently to the cruellest attentions of her tormentors.

But the fiendish feature of the apparatus was a system of gears governed by a single large winch-wheel, as poor Una was soon to learn. Her Torturers were ready now, the senior spoke,

“Now slave-slut, you know why you’re here – no slavegirl ever tells the truth except she’s been tortured, you’re no exception. No, it won’t be over quickly. No, there’s nothing you can say or do to stop us. And yes, it will hurt – a lot!”

He gave a light touch to the control-wheel, at once the girl squeaked and shuddered.

“Understood?”

“Yes, Sir,” croaked Una weakly.

“You can scream, scream all you want, it will make no difference. But Mistress does allow you to have a rag stuffed in your mouth so you can bite on it, do you want that?”

“Er – no thankyou, Sir.”

“Right, off we go!”

He moved the handle a little more, Una shrieked, feeling her whole body stretched across the great wheel, her arms and legs ripped by the strain. Each touch on the wheel brought a click that Duo could hear all too clearly. She watched, tensing with every scream, tugging instinctively at her bonds with every jerk of her sister’s body, willing her to cope. She knew the rules, better perhaps than Una, she willed her to obey them - don’t fight, you’ll only make it worse, just let the pain flow through you, conquer you.

The Torturer allowed long pauses between clicks, Una lay sweating, trembling ,waiting for the next increment of agony, the two men obviously took great pleasure in their power over her helpless body.

But there was another refinement. When Una was stretched so tight she was sure her joints would snap with the next click, the Torturer pulled a different handle and she suddenly relaxed. It took her moments to realise what had happened, then she let her whole body writhe and hurl about, tugging at the ropes, gasping air into lungs that had been almost too compressed by the strain even to breathe.

But the respite was brief, another handle jerked her tight once more, a spasm of huge agony tore through her entire body as it recognised the renewed tension.

Thus the torture proceeded, minute by minute, hour by hour, neither girl could tell how long, time ceases in the Torture Chamber. From time to time, the victim seemed to faint, a jugful of cold water from Gruntus revived her.

At one point while her limbs were briefly relaxed, the Torturer declared,

“I think it’s time for a break, get the brewhouse wench to bring us some beer, Grunt, we’ll leave the bitch on standby.”

With that he pressed a brake to lock the apparatus. Una felt little relief, her whole body was filled with continuous throbbing of pain. Gruntus returned with a scruffy youngster carrying a large jug and two copious flagons, she knelt to pour and serve, then departed leaving the jug.

Having refereshed themselves, the men decided to exercise their Torturers’ privilege. Una’s thighs were well-spread, her female parts wet, warm, and quivering with fear and pain, ideal for a monstrous tool. The Torturer threw himself on her and pumped her with vigour, it was an exercise he was obviously well-used to, inseminating girl-victims on his Rack. Una yelped and jerked her body in response to his driving,

Gruntus coldn’t hold himself, he hurried to the opposite end and started rubbing his cock on Una’s sweat-soaked face, she shook her head from side to side, this only increased his ardour. As the one man’s semen erupted into her womb, the other’s burst over her face, cascading into her mouth and eyes, she let out a cry as both her conquerors growled in satisfaction.

As they withdrew, she sighed, “Thankyou, my Masters,” then asked plaintively, “Sir, may I have the rag in my mouth now?”

The chief nodded, Gruntus picked up a filthy scrap from the floor that had once been a slavegirl’s indument, and stuffed it between Una’s jaws, tying it behind her head. The torture resumed. Una felt strangely revived by the exercise, she responded with vigour to the resumed torture, clutching at the wrist-ropes, gripping till her nails bled, biting on the comfort-rag – yes, thought Duo, it is better, I’ll ask for it when it’s my turn…

Whip-Mistress Clementina arrived,

“How are Mistress Isabella’s little jewels doing?”

“We’re still breaking the big one, the piglet’s watching.”

“Are you ready to tell your truth?”

Una turned her head, looked pleadingly at Clementina, mumbling through the chewed-up rag. The Whip-Mistress looked at her sternly, flicked her nipple with the tip of her riding-crop, Una wriggled in feminine reaction.

