#albert

Dani’s reverie was interrupted by a man’s voice. It was James, the valet. He said, “It’s time. Let’s get it over with. I have only an hour or so left on my shift.” Then he undid the hanging chain from the bracelets on Dani’s wrists that held her in an uncomfortable, stooped position with her hands raised behind her back. Dani, freed from this painful position, fell to the floor of the dungeon. Then James, without speaking and with one hand holding the leash that was attached to the large ring piercing Dani’s labia, took her by the shoulders and guided her up the 39 steps to the main floor of the Chateau. There he released her shoulders and said, “Your hands will remain bound behind your back, and I will lead you by the leash attached to your sex past the refectory to the whipping room. The other slaves here have been told to watch you being taken. Your Master wants you to be seen by them in order to further humiliate you.” Then he took the leash and started down the long hallway.

Albert and Charles Martel, the other two valets on duty in the refectory that morning, had assembled the other slaves – Niobe, the blonde twins Apryl and Selena, Collette, Claudia, Marloes, Jeanne, Therese, Quy, Binh, as well as Verona- to watch Dani being taken to the whipping room. Dani could feel their eyes on her. She thought, “I wonder what they are thinking. They know that I am being taken to the little room with the raised dais. There I’ll be tied spread eagle with my legs splayed open and raised, my sex visible to all. It’s so humiliating to be watched while I am taken there, especially the way I am being led – like an animal on a leash.”

And some of the girls were, indeed, aghast at the sight of poor Dani being led that way. But some had other feelings – perhaps jealousy or envy. As Dani passed by, Collette leaned over to Jeanne and whispered in her ear, “Watch and just think, that may be you the next time.” To which Jeanne replied, “If that is what Louis wants of me.” Hearing this, Marloes just shook her head.

James led Dani into the whipping room. Unlike the music room at Anne Marie’s the walls were not lined with cork. Instead, the wall directly in front of the raised dais had a very large mirror hanging from a hook. “James said to Dani, “That’s so you can see yourself open and being whipped.” Then he had Dani sit on the dais. First, he unclipped her hands from behind her back, only to secure them to rings set at the head of the dais opposite the mirrored wall. Then, one at a time and using the bracelets on her ankles, James bound her legs to the small posts on either side of the dais. Only after doing so, did he unhook the metal dog leash from the ring piercing her labia. Then with a flourish of his hand, he waved at the mirrored wall where Dani could see herself open, the smaller chain from her pierced cervix hanging from her vagina, and said, “Behold, the lovely lady!”