“Don’t I get one, too?” I asked. “I am your slave for the weekend.”“I didn’t know if you were willing to be led around in public,” slu... said, holding out another collar and leash. “Walking naked with a Master and Mistress isn’t quite the same as being led through a crowd on a leash.”“She would know,” I thought to myself as I stepped up to Mistress June and tilted my chin up. The collar felt slightly cold as Mistress wrapped it around my neck, but then it suddenly felt very hot when she clipped. " Why don't you just step down to the ladies' room and freshen them up.Then make some coffee when you get back." Yes ma'am," I said, heading out the door. The ladies' room was crowded. Ellen, Lynn, and two women I hadn't met. Acouple were chatting, and others were checking their makeup. I found myway to a stall."Remember, sit!" called Cindy, prompting giggles from the others.I emerged, washed my hands and pulled my lipstick from my pocket. Cindystopped me."Sweetie, two things. First, you don't. That she would succeed wasnot in doubt in her mind, she had been presented with worse in the pastand she had rarely failed. And she enjoyed it, the glory of seeing menfight with steel over one of her girls dancing in the sand circle beforethem and knowing that they would never have noticed the same girl passingthem in the street half a year before. The girl whose name had beenAmanda, she had the body for it like she was born to be a slave dancerbut her mind, her attitude, her almost-masculine. The young nurse, Neeta, tapped Ellen’s hand.“It was King Cobra, Memsahib, very big. People die from bite. But Mill’cent here was lucky, snake bite shoe, leather, tooth not go deep. Not much bite. Will live.”“Are you sure?” Ellen asked.The girl made a face and Ellen saw that her question was unfair. Just then, Harriet Carter entered and her grave face showed that she had been with Mabel. She shook her head sadly and Ellen realised that Harriet too feared the worst for the young woman. She was.
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