“H’m, I don’t think so,” she shook her head, “not broken yet.”

Una burst into tears of despair, Duo cried out, “Please Mistress! Let me be tortured now!”

But in vain, Clementina departed.
 
When Clementina returned, Una was apparently unconscious, barely reacting to Gruntus’s cold water treatment. She looked at the girl’s pale, trembling, sweating body with a little concern, then flicked a nipple as before. At once, the victim started and squealed, shrinking as if at the touch of a red-hot iron.

“She’s ready now,” declared the Whip-Mistress, “get her untied. Then you can start on the other one.”

When Una was freed from the ropes, she fell to her knees, nursing her badly-torn wrists. Clementina ordered a bowl of water for her, she lapped it like a puppy. Then she tapped her with her whip and made her crawl across to the steps.

“Can’t you walk?” she snapped,

“Y-yes, I… think so,” replied Una weakly. She staggered to her feet, stumbled forward onto the steps, but managed to make painful progress holding out her hands for support on the walls either side.

Duo watched her struggling up out of her sight as the Torturer untied her. She felt frightened, of course, but angry too, angry at what she’d seen them doing to her sister, angry at what she knew they were going to do to her. She understood, perhaps better than Una, the victim’s role, she was there to be broken, they’ll go on until she’s crushed like they’ve crushed Una, no point in fighting, but she was ready, even in a strange way eager, to undergo the test, to prove to them and to herself that she could take it - like a real slavegirl!

As for the truth, her real truth, she was still more tormented by that than anything these brutes were going to do to her. Whatever was her answer to Mistress Isabella’s challenge?

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Una woke, scared, at the sound of the door opening. Through her still tearful eyes, she was surprised but relieved to see Duo, still naked as she was, pale with dark, heavy eyes, her body bearing obvious signs of cruel treatment, her legs unsteady. She collapsed beside her sister on the soft bed.

“You too?” she whispered.

“M’m, suppose so. More tomorrow.”

Duo rolled on her side, gave Una a hug, they exchanged kisses, first time for a long while.

“So Mistress Isabella didn’t believe your truth?”

“No,” Una sobbed, “I told her wanted to stay, I begged to be Aphrodite’s personal handmaid, but she wouldn’t believe me…” She burst into tears, Duo comforted her for a while, then Una asked her, “And she didn’t believe you either?”

“Not exactly,” said Duo. Although her voice quavered, and was hoarse no doubt from screaming, she seemed a little more in command of herself. “No. When I must have completely flaked out, the Gods know how long I’d been there, Whip-Mistress turned up, she was prodding me when I came round, she said they’d better release me. So they untied me – I remembered to say thankyou, you didn’t, you bad slavegirl!” She nudged her sister, even in her agony, the old twinkle was still there in her eye.

“So I staggered all the way to the bath-house, and made obeisance to Mistress Isabella. But when she asked me what my truth was, what did I really want for myself, I could still only say, I don’t know, Mistress, I’m not sure.”

Una sighed, Duo just shook her head,

“I know, I’m a hopeless case, but it’s the truth. She was quite kind, she asked me how I felt about being a slavegirl, why I feel so sure it's right for me. We talked about what I’d done at the bean-mill, all that I'd learnt from Mistress Melissa and Uli. But in the end she said, you’ll have to be tortured some more.”

“H’m, and I heard her tell the Whip-Mistress to tell the Torturers they can use the irons and the hooks. Dunno what she meant, but they don’t sound good.”

“Well, at least she’s letting us have rest on this nice, soft bed.”

“Yes, and there’s some fruit and cool drinks over there, I’ve only had a little, but you need to have some too.”

“Yes, I will,” Duo yawned, “then we’d better get some beauty sleep, before they come to call us down there again for round two!”
 
When Clementina returned, Una was apparently unconscious, barely reacting to Gruntus’s cold water treatment. She looked at the girl’s pale, trembling, sweating body with a little concern, then flicked a nipple as before. At once, the victim started and squealed, shrinking as if at the touch of a red-hot iron.

“She’s ready now,” declared the Whip-Mistress, “get her untied. Then you can start on the other one.”

