With humans, I usually at least pause and check in if they forget and say it anyway, but it isn’t like I’m going to accidentally kill you because your airflow is restricted.” He looked at the other two men and then back to her. “We’re all kinky, but we’re different flavors of kinky.” He sat back and crossed his arms. “It’s important you sound American. Do you agree?”
“I do.”
“It’s important you acknowledge why you are being punished, and that you submit to it. There’s a pillory in the den, bolted to the floor, designed to hold shapeshifters. Walk into the den, fold your clothes neatly on the bar, lock the pair of shoes on you’ll find beside it, walk to the device, and place your neck and wrists into the slots. Someone will close you into it when we arrive. We’re short on time today, so you’ll stand there between two and ten minutes. In the future, this could be from five minutes to five hours.”
7
Kelsey walked down the hallway to the last door on the right, and turned into a huge man cave of a room. Oversized plush, leather sofas faced the largest wall-mounted television she’d ever seen, with every gaming console below, along with storage for controllers, games, and VR headsets. It looked more like a store display than someone’s home system.
The bar looked like the one from Cheers, complete with the brass bar, except there were only two legs of it to form a square with the walls in the corner, rather than four sides in the middle of the room.
She walked to it and noted she could use the bar as a ballet barre, but she didn’t try it out. She’d worn trousers and a blouse along with heels, but it didn’t take long to come out of them. She folded all but her trousers, which she doubled over and then looped over the brass bar as if they were on a pants hanger. She straightened her heels below them, picked up the shoes, and — with her heart in her throat — walked to a sofa.
Her heart fluttered in her chest when she ran her hands over and around the shoes. They were four-inch heels with sharp spikes under where her own heel would rest on the shoe, meaning she’d have to put all of her weight on her toes.
And the base of the toes also had sharp little protrusions the size of rice pieces.
She sat on the sofa, put her left foot into the appropriate shoe, and closed the ankle piece around her lower calf. The ratcheting sound of the handcuff-like steel piece made it clear she was stuck with them at whatever rate she pushed them closed. She knew better than to leave them too loose, but she didn’t tighten them completely, either.
The second shoe went on the same, and she gingerly walked to the stocks. Thankfully, there was a handhold out from the wrist rest. The men weren’t giving her an impossible task, just an extremely difficult one.
And she had to admit that forcing her to basically put herself into bondage was especially well-thought out. She was one thousand percent submitting to them, and to the punishment.
She didn’t try to count the minutes. Instead, she counted her breaths. In and out. Calm. Serene. She bent her knees, straightened them. She couldn’t really go from foot to foot because the pain was too intense when she put all her weight on one foot. She noted the pillory was situated just a little lower than waist height, so her ass was high in the air.
She squeezed her toes together and relaxed them, trying to gain relief for the balls of her feet, but nothing helped. Her calves started to protest. She knew they’d be fine for ten minutes, but after hours like this, she’d be hurting.
Eunice walked in first, and Fabio paused at the door to turn some spotlights on. She could feel the heat of the one on her ass, and blinked at the harsh lighting hitting her face. Eunice stepped in front of her and put a bowl full of plum-sized glass marbles on the floor in front of her.
“You will keep your ass and legs relaxed. If you don’t, we’ll start with six of these marbles inside of you, and you’ll be required to stay tense to hold them in. Every marble you drop means two go back in. When I train someone, they’re pierced, so I can lock access to