Tales of Carrion Mansion

Chapter 27

Questioning

by Skytower

Elvira Peterson woke with her mind under tremendous pressure. Even before the young woman opened her eyes, even before she realized that her wrist and ankles were bound, she was aware of the pressure. It wasn't a physical pressure. It was more like the pressure Elvira felt when she faced a question she couldn't answer. It was the same feeling she'd had countless times before in school. Staring at a sheet of paper with the word "test" or the word "quiz" or even the most dreaded of all "pop quiz" Elvira would feel a hammer on the inside of her skull. Worse the hammer was never trying to get out, it was trying to get her to remember something. This pressure was like that, only in this case Elvira was not being forced to remember some obscure and (to her view at least) useless piece of knowledge. This pressure was trying to force her to say something very simple.

"Who are you?"

The voice was cultured and calm. English to the core, that same tone of voice that had once ruled an empire. It was impossible to ignore the voice, unthinkable to resist it.

Elvira opened her eyes and looked into two silver ones. They were normal human eyes, but the irises were cold silver and the mind behind them even colder. Elvira could feel that mind reaching into her own. Calmly and blithely probing as if Elvira's soul was no more than an old paperback book worthy of only a casual glance. Something sparked behind Elvira's own brown eyes and the mind behind the silver ones was taken aback.

"Get stuffed." Elvira said calmly.

"You will obey me."

"You will obey me." Elvira echoed stressing the last word.

"Who are you?"

"Who are you?" Elvira echoed again putting the stress on the last word.

"You can not resist me."

"And if I could would you tell me?"

"Submit!"

"You first." Elvira said.

The eyes broke away and the pressure evaporated. Elvira looked around and a part of her realized that she was in deep trouble. She was on her knees on a tabletop. Bound to it. Solid metal bands anchored her ankles and just behind her knees. The front upper parts of her legs were braced against solid wooden planks. Her arms were pulled straight out from her body and her wrist trapped in wooden stocks. Elvira's boots, pants and halter top had been taken but she was still wearing her mask and gloves. Also her choker with its three size controlling gems. A ring of metal went around her head like a crown and kept it from moving. The table was in the room she had seen earlier. Elvira could see many birdcages and against one wall a pile of gerbil habitats. An imac computer hummed away on another table. Above the computer was a bulletin board covered with pictures of women. A fluorescent strip light in its center lighted the room. Elvira could also see a pile of doll cloths and body parts on the desk. Most of them could have fit her since she was twelve inches tall.

"You have a very strong will." The woman with the silver eyes said. She was tall, at least six feet five inches with very large breast. Her white hair and dark purple skin formed and incredible contrast to the mundane HackMaster T-shirt and jeans she was wearing.

"Gee thanks." Elvira said. "You ready to surrender now?"

"I am Melandria Painsworth of the house of Painsworth, one of the houses of Menzoberezan. We do not surrender."

"Giant Tiny Woman, please to meet you… What ever you are."

"I'm Drow." Melandria pronounced. She waited, expecting Elvira to react.

"I'm a babysitter." Elvira said.

"Insolence!" Melandria snapped sitting down on a stool in front of the bench. "I will break you." She said coldly putting her face so close to Elvira's the captive could see down the drow's throat.

"You got some cavities." Elvira said cheerfully. "And I bet dark elves don't use fillings, they'd use magic. Kill the Dracula act lady, I ain't buying it." "My teeth are good enough to snap off your head!" Melandria said opening her mouth wide she started to move her mouth over Elvira's head. She held it there for a few moments, then slapped Elvira's face with her tongue and pulled back.

"Ok, that's gross." Elvira snapped.

"I'm going to enjoy breaking you." Melandria said leaning back and smiling. "Lawrence!" she called. When there was no response for a full minute she called again in a harder tone of voice. "Lawrence!"

Again there was no response. With a disgusted snort the woman stood up, all pretenses to culture gone. "Larry!" she screeched.

