"are you making progress, my dear?"
the slurping stops for a moment.
"yes, your highness"
the slurping starts again.
"are you sure you don't need a little encouragement?"
"n- no, your highness" comes the response, with noticeable fear in the voice.
"well, I'll come and look if this is true in a few minutes, my dear" Kavn. lowers her voice and says "and now come here my princess, let me caress you a bit before we go and see how little cni. is doing with her task"
aM. giggles and climbs on Kavn.'s lap to let the mistress kiss and suck on her breasts.
"hmm, I'm afraid that's not very satisfying, my dear" below Kavn.'s calm tone lingers something cruel now.
"I- I'm sorry your highness" comes it in a muted way from cni. who kneels with her face to the ground at Kavn.'s high heels.
Kavn. lets the tense silence hover over cni. for a few moments.
"what do you say, might a bit more practice would help?"
"n- no, please n-" but before cni. can finish the sentence she is interrupted by the sound of more water splashing on the kitchen tiles.
"there you go" Kavn. says with false friendliness.
her attention is catched by aM. giggling beside her, she looks at her and asks:
"what is it, princess"
aM. gestures towards cni. and suppressing her giggle, says:
"she got her lace cap wet!"
Kavn.'s look falls on the wet piece of fabric on cni.'s head.
"you're right! oh princess, you're so observant!" she gives aM. a kiss.
"I- I'm sorry, your highness, I- I didn't mean t-"
Kavn. cuts her off, there's only a trace of mercy left in her voice "results, my dear! results! not intentions! you disgraced yourself and mistreated the fact that I honored you with this valuable cap!"
"y- yes, I understand, your highness, thank you for reminding me" cni. rushes to say and kisses the tip of Kavn.'s shoe.
"don't you think you'll avoid punishment with this pathetic dispay of gratefulness over something we went over a thousand times"
a little whimper comes from the floor.
Kavn. lets the silence linger for a while again, taking delight in witnessing cni.'s despair while awaiting the inevitable.
aM. already picked up the device and impatiently waits for Kavn.'s command.
Ultimately, Kavn. turns towards aM. and says:
"5"
with an evil smile aM. turns the dial and miliseconds later the electricity has traveled through the cables.
cni. pained cries are reflected by the kitchen tiles and echo through the room as she breaks her kneeling position and twitches on the floor.
Kavn. gives aM. a nonverbal sign to turn the dial a bit higher, intensifying cni.'s screams even further, then makes a cutting gesture to command her to stop the torture.
cni. pants and whimpers exhausted on the floor as Kavn. leans over her and says in a quiet, slightly hissing voice:
"you see what happens if you misbehave?"
"mhm"
"what was that?!"
"y- y- yes, y- your highness"
"good, and don't you forget it! now get back to your task and when you're finished we shall see if you need further punishment, alright, my dear?"
"y- yes, your highness, a- and thank you for your patience with me"
"always, my dear" like earlier, the false friendliness is almost untainted now by the threat of cruelty.
with a quiet "oh yeah" aM. comes and sinks into Kavn.'s arms.
they lie like this for a moment, before Kavn. says:
"do you hear this, princess?"
aM. lifts her head.
the slurping has stopped.
"let's have a look, shall we?" Kavn. asks jovially.
As they arrive in the kitchen, cni. kneels on the floor facing the open door, her hands on the floor, her head on her hands, the device to which the cables from her vulva lips lead neatly placed beside her. the puddle of water is gone.
Kavn. looks around for a moment, inspecting every centimeter of the floor, crouching down to see if there are any reflections of water left.
with a rigid tone in her voice that allows no excuses she asks:
"how long have you been finished, my dear?"
"a few, erm, I mean, ten minutes maybe, your highness"
Kavn., letting the initial vagueness slide, looks at the clock, calculating how long it took cni.
"hmm, I would say, that's pretty satisfying"
she can see how cni. relaxes a bit.
she carefully leans over her, reaches behind her legs and gently removes the clips from her vulva lips. the sudden relief still makes cni. inhale sharply.
