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In the course of single horrific afternoon Cherie had gone from being a hard-charging young working mom to a helpless victim of more rapes than she could count and the sexual plaything of her own 11 year old daughter. And it was all done to her in the name of some dead woman's fucked up religion. (MMF, MFg, ped, nc, rp, inc, oral, anal, bd, mc) *** Part 1 of this story: "A Young Mother's Sacrifice," may be found in Directory 51. *** Part 2: Submission and Conquest I. The Newest Cup Maiden Cherie awoke from the ordeal of the Ascension feeling battered, bruised and thoroughly violated. In the course of single horrific afternoon Cherie had gone from being a hard-charging young working mom to a helpless victim of more rapes than she could count and the sexual plaything of her own 11 year old daughter. And it was all done to her in the name of some dead woman's fucked up religion. It was just too much and Cherie was in no shape to even begin to wrap her mind around the many outrages she had had to endure. Maybe that would come later. All she wanted at the moment was a nice, long shower, complete with soap and privacy, and she wanted a hot meal. She got both. For the next few days High Cup Maiden Tam saw to it that Cherie was made as comfortable as possible during the brief period set aside for her convalescence. At least one of the tribades, women of the church who were not Cup Maidens, was always near at hand to fulfill Cherie's every request. Every reasonable request, that is. The bedchamber given to Cherie was large and expensively appointed with a king-sized bed that seemed far too grand for her petite 5'4" frame and she defensively took up the space around her with the several overstuffed satin pillows that lay about. A sliding glass door opened to an inner courtyard at the center of which was a large oval swimming pool but the grounds and rooftops were patrolled by security drones armed with dogs and two- way radios. There was a plasma TV and personal computer in her room but no internet or telephone. Her bureau and bathroom were stocked thoughtfully with pricey cosmetics and toiletries but there was not a stitch of clothing to be had anywhere. She was not even to be allowed so much as a bathrobe or a pair of slippers. Cherie was to remain on the estate and she was to be naked at all times. As the newest Cup Maiden, Cherie's status in the Church of Etta was that of pornae. The lot of the pornae was simple enough for Cherie to grasp. She was always to be available to attend to the physical needs of Etta's Children. On any given day there were usually to be found at least ten or twelve of the Children, drones and tribades alike, in and around the mansion. Tam explained that these members volunteered their services as guards, housekeepers and such, and that liberal use of the pornae was their just reward for their sacrifices for Etta. Therefore, Cherie was to give of her body to one and all with gratitude and love. The only restriction in Cherie's favor was that, because her womb-- her "cup"-- was to be regarded as a ceremonial sacred vessel, its use belonged solely within the discretion of the Incarnation and the other Cup Maidens. No man could partake of Cherie's vagina save that the proper religious formalities were observed. The rules governing Cherie's conduct as pornae were to be strictly adhered to. To drive home the point, Tam offered Cherie a cautionary tale regarding the fate of the last pornae. It seems there was a pubescent flower of a 15 year old girl who was highly favored by all the Children who had her but whose career as Cup Maiden was tragically cut short through the girl's own willful nature. She apparently took issue with the pornae dress code for one day she was seen wrapped in a towel as she stepped out of her bathroom shower. This was a serious infraction and as punishment she was placed on a two week liquid diet, which is to say that for the next two weeks the only sustenance the poor nameless girl was permitted to have was whatever semen she could tease out of the men's cocks with her mouth. Tam chuckled as she recounted how, after a few days, the child would drop to her knees before every drone she saw and beg to suck his dick. But alas this rather esoteric diet failed to satisfy the wayward maiden's hunger, for a tribade caught her foraging in one of the kitchens. Here was an infraction on top of an infraction and there was nothing to be done but to put her down. A special ceremony was held to defrock the luckless pornae. (Cherie wondered how they could defrock someone who is not allowed to wear clothes in the first place but kept quiet as Tam warmed to her tale.) The girl was suspended supine by four ropes affixed to hooks in the rafters of the Ascension Chamber and given over to the cruelest and most well-endowed of the drones. Tam reeled off names, some of whom Cherie remembered only too well. Of course there was Eddie. There was Brian the ass ripper and freakishly long Jeff. And how could Cherie forget L.T.? Two at a time the drones plied the girl's throat and pussy with their swollen pricks. But everyone told her all she had to do was endure and be a good sport. The ends of divine justice would be met and all would be forgiven. The way Tam told it, the girl never suspected her ultimate fate until she had been released from her bonds and bade to sit on all fours on the carpet as Io entered the sanctuary with the largest mastiff from the kennel. This, the pornae had to have known, was most irregular. Animals were never permitted in this holiest of places. The girl convulsed with disgust and horror as the beast grasped her tiny waist with his paws, mounted her and pistoned his thick male organ in and out of her shuddering cunt. As the knot of the big dog's cock pushed inexorably into the girl's body, Tam whispered into her ear that it was sacrilege for a Cup Maiden's womb to be defiled by the seed of an animal and thus her cup was no longer acceptable to Etta. The awful weight of Tam's words sunk into the girl's consciousness just as the mastiff began filling her cup with thick ribbons of his unclean seed, but there was little she could do but bewail her cruel fortunes. Because of his knot, the defrocked maiden was of one body with the big animal who continued to throb and pulse inside of her. This was how her final moments were to be spent. When beast and maiden were finally separated, L.T. picked the girl up and carried her out to the pool. With only the bare minimum of lubrication, he thrust the full length of his thick, foot long member up into her bowels while she screamed in agony. She screamed until L.T. placed one massive hand on the back of the 15 year old's neck and forced her head into the water and held her there. He felt her shudder and convulse around his dick until the waters stilled and the erring maiden struggled no more. Cherie was horrified. It was not that she believed Tam's little story. She did not believe a word of it. What so filled her with dread was how she could find herself at the tender mercies of someone who could dream up such a ghastly tale and tell it with an enthusiasm that was frankly sexual. Whether Tam was drawing from a well of memory or imagination Cherie could not tell and did not care much. She could not help but see how aroused Tam had become by her own words and their unmistakable effect upon her captive listener. Tam quickly disrobed and began to toss aside the excess pillows Cherie had piled around herself. "Do you have any questions about your duties here, pornae?" asked Tam in that thick I'm-going-to-fuck-you- til-you-yelp voice of hers. "None," Cherie heard herself reply much to her disbelief. She had wanted to ask about her daughter. She had wanted to ask about a lot of things from the life she knew before she was drugged and brought to this place. But none of those things seemed to matter anymore. Her world was this house and this bed and the tall, cruel, redheaded goddess who loomed unclothed above her. "I am here for you, ma'am," Cherie meekly assured her. "I am here for all the Children. I am pornae." Tam gazed down at Cherie in triumph and lust as she pulled back the covers and eased her body onto Cherie's until her bare stomach pressed on top of Cherie's own belly and breasts. For her part, Cherie opened up and received Tam into her arms and thighs and clasped her into the warmth of her body. Peering down into Cherie's wide and terrified blue eyes, Tam whispered, "That's good, Cherie. That's very good. We may yet keep you out of the pool." Tam raised up slightly on one elbow and lowered a full, firm breast onto Cherie's lips. Cherie opened her mouth and drew in the wide nipple suckling it wetly, caressing it with her tongue. Tam balled up fistfuls of Cherie's thick, blond hair and exhaled a ragged sigh. Her nipples were especially sensitive tonight. "We Cup Maidens envy you, little sister. Did you know that?" Tam murmured between gasps. "There's way more pleasure in submission than in con...quest. Trust me." At that moment Cherie was far too frightened and confused to comprehend very much of Tam's breathless pillow talk about pleasure. But she was starting to understand submission. And she had definitely made up her mind that, yes, she wanted to live. Cherie's mind and body still recalled vividly the horror and despair of almost being fucked to death under the damned enigmatic gaze of Etta's portrait in the sanctuary. That is what death in this place meant and Cherie did not want to die: not here, not now. Cherie was determined to survive and, if survival meant submission, then Cherie would submit wholeheartedly to all comers until the hour when the cops finally showed up and put an end to Etta's never-ending rape party. But of course there was no such salvation in the here and now. There was nothing for her to do but pull on Tam's breast like the frightened newborn she had become until Tam thought of some other use for her. II. Cherie Finds Her Purpose Given the way Cherie's luck had gone lately, it would not have surprised her much to learn that her absence was hardly noticed in the wider world. Tam and Eddie had taken care of everything. In truth, making Cherie disappear had been a fairly simple matter. She had no friends or relatives, at least none with whom she had bothered to remain in contact. The lawyers for whom she worked missed her when she failed to show up Monday morning but Tam thoughtfully took care of that by sending from Cherie's personal computer a polite and regretful email to the managing partner explaining that she had had to move out of state on account of some sudden but vague family emergency, and thus would no longer be able to work for the firm. As for Cherie's meager possessions, they were efficiently packed away to a storage unit. Her little rental house was cleaned out and the key was left in the mail box for the landlord to find. As for Cindy, she was not missed because, as far as the world knew, she had not gone anywhere. When the school bus roared down her street Monday morning, Cindy was there waiting for it. The only thing that had changed, and it was a small thing really, was that the child now stood on the curb outside the home of her beloved Uncle Eddie and Aunt Tam. Meanwhile back at the mansion, Cherie was recuperating nicely in body and spirit. Except for that one late night visit from Tam, she was left alone and unmolested in her big bed. One of the tribades, a slender, attractive woman of about 38 with mousy short hair who called herself Ellen Anne, had been especially solicitous. She was Cherie's personal nurse and chambermaid. By Ellen Anne's ministrations, the nagging ache in Cherie's nipples from where the steel clamps had sunk their teeth into them had largely subsided. Almost gone too were the nasty stripes on Cherie's back, shoulders and buttocks from where the demonic little Io had put her to the lash. Ellen Anne explained that the body of a Cup Maiden was considered precious and was not to be scarred in that manner. For this reason, only whips of the softest leather were used in the scourging ritual. The sores on Cherie's wrists from where she was hung from manacles or on the flesh around her knees where the ropes bit were another matter. These would almost certainly leave their marks. But not to worry, such little scars as these were revered as marks of status. All of the Cup Maidens had them. Early on the morning of the fourth day of Cherie's recovery Ellen Anne padded into her room and placed a breakfast tray on the night stand next to Cherie's bed. She then moved quickly to the other side of the bedchamber and pulled open the blinds allowing the morning sun to flood the room. Cherie sat up in bed and shielded her squinting eyes with a wrist. As she did so, the comforter fell away from the top of her body exposing her small cherry nipples and milky breasts to the full light of day. Something was different about this day. Something had changed. This day did not begin with Ellen Anne's softly spoken consolations or even a bright "Good Morning!" This day she had yet to say anything at all. Instead, the woman simply stood at the foot of Cherie's bed and began taking off her clothes. First she removed her shirt and bra, folded them and placed them in a neat pile on the floor by the bed. Then she did the same with her jeans, socks and panties. It was as if she were in her own room and Cherie was not even there. Cherie struggled to clear the cobwebs from around her brain so she could make some sense of this sudden, subtle change in the relational weather. Then Ellen Anne spoke and it finally dawned on Cherie that the reprieve of convalescence was over. "Cherie honey, I need for you to get up and make your bed now." The words were kind enough but the command in them was unmistakable. Christ, Cherie thought, the woman sounded just like her mother. "Yes, ma'am." Cherie's feet hit the floor. She quickly made the bed and then turned to face Ellen Anne who had not moved. "After today," Ellen Anne advised, "I recommend you come to the upstairs kitchen for your breakfasts. It's usually pretty quiet up there and if you come early you might be able to eat without being disturbed. As for the rest of your meals, you're on your own. You'll just have to work them into your, um, schedule." Then her voice at once softened and thickened. "Now I want you to lie down in the center of the bed. No. On top of the comforter. That's it. Now scoot down. A little further. Perfect." Cherie lay in the exact center of her bed. She tried to relax but she was not sure what was about to happen or what was expected of her. She stretched her arms behind her head and opened her knees as if she were trussed up on a mat in the sanctuary awaiting her rapist. Ellen Anne gave her a smile of indulgence and lust as she climbed onto the bed. Crawling slowly on all fours, the older woman positioned herself directly over Cherie so that she was looking down directly into her face. Cat- like, Ellen Anne continued her northward course until her hands gripped the top of the oaken headboard of Cherie's bed. Now Cherie understood. Ellen Anne spread her knees and slowly lowered her hips until she could feel Cherie's breath on her vulva. Then she dropped the final inch onto Cherie's face with a grinding motion. Cherie parted her lips to receive her but was rewarded for her effort with a mouthful of coarse, curly hairs. The rule is that a tribade may trim and fashion her bush in any way she pleases but she may not remove it entirely. Only a Cup Maiden may, and indeed must, always be bare down there. A girl had to be resourceful if she was to be fully and truly submissive. Cherie wriggled and repositioned her arms so that one hand was on the small of Ellen Anne's back while the other lightly clawed her belly. From this position Cherie could control the tribade's gyrations enough to find and pleasure her most tender parts. Using the bridge of her nose to part the pubic fur, Cherie's lips clamped upon Ellen Anne's swelling clit, sucked it in and fellated it. Then Cherie commenced to purring like a girl who had just that moment decided to become a slut. Ellen Anne lost it; there was no controlling her. She began to jerk and grind her pelvis wetly all over Cherie's lips, tongue and teeth, even her nose and chin. After a few earth shattering minutes, she moaned and screamed Cherie's name, then crumpled backwards, panting onto Cherie's bed. Cherie just lay there smiling beatifically and staring at the ceiling fan. She was awake now. Ellen Anne, her new imperious persona now cast off and forgotten, leaned forward and gratefully licked Cherie's face then got up and got dressed. Because Cherie had not forgotten her manners, she thanked the tribade for everything she had done for her and made her promise to come up and see her again, any time. "You're good, Cherie," the older woman assured her with an emphatic nod of her head. "I hope they decide to let you stay because you might turn out to be the best Cup Maiden ever." "It's kind of you to say that. Thank you." The woman left and Cherie turned her attention to the breakfast tray on the night stand. She was hungry now and she wanted to eat while her food was still warm. She was delighted to find eggs Benedict and fresh mango with a half pot of fresh-ground African coffee. Yummy! After breakfast, Cherie sat cross-legged on her bed and sipped coffee while she did her morning channel surfing. Then she jumped in the shower. For better or worse, Cherie knew she was in for a big day and she was determined to meet it head on. Cherie dried herself off and brushed and blow-dried her hair. She then located the cosmetics she needed and, seated primly at her bureau on a vanity bench, proceeded to put her game face on. Cherie was a white collar woman and a mother on the Little Miss beauty pageant circuit. She knew a thing or two about hair and make-up. She would not have minded so much giving a few pointers to the other maidens but she did not think they would ever ask. As Cherie peered into the mirror and expertly applied her lip liner, she mused whether there could be anything in the world so sexy as a young woman, freshly scrubbed and dried, sitting nude in front of her mirror, putting on her make-up. Cherie knew she was the most beautiful of the Cup Maidens. She was also the smartest; she was fairly certain of that too. She was sure as hell going to be respected, pornae or no. Save for a miracle, there could be no escape from the Church of Etta. Cherie knew this in her bones. So she was just going to have to find a way to beat them at their own game. And there was another thing. Cherie had in her head a wealth radar and it was always on. What her radar was telling her now, and in fact had been screaming to her practically from the moment she first woke up in this place, was that the Church of Etta had money. Lots and lots of money. Cherie had run from many things in her life but she had never, ever run from money. With her face done, Cherie turned her attention to her body. There still showed traces of the whip burns she had received at the hand of the horrible Io. Cherie took a powder puff and applied lightly-scented talc all over her body, at least to the places she could reach. This would conceal somewhat the cruel marks while at the same time giving her skin a delicate porcelain luster. Then on a whim Cherie decided to adorn her bare body with just the tiniest pinch of glitter. Viola! Finally, Cherie concentrated on her bruised and smarting nipples. She first padded on some talc as a foundation. Then she took a brush to apply rouge. Just a touch. Dark nipples were for whores. Cherie was going for a light, virginal pink. Cosmetics were all about subtlety and restraint. Cherie was happily musing about all these things when she caught a glimpse of something in her mirror that sent ice into the pit of her stomach. Leaning against the door frame was Io, Satan's baby daughter herself. Cherie put down the brush and froze. It was Io alright, all 4'10" of her. She was wearing a Rasputina T-shirt with the midriff crudely cut away just inches above her tiny bust, no bra, and tight black shorts, high athletic socks and tennis shoes. She looked like every adolescent boy's wet dream, or every dirty old man's, for that matter. Cherie thought she looked like she was dressed for soccer practice but she knew the unspoken message here was that Io was wearing clothes for no other reason than because she could. It was all about rank and status. Io was not pornae. Cherie was. "Did you enjoy breakfast? I hope you remembered to floss," Io said with a smirk. "You still owe me head. Don't think that I forgot." "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in school or something?" "I live here. Always have." Io apparently chose to answer Cherie's first question and ignore the second. "I'm the only one who gets her mail at this address, in a manner of speaking. Matter of fact, and this is something I bet you'll be interested to know, your room is right next to mine. I insisted." Io strolled casually into Cherie's room until she stood directly behind her. A sickening feeling washed through Cherie. She remembered it well from the hour when she and Io first met. It was the feeling of being some helpless prey animal broken on the ground and waiting to be devoured. Cherie concentrated on her hands lying palms down on the bureau. She had to be brave. She would submit, yes, and she would do it bravely. Io lifted Cherie's hair off her back and shoulders to admire her whip burns. "I do good work, don't you think?" Cherie said nothing. She was starting to tremble but she held her chin up. Io took the powder puff and applied talc to those places Cherie could not very well reach. She then put it back and turned to leave. "Yeah, everybody else has to go to their jobs or school during the week but I'm pretty much always in the house. When Tam and Eddie aren't around, which is most of the time, I'm the HNIC around here. That means you better be extra nice to me, cupcake. I control the thermostat. Now good luck out there. I'll be watching and rooting for you." With that parting shot Io winked and sauntered off down the hall. This is just great, thought Cherie. She was expected to be sex on the hoof and flounce around this house naked 24/7 while that little psychopathic sadist Lesbian monster stalked her from the next room. But the monster was gone now and, with her leaving, a black cloud