The Steel Collar

Chapter 5 – A Bracelet Removed

Lisa spent a restless night suspended above the ground in the close cage. She slept for only short periods. The slightest movement causing the cage to sway from the chain threaded through the pulley overhead. Lisa had still worn the hood when Sapphire had secured her in the cage. She would have struggled if she had realised where she was being placed. Her ankle chain had been removed and she was forced to sit facing what she thought was the back of the cage, her legs out in front of her. Sapphire pushed her forward, forcing her to shuffle further forward. As Sapphire closed and bolted the door behind her, Lisa felt the steel bars push against the back of her chained arms. Sapphire was good to her word and removed the gag and hood. Lisa, fearing more punishment, stifled a cry as she looked at the cage she was locked in. It only allowed her to sit upright with her feet pulled forward. Her discomfort increased as her ankles were then pulled through the front of the bars, Sapphire clipping a padlock through the two ankle rings. The connected anklets preventing her from pulling her legs back into the cage. Sapphire moved to the wall and began turning a small winch. As the handle rotated, the cage slowly began to rise off the floor. The cage soon dangled four feet in the air from its attached chain. Lisa's feet dangled down in front of her, the weight of the heavy padlock pulling down on the thick anklets. . Lisa would be forced to stay sitting upright in the cage's tight confines. She began to complain but Sapphire waved the gag in front of her, the meaning obvious. The gag was still wet with saliva and her jaw still sore from being stretched open by the large rubber ball. Sapphire left without a word, turning off the light and plunging the prison into half darkness.

The cage swung gently as Lisa struggled to find a comfortable position. Two small barred windows high up in the wall provided blue light from the clear night sky. Lisa examined her prison, the high position finally allowing her a complete view of the room. She could make out shapes moving in the cells lining the walls. A face appeared from out of the darkness of the nearest cage startling her. The woman looked up at her curiously. She was crouching on all fours, large breasts hanging pendant, the moonlight reflecting off her nipple bells and the metal collar locked on her neck. Lisa could see two other occupants trying to get comfortable in their iron-fronted cages. She had always known in her heart that this was no simple kidnapping but the sight of the other naked captives made her shiver. The girls bedded down without speaking, each clutching a small woollen blanket about them. Lisa decided that it was wise not to speak. She was still sore from being shaved and her nipples ached terribly. She stared down at her new body. She was completely bare between her legs, a red shaving rash the only sign of where her pubic hair used to be. Lisa sobbed when she saw again the large rings piercing her breasts. Lisa shifted her wrists in the cuffs, feeling the space between her wrist and the obdurate metal. She tried futilely to pull her arms around to feel what they had done to her body. The padlock rattled noisily against the back of the cage but continued to hold her fast.

"Quit your fidgeting, some of us are trying to sleep"

Lisa could not see where the voice had come from. Tears trickled down her cheek but Lisa sniffed back the new tears. She moved the nose ring gently with her tongue, examining its size, but the slightest movement against her septum caused it to throb intensely. She let the nose ring drop, once again hanging down humiliatingly against her top lip. Lisa sobbed silently, the gentle sway of the cage eventually easing her into an exhausted sleep.

Sapphire released Lisa from her cage at first light. She had slept fitfully all night, waking regularly to try to get the feeling back into her chained arms. She sighed in relief as Sapphire released the padlocks holding her wrists and ankles and lowered the cage. Lisa fell backwards as the rear door opened, Sapphire supporting her beneath the arms as she pulled her out of the cage. Lisa moaned as she moved her arms slowly forward, Sapphire helped her rub some feeling back into them. After she stretched, Sapphire helped her to her feet and led her stumbling to the front of the cage. It was the first time her arms had been free since she had been chained by Carl the previous day. Her body ached too much to think of escape or struggle.

"On your knees"

Lisa gingerly lowered herself to the floor and moved her aching body into the position she had been taught the previous day. Sapphire used her foot to push Lisa's knees further apart, her shaved sex made clear for all to see. Lisa blushed as she felt the eyes of the caged women upon her. The women, on hands and knees, stared blankly at her through the cage bars. A wide black leather belt was then wrapped around Lisa's waist. Lisa gasped as its two straps were pulled tight behind her and buckled shut. Lisa heard the familiar click of padlocks as Sapphire secured each buckle. The locked buckles and the natural flaring of her hips removing any thought of slipping it from her body.

"Remember talking is a privilege and that includes to the other girls. You will speak only when addressed directly, do you understand slut?" Sapphire looked down at Lisa expectantly. "Well?"

"Yes"

"Yes what?"

"Yes mistress"

Sapphire unlocked the three occupied cages. The girls remained kneeling in their kennels.

