The Gynarchic Alliance Ch. 05

Ava's heart was pounding - she was used to riding more experienced ponyboys, she had to remember to be responsible with this one, take it slow. They wouldn't be attempting that again for a while. The two women dismounted. Kel moved over to Sonare and kissed her, running her hands down to Sonare's pussy to feel the wetness there. Kel clipped Sonare's leash back on and Sonare knelt beside her, resting her head on Kel's thigh, smiling and catching her breath.

The two ponies were hitched again, but this time much further apart. By this point there were a few hours of light left, and a gentle breeze had picked up, cooling the group by the lake. All the women returned to the blankets they had laid down, with the service males held on leashes, hands cuffed behind their backs. The women put their clothes back on, all except Sonare, who lived naked at her domwife's order. Unlike a male slave, she was a free woman and had made a free choice to follow her domwife's orders, one of which was that she would live all of her days without clothes.

Sonare knew from this and so many other signs that while she was a free woman, she was not the equal of a free and dominant woman. Such a relationship could be dissolved, though their love was deep and this was extremely unlikely. Ava busied herself in the cart. Alexi glanced over to her but could not see what she was doing; she noticed and ordered him to stare straight ahead, looking away from her.

Ava had decided to keep Alexi. She was in her late twenties and wanted to start a household, and a permanent, useful slaveboy was a key part of that plan. In Alexi, she had found someone who was utterly compatible with her needs and desires. She had bonded instantly and deeply with him, their Master-slave dynamic falling into place effortlessly. The next step was to ask Lonna to become her subwife. They had been together for a few years and she knew Lonna was open to the possibility, but waiting for Ava to commit.

Ava did not have a submissive bone in her body, preferring to lead in everything she did. Lonna, though, had the need to submit, often, and to dominate, occasionally. In Ava's household, she could do both, submitting to Ava and dominating Alexi. Ava decided that tonight was the night to make her household come together, and that she would make Lonna into a subwife in the mould of Sonare, perfect and completely under her power.

She took a bag of equipment out and began to set up for what she needed to do next. She unfolded a small portable brazier and began to let it heat up. Being careful not to let Lonna see too much of what she was doing, she made a show of inserting one branding iron into the brazier to heat up, then put several more in after it. Many mistresses branded their slaves with multiple symbols, so this shouldn't be too suspicious.

She stood and addressed the other women, "As you know, I bought Alexi only a short while ago. However, I have decided that he is my slave, now and forever. He will not be sold on, and he will form the lowest rung in my household. Still a vital rung, make no mistake. The lowest in status, but not in love. As you know, Alexi serves me as a petmale, a ponyboy, and a service male when I need one. Tonight, he will be branded to show all of these things."

Alexi tensed on hearing this. His heart began to race and urine trickled from his pony cock down his leg. This was not lost on the women - it was a common reaction to hearing that a boy was to be branded, and certainly Fleet of Foot had done the same. Lonna moved to him and began to stroke his hair and flank, calming the now trembling boy.

Ava continued, "However, I don't yet know which brands I'll be using. One set is for a household of two. One is for a household of three."

Lonna gasped and looked round to Ava. Ava approached her, taking from behind her back a stainless steel collar set with four large rubies, two on either side of a d-ring. Ava went down on one knee.

"Lonna, I love you. I cherish you. I promise I will always try my best to make you happy. Will you be my subwife?"

Lonna dropped to her knees, tears of happiness in her eyes.

"Goddess! Yes! Yes! I will be your subwife!"

The two women kissed passionately. Lonna looked to her friends to bear witness. A few were crying, all were happy to see this finally happening. Ava opened the collar. It was fitted especially to Lonna's measurements, and could even reshape itself if her neck grew wider or thinner. It was keyed to open only at Ava's touch, or in an emergency. Otherwise, it was just a piece of metal, and contained none of the shock devices, voice alteration, or tracking features that a male's slave collar did. Lonna lifted her hair up and bent her neck forward towards Ava.

"Goddess, I accept your collar, your love and your dominion. I love you."

Ava leaned in, guiding the collar around Lonna's neck but not closing it yet. She savoured the moment, then decisively locked the collar to Lonna's neck.

"With this collar, I take you as my subwife."

