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Chapter 8: Blindfolded in the Dark

The hallway felt longer tonight.

Every step echoed in my ears, the carpet swallowing sound but not the thudding of my heart. Linda had walked me past the curtain, through the familiar corridor, but then she stopped at a different door—one I hadn’t noticed before. Darker wood. No visible handle on this side. Just a small brass plaque engraved with a single word in flowing script: Eclipse.

She kissed my temple once, soft as a promise, then pressed something into my hand—a black silk blindfold, cool and slippery between my fingers.

“Victor and Ravenna are waiting inside,” she murmured. “They asked for you specifically. I told them you were ready to go deeper.”
I swallowed. “And you?”

“I’ll be watching.” Her voice dropped to that low, commanding register I now knew so well. “Not participating. Just bearing witness. You’ll feel me there, even if you can’t see me.”

Before I could ask anything else she opened the door and guided me forward. The air changed immediately—cooler, thicker, scented with myrrh and cedar and the faint metallic bite of polished steel. The door closed behind me with a soft, final click.

Silence.

Then two sets of footsteps. One heavier, deliberate. One lighter, almost liquid.

Victor’s voice came first, calm and unhurried as always.
“Elena. Welcome to Eclipse.”

Ravenna’s laugh followed—low, melodic, edged with amusement.
“She’s already trembling. Delicious.”

I felt hands—four of them—on me at once. Victor from the front, Ravenna from behind. They didn’t speak again for a long moment. They simply moved me: turning me, guiding me backward until the backs of my knees met something padded and low. A bench? A table? I couldn’t tell.

“Arms up,” Victor said.

I obeyed. Leather cuffs—wider, softer than the ones I’d worn before—closed around my wrists. A chain rattled softly overhead; my arms were drawn upward and outward until I stood spread in a shallow Y, shoulders open, chest lifted. Ravenna’s fingers worked at the corset laces behind me, loosening them just enough to slide the garment down my hips. The thong followed. Stockings stayed, clipped garters and all—somehow that small retention of clothing made the nakedness of my breasts and sex feel more obscene.

Then the blindfold.

Ravenna tied it herself, knot firm at the back of my head. The silk settled over my eyes like a second skin—complete, absolute darkness. No faint glow from candles, no sliver of light under a door. Nothing.

My breathing sped up.

I’d expected fear. What I hadn’t expected was how total it would feel. Without sight the world shrank to sound, scent, touch—and the sudden, terrifying awareness of how little control I had over any of them.

Victor’s voice, closer now. “Color?”

“Green,” I managed. My own voice sounded thin.

Ravenna’s fingernails traced a slow line down my spine. “We’re going to take your sight and give you something else in its place. Something you’ve never felt before.”

A soft whir—mechanical, quiet. Then cold metal touched the small of my back. Not a blade. Something rounded, smooth, vibrating faintly.
Victor spoke again. “This is a violet wand. Low setting. You’ll feel electricity—tiny sparks, like static kissing your skin. It won’t burn. It will dance.”

Before I could process the word, the first contact: a bright, stinging pop against my left shoulder blade.

I gasped, body jerking in the cuffs. It wasn’t pain—not exactly. It was sharper than a static shock, hotter, more alive. The spark jumped, fizzed, disappeared, leaving a faint buzzing afterimage behind my eyes even though I couldn’t see.
Another pop—right nipple.

I cried out, back arching. The violet wand didn’t stay; it danced away, then returned, teasing the underside of my breast, circling the areola without touching the peak. Every tiny contact sent a jolt straight to my clit.

Ravenna’s voice, amused. “She likes it.”

Victor hummed agreement. “She’s dripping already. Look.”

I felt fingers—Ravenna’s—part my folds, cool air hitting wet heat. She didn’t penetrate, just spread me open, letting the room’s air kiss me while the wand continued its slow, maddening circuit over my skin.

Then something new.
A second sensation—wet, warm, soft—joined the electric dance.
Ravenna’s tongue.

She licked a slow stripe from my entrance to my clit, once, twice, while Victor dragged the violet wand down my stomach. The contrast was devastating: soft heat of her mouth, sharp sting of electricity, the blindfold turning every touch into an explosion of unknown origin.
I moaned—loud, broken.

The wand moved lower, tracing the crease of my thigh. Ravenna sucked my clit gently into her mouth at the exact moment Victor let a longer spark jump against the sensitive skin just above my mound.

My knees buckled. The cuffs caught me, chain rattling.
“Please—” I didn’t know what I was asking for.
They didn’t make me wait long.

Victor set the wand aside—I heard the soft clunk of it being placed on a table—then both sets of hands were on me again, unclipping my ankles, turning me, bending me forward over what felt like a padded sawhorse. My chest rested on cool leather, arms still stretched high and chained above my head, ass presented, legs spread and cuffed to the base.

Ravenna’s voice near my ear. “Now the real gift.”

Something pressed against my entrance—not a finger, not a cock. Smooth, flared, cool glass. A dildo? No—wider at the base, ridged.
Victor spoke. “This is an electro-plug. Curved to press your G-spot. Metal core. It conducts.”

I tensed.

Ravenna stroked my back. “Breathe. We start low. You say yellow or red if it’s too much.”

The plug breached me slowly—stretching, filling, the cool glass warming quickly against my inner walls. When it seated fully, the base nestled flush against my perineum, I felt the first faint buzz.
Low. Subtle. Like a distant heartbeat inside me.

Then Victor touched something—a remote, I assumed—and the vibration deepened, pulsing in rhythm with my own racing heart.
At the same time, Ravenna knelt in front of me—I could tell by the shift of air, the brush of her hair against my cheek—and took my clamped nipple into her mouth, tongue flicking while her fingers pinched the other.
The combination—internal pulsing, wet heat on my breasts, blind darkness—was too much.

I came without warning.
No slow build. Just sudden, violent clenching around the plug, waves crashing through me so hard I screamed. The electro-stimulation turned every contraction into bright, sparkling feedback, prolonging the orgasm until tears soaked the blindfold.
They didn’t stop.

Ravenna kept sucking, biting lightly. Victor increased the plug’s intensity—short, sharp bursts now, like miniature shocks deep inside. My body kept spasming, oversensitive, helpless.

Another orgasm rolled through on the heels of the first—smaller, sharper, almost painful in its intensity.
I sobbed.
“Color?” Victor asked, voice steady.
“Green—fuck—green—”
Ravenna laughed softly against my breast. “She’s flying.”
They eased me down slowly.
The plug switched off. Removed with care. Cuffs unclipped. Blindfold left on.
Victor lifted me—effortless, strong arms—carried me to a wide, cushioned surface. Blankets. Warmth. Ravenna’s body curled behind me, Victor in front. Hands stroking hair, back, thighs. Murmured praise.
“You did so well.”
“Beautiful.”
“So brave.”
The blindfold stayed.
In the darkness I floated—body humming, mind quiet for the first time in weeks.
No notebook.
No recorder.
No article outline.
Just the afterglow, the steady breathing of two people who had taken me apart and put me back together, and the slow, certain knowledge that I wasn’t going back to who I’d been.
Not tonight.
Maybe not ever.