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I
approached Camille to lower her. I could smell
her sweat, her sweet, young, smell. I let the
fragance linger in my nose for a while as I
released the rope that was holding her up from
the hook I placed on the wooden post. I held
the rope firmly to lower her slowly.
The pressure of the shackles on her wrists
was evident. She had been hanging for some time,
most of the weight of her body rested on her
wrists, part of it on her toes as she struggled
to maintaing her balance up on the wood.
She didn't complain at all about the discomfort.
She didn't give me any signs that she could
not take it. She stayed on that uncomfortable
piece of wood for a long time and I knew it
was not pleasant.
Camille's feet touched the floor after sliding
off the sharp wood. I held the rope to let her
hang for a bit before letting her down slowly.
Her head was thrown back, her hair swinging
freely. She let her weight pull her down, making
my task a bit harder. I was holding her up,
she had no longer any control as far as how
fast she would go down. It was up to me.
Whipping her was not the hard part of the session,
it never was. It was the transitions where the
difficulties came up. How to get from A to B,
that was the task. That's where I could make
things very different, where the drama took
on different directions all the time.
This was the moment where I could be the most
creative. It was also the moment where Camille
could do something different. This time she
chose to be unconscious, letting her body follow
the laws of gravity while I fought to have gravity
work for me.
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