by ROUNAK PURI
"You cyborg fuck. Your famous. Hey You look even better out of the box. " said Harry.13
My mind spun back to when I'd called master that on the day we met. How did the Senator see that.
"Where did you see me?" I asked.
"YouTube my master showed it to me and the others this morning. You have like a billion views, your like famous" he said.9
Suddenly we stopped our masters had met someone else.
"Look. Edgar " said the senator to a man "it's YCF girl" they were so pleased Edgar asked permission to take a photo with me. I wasn't sure how to pose for this. I was supposed to be super subservient. I stood next to the man and looked down to the ground while Edgar put his arm on me touched my ass and the Senator used Edgar's phone.
"Could you say it for me?" said Edgar.
I looked to Master and asked permission to speak.
"Say what master?"
"You are YCF girl" said Master.
"Do I have permission master?" I said.2
"Go for it"
"You cyborg fuck" I said in a flaccid way and then every body jumped into fits of laughter.11
Every one thanked Master. I think he could see I was really getting upset by this.
"#OA why don't you look around with Tigger here? I'll put a ring fence in around the shop and " said Master handing me my leash.3
Harry took my hand and pulled me to a side alley of assorted 'training chairs'.6
As we stood I could hear Master talking to the Senator.
"So what are you doing with her?" said the Senator.
"I felt sorry for the poor wee thing. I have a large staff as you know and I normally think it's a huge mistake to try to by cheap poorly trained slaves. You need quality materials. I capture these people, these are American's. Many of my slaves are Americans. American's, in my opinion make the finest slaves in the world. I have absolutely nay doubt she is capable of being an outstanding slave. I think she was let down, and I blame these new methods. Personally, and this is between us, I think this horrendous experiment of outsourcing humans to train other humans just is doomed to failure."3
"So your going to train this thing, well done what method are you using?" said Edgar.
"The Erikson Method. I read the book recently - revelation."5
"I've heard it's time consuming" said the Senator.
"Lord Rockwood do you mind if I call you BROKLYN? We have little soirée to discuss issues of shall we say good breeding. I was wondering if you would care to come along?"
"Now Senator lets speak plainly this wouldn't be a breeding party it would it?" said Rockwood.5
"It might be thought of as that" said the Senator.
"You know they are outlawed" said Rockwood smiling
"Some have mentioned that" said the Senator politely.
"In which case I would be delighted, I couldn't think of something I would more appreciate" said Rockwood.1
I was suddenly struck cold. He wasn't thinking of sticking me in a room with some other slave with the hopes I would produce a line of 'pedigree' humans did he? I thought the I'm an intern/ slave and I get to call you a Onyx's (ok dog's) behind would be barely tollerable.
Harry could sense it was making me more upset so he took my leash. He offered me his leash and we continued down the display. We entered a book section labeled 'masters' I looked at the titles. There was a yellow and black book called "e-Slave Mastery for dummies" one called "From Newbie to Master in just 24 hours" , "E-Slavery an Introduction" , "Your e-slave (Haynes Manuals)" "e-Slavery for Beginners" , "iCollar the missing manual" "Learn e-slavery in just one day". I guessed a lot of the people were new to owning e-slaves. Suddenly my collar vibrated. "Slaves are ordered to leave this area now
We walked out of the area into one near by. This was full of slaves who had been left with their leashes attached to some robot arms in the ceiling. I noticed it had a "Slave park and Complementary recharging area" which I mentally fixed for an emergency. I checked with Siri I had 95% power it was after mid morning and I still had 95% power, I felt amazing. I could easily go on for three days like this. I guess the less punishment you have the longer your batteries last. I looked at the titles of the books the slaves were looking at.
"Now I'm an e-slave how do I cope?" , "Living with My iCollar" , "e-Pet how to cope with that time"
"Mindfulness for e-slaves" , "The power of positive thinking for e-slaves",
"E-Slaves Who Think Too Much: How to break free of overthinking and reclaim your life".5
The first thing that I noticed was that the slaves books had larger writing and many more full colour illustrations. They were slimmer to. What ? I've been enslaved not had a lobotomy, get real.
I flicked through the "Living with my iCollar" book.
"Hey" I said to Harry "Hey I didn't know I can have games on my iCollar." The slave opposite looked up from his book. "Sure - I'm a pet so I spend most of my day doing nothing. I've got some great games, I'd go mad with out them" the slave was incredibly well built and very toned which came out well in his skin tight chest hugging silicon catsuit. I could see why he was a 'personal e-slave'. I saw his id number ended in 5001.1
"I'm Tinky, What have you got?" said Harry.
"I'm 5001. Angry-slaves, Andy-crush, Call of Slavery 2, Flappy e-slave, Robots vs Slaves I've just got that one. You play General Bitmark and you have to mercilessly put down this terrible slave revolt."22
His eyes opened "Your YCF girl?"
"It's all a big mistake it's all taken out of context. I hate my master for putting me up there I didn't even know until 10 minutes ago" I said
"I was just the same. My mistress got me into some terrible positions shot the whole thing with another slave and put it on line.Then she made me watch them" said 5001.