In response to that call the door opened and one of Elvira's worst enemies walked into the room. Lawrence Castleworth, or as Elvira called him "The Troll" stood about five feet eight inches high and nearly that wide. His face was nearly that of a Cro-Magnon and his cloths had been fashionable in the 1950's, which was the last time they had been washed. He had been her science teacher and they hated each other.

"What is it?" he snapped. "Look this thing is incredible. I opened it up for an exploratory it not only lived through it it healed. I chopped off an arm and it grew back! I chopped off a wing and it grew back!"

At the word: "wing" Elvira startled but neither of the two arguing noticed.

"She's too strong for me." Melandria said pointing to Elvira. Elvira had a moment of fear as the Troll looked directly at her. "Give me a hand will you? I need something to distract her while I hypnotize her."

"I'm busy." He turned to go.

"Get un-busy." She said grabbing his arm. "Look she knows what that thing is, don't you want to ask her?"

"First off "un-busy" is not a word." He took her hand off of his arm and let it drop. "Second once I'm through with him she'll tell me what I want to know or I'll do to her what I'm doing to him."

"How about if I called Mr. Tinsworthy and released him." Melandria asked sweetly. The Troll stopped and Elvira knew why. Mr. Tinsworthy was the superintendent of schools for Le Corvus. It was easy to see now why the Troll was never fired.

"How about if I call INS." The Troll said smiling evilly. "Don't threaten me Mel. We may be allies in the war against the military industrial complex but you don’t boss me around. I'll help you when I'm ready."

With that he turned and walked out of the room. Growling Melandria slammed her first against the doorframe. Then she walked out of the room. As soon as she was gone Elvira tested her bonds but found them solid.

"I gotta stop doing this with my nights." Elvira hissed pulling at her bonds again.

"I'll show that fat…" Melandria swore walking back into the room. In her hand she held a tray with four nude women on it. Or rather three women and one weremouse. Calliope McCoy had cleaned herself up since Elvira had seen her earlier. Then she had looked like a little demon mouse. Her ears were back to their large mouse-like state, there was no hook on the end of her tail and no bat-like wings grew from her back. Her black hair was done in its usual mop top. Her soft fur was back to its normal tan color except for the black tail. Calliope stood nearly 9 inches tall and could walk and run on two legs or four. She was a bright bundle of trouble who had driven Elvira crazy more than once in the short time they had known each other. But Calliope had also become Elvira and her friend Mindy's "little sister". The cheerful character of the weremouse combined with a slightly off center view of the world could often bring a smile to Elvira's face. But there was no sign of the perky person in Calliope now. A glazed look in her slightly slanted green eyes and the slack expression on her face betrayed a deep hypnosis.

The other three women weren't hypnotized, but they weren't too active either. Each of them topped Calliope by at least a full inch. The first was a large woman with deep copper skin and dark brown eyes. Her hair was as black as Calliope's and flowed down to her waist. The woman had large breast with small nipples and a dark triangle of hair between wide hips. Her face was full and round with strong features. Elvira had seen similar faces carved out of stone. The second woman was shorter and the most doll-like of the three. Her hair was white, though Elvira could see dark roots. Like Calliope her eyes were green and slanted. A true Asian beauty she had a slim boyish figure and no hair at all between her legs. Her mouth was small and pensive. The third woman was black and had a figure to match the first. Her gold hair was cut short against her head. Like the first woman she had large breast with small nipples and like the second there was no hair between her legs. Deeply set brown eyes darted about the room nervously.

Elvira watched in silence as Melandria put the Asian and the Black woman into separate cages and then put Calliope and the woman with copper skin on the table next to Elvira.

"Calliope you take her pussy." Melandria ordered. "Clara you take the back."

"Lady you don't want me to cum." Elvira said coldly.

"Shut up." Melandria said sitting down in front of her. "Clara, Calliope, begin."

Elvira expected Calliope to begin to nose into her womb. She was ready for it. But she wasn't prepared when Clara started to spank her.

