The Temptress

6

Kenna finished cleaning me up and led me to a mirror. She had dressed me in a simple white dress that just barely brushed across the stony floors. The silk like fabric fit well over the curves of my breasts and hips, but it wasn't tight enough for any sort of discomfort. "Come, come Honey, you look beautiful, but we're not done just yet." she said, sounding almost excited while she grabbed my hand in her soft one and pulled me behind a divider with a wardrobe on the other side. Beside the dresser there was a strange semi-circle of a metal railing.

Small feet appeared from behind me and draped something around my waist. Her delicate fingers positioned it to cup the underside of my breasts. "Breathe in" she said quickly and began tugging the laces in the back then tying them tightly. My hands strangled the railing, so that's what that's for. I couldn't feel my lungs to breathe, I gasped for oxygen like a fish before my lungs filled again. I looked at Kenna, about to scream at her for almost collapsing my lungs but she was already looking at my through the mirror with sad eyes.

"I know how you feel you know," she said quietly from looking around my shoulder into my reflection. I turned to her, how could she possibly understand how I feel right now? She knew nothing. " I went through the same thing you are, three years ago..."

"What? Kenna, you were kidnapped too?"

"Yes I was, I was only fifteen at the time and I was horrified. They had taken my from my home in Lilis. Taken me from the river me and my friends played at as children and just like that I became a temptress." The air tasted stale as we both choked on that word a bit."

That's when I finally asked the question. "Are all those stories really true? The ones from the villages that women were taken from their families by men in the wake of the night?" She only nodded her head, not meeting my eyes. "And they're really forced to give up their bodies... to whoever their captor... sells them to?" This earned me another nod, my throat tightened, "Kenna, I'm one of those temptresses, aren't I?" I said my voice breaking with the realization.

"It's okay Honey, you're strong you can make it through this. I know you can." She whispered hope into my ear as she embraced me.

Then she continued "They figured out very quickly that I wasn't Temptress material, so I was sent here to clean up the girls, maybe you will be sent down here too." She said smiling as she wiped away one of the tears that slid down my cheek.

"I don't want to ever find out, I'm going to escape before they take me. I am not a thing to be owned. I will not stay here long enough to even see this 'Master's' face"My voice was tinted with anger as I mocked the title.

"Oh Honey, that's where you're going now."