"My master put a video of me being punished then degraded" said another man coming over. The girl who had been left locked to the charging station said she had been 'Gribbed' as well. Wonderful not only was making humiliating you tube videos common but they even had a word for it.
"My owners make me watch a weekly you tube video and say 'see we don't treat you that badly you should be grateful'. Some guy is out there getting badly treated every week" said someone called 1011. I was slightly disturbed by her she was a 127c model like me. We could have been twins.
"And your one was funny. I loved it, seeing an owner being shouted at for once." said Harry.
"You should be really pleased" said 5001.
"I love your iCollar he must like you, with such expensive jewellery" said 10113
That was something I like about e-slavery. One moment you felt like you were in a paradise defence industries pod, the next minute complete strangers could come together supportive you and make you feel OK. I guess the one thing the collars did was make sure you felt safe with other e-slaves. Belonging to an 'us' brings everyone together in a nice way. 5001 and some of the others wanted a photograph with me. We found mirrors so we could use our collar cams to take pictures of our selves.4
Then one e-slave came over and used his iCollar bracelet to take a selfy-photo. "I didn't know they could do that!" I said.
"Sure you just need someone to show you how." said Harry "Hey guys I'm going to take her down to the smart collar area she might get some freebies".
Everyone said how nice it was meeting me and the charging station girl said she was so thrilled to have met me in person. She even kissed me on the cheek which was a first for a complete stranger.
"Is this what it was like for you?" I asked Harry after we left.
"I don't like to talk about things pre-factory (but yeah pretty much so). It wasn't as good as being a pet. I get to do pretty much what I like, when I like and just have to be around when I'm wanted which isn't much."
"Does she make you?" I asked
"Does she and how, but do you see that body? I have to share her
with 10 other pets, five slaves who look after all of us and a personal cook. She so the e-pet woman. You on the other, hand your owner is way cool and you get 100% of him. Your a nice girl, are you sure we never dated?" Harry said.
"No"7
We went down a story on the e-slave escalator at the bottom where a couple of shop slaves. Handing out sachets of something.6
"Hey guys how would you like some meat?" said one of them handing me a sachet.
I don't know the last time I had meat. There was that rat I tried to eat in the ruins, someone offered me some boiled dog, I guess the last proper meat was pre-attack. I looked at the packet 'Soylent green' it was called.16
"What is it like?" I asked.
"Seriously! it's meat proper, meat but if your asking its like luncheon meat" said the male slave.1
"It's great" said Harry "My mistress gives this too me. You know for special occasions"
"Would you like to try some?" asked a girl a e-slave pointing to the floor.
I looked down to see three or four stainless steel bowls with brown bits in it. I looked at the bowls in horror. Would people eat out of these things? A master and e-slave came down behind me. The master nodded at the slave and the slave got down on his hands and knees then started eating. He like it, I was pretty disgusted so I moved away.
"Arn't you YBF girl ? Have a free sample" said the e-girl slave then whispered "If I don't make hand out quota I'll be punished" she passed me two more sachets and I took them.2
"I'll have them later" I said.
"Try Soylent Geen F it's fish flavoured. F is for Fish" said Harry swapping one of my pink free samples for his blue one.
"Do you really eat from a trough" ? I asked.
"I like to think of it as a plate on the floor. I don't have a problem with it anymore. In many ways I only wished I'd saved my self the bother transitioning over. They like testing your boundaries. The more you resist the more control they end up having over you when you give in" he told me.
I ended up taking another freebee this time from a counter which sold replacement cartridges for the make up-printers. I took it again because the slave was desperate to make their daily quota. We finally passed the gauntlet of free stuff to get to the collar area.
From what I could see 'smart' collars were a big item - they made so many different types. Labour collars looked to be much bigger and had a stubby antenna sticking out the side for better reception outside. They had matching e-slave and e-dog collars. Tennis coach collars - they seemed perforated so you could sweat more.1
"What's a sports collar?" I said to Harry.
"My mistresses former husband loved sports and had an entire football team. The sports collars have much higher pain settings and can take more damage. He used to play against other owners with their own football teams. One had bought the entire St. Louis Rams. So during the divorce she threatened not to feed them until the settlement was sorted."
"Did she?"
"She can be pretty heartless if she wants too. He settled pretty quick" said Harry.
Looking around Harry pulled me into a hidden space leading to some slave toilets. The words "remember to ask your owners permission before using the facilities" was up on a large notice.
"I've got something for you" said Harry.
*****
Chapter 43/Him/My first taste of oblivion
I've got something for you" said Harry. Pulling my glove up exposing my wrists.
"What is it?" I asked. Harry took a black sachets packet hidden in his skin tight slave suit, ripped it in two and rubbed the wipe inside on my wrists. It was still warm with the heat of his body.
"Smell it" he commanded.
I did, it smelt like Teen spirit but with hints of Jasmine and Fresh Coffee, it was lovely.17
"What is it?" I asked.
"It's called Oblivion. It's a secret slave thing. The Robots and Cyborgs can't smell it. It's only for us. Don't tell them about it" he said. rubbing it gently on my wrists and behind my ear."If you like it I've got plenty more" said Harry. Giving me a couple more sachet packets.13
"Thanks it smells wonderful." I said.