They kissed again, passionately, for several seconds. Whilst contracts still needed to be formally signed and some details worked out, Lonna was already legally Ava's subwife - she had accepted in front of witnesses, and the minimum period of marriage was one month. This meant Lonna was now subject to certain orders that Ava could give. Ava stood. Lonna made to stand but then remembered her new place and blushed. She looked up at her Goddess Ava for instruction.

"Lonna, my wife, my girl, stand." Lonna complied. "Now remove all of your clothes and leave them here."

Lonna quickly stripped naked, the nanites in her body kicking in and warming her. Tomorrow they would go to the actuary and Lonna would assign some of her nanite control to Ava; Lonna would ask to assign as much as possible.

Ava looked into Lonna's eyes and spoke, "I don't know yet whether I'll clothe you or not. Sonare does always look the part of subwife after all. For the next thirty days, nudity at all times."

"Yes, Goddess."

Lonna looked down at the ground - these women were her friends, her former equals. Now she was collared and naked before them. Ava moved close to Lonna and put her hand on Lonna's pussy. Lonna had a large tuft of hair above her otherwise shaved lips.

"Go to the cart and fetch a razor from the washing kit I brought, and the depilatory gel."

Lonna moved quickly to the cart as Ava followed her.

"You are a subwife now. Kneel in front of our friends, and remove your remaining pubic hair to show us your new status."

Trembling a little, Lonna moved to follow the order. This was the last symbol of true dominant independence she had - removing it acknowledged that she was always in a semi-submissive state, even when dominating a male. All the other women had at least some pubic hair, except the other subwife. Lonna carefully shaved away all the remaining pubic hair she had, following up with the depilatory gel that penetrated deep into her skin, suppressing growth of the hair follicles so that she would be smooth there, just like Sonare. Ava, standing, removed her own clothes.

All of the women immediately saw the difference between them - subwife, kneeling with a hairless pussy, domwife standing with a full bush. Ava clipped a leash to Lonna's collar - they had done this many times in private but never until now in public. She led Lonna over to where Alexi was hitched and had Lonna place her hands together on the post, then unclipped the leash. Leaning in, Ava then placed her hands on the post too. She looked back to her friends.

"Kel, would you come help me with the first bit?"

Kel knew what this meant and nodded, moving over to the brazier.

Ava spoke again, "Our household symbol will be three stars, one beneath the other. The larger of the three stars on each brand shows who we are. On my brand, the large star is above the two other stars. On Lonna's, it is in the middle. On Alexi's, the large star is below the other two - he is our slave, but also a foundation stone. Kel, please find the right brand for me and come over here."

Kel picked up the correct brand for Ava and walked over to the two women standing with their slave. The brand was small, and would only cover about three inches of flesh. Ava pointed to a spot on the side of her left thigh.

"I want the top star right there, get it as straight down my leg as you can."

"You sure?"

"Yes"

"You commit to this?"

"Yes!"

"Get ready."

Ava put a piece of leather between her teeth and bit down on it. Kel moved in, and carefully, firmly, drove the brand into Ava's flesh. Ava's skin sizzled and the pain flared up like a nova. She rammed her teeth into the bit and savoured the moment - she would never forget this day. The nanites cut in now, quickly healing the surrounding skin, helping the brand take, and stopping any bleeding - they had a special mode just for this. Nanites could even remove a brand, though they rarely had to. Ava stood tall, then hugged Kel close. Next, Ava moved over to the brazier and extracted the brand with the star in the middle - Lonna's brand. This would show, for all to see (as long as Ava kept Lonna naked), that Lonna was a subwife in a three-person household, but dominant over one of those three.

Ava strode confidently to her new subwife, calmed her shaking body, and gave her the leather to bite down on. Lonna felt shock as the brand hit her - Ava, having taken her as subwife, did not ask permission to brand Lonna, indeed did not need legally to do so. The intensity of the heat was like nothing Lonna had ever experienced before, searing her new status into her flesh. The brand felt ... good. She felt like a safety net had caught her, felt like she was held in the embrace of her lover, her domwife. Difficult life choices no longer frightened her - Ava would make them.

The branding done, Lonna moved to Ava and dropped to her knees. She hugged Ava hard, the side of her face pressed into Ava's dominant pussy. Ava gently held her wife's head for a few minutes until Lonna had calmed down.

