She worked the handles and wheels that adjusted the shape and angles of panels. Zena asked Ned ‘Do you know how all these things work?’ Ned repli...d ‘Yes, do you want a thorough demonstration?’ ‘If I am to be the Housemother here, I need to be intimate with all the facility’s details.’ ‘Then let’s start over here at the tool kit.’ Ned opened the cabinets and drawers and showed Zena the tools available. Some chains had padlock hasps while others were easily unsnapped, even by the person being. But the trust! How could you trust anyone willing to do that much to another human being? To give yourself over to them and let them do whatever they wished, trusting that if you spoke the safe word, all would stop and you would be released, cared for as necessary, and from what I saw, some of the more extreme cases must have needed medical attention at some point. To trust someone capable of inflicting such pain and damage to stop at the mere exhalation of a single spoken word; that was trust. * * * * * Jeff was very content for about two weeks. I was finishing a sales meeting when Jeff, looking puzzled, said to me: ”Would you talk to Abigail. She has been acting strange lately and I think it has something to do with the hypnosis thing.” “How has she been acting strange?” “She still has sex with me, but she doesn’t seem to be enjoying it as much.” “Why not?” “I don’t know, that’s why I want you to talk to her.” “All right. Where would you suggest we have this talk?” “Here at the. I felt the movement on the bed behind me, as Hanna went to Jill.We would kiss for a while then we would trade partners and go for a little more. Eventually, we were petting heavily, when I took Jill’s shirt off. When we traded again I looked at Jill Speaking of Skarlett, the girl she was partnered up with I said, “She looks uncomfortable with that shirt. Maybe you would like her to be as free as you are.”Moments later we were all without shirts. The next time we switched, it was not me that.