“Come on then,” Lilli told him and led the way—on rather wobbly legs—out of her rooms.
Eleven
Lilli’s apartment was located in an out of the way wing of the huge mansion Lady Mirabella had built for herself at the top of her tallest building. She was obscenely wealthy—Karn had learned that from his research on her before he came to Yonnie Six. Her holdings were mainly in Dream Gas mining, so her estate was located outside the boundaries of Opulex, the capital city and the hub of all Yonnite high society.
He had been brought in through the service entrance when he had first arrived, but now Karn got a sense of how huge and richly furnished Lilli’s mother’s home actually was.
Looking over the banister of the upstairs foyer, he could see down to the opulent entryway with its pure white marble flooring, shot through with streaks of gold, silver, and platinum. Tall golden vases from the Vastar Dynasty of Porgum Five were filled with rare Thousand Year blossoms from Y’lll Prime.
The flowers were extremely rare and expensive and were named for the fact that they only bloomed once every thousand solar years and then only for a day. After that, they went dormant for another whole millennium. They were in full bloom at the moment, their vast blossoms as big as a male’s head, the petals—each bigger than his hand—a red so dark it was almost black shot through with vivid crimson.
It was an entry fit for a monarch but the Yonnite Mistresses milling around in it didn’t look impressed. There were seven of them, Karn saw, including Lady Mirabella herself. Three of the guests were middle-aged women, about their hostess’s age and four of them were younger, around Lilli’s age. All of them had bodyslaves in tow—one for each Mistress—and the combined amount was quite a large party—though they were still dwarfed by the sheer size of the marble entryway.
“I see you had some Thousand Year blossoms imported,” one of the middle aged women remarked to Lady Mirabella in an off-hand way. “They’re nice, though nothing to what I had in my own parlor just the other week. Rare blue Thousand Years, don’t you know. You can hardly get them for love or money, but when I heard of them I simply had to have some.”
“Oh?” Lady Mirabella’s smile looked rather strained. “Do tell, Lady Tempertant. Did you get them for a special occasion?”
“Oh, no.” The other woman—who had bright purple hair teased out into a kind of halo around her head—shrugged. “I just wanted some, that’s all.”
“I see.” Lady Mirabella looked up at that point and caught sight of her daughter coming down the vast, curving staircase with Karn at her heels. “Lilliana, do hurry up,” she called sharply. “Everyone is here now and we must go in to dinner before the mooshmush gets cold!”
“Coming, Mother!” Lilli trotted more quickly down the stairs and Karn followed her at a respectful distance. At least he wasn’t the only one with his shaft hanging out, he saw, as he eyed the other bodyslaves. Each and every one of them had an oiled, erect shaft sticking out of his crotchless trousers and all of them also wore pain collars.
Poor bastards, Karn thought. They’re stuck here with no way to escape. Thank the Goddess he had on a fake collar and a plan to get out of here when he had the information he had come for. Though at the moment, he was in no hurry to complete his mission—his sweet little virgin Mistress was far too intriguing for him to want to leave any time soon.
“Now then, Lilliana,” Mistress Mirabella said when they finally reached the bottom of the grand staircase. “I know you’ve met some of the Mistresses here, but you haven’t been formally introduced. And since we have four of the Sacred Seven here tonight, I think now is a good time for formal introductions. Lady Tempertant, you already know. And her daughter, Priss.”
She nodded to the woman with a halo of bright purple hair and a girl with sharp, pretty features and wide blue eyes. She looked very little like her mother because while Lady Tempertant was short and somewhat blocky, despite obvious body-mods. Her daughter was tall and thin with blue hair which was styled into a startling sunburst all around the crown of her head.
In fact, all of her was thin including her eyebrows—which had been plucked into two skinny, elegant lines and her lips which looked like a ribbon of scarlet under her narrow nose. The only thing about her that wasn’t skinny, Karn thought, was a slightly rounded bump in her lower abdomen. This was clearly visible since she was dressed in true Yonnite style with a skirt which hung low on her hips and split in the middle to show her panties.