Danvers Part One
itsaslave@hotmail.com with acknowledgements to Matthew Kernowski(mattie2316@yahoo.com)
Matthew Kernowski is telling the story of a 'slave to the lash' from the point of view of the slave Matthew who was just nineteen years old when he was sold at the slave market.
However this slave has been fascinated by Ed Danvers who purchased Matthew to join the forty odd slave on the huge ranch that was, at least for now, under His management.
So how does the same story looks from the point of view of Ed Danvers.
Many of His slaves had been purchased at this market but that was not His only source of slaves since some had come to Him from networking and they had often paid for the privilege of being enslaved, punished, scarred, as well as being worked hard and used hard for the whole of an intense slave existence before being crucified as their final offering.
The slaves, like the eight standing naked before Him, were once young and unblemished - slaves who submitted voluntarily were sometimes older and might even bear scars from earlier use - such slaves craved the degradation that all His slaves would suffer.
Danvers was looking for a slave that would provide good value in terms of what that slave body would take in terms of being worked, used and punished and how much pleasure it would give Him and His henchmen over a useful slave life.
Danvers knew His reputation and He avoided any suggestion that He was not the ruthlessly cruel Master that others saw in His demeanour and behaviour.
Danvers liked what He saw of Matthew - the boy was still fresh and young, looked fit and reasonably built - hard labour would soon toughen up those muscles, working naked in the open air would weather the currently unblemished skin and regular whippings would lay scar upon scar - Danvers was already applying a whip in His mind's eye.
It was important that each slave could handle a hard day's work, could take severe punishment and yet still provide sexual gratification and perform degrading acts for the Tops on the ranch and for visitors.
Danvers examined Matthew's penis, pulling back the foreskin to reveal the glistening head that lay beneath - it seemed virginal - there had been no damage and the foreskin was working splendidly.
It was the same when He moved His attention to the boy's butt - still tight and resistant as He spat on His middle finger, bent the boy slightly forward and inserted His finger into the boy's anus.
On these trips to market, Danvers usually brought an existing slave with Him - He liked to see how a new boy reacted when an unexperienced boy saw the scarred body of a well used slave and the steel by which such a slave was controlled.
Today, along with two henchmen, Danvers had brought Ben, a few years older than Matthew, who had been a slave at the ranch for some years now but whose slave life would soon be coming to an end with his crucifixion - Danvers had decided that Ben could do with an outing and a final reminder of what boys looked like before they started at the ranch.
Ben probably realised that Matthew was being purchased to replace him. Danvers looked at Ben and back to Matthew.
If He purchased Matthew, then, in a couple of days Matthew's flesh would be losing its youthful smoothness and he too would begin to wear deep scars of whipping alongside a large branding on his upper arm - the letter "D" in the centre of a star. After all, Danvers had to impress on Matthew and to maintain His reputation as a cruel man who was renowned for his harsh punishment.
As Danvers thought about Matthew joining the stable at the ranch it was inevitable that He also thought about Ben - Ben had been a worthwhile investment - he had learnt to take punishment superbly well and Danvers looked forward to Ben's crucifixion with considerable anticipation - Ben should be a fine victim, a slave to make Danvers proud of His handiwork.
Danvers believed that enabling a slave to offer a good death in its final sacrifice was the least that He could do to maintain a slave's pride in being a slave - yes, Ben, was a volunteer - Ben had pleaded to come to the ranch knowing something of what life and eventually death would involve there.
Not all slaves were quite as willing to submit as Ben had been - other slaves needed to learn about their role and responsibilities. Just occasionally a slave would try to escape and then it had been important for all the other slaves to know what would happen to them if they too tried to escape.
Danvers - always conscious of the need to retain that reputation for ruthless cruelty - had never discouraged reports of an occasion, before Ben's arrival, when He had whipped one slave, who'd attempted to escape, to death and beyond - flaying the flesh off the slave carcase until little more than the skeleton was hanging before the watching slaves.
Usually slaves died on a cross and Danvers decided when they would die. For Ben, that was after some years as a slave, but in other cases crucifixion could happen not all that long after enslavement particularly if Danvers and His henchmen needed to see a victim suffer and if they had one whom Danvers knew was longing for his cross.
To others it might seem that Danvers crucified slaves just for the hell of it but, as we shall discover, life is more complicated than that. One victim was just twenty years old and was forced to perform sexual acts on Danvers and his crew of eighteen men, even while he was nailed to the cross. There was a reason for that slave's early death - he knew to his shame that he had failed properly to serve his previous Master and he had come to Danvers to make his ultimate sacrifice as an atonement for that acknowledged failure.
Danvers' thoughts returned to the task in hand - replacing Ben with a new boy... What sort of attitude, He wondered, would Matthew bring to the ranch. So He asked the boy, "Do you reckon you could handle a whipping, boy?"
Danvers knew from the unblemished skin that Matthew had never taken the sort of severe whipping that he would soon experience at the ranch. Matthew, knowing that he had to be respectful and honest and not knowing just how well he would handle a whipping, replied, "I don't know, Sir" keeping his gaze fixed to the ground. Danvers thought that Matthew should appreciate that just one whipping was not what He had in mind, "You can expect to be whipped every day whether you deserve it or not."
Danvers looked away from Matthew and over to Ben; Matthew lifted his gaze slightly to follow Danvers' gaze and to look at the slave standing a few feet away.
The two of them - Master and prospective slave - looked at Ben's scarred body.
Danvers thought back to the day when Ben's body had been unblemished and beautiful like Matthews - yes, every scar on his body could tell their shared story from the day when Ben arrived and Danvers had whipped it for the very first time.
Danvers knew that Matthew's thoughts and fears would now be racing as he risked lifting his gaze a little more and made eye contact with the slave. He thought back to that first time that He had whipped Ben, tearing into the virgin flesh until Ben's blood was running freely from the many cuts that the whip had left.
Danvers looked at Ben as he made eye contact with Matthew - fear was evident in the slave's eyes - fear and yet, as Danvers had discovered in His years of punishing Ben, also a great pride in staying the course.
Danvers knew that no matter how many times He had flogged Ben, Ben had never stopped having that combination of being afraid of the whip yet longing for the experience of having taken a severe whipping and knowing that he had taken yet another working over and survived.
Once Danvers bought a slave or had a slave voluntarily submit to Him then every inch of that slave body belonged to Him and He expected to do to it whatever He wished right up to crucifixion.
"Yes, Ben," Danvers said to Himself, "once I have purchased Matthew, your days are numbered and I am expecting you, Ben, to die superbly as you have learned to live so well as a slave."