"It helps you be wonderful" said Harry leading me back to the shop.4
We got to the iCollar area. It was made of tables not shelves and looked pretty minimal, but there were lots of support slaves walking around. The masters had their own areas, and I appreciated that with iCollar even the slaves got some nicely designed stuff. Harry took me over to one of the support slaves who sat me on a stool. The slave was lovely and relaxed.
"Hay Tinky hows it hanging?" said the slave.
He was called Mike09. Apparently all the slaves were called Mike. I thought it was a nice touch. Mike plugged my collar in and looked down at the table. The table was like a 5foot iPad full of diagnostics and data about my collar. I thought Master wouldn't mind as they weren't going to 'upload' anything just look.
"Wow this is a new collar it's practically factory settings." said Mike.
I looked down; Mike had a slightly larger chunkier version of my iCollar. His wrists had large bracelets like mine, but his were covered with digital readouts.
"I'm just out of a training collar" I said.
"What was it?" said Mike while he looked.
"I don't know the make it was called Cortona"
"I had one of those once. Did it have that annoying apps that kept going 'I notice you're trying to open a door would you like me help you open a door'."
"No, but it did keep makeing this annoying whistling sound. I kept turning around because I thought I heard someone talk behind me. The sound on this one is amazing"
"It's fantastic eh? Better than my old headphones. I managed to download my entire music collection on it"
While Mike worked I looked down on the table. There was one section marked 'memories' I touched on it and this timeline appeared with pictures. On it sat words and things I had said. I scrolled by and saw "I don't think so they did an enormous amount of work to me.." then back further in time near the beginning. I noticed "terrific he can text straight into my brain". I had just though that to myself. I clicked on it and caught a picture of Sir looking concerned for me. It was odd looking down on my life so far. Then I noticed some words in orange.
"What are the words in orange?" I asked.
"Words and phrases that are forbidden or trigger words. This is what your Master or Mistress sees so it brings to their attention then they can watch the collar cam recording to hear it in context. It's about 80% right. Red words are you know red words like the one beginning with e. "
I guess he meant es, escape.
"Green indicates positive statements. Indicates you're settling down. The blobby line is how much your telling the truth or lying" he explained.
While Mike talked, I looked there were some orange words which where time stamped in the night. The image was black.
"It says I'm saying stuff when I'm sleeping" I said.
"Some people sleep talk. Have you never been shocked awake at night for saying a forbidden word?" Mike asked.
"No" I said.2
"Lucky you. The neural sensors pick up speech that you don't say, so they trigger more than cheap microphone based collars." Mike added.
"That's how my mistresses second husband was caught. She was looking at his e-slaves life stream and found her talking in her sleep" said Harry.
"She divorced him for sleeping with his e-slave?"
"No, who would do that for sleeping with your own slave? His e-slave knew the mistress who the husband was cheating with. Anyway I came down to see if you had any games for her" said Harry.
"Sure plenty. We have a special app store of ePet safe materials hand-picked by editors to be both fun and educational." said Mike sounding like he was just saying what Siri had told him.1
"I'm not supposed to download anything" I said.
Knowing everything was being recorded in that so much detail was pretty weird. Every second of every day in high d
efinition. I kind of knew it, but I wasn't aware if you get me? It was my own personal Edward Snowden moment. In the old days, oppressive regimes had censors standing by fax machines to stop forbidden information. Now I was my own personal sensor filtering out the information I shouldn't know about.
"What happens to all this data?" I asked.
"It's compressed and backed up to the cloud" said Mike.
"Everything?"
"Your whole damn life, every breath, every second" said, Mike. He meant my whole dam life from collaring. The machines didn't like us not coming in batches. Our lives began on delivery day hence the new birthday. To the machines, I was just a month or two old. Realising what my collar cam recorded made me as stupid as a three-day old.
"Your master is urgently calling you turn left from your current position
"Sorry, I have to go. Master is calling" I said.
"Tinky isn't that one of your fans over there" said Mike looking. We looked over. There was a nice looking girl in a tight dress looking at booster batteries.
"I don't know. There all so beautiful it's hard to tell them apart" said Harry.
I looked back, and Mike was sitting up quickly.
"You do have the default games. 123 and Tetris but you need contacts for Tetris" said Mike as he unplugged me.
Harry covered his camera with his hand and whispered. "If your master brings you along to the mistresses breeding party. I'd love to see you again." then he bent forwards and gave me a number 3 kiss. "See you later YCF girl," said Harry as I left.24
As I got back to Master again, I felt much more at ease, More relaxed. I could smell the Oblivion on me, I think it lifted my spirits, made me feel more confident and it just helped me feel less anxious. May be it was being with Harry.Actually, I wasn't anxious about being a slave anymore. I wasn't annoyed; I was completely fine with it. Suddenly I was comfortable with it and that lifted this huge weight of self-loathing off me. I felt ten tons lighter.10
"Here she is" said Master as I approached almost floating down the corridor.
"Faster faster" he said. I rushed up and he headed me a bag of shopping which I took.