lifted. Cherie looked at her hair and face in the mirror a final time and took three calming breaths. Then, with courage born of an attitude of complete submission, she got up and stepped into the hallway. It was time to explore her new world. Cherie fully expected to be gang raped on sight but that was not what happened. It was a weekday morning and only a handful of congregants had business in or around the mansion. The men who were about, maintenance and security guys mostly, simply tipped their caps or waved before going back to doing whatever it was they did. Cherie would have none of that. They had no cause to be shy. She was the one who was nude, for God's sake. Cherie strode breezily through every open room in the house. Whenever she came upon one of these drones, she strode up and wrapped her arms around him. "Good Morning! My name is Cherie and I'm here for you," she told each one by way of introduction and then she kissed him softly on the lips. And Cherie did not slight the tribades. She extended the same courtesy to each. To Ellen Anne and those other women Cherie recognized as having attended to her during the previous days' bed rest, she thanked them and placed their hands upon her breast so they would know her gratitude was from the heart. Cherie's first day strategy of confident and open submission was working splendidly. In the past, everyone knew, pornae who were new to their duties tended to hole up in some little used corner of the house where they would pretend to busy themselves with some pointless task or other. Only with reluctance would they make some quick foray into other parts of the mansion before retreating back to their hidey holes. It was a dangerous game they played, going to the very edge of dereliction. It was a game too for everyone else on the estate. But the game for them was a more lighthearted affair. Mixed groups of three or four congregants would organize into hunting parties to track down and corner the frightened pornae. Once they found her they would have their sport with her before making a great show of setting her loose. Then, after a brief respite, the game would start up again. The game was different today because Cherie was making the rules. Her nakedness was meant to be a sign to all of her pornae subservience. But by force of will Cherie turned it into a mantle of authority. Jackie Kennedy in the days of Camelot may have strode through the White House with as much self-assurance as Cherie now had at her command but Jackie had to wear clothes to do it and Cherie did not. After she had made the decision to take the mansion by storm, it all became too easy. Of course Cherie was the loveliest woman to ever grace these halls. She could make any man desire her and any woman feel like a turnip next to her if that's what she wanted. And in the unlikely event that the police might choose this moment to barge in, Cherie would meet them at the door, au naturel. Then somebody would have some explaining to do. As Cherie made her rounds, she invited one and all to an ad hoc gathering in the banquet hall. Every self- respecting mansion had one and here is where Cherie chose to throw the coming out party she had never had. Of course everyone showed up. Who wouldn't? The hall was dominated by a long and ancient mahogany table with great claw feet. Cherie decided this was a lovely place to hold court and she sat bare-assed on the cool table top with her feet swinging off the side. All around her the party guests buzzed and jostled like worker bees. Refreshments were brought from the adjoining kitchen and someone cranked up the music. A key to the liquor cabinet was produced and then things really started to roll. Cherie pulled a tribade onto the table and danced lasciviously with her. Soon everyone was jumping and dancing on the ill-used old table. And so Cherie took her first day in hell and made it into a bash. For the rest of that day and well into the night, the workaday schedule at Etta's estate was derailed and forgotten. Cherie drank, laughed and danced with all of her newest, dearest friends. In school, Cherie had never been popular. She never really had any friends. Her mother had seen to that. Now she was that person others wanted to get to know. She was the star. Everyone got to sidle up to her and run their hands over her body, and Cherie welcomed the attention, but nobody made a move to violate her. Cherie was flushed with victory. Everybody was won over. She had transformed herself from would-be pornae receptacle to Cherie the Great. Tired but elated, Cherie kissed each of her partygoers again and thanked them for dropping by. It was only then that she spotted little Io standing off to the side with a queer look on her face. Cherie could not for the life of her figure out if the girl was bemused, pissed off, or if she had just missed her meds for that day. It was hard to tell with Io. She was a tough read. "That was quite a first day on the job, princess," Io said by way of commendation. "I'm impressed. I'll be sure to pass along the good word." Cherie blushed perceptibly with pride. Praise from Io was as welcomed as it was unexpected. "Thanks. Now if you will excuse me, I think I'll turn in. I'm spent." "Sure. You go do that. You've earned it." Io moved towards the exit and then stopped. It was as though she had had an afterthought which she only that moment decided was even worth mentioning. "You know what would be great?" she proffered. "It would be great if I could say that you saw the whole of the place today. But you ain't been to the third floor." "Third floor? I didn't know there was a third floor. What's up there?" "Not much. Just a library. Law books mostly. You should check it out." With that, Io turned and disappeared down the hall. The paralegal in Cherie was intrigued. She loved the law and those books might come in handy, assuming Io was not yanking her chain. Tired as she was, Cherie decided she would sleep better after she investigated this alleged library. Io had not lied. Cherie found the staircase that led directly up to the library. It was a large rectagonal room, well-lighted with tables and chairs for ample work space, and rows upon rows of books on shelves. There were reporters, journals, digests, codices--all the essentials. Most of the material was ancient, it is true, but some was not too out of date. And there was Jeff. It startled Cherie to see the lean, almost middle aged man seated at one of the tables. She had just assumed she would have the room to herself at this hour. "I'm sorry...you scared me," stammered Cherie has she scrambled to collect her wits. "What are you doing up here?" "This room is the highest point in the house and it looks out in all directions so it doubles as an observation post." Jeff held up a pair of binoculars in case Cherie had any doubts about what he had just said. "Okay. Well... I'm sorry to have bothered you." Cherie quickly turned to leave but Jeff commanded her to stop and turn around. He was standing now and Cherie could see he was naked from the waist down. His cock was in the 7 o'clock position yet, even in a semi- flaccid state, it was still frightening for Cherie to look upon. She was never going to be able to put out of her mind the awful pain and trauma of being hogtied to the carpet while this man repeatedly speared her cervix with a cock that could grow to over a full foot when it was angry. Her insides cramped at the memory of it. Now she and Jeff both knew it was her job to arouse that beast from its slumber once again. Tall Jeff walked up to Cherie and placed his hands upon her shoulders which suddenly seemed tiny and frail. "I hate that I had to miss your little party," he said. "I was told if I sat tight, the party would come to me. And here you are. On your knees, my sacred slut. You know what to do." "Yes, sir. I'm here for you," she heard herself say. Cherie did indeed know what to do. She wrapped her delicate fingers around the shaft of his cock as she sucked his testicles into her mouth, first one then the other, and caressed each one methodically with her tongue. She then swallowed the full length of Jeff's cock until his rough pubic hair scraped at the tip of her nose. As expected, his penis sprang to life in the close warm wetness of Cherie's mouth and sought the back of her throat. Alarmed, Cherie came up for air, coughing and spluttering, but gamely sucked his cock deep into her mouth again. And again she choked and was forced to disengage. The angle was all wrong and they both knew it. Without having to be told, Cherie went to one of the tables, cleared off the unshelved tomes with a sweep of her wrist, and lay on her back lengthwise so that her head fell unsupported off of one end. Now Cherie's mouth and throat made one continuous horizonal tube perfect for fucking. And that is what Jeff proceeded to do. He decided he liked this way of fucking. When he took a woman in her cunt or ass, he could feel her body alternately resist and embrace his cock, and he loved the sensation more than anything else he had experienced in this life. But he could not see it. Now with pliable Cherie lying supine on the table beneath him he could not only feel her throat fighting his dick, he could look down and watch it too. Jeff came quickly. Jeff came hard. Before Jeff could begin to think about pulling his softening organ out of Cherie's mouth, Io popped into the room with many of Cherie's party guests in tow. She looked down at Cherie and ran her forefinger across her lower lip and then into her mouth in a taunting gesture. "There's no need to get up, princess," she assured Cherie. "You're fine right where you are. It seems that these nice people enjoyed your little cotillion downstairs so much that, after we got to talking, we decided we couldn't stand for it to end so soon, not after you got everybody's hopes up shaking that tight ass of yours all over Etta's favorite table." And so the party started up again in the library. But this time things went a little differently. Cherie got fucked into the small hours of the morning. Just before day break, as she limped back to her room, she made a mental note to introduce lots of personal lubricant into her rectum as part of her morning ritual. Cherie slept in most of that morning. She had had a long night. Thankfully no one had yet come to call on her so she was able to soak in the tub in peace and try to make sense out of events from the previous day. Cherie's confidence, like her morale, was shattered. Things had started off so well but ended in disaster. What had gone wrong? Cherie knew the answer to that question: Io. That evil little bitch sabotaged her. Cherie had the sinking feeling she was never going to be anything more around here than everybody's favorite fuck doll as long as that was the way Io wanted it. And it sure looked like that was precisely the way Io wanted it. Cherie groaned and lifted her aching body out of the tub, toweled off and flopped down on her unmade bed. After a few moments, she began to realize that something was different about her room. Something had changed just since she had been in the bath. What was it? She did not hear anyone come in, but that did not mean anything. What had changed? And then Cherie saw it. The top drawer of her tall chest of drawers was open a full two inches. Cherie was certain it had been closed completely when she had gotten up that morning so she decided to have a look. In the drawer where more fortunate people might keep their socks or underwear, Cherie found a small, squarish vinyl case like the kind people use to carry around a few compact discs. It was as cheaply made as they come, with sleeves of clear plastic bound book- fashion to one side and a zipper running along the three sides remaining. Upon opening the case, Cherie found that most of the 20 or so sleeves were empty and the ones that were not contained what she decided after closer inspection were DVDs. And each disc was labeled in Tam's deceptively masculine handwriting. She started to thumb through to read each title but the first one in the stack caused hairs to rise on her scalp. It was labeled simply, "Pool Party." Cherie's mind flashed back to Tam's little story of the fate of the previous pornae girl. Was the woman really so depraved that she was making snuff movies now? Cherie could not discount the possibility given what she had learned of Tam's character in the past week. Whatever the content, it was apparent that someone intended for her to view each of the discs. Why else would they have been planted in her room in an otherwise empty drawer? Surely in her hand were the digitally preserved final moments of that poor, nameless child being simultaneously drowned and sodomized in the very pool Cherie could see from her room, and she did not want to watch. Quite against her will and better judgment, Cherie slipped the disc into the DVD player and switched on her TV. Come to find out, Cherie was only half right. Nobody got snuffed but what she saw was almost as bad. It began innocently enough just like any number of boring home movies that family types make every day. The date shown in the bottom right of the screen was from one month prior. The camera panned unsteadily across the courtyard stopping momentarily to admire this hibiscus or that mandavilla. Then the attention of the viewer jerked haphazardly to the oval pool near the center of which a blonde, smallish prepubescent girl kicked and splashed on an inner tube. Cherie's heart seized and fell. She knew her own daughter when she saw her. Cindy beamed and waved happily to the camera. Cherie heard Tam's voice off-camera ask little Cindy if she had something nice for her Uncle Eddie. Cindy seemed to consider this question for a moment and then smiled sweetly as she rolled off the inner tube and paddled towards the shallow end of the pool. The child wore the tiniest of two-piece bathing suits. It consisted of a mere suggestion of pink fabric held in place on her fair skin by a single pair of strings in the back for the top and a pair of strings tied in a bow at each hip for the bottoms. Cherie recognized this ensemble instantly. Cindy had shown it to her at a department store and begged Cherie to buy it for her. Cherie had been appalled that the fashion industry would try to entice preteen girls into wearing something so suggestive. She was even more appalled at the price tag: $90! Cherie had had a mind to throttle the kid right there in Dillard's. So Uncle Eddie and Aunt Tam bought the thing for her. And had they bought her with it? The camera eye followed the 4'5" girl to the near end of the pool where who should be waiting for her but dear Uncle Eddie himself. He was seated naked on the uppermost of the steps leading into the pool submerged in maybe three or four inches of water, his feet resting on the lower steps. Cindy waded up to Eddie until she stood facing him. Water streamed down her body as she wrung the excess from her hair. And all the while she eyed Eddie with carnal wonder. For his part, Eddie grinned dreamily from behind sunglasses as he leaned back on his elbows against the side of the pool. He was just out catching a few rays on a lazy summer afternoon and his frank display of frontal male nudity to an 11 year old girl was innocent and completely natural. But Eddie's projected illusion of insouciance was undone by his raging hard on. Whatever Tam's merits as High Cup Maiden, her skills as a film maker left something to be desired. The picture jostled constantly. She would zoom in and out with no apparent rhyme or reason and she was constantly fiddling with the auto focus. The camera momentarily alighted on Eddie's cock and zoomed in for a closer look. It stood straight up to its full height of nine inches and was thick and stitched with engorged veins. Cherie thought it might have been a handsome piece of meat, as far as these things go, were it not attached to this odious, smirking man. The meat in question glistened in the sunlight with what Cherie determined to be some sort of lubricant. What was about to happen, Cherie feared, was going to be more than she could bear. Cherie knew this prick only too well; it had taken her oral virginity less than a week ago. Then she had to watch it pump another load into her daughter's throat while Cherie lay tied down and barely conscious on the floor of the sanctuary. Was she now going to have to see it disappear up the slender neck of Cindy's vagina, or worse, her rectum? Not exactly. The picture zoomed out again and Cherie saw Eddie lean forward and untie Cindy's bikini bottoms. The garment fell and floated in the water between her knees. Smiling, Cindy reached behind her back with one hand and loosed the bow that held the top in place. It fell forgotten into the pool as well. Tam could not resist coming in close for a full-screen view of Cindy's nipples just beginning to bud. She steadied her hand long enough to follow the rivulets of water that snaked south past the little beauty queen's navel and belly down into and around the puffy halves of her bald, virginal split peach. With a playful growl, Eddie seized the naked girl by the hips and pressed her close against the front of his body. She giggled demurely as she rested her wrists against his shoulders and tried to wrap her slender dancer's legs around his waist. Cindy pulled the shades off Eddie's head while she sought out his mouth and gave him the most adult of kisses. Eddie grasped the child's buttock with one hand while he used the other to nestle the tip of his cock firmly in place against the moistening lips of her eager, new pussy. Gravity and gentle persuasion would do the rest. In order to best capture the moment of genital interface between man and girl, Tam would necessarily have had to wade into the pool with them and she was not interested in getting wet evidently, so in this aspect of things at least, Cherie's sensibilities were spared. Tam chose instead to get behind the lovers and zoom in on Cindy's pretty face. She had her arms wrapped close around Eddie's neck, holding on like a girl being whisked from a burning rooftop by some rescuer dangling from a helicopter. The child now called the Incarnation of Etta shut her eyes tight and bit down on her lip as a panicked scream swelled and died in the bottom of her throat. Then her sacred blue eyes shuttered open and she exhaled slowly and audibly. Eddie uttered an expletive of pure pleasure and Cindy peppered his jaw and neck with a flurry of little girl kisses. Still cradling Cindy's back and bottom in his arms, Eddie carefully rose to his feet and turned and walked in the direction of a sliding glass door. Tam followed with the camera as Cindy's splayed legs and feet bobbed with every step her Uncle Eddie took. He still held her securely but it was not necessary. Fully impaled on Eddie's dick, she wasn't going anywhere. By the time Tam had caught up with her subjects, they were on a big bed where Eddie was burrowing deeper and deeper into Cindy's pussy. The child was hardly visible beneath this grown man who had one of her ankles gripped firmly in each hand. Little Cindy was folded in half on the comforter with her feet pinned behind her head. Eddie's backside pumped with mounting insistence as he pounded that handsome meat of his nearly straight down into the very bottom of her vaginal well. Cindy's eyes were unfocused and wild and her mouth gaped open as she fought to keep the breath in her lungs that each downward thrust forced out. Cords of wet hair matted her flushed face and neck. Cherie's heart went out to her daughter. She knew only too well what it was like to trust these people only to have that trust, and her body, ruthlessly violated for their own sick pleasures. At that moment Cherie wanted nothing in the world more than to cradle her baby girl in her arms and tell her everything was going to be alright. Together again as mother and child, they would find a way to heal each other. The tears Cherie had held inside for days now flowed freely down her face. But the DVD kept playing and this was not the first time she had ever leapt to a faulty, if comforting, conclusion. "That's it...Fuck me Eddie...Harder...HARDER...I'm so young and tight...Tear up my little pussy Eddie...Put a baby in me Eddie...Fuck...Cum...I'm cum... ming... Cum... in... my... cunt...Uncle EDDIE!!" Cindy tried to sink her fingers into the straining cords of Eddie's neck and she shrieked his name in a high keening voice so shrill the original Etta might have heard it from the grave. Eddie made some noises of his own as he groaned and shuddered and poured the last of his strength, and other things, into the wanton 11 year old's contorted body. Eddie rose up on his knees and slowly uncoupled himself from the quivering girl. Cindy curled herself into a fetal ball and let the orgasmic aftershocks roil through her body. Tam could remain on the margins no longer. She handed off the camera to Eddie and seized Cindy by the ankle. Cindy rose up unsteadily on her other knee and in an instant Tam was on her back with her mouth locked hard on Cindy's newly opened snatch. Tam buried a hand into the shorts she was wearing and commenced to work herself up to her own climax as she noisily sucked all the fresh nectar from the child's tiny cup. Eddie took hold of the back of Cindy's head and guided her mouth to his cock which was still hard and sticky with their juices and her maiden blood. As Cindy accepted the penis into her mouth she looked up at the camera lens with eyes that were heavy-lidded and grateful. Cherie had curled up into a ball of her own with her arms drawn defensively around her knees. There was nothing remotely religious or spiritual about the tableau unfolding on her TV screen. All she could see was a grown man and woman sexually devouring a prepubescent girl. The fact that the girl in question was her own all-too-willing daughter only compounded the outrage. Then she noticed something she should have picked up on earlier. It had all happened right here. Eddie fucked Cindy in this very room, on this bed. Cherie lifted her buttocks and saw the washed out and faded residue of the love blossom they had left on the comforter. Cherie was going to be sick and she got up and rushed to the bathroom. As she retched into the toilet she heard the last bit of audio from the disc: "Will mommy get to watch our movie, Uncle Eddie?" "I'm sure she will, baby girl. I'm sure she will." Cherie had been selfish and she knew