Home
after first time at John's
At
home I found Gabriella and Jules, which was perfect. My appetite was open and
there will be plenty of time later to get them to teach me how to properly
suck. Showing my eagerness to serve was a vexing but exciting aperitif. I
fancied relief, a simple and fast one. In no time I was sitting on Gabriella's
ardent mouth while Jules, with evident satisfaction, was entering me from
behind. I thought of sucking Gabriella but she was already reacting too
strongly to the touch of my hand to need any more stimulation. Her tongue, a
piece of velvet shadowing on my clit the moves of my hands, gave me intense
pleasure. Will I ever learn? Tickled in the right places the need to go at
Raven became eerie. Why do I need to go at Raven to be the right mood? I
reached my peak in a record time. Both slaves came with me. We shared a hot
bath. I took Jules to my bed. Gabriella was sleeping at our feet. We were so
peaceful.
Having
decided to drop the all thing, I kept my visit and Raven's activity under the
blanket. Cuddling at home with real bodies was much better than dreaming of
being exposed. Still, I did wander around with little to cover my gender traits
and I humored Jim rod to get better acquainted with the thing but nothing
really serious. This spirit, attempting to adapt my commune to an openly
submissive me, carried me through the weekend till Tuesday morning. My Monday
date with the scissor vanish from my watch. Sitting out beholding Trish or Jim
organize the game, offering myself to their whims but I could break loose at
will, I was practicing John advice although I was not going back. Somehow
something was working because the motion of being commanded around ripened with
repetition. The distress of roaming around bare hide behind the palpable
fascination of my housemates. My progress at sucking was evident in the
reactions of my charges. We did not talk to protect the peace. Nobody was
pushing for it anyway. On Tuesday after lunch, a compulsive urge goads me into
an underwear boutique under the pretext of a lingerie gift to Gabriella. Once
inside the shop I fancied John eyes on me in the sexiest one, which made me
furious, because John was a nothing, and worse, heedlessly swell my clitoris.
Why did it not happen yesterday at home? The tepidness with my own sexual
ritual contrasted sharply with the actual flooding of my panties occurring at a
single thought inside Raven domain. A fresh water lake after weeks in the
desert could not be flatly ignored. If I went to John once a week, each time
with a flashier style of undergarment, it may cure me. Given some time we may
be able to reconstruct an engrossing life. Raven himself did not demand that I
go any further than where I am now. I could satisfy my, freshly discovered,
craving for a subaltern position at almost no cost. This pattern pacified my
reason even if somewhere I knew that it was another small step toward a welted
butt lewdly offering itself to Raven. My attention revisits the garments around
for something that showed more than my previous visit while keeping those damn
hairs in check. Panties, with enough transparency to let my buttock line appear
and a very high cut above my hips to exaggerate the elongated overhang between
my legs, were my targets. The image connected to my stamina centers. The vision
of something in tight contact with my labia, like a pouch, with a crease all
along to reveal the underlying cut guarding the entrance of my secret cavern,
guided me while I rummaged through the choices. Opacity in front seemed a must:
Raven will be quite upset if any hair popped out of my panties. I tried various
models but the one that showed enough back were too skimpy in the front, or not
opaque. Without hair the task of distinctly showing the line in the middle of
the front pouch would be a no-brainer. The perfect match must be hidden
somewhere. My fancy stuck on panties, bordered in red satin, transparent in the
back, but covering a large part of my posterior, which front was leaving some
hair out. Refreshing my bikini was OK, I figured. Lots of domina had a clean
bikini. An added benefit was a coordinated bra bordered with the same red
satin, transparent in the same sheer bluish silk than the bottom cover. The
sight of my tits against the fabric overpowered my anxiety about exposing so
much of my bosom to John. Nothing was perfect in life. I bought them and stored
them in my gym bag. There will be no question about them. Thursday night was my
night out and nobody was to get a word about it.
