Ranma felt very sore as she woke up with little memory of what had happened after Kasumi had assuaged her desire. She looked around a found herself talking to a girl about her age with long black hair.
The question entered Ranma's head and then a deep shame came as she recalled what she did remember.
"She...he..." Ranma said stutteringly. Tears started to fill her eyes even if she tried to stop them.
"Sh, sh," the girl said quietly, reaching out and hugging her carefully. The contact sent waves of sensation through her, almost kindling a warmth...down there. "Don't think about it. It's better if you don't think about it."
"What did she do to me?" Ranma whispered. "I...couldn't fight back...I even wanted her to do things to me."
"That's the magic talking," another voice said quietly. "Not you." Two other girls slid quietly closer and looked about. "I'm Nabiki. That's my sister Akane. This Kodachi."
Kodachi waved demurely, not saying anything.
"Her brother sold her the way your family sold you," Nabiki explained. "And the same thing happened to her, and us. Our sister...the Mistress sees us as her personal sex-slaves which she rents out to other people at times."
"Mistress, is, your sister?" Ranma gasped. Akane nodded.
"Listen," Akane said. "We're going to tell you what's been done to you,okay. Everything we know about. Starting with that." She pointed to the diamond on Ranma's head.
"That's the geas mark," Nabiki explained. "Because of that, we can't directly fight back against Kasumi. Not unless there were a lot more of us, but Kasumi keeps the number of girls around small to avoid that. If Kasumi gives a command, you'll obey."
"Can't you fight it?" Ranma asked, nervously. It was still dark out he noticed. The girls continued to look around cautiously in case they should find anyone listening in.
"No," Akane said. "If she says fuck you fuck, if she says kill...you kill."
"If she tells you to give her your child," Kodachi said faintly her voice trailing off. Everybody looked at her sympathetically, the girl was almost just a ghost of a presence. She only took on seeming life again for the purpose of entertaining the clients.
"There has to be someway," Ranma said, ever the fighter and not wanting to face that shame again.
"You're a whore now, girl," Nabiki said. "All we're telling is the facts of life, we can't change them. We've tried."
"But..." Ranma protested, only to have what she was going to say stopped as they pointed to another mark.
"Here," she said. "This crescent-moon shape curving over your abdomen, that ensures that any child you have is female." Kodachi winced and Nabiki gave her a quick glance before leaning forward and whispering carefully to Ranma. "And may the kami grant that you never have to worry about that. She'll take any kid you have while you're here, we don't know what happens to them."
"I...couldn't...." Ranma said in a harsh whisper. Akane patted her shoulder comfortingly. She accepted it and remained quiet, though she felt herself aroused further by this second touch.
"This mark," Nabiki continued, pointing to her bare breasts. Ranma had barely noticed that all the girls, herself included, were naked before. "Increases your sensitivity, sexual sensitivity especially. As a side effect that makes you hornier. With this on us, Kasumi barely needs the geas at all. Once we get started, it takes a lot of practice and control for us to turn ourselves off again. We'll do anything, almost, just to fill that need...you know about that though."
Ranma nodded, shamefully.
"Then there are these marks," Nabiki said, indicating the weaving patterns that moved down from their cheeks, over either side of their necks and along their shoulders. "These are fine, they make you stronger, faster, all the stuff she promised you at first."
"I can lift two tons now," Kodachi said faintly. "And I was shot once...it bruised me. I never get sick anymore."
"Why does she give us those?" Ranma asked. Akane and Nabiki frowned at this.
"Remember, I told you that you'd kill if she told you to?" Akane asked. "Sometimes...clients ask for special favors. That's why Kodachi was sold, her brother wanted their father dead and he thought she was less expensive than the money price Kasumi asked for. Other times, we need to...shut someone up who is threatening the house."
"We're killers too, then," Ranma said drooping. Nabiki took her chin and looked her firm in the eye.
"You aren't yet," Nabiki said. "But you will be. You'll just have to live with that."
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(Posted Wed, 01 Jan 2003 20:49)
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