Yes

{if arachneVenom > 0}{elseif arachneSlaveArousal = true}{if voluntarySlave = true}This is an easy choice. You basically volunteered for this life, and you don't mind committing to your decision at all.{else@}It is a fairly simple decision. You had no plans to escape, and your Mistress is pretty, so you see no reason not to commit yourself to her fully.{endif}

{else@}Your legs ache and your lungs burn, but is a rest worth giving up the slim hope of rescue? The rest of the country will likely not know of the fate of the village for several days, and most of them saw this fate as one they had accepted the risk of by settling near the Arachne. A trader wouldn't risk risk their positive relations with the Arachne over a random **** (you know you certainly wouldn’t have), and adventurers tend to avoid Arachne territory, where they would be severely outnumbered if a fight was started, and are always very keen to prevent a fight breaking out if they do have to visit.

You sigh. There is no way you can get someone to remove the collar without leaving Arachne territory, which is forbidden anyway. In the end, getting the permanent enchantment now is no better or worse than getting it later, and you really need a rest.

{endif}You drag yourself up onto the stone table and lie flat on your back.

{if arachneVenom > 0}Mistress{elseif arachneSlaveArousal = true}Mistress{else@}Exaxa{endif} looks down at you briefly, before walking over to the cabinet. Reaching up to the top shelf, she pulls out a jar.

"The enchantment will be bound to your skin itself. This will not be a painful process. The enchantment is designed to stay permanently, even as layers of skin are replaced, by existing on three layers at once. As new skin is produced, it will remove itself from the highest of the layers and move the dye to the bottom layer, recreating the pattern there. To start this process, I simply need to paint it onto the surface, and provide enough dye to cover three layers. It will then transfer itself down through your skin, so I will know when it is finished because it will fade slightly." She moves across to the workbench and picks up a small brush, before coming back over to you.

Opening the jar, she raises it to her nose and inhales deeply. "Ahhh. Good memories. This came, as is tradition, from the first clutch I ever laid. Nella was ever so eager. Here," she says, lowering the jar to your face, "take a good sniff."

{if arachneVenom > 0}The whiff of sex emanating from the jar makes your pussy tingle.{else@}Phrased like that, there is nothing else you can do. The overwhelming smell of sex enters your nostrils, along with a strange undertone which you can't place, but assume comes from the eggshells.{endif}

"Wonderful, is it not? Now, lay your head back on the table, and hold as still as possible until ordered otherwise, and do not speak."

The brush tickles slightly as it drags lightly across your skin. Despite your lack of knowledge of enchanting, you can tell that the design being painted on your neck is very intricate.

After an hour or so {if arachneVenom > 0}Mistress{elseif arachneSlaveArousal = true}Mistress{else@}Exaxa{endif} steps back. "Perfect. That needs to dry for five minutes or so, and then I will work on the back. Remain still."

{if@ arachneVenom = 0}Lying perfectly still is getting extremely uncomfortable. Pins and needles are developing in several parts of your body, but y{else}Y{endif}ou remain where you are while {if arachneVenom > 0}Mistress{elseif arachneSlaveArousal = true}Mistress{else@}Exaxa{endif} does something you can't see.

Finally, you are allowed to move. "Stand up. You may walk around this room, but do not touch anything."

Shaking out a numb leg, you nearly fall as the eggs upset your balance, but manage to catch yourself{if arachneVenom > 0}, before taking{elseif arachneSlaveArousal = true}, before taking{else@}. Silently cursing the bellyful of eggs and the monster who gave them to you, you take{endif} a closer look at the room.

The nearest thing is the cabinet of jars. Now that you are close to them, you can see that each jar is labelled with two names, a date, and a series of annotations you don't understand. Beyond that, there isn't anything particularly interesting, so you move on.

A wide bench separates the work area from another section at the front of the building, which you assume is where customers are served.