it, and that thought alone was enough to turn her stomach. For days now, she had been too busy being a whore and feeling sorrow for herself to give much thought to what would become of her daughter now that she was literally in the hands of her enemies. It was true enough that Cherie was trying to adjust and make the most of a horrible situation, but in so doing she had lost sight of what mattered most. She might hate and fear the likes of Io, Andronica, Jeff or L.T. but it was Eddie and Tam who were the true architects of her misfortune. They plotted and schemed and took away everything Cherie owned, and violated her in ways she could never have dreamed possible. But all that was not enough for them. They wanted Cindy too and that would not stand. Cherie would take back her daughter and lay low her enemies in the bargain. This would be her purpose. Cherie looked out her window and saw that it was mid- day. She was going to have to pull herself together. She was still pornae and there were Children of Etta on the estate who would surely want their needs attended to. III. Revelation The lot of the pornae is hard but not unendurable. Sometimes it even has its perks. Cherie was always naked, available and utterly submissive, it is true. But this was because she had been divinely chosen to be a Cup Maiden to the Children. She was a goddess on the cusp and no one dared forget that. The aura of the divine encompassed her and she was to be treated with deference and awe. Cherie was here to impart the Revelation to Etta's Children and help them on the path to perfect peace. This meant she was to be worshipped. And worshipping her sometimes necessarily meant fucking her hard. But there was a certain unspoken etiquette that governed all this hard fucking. Just because she was pornae did not mean Cherie could be thrown down and sodomized at will. The understanding was that Cherie was not to be sought out. She was not a hide-and-go- seek kind of pornae. As part of her daily routine, Cherie approached every drone and tribade in the house and asked them if there was anything they wanted of her. This was her invitation to one and all to take her then and there. When Cherie said, "I am here for you," what she meant was, "I am here for you right now but if you want to wait until later you might be shit out of luck." This is not to say she was unsympathetic to the demands of someone's task at the moment. If one of the Children was in the middle of, say, preparing a meal or ripping out some drywall, Cherie would ask if he or she could be a dear and bring some small item to her bedchamber or help her in the library with something. Then she would give a very specific time for when she expected to see the lucky individual. If someone's duties required they work outside on the grounds, Cherie was there too, still bare-assed of course. She made it her business to memorize the drink preference of each such worker and she always came around with a cold bottle or glass in hand, a most welcomed sight! And she had no qualms about being taken in the grass. This kind of cheerful dedication to Etta and to the Children would not go unnoticed. Cherie would never say it out loud but she preferred the drones to the tribades the great majority of the time. A drone had a penis and once the penis was pleased, and duly thanked, the drone happily went about his business. No bullshit. She strove to her utmost to please her drones as befit her station. The rule was a Cup Maiden was not to be taken in her vagina except as ritually prescribed. But every so often some palace drone would insist on fucking Cherie's bare pussy, and who could blame him? For her part, Cherie did not feel it was her place to deny her people anything. If truth be told, it gave her a thrill to know that someone was willing to break the rules for her. The man would take her in hand and together they would find some quiet corner of the estate for him to quickly take his pleasure, for no one wanted to be caught breaking the rules. Cherie loved these trysts because they made her feel less like a victim than a co-conspirator. She also decided she rather liked the sensation of being filled up down there in what she still coyly referred to as her "girl." Cherie did not think she had been brought to orgasm yet, at least she assumed she would know it when she had, but she felt herself inch closer every time she saw the hard face of a man who would be her conqueror melt at the last instant into an expression of blind and utter submission. The tribades were a whole other kettle of fish. Cherie liked being with a woman but she was not always sure what was expected of her. Tribades liked long soulful kisses and Cherie could not get used to having some woman's tongue in her mouth. This is strange considering how accustomed she had become to having other things in her mouth. A tribade would take her pleasure from Cherie, and Cherie would always remember to thank her for it, but then the woman would linger, staring expectantly into Cherie's eyes as if waiting for something as yet unsaid. It kind of creeped her out. Usual pornae duties aside, Cherie found she had other responsibilities as well. Her opinions carried weight among the congregants and she was constantly asked to enlighten them on her views on some issue or other relevant to the Church, even spiritual matters of which she felt herself completely ignorant. She was asked to mediate minor disputes and some tribades came to her for relationship advice. Cherie thought this was hilarious seeing as she had never actually been in a relationship. While it is true that the day-to-day operation of the estate fell squarely within Io's bailiwick, the pixilated girl rarely ventured from her room and nobody had the balls to try to draw her out. Etta only knew what she did in there. Tam and Eddie did not want to be bothered with such things as how much sea bass should be ordered for a given month or what color to paint the eaves. So the burden of management devolved onto Cherie's slender, naked shoulders. She was, after all, a Cup Maiden. One day, after her other more traditional duties had been discharged for a while, Cherie was in the third floor library filing away some receipts that had been allowed to accumulate on the top of a desk in the study. They appeared to be mostly for building supplies for a planned renovation. Cherie had just been taken on that desk top and the stack of documents scattered across the floor. There were filing cabinets in the library and Cherie thought they might make a good place to warehouse some of the surplus paperwork of daily operations. She also wanted to have a look at what was in those cabinets. What she found astounded her. Here were archives of the Church of Etta, some of them in any event. The good stuff, the financial records, were conspicuous by their absence. They went directly to Tam and Eddie's house, no doubt. Among the documents that were present were membership directories of the Children dating back 15 years. Also, there was a financial dossier and complete medical records for each member. Everyone in the Church had to have a clean bill of health in their file signed by the drone called Martin who was a medical doctor. Cherie read these with interest. Here was something she had a personal stake in. With files and sheaves of records spread out on the table before her, Cherie lost all track of time. So engrossed was she in her snooping that she did not hear the men drawing up behind her until a pair of rough hands grabbed her by her neck and shoulders and pulled her out of her chair. "You're a sorry excuse for a pornae, little rabbit. While you've been sticking your pretty nose where it don't belong, our balls have been turning blue. What would Etta say?" Cherie knew the voice. It was Jeff. He spun her around and Cherie saw that he was with three of his security goons. Their cocks were out, primed and ready. "I'm sorry!" stammered Cherie. "How may I serve you?" "That's more like it." Jeff turned to his posse. "Who wants the first piece?" While Jeff moved aside to disrobe completely, one of the men stepped forward and pushed Cherie back across the width of the table. Her legs were spread wide and her pussy winked out at him. The man shoved the length of his cock into her velvety softness. "Please, sir! Not so...." Cherie could not finish her sentence. The drone Cherie remembered as Brian had stealthily positioned himself on the other side of the table. He grabbed her hair and pulled her head back over the edge and commenced to work the broad, blunt head of his penis deep into Cherie's mouth. She would gladly have submitted to each and every one of them. Why did they have to be so mean? Cherie did not mind so much taking on a man for a few bouts of vigorous intercourse. No matter how rough it got, she always felt like she was at least a little bit in control. But being taken by more than one man at a time she liked not at all. Together, two rapists would feed off of each other's energy, and neither man wanted to look like he had been out-fucked by the other. Things could get out of hand quickly and Cherie was afraid she might be injured. The two men hammered away with their cocks in unison from opposite ends of Cherie's body and her screams could travel no further than to the head and shaft of Brian's choking meat. Cherie's arms were splayed out on the table and her fingers reflexively balled and crumpled the papers she had been reading. She could feel the other men gathering close around her while the young man who was pounding away on her cervix had a breast in each hand and he was squeezing hard. Things were bad and they were about to get much, much worse. Jeff was ready to take over. "Let's get her on to the floor. I think she can take three of us and I can't wait to tear up that ass!" Now Cherie's heart was trying to beat out of its cage. She had hoped the day would never come when she would have to be fucked by three dicks at once, and here it was. What frightened her even more was that the cock going up her ass was going to be Jeff's. It was 14 inches of pure male brutality and he would not be satisfied until the tender fibers of her gut were torn apart. There was no doubt in her mind. Her pretty, 28 year old body was going to be in the ground by this time tomorrow. "I thought there were rules around here about fucking Cup Maidens' pussies," came a voice from behind them. The drones all turned away from what they were doing, looking very guilty. It was Io. She was dressed much the same way as when Cherie had last seen her except that she was wearing tube socks without the sneakers. Io strode up to the table. "Don't sweat it, boys. I won't tell. You know I love to watch the duchess get fucked." She stood over Cherie and ran one of her small hands down the length of Cherie's torso from breast to mons. Whatever hope of deliverance Cherie may have had slumped and died somewhere deep in her ravished body. How would the anguish of her final hours be increased now that Io had arrived uninvited to the party? Maybe it was all the testosterone that hung in the air or the firm satin caress of Cherie's talcum scented flesh under Io's fingertips. Maybe it was the musk and wet slap of human animals copulating just inches away. Or maybe it was something else that set Io off. Her pupils seemed to dilate into black dimes and blue sparks, and the heat took her. Before any of the men could so much as blink, Io was naked to her socks. She wanted to be fucked by a man; needed to be fucked by a man; was goddamn going to be fucked by a man, and she instinctively turned her attention to the leader. "Put your ass on the floor NOW, Ichabod!" Io practically threw Jeff onto the library's thin carpet. With Jeff lying on his back and looking a bit dazed, little Io straddled his hips and squat down in front of him giving the lanky man a mouth-watering view of her fat, swollen pussy and turtlehead clit. While Jeff and Io's twat eyed each other, she reached down to wrap the fingers of both hands around the long neck of his erection. Her eyes seemed to drift out of focus and her lips moved almost imperceptibly to the cadences of some internal conversation. When she looked into Jeff's face again, her eyes were clear and laughing, and her voice had changed. She had become Io the 12 year old cock-tease of a girl with the fiery short hair who liked to go off with men and play dangerous games. "Do ya wanna fuck me, mister? Yeah? How much of this big, scary cock do ya wanna put in my little cooch?" She shifted her grip on Jeff's penis so that only the narrow head and two or three inches of the shaft shown at the top. "This much?" Jeff slowly shook his head and Io's eyes widened. She moved her grip down along the shaft to expose another four inches. "This much?" Jeff put his hand over hers and moved it all the way down to the base of his cock. Io made a surprised "O" with her mouth. "Gosh mister, I don't know. You're so big and I'm so little. You might hurt me!" she purred. "You know it's going to hurt. The first time I fucked you with it, you cried. Or did you forget?" Why did he have to go and bring that up? Jeff could really be an asshole sometimes. Io hustled the 12 year old back to wherever she came from and reverted in an instant to the violently unbalanced young woman Cherie most feared. Even Jeff turned sheepish as Io shot him a look like she wanted to rip his face off. He had just challenged Io sexually, and nobody challenged Io, sexually or otherwise. Io pointed Jeff's cock upward and impaled herself on it. Half its length was instantly sucked up into those lush nether lips. She grit her teeth and raised up three inches, and then slid her body down his pole until her pussy had swallowed five inches more. Io hung there suspended with nearly five full inches of Jeff's meat still dry and waiting. The tiniest Cup Maiden was stuck. Her mouth gaped open but she made no sound. Her vagina was vertically stuffed and it seemed she could take no more so Jeff clutched her shoulders and pushed her down as he thrust his hips upward with cruel force. His long erection was now finally and fully enveloped in the wet grip of Io's pussy. Io wanted to take all of Jeff into her body. She had done it before. But she had to stop somewhere half way along the downward slide to adjust and get her bearings, so to speak. For him suddenly to grab her shoulders and spear the rest of his tool into her caught a her a little off her guard, and it hurt her. She retaliated by seizing one of his wrists and biting down on it until her canines drew blood. Jeff jerked his wrist free but continued his upward thrusting while Io set about squeezing and milking his dick. They were both well beyond the reach of pain now. Io set her jaw and concentrated on fucking Jeff's brains out but she did not want him to spill in her. Not yet. When her keen and sensitive pussy informed her that Jeff was approaching the edge, she bade him to stop and he complied. Io looked over at the table where Cherie was sprawled on her back. The two men were still pumping away on her mouth and pussy, and she was still very much in distress with yet another drone visibly anxious to join in and take a piece of her for himself. Io called over to Brian, "Hey you with the stove-pipe, get over here! I need to borrow it for a while and I don't care if the duchess gets mad." Brian pulled out of Cherie's throat and came over to where Io and Jeff were joined in sexual combat. Cherie gasped and gratefully sucked in air until the color returned to her lips and cheeks. Io ordered Brian to, "Stick that thing in me. Up my ass. Do it. Do it now!" Brian squat down and pushed Io's back towards the floor until she was pressed tight from belly to chin against Jeff's hard torso. The boy grinned crazily as he located the tight little ring of Io's anus with the immense head of his cock and shoved. Io could not have measured much more than 30" at the hips and, bent over as she was, her ass was as pointed and narrow as an exceptionally cute prepubescent boy's. Brian's meat was eight inches long and thicker than Io's wrist. Comparing one to the other, no one would ever suppose that his formidable girth could ever batter its way into her tiny bowel. But it did. Leaning forward on his knuckles, Brian grunted into her ear as he penetrated her by brunt force, just like she asked. Jeff's chest muffled her guttural shrieks but Io determinedly shoved her ass backwards to more fully receive this terrible new intruder even while her cunt continued to fight the length of Jeff's cock. Without waiting for an invitation, the remaining drone, who had been watching with great interest, if not outright disbelief, dropped to his knees and presented his prick to Io's last unfilled orifice, and she sucked all of his seven inches into her throat. Little Io was now fully engaged. Cherie was feeling better about her own situation. Her dicks were down to a very manageable one, and she quite literally turned the table on him. Gently uncoupling him from her pussy, she persuaded the young man to lie lengthwise on the table. Then she straddled his loins and sank down with her body until all of his cock was again comfortably enfolded into the softness of her womb. "Isn't this much nicer?" Cherie cooed wetly into the young man's ear. She was completely in control now. Her rapist had become helpless beneath her. She wanted him to spill inside of her and he would do it exactly when she told him to. He was powerless to do otherwise. With her body and her words, she spun her sweet web around him. "Yesss, you have me all to yourself now. I'm completely yours. Nice," Cherie whispered with erotic sibilance. The muscles in her thighs and buttocks clinched and released and clinched again with the tidal rhythm of her lovemaking. "I want you to spill in me. But I want you to give me every last drop. You have to give it all to me. Do you promise?" Cherie softly urged him towards the abyss. "I am your Cup Maiden. Spill in me, darling. Fill my cup. Fill me!" Cherie drove her girl down hard onto the base of his cock one last time until she felt the young man's pubic beard brush and bite her suddenly swollen clit as she ground it into his pubic bone. Then she clamped with every muscle in her abdomen and squeezed at the very instant that the cock inside of her swelled and spasmed uncontrollably. Seconds later his juices were commingling ecstatically with her own. Cherie had conquered her drone but had gotten something quite unexpected in the bargain. A little bubble of pure delight burst deep in the bottom of her belly and sent tiny waves of pleasure up her stomach and into her breasts and nipples and then down through her buttocks and thighs. Cherie was having an orgasm. It was the first one she had ever experienced in her life so she had no way of knowing if it was a big one or a little one, and at the moment she did not care much. All she knew for certain was that she felt good and she felt powerful. With the tiny waves still rippling through every part of her body, Cherie leaned down and kissed the spent young man fully on the mouth before his cock could slip out of her. She thanked him for his essence, and this time she truly meant it. Cherie climbed down off the table top and gazed with shock and wonder at the scene unfolding on the floor just a few feet away. Three men were sighing and heaving with raw pleasure while in their very center Io, whose taut little body was barely to be seen, was milking them all with ferocious intensity. The sum total of inches of cock being rammed into her every orifice roughly equaled half her own height. Yet she was accommodating all of those inches. But the most incredible thing was that the teenager was in complete control. The drones needed hardly to move at all as Io pushed down hard on the cocks buried high up in her cunt and ass. Then she drew herself up and forward to gobble up all of the phallus into her throat, then back down again. She steadily ramped up the force and speed of this lewd rocking motion until all three cocks pumped and splattered her insides. She could not induce all of them to cum in perfect unison, but she came very close. The trio of sated drones drew off leaving the fierce nymphet to lie weak and glistening on the carpet, hot blue arcs of pleasure still hummed and crackled along the tight length of her frame. Gingerly raising the top half of her body up onto one hip, Io looked around the room at all the faces still watching her and, with some effort, panted out the words, "Don't you idiots have work to do?" The four drones quickly set about re-arranging themselves, still tugging at shirttails and buckles as they disappeared down the stairway. Io watched them leave and then looked over at Cherie. "Come help me up, princess." Cherie knelt down and slipped one arm around Io's back and under her arm and carefully lifted her to her feet. "It's 'Cherie'." "What?" "My name. It's Cherie. You never call me by my name." "And you wanna talk about that now? Help me to my room. I don't think I can walk too good." With Cherie's hand still tucked snugly under Io's armpit, the two maidens tentatively made their way down the staircase. Io turned to Cherie and said matter-of- factly, "This is just a suggestion but, unless you happen to like being gang banged, I wouldn't recommend hanging out alone in the library, at least not while the circle jerks are on the job. Next time I might not be around to save your ass, and I mean that literally." When they finally made their way to Io's door, Cherie asked, "You sure you're okay?" "I'll be fine. It's all in a day's work for Etta's babes." Io was visibly bouncing back from the carnal pounding she had taken. The woman's recuperative powers were phenomenal. "I would invite you in but then I'd have to kill you." Coming from Io, Cherie did not think this remark was funny at all. Io reminded Cherie that, "We have a big day tomorrow so you better get some rest. Don't make me come in there and spank you." Cherie did not think that was funny either. Io turned and disappeared into her room. Cherie walked the seven steps to her door and did the same. When Cherie finally eased her exhausted body under the covers, she realized she was a wreck. Not since her horrific first hours in this accursed place had she been so much in fear for her life. Thank God Io was in a mood to get laid tonight. Cherie visibly shuddered to think what might have happened to her had the girl not showed up when she did. But