"yes, my dear, I understand" Kavn. whispers in a soft tone and, as she gives aM. a nod to signal her to leave with the device, she adds "come here" and opens her arms for cni. to come close to her.
cni. comes up a bit, nestles up against Kavn. and sobs a bit as the mistress strokes her back and wraps her in the bathrobe she brought with her.
Kavn. notices that aM., who had read her words perfectly earlier, is waiting in the door with something in her hand.
the mistress gives her a confirming nod that also communicates "in a moment" and another one pointing her back to the living room.
then she turns back to cni. in her arms who hasn't picked up on anything of this silent conversation and asks her:
"do you need anything right now, my dear?"
cni. lets out a little laugh and says:
"I, erm, I might have to use the bathroom now, your highness"
Kavn. smiles and says:
"understandably, my dear", then helps her up and guides her to the bathroom.
"can you take it on your own from here,my dear?"
"yes, thank you, your highness"
"take your time, my dear, you'll find me in the living room"
as cni. slowly comes into the living room, holding the bathrobe together in front of her with one hand, she looks a bit refreshed.
"ah! come in my dear! have you recovered a bit?" Kavn. exclaims.
"yes, your highness" cni. answers with a brave little smile, she doesn't notice aM. who's standing behind the mistress and seems to hide something behind her back.
"have a seat, my dear" Kavn. says with a tone somewhere between businesslike and her familiar false friendliness as she gestures towards the couch straight across from the armchair she sits in herself.
"thank you, your highness" cni. says with a happy but slightly confused voice and sits down on the couch.
Kavn. waits for her to settle, then takes a deep breath and puts on a pensive look.
"so... what do you think, my dear?"
cni. looks up, visibly startled.
"I, erm, I don't know, your highness, what should I think about?"
Kavn. sighs with demonstrative disappointment.
the suspension of silence rises once more as the mistress seems like she searches for the right words before locking her eyes on cni. who turns her head down in a quick, anxious way to show her obedience.
"do you think we are finished?!" Kavn. asks, her tone now hard and strict again.
"I- I don't know" cni. answers confused and fearful.
Kavn. angrily jumps up in her chair.
"what's with this ambiguity?! is this such a difficult question?! do you think we are finished, yes or no?!"
cni. flinched at these words.
"I, er-"
"excuse me, what?!" Kavn. stands now, looking down on cni. who seems to shrink more and more before her.
"n- no, your highness" cni. finally says in a quiet, surrendering voice.
Kavn. relaxes a bit and lets herself sink back down into the chair.
She lets another silence weigh down on cni.
"well, I guess you at least arrived at the right point in the end, I guess, my dear. but I'm very curious if you just took your fifty-fifty chance, thought about which answer I expected or if you actually found the correct answer yourself. so... why do you think we are not finished yet?"
cni. stares on the coffee table, her anxious thinking visible in her whole body.
she looks up hesitantly and cautiously says:
"did I take too long cleaning the kitchen tiles, your highness?"
Kavn. looks down at her with a catlike smile.
"are you supposed to answer the questions of your mistress with another question?"
"n- no, I- I'm deeply sorry, your highness!"
"good, I wouldn't have liked to start at the basics again with you now, although I obviously would have if you needed your memory refreshed a little, you know I'm always ready to help you, right?"
"y- yes, your highness, thank you, you're so very kind and generous!"
"you're very welcome, my dear. but back to the topic at hand, I haven't heard an answer from you yet and I really hate waiting"
"y- yes, I'm deeply sorry, your highness. I think the reason why we're not finished yet is that I took too long in cleaning the kitchen tiles, your highness"
Kavn. slapped her hands together, making cni. flinch again.
"you're perfectly right, my dear! you overall did a sufficient job, but I feel like you coud have been finished a few minutes earlier, what do you think?"
"yes, your highness, I'm sorry that I wasn't quicker, I will be better in the future!"
"well, you better do not promise something you're not sure of yet! but that's a question we'll address once you get another chance of proving your devotion to your tasks, don't you think?"