"Slaves out"

The girls crawled out of their cages and knelt gracefully with their hands, palms up, resting on their spread legs. Black leather belts had also been locked around their waists, rings dangling from the belt on four sides. The belts were buckled tight, almost like a corset. Lisa could feel her own waist being pulled in, extenuating her figure. It was not uncomfortable, but she imagined, after a time, it would become so. The girls all wore the familiar steel bands on ankles, wrists and neck. Lisa noticed the collars did not have a stone like Sapphire's instead a small round tag, dangled from their collar ring. She could just make out a small yellow flower on the tag of the woman nearest to her. The woman, as if unaware of Lisa's attention continued to look forward. She was the largest of the former cage occupants. Her plump face showed no expression as she sat, back straight, eyes down. Permed blond hair hung down to her shoulders hiding the sides of her collar. Her cuffs seemed a size to small and her wrist bulged slightly around their edges. The collar also appeared to fit more snugly than the other girls' neckbands, sitting high on her neck, pushing tight under her chin. The black leather encircling her waist exaggerated her large breasts. Lisa looked down conscious of what she felt were her own small breasts. She knew she would rather be kneeling, chained and naked in front of a man, than these critical eyes.

"Bangles" Sapphire commanded.

The women placed their hands out in front of them and shook their wrists. The wrist rings tapped against the metal cuffs.

"Enough"

The women returned their hands to their thighs.

"Good girls, no punishments, if you continue this today, you'll receive a treat tonight"

Sapphire turned angrily towards Lisa.

"Are you stupid Slut? Copy what the rest of the girls do"

Sapphire was obviously still smarting from the previous day, As Sapphire had unlocked the cages Lisa noticed five long red marks on her back and realised, in horror, that Sapphire was under the same discipline as herself. Lisa quickly held her arms out in front of her and shook her wrists. The two bangles rattled together, the humiliating jangle of bells accompanying them.

"Ah yes, I forgot about that. Well I should give you five for your speaking, and let the master decide on that second bangle. Buttercup give me a hand"

The plump girl got to her feet and walked over to Lisa. Sapphire shackled Lisa's wrist behind her back with a length of gleaming steel chain, then, with Buttercup's assistance, took her by the upper arms and pulled her to the centre of the cell. As Sapphire lowered a chain run though a pulley in the ceiling, Buttercup connected it to the wrist chain. Almost immediately, Sapphire pulled the chain, forcing Lisa's arms up behind her back. Sapphire continued to pull until Lisa felt her shoulders were almost being wrenched out of their sockets. Sapphire gave her a little more slack before tying off the pulley.

"Paddle"

Buttercup ran to the back wall. Lisa twisted around to see Buttercup give, what looked like, a leather table tennis bat to Sapphire.

"Please don't hit me mistress. I'll be good. I didn't know the rules"

Lisa struggled against the chain, trying futilely to pull away. She knew the idiocy of her resistance but she knew she did not want to feel the sting of leather again. Instead of hitting her Sapphire whispered into her ear.

"It's not so bad, it will be over soon. Bite this."

She held out a length of wood wrapped in cloth for Lisa to bite on. Lisa spat on her hand. Sapphire immediately brought the leather paddle down across her rear. Lisa gasped in pain, too shocked to scream. She screamed on the next blow as the full force of Sapphire's back swing slapped into her. Lisa twisted and turned on the chain trying to avoid the next blow, but Sapphire was too quick and her body exploded with pain as the next swipe hit her.

"Hold still for the next two, or you will receive them again"

"Please Mistress I understand, Please Mistress I'll be good. I can't take any more."

Two more blows followed and on each, Lisa felt as if she was going to lose consciousness.

"It's finished"

Sapphire kissed her gently on the cheek and stroked the hair from her eyes. A small key was inserted in the side of one of the bangles and it dropped open. Sapphire removed the steel bracelet, clicking it shut before hanging it on a hook with many others on the wall.

"So yes or no" Sapphire announced to the room. Turning back and explaining to Lisa. "It's a tradition with new girls."

"Yes definitely" Buttercup said cruelly.

The other two girls whispered their agreement.

Before Lisa could prevent it, Sapphire pushed a finger into her. Lisa bucked away, but Sapphire had already managed to put a full finger inside her. Her pussy squelched as the intruding finger flicked out. As if to confirm the noise, Sapphire held up a glistening finger.

"You like being spanked, Slut? All that noise and you were actually enjoying it."

Lisa sagged against the chain sobbing into her chest. She was so confused. The feel of the cuffs and her helplessness was almost erotic. She had never been turned on by being dominated though she had to admit no man had ever had the nerve to tie her up or spank her. She assured herself, she was not excited by this, but her stinging arse and the aching in her pussy said otherwise. Lisa shuddered as she imagined what sex would be like chained. She twisted her wrists in the cuffs feeling, stronger than ever, the sense of vulnerability and helplessness they forced upon her.