there was something else that was bothering Cherie. Io had been right when she reminded her that tomorrow was going to be a big day. Tomorrow night a convocation of some significance was to take place in the sanctuary. It would be the first such gathering of Etta's Children since the ascension of her Incarnation. The Incarnation herself was going to be there to preside over the ritual Harrowing of the Cup Maidens, and it was a very big deal. Cherie had known for several days that the rite was to take place but she was preoccupied with her duties as Cup Maiden and pornae, and thus was able to put it out of her mind. Until now. The last time she had seen Cindy, the child was gnawing at Cherie's pussy. And in less than 24 hours, Cherie would be pinned to the accursed floor of the sanctuary, again, where she would be force fucked by the drones, again, so that her own daughter could lap the juices as they spilled from Cherie's battered vulva, again. The biggest difference between then and tomorrow for Cherie was that at least during the Ascension, she never knew what was ultimately in store for her until the very end. This likely was the only reason she had permitted herself to survive at all. This time Cherie knew with certainty what was about to happen to her almost to the last detail and she dreaded it with all her being. It was a train in a very narrow tunnel bearing down on her and she was powerless to save herself. And she was powerless to save little Cindy. Etta had claimed her only child. How was Cherie ever to get her back? It took strength to fight. It took even more strength to submit. That was the rub. Cherie felt herself to have no strength left in her heart at all. She was lonely, frightened and wanted to died. The newest Cup Maiden curled into a fetal ball and wept bitterly. Her door opened with hardly a sound and, from light streaming in from the corridor, Cherie could make out a child-like figure stepping into her room. A brand new wave of dread came over her. Please God, Etta, whoever- -not tonight. "Io, please just leave me alone, okay?" pleaded Cherie. Io placed a single finger over Cherie's lips and shushed her. Without saying anything at all, she slipped into the sheets and spooned up behind Cherie. Her hard little body was bare and very warm. She draped a comforting arm across Cherie's waist and Cherie, much to her surprise, felt herself drift into blissful sleep. Some time later, light from the hall again invaded Cherie's bedchamber. This time the unmistakable figure of a man stepped into the room. He was one of Jeff's crew no doubt looking for another slice of Cherie pie. Io raised her head and growled, "What the fuck to you want?" "Oh, sorry." The nocturnal intruder retreated and closed Cherie's door behind him. "Why are you doing this?" Cherie asked without turning to look in Io's direction. "You hate me." Io lightly brushed a few strands of hair from Cherie's cheek with her fingers and whispered as tenderly as she knew how, "Shut up and go back to sleep." Cherie did go back to sleep but, as she did, she could not help but marvel how it should come to pass that the succubus she most feared had become her protector. Cherie was alone when she awoke the next morning. She hurriedly washed and dried herself and had breakfast. It was going to be a busy day in anticipation of the arrival of the Incarnation and her court: the Alpha Drone and High Cup Maiden. Preparations had to be made. Cherie was not worried much about anyone demanding her pornae services today. Everyone knew there would be ample opportunity to partake of Cherie at tonight's Harrowing. She considered knocking on Io's door but thought better of it. In the kitchen Cherie asked Ellen Anne if she had seen Io and was told she was already in the sanctuary. Io had made an early start of it. First, the inner sanctum had to be cleansed, both in a ritual and a practical sense. Then furnishings had to be brought in and arranged just so. And not least of all, certain ritual accoutrements had to put, and in some cases bolted, into place. Io was directing everything. She took the prohibition against clothing in the sanctuary very seriously and was as nude as she had been in Cherie's bed the night before. Cherie was relieved that responsibility for seeing to the preparations was not going to rest solely with her. Io was a bundle of energy in there, focused on the task at hand and in no mood to take anybody's shit. Things got done. "Good of you to join us, Cherie," Io called over her shoulder by way of greeting. Some of drones, still fully clothed, were lifting two square slabs of polished, salmon-colored marble, one 9" longer than the other on each side and both about 6" thick, and laying them on the floor one atop the other. Several more men were struggling with Etta's cathedra which had been brought out of storage where it had remained for twelve years. It had been hewn from a single block of rose granite, intricately carved and polished, and inlaid with lapis and mother of pearl. The cushioning on the seat and back was of deep blue silk. It was one immensely heavy piece of furniture and to bring it into the sanctuary and mount it on the platform directly beneath and in front of the tall portrait of Etta required a minor feat of engineering. As much fuss as was being made over the big stone chair, it was the placement of the floor bolts that was of greater interest to Cherie. Working closely with Io, she decided to place the large central eye-bolt 15 feet from the dais. Threaded into the eye-bolt were three identical pairs of wrist manacles, one for each Cup Maiden. Cherie knew that she, Io and Andronica were on the menu for tonight. Mats were brought in and she arranged them around the central bolt like spokes on a wheel. Gone were the blue vinyl gym mats like the one Cherie was harrowed on. In their place were mattresses of similar dimensions but somewhat thicker and of expensively soft leather. Cherie had special ordered them. She wanted her next harrowing to be a little more comfortable. Etta owed her at least that. The cruel wooden boards used to elevate her cup were replaced with matching leather pillows that could be affixed snugly just beneath the small of a maiden's back. At about hip-level to each mat were set into the carpeted floor a pair of small eye-bolts with looped ropes tied securely to each. It was mid-afternoon when all the preparations in the sanctuary were complete. And it was precisely then, when all the real work had been done, that Andronica chose to make her appearance. She breezed into the mansion like some exotic black Paris Hilton home from a day's shopping on Rodeo. "Look who decided to show up," Io muttered to Cherie. "It's Tam's favorite little brownie." Andronica stuck her head into the sanctuary and finger- waved to Cherie and Io before greeting and kissing some of her favorite tribades who had started to cluster around her. Even in her old jeans and espadrilles, Andronica was a goddess in her own right, and she knew it. A slender 5'7" nineteen year old with high, cone- shaped breasts and a tight little tuck-and-roll ass, Andronica was bright, beautiful and ambitious. Cherie also remembered that she could be cruel and perverse. All these things made her an exemplary Cup Maiden. The tribades were making a big fuss over Andronica's hair which she had had dreaded for the evening's events. Andronica gushed like a prom queen and then took her leave of them, retiring to the bedchamber set aside for her use when she was at the mansion. Like her Cup sisters, she had to prepare. Cherie had to prepare as well. Time had not really become an issue yet so Cherie drew herself a nice hot bath, lit some aromatherapy candles and tried to retreat into her happy place. This was hard to do because she did not really have one. The trick, she decided, was not to think. If she could relax the body, maybe the mind would follow. At least she was finally going to get to see Cindy, sort of. Didn't every good mom let her daughter eat her pussy every now and then? The thought caused Cherie to chuckle in spite of herself. She did not know where the black humor had come from but if it helped get her through this, she would embrace it. The bath water was starting to get tepid when she heard someone enter her bedchamber. It was Ellen Anne come to be Cherie's handmaiden, and get her butt in gear. The Children were starting to arrive at the mansion. The word from Andronica was that Tam and Eddie were on their way, and of course Cindy was with them. Time was short and they had work to do. Ellen Anne first was going to wash and roll Cherie's hair, her finger and toenails had to be painted, her body scented and powdered, face made up and, most important of all, she was to be thoroughly and carefully waxed. Cherie did not really feel this last bit was necessary but Ellen Anne insisted. Cherie was enjoying this time with her tribade. She informed Cherie that after tonight Tam would likely assign her the task officially of being Cherie's personal handmaiden. This was a great honor and she could not be happier. Cherie was pleased as well. She had never had a servant before. There was something that had been on Cherie's mind a lot lately and, while Ellen Anne was fussing with her hair, Cherie just blurted it out. "I missed my period," she said. "Yeah, so?" Ellen Anne did not even look up from what she was doing. Was this woman retarded? "So...I'm afraid I might be pregnant." Jesus, did she have to spell it out for her? "Cup Maidens don't have periods and they don't get knocked up," was her answer. Now Cherie was confused. "What do you mean?" The tribade put down her curling iron and explained, "As long as you eat the food I prepare, you won't have to worry about any of that female stuff. None of the other maidens do. Your cup belongs to Etta now. No babies. No Aunt Flo." Cherie was incredulous. "So you've been slipping me contraceptives in my food?" "Something like that." Cherie pondered this for a moment and then another thought occurred to her, an idea definitely worth floating. "As long as you're doping my food, why can't you give me a little somethin' somethin' to make this Cup Maiden thing a little less...stressful?" The older woman shot Cherie a disapproving look and she resolved never to bring it up again. She should have known better. Her fondness for the happy pills was what got her into this mess in the first place. Ellen Anne instructed Cherie to lie on her back on her bed and spread her legs wide. She then climbed onto the bed herself and, positioning herself between Cherie's thighs, began waxing around the area she liked to call Cherie's sweetmeat. The handmaiden was skillful and what few downy curls there were yielded with little discomfort. Cherie was again as smooth as a little girl, smoother even than Cindy. Ellen Anne applied a small amount of a soothing ointment onto three of her fingers and began to apply it sinuously to Cherie's mons and around her vulva. Cherie could feel her girl start to moisten. "You have a beautiful pussy, Cherie," said the handmaiden in a low voice as the tip of her tongue moistened her own lips. "It's so...dainty. Yes, that's the word: dainty, like a new flower." Cherie said nothing. She let the back of her head sink into the pillow, her lips parted slightly and she sighed. Ellen Anne coyly allowed the tips of her fingers to brush Cherie's ripening hood and folds. When she spoke again, her words were soft and earnest. "I hope Tam let's me partake of the revelation from you, Cherie." Ah yes, the revelation. It was the central mystery around which the Church of Etta was founded. Cherie was supposed to be one of those exceedingly rare women who could receive the essence of a man and, in the alembic of her womb, transmute it into the very vin des sacres of female enlightenment. When a woman, or girl, partook of the sacrament from Cherie's feminine vessel, she was said to receive some profound insight, the revelation. Cherie was one of the indispensable gatekeepers to the path of perfect peace. She was a Cup Maiden. For her part, Cherie had not yet been accorded the revelation. She still thought the act of partaking was kind of gross. But she was touched by the simple ardor of her handmaiden's expressed desire. "I hope she does too," was her only reply. Preparations completed, Cherie was led to the study which was one of the nearer rooms to the sanctuary. Ellen Anne was anxious to peel off her own clothing and join her sister tribades there so she bade Cherie to wait in the study until someone sent for her, and then she left. Cherie was alone. She could hear the din of the gathering Children in the nearby chamber and it frightened her. Someone had turned the thermostat way down, no doubt to accommodate the many bodies crowded into the next room, and Cherie's nipples hardened in the chill. She folded her arms around her shoulders and began to pace. While she waited, the thought occurred to Cherie that this may well be the same room where Cindy had waited some weeks before for the prearranged signal to enter the inner sanctum and ascend to the Incarnation, and deliver the coup d'grace to her vanquished mother. Thankfully, she did not have to be alone with this thought for very long. The door to the study swung open and in stepped Io and Andronica, as naked as Cherie and walking lightly on bare feet. Cherie was glad to see them. Io grinned at her. "You pumped? We're pumped!" Cherie looked stricken. Her eyes were wide and she shook her head in quick, tiny arcs. "My God!" she choked. "All those people...." "All those dicks! All those hungry mouths! I damn near rubbed my clit raw just thinking about it!" Io had tried to finish Cherie's thought for her but somehow missed the tenor of what Cherie was trying to convey. Andonica joined in the fun. "I'm pumped, girl! I am Etta-fied! I've been thinkin' about this for weeks!" Cherie was convinced, as if she needed anymore convincing, that these women were crazy. Tam entered the room, breathless and nude. "Everything is set," she informed her other Cup Maidens. "I want you to wait two minutes and then make your entrance. Come to me and I will put you where I need you. The Incarnation will make her entrance ten minutes after you come in. You should all be in your places and secure by then. Got it?" Without waiting for replies, Tam turned and headed back towards the chamber. Cherie looked frantically from one young woman to the other. "I can't do this," she stammered, panic taking hold. "I can't go in there...I'm afraid!" Io tried to make her voice soothing. "Of course you're afraid, Cherie. We're all a little freaked out. Think of it as stage fright. Everything'll be okay." Andronica took up the thread. "There's nothin' to be afraid of, sugar. You're gonna be a star in there! Think of it as being in a school play except you don't have any lines to forget. Once you're down on that floor, you can do no wrong." Cherie was not mollified. School play?! Io placed a sympathetic arm around Cherie's waist. "We're going to be right there with you. Me and Andronica have done it lots of times. We'll get through this. You might even learn something good about yourself you didn't already know. You might get to liking all the attention." Andronica threw an arm around Cherie's shoulders and Cherie reached out to both women. The three maidens drew together until their foreheads touched. With no more words spoken, Cherie felt courage slowly seep back into her body. She was drawing strength from these women. They had become three sisters. They were more than just sisters. They were Cup Maidens. Io broke the group hug. Going over to a desk drawer, she produced a stick of gum, unwrapped it, and folded it into her mouth. "Alright girls, It's showtime!" The three young women walked the short distance to the arched entrance to the Harrowing chamber, parted the beaded curtain, and stepped inside. The air in the chamber was close and hot in spite of the A/C. The room was illuminated only with candles, lots and lots of candles. And in the light of all those candles Cherie could make out the forms and faces of the Children. There were so many! The noise of the congregation fell to a low murmur when the Cup Maidens suddenly appeared in their midst and Cherie could feel every pair of hungry eyes turn and fix upon her and her sisters. The drones were congregated along one wall of the sanctuary and the tribades had arranged themselves along the opposite wall nearest the dais and the portrait of Etta. There had to be thirty drones and at least an equal number of tribades. Cherie quickly did the math. That was ten cocks to be milked by each maiden. And then there would be the inevitable double- dippers. Maybe even triple-dippers! The fear she thought she had left in the waiting room had caught up and found her. The other two maidens had obviously performed a similar calculation for all three of them stopped and shrank defensively into each other. "We are in for a long night," whispered Andronica, enunciating each word. It was Io who broke the spell. "Fuck it!" she muttered. Taking a maiden in each hand she led them to the central eye-bolt where Tam was waiting. Tam kissed her on the mouth and bade her to lie down on one of the mats. She then did the same to Andronica and finally Cherie. As Cherie reclined fully on the mat, her hands were set upon immediately by a tribade who fastened her wrists snugly into one of the pairs of manacles threaded into the eye-bolt. Andronica and Io were already similarly secured. There could be no escape now for any of them. Other tribades went to work on Cherie's legs. Thin ropes tied to the smaller eye-bolts near her hips pulled her legs painfully apart at the knees. A cushion was inserted beneath her bottom so that her cup would not spill quite so much of what was about to be pumped into it. Cherie noted sardonically that her position on the floor was directly in line with the place where the Incarnation would be seated. This, she knew, was no accident. Io and Andronica were being subjected to the same procedure but they did not seem to be paying it much mind. "Damn girlfriend, these leather cushions are uptown fine!" enthused Andronica. "Mine smells like a new car!" chimed Io. Cherie could not believe what she was hearing. Here they were about to be fucked to within an inch of their lives and these teenaged twits wanted to gush about the goddamn furniture! Another thing that occurred to Cherie was that, when the mats and leg bolts were put in place, no allowances were made for the varying heights of the women to be bound to them. Therefore, Andronica at 5'7" had some wiggle room whereas Io, who was nine inches shorter, was stretched and splayed taut. Cherie forgot all these things when Cindy, the Incarnation of Etta herself, stepped into the room. The little girl looked just as she had when last Cherie had seen her. A flower tiara was tied into her elaborately coiffured blond hair and around her neck hung the round diamond and sapphire pendant representing the blue and white halo encircling the womb of a Cup Maiden which only she, the Incarnation, has the eyes to see. These adornments aside, her perfectly proportioned 4'5" prepubescent body was as bare as everyone else's. When the Incarnation appeared in the archway, all of the assembled Children fell to their knees and bowed low. For the first time the room was completely silent. The child coolly surveyed the adoring supplicants kneeling before her and the three beautiful Cup Maidens splayed out in her honor. Tam, the High Cup Maiden, and Eddie as Alpha Drone rose to their feet and took their places at Cindy's side. Each taking a hand, they escorted her to the dais which the little girl mounted one step at a time and took her anointed place in the Cathedra of the Matriarch, Etta's marble throne. Little Cindy appeared even smaller perched in the massive chair. It could comfortably have accommodated two more of her. She placed a hand on each of it's arms and positioned her little bottom upon the edge of the seat so that her feet dangled several inches above the platform. The Incarnation suitably enthroned, it was time for the Harrowing Ritual to begin. Some of the tribades had tribal drums which they commenced to beat in a loping, sensuous cadence. They loved doing that sort of thing. The ritual itself is performed according to a certain protocol. At the direction of the Incarnation, the Alpha is supposed to be the first of the drones to mount a maiden. Thereafter, the Alpha selects a drone and the High Cup Maiden directs him to one of the bound maidens. As each cup is filled, the High Cup Maiden begins sending forward the tribades one or two at a time. In this way, each tribade receives her revelation. The ritual reaches its climax when the Incarnation and the High Cup Maiden descend to partake of their revelation. All of the participants to this communion, drones and tribades alike, are to show reverence to the Incarnation by placing a kiss upon her foot. This is how things were supposed to proceed but they almost derailed right at the start. Cindy had hardly taken her seat when one of the drones stepped forward. A nervous murmur went up from the Children. Someone was committing a serious breach of decorum. Cherie could not see who it was on account of her having to face the opposite direction, towards the dais and the tribades. "Uh oh," she heard Io mutter. "Oh, shit! It's the nigga from The Green Mile," breathed Andronica. Andronica was referring to L.T. At 6'6", 260 lbs. and over-endowed in various ways, L.T. was something of a temple legend. He was one of only two or three of the drones whose essence fueled the revelations of Etta herself, and was said even to have filled her own divine cup on at least one occasion. Eddie may have been the nominal Alpha but nobody told L.T. who or when to fuck. The big man knelt before the cathedra and, taking Cindy's foot in his monstrous rough hand, placed a kiss upon her instep as his dark eyes bore into her own. The girl squirmed into the back of her seat like a frightened house pet. L.T. stepped off the dais and approached the Cup Maidens, circling them slowly while the rest of the room was silent. Even the drums had ceased for the moment. To the women pinned to the floor, his thick, foot long phallus and prodigious balls seemed to grow ever more menacing with each step he took along their perimeter. L.T. loved this. He had been splitting the vaginas of Cup Maidens for well nigh twenty years. The man did not care much about perfect peace or the path to enlightenment. He just liked ramming his huge cock into pretty girls while they were spread-eagled and helpless. It was his thing, his peculiar interest. His shadow fell first across the supine and vulnerable figure of Cherie. She turned her head and bit down on her lip. She knew what was coming. The giant was surely going to finish the job he had started on that first night of sexually eviscerating her. She had to find a way to put herself in the right frame of mind to receive him. Survival might depend upon it. L.T. moved his gaze slowly up and down the length of Cherie's bound and trembling body, winked at her, and moved on to the pallet to her left where little Io lay splayed out before him like a delectable creature on a plate. Drone and maiden stared unblinking into each other's eyes for several seconds. Io lifted her chin in defiance,-- "What are you lookin' at?"