Second
Talk with John
On
Thursday Sodome on time, fresh out of the shower and smelling a special rose
soap, toted her trimmed bikini hair, well hidden under the new lingerie, at
Raven. Undressing swiftly, as an old timer, to bestow her tingling body, on the
side of the room, reinforced the portent of her destiny. The wait, part of her
new condition, spun a long time taking a toll on her patience. Around seven
thirty more people were arriving probably for some party that must be going on
tonight. People familiar with the place crossed the entrance, somewhat glancing
at her exposed figure. Quite uncomfortable about her posture she was trying to
make sense of whom were they, what were they here for, what kind of event this
was. Dressed for a relax evening, not much skin exposed, they displayed very
few attribute of master slave relations. It looked more like the crowd for a
bridge tournament than anything else. May be Raven organized bingo or something
similar? She felt very displaced, unsure about her skimpy underwear, under this
stream of people. If her display was inappropriate she will incur Raven anger.
The concierge would have told her to go if this was the case. She was merely a
decoration: One more proof of Raven power in the eyes of everybody arriving in
the house. Inside the house lived a lot of slave in more exposing attire. She
calmed down. Still she wished John would come to save her more embarrassment.
His arrival was a relief. She preceded him to his office. After all the effort
to make her fanny attractive she was hoping he valued the display. She sat in
her chair. She looked around her and at him, not very sure of how to get
started, he was not going to apologize for the delay, not even mention it. He
was obviously waiting for her to talk. Her legs were crossed. The deep breath
she took before jumping uplifted her bosom:
"Thank
you for receiving me again. I could not decide to come on Monday but it was on
my mind. You said that my question were well received, I'm very curious to know
more about Raven house, like the typical day of his female slaves, their jobs,
the place their sit around."
He
was watching her chest. At least her tits had him interested. Gently
oscillating her shoulders propelled her sphere in a gracious movement. He was
not in a very talkative mood, was he pissed off? She continued:
"Please
John, let me know if I'm being improper in my question."
"No,
not at all, I was enjoying your figure. The more I admire it you the more I
appreciate your beauty. The good news, for maids, is that you know immediately
if you do something inappropriate while the bad news is that it is hard to
accept the lack of respect this entails. I will describe to you the days of a
maid, I imagine this would be your first concern?"
She
smiled to him, hoping he would just continue without further encouragement,
which he did:
"Beginners
maid are utterly nude all the time helping with the house chores cleaning
bathrooms, dusting, vacuuming, cutting vegetables, gathering laundry and
folding it. There is no privacy in your life here. The door to your toilet has
no lock. Your body, uncovered everywhere at any time, will be used sexually and
mentally all along your chores. A maid adheres to a lot of rule and is trained
in catering to people desires. You will learn the basic in manuals. Imagine
your behaviors as a caress to your Master ego. Carefully listening to our
comments upon your practice will bring some depth to your contacts. The more
you know about Raven pleasures, the better you will be. Service starts at seven
thirty in the morning clean and nourished. After that it depends if you intend
to keep your actual job."
He
paused. She had to keep her job. She calms herself down to avoid a display of
vulnerability.
"Sir
I do require to keep my job. I make a lot of money with it. Can I perform my
duty to Raven while working?"
"Working
is a privilege that implies extra chastisement. Overall it is possible; today
we have seven female working full time jobs outside of the house. We also have
moneymaking operations in house, which are easier to enroll into. Raven, an
extremely rich man, believes in economic success for all of us. Some house
servants have started new successful business entities. If you are working we
will let you out at eight thirty in the morning. You need to be back at six thirty
for the evening station that goes till nine. On weekend we will keep you busy
all day as well. Every week you get whipped for your privileges or your errors.
I will be delivering the blows except when Raven decides to do it himself.
Picture it well, wild bush, on that path you will wave your naked buttock to my
whip every week."
He
stopped to measure the effect of his words. Sodome, in difficulty to catch her
breath and the blood beating fast in her ears, was horrified by the idea but
the warm sticky fluid was there. She loathed the idea of being whipped but she
was fascinated like a mosquito running into the flame. She was overwhelmed. She
was remembering the time when she had used her privileges to beat on Jim
bottom. It did turn her on but it was only because he had upset her. Very often
she would pass her chance to give pain to her slaves. What was she doing here
if she did not agree to fulfill her Master need for her total surrender?
Stunned, not daring a word but pressed to express her reaction, she smiled,
opening her legs, to answer his silent question without compromising her
internal denegation.
"Beauty
you will have to search other ways to express your assent than spreading your
leg."
I
blushed all other. The heat of my skin had reached my bosom. My legs coming
back together kept my slit well protected behind my thigh. It was hard to
speak. I wanted to run away. If only I was not drawn so powerfully toward this
place.
