Melfina smiled as she hugged her pillow tightly. She was having such a pleasant dream. She had a new master. A super powerful Dungeon Keeper who'd fallen madly in love with her and freed her, making her his queen.
"Wake up."
Melfina groaned slightly and rolled over. She didn't want to wake up. She was just getting to the fun part where her prince ravaged her, making her scream and moan and cry and…
"Melfina," the sweet sounding but level voice repeated, "Wake up."
Slowly the dream faded as reality reclaimed her. Slowly, a sleep filled eye opened and her vision was filled with the blurry image of Rei's expressionless face.
"Go 'way," she muttered as she rolled over once again.
"Melfina, it is time to wake up."
"Damn it, Rei." She grumbled into her pillow.
Melfina was, at east for a denizen of the underworld, a rather accepting individual on the whole. She really didn't outright dislike anyone. Everyone had their reasons for being the way they were, and as long as they didn't try and torture, rape, or kill her, she frankly didn't give half a damned about their own off personality quirks. At least in most cases. There was an exception that made every rule and for Melfina that exception was named Rei.
Mel grumbled to herself and she tried to futilely block Rei out, the girl had to be some kind of twisted necromantic construct. Rei almost never slept and had less personality than a skeleton. Usually, she could stand that, but Rei insisted that they they start early almost meant that she was denied her beauty sleep!
"By the dark gods of our ancestors!" Melfina swore as Rei pulled the blanket from her, allowing the cool, dungeon air to blow over her naked body.
"Are you awake now?" Rei calmly asked.
"Yes, I'm awake," Melfina replied, glaring with all her limited spite at the current source of her discomfort. With a sneer she pulled on a robe and mentally cursed the lack of proper doors in this dungeon. "What in the pits is your problem?"
"I asked one of the imps to wake me up two hours before Master usually does," she stated calmly. "I have been awoken."
Melfina took a deep breath to calm herself but kept up her glare. Rei actually had a reason for waking her up. If their master woke up without his slaves being prepared to serve him, there would be hell to pay. Their trainer had been forced to stay his hand many a time because any physical damage inflicted would detract from their sale value, but their Master… They were bought and paid for, and he could inflict what ever horrible punishments he wished to them in response to their tardiness. It was enough to put chills up her spine, really.
Still though, she was not going to give Rei the satisfaction of being right. While most people saw Rei as totally emotionless, the girl did have feeling running in her head behind that 'perfect, obedient slave girl' mask she liked to project to the world. True, she was a cold fish by most standards, but give her a reason to feel smug, and she was absolutely insufferable. Last thing she needed was that unholier-than-thou gaze and that self-superior little smirk of a smile Rei tended to adopt when she was right about something.
"Why are you bothering me?" she grumbled, as she snatched he blanket back. "Wake up Milly."
Rei cocked and eyebrow and looked over to the other girl. Mel could hardly keep the amused smile off her face. Milly was sprawled out on the floor next to her bedding totally uncovered and still out like a stone. Girl slept like the restful dead.
As she shook off the glaze of sleep, Melfina took in her surroundings. After all the excitement of the previous day, she'd just been happy to pass out once they'd arrived at their new master's home, so this was her first chance to look at the slave quarters. So far, she was happily impressed. It was a far step above the cell like common lair they'd been forced to share while they were being taught the fine arts of thankless servitude and sexual bondage. While relatively small, at least for a Dungeon Keeper's harem chamber, the room was rather opulent by most standards. That was a good sign. From what she'd heard you could tell a great deal about your master from the slave quarters.
Some masters saw their slaves as tools and drones, who should be utterly obedient and broken. To masters like this usually meant spartan, almost cell like quarters aimed at eroding the will and self-image of their slaves until they were nothing more than drones. Other masters just saw their slaves as another form of servant and thusly common lairs would suffice. Others still saw their slaves as treasured pets. Those kinds of masters would give their slaves truly luxurious quarters, but quarters designed more to allow him to select his piece for the night in a beautiful environment rather than the comfort of the occupants. Thusly said quarters tended to be beautiful but not the most functional, being rather awkward to live in with no steps taking to allow any privacy for the occupants.
These quarters seemed to be somewhere between servant and pet. They were very attractive, enough that she could see her master entering to chose which one of them would please him that night, while at the same time was designed so his girls could comfortably live here and maintain some level of privacy.
She took a deep breath. There was also the events of the previous night. He'd also treated them well the night before. He retrieved their belongings, saved her life, treated that ragged doll Milly loved so much with unbelievable tenderness, and most surprising of all, had told Rei that she did not have to pleasure him unless she wished to. He was obviously a new Keeper, that was for sure. The fact that the dungeon had no doors yet, that they were his only slaves, and that he'd actually drug them along when he picked up room templates made that fact blatantly clear. This combined with the quality and form of their quarters gave her, at least what she hopped was a accurate assessment of their new master.
He was beginning Keeper, though obviously not of noble birth as he had never owned slaves. It was possible that he might be from the above-world, but it was somewhat unlikely as many of that lot tended to shy away from anything that to do with the darkness below. As a master, she felt safe to assume that he was one of the more rare breeds of master.
Mel smiled. If she was right, then they had been truly fortuitous. He was the type of master who wanted honest affection. He did simply demand blind obedience, rather he wanted his slaves to show him true love and loyalty. From what she had been told, such masters were capable of extreme kindness. They were the most likely to reward their slaves with gifts, the least harsh with minor punishments, and the most likely to even go as far as granting their slaves their freedom.
“Ahem.”
Melfina glanced back over to Rei.
“Yes?” she asked in some annoyance.
“Wake up Milly.”
Melfina sighed and shook her head. “Do it yourself.”
Rei scowled. “I made the attempt.”
“You did it wrong,” Melfina sneered.
“You are better at waking her up than I am.”
Melfina scowled ever so slightly. Milly was easy to wake up if you knew how. You just had to tickle her a bit and she be up in a second. Rei just didn't want risk getting knocked on her ass because Milly tended to flail when tickled.
“Fine,” Melfina hissed. Without another word said she knelt down and began to tickle Milly under the armpit.
It only was a second before the larger girl was laughing up a storm with tears in her eyes, flailing like she was under some horrible assault.
“Stop it!” Milly cried, “Stop it! I'm up! I'm up!”
Melfina smiled honestly and stopped. Milly was just a big sweetie.
“How come I'm on the floor?” Milly wondered, then dismissed with a shrug as she sat up, seemingly totally unaffected by the draft.
Most be that hearty barbarian constitution, Melfina mused.
As she stood up, Milly pulled on her own robe and looked at the others. “So what are we doing today?”
“We have to get things ready for when Master awakens,” Rei replied.
Milly smiled. “Okay. I'll cook, Mel can get his clothes, and you can draw him a bath!”
Rei's eyes narrowed and she smiled that near invisible smirk of hers. “Sounds acceptable. Lets get dressed.”
As Rei walked over to the chest behind her bed, Melfina glared at her fellow slave.
“You know that is she helps him in the bath, Master will probably screw her while they're naked and wet..” Melfina remarked. “You know how cocky she'll be if she's the first to loose her virginity?”
“I tried to help him in his bath last night, after you went to sleep,” Milly replied, “Master almost jumped out of his skin and hurried out of the tub.”
“What?” Melfina blinked. “Are you serious?”
She nodded. “I think Master is shy...”
Melfina grinned. “And while Rei is very loyal and obedient, she's anything but discrete.”
Milly smiled and nodded.
“You're Evil.”
“Thanks!”
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