But eventually, when you get past all the outer walls, you find that there is still an inner citadel unconquered, a castle keep where she will make her last stand. That’s where she guards her innermost secrets. She knows that if you gain entrance there, all is lost.
What is this “all” exactly? I think it’s a kind of bedrock sense of her self, that part of her which is left when all else has been offered up to you. It may take the form of some specific acts she simply will not do, or some secrets she will not tell you, or simply some part of herself that will not bend the knee. Everything else she has surrendered, but there is still some part of her that she wants to keep inviolate, that she withholds.
The trouble is that to a Dom that’s a provocation. It’s hard for him to have her say, I