"Hey!" Elvira shouted. A second later she felt Calliope's snout start to ease it's way into her.

"Submit." Melandria commanded catching Elvira's eyes and holding them with her own.

Elvira stayed quiet and stared back at her. Another swat on her but was followed by Calliope's sandpaper tongue moving up and down the sides of her vagina. For a moment she lost concentration as the twin forces of pain and pleasure assaulted her body. In that moment Melandria's will gained ground. She seemed to raise herself. To become more of what she was. Elvira tried to concentrate but it was hard as her body demanded attention. Melandria's faux drow look became more and more convincing. The skin color became more than make-up, the silver eyes more than just contact lenses.

"Submit." Melandria ordered and Elvira groaned. Her but felt like it was on fire and Calliope started to tease Elvira's clitoris. Melandria's voice had suddenly taken on a new tone. It spoke of endless years of rule over lesser beings. Elvira, it noted, was one of those lesser beings.

Elvira tried to blink or look away but it was impossible. She could feel her will slipping bit by bit. Every time she tired to rally herself to fight Melandria's will a sharp pain on her ass or a stab of white hot pleasure from between her legs would cause her to falter. Elvira clenched her hands into fist and dug into her palms with her nails. She clenched and unclenched her toes, digging them into the wood of the tabletop. Sweat broke out all over her body. She could feel her own juices flowing down her legs and her ass burned from the constant blows.

Suddenly Melandria broke contact. She stood up and walked over to the cages where the other two women were. Elvira slumped in her bonds and tried to think. If she came, she would grow to full size. The upside of that would be that she'd be able to take Melandria and turn her into confetti in a physical fight. The downside was that she'd be mentally weak from the growth and Melandria might have an even easier time of hypnotizing her. Before Elvira could decide Melandria brought the two women over to her. She set the Asian woman next to Clara and the black woman next to Calliope.

"Riddle suck her tits." Melandria ordered. "Lucinda tickle her feet."

Elvira pulled with all her might, desperately trying to get free to no avail. She laughed as the soles of her feet were stroked, grunted as she was spanked and sighed as Calliope and Riddle stimulated her. This they did not do simultaneously, the actions were done in a sequence and with well practiced skill. First a tickle, then a spank, then Calliope would tease Elvira's clitoris as Riddle nibbled at her nipple. It was an impossible situation and when Melandria caught Elvira's gaze with her own once more the young woman knew she couldn't last very long.

"Submit." Melandria ordered. "Surrender to my will."

She seemed to grow, to gain power. In Elvira's mind the woman became the center of the universe. She sensed ancient wisdom and strength. Fathomless power. Though she knew all of it to be false Elvira couldn't help believing it. The glamour around Melandria was like the glow of moonlight off of a still lake.

So engrossed were the two women in the mental battle they didn't notice the house begin to shake. It took falling dust from the ceiling causing Melandria to sneeze that broke the battle. Elvira slumped, mentally and physically spent.

"What the bloody hell!" Melandria said standing and heading toward the door. Behind her Clara, Riddle, Lucinda and Calliope kept up with their work. Until Calliope saw the drow leave the room.

"Ok we can stop now." Calliope said pulling back. She crawled out from underneath Elvira and wiped her mouth. "I said stop." The weremouse said pulling Riddle away from Elvira's breast.

"Mistress said…" Riddle mumbled moving toward Elvira again.

"I said no." Calliope said sternly pushing the black woman down. Riddle fell on her but and stayed there. "No." She repeated pulling Clara and Lucinda away from Elvira. "She didn't order you not to obey me. So obey me." Keeping and eye on them she started to un-strap Elvira's wrist.

"Your not hypnotized." Elvira wheezed out as she gasped for air.

"Nope. I don't hypnotize that well." Calliope started to un-strap Elvira's other wrist. "But it was easier to play along with her."

"I'll bet." Elvira said rubbing her wrist as Calliope freed her legs. Her body was still screaming from the all the attention it had gotten.

"You know are you sure you and Mindy aren't related? You both taste the same."

