Mistress had slashed her new belt viciously down, leaving a stripe across his right hip and buttock that glowed an immediate cherry red in his magnified reflection. Magnified as well was the pain, when Mistress slashed a second stripe down, overlapping the first, then another, and another, and another. Slave gasped and grunted, drooling a little around the bit in his teeth, at last living completely in the animal present. A first he didn’t even try to scream. He just clamped his teeth on the handy bar and bit it back, absorbing each excruciating blow like persistently repetitive lightning strikes. As if to prove the old saw wrong, they struck the same general spot again and again, the voltage generated quickly dispersing itself throughout his entire nervous system – not just flaming on hi