"I
apologize for my lack of imagination. I'm scared about being whipped. The only
experience I have on that side of the handle was when Raven belted me in my
house. I witnessed submissive doing the most humiliating things only to avoid
or lessen their share of it. Sir I will do my best to avoid it but if it is too
late I will take it from you."
I
had agreed! I could not believe it. I had said yes to be hurt by him every
week.
"There
is no way to avoid it. Every week I will sting you. For the first two years,
working maids, receive a minimum of three blows each session. Every day you
will think about it. Every act you perform will be connected to it. The only
power you have is to reduce the number of blow to three."
He
looked at me intensely. I was not coming back but I will tell him only later. I
found the guts to answer what he wanted to hear ignoring the dire future
consequences.
"My
ass will be where it must."
"Are
you hot when talking about it? Tell me about the state of your creases."
"Sir
I'm more wet than I'd liked. You hold me with that reaction."
"We
will teach you a lot of different ways to say yes with your body beyond
spreading your legs. The training to become a proper maid is long and arduous.
Your body and your mind will end up perfectly attuned to Raven taste. Another
important piece of information is that nude girls must be leashed in most of
the house. You may sometimes get in a room leashed and assigned to a specific
spot but to move without close supervision you must pass the test."
It
was worse than I had envisioned and he was not finished. It was not I speaking
any more but some other women which body I happened to inhabit at that time. I
was not committing anything real by agreeing to all those horrors.
"Sir,
I will take the leash."
"You
have to honor your masters by offering yourself every time you meet them. How
do you imagine it?"
"I
will come close to him to do a curtsy waiting for his approval?"
"Pretty
much. It is then their choice to enter you or not but all three of your orifice
should be available if they decide so. After dinner beginner station are, either
preparing rooms for the night like warming beds and cleaning toilets, or as
decorations in the library where Raven spends his regular evenings. On party
days you will have some specific party jobs. At any time you must be bring your
soul to other people enjoyment. The books just describes techniques, they will
help you but the essential, the spirit, is yours."
His
gaze was anchored on my panties. He had scolded me when I had open for him that
is why it was close now. He talked about spirit. My spirit was to please him,
while I was still here, but I was not sure how. He liked me aroused and
unfortunately for my sanity I was. Today I had renounced to any dignity. It did
not matter because it was not I. Innovative I pressed my finger against the
fabric of my panties before splaying my legs to prove him my wetness. The juice
of my cunt spread with my finger rapidly soaked the thin band of fabric between
my thighs. He could pop in if he decided so. I was there for him, and I was
kind of hoping he would. I was madly blushing to my lewdness adding:
"Sir
I'm all wet for your tortures."
"Yes
this is what I mean, be there for us."
His
gaze stopped on her eyes forcing her eyes, not really daring watch him again,
on the floor. She straightened her body, moving her charms, hoping he would
spoke more. She had so many questions. May be she could ask about her underwear
being to skimpy, telling him how she felt with all those straight people going
in. She glanced at his face. He was smiling, she said:
"Sir,
while waiting for you, a lot of people went coming in. I was wandering if I was
not misplaced, may be a girl with such a scanty cover should not be in the
entrance at that time?"
"Again,
wild bush, if you do anything inappropriate you will know it immediately even
when you will not want to hear it. The concierge would have told you. A slave
do and don't are clear. This is why you must obey everybody until you
understand better our rules. You may balk, be confused or be unable to comply
but we like to believe that you are always aware of our preferences. Everybody
here follows Raven desire and he hates and loves to teach it. In doubt never
hesitate to ask. Occasionally we may play with your confusion that corresponds
exactly to what you are: a plaything. As for your clothing we have devised very
precise words for the things that veil feminine part. Underwear's covers
completely the tits and the front split. They may be either transparent or
opaque. G-string belongs to underwear because they cover the front clit though
not the back one. We call trims the one that do not cover the sex nor the tits.
They are here to enhance and point. You should not wear those for now. The
concierge would send you back home if you did. Raven requested that you keep
your pubic hair concealed due to its actual state of mess but except that you
can wear anything. Is it clear? "
She
knew what to wear next time, if she kept delaying going to Raven. The tough of
her in a transparent G-string in this entrance got her tit pointing under the
gauze. John noticed it:
"What
do you think that your tits are hardening? "
"Sir
I was thinking of wearing a G-string without bra next time."