Elvira stood up and let the room stop spinning while she ignored the weremouse's question. Again the house shook.

"What was that?"

"I got a good idea." Elvira said heading toward her clothes. Around her the three women stood with confused looks on their faces. "What's with them?"

"They've been trained." Calliope said walking over to Clara. "That mean lady was a friend of my aunts, she's even more evil."

"I figured that out already." Elvira said pulling on her top. "Where the hell are my pants?"

"She gave em to the Troll so he could find out what they were made of." Calliope said walking over to her. "Do you need me to lick you again so you can grow?"

"No, I got it covered." Elvira said sitting down to pull on her boots. As soon as she sat down she screamed and stood up again. Her ass was still burning from the spanking. Growling she glared at Clara. Then she pulled the boots on while balancing on first one foot and then the other. She had just finished when the house shook once more and they heard gun fire from out side. "We got to get out of here."

"Right." Calliope said. "But she's got traps set for us if we try."

"Why traps?" Elvira asked. "She thought you were hypnotised and they don't look like they're going anyplace in a hurry."

"Not for us, for the others." Calliope said. "She's been grabbing girls for months, then shrinking and training them. A few tried to escape so she set traps all around here."

"Well they aren't set for me." Elvira said.

Running over to the edge of the table Elvira leapt into the air and landed on the top of the stool Melandria had been using. She balanced carefully and then triggered the gems on her throat. The room spun for a moment and the orgasm she had fought against roared through her system. Then it was over and a full sized Elvira balanced carefully on the top of the stool.

"Wow!" Calliope said. "Jeremy really upgraded you didn't he."

"Yea." Elvira said jumping down. Picking Calliope up Elvira hesitated. She had no pockets, Elvira realized. Not only that there wasn't enough give in her costume to stuff the weremouse into her cleavage, let alone the other three. She put Calliope down again. "Damn you Guen!" Elvira cursed.

"We can't leave." Clara said. "The Mistress has not given us permission."

"You want to stay and be a pancake?" Elvira asked as the house shook once more.

"It's not what we want, it's what we can do." Lucinda said. "All of us want to leave, but we can't!"

"They've been trained well." Calliope said. "Better than I ever was."

"Well guess what?" Elvira said picking Clara up and putting her into a cage. "I wasn't trained and I'm bigger than you are so you do what I say!"

Quickly she picked up Lucinda, Riddle and Calliope and put them into the cage. Then she headed toward the window.

"Hang on!"

"We're on the second floor!" Calliope shouted as the room shook.

"Not for long." Elvira said opening the window. She looked out at the yard and saw the snake creature struggling with police officers Ann Dickenson and Earl Holliman. Each officer had an arm and the Troll was hanging onto its tail for dear life.

"Not that way." Elvira said turning around. She ran through the room and through a short hallway. At the end a wide staircase went down into a living room. The living room was a battle zone. Mistress Melandria, tennis racket in hand, was fighting all three gargoyles. She spotted Elvira but the gargoyles dove at her, pushing the woman back.

"Come back here with my pets!" Melandria screamed swatting at her winged attackers.

Elvira didn't waste time with words. In two bounds she was down the stairs and out the front door. She leapt off the porch and grabbed the cloths she had left on the ground earlier. Then, with sirens approaching and birdcage in hand Elvira ran across the street. She kept going through the front yard of the house, into the back and jumped over a fence into the next yard.

Five blocks later Elvira stopped and leaned against an old shed. She could still hear sirens but none of them were coming toward her. Slowly her heartbeat returned too normal. Elvira had streaked through town twice, she'd even jogged topless once, but never had she run with a top but with no bottom. It was a strange feeling, especially after the long spanking she'd gotten.

"Sorry about the rough trip." Elvira said putting the cage down. Slowly the passengers un-clasped their hands from the metal.

"You've taken us from the Mistress." Riddle said. "Thank you, but you must take us back."

"What?"

"We need her." Clara said. "She is our life."

