HOLE 19 (episode 4)
Watching a rollercoaster from the ground is a safe feeling.
But when you are in, getting towed up, looking from above on the trajectory of loops and corkscrews you will soon be running through! And no way back! And then, the chariots are launched… Down on the ground, you had to courage to step in it, but once up, your heart gets very small…
That, I imagined, was the feeling Dorothy was about to face now.
James came back from the barn where Dorothy was being prepared. Actually, he did not look very sure about himself, passing through the crowd of spectators, feeling their eyes on him, knowing he had just left behind his wife in the for being the next.
James knew – and he knew the spectators knew – that, inside, she was being pulled off her crème summer anorak. She would step out of her pastel pink high heel shoes, take of her pale pink short dress, and finally her undies. All under the surveillance of the marshals. Meanwhile, James was explained the use of the lever of the hoist, and I hoped he kept his mind on it.
He got her so far, but nevertheless, Dorothy had sought a last advice from me.
“Dorothy!”, I had said, “I may call you Dorothy? Just go for it! It looks scaring, but all those who did it, found it exciting!”
“Are you sure, Mister Loxuru?”
“Yes! And, Dorothy, keep your mouth and eyes closed down there!”.
Suddenly, the onlookers all turned their attention to the barn. Dorothy stood in the doorway, all naked. The crowd started cheering, whistling, shouting. It clearly overwhelmed her completely. Still trying to catch up what was happening to her, a black marshal grabbed her arms and cuffed them behind her back, creating even more excitement among the crowd. Then they put a leather manacle on each of her ankles.
One of the marshals gave her a little push in the back. Reluctantly she stepped, or rather, she uneasily shuffled forward, anxiously looking around, trying to ignore the humiliating crowd. But there was no way out. Flanked by three marshals, passing between two rows of excited spectators, she crossed the tarmac. There was even more hesitation when the crowd opened in front of her, and she faced the hoisting device. There she came. With her hands on her back she looked vulnerable, fully exposed. There was a remarkable contrast of her gold blonde hair, her pale white skin, and the intense pinkish blush in her face, in her neck, and all over her shoulders and her breasts. As she entered the hoisting area, she hesitated, took a step backward, but the disapproving shouts of the spectators and the gentle force of the marshals pushed her further forward.
She stood there naked under the hoist, surrounded by yelling crowd. Damn, she was gorgeous! I bent to James, who was standing next to me and said :
“James! You are a damn lucky bastard!”
He did not answer. Had he heard me? He stared to his naked and restrained wife at the other side of the pit, the target of all these looks and humiliations.
“James!”, I said “the only right answer here is : ‘I know Lox!’”
“Yes, Lox, yes!”
There it was! I recognized it! Vicarious humiliation! It was his wife there who was publically naked, who was, under more cheering, put on a belt around her waist where the wrist cuffs were attached to! It could be that he felt even more humiliated than Dorothy! Most likely, he was the only guy here around the pit, who had no hard-on at this moment. He was even more due to run away than she was! Despite the distance between them, they shared a common chemistry of humiliation and fear, that they had to be overcome.
Dorothy uttered a little scream when the four marshals grabbed her arms and legs, pulled her up and attached her ankle cuffs to the hook of the hoisting device. Next, she hung upside down, her eyes and mouth wide open, shaking her shoulders. In an attempt to cope with her unusual position, she twisted her head, trying to lift it up, looking around between the legs of the marshals and uttering ‘huh’s and ‘ow’s” all the time. James looked still uncertain, but at least their line of eye contact had been broken up, and with it, their bond of fear. He and Dorothy were in their own struggle now, he with his reluctance, she with gravity and fearful anticipation. While Dorothy hung upside down, a new wave of enthusiasm engulfed the crowd. Dorothy, already influenced by the champagne and the blood rush to her head, was lifted up until her eyes were at the level of the marshal’s signs of huge excitements, drawing her attention to her immediate environment. James stood alone now with his doubts. I hoped he would remember my advice. He could be the man to fail now. If he would give up, he would let down the crowd. If he would let down the crowd, he would let down Dorothy, because in that case she had undergone all the humiliations up to now for nothing! That would be her greatest humiliation of all! And the crowd was sensing his doubts and taunted and defied him as much as they did Dorothy. Particularly when one of the marshals grabbed Dorothy’s hips and twisted her around, to show her completely powerless, naked, exposed and restrained body the crowd. She was totally humiliated, but Dorothy had completely surrendered to it. While the crowd enjoyed her being displayed, James, standing at the lever, stared at infinite, paralyzed, sweating, unable to take action. There was no way back… for him in the first place!
Next, the hoist moved Dorothy over the brown reeky mass. Powerless, she swung back and forth by the motion. An exciting sight it was, with her hair hanging down, her fearful, anxious look, her breasts hanging down to her shoulders. She was hanging with her head just half a meter above the damping surface. Now it was up to James. Silence fell. Dorothy was hanging nearly motionless, only moving her head. The pressure on James must have been immense now. Dorothy was completely surrendered to the situation. She could do nothing than undergo it all. But anyway, if James took too long to let her hang above that stinking mass, while her body was being stretched out, her discomfort would increase. His hesitation still could spoil it ultimately.
From behind James’ back, I made a discrete wink to one of the marshals. He stepped towards James.
“Shall I help you, Sir!?” he said.
The arrival of the marshal suddenly awoke James from his lethargy.
“No, no!” He said.
As a sign that he took control, James moved the lever. Dorothy, suddenly frightened, dropped some twenty centimeter and them came to rest again. Was that all….?
“James! On second thoughts I think I….” Dorothy tried to draw his attention.
The marshal stepped further forward to James. So did I!
James, suddenly pressed from two sides, took a deep breath and moved the lever again.
“James, nooo!”
(to be continued)