"yes, your highness, I'm looking forward to this!"
"good, my dear! but now to our problem at hand, how can we ensure with certainty that you will remember your mistake and be motivated to better yourself in the future?"
at this moment, aM. takes a step forward into Kavn.'s view.
"yes, right, the good princess here is already prepared for this and eager to help!"
with an evil and hungry smile, aM. looks at cni. while pulling the cane from behind her back. cni. looks at the device fearfully, then over to the mistress who demonstratively thinks about her next words.
"hmm, what seems like a good number...?" she thinks out oud while tapping her chin with one finger and looking to the ceiling.
"what do you think, how many minutes earlier could you have been finished?"
cni. thinks for a moment.
"ten, maybe, your highness?"
"maybe, hmm, yes maybe ten... but, we have to take into account that I had to pour some more water on the floor halfway through because you were taking so long. had you been more serious in your efforts right from the beginning, you could have been so much quicker, what do you think?"
y- yes, your highness, you're absolutely right! then, 25 maybe, your highness?"
silence falls down once again on the tense scene.
"25, 25" Kavn. says as if she tried to figure out how this number felt in her mouth "I would say, 30 feels like a nice round number, don't you think?"
"yes, sounds very good, your highness!"
"perfect! I'm very glad we're agreeing on this, so 30 strokes it will be then!"
aM.'s smile gets larger, as cni. instinctively looks up to the mistress, only now fully realizing where the conversation lead her. Kavn. rises her right index finger.
"but let's get the rules cleared out before we start. it will be 30 strokes on your bare bottom while you're bent over and by 'bent over' I mean 'bent over', so if you're flinching or moving in any other way, the respective stroke gets repeated! and I'll be watching this closely; if it happens too often, we'll start from the beginning. you'll be counting the strokes out loud and clearly and same rules apply for miscounting, slurring or taking too long to count, did you get this?"
"yes, your highness"
"very well, then let's start and if you keep a hold on yourself, this will all be over in short time, now come here and give me your bathrobe"
it isn't over in short time though, cni. got to 17 with only one repetition, but from there on deteriorated more and more until Kavn. lost her patience, ordered a short break and a restart afterwards. but it didn't help.
"alright" says Kavn., pushing the air out in an annoyed sigh after the second repetition of the fifth stroke "stop. this is getting out of hand! look at the time, princess, you really have to go to bed. come here!"
aM. goes over to Kavn.'s chair from which the mistress gets up, takes the cane from her and then also her harness and collar, finally giving her a kiss and taking her into her arms. in a hushed voice she says:
"you really did great, love. are you alright?" aM. nods "do you need anything, maybe a bit to drink before bed?"
"yes you're right, maybe I'll have something to drink, thank you precious!"
"anything you need from me?"
aM. shakes her head.
"alright then, have a good time, I'll just finish here and then see you in bed"
they kiss again before aM. leaves, heading to the kitchen.
Kavn. waits until the door is closed behind her and then turns towards the still in position cni.
she lets herself fall beside her on the couch and slaps her hand on the free space next to her, inviting cni. to sit down.
"so, what's the problem here, my dear?" Kavn. asks with a soft but still strict voice.
"i- it was" cni. starts, struggling not to sob "it was aM., she hit me so har-"
"don't you dare critize the princess! and who allowed you to take her name into your mouth, like you two are equals?!"
"I- I'm so sorry, your highness, I was just, I"
"stop drooling around! I will look past this and attribute this to your exhaustion"
"th- thank you, your highness, you're too kind and generous"
"I know, I know, you probably slipped also because of my lenience with you... but let's get back to the problem at hand. are you saying that if I caned you and be less correct and efficient with it as the princess, you could do this?"
"no, please no, I can't, please don't cane me again!" cni. cries out in fear.