"Do these with me, Lonna. Stand up. We'll do the final star brand first."

Both women picked up the brand with the star at the bottom. Alexi, sensing what was to come, began to pull at his bonds and hop around. Ava motioned Sonare to come over - if anyone could calm an errant ponyboy, it was her. Sonare made cooing noises in Alexi's ear, stroking him gently then with increasing strength. She took his reins and pulled down firmly on them, taking Alexi's still uncaged cock and beginning to move her hand up and down it. Sonare nodded to Ava and Lonna.

"He's ready now, Miss Ava."

"Thank you, girl." Now that Ava was confirmed as a domwife, she was Sonare's legal superior and had to be addressed as Miss. Despite being younger than Sonare by ten years, Ava was free to address her with a diminutive. Ava really, really wanted Sonare to go down on her soon. Ava and Lonna looked into each other's eyes, then moved the brand to Alexi's left thigh - the same place as theirs. The slavemale took the first of three brands hardest of all.

He began to go into shock, which his suite of nanites detected and prevented. They carefully released endorphins and a cocktail of other neurochemicals, sending him into a happier, more submissive state, but still very much aware of what was going on. The ponyboy calmed down, feeling the deep burn of the brand as it cut into his flesh. He was marked now. Owned. He had not been asked to consent to this - an animal did not consent. He could only wait for the next brands.

Ava addressed the women again, "The next brand is Alexi's slavemale and pet name."

She brandished an iron in which the characters for 'Alexi' had been written in flowing script. This brand she applied to the left side of Alexi's torso, turned so it could be read the right way up whenever he crawled on hands and knees, which was how he appeared to the world most of the time. Ava had branded this into him so that he would know his new name was forever, not just a whim of hers. She had taken and disposed of 'Alex'. He was Alexi, a petmale, not Alex, a person. Ava went to the brazier for one more brand. None of the women except Lonna knew what this one was for - they had discussed it a few days ago.

"Alexi is a fine name for a puppy. Cute, short, easily recognisable. But it's not a pony name, and this is most certainly a ponyboy. His soul is part-pony so he needs a name for when he shows that part of himself. My household symbol is a row of stars, and this ponyboy has an inner light. I give him the pony-name Starlight."

Ava put the brand onto Alexi's, or rather Starlight's, right thigh. The brand had a stylised pony above the characters for 'Starlight'. She held this brand to him for a long time, etching the name deeper into his flesh, impressing on him that this brand above all brought him closest to the status of a piece of livestock.

The brandings done with, Ava hugged Alexi/Starlight as he stood hitched to his post. She spent several minutes there, stroking his hair and skin, playing with his nipples, and dipping her finger inside herself then into his mouth, past the bit so his tongue could taste her. She had Lonna do the same - they were a family now. Finishing this bonding session, she clipped the leash back to Lonna's collar and walked back to the blankets, leaving Starlight tied to the post.

When they returned to the blankets, Ava took a few seconds to get Lonna kneeling in the way Ava liked - legs well apart and hands resting palms up on her thighs. She also asked her to be silent and reflect on her new status. The other women began to drink wine and chat - it was nearing the time they would return home. Ava reflected on her new subwife. She wanted to start to change Lonna's dynamic within the group, settling her into her new place as a submissive female, no longer the full equal of the other women there (except the submissive Sonare). She was probably going to order Lonna to address all of them except Sonare as Miss. This was for Lonna's own benefit - a subwife was happiest when acting as a subwife. Lonna needed this, needed a place to occupy, a spot in the pecking order.

Ava planned to cement this by occasionally letting Kel spank or fuck Lonna, just as Ava occasionally did to Sonare. Ava fantasised about masturbating with Kel as their subwives fucked on either end of a double-ended dildo. She would have to ask Kel if that could be arranged - she was sure Kel would be game. Lonna basked in the attention she was getting, and felt her denuded, open pussy start to get wetter as the other women took in her totally exposed body. Even the women of the platonic household took time to admire her - one of them in future would ask Ava, and be allowed, to spank Lonna, taking her own first step on the path to becoming a domwife. Lonna was a branded, collared, naked, legally dependant subwife. This was her purpose and she was fulfilling it.