Next, you come to the workbench. The sheer variety of tools is amazing, with everything from needles and thread (Arachne silk, of course) to hammers and chisels. There's even a small forge, as well as several other things you don't recognise, but assume are tools for working with some material or other. As you noted when you entered, several swords and suits of armour (human shaped) hang from the wall above the bench.

"Some of my best work." You jump as {if arachneVenom > 0}Mistress{elseif arachneSlaveArousal = true}Mistress{else@}Exaxa{endif} speaks from right behind you. "For sale when the next trade delegation comes through. The swords are impossibly sharp, the armour almost impenetrable..." She pauses for a moment. "Unless, of course, your opponent is an Arachne. Then you would find your sword as blunt as a butter knife, and your armour as soft as the flesh beneath.

"{if@ arachneVenom = 0}That is, of course, one of the secrets I forbade you to reveal{else}You are forbidden to reveal that, or any other secret of Arachne enchanting to anyone who does not already know.{endif}"

She waits a moment before continuing. "I am ready for the back half. Lie on the stone table again, on your front this time, with your head facing down through the supporting stand. Again, remain as still as possible in that position."

Looking back at the table, you see a padded metal frame at one end. You walk over and climb back up. Wincing as you roll onto your gravid belly, you slowly lower your head onto the stand, leaving the back of your neck straight and horizontal.

The brush returns to your neck, continuing the pattern from the front, first on the left, and then on the right. Finally, {if arachneVenom > 0}Mistress{elseif arachneSlaveArousal = true}Mistress{else@}Exaxa{endif} draws two straight lines across the back of your neck, connecting the two sides of the pattern.

You hear a smile in {if arachneVenom > 0}Mistress{elseif arachneSlaveArousal = true}Mistress{else@}Exaxa{endif}'s voice as she lifts the brush away. "There, the spell itself is defined. I could activate it now, and it would work, but it would make you obey commands given by anyone at the moment, and it might conflict with the collar.

"I just need to copy in the markings from the control bracelet, activate it, and then provide it with ink, and then you will be mine to command forever. Doesn't that sound wonderful?"

You are still forbidden to speak, so you couldn't respond even if you wanted to{if arachneVenom > 0}, but your cheeks heat up. It really does. That wonderful venom is a nice perk, too{elseif arachneSlaveArousal = true}, but your cheeks heat up. It really does{endif}.

The brush moves lightly across the back of your neck, between the lines which connected the pattern up. Once that is done, she presses more heavily, creating a v-shape which meets at a solid, black circle. For the next minute, you feel a strange tingling sensation around your neck. Finally you hear her dip the brush heavily into the 'ink', before pressing it hard against the back of your neck, where she drew the circle. She repeats this twice more, before stepping back.

"Done. You may stand up and speak {if arachneVenom > 0}when spoken to {endif}now."

You stand up and shake yourself out after so long in one position.{if arachneVenom = 0}{if arachneSlaveArousal = true}"Thank you, Mistress."{endif}{endif}

{if arachneVenom > 0}Mistress{elseif arachneSlaveArousal = true}Mistress{else@}Exaxa{endif} smiles at you. "I took the liberty of adding a couple of extra features to the enchantment. Firstly, when your mistress, currently me, calls for you, even if you are out of earshot, you will feel a pull in her direction. You will treat this as an order to come to her as soon as possible without compromising previous tasks.

"Secondly, I added a way to reward you for good work. Instead of describing it, how about I demonstrate?"

Without waiting for you to respond, she continues. "Come for me."

Without warning, pressure builds up in your nethers, and in seconds, your thoughts are shattered as a mind-blowing orgasm blasts through you. It feels wonderful{if arachneVenom > 0}. "Thank you, Mistress," you say dreamily as you come down.{elseif arachneSlaveArousal = true}. "Thank you, Mistress," you say dreamily as you come down.{else@} at the time, but as you start to come down, you feel disgusted with yourself for feeling that way.{endif}

"That appears to be working correctly," says {if arachneVenom > 0}Mistress{elseif arachneSlaveArousal = true}Mistress{else@}Exaxa{endif}, "so I believe it is lunchtime. Follow me back to the web."