Anyway
I was not coming back so I might as well enjoy the game.
"Suit
yourself. Did you had a chance to act submissively at your home?"
He
was probing into my private life and I was going to answer his questions.
Somewhere I could here a voice telling me that I was seeking his help to create
a training camp for me at my home.
"I
try but it is very artificial because I submit on my own will. There is no fire
in the games."
As
soon as I said it I regretted. This was my exact state of mind. He was going to
use it against me. He waited for more a long time. He was shrewd under his
underling bully disguise. Then come exactly what I apprehended but that I had
given him all the reasons to say.
"You
should give Trish and Jim two days a week to use you at their will. It will
prepare you for what we have in store. They will never bring you the kind of
fire that you find here but it will prepare some mechanics in you. If you do
not use this chance it is going to take a lot longer to transform you into an
acceptable starter maid."
I
had done it. His weight was behind the new organization of my commune as a
training ground for a submissive me. The artifice of another person agreeing to
the whipping and the leashing was blown away. It must have shown on my face.
"Sodome
removing your hair is definitely a miniscule step toward being Raven slave.
Trish will poke fun at you all the way. Other people will make it difficult for
you. What is coming after is much worse to stomach. There is no snag in our
intention. We tell you in advance where you are going. You are attracted as
much as you deny it to yourself. You will walk the path at your speed. On your
time you will come live here and proffer your tender part wagging to my whip
every week."
John
smiled while sending me away with a pat on my bottom. Emotionally exhausted, I
needed to be alone to take the full impact of those revelations.
Commune
after second visit at John's
Days
after day Sodome postponed calling the beauty salon. Trish and Jim call the
games. She was not very attracted but she honestly practices her skills half
hoping of weaning herself from Raven in this limbo. Her place, a sweet setting
to discover safely her new attraction to the submissive position, was a cocoon.
Raven only revealed her own impulsion. Satisfying herself at home, without any
need for being regularly whipped, nor compelled to loose her privacy, nor dance
attendance on her masters upon any casual encounter, was a better course of
action. At home she could pleasure herself at will or relax in her cozy chair
surrounded by her decor and her people. If only she could be subdued by Jim
touch or Trish voice! Jim frequent exercise of his newly gained right to her
insides pacified him but he was gorging his libido on her. Sometimes he looked
like if he had eaten such a large dinner that he could not digest it. He had to
lay down resting for a long time before he could muster a sparkle of desire.
Lifting her dress, getting on all four with her ass high and moving all the
time was a rehearsal for the same chain of motion under Silvana orders. Her
cunt was sparing its juice. Her visits to John, wearing smaller and smaller
G-string, materialized a slow trimming of her bush and resulted in an
irresistible crave for Gabriella mouth upon her return. Jim, hoping to arouse
her, pointed to her diminishing pubic hair but his weakness in front of her
anger took all the spirit out of the game. A friendly relationship with the
plug, now a common presence in her bowels at work, exposed Raven first long-standing
victory. Nobody knew she had it. The more it filled her bowels, the more
pleasant it become. Regularly sucking Gabriella and Jules enchanted them giving
her a lot of needed practice but divert them of their effort to save the
commune. They were calling on Sodome to get back to her real self, to being
pampered; they tried to move her with clothes, no clothes, and display of
service, caress, and warmth. It was not working. The irreversibility of her
change had turned her into somebody else. Her sexual vitality as a dominant was
gone and going through the motion of a submissive for her commune had no
conviction. Sometimes the idea of John reaction to the limits she was putting
on her new tyrants push her on the submissive side but she could always refuse
herself without effort. Nobody was able to stop her from escaping out of the
yolk. Her butt was safe from the lash but she was missing the overwhelming
emotions brought by Raven presence.
They
called on Sinwar to make her to change but to no avail. Six week went by since
her visit as a supplicant.
