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A NEW DAWN What have I done now? Mary thought as Terrisa stood in the manor kitchen server doorway. Terrisa had never bothered the household staff at their six a.m. breakfast before. And calling out Mary, only a temporary staffer was doubly unusual. “Please walk with me” Terrisa asked as they moved through the family dining room and out to the main entrance hall. “How may I assist you” Mary questioned. “You are established as Lady Alice’s friend” Terrisa inquired. “Yes Castillian” Mary replied. Reverting to Terrisa’s true title. Mary had realized this was “Commonwealth Business” “As required I have installed myself as her best friend” “She is unaware of you true age, or university education as a psychiatrist? Terrisa went on. “Yes Castillian” she thinks I am only sixteen, not twenty-two and just up here for the summer. Mary reported. Terrisa reached out, cupping Mary’s chin in her hand. “Our plastic surgeons created a perfect job reworking your body to appear as if you were Mistress Alice’s older sister. All so she would be attracted to you,” Terrisa said. Now standing back and taking in the entire effect. By now Terrisa had led Mary all the way to the Iron bound door leading up to the Princess Tower room. She turned to Mary and revealed. “Alice’s literally put their body and sanity on line for the Commonwealth. The advanced technology and biomechanics found through the mirror are centuries ahead. They are progamed to acquire schematics and theory, when the opportunity arises. They have a photographic memory and flash learning genetically implanted. Once returned, they can be literally down loaded or allowed to “Discovering” the advanced technology in our research facilities. “Alice’s body is tortured and abused for what is a whole year to them on the other side. But a single instant of time to us here. And when they come back they are almost insane with desire to return. A sexual need, physically addictive in its hold. It will be a full year here before they can return through the mirror” “That is were you come in” Mary had some inkling of what was the Alice’s role. But her face showed true horror at the price they paid. She was determined to do her best giving her charge some peace here. “This Lady Alice has just returned from her first encounter. She will be severally traumatized and near comatose. You are ordered to pacify her with any method you choose, short of medication’ “To remain her best friend for the rest of her life is your assigned role in the commonwealth.” And Terrisa walked away, leaving Mary standing in front of that door. She decided to really become Alice’s best friend and hated the small lies she had to live with. But a smile slowly spread across her face. Mary opened the door and began the life’s work she now looked forward too. Terrisa had stopped in the shadows near the other iron bound door. She saw the girl make up her mind and climb up the stair to be with her lifelong friend. “You could not do anything else once I spoke the control words that invoked your own programming Mary. The Mary’s are the Alice’s best friends. “Sometimes I wonder if I’m programmed as well. It scares me, even to think about it” she sighed. Sometimes mental bondage is as real as physical. |