Total pages in book: 137
Estimated words: 130317 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 652(@200wpm)___ 521(@250wpm)___ 434(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 130317 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 652(@200wpm)___ 521(@250wpm)___ 434(@300wpm)
“Hey…no! Help!” Mia gasped, tugging uselessly to try and pull free. As they dragged her away, she turned her head to see her three friends were standing there with horrified looks on their faces. “Somebody help me!” Mia begged them. “Please—I didn’t do anything wrong!”
“Silence, woman!” one of the robed figures hissed and clapped a hand over her mouth. “You’ll have time enough to talk when we ask you to explain yourself during your Judgment,” he added. “Not that anything you can say will change your punishment!”
Mia struggled desperately, but she couldn’t get away. Oh God, what was happening to her? What had she done wrong? And what was her punishment going to be?
FORTY-SIX
SEV
Sev was trimming the hydroponic plants again when a presence suddenly surrounded him. It was a female presence—powerful and full of tension.
“Warrior,” a strong female voice said in his ear. “I have grave news—your female is in danger.”
“Goddess?” Sev breathed. He paid no attention to the other workers standing around, staring at him curiously. This message from the Kindred deity was clearly not for anyone but him. He had never heard the Goddess’s voice before, but it was instantly recognizable, as was the overwhelming presence that surrounded him.
“I heard your prayer earlier that none should hurt your female and that you would be able to keep her safe,” the Goddess informed him. “I am here to tell you that all is not well with her—you must go to her at once!”
Sev dropped his tools on the ground.
“Where is she? Where should I go?” he demanded.
“She is in the Inner Sanctum in the same place where the two of you were taken earlier,” the Goddess told him. “You must go to her and shield her—the mental torture she is undergoing is bringing back a very painful event from her past. You must reach her soon!”
“Thank you, Goddess!” Sev was already running out the greenhouse door, ignoring the startled looks of those around him. He had to get to Mia before those bastards did damage that couldn’t be undone!
He just prayed he was in time.
FORTY-SEVEN
MIA
Mia was dragged, kicking and struggling, through the vast cathedral-like Inner Sanctum back to the same theater room where she and Sev had been judged earlier. The room was darkened, as it had been before and there were more hooded figures. However, this time instead of sitting in the seats meant for the audience, they were up on the stage area, sitting in chairs arranged in a semicircle.
The Elders who had come for Mia dragged her up the steps onto the stage and made her stand in the middle of the seated ones. Then they too took seats, so that Mia was completely surrounded.
Oh God, she thought, as memories that had been long suppressed began to crawl through her mind. Oh God, not again—please, not again!
She felt hemmed in on every side—cornered and guilty. She wondered wildly if she could burst through the seated Elders and get away but their chairs were too close together—they were practically shoulder-to-shoulder. She couldn’t jump high enough to get over them and if she tried to scramble over, she was sure they would just drag her back down again.
“This Judgment Session can now begin,” the Elder with the deep voice declared. “Sister Mia, you stand accused of two of the most serious crimes it is possible to commit here in the PPP Dome—the non-use of your Chastity Devices and, even worse—Orgasm Theft.”
Mia shook her head.
“I…I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Do you deny that you have neglected to wear your Chastity patches?” one of the other Elders demanded.
“She did deny it,” the Elder with the deep voice said. “She said several times when we went to collect her that she has done nothing wrong.”
“Strip her!” growled a third voice. “Let her lie be exposed!”
“What? No!” Mia gasped. Inside her head other voices were talking—stern authoritarian voices from her past.
Take off your clothes. Show us what you did. Show us how you sinned.
She tried to push the voices and the shameful memory away. But in the meantime, she was also trying to fight off the prying hands of the men that suddenly surrounded her. She fought them—kicking and punching—but it didn’t matter. There were too many of them and they were too strong for her—before she knew it, her dress was lying in a white puddle at her feet and she was naked and unprotected in the middle of the circle. She wanted to reach for it, to put it back on or at least hold it to her chest and cover herself, but one of the robed men kicked it away.
“Look at her!” the Elder with the deep voice thundered as two others pulled Mia’s hands away so she couldn’t cover herself. “Observe her shame! There are no Chastity Devices to keep her from touching herself! Nothing to keep her from stealing unauthorized orgasms!”