Sodome
hair
This
Monday morning Sodome arrived at her office to find that a day free of major
engagements. Raven had become the salt of her life. His choice, for her
capitulation, was to present him a hairless legs seam. What was there to
preserve? Trish and Jim already made fun of her reduced bush. Nobody would name
her wild bush now but the name had stuck to her. She had to cut her losses
loose and the sooner the better. The memory of the orgasm brought to her by
Raven thrusting into her obsessed her and was her only turn on. The phone ended
in her end. Olga, Raven recommendation for the preparation of her fork, found a
spot for her in the afternoon. Most her pubic hair was gone glued to Olga
instrument with the fluff inside her ass check. Her incredibly smooth creamy
labia in the open activate the gush. Olga left only a small turf above her leg
chasm. The contact of the skin against her panties made her feel so nude that
it seems than everybody was aware of her secret under the cover of the fabric.
The next suck was going to be a big feast. Olga recommended an enema to cleanse
her anus. The attire proving to Raven the extant of her preparation was
carefully chosen: A short skirt, which underside could be attached to the waist
with a clip, avoided the need of a belt to keep her bottom and her freshly
mowed lawn in plain view; a coordinated tank top shirt loose at the waist with
a deep cleavage; a garter belt and fish net stocking perfectly coordinated in
yellow point lace. She was perfectly in character. Silvana won't have anything
to change. It had been laborious to accept this future of nudity, boredom,
frustration and humiliation but buying the instrument of her submission brought
back the wet twitching associated with Raven. At five she went to the gym to be
in shape for the evening sport. After the exercise, in the locker, she studied
other woman expression when their eyes crossed the exhibition of her new
grooming but there was nothing beyond a small twick of surprise until one woman
moving her eyes from the pared labia to her face smiling wickedly with obvious
interest heated her cheeks. She changed in her new outfit publicly putting
panties and a bra. Hidden in the toilet she removed all the underwears and
added the garter and the plug for good measure. Men's in the street followed
her silhouette the long way and some engaged her. Sitting was a dangerous
operation for her modesty because the skirt unchecked would her cleft in view.
Her wetness was a gift to Raven, a small tribute to appease him after those six
weeks wait. Again the 'how can I like that' question erupts into her head at
the door. Shaking her shoulders she rang the bell. Silvana looked at her, from
top to bottom without a word, then moved her index up. Deprived from her word,
Sodome had no choice but lift her skirt. Silvana smiled.
"You
have become a good girl. It took a while to turn the chrysalis into a
butterfly. Today, Sodome dear, you are perfect. The plug in your butt adds an
interesting touch but I'm afraid that we will have to remove it before you
enter. Get on all four and turn it into a sensation, that way we will not
forget it."
Removing
Sodome right to talk had squashed any impulse to oppose the status she was
given. On the contrary she felt very warmed up by Silvana welcome. She was part
of the family. Down on her knees, leaning her head on the floor, she offered
her butt high. Silvana pulled back the skirt on her camber. Without any hair
Sodome felt more than nude.
"One
more thing, when exposed always keep your body moving. Remember you crave for
people to use you. Your actual posture is a claim that you like being abused:
go for it; free yourself from your limits. Create attraction, you will get
interest: The air you, slaves, breathe."
Taken
by the energy posted on Silvana speech Sodome propelled the plug into a
rotating trajectory, followed by all her lower body, providing a very appealing
scene to those present until Silvana removal of the plug signaled the time to
post her surrender to Raven. The group went in the library. Sodome was first.
Without a word, as instructed, she put her head on the floor to make a headstand.
The skirt and the shirt simultaneous fall discovered all of her feminine
attributes in an upside down mode. Slowly, her legs opened wide straightening
her balance and offering unobstructed views of the creased flat at the bottom
of her torso. Leaning only on her head freed her hands to further divide her
ass cheeks bringing onto light the brown circle, in the deep of her crack,
still ajar from the plug invasion. Obviously not one single hair was left. The
valley on the other side, metamorphosed by the arousal, discovered the inner
pink lips between the obscenely widen gap of the external lips. At the top of
her intimate fold the pearly button was unmistakably swollen and close to the
bottom of it the entrance to her wetness was clearly marked. Her hands, back on
the floor, allowed her to rotate her legs and hips in a complex pattern. Raven,
his cock fully erected, applauded:
"Bravo
wild bush. You sure turn the shame of being exposed into a feast. I wonder what
strange forces made you hide this pleasant trait of your character in the past.