When Una was freed from the ropes, she fell to her knees, nursing her badly-torn wrists. Clementina ordered a bowl of water for her, she lapped it like a puppy. Then she tapped her with her whip and made her crawl across to the steps.

“Can’t you walk?” she snapped,

“Y-yes, I… think so,” replied Una weakly. She staggered to her feet, stumbled forward onto the steps, but managed to make painful progress holding out her hands for support on the walls either side.

Duo watched her struggling up out of her sight as the Torturer untied her. She felt frightened, of course, but angry too, angry at what she’d seen them doing to her sister, angry at what she knew they were going to do to her. She understood, perhaps better than Una, the victim’s role, she was there to be broken, they’ll go on until she’s crushed like they’ve crushed Una, no point in fighting, but she was ready, even in a strange way eager, to undergo the test, to prove to them and to herself that she could take it - like a real slavegirl!

As for the truth, her real truth, she was still more tormented by that than anything these brutes were going to do to her. Whatever was her answer to Mistress Isabella’s challenge?

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Una woke, scared, at the sound of the door opening. Through her still tearful eyes, she was surprised but relieved to see Duo, still naked as she was, pale with dark, heavy eyes, her body bearing obvious signs of cruel treatment, her legs unsteady. She collapsed beside her sister on the soft bed.

“You too?” she whispered.

“M’m, suppose so. More tomorrow.”

Duo rolled on her side, gave Una a hug, they exchanged kisses, first time for a long while.

“So Mistress Isabella didn’t believe your truth?”

“No,” Una sobbed, “I told her wanted to stay, I begged to be Aphrodite’s personal handmaid, but she wouldn’t believe me…” She burst into tears, Duo comforted her for a while, then Una asked her, “And she didn’t believe you either?”

“Not exactly,” said Duo. Although her voice quavered, and was hoarse no doubt from screaming, she seemed a little more in command of herself. “No. When I must have completely flaked out, the Gods know how long I’d been there, Whip-Mistress turned up, she was prodding me when I came round, she said they’d better release me. So they untied me – I remembered to say thankyou, you didn’t, you bad slavegirl!” She nudged her sister, even in her agony, the old twinkle was still there in her eye.

“So I staggered all the way to the bath-house, and made obeisance to Mistress Isabella. But when she asked me what my truth was, what did I really want for myself, I could still only say, I don’t know, Mistress, I’m not sure.”

Una sighed, Duo just shook her head,

“I know, I’m a hopeless case, but it’s the truth. She was quite kind, she asked me how I felt about being a slavegirl, why I feel so sure it's right for me. We talked about what I’d done at the bean-mill, all that I'd learnt from Mistress Melissa and Uli. But in the end she said, you’ll have to be tortured some more.”

“H’m, and I heard her tell the Whip-Mistress to tell the Torturers they can use the irons and the hooks. Dunno what she meant, but they don’t sound good.”

“Well, at least she’s letting us have rest on this nice, soft bed.”

“Yes, and there’s some fruit and cool drinks over there, I’ve only had a little, but you need to have some too.”

“Yes, I will,” Duo yawned, “then we’d better get some beauty sleep, before they come to call us down there again for round two!”

Irons and hooks!!!! Round two!!!! oh no !!!!! :eek: Better get some sleep :confused:
 
When Clementina came, it was still dark, but the girls were used to getting up early, and to feeling pretty stiff from the various kinds of beatings and tortures and sheer hard work that being a slavegirl brings, so they proceeded back down to the Torture Chamber without needing whipping or bondage. The Torturers were all ready to receive them, the torches lit, the furnace blazing, they both quivered as they glimpsed an array of iron tools set close to the flames, heating…

They were both to be tortured alongside one another this morning.

”Which wrist do you want to hang by?” the torturer asked Una gruffly,

“Er –“ she was a bit taken aback, but plumped quickly for her right one, held it out for him to bind tightly. He then made her reach up and secured her to a link on a chain that hung from a pulley in the cellar roof. Gruntus turned a handle, she was jerked up till her left foot toes were all that just remained in contact with the floor, while his boss deftly tied her left wrist to her right ankle behind her back. Una was almost hanging, her muscles that were still tender from the Rack already protesting, the big toe of her left foot her only means of finding minimal relief.