-- and L.T. shifted his attention to Andronica. God, Cherie wondered, how long was he going to draw this out? It was torture. The giant settled upon Andronica and pressed the broad aubergine head of his organ against the moist, lidded mouth of her cup. The girl squirmed and pleaded, her cool home girl bravado forgotten. Tam, frozen in place at the right hand of Cindy, was helpless to do anything but look pissed off. Andronica was her favorite, her loyal lieutenant, and she did not want to see her damaged. She had other ideas of upon whom to sic L.T. "Goddammit Eddie," she hissed at her husband. "Can't you throw a leash on him?" but Eddie only shrugged. What did she expect him to do? L.T. just gave Tam a look that said, "Can't a black man shag a sista every now and then?" Then he drove his hips down hard and plunged all of his meat into the luckless maiden. She let out a scream that echoed across the entire estate but she ceased to squirm quite so much. The room was transfixed. Everyone just gawked at the sight of the large, dark man plunging in and out of the sobbing young woman. It was understood by all that the Harrowing of the Cup Maidens was intended to be rape, but only symbolic rape. What the congregants were witnessing now was the real deal, courtesy of L.T., and they were riveted. While Andronica continued to mewl and beg beneath the pounding her pussy was taking, the heat in the sanctuary rose. Cherie and Io called out little encouragements to their stricken sister. "You fight that big dick, girl!" urged Io. "You drain him and lay him on the carpet. You've done it before. Submit and conquer!" With these words, the light brown maiden got her snap back. She spread her thighs as far open as she could make them go and with her pelvis she met the big man's every thrust. All the while she drew in staccato breaths through tightly clenched teeth. Did this fool of a nigga think he was gonna rip up her little kitty? Shit! When she was done with his ass, he would be done fucking for the night but she would still be right here on this fine leather mattress putting it out. Andronica was a Cup Maiden, motherfucker. Submit and conquer! And conquer she did. A few hard thrusts more and L.T. coughed, "Damn!" and collapsed on top of Andronica while her eager, young pussy sucked the last drops of essence right out of his mammoth balls. Presently, the big man heaved himself to his feet and made his way, flatfooted, to the far wall where the other drones were sitting. Everyone was still staring at him and L.T. looked around the room and said, "What?" before sliding down the wall on his back and crumpling, spent, to the floor. "Submit and conquer!" cheered Io. "Submit and conquer!" came Andronica's pained but exuberant reply. "Submit and conquer," Cherie whispered with a newfound feeling of strength and unity with her sisters. But there was something else. Trussed up and helpless on this floor, Cherie realized for the very first time that she was locked in a contest for control of her life and the lives of others, and she was going to win, could not help but win. With protocol somewhat restored, the ritual began again. The drums resumed and Cindy gave a knowing look to Eddie who placed a kiss upon her foot and advanced on Cherie. He did not bother with circling the maidens as L.T. had done. Everyone in the room knew precisely who he was going to fuck first. Cherie knew too. Her girl dried up at his approach. She hated Eddie and he knew it, and this made him plunge into her all the harder. She knew this moment would come and she had resolved not to cry out when he tore into her. She was going to take it like a woman. She was going to take it like her baby girl takes it. A single hoarse cry escaped her throat as the head of Eddie's cock battered through the unwilling folds of her dainty pussy. Then her own feminine juices rushed heroically to the fore and the battle of submission and conquest was joined. The Alpha cursed and heaved over her for all he was worth. Cherie met each thrust with a thrust of her own and sheathed his blunt weapon in the tight, wet grip of her indomitable little cunt. As the cock pulled back, the path to her womb closed in behind it, daring it to make another foray. Milking this dick was too easy. All Cherie had to do was focus her mind on the mystery of complete submission and her divine cup would do the rest. She would conquer and be filled. Cherie felt Eddie's penis throb and gush deep inside of her. Then she felt it meekly withdraw. She had won. Cherie was glad to watch Eddie's ass retreat back to the left-hand side of the dais. But her feeling of triumph was coupled with a strange tightening sensation deep in her pelvis. Cherie was ready and quite willing to take on and submit to another of the male Children of Etta. Her cup now positively ached to be filled. At Eddie's signal, three eager drones stepped forward and knelt to kiss the foot of the Incarnation. Tam pointed each one to his assigned maiden and the filling of the cups began in earnest. For the next hour Cherie, Io and Andronica strained against their bonds as one drone and then another plied his essence into their waiting vessels. Tam and Eddie wanted to set Jeff and then Brian onto Cherie, partly to make her atone for what L.T. had done to Andronica, as if she had anything to do with that, but mostly because they wanted to savor her expression as first one and then the other of those terrible, mutant cocks punished her impudent little pussy. They were to be frustrated in their mean bit of fun, however. For some reason, these two drones were just not up for the task at hand, and they could do little but sit there red-faced and flaccid while Tam seethed and some of the tribades could be heard tittering derisively among themselves. Cherie could see little of this but she heard Io turn to her and comment dryly, "Boys forgot their Wheaties." But the Harrowing Ritual proceeded nonetheless. All of the maidens were being filled, sometimes brutally, and they could be heard murmuring vague encouragements to each other. Cherie could not very well see what was happening to her sisters in duress but she knew from the strange feline cries and growls coming from their throats that they were being fucked into a state of continuous, self-sustaining orgasm and exquisite agony. And she could feel her own coil steadily tighten around her brimming cup. A surfeit of the sacred nectar began to puddle beneath the bottoms of each of the maidens. The time had come for the gathered women to partake of the revelation. As one or other of the drones spent his essence and retreated back to the ranks of his brethren, the High Cup Maiden sent her impatient tribades in ones and twos to fill the empty spaces in the triangle and take the sacrament. The drone Martin had just added his seed to that of the several other men who had succumbed to the satin grip of Cherie's tender pussy and drew off gasping for breath. Cherie thanked him sweetly like a good little Cup Maiden and waited for another hungry face to loom up between her painfully outstretched thighs. This time the face belonged to Ellen Anne. She was going to receive her revelation from Cherie's cup as she had so fervently hoped. The older woman knelt down low, her bare, shapely backside thrust high towards the dais, and brought her lips down flush against her Cup Maiden's enflamed and throbbing vulva. Cherie's breath caught in her throat as she felt her handmaiden's tongue split the inner folds of her dainty pussy and lap up the hot, welling contents of her cup. Ellen Anne then slowly licked and nibbled at Cherie's taut, succulent flesh from her clit to her navel. A moment later and she was outstretched atop Cherie and kissing her deeply on the mouth in a spontaneous show of gratitude and adoration. The taste and scent of her cup's own nectar from Ellen Anne's mouth set Cherie's straining coil at the very edge of bursting. She was but a single touch away now and her every nerve ending fairly crackled in abeyance. At this precise moment, as the older woman drew back into the company of her tribade sisters, little Cindy, the Incarnation of Etta herself, decided the time had at last come for her to partake of the revelation. The child suddenly darted from her high seat and pounced upon Cherie's engorged and twitching vulva. "Oh God! Cindy, NO! Please!" rasped Cherie, but it was too late. Cindy burrowed her nose into Cherie's clit as her open mouth locked upon the rims of her mother's cup. That was all it took. Cherie's dangerously over- wound coil sprang and burst into filaments. Here was the moment when Cherie learned something about herself she had not previously known; she was a squirter, more so even than her sisters. She screamed and released a thick stream of clear female ejaculate directly into her daughter's open mouth and nose. Cindy fell back on her haunches with an expression of wide-eyed dismay. Before the girl's mind could make sense of what was happening, Cherie's whole body spasmed and she sent three more hot jets splashing across Cindy's bare chest and neck. The young Incarnation gathered her wits quickly and, knowing a precious gift when she tasted it, ground her mouth hard into her mother's vaginal opening in a nakedly greedy attempt to tap the fount at its source. Seeing all this, Tam rushed forward and practically tossed the little girl aside in order to take her place. The High Cup Maiden's mouth clamped down over Cherie's pussy and sucked hard. None of this mattered any longer to Cherie; she was insensible to what was going on around her. She was bound up tight in the embrace of a white-hot orgasm that would not let her go. All the poor young mom could do was moan and convulse against her restraints. Even Andronica and Io forgot their own ecstacies for a moment and turned their heads and strained to see what was up with the newest Cup Maiden. When Cherie's cup was intemperately drained, Tam sent in one more drone to replenish her. Then three more lucky tribades were invited to partake of this very special revelation before Cherie's fount was finally used up and she lay swooning on leather that stuck to the back of her body. And then the ritual abruptly ended. The drums stopped and three or four of the tribades set about freeing the Cup Maidens from their bonds. All of the women had received their revelation, which for most of them was that they had not been laid in a while, and a general orgy ensued in the inner sanctum. The three maidens helped each other to their feet and, along with their leader the High Cup Maiden, took their leave of the sanctuary. They were retiring to an inner sanctum of their own. It was a room upstairs into which only a Cup Maiden may enter. This place was their exclusive domain, their decompression chamber, and no drone or tribade was permitted within. Even Eddie dared not show his face in here. The Incarnation was free to come and go as she pleased but in this part of the mansion she ceased to be the Incarnation and instead was treated as just some kid, so the room held no particular fascination for her. Within this sanctuary, all the Cup Maidens were as equals and notions of rank were discarded. Here a maiden was free to speak her mind, and bitch if that is what she was of a mind to do, without fear of censure or recrimination. The room itself was comfortably furnished with plush divans, and a full bar dominated one corner. A sliding glass door opened onto a hardwood deck whereupon was affixed a hot tub large enough to accommodate all of Etta's special babes. The women made drinks and lowered themselves, still naked, into the hot tub. Io and Andronica had found something to bicker about and were trading catty barbs with each other. Cherie followed their argument for a while. Then she fixed her cold, blue eyes on Tam who was relaxing in the spa directly opposite her, smoking a cigarette and nursing a glass of iced mescal. "That was pretty strange what happened with me down there," Cherie said to her. By "down there," Tam assumed she was referring to down there in the sanctuary where the post-ritual festivities were probably just hitting their stride. "After those women would, you know, drink from me, they would look at me like I'd just granted their fondest wish. Like I had just given them eternal youth, or something." "Maybe you did," was Tam's laconic reply. "C'mon Tam," challenged Cherie. "This cream pie cult of yours, you know it's all bullshit." There, she said it. The other women ceased their verbal thrust and parry, suddenly interested in this other conversation. Tam just dragged on her cigarette and studied Cherie for a moment. Then she exhaled a cloud of smoke in Cherie's direction and said, "Of course, it's bullshit. But I get paid and everybody gets laid." Andronica whooped and clicked her glass against Tam's, then Io's. Cherie hesitated and then lifted and drained her own glass. Stubbing out her cigarette, Tam finished her thought. "Everything about us looks like bullshit when you're on the outside looking in. Don't diss the mystery until you've partaken of it. When I decide the time is right for you to have the revelation, then you'll understand everything." The powerful and attractive redhead hoisted herself out of the tub. "Who's ready for another drink? I'm buying." Another Harrowing was planned for the following weekend. This one was not intended to be quite as grand as the one Cherie had just endured. Only two of the Cup Maidens would be offered. Cherie knew one of the maidens would be her. That kind of went without saying. She did not know who the other maiden would be. During the days leading up to the ritual, Cherie went about her duties as Cup Maiden and pornae with a zest that surprised even her. But one thing was constantly near the front of her mind: the revelation. No matter what she was doing, or who she was fucking, the revelation was never far from her thoughts. She had so many questions and Tam's "outside looking in" remark still rankled. When would she receive it, and from whom? What would be revealed to her? And the most important question of all; would something be revealed that would help her win back her daughter? But it was not just the mystery of the revelation that so preoccupied her. Cherie just as often caught herself daydreaming about the act of partaking itself. In her old life, Cherie, buttoned up and frigid as she was, could never have conceived of something so strange and disgusting as putting her mouth to some woman's vagina and sucking a man's sperm out of it. Now it was practically all she could think about. No soon-to-be bride ever anticipated her wedding night as ardently as Cherie now longed to drink her fill from the brimming cup of one of her sisters. At last, the night of the next Harrowing had come. About a dozen tribades and an equal number of drones were in attendance, as was Eddie, Tam, the other Cup Maidens and the Incarnation. Two mats had been laid side by side in the sanctuary with the bolts in the floor configured so that the maidens to be bound to them would face in opposite directions. The Cup Maidens: Cherie, Io and Andronica, made their entry into the inner sanctum just as they had done the week before. Cherie walked over to Tam and knelt before her and then lay back on one of the mats as two women quickly set to the task of binding her wrists and knees. As for the vacant space beside her, the High Cup Maiden never needed to ask for a volunteer. Io stepped forward with no hesitation at all and took her place on the other mat as the tribades set about ritually securing her limbs as well. The mats and bolts had been placed so closely together that Cherie's and Io's knees touched. Io looked over at Cherie. "Baby, it looks like it's just you and me tonight. I hope you don't mind if I spray you." Cherie smiled. "Not if I spray you first." Just as before, the Incarnation walked ceremoniously into the chamber, mounted the dais and assumed her throne. The drumming started and within minutes Cherie and Io were being furiously fucked. Any trace of Cherie's former reticence was gone. She wanted this. Her lust for hard, successive penetrations was like a ravening animal down in her belly. She could not get enough. Were it not for these restraints, she would have wrapped her arms and legs around each one of her beloved drones, her men, and guided them in turn deep into the back of her womb. As it was, Cherie had to let her throbbing pussy express what the rest of her body could not. She would submit and be fucked and cum and cum again and God! Jesus! Etta! FUCK! The hot juices shot out of her. A few droplets alighted on Io's leg and Io, awash in her own agonies of pleasure, sent a broad spray in Cherie's direction. By the time the women drew in to take the sacrament, Io and Cherie were reduced to two petite masses of wet, quivering maiden flesh. Everyone assumed the ritual was over and a tribade untied Cherie. Another one tried to do the same for Io who snapped, "Get your hands off me, bitch!" She looked over at Eddie and demanded she be given on more drone. The Alpha obliged her with a man over twice her weight and age. Cherie sat at Io's side with her knees together on the cushion and watched. She was confused. Why would Io not just call it quits for the night and retire with her sisters upstairs? Everyone had been served, had they not? After several minutes of singularly savage copulation, the big drone heaved mightily and dissipated himself into Io's tiny body. As he slunk away, she turned exhaustedly to Cherie and bade her to drink from her cup. Cherie was taken aback. She looked to Tam for instruction. The High Cup Maiden did not like having her prerogatives usurped by Io, or anyone else for that matter, but with a nod she gave her reluctant consent. The coming of Cherie's revelation was finally at hand! Cherie positioned herself between Io's spread taut thighs and gazed down at her raw and glistening pussy. Everyone in the room was watching and, with no need for further encouragement, Cherie knelt down and pressed her lips deeply into the lush, yielding bounty of little Io's maidenhood. Cherie sucked and lapped and sucked some more until the heady broth of semen and Io's own copious juices flowed into Cherie from the tip of her teeth to the pit of her stomach. Sated at last, the newest Cup Maiden drew back onto her knees and awaited her revelation, her very own epiphany. The one she got was not the one she might have expected. The universe at that moment did not open up to her and reveal its mysteries, save for the one greatest mystery of them all. Looking down into Io's fierce dark eyes, Cherie realized that she was in love, deeply and hopelessly in love for the very first time in her life. And the object of her devotion was none other than the fiery young maiden with the elfin hair whose cup she had just drained. Cherie loved little Io. The ritual complete at last, Cherie and Io withdrew with their sisters upstairs for drinks and a well deserved soak in the hot tub. Then before their bodies could dry, Cherie took Io by the hand and led her into her bedchamber where they made love well into the night. IV. Lovers and Allies The next day Cherie went about her duties in the mansion as best she could. She was a little distracted. She could think of little else but Io: the object of her desires, the feel of her skin, the smell and taste of her. These thoughts looped obsessively through Cherie's mind. She wanted to learn everything there was to know about her new lover and to reveal the same about herself to her. There would be no secrets between them. And yet so much about Io remained a tantalizing mystery to Cherie. Who she was and the hows and whys of her being in this place were all still terra incognita to Cherie. Tonight, Cherie was sure, many of her questions would be answered. Io had invited her to her room for dinner. Late in the afternoon, her rounds made, Cherie sequestered herself in her room and set about making herself fresh and beautiful, or at least as beautiful as a naked woman can be. In recent weeks Cherie had taken up the practice of adorning her body with jewelry. She had found it right there in her bureau so she assumed it was okay to wear it around the estate. She favored a pair of diamond or simple hoop earrings, five or six very expensive-looking bracelets, a thin gold chain that hung loosely around her hips and an anklet that only Cup Maidens were permitted to wear. She wanted to appear at Io's door looking feminine and delectable. Then her lover could do with her as she pleased. Cherie showered and washed and dried her hair but her girl remained quite wet. She had been like that all day. At what Cherie assumed was the appointed hour, Io's invite had been characteristically short on specifics, she rapped lightly on Io's door, waited, and rapped again. As nervous as she was about being in the forbidden realm that was Io's room, she did not like standing outside Io's door in all her fuckable glory for everyone in the mansion to see. There was no rule forbidding Cup Maidens, or anyone else in the Church, from entering into special relationships. Indeed it was expected. Cherie just did not like everyone knowing her business. This might seem like a strange attitude for someone who is not allowed to wear clothes to have but Cherie was funny that way. After another moment's hesitation, Cherie turned the knob and let herself in. She had imagined Io's bedchamber to be some sort of macabre shrine to restraints and punishments. What she now saw was quite different. While