Kavn. looks down at cni. who instinctively threw herself in her lap and clinged at her leg. she lays one hand softly on cni.'s shoulder and asks:
"remind me, my dear, is 'no, I can't' your safeword?"
cni., realizing what the mistress is asking, says:
"n- no, your highness, it's 'excruciating', but I don't want to use it now"
Kavn. caresses her shoulder and arm and says:
"very well then, I'm glad you're so brave and devoted to continue, my dear"
cni. looks up with a little smile and answers:
"yes, I am, your highness! might I make a humble suggestion on how we could go on?"
"brave and bold now!" Kavn. says with playful irony "sure, let's hear your suggestion"
"thank you so much, your highness! maybe we could change the device?"
"to what would you change it?"
"to your hand maybe, your highness?"
Kavn. frowns demonstratively.
"do you think this is an adequate substitute for the cane?"
"maybe we could change the amount of strokes to a higher number to make up for this, your highness?"
"hmm, this sounds like an interesting thought, continue, my dear"
"I thought of 20 on my bottom and 30 on my breasts, your highness?"
Kavn. stays silent for a moment, demonstratively thinking about the proposal.
"yes, I think this will be acceptable. but remember: the rules stay the same, understood?"
"yes, your highness!"
"good, then get across my lap so we can begin"
this time it goes on much more smoothly and there are almost no repetitions necessary.
but at the 20th slap on the breasts (cni. is now sitting on Kavn.'s lap, facing her), Kavn. is noticing something. she stops and looks cni. in the eyes.
"are you starting to enjoy this, my dear?"
cni. looks around with a bashful smile, not sure what to say.
"answer me!" Kavn. bellows, pinching cni.'s left nipple, making her flinch and scream a little.
"I-, I'm sorry for disrespecting you, your highness! y- yes, I think I enjoy this, your highness"
Kavn. relaxes again and releases cni.'s skin from her fingers.
"then sit back properly and we shall continue"
"30, thank you for the punishment, your highness" cni. says, again with a little smile.
Kavn. smiles back and says:
"see, this wasn't too hard, was it?"
"no, your highness, not at all!" cni. says, a hint of playfulness in her voice.
Kavn. looks at her, pretending to look strict:
"what's this tone about, my dear?"
"I don't know what you mean, your highness" cni. answers with a false look of innocence.
Kavn. winds up the strictness a bit but stays playful:
"you're playing with fire here, little lady, tell me the truth, are you wet?!"
cni., biting down her grin, says:
"yes, your highness"
Kavn., pretending to be upset, answers:
"and now you want me to take care of it, don't you?!"
"yes, your highness"
"alright, then lie down" Kavn. nods towards the couch.
cni. immediately does as she said and invitingly spreads her legs.
"how are you doing, my dear?"
"good, aww, so good, your highness!"
"do you want to come for me?"
"aww, yes, I would love to, your highness! but could I ask something of you, your highness?"
"anything, my dear"
"could you maybe show me your noble breasts? this would help me so much, your highness!"
Kavn. lets her fingers slip from cni.'s vulva and clitoris and looses a string in her corsage, revealing her naked chest.
cni. stares at it like at a religious idol and as Kavn. starts to touch and caress her again, she sighs and moans even more intense.
as Kavn. notices cni. getting closer and closer to cimaxing, she adds something she knows she really likes, takes her in one of her arms and presses her own breasts on cni.'s.
in this moment, cni. let's out a loud sigh that is almost a scream, hugs her mistress too and twitchingly releases all the built up tension and energy.
after a few quiet moments, she comes back to her senses and whispers:
"thank you so much, your highness, this was so sweet!"
Kavn. smiles down on her, kisses her on the forehead and removes her lace cap.
as she sits back where she was earlier, cni. curls up beside her, laying her head in her lap.
Kavn. gently strokes her head and back and says softly:
"you did so unbelievably good today, you were so brave and strong"
"thank you" cni. answers with a noticeable proud and satisfied smile in her voice.
"I really thought we'd had to stop when I sent out aM."
"it was very tough, but I know I could do it, I just needed to be more connected to you, Kavkav"
Kavn. smiles dreamily into the room and at the same time makes herself a mental note for the future. Then she once more puts the bathrobe over cni.'s body.