Duo was lifted up and plonked astride a wooden ‘pony’, with a cruelly angled back that nudged into her feminine cleft. Her wrists were crossed and tied tight behind her, a pair of ropes ran from them down to her ankles, which were bound so that she could only get her toes to the floor at the price of tugging herself back, adding acutely to the discomfort in her most sensitive part.

Both girls were now further restrained by their free ankles being being tied to rings in heavy stone weights. These rested on the floor, a pair for Duo, a single big one for Una, enough to prevent either from kicking too vigorously – they were carefully chosen so they might shift them a little with great muscular effort, but they’d only aggravate their pain if they made such an effort in their agony.

Finally both were then blindfolded with rags, dirty and threadbare, but sufficient to deprive their eyes of sight. At once, they felt more acutely aware of other senses, the sounds of fire crackling, the smell of burning coals, and of hot metal, as well as their own cold sweat, the acrid taste of fear. And their bodies felt the cruel torment their different forms of bondage were already inflicting – and yet, in their helpless nakedness, both sensed an excited sensuality, Una especially found the balletic pose she was forced to hold pleasurably arousing, and Duo wriggling on the hard pony felt her clitoris growing firm.

The Torture was very much in the anticipation, when they heard new sounds of metal tools being moved, of their Torturers’ footsteps, their bodies tensed involuntarily. The irons, pincers and hooks were wicked weapons, though not the brutal monsters the victims were expecting. In fact, the torturers only touched their bodies lightly with the tips, but those tips were red-hot and needle sharp, the screams they called forth were as sharp and clear as the well-whetted points that seared their bare skin.

Una’s torture consisted in alternate sharp jerking and dropping on the Pulley, that re-awoke in her all the agony of the Rack, interspersed with application of the sharp-pointed, five-clawed hooks, that bit fiercely into her stretched, taut muscles. Duo was pierced with little sharp stabs and sudden pinches of small pincers, making neat patterns of rings and waves on her breasts, thighs, buttocks and pubic mound. Though still not truly branded, she was being made to wear the ‘red bikini’ of a tortured slavegirl.

After a while, Una was lowered from the Pulley and allowed a little rest while the Torturers refreshed themselves, then she was re-tied and suspended by her left wrist, so the other flank of her tortured torso could be criss-crossed with furrows, which extended around to her breasts, loins, buttocks and thighs.

And eventually, both girls were released and shut in the cage for a few hours, but the Torturer snarled, “Don’t imagine it’s over yet – just half-time!” The sisters tried to give one another comfort, but the burns were too fresh to be soothed, they were more preoccupied with finding some way to kneel or crouch that would avoid exacerbating the agony and renewing the strain in their limbs.

When they were hauled out again, their tortures were exchanged, now Duo danced on the Pulley, Una rode the Pony. They were kept well awake with frequent douses of cold water, kept screaming with regular applications of the torture-instruments. Their cries became hoarse, turned to groans, to whining, to breathless pleading, to gasps of utter desperation, but still their ordeal went on.

At last Clementina arrived. Neither girl knew she was in the Chamber, when she touched their nipples they started as if her fingers were white-hot. She was satisfied, ordered their release, led them up once more to try to tell their truth to Mistress Isabella.
 
When Clementina came, it was still dark, but the girls were used to getting up early, and to feeling pretty stiff from the various kinds of beatings and tortures and sheer hard work that being a slavegirl brings, so they proceeded back down to the Torture Chamber without needing whipping or bondage. The Torturers were all ready to receive them, the torches lit, the furnace blazing, they both quivered as they glimpsed an array of iron tools set close to the flames, heating…

They were both to be tortured alongside one another this morning.

”Which wrist do you want to hang by?” the torturer asked Una gruffly,

“Er –“ she was a bit taken aback, but plumped quickly for her right one, held it out for him to bind tightly. He then made her reach up and secured her to a link on a chain that hung from a pulley in the cellar roof. Gruntus turned a handle, she was jerked up till her left foot toes were all that just remained in contact with the floor, while his boss deftly tied her left wrist to her right ankle behind her back. Una was almost hanging, her muscles that were still tender from the Rack already protesting, the big toe of her left foot her only means of finding minimal relief.