works of art by the likes of Gric and Giger were to be seen on the walls, the décor was more scholastic than perverse. Tall, heavily-burdened bookshelves predominated throughout the apartment which was considerably larger than Cherie's. She could hear the shower running so she decided to have a look around. The room in which Cherie stood was not a bedroom at all but a small den or study complete with leather sofa, chairs, coffee tables and, of course, lots of books. Further in, she found a kitchen and dinette. Cherie was about to step into the bedroom when she heard the water shut off and Io's voice called out, "Cherie, is that you?" "Yeah, I'm not too early, am I?" "Not at all. Make yourself comfy. I'll be right out." Cherie busied herself reading some of the titles of Io's books. What she found was some pretty heavy-duty reading material: the complete works of Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe, Plato, Camus, Thucydides, Darwin, Adam Smith, Nietzsche, Ezra Pound. Cherie's head was starting to pound just looking at them. Was it possible that this fiery little pixie had actually read all these forbidding tomes? It would appear so for many of them had been heavily bookmarked. On a desk top Cherie spied a stack of papers containing Io's own compositions. Cherie was expecting Goth-chick poetry but what she found were letters to various literary journals in which Io exploded the pretensions of this or that fave new writer with unimpeachable logic and crisp, understated prose. There was indeed more to this complex young woman than met the eye. Cherie had suspected as much. Io entered the room still brushing a towel over her short hair. She was naked except for a pair of thin white cotton panties. Pitching the towel over a chair, she walked up to Cherie and took her by the hips. "Mmm. Look at you!" and she purred by rattling her tongue in the back of her mouth. Cherie held up one of the letters she had been reading. "Did you write all this?" she asked, still incredulous. "Yep. " "So where did you go to college?" Cherie persisted. "You're standing in it." Then by way of elaboration, Io added, "The Children of Etta aren't stupid, some of the drones not withstanding." Cherie had to laugh at the obvious humor of that remark. She was impressed. She was more than impressed, she was horny. "If you think that's something," offered Io, "come take a look at this." Cherie followed that cute butt into the bedroom. She could not wait to get those panties off of her, to hell with dinner. Io hopped onto her bed like a pumped up school girl and opened up a laptop computer. Then she reached over to a night stand and picked up a small pair of reading glasses. Cherie had never seen Io in glasses. The transformative effect on her face was astounding. There was so much about this woman-child that no one ever got to see, that never left this room. She was bestowing a great honor upon Cherie by letting her into her world like this and she hardly seemed to be giving it a second thought. Cherie was moved. "I'm sort of the head of PR for the organization," Io explained excitedly. "Let me show you want I've been working on lately. I've been putting together a webpage for the COE. The trick is to make us look as innocuous as Mormons but without all the milquetoast and covered wagons. We want to put a message out there that will attract the right sort of people without getting too much into the details 'cause, you know, what happens at the mansion.... Anyway, I'm kind of stuck and was hoping you could help me out. We can work on it together. You're good at this sort of thing, right?" This was all getting to be too much for Cherie to absorb in one night. The Io she knew did not wear Lisa Loeb glasses, design web pages and use words like "innocuous." How many facets did this girl have? Cherie was ready to take her right now while they were both on the bed. But there was one thing she had to know first. "I'm just a paralegal, not a web designer, but I'd love to help you. I'm here for you." Cherie leaned over and kissed Io whose hand reached up and found Cherie's breast. "We can work on it later. Right now there's something I want to ask you." Io cocked her head. "Oh?" "You know how I feel about you. I just need to know if..." Io intuited what Cherie was about to say. "Cherie, I've loved you from the moment that I said I loved you." "And then you started beating me with a whip!" "It's a very intimate act, don't you think? You were practically dangling by your wrists from the ceiling all nice and naked like you are now and I was putting the leather to your flesh, and there was no one else in the whole world but you and me. I fell hard for you right then and there." Cherie now knew for certain that her love for this woman was going to be reciprocated, come what may. Now there was but one thing left to talk about. "Io, will you submit to me right here and now?" "Yes, Cherie. I'm here for you." That was all Cherie needed to hear. She folded away the laptop and pushed Io back onto the bed. Io passively offered up her arms to be bound. Restraints were near at hand: four lengths of braided nylon that attached to wrists and ankles with Velcro and buckles with the other ends secured to the bed posts. Cherie bound Io's arms tight without bothering to remove her glasses. Cherie was on top of the girl now with her mouth locked upon hers. While she forced Io to suck her tongue, Cherie's hand ground the crotch of Io's cotton panties into her pussy until they were nice and wet. Sitting up, Cherie declared, "These have to go," and proceeded to yank the well-marinated panties off of Io's body. Cherie then wadded them into a neat, moist ball. "Open wide," she commanded and Io docilely complied. She stuffed the ripe, crumpled garment into Io's mouth and went to work tying her legs to the posts at the foot of the bed. "I'm going to eat you up, little girl!" Cherie's voice was vehement and she spoke through gritted teeth. The figurative whip was in her hand now and she was really getting into character. But she did not intend to beat her lover. She had something else in mind. "You said I still owed you head. Well now I'm going to give it to you." The degree of sadistic lust in Cherie's voice was menacing. "This time you'll take what I have to give you on my terms. You're going to be a good, submissive little Io and cum in Cherie's mouth, every drop, or I'll munch that fat clit of yours and swallow it while you watch!" Io turned her eyes to the ceiling and her nostrils flared but she said nothing. Indeed she could not, gagged as she was on her own underwear. Cherie did not go at once to Io's exposed and helpless cunt. That would have been too easy. She was intent upon drawing out her moment of dominance and conquest. What she had in mind for her lover was something she had taken to calling the Ordeal of a Hundred Bites. Cherie began with Io's tiny feet. She took Io's three smallest toes into her mouth and bit down hard, not quite hard enough to break the skin but hard enough to leave a temporary mark. There was pain in Io's muffled cry, but there was something else too. Cherie bit her way up the length of Io's firm, athletic legs which had grown red with welts. Cherie reserved two special nips for those short, taut muscles of the inner thigh that joined Io's legs to her body core. As Cherie pressed forward to sink her teeth into them, Io's inner lips planted a wet kiss on each of Cherie's cheeks. Cherie stopped and inhaled deeply of her lover, letting her breath caress the bound nymph's pussy. She then moved herself forward to place deep bites upon Io's neck, arms and shoulders. Each of Io's cupcake breasts fit fully into Cherie's open mouth and, as she bit down on them, she let her tongue play across her prey's hard, swollen nipples. Then she bit those too. Io whimpered and struggled against her bonds as Cherie worked her way slowly past her navel. The girl's coil had become very tightly wound indeed. Cherie was very near an orgasm of her own as she sank her teeth into the fleshy hump of Io's bare, fragrant pubis mons. Io had endured 99 of the prescribed 100 bites. Of the front of her bound and twitching body, there was but one place that had not felt her lover's teeth. Cherie placed herself between Io's outstretched legs. She licked her lips and pulled her hair back away from her face, then she lay prone upon the bed and buried her face into the girl's thighs. Her lips found Io's throbbing clitoris which protruded out of its protective hood a full, fat inch. Cherie's front teeth surrounded it from above and below and slowly closed in. Her tongue scrubbed brusquely at the strange little appendage before she inhaled and sucked it and much of the flesh around it into her mouth. Cherie's head rotated in tight circles as she hungrily tried to draw more and more of Io's genitals ever deeper into her mouth. Io screamed into the panties wadded up in her mouth and sent a hot spray of cum down Cherie's chin and throat. Cherie immediately shifted her open mouth down from Io's clit just in time to catch the second, third and fourth bursts which splashed against the back of her mouth and disappeared down her throat. She continued to suck and bite at Io's pussy until the girl sighed and went limp. Cherie removed the gag from Io's mouth and loosed her restraints. "My turn," declared Io as she reached up and grabbed two handfuls of Cherie's hair and kissed her hotly on the mouth. Io had something special in mind for Cherie as well. She positioned her on the bed on all fours. Her wrists were bound together and tied to a length of nylon fastened beneath the center of the headboard. Io pushed Cherie's head down until the side of her face was pressed firmly against the mattress. "Are you prepared to submit and be conquered?" she asked. "I am," was Cherie's solemn reply. Io picked up the sodden panties and commanded Cherie to open up; she then pushed them into Cherie's mouth. Now it was Cherie's turn to feel vulnerable, her face pressed into the bed covers and her ass pointed into the air above her knees. She stole a glance and saw Io reach into a dresser drawer and produce an ungainly apparatus consisting in the main of straps, buckles and a pair of thick, 9" phalluses of firm latex protruding from a common base. The twin dildos were at least an inch thick and spaced about ¾" apart. The tiniest Cup Maiden set about strapping and harnessing the device onto her body. Cherie noticed that a small forked appendage curved from beneath the base and gripped Io's clit in its tines. Cherie would have thought it comical to see two large penises sprouting from the body of this little woman had they not been pointed directly at her own exposed crotch and the woman had not been her Io. A moment of panic seized Cherie. She had never been penetrated like this before. Io mounted the bed and stood on her knees directly behind Cherie. She spread Cherie's legs until her ass was depressed to just the right height. Io's panties in her mouth muffled her pleas as Io placed the twin cock heads hard against the entrance to Cherie's anus and vagina, and pushed. Then Cherie remembered who she was. She was a Cup Maiden and chosen lover of this incredible teenage girl who was intent on finding novel ways to take pleasure from her. Cherie would give that pleasure with gladness. She would submit and be conquered. Cherie eased her backside towards the twin phalluses, meeting Io's thrusts, impaling herself. Soon the two women were joined as the device was fully embedded in Cherie's vagina and rectum. When maximum penetration had been achieved, Io reached down to the base of the thing and flipped a switch. Something like an electric jolt shot through Cherie's belly as the twin cocks began to hum and vibrate angrily. A sudden yelp followed by moans of pleasure rattled in her throat. Io leaned forward and grasped Cherie's breasts, her sharp hip bones grinding into Cherie's buttocks. Io and Cherie were literally plugged into each other and a common current of carnal ecstasy arced through both of their bodies. Io pulled back until only the heads of the buzzing cocks remained embedded in Cherie's orifices, then she drove them into her up to the hilt, emphatically, again and again. Io wanted Cherie to know that she was still Io, special relationship or not. Shrill animal sounds escaped pitifully from the sides of Cherie's mouth and she yielded up her essence in gushes all over the juddering base of the apparatus, and over and down Io's welted belly and thighs. Io grunted and cursed in a rage of sexual conquest and glory before collapsing over and down Cherie's bare back, the infernal device still humming between and within them. Only after the aftershocks had finally subsided did Io withdraw and remove the strap-on and let it fall to the floor. Cherie was set free and the lovers lay panting in each others' arms. It was Cherie who found the breath to speak first. "Where the fuck did you get that thing?" she gasped. "Bought it online, I guess. Sometimes I go shopping in town so I might've got it there." This remark piqued Cherie's interest. "You have money to shop?" she asked. "Of course I have money. I'm a Cup Maiden." Io said this as if no further explanation was required. "How long have you been here?" "You mean since the last time I went shopping?" "No," Cherie clarified. "I mean how long have you lived in the mansion, in the Church of Etta?" "Oh." Io thought a moment. "I've always lived here, as far back as I can remember. The way it was told to me, I was gifted to Etta by one of the tribades. She raised me herself until I was seven. She was mom to me. After she died, Tam and Eddie took care of me." "So you don't know who your real parents are?" Cherie asked. "What about Martin? I heard you call him daddy that time." Cherie still found it difficult to speak directly of the day she was first dragged into the Harrowing chamber. "Martin?" snorted Io. "That was just fuck-talk. Martin's not my father; I'm pretty sure of that. Nobody's ever told me who my father is. Had I known, I would have tried to fuck his brains out every day. I always wanted a daddy." "So who decided you should become a Cup Maiden?" Cherie was fascinated now. "I did, cupcake. By the time I was six I was sneaking down to the sanctuary to peep in and watch the Harrowing of the Cup Maidens. I loved to watch. They were so beautiful and everyone worshipped them. So one night I decided it would be okay for me to sit in on the ritual, you know, as a spectator. I pulled off all my clothes and tiptoed into the room, like nobody would notice a naked little kid hanging around. I was wrong, of course. Everybody noticed, and Etta freaked. She stopped the ritual, ran over to where I was sitting on the floor, spun me around and started beating my bare ass with her hand while everybody watched. I screamed and cried but it was all for show. Momma Etta had just given me my first 'gasm. Nice! I think she knew it too because she didn't drag me out of there. She just told me to go sit in a corner and keep quiet. From that day on, I knew I was going to be a Cup Maiden. It was just a question of when." "So what happened?" Cherie wanted to know. "By the time I was nine, I was fed up with just watching and I started pestering Tam to let me take a more active role in the rituals. I was almost like Etta's real daughter, after all. So one night she finally gives in and lets me have the revelation right out of her own juicy cup. She said that was what Etta did for her when she was about my age. Tam told me that Etta had seen the halo around my belly when I was still just a baby and had told her all about it. When I heard that, I was ready to start getting my tiny cup filled right then and there but Tam said it was still too soon. So the woman gives me a kid-sized dildo and tells me I need to open myself up a little first. Did I mention I was always kind of small for my age? Anyway, I fell in love with Dildo Jr. I think I actually tried to mount him on my bicycle seat with duct tape and glue. Then on the night of my tenth birthday, it all became a done deal. I got fucked and sucked, and the rest, as they say, has been one long, terrific orgasm." "Wow!" Cherie was impressed by Io's story. "So what about Andronica? Was she raised by Etta too?" Io snorted. "That's what she'd say if you asked her. Truth is, Tam found Andronica on the campus of some junior college about a year ago and brought her in as a Cup Maiden. She said Etta came to her in a dream and told her she would meet this smokin' hot black chick who had the halo. Some shit like that." "So Andronica was pornae before me?" Cherie asked. "Yeah, for about a week," said Io dryly. "Then Tam pulls her out of here and sets her up in her own condo uptown. Like I've said before, Andronica is Tam's pet. But I don't feel like talking about her right now. You hungry?" "Yeah, kind of," answered Cherie truthfully. "Me too, but I'm not in the mood to cook." declared Io. "I think I'll buzz the kitchen upstairs and have my handmaiden make us some sushi. She's good at that. She's Asian, you know." Io reached over to the night stand and picked up a cell phone. As she put it to her ear, she realized with a twinge of annoyance that she was still wearing her spectacles. In the days that followed her date with Io, Cherie felt good. In all of her 28 years she had never before experienced the bliss of sharing a bed with someone she loved. She truly loved Io. She loved to fuck. And she loved being a Cup Maiden. Not at any previous time in Cherie's life had she felt she belonged anywhere. Her thousand simple acts of submission had brought her to this place where she felt she truly belonged. She could not say that she was happy. How could she? Her daughter had been alienated from her. Cherie was just a much favored cup to Cindy. But at least she could console herself with the knowledge that her little girl was the object of adoration of all the Children and the focal point of the religion Cherie now embraced almost without reservation. She could have remained contented in her new life indefinitely had it not been for a casual remark from Tam. It was late on a Friday night and the maidens were soaking in the spa. There was a late autumn chill in the air and the bubbling jets of warm water felt soothing on Cherie's cup which had been filled and drained many times that evening. Tam informed the gathered maidens that she, Eddie and Cindy had been giving much thought lately to bringing a new Cup Maiden into the fold. Cherie received this bit of news with some ambivalence. She certainly felt she deserved a promotion from pornae. It would be nice to have her clothes back. On the other hand, she did not relish the thought of presiding over, and participating in, the ritual of initiating a new Cup Maiden. She just could not see herself dishing out to some terrified young woman the kind of torments she had had to endure. The way Tam now told it, she and Eddie had hit upon the idea of recruiting from the ranks of Eastern European mail order brides. Eddie or maybe Jeff would pose as a successful American business man looking to join with one of these naïve Russian or Ukrainian flowers in a lifetime of western marital bliss. Once the new girl was safely delivered into their hands, the trap would be sprung and they would all be feasting on exotic new pussy, specially imported. The only hitch in the plan was that the Incarnation could not see the telltale halo of the Cup Maiden around any of these women whose photos she had been shown. Consequently, the idea was scrubbed. Then, almost as an afterthought, Tam remarked that the three of them: she, Eddie and Cindy, had decided to go on a little road trip across the heartland to case the local talent. Red flags shot up and waved in Cherie's mind when she heard this last little tidbit. It did not surprise her that Cindy could not "see" the halo around any of the foreign mail order brides. She knew her own daughter well enough to know that she was not in the least interested in recruiting some new woman as Cup Maiden. What Cindy wanted was a friend and playmate, someone her own age. The three of them were going to cruise around in a van until they spotted some little girl who appealed to Cindy, abduct her, and bring the poor, frightened child back to the mansion for further proceedings. Cherie could not just sit back and let this happen. She was going to have to act and act soon. All she needed was a plan and a little information. That night as she and Io lay curled up next to each other, Cherie ventured to ask her what she could remember about Etta's death. "I was only seven," Io recalled. "All I remember is that one day Etta was really sick to her stomach so she took to bed. About a week later Tam came to my room to tell me that Etta had passed to a higher plane and that she and Eddie would take care of me from then on." "They never tried to take her to the hospital?" asked Cherie. "They said she didn't want to go to a hospital. And anyway, Dr. Marty was checking on her." "And nobody ever told you a cause of death?" "No, I guess not." "Aren't you a little bit interested to know what killed her, for the record?" "Yeah, I guess I am now that you bring it up," replied Io. "Listen baby," proposed Cherie. "I want us to take a trip into the city, to the courthouse, so that I can pull up a death certificate and maybe a few other things. Some things that have gone down around here just don't make a lot of sense to me and we could both sleep better, and be better Cup Maidens, if we had some answers." Io sat up in bed and looked intently into Cherie's eyes. "Do you know what you're saying?" she queried. "Tam and Eddie aren't going to have a sense of humor about you poking around for skeletons. And what if your worst suspicions are justified? Then what? They'll dump your body somewhere and they'll still have your kid. When the shit hits the fan, and it will, I won't have the juice to protect you. I'll be doing good to keep my own ass out of a ditch." Cherie knew Io was right and she did not blame her lover for having misgivings. Fortunately, Cherie had anticipated her reaction and had come up with an idea to enhance their strength and give them a little insurance. "What we need," confided Cherie, "is muscle. We need an ally among the drones, and I know just the dude." "L.T.!" whispered Io grinning. "I want you to get hold of him for me and tell him I'd very much like a little date with him. Tell him I want to see him