"You need a better life." Elvira said struggling into her pants. "Calliope what's with these three?"

"It's the potion that was used to shrink us." Clara said. "It caused a reduction of self, a shrinking of ego." She sunk to the cage floor and the other two came over and sat beside her. Clara's voice took on such a tone of despair that Elvira fancied she could hear the wind wail in sympathy. "Combine that with the Mistress training us over a period of nearly two years and you have what we are. Addicts. Without her direction we simply don't know what to do."

"Simple." Elvira said bucking her pants and trying to ignore the pain she felt as the rough fabric rubbed against her abused ass. "Do what I say."

"We can obey no one but the Mistress." Lucinda said.

"We want to, but we can't." Riddle added.

"It's ok Elvira I can handle this." Calliope said. She turned to the three. "Look did the Mistress tell you not to obey me?" The three shrunken women shook their heads. "So how do you know your not supposed to? Suppose I tell you that she told me to tell you to obey me? You'd have to obey me because you want to obey me and you don't know if I'm lying because you know I'm not very good at lying and anyway the only way you'd find out if I was lying would be to go and ask her and if I tell you not to go and ask her, but instead to come with me, you have to come with me right?"

It took nearly a full minute for the three women to digest and comprehend Calliope's logic. Then they looked at her and bowed.

"We are yours to command." Clara said.

"I had a lot of time to think this over." Calliope said turning to Elvira.

"I can tell." Elvira said. "Calliope do know if there's an entrance to the subway around here?"

"Yea, three blocks south behind the Androids Dungeon." Calliope said. The subway was a series of abandoned tunnels that alien friends of Calliope had built and abandoned after they left Earth.

"Good, can you take them to the mansion? Jeremy can probably help them out. I gotta find Mindy."

"I know where she is." Calliope said. "I heard the Mistress talking about it. The Troll's daughter and her friend have Mindy."

"The Troll had a daughter?" Elvira shuddered.

"Yea, a real evil goth chick. She and her friend are using Mindy for performance art."

"Mindy's on stage?" Elvira exclaimed. "I've been worried sick about you two! I'm fighting giant robots, two headed snakes, gargoyles and crazed drows and she's onstage?"

"She's not having fun!" Calliope said sternly. "And I wasn't either you know. I've spent the last three weeks doing porn films with Melandria and these three. Oh, by the way we gotta rescue the other girls."

"Do we know where they are?"

"Yep, I memorized the addresses." Calliope said.

"Ok, them we get after I get Mindy."

"Ok. They've got Mindy on the second floor of Daria's Total Tattoo and Piercing Parlor. It's that converted wax museum on Dandelion street."

"I know the place." Elvira said. She stood up and picked up the cage. "Come on, let's get you to the subway. Once I get Mindy to the mansion I'll go back and take care of the Troll and the drow, if there's anything left. Then we can get the girls

"What was that thing?"

"A fairy hunter." Elvira said starting to jog down the street. "Something else I'll have to deal with later. Jack and Jill can fill you in."

"They're back?" Calliope's voice almost reached a squeal. "Jack too?"

"Yea, but go easy on him, he's been hurt."

"Jack hurt?" for the first time Elvira heard anger in Calliope's voice. "Who did it?"

"The snake thing."

"Why?"

"Long story." Elvira said turning down an alley. "Later, need breath for running."

"Ok." Calliope said.

Elvira raced down the street in silence until they came to the alley behind the Androids Dungeon. Putting the cage down by the curb she opened it and Calliope jumped out and ran over to the curb. A quick twist on a hidden part of the stone and part of the sidewalk lifted up about a foot.

"You get to the mansion and fill Jeremy and Helga in." Elvira said taking the three women out of the cage and putting them next to the wear mouse.

"Right."

"Calliope, sorry I blew up like that."

"It's ok, you always get grumpy after torture sessions."

"I'm funny that way." Elvira agreed throwing the cage into the dumpster. Before Calliope could say anything else Elvira was running down the street.

…To be continued.

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