The moist state of your flower without hair to hide is an ode to sexuality. Now
you must imbue yourself with your permanent availability and adopt the
attitudes that go with it. You will stay in the mind state that is yours now
without any need for tricks like not talking. To let yourself permeate by the
major change in your life, you will not block the access to your holes. It
means that a determined hand should always find a plain access to any part of
your body. Your immediate future implies neither pants nor covering bras. Large
cleavage and easy access to your female attributes, at every instant of your
life, will become your motto. You will expose yourself bare three evening a
week, at your home on Tuesday, in my entrance on Wednesday and somewhere else
in this house on Thursday. On Monday night John will instruct you about the
week program. You will not give nor receive from anybody any sexual
satisfaction from that moment till the Friday morning. If you think that you
have reached permanent availability after six weeks of that experience come
back to me. You will tell me the story about being on display."
Sodome
humbly kiss his hand for response. If he had tried to whip her right away she
would have run and be done by now. He was too subtle for her. Letting her
choose to come back on her timing and each time pushing her further toward this
picture of a welted, decorated butt tensely moving in expectation of his
attention. The end was despicable but the path was so surprising that she
failed to trace a line in the sand. Her pubic hair was supposed to be it but he
had waited long enough. Today she had agreed to let anybody reach under her
clothing and to give him control on half of her time, another step toward
complete abandon.
Monday,
at Raven entrance, the concierge stripped her to her trims. Meekly seating
uncovered in front of John, Sodome listen to his comment about the past week
performance and the festivities of the following one. On Tuesday's she was the
hostess, at her home, for the guests John had chosen. At seven utterly nude,
she was ready to greet the flock at the door. It was always a pang when he gave
her the guest list: Marilyn, Sinwar, Silvana, Jim, Trish, Fooka, Doula or some
total strangers. She enjoyed creating an atmosphere of perfect comfort for
them. Using all her sensibilities to anticipate their pleasure. Always the only
servant she worked like three never missing an occasion to flash on them some
sexually appealing curves. Because they could not touch her, she had no qualm
to behave as a perfect submissive, unaware of the long-term impact of that
attitude on the next encounter with them. Each time she opened the door, at her
home, she was afraid that it would be somebody she knew coming for a surprise
visit. Her instructions were to welcome whoever come although most of the time
John had her help organize the visits on the phone. Sodome learned how to
project a humble and satisfied image to make her guest comfortable at perusing
her. The rest of the week the guests would expect her to stay in this
character. They all knew that her marching order was to let hands go inside her
knickers. Marilyn used the leverage to force her into submissive position on
various occasion. Sodome was very upset of the way her old friend was treating
her. Marilyn was affirming herself as a dominant at the same moment Sodome was
switching. Sodome could not resist her demands. Sometimes a guest comes with a
surprise item for her like a gode to stuff in her vagina or a leather ornament
to adorn her. Gabriella and Jules, often around, proposed to bare themselves as
well to make Sodome more comfortable but John specifically requested that
Sodome be the only bottom less in the house those evenings, at least till the
end of dinner, under the assumption that it will help her get beyond some barrier.
Neither Gabriella nor Jules ever let their gaze on Sodome intimate part. Sodome
will not be ashamed by them. The Friday evening after work Sodome took her
pleasure straddling one or the other, a very rewarding activity after all the
sexual load of the previous evenings. Every Wednesday for two hours, she laid
idle but not board on display in the entrance. When her time was done she was
reluctant to leave and her swollen clit, calling her hand, rendered slumber
difficult to reach. The torture was probably worst than a good whipping. On
Thursday John would lead her on a leash, wearing perfume and a collar, to a
room, a fact not as terrible as it sounded (mostly a mental element, another pointer
to her play thing status) where she was exposed on a furniture. The new angle on
the pool of serving girl fascinated Sodome. They were completely shameless
guided only by the desire of the guests. Was it fear or desire that drive them?
Was she going to get there? A small red dot at the top of front slit and
another one on her right ass cheek were the sign that nobody should touch her.
It was respected, a more efficient technique than having some bitch guarding
her. Keeping her eyes low to let everybody watch her without restraint she
imagined the gaze scanning her delicious curves while she was seeing the dicks
harden and soften all along the evening. Her pride was to keep herself
undulating. John complimented her about her behaviors. She was happy with the
exposure. Creating desire with her body without any danger of being touched was
a revelation, a major turn on. She was always reviewing the evening with John.
He gave her feed back on the attitudes that were expected from a maid at Raven
home. Overall it was extremely vexing but enjoyable. It was new.