Lisa was released from the ceiling and made to stand. Sapphire unlocked one end of the wrist chain and attached it to the side of the belt. She then got an identical length of chain and connected the other of Lisa's wrist cuffs to the opposite side of the belt. Lisa let her hands drop to her side, feeling the pull of the short chains on her cuffs. Locked to the belt Lisa only had about 12 inches of reach on either side. Lisa turned back to watch Sapphire retrieved a small box from a back wall shelf. Lisa shivered as she saw for the first time the vast array of punishment devices and restraints hanging from the wall.

"Now what do we have?"

Sapphire rummaged through the small metal tags in the box. Each tag had a flower painted beautifully in enamel on one side.

"Snowdrop... no too cutesy" she continued to search through the box.

"Perfect. "

Sapphire showed Lisa the tag before clipping it to the front ring of the collar. The tag fell against the steel like a small pendant, the red flower naming her like a household pet.

"Poppy, go to the cell beside Buttercup's, that's where you'll be caged. When you come in of an evening, you will return there. Do you understand?" Lisa was horrified to be addressed as Poppy. She realised the whole procedure was designed to humiliate her, the chains, the collar and now her new name. She refused to let them win.

"I understand Mistress"

"You are not an I, you are Poppy, do you understand?"

Lisa smiled mockingly at Sapphire.

"Poppy understands"

Sapphire paused, unsure of how to respond to the obvious insolence.

"Well, go to your cell and kneel like the other girls"

As she walked towards her cell, Lisa smiled at her small victory. Her occasional commanding talk could not hide what a push over Sapphire really was.

Sapphire placed metal bowls in front of each woman. The bowls contained a thick white porridge. Lisa knew she had to eat, but she hated porridge.

"Eat!"

Lisa was surprised at the speed the girls dug into their food. They ate crouching, palms flat on the floor beside the bowl, lapping at the food like hungry cats. Lisa copied and licked up her first mouthful of luke warm porridge. The taste was not the problem but rather the lack of it. She swallowed down the stodgy lumps with difficulty and was surprised that she was first to finish, her hunger overriding the humiliation of being fed like a dog.

"Hurry up Lilly"

Sapphire stood over the young woman as she struggled to gulp down the remainder of her food. Lilly's small pert breasts were covered in the porridge that spilled from her mouth, her tanned skin contrasting starkly with the lumps of white. Young Asian eyes bulged as she repeatedly gagged on the food. Lisa judged, by her earlier reply she was probably American, in her early twenties. Sapphire placed a foot on Lily's head forcing her further into the bowl. When her head was released, Lilly gasped for air, more porridge on her face than in her mouth. She quickly resumed eating. Sapphire picked up the empty bowl as the last large lump was swallowed.

"Enough, Buttercup please get the buckets we are running late. Opal will have us all in bangles if you are late for her dance class"

Buttercup fetched four metal buckets and placed them in front of each girl. Lisa recognised the same bucket she had been given when she had been caged the previous day. Without instruction, the women squatted over the buckets and without embarrassment began to relieve themselves.

"Quickly Poppy you will not be able to go again until this afternoon"

She reluctantly squatted over the rim and began. Lisa looked up at the girl opposite her squatting over the bucket. Despite the woman's ungainly position, Lisa thought her beautiful. Brown eyes stared down in concentration, her wide mouth grimacing. Her breasts thrust out, firm, almost as if they were silicon, their gentle sway and movement leaving the observer in no doubt they were natural. Two rings and dangling bells tugged down on her large nipples. The bells jangling at a slightly lower pitch than Lisa's own, as she pissed into the bucket. Her long dark hair was pulled back into a ponytail. She was the only woman wearing jewellery, large gold looped earrings that tapped against her collar when her head moved. The girl looked up, as if suddenly aware of Lisa's staring. Lisa saw the small red rose painted on the tag dangling from her collar before quickly looking down. She immediately realised her error. It was humiliating enough to be made to use a bucket but the girls shared the decency of not looking at each other. One by one, the girls were led to a small plastic hose positioned over a metal grate in the floor and allowed to wash. On Lisa's turn, she had already seen the girls gasp and shiver as they tried their best to wash themselves. Lisa was last and was not surprised at the cold water that hit her when Sapphire turned on the tap. She tried her best to get clean. Each girl was allowed a minute to wash and drink from the hose. Sapphire urged her to get her full, telling her that she could not be sure of when she would be watered next. Lisa quickly gulped down water before Sapphire turned off the hose.

"Coffle"

Rose and Lilly got to their feet and moved to stand in front of Lisa.

"Buttercup get in coffle"

Buttercup looked confused as the other two girls assumed their positions shoulder to shoulder facing the door.

"But mistress I've been excused coffle for the last week since Marigold, I mean Mistress Emerald, graduated."

"Well Buttercup we now have a new slave and chained to your experience I'm sure she'll pick the ropes in no time"

"But mistress."

"Do it please Buttercup?"

Buttercup glared at Sapphire but reluctantly took her place to be chained to Lisa.