sometime the middle of this week. Nothing fancy, just the two of us in my room. Me and the big fella have business to discuss." Io was as new at love as Cherie was but she knew that being committed to someone sometimes meant taking a leap of faith for that person. What her lover was proposing amounted to, at best, insubordinate meddling. At worst, the woman was talking outright insurrection in the Church of Etta. This was dangerous, seditious stuff. But thrilling too! And having L.T. on board would go a long way towards leveling the field. Both the women knew that he would demand a high price for his complicity, a price her lover would have to be ready to pay at that first meeting, and many times thereafter. But Io had faith in Cherie. She would submit to the big man and make him an instrument of her will. She was a Cup Maiden in full. Io made the call and L.T. arrived at the mansion at the agreed time. Cherie never doubted he would show up and she met him in the foyer, rose up on her toes to kiss him and whispered in his ear how glad she was he had come. L.T. ran his hands down Cherie's bare back and ass. He was already glad he had come too. It was not unusual for drones to drop by the mansion at odd hours during the week for a snack so no one would have thought it especially noteworthy for Cherie to take him by the hand and lead him into her bedchamber. She was merely fulfilling her obligations as pornae. L.T. closed the door to Cherie's room behind them; then he lifted her up and tossed her onto the bed. Cherie let out a cry of surprise as she tried to stop herself from bouncing. L.T. began to unbutton his shirt. "I'm going to take my clothes off now, snow bunny," he told her. "And I'm gonna do it slow so you can tell me why it is you wanna see me." Cherie let him steal a look at her shy pink pussy as she shifted to all fours and advanced towards him down the length of the bed with feline grace. "It gets dull around here sometimes," she purred. "You can't blame one of Etta's girls for daydreaming about spending a little quality one-on-one time with the Alpha." LT. looked at her askance. "Eddie's the Alpha," he reminded her. "In name only," Cherie countered. "You're the true Alpha around here and everybody knows it. Nobody gives you shit, except maybe Tam and Eddie. The way I hear it, you were the favorite of Etta herself. And then Etta dies and these two kids take over. Tam starts calling herself High Cup Maiden and she disrespects you by making Eddie the Alpha Drone. Eddie? Do you think that's how Etta wanted it? You knew the woman." L.T. was completely disrobed now but instead of grabbing Cherie and pounding his dick into her as he had been planning not two minutes ago, he just sat on the bed next to her, lost in his memories. "I've been waiting a long time for somebody around here to start talkin' some sense," he finally said. "I loved Etta. She was a great lady and I always thought that those two killed her, but I can't prove nothin'." "I think I can prove it," offered Cherie. "But I'm going to need your help. Help me and Io and we'll will make you the Alpha." "Io's in on this too? Shit woman! Why didn't you say so? What is it you want me to do?" Cherie slowly slid her body off the bed and positioned herself at L.T.'s feet. "First I need for you to fuck me," she cooed and she swallowed the broad head of his cock, fellating it lovingly, the way Eve blew Adam in the Garden of Eden. The big man growled with pleasure and his cock stiffened and climbed into the back of Cherie's mouth. "But there might be something else I want," he informed her. Cherie thought she knew what he was about to tell her and hastened to cut him off. "You can't fuck my daughter," she told him peremptorily. "At least not anytime soon. She's just a child, for chrissake. I might want grandchildren someday." "I'm no babyfucker!" bristled L.T. "What I want is to feel your sweet ass wrapped around my pole." Cherie smiled inwardly. This was exactly what she wanted to hear and she had already prepared herself to receive all of him. She bade him to lie down on her bed. L.T. looked at her doubtfully but did as she asked. Cherie straddled his thighs and grasped the base of his cock until it stood straight up from his body. Placing one hand on his hard stomach, she leaned up and forward on her knees and, reaching behind her, grasped his monstrous, thick tool and guided to the waiting lips of her vagina. "Is this what you want?" she teased. "No?" Cherie rocked her pelvis back and forth until the head of his cock glistened with her juices. Then, with her eyes downcast in resolute concentration, she positioned L.T.'s cock back until she felt the head of the thing pressure her tight anal sphincter. Cherie exhaled slowly, eased her body down and let herself be slowly impaled. She closed her eyes tight and cried out in pain but continued her downward course letting gravity do its work. Leaning back until she was perpendicular to her man's reclining body, and ramrod straight, Cherie seized hold of one of his hands and placed his thumb in her mouth. She removed the wet appendage and guided it down the center line of her body. L.T. took the hint and began massaging his broad thumb in slow circles over and around Cherie's pert clitoral button. Cherie moaned softly as fresh waves of pleasure radiated out from her girl and rippled up and down her spine. L.T. gripped her waist and thrust hard up into her until all of his cock was embedded in Cherie's belly up to her navel. Unspeakable pain and excruciating pleasure lay equal claim to Cherie's body. She set her mind to giving the immense, rock hard intruder all of the friction it craved while she fought to speak. "There is... something I want you...to do to.. .me... when I am High Cup... Maiden... and you are my... Alpha," she coughed in between gasps and groans. "Hang me by... my ankles... from the rafters... in the sanc... tuary. Bind my wrists like this..." Cherie crossed her arms behind her back making her C-cup breasts stand high and firm for L.T. "...and fuck my throat... God!... I'd love that!" Just the mental picture of this anticipated new sex act pushed them both to the brink of orgasm. L.T. flipped Cherie onto her stomach. He leaned into her with his powerful hips and pistoned his cock in and out of Cherie's ass until she felt it spasm and flood her rectum, releasing her own furious epiphany of fulfillment. Later L.T. lay on his back on the bed watching Cherie's ceiling fan go round. Cherie had curled up next to him exhausted with the side of her face against his pectoral and her fingers playing absently in his silver chest hair. Her words still rattled in his brain. Yes, he was the true Alpha and everyone knew it. Eddie was a usurper. The title of Alpha Drone was just that, a title. But L.T. coveted it. And now it would be his thanks to this shrewd, deliciously fuckable young woman who was only too happy to receive him in every orifice of her being. Cherie stirred and looked into L.T.'s face. "There's something I've been wanting to ask you," she whispered. "Yeah?" "Did you fuck some girl in the ass while you drowned her in the pool?" "Say what?" "Nothing. Never mind." V. Power Play Her team in place, Cherie wasted little time arranging her fact-finding mission to the county courthouse. Ellen Anne had put together an outfit for her to wear: a sleeveless blue and white gingham dress, a light knit sweater, matching wedges, even a bra and panties! Cherie looked at herself in the full-length mirror. It was not an ensemble she would have picked for herself, at least not this late in the year, but it would have to do. It felt strange to have clothes on her body again but the dress was a perfect size 2 and Cherie thought she looked pretty good in it. She found it ironic that being clothed after weeks of enforced nudity put her in a mood to fuck. But there was no time for that. She had work to do. Ellen Anne had located Cherie's old briefcase from storage. As a paralegal Cherie had not had much use for it preferring instead the roomier file cases. Now she loaded it with various documents she had gleaned from the archives. Cherie did not know how many of these little field trips away from the estate she would be able to pull off and she wanted at all times to be in a position to take her plan to the next level. The ideal situation, Cherie knew, was to be able to gather enough dirt to secure a court order exhuming Etta's body for autopsy. But of course the present regime wasted little time having it cremated and the ashes were preserved in an urn beneath Etta's portrait in the sanctuary. Cherie collected a few teaspoons of ash in a small envelope and added it to the contents of the briefcase. She was not sure if they would be of any use to her today but she wanted them there with her just in case. With the away team assembled, Io placed Cherie in handcuffs and led her right out the front door of the mansion. Their cover story was that Cherie was being taken to a smaller coven of the Children located about 60 miles away and that she, Io and L.T. would likely return late that evening. It was not unusual for Cup Maidens, pornae in particular, to be passed around in this manner and, since Cherie's hands were cuffed, Jeff's boys would not give the matter a second thought. The briefcase might have aroused suspicions, however. It was concealed in a futon which L.T. stuffed in the back of Io's Pathfinder. Once the vehicle was out of sight of the mansion, the cuffs came off. For the rest of the 30 mile journey into the city, no one hardly said a word. Cherie entered the Hall of Records in high spirits. It felt good to be back in her old element. L.T. and Io were off killing time somewhere and Cherie was alone to do the thing she used to do best. There were answers to be had in these millions of archived documents and she was going to find them. Cherie had considered looking up Io's birth records to discover the identities of her biological parents but time was short and Cherie had other fish to fry. She began by finding and copying Etta's death certificate. Her cause of death was listed simply as "coronary disease" and was signed by Martin C. McGrift, M.D., good ol' Dr. Marty. With death certificate in hand, Cherie plunged into the probate records and located the Last Will and Testament of Etta Marie Ste. Cecile-Toutont. It did not surprise her much to read that Etta left everything to Eddie and Tam with Eddie named as executor. Cherie was more interested in authenticating the document. She had in her briefcase at least four samples of Etta's signature. Now she compared them to the signature on the Will and, although she was admittedly no expert in such things, she determined that signature to be a forgery. Not an obvious forgery, but a forgery all the same. It was the attestation of the instrument she found most curious of all. Etta's signature had been witnessed by none other than Dr. Marty and Jeff. All of the signatures had been notarized by a woman Cherie recognized from her research as being Martin's former office manager. She had also been one of the tribades for several years until she was banished for having sexual relations with someone outside the Church. At this point things really began to get interesting. About a year after Etta's Will was submitted to probate, all of her considerable personal estate, as well as all of the assets of the Church, were transferred to a not-for-profit corporation called the Foundation for the Moral Advancement of Young Women. Cherie laughed out loud when she read that one. She pulled up the corporation's charter and discovered that its Board of Trustees consisted of Eddie, Tam, Martin and Jeff, and its officers were Eddie and Tam. The Foundation was easily the largest single property holder in the county. Cherie kept a running toll of assets in her head that had a combined value well into eight figures. And this was only for real and personal property holdings in the county. She surmised that, given a full accounting, the final tally of assets would be much, much larger. Everything had been consolidated into the Foundation. Even title to Tam and Eddie's house and cars, as well as those of the other trustees, were held by it. Tam and Eddie, Martin and Jeff were sitting on top of an empire, a financial behemoth, all thanks to the late Etta. Cherie's first impulse was to gather up the papers she had found and take them straight to the lawyers, but she demurred. Her instincts told her that a key piece of the puzzle was still missing. After another two hours of searching, she found it. When Io was just two years old, Etta had papers drawn up and filed legally adopting the child. Io was Etta's daughter and sole heir and no one, not Tam or Eddie, not even Io herself, had any idea! Now Cherie was ready to light the fuse. She hastily organized her treasure trove of documents and stuffed them into the briefcase, then she gathered up her bored confederates and hustled them to the car. They still had one more stop to make. They were headed to the law firm where Cherie had most recently worked. It was time to bring some big guns to bear. The idea of hanging out in a law office did not appeal much to L.T. so they took him to a tittie bar. Io gave him a hundred bucks and told him to stay out of trouble until they came back for him. Simon Lindenmeyer was a senior partner who specialized in estate planning and probate litigation. Like the rest of the partners and associates, he had never been especially fond of Cherie, if he ever even acknowledged her existence at all. And no one at the firm was pleased at the sudden, mysterious manner by which she left their employ. Now it was late afternoon and Cherie was camped out in the waiting area with some strange, gum-smacking teenager. Mr. Lindenmeyer reluctantly agreed to give them five minutes of his time. He was a busy man. They all sat down at a conference table and, without preamble, Cherie launched into a chronological recitation of facts supported by documents she pushed across the table to him one at a time. With Cherie ten minutes into her presentation, the elder attorney decided he rather liked Cherie. He liked her a lot. Mr. Lindenmeyer buzzed his secretary and told her to clear his schedule for the rest of the day and to bring him the requisite new client representation contracts ASAP. His wife had been nagging him to retire and now he could. When this case finished paying out, he could retire to the Keys if he wanted to. As they drove back to the mansion that evening, Cherie recounted the day's events to L.T. who was excited and aroused by what he heard. He wanted to stay the night with Cherie and that was okay except she did not think Io should have to sleep alone after having received the news of how egregiously she had been betrayed all these years. She was driving at frightful speed and kept repeating how Tam and Eddie and the rest were all dead to her. Cherie proposed that they bed down together for the night and the motion carried unanimously. It made Cherie wet just thinking about it. Both of her lovers were going to be in one bed and she intended to fuck them right into dream land. That night in Io's room the three cabalists held their own impromptu ritual. L.T. filled one maiden and then the other and the women drank a toast to their success from each other's cups. Afterward they all lay in bed together and spoke in low voices of the brave new world that awaited them once the work that was begun that day was complete. Cherie chose the following Friday for the confrontation. Tam, Eddie and Cindy would be arriving in the afternoon in anticipation of that night's ceremonies. The next day they were to embark on their "road trip." Cherie planned to meet them outside in front of the mansion. She did not want Eddie and Tam stepping foot in the house she had begun to think of as Io's and her own. Friday afternoon was warm but damp. It had rained off and on most of the day. Cherie had dressed herself in a white blouse, black skirt, heels and hose. She was not dressed for fucking. She was dressed for battle. Her mind was her gun and the file folder in her hand was the ammunition. Io, L.T. and Ellen Anne were also outside to witness the carnage. Cherie would have preferred not to have so much back up. Today she feared no one, especially not Eddie or Tam. The problem was that Io insisted she be present. She wanted to bite a chunk out of Tam's face. This bit of performance art was something Cherie could do without and, because she was not sure L.T. could restrain Io by himself, she asked her handmaiden to stand by as well. Just as expected, an SUV pulled into the drive in front of the mansion. Eddie, Tam, Cindy and Andronica were all inside. The vehicle had hardly come to a complete stop before the front passenger door swung open and Tam charged out. Three other doors opened as well. "It looks like some little bitch forgot the rules around here!" Tam raged as she stomped over to where Cherie was silently standing her ground. "If your ass is not bare by the time I count to..." Tam never got to finish that thought. Cherie held up a piece of paper eyeball level to her face. "What the fuck is this?" Tam sputtered. "I'm going to try to explain this to you slowly and I need for you to listen carefully," instructed Cherie. "This is an ex parte order placing the assets of the Foundation in receivership. All of the assets, all of the bank accounts, all the lines of credit, everything are seized and frozen pending an investigation." Tam took the piece of paper and stared at it dumbly. Eddie stepped forward to join the fray and help out his wife. "Investigation of what?" he demanded. "Let's start with submitting a forged will to probate and the theft and gross mismanagement of Church assets," Cherie began. "Then let's talk about the way you defrauded Etta's daughter out of her inheritance." Tam and Eddie stared at Cherie dumbfounded as if she was speaking some new kind of English that they had not quite got the hang of yet. "Daughter?" they asked. Cherie showed them the adoption papers. They honestly had no idea. "Etta adopted Io?" they wanted to know. "That's Mme. Ste. Cecile-Toutont to you, douche bags!" shouted little Io as L.T. held her by the elbows. "But it gets even better," Cherie continued. "There will be a full investigation of Etta's murder with indictments soon to follow." Eddie felt some of his old confidence returning. Cherie had caught him flatfooted with her photocopies and wild accusations but now she had gone too far. She had overplayed her hand and the game was up for her. Too bad. She was a terrific piece of ass. It would be missed. "How are you going to prove murder?" he condescended to ask. "Etta was cremated, you dumb cunt. The old bag's nothing but ashes now." "Ashes which you were so kind as to preserve for us," replied Cherie evenly. "This might be a news flash for you but heavy metals don't burn, dingus. Elements like lead, cadmium, thallium, antimony, arsenic will all still be present in high concentrations in the ash." Cherie was not sure if she was on solid forensic ground, but no matter. She just hoped she could state her case with enough authority to frighten her antagonists into doing something stupid. With this plan in mind, she leaned into the pair. "I have turned over a sample of Etta's ashes to my attorneys who have forwarded it on to the D.A.'s office for analysis. If the test results come back negative, I will gladly ride somebody's dick to the bottom of the pool. If they come back positive, warrants will be issued for your arrest for fraud and murder." Cherie's gambit worked splendidly. Eddie had heard enough. It had been a good run but he knew his and Tam's little show was over. He would like to have killed Cherie where she stood but L.T.'s presence in her corner made such a move ill-advised. There was nothing left to do but to make a run for it. He retreated quickly towards the SUV. Tam turned to follow but as she did she grabbed the hand of Cindy who had moved in close to follow the confrontation between her surrogates and this new Cup Maiden she had once called her mom. Cherie reached out and snatched the other hand and for a moment the child was caught in a tug of war between the two women. "Let go of my daughter, you cow, unless you want to add a charge of kidnapping to the list," she advised Tam icily. "Forget about the brat, Tam!" called Eddie as he started up the car. "Let's just get the fuck outta here!" As a stiff rain began to fall, they watched Tam and Eddie exit the driveway and peel out onto the main road never to be seen nor heard from again. Andronica was standing off to the side numbly. She had just watched the tumblers of her own fortunes be radically re- aligned and she could not begin to think of what to do or what was to become of her now that she had been deserted by her benefactress. Ellen Anne came over to her side and, taking her by the elbow, led her into the mansion. Cindy's world had also just been knocked on its side and she looked up at her mother with fear and uncertainty as raindrops streamed down both their faces. Cherie's eyes, so much like her daughter's and, some would say, Etta's, surveyed the child coolly. "And now, young lady, there is the little matter of what to do with you." After everyone else had gone inside, Cherie took Cindy firmly by the shoulders and walked her to the door. This was going to be a day the child would long remember. It was, among other things, her twelfth birthday. VI. The Cleansing of the Temple The group of the Children who were outside: Cherie, Io, L.T., Ellen Anne, Andronica and Cindy, gathered in the anteroom. Everyone looked to Cherie for direction of what to do next. She gestured to Andronica and Cindy and said, "I want those two stripped and taken into the inner sanctum. The ritual of Ascension begins now." Cherie began removing her wet clothes and tossed them onto a nearby chair. She had not really thought through how the ritual she now contemplated should proceed. She doubted if there was a specific protocol as there was no precedent in the Church of Etta for what was about to take place. Io, L.T. and Ellen Anne wasted little time following Cherie's lead. Even Andronica obediently stripped and waited to be told what to do next. Io gleefully set upon Cindy's clothing, squeezing and biting her body as she went. Soon the Incarnation was standing shivering in the anteroom, naked but for her flower tiara and necklace. L.T. picked up Cindy and