the garden

Alice guides Emily past the slaves, who just have done the laundry and are now hanging out the laundry. It took them hours to clean all clothes by hand. There were some very revealing very erotic clothes among the clothes, but most of them were long, pure white dresses, elegantly tailored, almost like wedding dresses, but smooth and not frilly and without veils.

Emily realizes that from her former kneeling position her asessment of the size of the garden was completly wrong. The garden was much much larger than anticipated. Alice tells Emily that the "garden" occupies an area of around 50 hectare. Obviously they haven't had the time to fully explore the whole garden, but even a quick peek while walking by made completly clear that this Alice's master was a wealthy man. There was a wide variety of flower, all arranged in perfect harmony, the perfect balance of nature and civilization. Many songbirds could be heard. They probably have nisted in the perfectly attended trees. The slaves make sure though, that they do not touch the flowers.

"What a beautiful garden. And so large."Emily said while both are passing through an archway completly made out of plants just to enter a new section- the colourful rose garden "I have only seen a similar garden once in my lifetime and that was in France as part of a huge palace complex."

"Oh you mean Versailles, I guess" Alice said. "Versailles still is a bit larger than this humble garden, though I recommend you, not to remind master of that. "

In the rose garden, they see a woman with long beautiful raven black hair ahead of her path bending over and taking a smell at one of the roses. Unlike most other women here she is not naked, but instead wears one of the long white smooth dresses. This dress clings closely to her and accentuates her perfect figure. In her bend over position Emily catches herself envying the perfect ass of the unknown beauty as well as her long legs. Once she sees Alice and Emily, she turns up and then around. She is one to two centimeter taller than Alice. Emily notices that the white dress is partly transparent from near, as she can still see the areolae of the c-cup cleavage of this beauty through the dress.

"Hello Alice" the stranger joyful says "nice to meet you, what a beautiful day. Look at this beauty." spinning around slowly in a circle with her arms stretched.

"Hello Cecilia" Alice answers. "It indeed is a beautiful day."

"Who is this right next to you? I haven't seen her her yet." Cecilia asks.

Emily decides to drop a curtsy. After all this woman is clothed. "Good morning, miss Cecilia."

"This is the unfortunate damsel, that is currently playing my new game with master." Alice answers.

"Oh, how polite she is" Cecilia remarks "What a well-mannered whore". She responds the Emily's curtsy with her own, lifting her dress slightly.

"Well, she managed to anger Rose" Alice comments.

"That is not a good idea" Cecilia warns Emily "If there is a person you definetly do not want to enrage - aside from master- then it is Rose. Although making Alice your enemy also would not be a wise decision. "

"You should listen closely to what Cecilia said there Emily" Alice continues "She is direct subordinate of Rose and knows exacly what her superior is capable of." omitting any comment on Cecilia's note of her.

"Her superior?" Emily asks. "I thought Cecilia is of higher status than Rose and you. After all she is clothed."

Alice and Cecila look at each other then both start to laugh.

"No" Cecila explains "Rose is the **** with the highest status here, then comes Alice as a close second. The other named slaves are of way lower status than these two, then we have unnamed slaves with permission to speak like the pieces of master's cavalry units or some medical personell. Some good hint is to look for body hair below the head or some piercings out of precious metal- the more precious the metal the higher the standing of the ****. A special branding might also be sign to higher status. "

"And your clothes..."

"While most **** indeed have to run around naked, for some special tasks slaves are required to wear these white clothes." Cecilia answers.

"What is your task then?"

"Cecilia is an artisan" Alice explains "She is required to wear the clothes to show with how much perfection she can execute her tasks without staining her clothes. Dirtying the clothes while doing a simple task means she is not valuing the master enough who provided her with these wonderful clothes -a punishable act- while keeping the clothes clean even under the pressure of hard tasks is a sign of her devotion to master and my qualify one for some reward if master is willing to grant one. "

"Where are you two headed to?" Cecilia asks Alice.

"First we take a quick walk to the garden, to get to the opposite side of this mansion. This whore needs some medical check-up. Afterwards we will take our breakfast, then she will do her exercises, then I will take her to the beauty palor, to embellish her, to then show her the rest of the mansion allowed for common slaves and finally her accomodations. "

"Oh then I won't impede you longer" Cecilia comments and leaves afterwards in the direction the other two have come from.

On their way to the medical room, they meet many other slaves working on the bushes and flowers, but unlike Cecilia all of them were naked. All of them were shaved below the head, some of them had piercings made of steel.

Emily wonders which proficiency and mastery an artisan has to have to earn the right to wear clothes, but decides not to ask Alice. After all she only has 97 words left.