Lonna and Ava would need to go to the actuary to register their new marriage and confirm consents. Lonna resolved at that moment to sign as many rights as she legally could to Ava, and all her property, if Ava would allow it. A subwife had to choose a length of time for the marriage contract to last - some were renewed year to year, others every ten years, which was the maximum length of such a contract before renewal. In theory, this was to make sure that a subwife could have a way out of a marriage, a way back to full equality as a free woman, even having temporarily signed away many of her rights to self-determination. In reality, most domwife-subwife marriages, except between very young women experimenting with who they were, lasted until death. Domwives took their responsibilities to care for their subwives extremely seriously, and subwives in return became hopelessly devoted to them. Lonna didn't want rights and responsibilities, she wanted Ava.

The light was beginning to fade and the picnic finally broke up. The three-woman platonic household took their service slave and got into their aircar, which whisked them home quickly and safely. The service male was given a maintenance spanking by each, then put to bed in his cell. He was happy with his lot - he licked pussy and was fucked with strapons many times each week, and one of the three women was usually around to need something from him. The spankings were necessary to maintain discipline and harmony - he welcomed them, and would ask to be spanked if he ever felt he had misbehaved.

Kel and Sonare took Fleet of Foot and harnessed him to their cart. Their service male sat in the rear of the cart, in a travel cage. Kel wanted to get home so Sonare could wash Fleet of Foot down whilst the service male tended to Kel indoors. She let Sonare drive, as she had such superior control over the ponyboy.

Ava took the opportunity to express her new, more complete, dominance, over Lonna as Starlight pulled them home on the cart. She had Lonna lay face up in the back of the cart, then tied her spread eagled to its corners. Checking with Lonna first, Ava took a metal egg and popped it into Lonna's pussy, setting it to lightly stimulate her so that she would be horny for the whole trip but not cum. Lonna moaned as they made their way along country roads.

Ava took them first back to Lonna's house and led Lonna inside, leashed, whilst Starlight waited outside, hitched to a post. Lonna collected a few important items, and a pile of clothes. Ava made Lonna pick out all her clothes that Ava liked least and packed these separately - she would burn these in front of Lonna at a later date. Ava and Lonna would live together in Ava's house now, and Lonna's would be returned to the city, to be allocated to someone with a need for it.

Before leaving the house, Ava realised that Lonna might want to say some farewells to her neighbours. Ava had never taken that much interest in the people who lived near Lonna, but was aware that she liked to spend time with a few of them. They left Starlight to wait, as animals were often left, and Ava led Lonna on her leash so they could go to the doors of several of her neighbours. She noticed Lonna's hands had drifted to cover herself up.

"Lonna, hands behind your back, and when we reach each door, stand with your legs apart. There's no getting away from this - from now on, you are completely exposed to whoever I choose to expose you to."

"Yes, goddess. I'm sorry."

"That's all right, my girl."

They said perfunctory goodbyes to a few neighbours, some platonic households of women, some single women with slaves or sets of wives with equal standing, the latter admiring Lonna with keen eyes. At the last house they had to visit, the door was opened by two middle-aged, attractive women: a domwife holding her naked subwife on a leash. The subwife was kneeling on the floor, smiling happily to see Lonna.

"Lonna!" said the domwife, practically shouting, "You finally did it." She was beaming with pride.

"Hi Deanna! I'm just h-" Deanna cut in, turning to Ava.

"This your subwife?"

"She is as of today, yes! I'm Ava. I'm so sorry, I just realised I never told her how she was to address other domwives from now on."

"That's OK, Ava. But honestly, it's common knowledge, and I know she's read up on it. Might want to impress that on her a little." She winked.

"I will. Lonna, apologise to Deanna. She is a domwife and your superior. Address her as Miss Deanna. If you don't know a domwife's name, just address her as miss. Do the same for other women in obvious positions of authority over you. You are not their equal."

Lonna stood there in shock. She remembered how a subwife was supposed to address a superior, and to apologise to a superior - she had been studying subwife codes of behaviour for some time, in the hope that Ava would ask for her hand in marriage. She knelt in front of Deanna - Miss Deanna - with her legs wide and hands behind her head, and spoke.