threw her over his shoulder. As he carried her into the inner sanctum, the child looked like some tiny broken doll as she lay draped across his broad, muscled chest and back. Cherie instructed him to put her down on one of the harrowing mats. While the child looked on in confusion, the ropes were looped around her knees and her legs were spread wide. "You've been a very bad girl," Cherie told her sternly. "Now you must be punished." Cherie snatched the necklace and round diamond and sapphire pendant from around her neck. "I'm sorry mommy! Aunt Tam and Uncle Eddie, they made me do it! I'm sorry!" the child cried, but it was much too late for that. Cherie took up a pair of scissors and went to work on Cindy's blond tresses. "There'll be no more tiaras for you, little lady," Cherie assured her. "I advise you to hold still." Cindy begged and wept pitiably but her mother did not put away the shears until there was a pile of blond locks with bits of blue and white flowers on the sanctuary carpet. The remaining hair on the girl's head was as short and boyish as Io's. Cherie sat up on her knees to survey her handiwork. "Not bad. It's a damn sight better hair cut than what my mother gave me. You look cute, kid." Cherie leaned forward and bound the child's wrists to a bolt in the floor. As she did this, she told her, "I saw the movies you made with Tam and Eddie so I know you're not going to mind too much what's about to happen to you while you're tied to this mat just like I was. This is the only way I know to get you back." Cindy wept and begged to be let go but it was no use. Cherie was not listening to her. She was too busy appraising her 12 year old daughter's body as she lay stretched open and writhing beneath her. She could hardly believe how much Cindy had developed in just the last few weeks. Her legs had grown more shapely and her hips were much more pronounced than they had been. No hint of baby fat remained anywhere on her and her breasts were already as well-defined and full as Io's. She had no pubes. Tam had obviously seen to that. Between the girl's legs, her vulva was an exact miniature of Cherie's with distinct labial petals and a dainty clitoral nubbin. Cherie ruefully attributed this sudden maturation to all the semen Eddie pumped into her, the bastard. Meanwhile, things were not all business as usual in the temple for Cup Maiden Andronica. Io commanded her to lay on the carpet beneath and directly between two of the broad rafters. Andronica was confused but did as she was told. A long length of rope was wrapped several times and tied to each of her wrists and ankles. The free ends of the ropes were then tossed over the tops of the rafters. The ropes attached to her wrists were pulled taut until her arms were raised up and out over her head, but in this position she was still able to sit comfortably upright on the floor. Andronica had seen too much today. She had by no means recovered from the shock of watching Tam and Eddie abandon her in the rain outside the mansion while they sped away like fugitives. Her mind could only be made to work at the most rudimentary level so she still had not grasped what was about to happen to her. It came as a cruel shock to her then when L.T. and Io tugged hard on the ropes attached to her ankles and her entire body was lifted nearly three feet off the carpet. The ropes were tied down to four bolts in the floor and Andronica was left to dangle suspended face up in the air. She screamed and struggled and begged to be let down. This accomplished absolutely nothing except to cause her body to sway and swing a few inches in every direction. For this strange new ritual, her every orifice would be available for penetration. But Io was not yet satisfied with Andronica's predicament. Something remained undone and Io made a show of pausing to consider what that something might be. Then her face lit up and she said, "Ah-ha!" as she seized a blindfold and practically skipped over to her distressed sister. Io bent down and told Andronica she was to be blind to what would be happening and that she hoped the symbolism was not lost on her. Io then blindfolded her. The last thing Andronica saw was an upside down view of Io's already very moist pussy. The Children had begun to arrive at the mansion. Each one disrobed and filed into the sanctuary like they did most every week. But tonight the congregants were uneasy. Like any close-knit society of human beings, the Church of Etta had its own rumor mill which had been grinding furiously. While details of the showdown in the driveway remained scarce, everyone had a feeling that great changes were afoot in the temple. All these vague misgivings seemed justified when each drone or tribade stepped through the arch and was greeted by the sight of the Incarnation pinned and spread-eagled on the floor next to a pile of her shorn locks and a Cup Maiden dangling from all fours from the ceiling, and Tam and Eddie nowhere in sight. Cherie awoke from her reverie. She looked about the room and with some surprise noticed almost thirty of the Children were sitting on the floor watching her. She stood up and walked over to the drones until she saw the young man who had given her her first orgasm. Cherie pointed to him. "Hey you! Fuck my daughter." She never thought she would hear herself say that. The young man grinned and practically leaped over to where Cindy lay. This was something every drone had been dreaming about and now, for this drone, the dream had come true. He was going to shove his dick into the haughty little girl they had crowned the Incarnation. He carefully positioned himself over Cindy's body and guided the head of his penis to the concealed little mouth of her vagina. She was frightened and dry and begged him to just go away. Then she threw back her head and shrieked as he pressed his hips down and stabbed the length of his cock deep into her warm, tight cunt. With his head and shaft anointed at last with her little girl juices, the man began to pump her vigorously. Cherie stood near by, her feet set wide apart and her arms folded beneath her breasts, watching. "That's right, don't pay her any mind. Just fuck her. Fuck her harder! Fuck her little brains out! Finish her." Then she knelt down beside her daughter and advised her to "take it like a woman or I'll have L.T. come over here and show you what real fucking is all about." Her words must have reached Cindy for the child ceased all her pointless writhing and bawling, and instead, she clamped her teeth together, looked her assailant in the eye, and began fucking him back. She rose up from her hips and resolutely met each of his downward thrusts until a soft purr of mounting excitement escaped her throat. Within minutes she had wrung every precious drop of the drone's essence into the snug embrace of her tiny, throbbing cup. The young man lay spent and exhausted on top of Cindy while everyone watched silently and very much aroused. He could probably have stayed nestled in that warm, soft place all night had not Io walked over and tapped him on the shoulder. "You can go sit down now," she pointedly told him. As soon as he was out of the way, Io fell upon Cindy's pussy. She drank deeply from the girl's cup giving her several sharp little nips on and around her vulva and clit for no other reason than to hear the girl yelp and to feel her buck and squirm against her open mouth. When she was finally done with Cindy, Io fell to the floor. She convulsed her limbs and rolled about on the carpet for a moment before stopping to stare glassy- eyed into the rafters. The Children were all completely enthralled. Then Cherie took her place between Cindy's spread and bound thighs. Mother and daughter, their fierce blue eyes met and locked and stayed locked as Cherie's head slowly descended down to the level of Cindy's sharp little mound. Cherie reached out with her tongue and ran it lightly up and down Cindy's inner curl of moist, pink flesh. She had intended to repeat this exercise several times but she could not. As if her tongue had taken it upon itself to yank the rest of her body forward, Cherie leaned in suddenly, clasped her mouth over Cindy's vaginal opening and sucked lustily. She could not believe how delectably sweet her daughter's pussy tasted. Cherie knew she was going to be partaking of this little cup for years to come. With her mother's tongue probing deeply into and around the hot neck of her cup, Cindy gyrated her pelvis rhythmically. The motion was subtle at first for Cindy was still quite upset with her mother and did not want her to know how aroused she had become by this incestuous oral fucking. But soon the gyrations became pronounced and lewd as one very adult climax and after another wracked the splayed length and breadth of her tiny body. After Cherie had partaken of this most satisfying of revelations, she drew herself forward on her hands and knees until she was eye-to-eye with Cindy and kissed her on the lips. With her breath still redolent of the juices from her little girl's honey pot, she whispered thickly into her ear, "Cindy Johansson, you are my daughter. You are my Cup Maiden!" Little Io stood up and mounted the dais. Cherie came up beside her and, as all the Children gasped and stared, placed the round pendant of the Incarnation around Io's neck. She completed the act of coronation by allowing Io to take her in her arms. The two women then shared a long, passionate kiss. Standing in front of the cathedra, Io turned to face the gathered, stunned Children. When she spoke, Io's voice resounded through the sanctuary and much of the surrounding estate. "I am Etta's daughter, her heir and her incarnation," she told them. "I hereby claim the gift of seeing as my own. Bow before the Incarnation!" With little hesitation, the Children all knelt before Io's feet as she took her place in the high stone chair. After a moment she bade them to sit up. "Now that I am your Incarnation and Mother Etta speaks through me, there are some things I must tell you, my children," Io continued solemnly. "First, you should know that Tam and Eddie are dead, or at least they will be if they show their ugly faces 'round here!" A murmur rose and died among the congregation and then nothing could be heard but for the soft weeping of the blindfolded Cup Maiden hanging from the rafters. But the new Incarnation was not finished. "Martin. Jeff. Stand up!" she commanded. The two men rose reluctantly to their feet, their hands folded defensively over their withered cocks. "You both have five minutes to get your asses out of here, and I suggest you put on some clothes and go find yourselves some lawyers. You're going to need them. If I ever see either of you around here again, I will personally cut your nuts off and feed them to the dogs! Now go!" Io pointed to the exit, her dark eyes blazing. The drone called Martin walked stiffly through the beaded curtain. Jeff turned and looked to Brian and the rest of his crew but these drones all just cast their eyes to the carpet. Jeff was on his own now and he too disappeared from the sanctuary and the Church. Having dispensed with this necessary bit of house cleaning, Io turned her attention to more pleasant matters. "As your mother and leader, I can assure you there will be more Cup Maidens added to the fold, the better to accommodate you journey on the path to perfect peace, my daughters. This is my covenant to you." This piece of news was welcomed as warmly by the drones as it was the tribades. "Finally," Io told them, "be it witnessed by all that Cherie shall be and is my High Cup Maiden." Cherie rose and took her place on the right hand side of Io's seat. Io turned to her. "Who shall be your Alpha, my High Cup Maiden?" Cherie looked over the faces of the assembled drones and announced with pride, "Be it known that I choose L.T. to be my Alpha." The big man rose, his face beaming with satisfaction, and strode like a warrior to take his place on the left hand side of the Incarnation. With all the pieces now in place, Io turned to the matter of Andronica. Her voice began to crack with commingled anger and lust. "Tonight, oh my children, to consecrate my Ascension, my sister Andronica has offered up all of her body to be scourged and harrowed, as is most pleasing to Etta!" Io jumped down from her throne. She walked over to Andronica and knelt down to whisper in her ear. "You don't have to do this," she told her. "Just say the word and I will cut you down but if I do, you'll have to leave here and never come back. You won't be a Cup Maiden. You won't be my sister. You'll have to go back to being nothing." "Please let me stay," pleaded Andronica. "I'll do it. I'll do anything you want." "I'm glad to here you say that," replied Io. "As of tonight, you will be living in the mansion. I've prepared a room for you right next to mine. You will be pornae, at least for the time being." Andronica thanked her tearfully but Io hardly heard her. She had located her leather flail and positioned herself behind Andronica so that she was looking at the back of her firm, caramel legs, ass and exposed vulva. Like a major league pitcher bringing the heat, Io wound up and brought the whip down smartly dead center across the vertical seam from which Andronica's clit and labia peeped out. Andronica, who was still blindfolded, screamed in shock and sudden ghastly pain as her body swayed and jerked in the air like some poor, stricken marionette. Io brought the lash down again, crack, across the unfortunate girl's thighs and buttocks, crack, over her belly, mound and slit, crack, down her taint and anus. All the while Andronica continued to shriek and bounce. Io stepped up between Andronica's legs and began bringing the flail ends of the lash down hard across the erring maiden's breasts and nipples. Cherie decided she had seen enough. Andronica's only crime, as far as Cherie could tell, was having been Tam's friend. Cherie would stop this and, if her lover still had the bloodlust by the end of the evening, she was welcome to lash Cherie's body when they retire to their bed. Cherie firmly took hold of Io's whip hand. The girl turned on her, her face black and contorted. "Io baby, I want you to listen to me," Cherie told her as calmly as she could. "You are our leader now, and sometimes leading means knowing when to cut someone a little slack." Io glowered at her but finally relented and allowed Cherie to gently pry her fingers from the whip's wooden stock. She looked over to L.T. and told him, "She's all yours now." Then she and Cherie, arms around each other's shoulders, ascended the dais. Andronica hung from her four ropes. She was moaning and her head lolled unsupported, but it would not be unsupported for long. L.T. walked up to her and, taking his formidable erection in hand, allowed its tip to brush across her lips. Andronica understood and opened wide her mouth to receive his cock. L.T. eased it in and out of her mouth, pushing in a little further each time. Looking down he could watch his cock penetrate deeper into Andronica's soft, slender neck. While he fucked her throat, L.T. directed first one drone and then other to lay into her sore, vulnerable pussy. With two men fucking in tandem on either end of the girl, they easily fell into a rhythm by which the deep, forward thrusts into her abdomen caused her body to swing forward until all of L.T.'s 12" penis disappeared up her neck only to partially reappear as she swung back to greet the next stroke of the cock that was being thrust into her vagina. For L.T., the sensation was delightful; he hardly needed to move at all. For Andronica, less so. She was never sure when she might be able to snatch fresh air into her lungs again. Thin lines of drool and L.T.'s precum streamed from the sides of her mouth down past and into the cloth of her blindfold. With Andronica's cup overflowing, L.T. gave orders to his drones to begin plugging away on her ass. By an impressive feat of self-control, he had forestalled the moment of his own climax in order to draw out the maiden's ordeal of merciless double penetration. Her swinging became more pronounced and vigorous as her prim anal ring resisted and then yielded to each new intruder. At last the large man could hold back no longer. With a deep growl, he rammed himself fully down Andronica's neck until his immense scrotum enveloped and tightened around her nose and thick ropes of semen flooded her esophagus. At last the Alpha withdrew the length of his temporarily satisfied cock from her throat and mouth. No longer supported by that stern beam, her head lolled all the way back until viscous globs of saliva and seed rolled down from her gaping mouth and congealed in trails in her permed black ringlets of hair. With a big drone still sawing away on the tender walls of her rectum, Andronica choked and pleaded for Io to release her from the cords which still held her suspended. After the drone had spent himself deep into the maiden's anal cavity, Io obliged her, but only half way. At Io's signal, Ellen Anne sliced the ropes which held Andronica's arms, but the bindings around her ankles remained tautly in place. Consequently, the back of the maiden's head, neck and shoulders fell to the floor with the rest of her body suspended above her at an angle of 45 uncomfortable degrees. With her cup thus elevated, L.T. sent a succession of eager drones into her pussy until its contents flowed freely between her buttocks, down the length of her spine and puddled sloppily beneath her shoulder blades. Thus filled up from this position, Andronica paid her penance to all of the tribade-sisters who closed in around her to partake and receive their revelation until the evening's ritual was mercifully at an end. Throughout Andronica's ordeal, little Cindy remained bound on her mat, on display but otherwise untouched. As Andronica was at last released and helped to her feet, Cherie gathered up Cindy and, along with Andronica and Io, ushered her into the sanctuary of the Cup Maidens. There the child was embraced as an equal in the sacred sisterhood of the Cup Maidens of Etta, with the one exception that her mother sternly admonished her not to even think about getting a drink from the bar. That night Cindy, Cherie and Io retired together to the apartment Io and Cherie now shared. There the three maidens romped together in the big bed until the sleep goddess arrived to claim her due. They had all had a big day. The following day Cherie and Cindy never left each other's side. Between them there were many amends to be made and pardons freely granted. The Harrowing Ritual was held that evening and, at their mutual insistence, mother and daughter were bound side by side on the chamber's floor. For two hours Cherie and Cindy joyfully fucked and fed all comers until the last bitter remnants of their estrangement had been pumped and sucked out of their hearts. The renewed bond between them was strong. It was stronger than any mother-daughter bond had ever been for Cherie and Cindy were now bound together by ties of blood and of the cup. They had gone down the path together, and together had staked out their own little corner of perfect peace. VII. Epilogue The Church of Etta thrives under the new regime. Io and Cherie have instituted several reforms, most of which pertain to the manner by which new Cup Maidens are selected. While the duties and privileges of a woman with that title have remained virtually unchanged, certain elements of coercion and deception formerly incidental to the selection and early training process have, where practicable, been eliminated. Prospective candidates are now discretely screened and carefully vetted. And, thanks largely to Io and Cherie's webpage and some very tantalizing word of mouth dropped into the ears of a privileged few, there is today no shortage of beautiful and intelligent young women eager to have the title of Cup Maiden of Etta bestowed upon them. Cherie and Io have already selected, and personally sampled, three such women. Eddie and Tam remain at large. Cherie knows that, with the resources of the Foundation behind her, she could easily track the pair down and mete out justice to them personally. But today Cherie's mind is not vexed by thoughts of revenge. She is living in their house, sleeping in their bed, driving their cars and gleefully spending the money they had once thought was their own. This, she believes, should be vengeance enough. The hand-to-mouth existence of Cherie's former life is now only a memory and she is today free to pursue other interests. Cherie elected to take her education to the next level and today she is a third year law student and expects to graduate near the top of her class. After she has passed the bar, and no one who knows her has any doubt but that she will, Cherie anticipates having only one client: the church to which she has dedicated herself: mind, body and soul. Cherie and Cindy remain as close as ever. By all appearances, they lead an unremarkable suburban life during the week. Cherie is dedicated to her studies and Cindy is a happy, well-adjusted teenager who excels in her own school work. But on the weekends they are Cup Maidens of Etta. Who would ever want to walk away from that? Cherie hopes anyone who reads her story will glean something of value they can use in their own life, and that she not be judged too harshly. It is her firm belief that she acted at all times only as some very unusual circumstances demanded. Nothing more, nothing less. Her conscience is clear and she has no regrets. It is Cherie's fondest wish that each of you finds your own path to perfect peace. THE END Author's Note: In presenting this account of Cherie's experiences, I have strived to remain true to the facts as they occurred. Of the events hereinbefore recounted not actually witnessed by me, I have relied primarily upon Cherie's own version of events supplemented by the accounts of certain others who were also present. Where these accounts have been in conflict, I have taken some license in reconciling them so as to provide the reader with a more cohesive narrative. In the interests of privacy, the names of persons depicted, including the name of the Church's founding matriarch, have been changed or omitted. M.C. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ This story was written as an adult fantasy. The author does not condone the described behavior in real life. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Kristen's collection - Directory 54