belittleother women.'
'Yes, Master?' she whispered.
'But here, on Gor,' I said, 'Things are quite different.'
'Yes, Master,' she said.
'Here, on Gor,' I said, 'your beauty is owned, and fully, as are you.'
'Yes Master,' she said.
'To whom does your beauty belong, on Gor?' I asked.
'To the master,' she said.
'Yes,' I said, 'and it is he, not you, my dear, who will decide what is to bedone with it, fully, and how it is to be used.'
'Yes, Master,' she said.
'Your palms,' I said, 'have them facing upward, to the moons of Gor.'
'Yes, Master,' she said.
'Have you had your slave wine?' I asked.
'Ginger, one of my Mistresses,' she said, 'forced me to drink a bitter beverageby that name.'
'Why has your Master, Grunt, sent you to my blankets?' I asked. 'Why has hehimself not seen fit to open your slave's body to the pleasures of men?'
'I do not know, Master,' she said.
I crouched down beside the naked body of the former Miss MillicentAubrey-Welles, who had been a debutante, now that of a mere slave, supine on myblankets.
'What are the duties of a slave?' I asked.
'They are complex, and manifold, Master,' she said.
'Speak generally,' I said.
'We are to be absolutely docile,' she said, 'totally obedient and fullypleasing.'
'Are there any qualifications to that?' I asked.
'No, Master,' she said, 'There are no qualifications. We are slaves.
'And are you prepared to fulfill the duties of a slave?' I asked.
'Yes, Master,' she said, 'and I must, Master, for I am a slave.
'The answers are correct, and suitable, Slave,' I said.
'Thank you Master,' she said.
'I am to take your virginity,' I said. 'You understand that?'
'Yes, Master,' she said.
'Would you prefer that your virginity would have been taken from you while youwere a free woman?' I asked.
'No,' she said, 'rather as a will-less slave, as I am now subject to thedecision and imperious will of a strong master.'
I held my hand, opened, a bit above her left breast. She arched her back,pressing that marvelous, lush contour of her enslaved softness against my hand.
I did not move my hand. She lay back, tears in her eyes. 'You well know how tohumiliate a slave, Master,' she said. I smiled. The test had been an interestingone.
'Do you think, in time, you will prove to be a hot slave?' I asked.
'Hot?' she asked.
'Yes,' I said, 'responsive, sexually vital, owned, helplessly and uncontrollablypassionate.'
'I do not know, Master,' she said. 'What if I do not?'
'Then you will presumably be slain,' I said.
She shuddered with terror.
'But do not fear,' I said. 'Most masters are patient. You will, most likely,have a month or more in which to develop the appropriate secretions and spasms!
She looked at me, with misery.
'I do not think it is anything to worry about, really,' I said. 'Most girls,under the circumstances, find very little difficulty in becoming passionatefemale slaves. Too, the entire Gorean milieu contributes to the development ofpassion in the female slave. She is dressed in a certain way, for example; sheis commonly collared; she is subject to discipline; her performances arecommanded, and subject to scrutiny and improvement, and so on. The main thing isto attempt to be fully pleasing to the Master, in every way. Too, you willcommonly have a gauge of your progress; if your master is not pleased you willbe beaten or whipped.'
'I see, whispered the girl.
'I have seen girls such as you before,' I said. 'They commonly develop into thehottest of slaves.'
She trembled, frightened.
'Remember,' I said, 'it will be to your advantage to be a hot slave, and,indeed, the hottest slave you can be. This will make you more pleasing to yourmaster, and to those to whom he, at his caprice, consigns you.'
'Yes, Master,' she said.
'The true wonder in these matters,' I said, 'and what seems most delightful tome, is the way, gradually, the girls heat begins to develop from within, untilshe is transformed, in effect, into a needful slave. She is then, of course, notonly legally and physically at the mercy of men, but needfully, as well.'
'How much a slave she would be then!' exclaimed the girl.
'No one claims that the Gorean slave girl has an easy lot,' I said.
'How piteous to be such a girl! ' she said. 'Surely men would have mercy onher!'
'Perhaps,' I said, 'if she is sufficiently beautiful, and sufficientlypleasing.'
'Do you think I will develop such passion?' she asked, frightened.
'Yes,' I said.
'Do you think, then,' she asked, 'that men might be moved to show me mercy?'
'You already begin to sense what you might become, do you?' I asked.
'Yes,' she whimpered.
'It is a good sign,' I said.
'Do you think that if I became such a girl, Master, men might show me mercy?' she asked.
'Perhaps,' I said, 'if you were sufficiently beautiful, and sufficientlypleasing.'
'I would try to be both,' she said.
'You are a slave, aren't you?' I asked.
'Yes, Master,' she said.
'I think it likely that you would be shown mercy, at least upon occasion,' Isaid. 'But you, yourself, in a few weeks, will better know the answer to yourquestion.'
'In a few weeks?' she asked.
'Yes,' I said, 'when you find yourself on your knees at the feet of a man, oron your belly, crawling to him, to lick his feet, to beg his least touch.'
I then, gently, began to caress her. In a few moments, interestingly, she beganto moan.
'I am a slave,' she whimpered, looking up at the stars, the Gorean moons.
'You may now request your fulfillment,' I informed her.
'I request my fulfillment, Master,' she said.
'I will be gentle with you this time,' I said, 'but sometimes, you mustunderstand, you will be used quite differently, for example, with contempt orscorn, or brutality, or cruel indifference, or, perhaps, with ruthless power.'
'Yes, Master,' she said.
'Similarly,' I said, 'you will learn to serve in whatever position your masterdictates and in whatever garb, or lack of garb, he pleases.'
'Yes, Master,' she said.
'And sometimes, too,' I said, 'You may have to serve in bonds, even cruel bonds,such things as thongs, and cords and chains.'
'Yes, Master,' she said.
'And sometimes, too,' I said, 'Willessly, even though your back and legs maystill sting from his lash.'