Duo was lifted up and plonked astride a wooden ‘pony’, with a cruelly angled back that nudged into her feminine cleft. Her wrists were crossed and tied tight behind her, a pair of ropes ran from them down to her ankles, which were bound so that she could only get her toes to the floor at the price of tugging herself back, adding acutely to the discomfort in her most sensitive part.

Both girls were now further restrained by their free ankles being being tied to rings in heavy stone weights. These rested on the floor, a pair for Duo, a single big one for Una, enough to prevent either from kicking too vigorously – they were carefully chosen so they might shift them a little with great muscular effort, but they’d only aggravate their pain if they made such an effort in their agony.

Finally both were then blindfolded with rags, dirty and threadbare, but sufficient to deprive their eyes of sight. At once, they felt more acutely aware of other senses, the sounds of fire crackling, the smell of burning coals, and of hot metal, as well as their own cold sweat, the acrid taste of fear. And their bodies felt the cruel torment their different forms of bondage were already inflicting – and yet, in their helpless nakedness, both sensed an excited sensuality, Una especially found the balletic pose she was forced to hold pleasurably arousing, and Duo wriggling on the hard pony felt her clitoris growing firm.

The Torture was very much in the anticipation, when they heard new sounds of metal tools being moved, of their Torturers’ footsteps, their bodies tensed involuntarily. The irons, pincers and hooks were wicked weapons, though not the brutal monsters the victims were expecting. In fact, the torturers only touched their bodies lightly with the tips, but those tips were red-hot and needle sharp, the screams they called forth were as sharp and clear as the well-whetted points that seared their bare skin.

Una’s torture consisted in alternate sharp jerking and dropping on the Pulley, that re-awoke in her all the agony of the Rack, interspersed with application of the sharp-pointed, five-clawed hooks, that bit fiercely into her stretched, taut muscles. Duo was pierced with little sharp stabs and sudden pinches of small pincers, making neat patterns of rings and waves on her breasts, thighs, buttocks and pubic mound. Though still not truly branded, she was being made to wear the ‘red bikini’ of a tortured slavegirl.

After a while, Una was lowered from the Pulley and allowed a little rest while the Torturers refreshed themselves, then she was re-tied and suspended by her left wrist, so the other flank of her tortured torso could be criss-crossed with furrows, which extended around to her breasts, loins, buttocks and thighs.

And eventually, both girls were released and shut in the cage for a few hours, but the Torturer snarled, “Don’t imagine it’s over yet – just half-time!” The sisters tried to give one another comfort, but the burns were too fresh to be soothed, they were more preoccupied with finding some way to kneel or crouch that would avoid exacerbating the agony and renewing the strain in their limbs.

When they were hauled out again, their tortures were exchanged, now Duo danced on the Pulley, Una rode the Pony. They were kept well awake with frequent douses of cold water, kept screaming with regular applications of the torture-instruments. Their cries became hoarse, turned to groans, to whining, to breathless pleading, to gasps of utter desperation, but still their ordeal went on.

At last Clementina arrived. Neither girl knew she was in the Chamber, when she touched their nipples they started as if her fingers were white-hot. She was satisfied, ordered their release, led them up once more to try to tell their truth to Mistress Isabella.

Oh, dancing on the pulley hanging by one wrist...delicious image to me ... :p:D

Intense episode :very_hot:
 
“Okay,” said Polly, “the marks will take a few days to go, but you shouldn’t have any more pain.”

“Thanks,” said Una, stretching, “that feels a lot better.”

“I don’t mind the marks,” said Duo, “actually I quite like them, they make me look like a tattooed Amazon!”

Una chuckled at her crazy sister, so did Polly and Aphrodite, who was massaging Una’s thighs.

“Well,” said Polly, “they’ll still be nice and bright for the garden party, you’ll make a good talking-point for the guests.”

“So, er, we’re going to be hanging on those new crosses?”

“You’ve got it,” Aphro confirmed, squeezing Una’s leg-muscles, “They’re a big success, those garden ornaments, all the slavegirls want a go on them, they’re queuing up there every evening!”

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“But you two are going to be the first to get the full treatment, you’ll be up there from before dawn on the Kalends till sunrise the next day.”

Both girls’ nude bodies wriggled as they took in this information, Una looked rather thoughtful, Duo’s eyes were round with excitement. Aphro continued,

“Mam says you can rest today, but then you’ll have to get into training.”

“Training?” Una grinned sardonically, “Doesn’t she think we had enough exercise in the Torture Chamber?”

Aphro laughed, “I bet you did, I wished I could be down there watching you two dancing, but I’ve been rushed off my feet arranging this party – inviting all the posh guests, making sure no-one’s missed out or put in the wrong order of precedence, briefing all the cook-slaves and buying in extra serving-wenches, hiring dancing-girls from the up-market brothels… I sometimes think my Mam might as well make me a slavegirl, like yours has done with you!”

“Will our parents be coming?” asked Una, not looking enthusiastic at the idea. Aphro winked,

“Guest-list’s a state secret. But everybody who is anybody’s going to be there, and I promise you there’ll be some surprises! Must fly now, I’ve got to sign up the Spicy Slavegirls for the Crucifixion Cabaret!”

“I wonder if Mistress Isabella will really bring us what we truly want?” sighed Duo.

“If anyone can, Izzy can,” smiled Polly. “Pity we haven’t still got the Tardis here in Ancient Rome, I could have hopped in and taken a short trip into the future. But never mind, you just just wait and see. I’ll leave you some After-Torture Cream, rub it on if you feel any more pain, but don’t waste it, it cost me an arm and a leg – don’t ask me whose arm and leg. Would you like a ride on Argentum later?”

“Oooh yes please Polly,” responded both sisters in unison,

“And we could take another look at those crosses!” added Duo enthusiastically.
 
The night before the party, the girls had to spend, once again, in the cage in the Torture Chamber, Isabella agreed with Clementina that this would put them in the right frame of mind to be crucified. They were quite excited, a bit frightened, but glad the day was about to dawn for their big test.

When the Torturers arrived to haul them out, the Whip-Mistress came too, and supervised proceedings. She led them up a flight of steps that brought them out in the yard of the slave-quarters, where all the estate slaves were already up and about, washing, toileting, breakfasting, ready for an exceptional day’s work.

The cross-bars belonging to the two new crosses in the garden had been brought up to the slave-quarters, so Una and Duo could carry them in the early light along the track that slaves had to follow around the outside of the Villa compound, down the hill below its grand terraces, then through the great gate and back up through the gardens to the prominent site where the uprights awaited them.

When the horn sounded the start of day, a glow was just rising in the sky, the huge army of slaves, the vast majority of them girls, trooped out through the grim-looking gatehouse, but instead of proceeding as they normally would to their many places of labour, they lined up alongside the two sisters’ Way of the Cross.

It was a long, hard treck. The beams weren’t excessively heavy, Isabella had specified ‘junior miss’ size, but they were clumsy and unwieldy, both girls found them awkward to keep balanced on their shoulders as they stumbled barefoot along the stony track, being swinged lustily – not too hard, as Clementina ordered, but quite hard enough to sting – by the two Torturers with small, light but nastily-knotted scourges, the slave-spectators cheering and jeering.

By the time they reached the great gate, they’d both already stumbled several times, acquiring grazed knees as well as a good tattooing of red bruises from the whips, the Whip-Mistress was pleased, it was important that girls hanging on crosses bore the pilgrim-badges of the Via Crucis.

The sun was rising as they climbed the steep path and series of steps up through Isabella’s fine grounds. The scent of herbs and pungent blooms was stimulating in the fresh morning air, but the girls’ legs were already tired and aching, this last part of the walk was the hardest, though the senior slaves lining the pathway were less coarse in their comments, and Clementina told the Torturers to lay off with their scourges.

At last they reached the grassy terrace where they were to hang. They laid down their burdens with relief and stayed on their knees panting, sweat dripping. A couple of bowls of water were brought which they lapped up eagerly, but then they had to grant their Torturers their customary privilege – open wide, tongues ready…

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The fact that the household slaves, male and female, were all gathered around joking and giggling at the performance was a bit distracting, but the sisters had to concentrate on their task, if the two men weren’t embarrassed, why should they be? Una hadn’t done it before, she found the taste of the older Torturer’s cock unpleasant, and his sperm left a musty after-taste, but slavegirls can’t be choosers, and Duo quite liked servicing young Gruntus. They both closed their lips firmly when the pricks were withdrawn, making sure no seed was spilt, then bowed and whispered “Thankyou Sir” politely.

Now they were tied to the cross-beams. Una volunteered to go first, she lay down and stretched out her arms obligingly. She screamed a little as she felt the knots tighten on her wrists, it didn’t really hurt, it was a cry of excitement. As she was lifted and swung up into the air, she felt the strain on her arms and shoulders and her body recalled what she’d experienced in the Torture Chamber, this did hurt, and she groaned, and kicked vigorously as they dropped the slotted bar onto the tenon at the top of the upright with a jolt.

“Keep your legs still or I’ll crack your shins!” yelled the Torturer, grabbing a nasty-looking garden hoe that was conveniently to hand. Una got the message, and let them bind her ankles, so she was able to press down with her legs and take the strain off her shoulders.

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Duo, having watched her sister, co-operated as she was tied, raised up and likewise bound securely. The two sisters glanced at each other, Una gave an encouraging smile, Duo winked back. The sun was just beginning to brighten the garden as they gazed across the vineyards to the distant sea and the River Tiber flowing past Rome, beginning to adjust their bodies, coming to terms with the roughness of the wood against their bare, beaten backs, the warmth of the sun on their already sweaty skin, the cruel option of flexing their knees to relax their legs and feeling the strain tear along their wrists, arms and shoulders to their chests, or pressing down on their bondaged feet and hauling their body-weight up as long as their taut muscles could bear.

There were many hours to go before the guests would start arriving. Clementina’s plan was for them to spend the morning practising their crux-dance, not only sinking and heaving up, but rolling their hips, twisting their torsos, shaking their heads, tossing their curls, thrusting their breasts and displaying all their female assets for the delectation of the classy crowd.

Aphrodite arrived and joined in the coaching, the two slaves were good learners and were soon presenting the kind of display that would win approval. Gardeners, who were supposed to be bringing the horticultural displays to perfection, had to be shooed away and warned against lurking in the shrubbery on the pretext of pruning.

It was tiring, the girls were soon panting and feeling thirsty, and the attentions of flies, wasps and bees made them cruelly aware of their own defencelessness, but their instructors were careful, letting them rest from time to time, ensuring they got spongeful of cool, fresh water to suck every hour or so.

As the day grew hot, the true torture of Crucifixion began for the girls, they were streaming with sweat, breathing in rough gasps that hurt their lungs, every movement brought aching to their muscles. Aphrodite gave instructions to attendant slaves, they brought small sedilia, simple wooden billets that could be screwed in place under each girl’s groin allowing her a little rest. They were hardly comfortable, and Una noticed they were drilled with holes into which some attachment might be added, but she preferred not to think what it might be. For now, a little relief.

Aphrodite and Clementina departed, both had many other duties before the party began, but a pair of sensible slavewomen were left with strict orders to keep the girls well-watered, both with drink and with washing down if they seemed to be fainting. Aphro patted both the sisters on their bums as she left, “You’re doing fine, kids, put on a show like that when the guests are watching, it’ll be a party Rome will remember as long as the Empire reigns!”
 
There were many hours to go before the guests would start arriving. Clementina’s plan was for them to spend the morning practising their crux-dance, not only sinking and heaving up, but rolling their hips, twisting their torsos, shaking their heads, tossing their curls, thrusting their breasts and displaying all their female assets for the delectation of the classy crowd.

Coo, it's not just those girls that are hot!

How come your keyboard doesn't catch fire as you put this sizzling material into words, Eul!

And what a manip from Melissa!

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