Thursday, March 31, 2016

PLEASURE CREWS OF THE ULTIMATE LOVEDOLLS PART 4 OF 10 by Vendatrix

PART FOUR

Consciousness returned slowly to Tamantha. Waking became a process of floating upwards through successive layers of pink fog. Eventually she heard voices, sensed movement through her eyelids. Then she felt a gentle touch on her arm, and her eyes opened to look up into the eyes of a nurse.
“Wake up, Tamantha,” the nurse said soothingly. “Your operation is over. I want you to drink something now.” And the nurse cradled Tamantha’s head and pressed a cup to the patient’s lips. “Drink this, that’s a good girl,” the nurse said. The brew tasted slightly bitter to Tamantha, but she dutifully drank it down and almost immediately felt a surge of stimulation. She blinked her eyes to clear them
“It’s over?” she asked groggily.
“Yes. The operation went well, the doctor said he never had one go better.”
Tamantha looked down at the massive mounds on her chest, and wondered why they put some pillows under the sheet there. But when her hand slid under the sheets to pull the pillows off, she touched her own flesh. Tamantha’s eyes widened in surprise. Surely not. . . ! She pulled back the sheet.
Her new breasts were enormous. They rose like rounded melons, the nipples rising proudly at the summits of her gargantuan mounds. Tamantha stared at them with a kind of shocked fascination. “There must be some mistake,” she gasped to the nurse. “I wanted some enlargement, but these are just. . too much.”
The nurse raised her eyebrows and checked the chart. “According to your instructions, you said the bigger the better’, as it says on this chart. That is your handwriting, isn’t it?” Tamantha studied the preferred clipboard.
There it was. In her own handwriting in the Notes’ section. And she remembered the very words she repeated the same to the doctor. How could she. . .?
“Would you like to take a better look?” Tamantha nodded mutely. The nurse pressed a button that tilted the upper part of the bed to a sitting position. The nurse then wheeled over a large mirror stand to the foot of the bed, so that Tamantha could study her new bust in detail.
Big as they were, Tamantha had to concede that the twin mounds were perfectly formed. They jutted out firmly from her chest and jiggled pleasantly when she leaned forward.
“They look magnificent,” the nurse assured her. Tamantha, still in shock, looked up her. It was then that she notice the nurse’s breasts boasted the same rounded dimensions, almost like balloons ready to burst out of her tightly-buttoned white uniform. “The doctor did mine, too, and many of the girls on this cruise,” the nurse continued. That reminded Tamantha that many of the “hostesses” also sported enormous busts. That made Tamantha feel a little better, the fact that she wouldn’t stand out as some kind of freak. Almost made her feel more part of the cruise.
“Lie back, now,” said the nurse, “I need to lubricate your breasts to keep the skin elastic during the healing process.” Tamantha obediently let herself fall back. When she look down, she was startled and then amused by the fact there her breasts rose in the air like twin hills, with the nipples at the summit, completely obscuring the sight of her feet. She giggled. “Well the doctor seems to be good at what he does,” she said while the nurse poured an aromic-scented lotion in her hands and rubbed them briskly together. Tamantha noticed that she had difficulty speaking clearly, her lips seemed somewhat swollen.
“He’s the best,” agreed the nurse. “By the way, he noticed that your lips could use a little work too. So he did some basic collagen injections, it gives your mouth a fuller, sexier look.”
“He did what?—” began Tamantha, but before she could protest further, the nurse’s expert hands cupped her breasts and began massaging the lotion over her supple mounds. Immediately a warm current of pleasure flowed through Tamantha’s breasts and somehow found its way down to her loins. “Oh!” gasped Tamantha. The more the nurse worked the lotion in, the more powerful became the surges sexual hunger. Tamantha forgot all about the unauthorized work on her lips and just tilted her head back on the pillow, her eyes fluttering with wave after wave of erotic sensation. She had never experienced anything remotely like this. She became aware of the nurse’s comments, filtering through the mists of her amplified libido.
“Your new breasts looks so good, Tamantha. . . very firm, and yet so soft. . . the doctor has a special treatment for the nerve cells, especially here, around the nipples. . .” Tamantha, her eyelids fluttering, felt the nurse’s playing with her nipples as a new surge of sheer pleasure warmed her loins. She almost didn’t hear what the nurse said. . . “amplifies the sensation with special neuro-enhancers. . . you feel touching more. . . mmm, I can tell you’re very sensitive,” purred the nurse as Tamantha let out a sigh and spread her thighs slightly in response to her quivering loins. The sound of the nurse’s supple fingers working in the lotion made a slick wet sound that aroused Tamantha even more. A throaty moan escaped her lips. Tamantha looked down through her half-closed eyelids to watch the nurse’s fingers squeeze and shape the breasts, now glistening with the sheen of the ointment. For one half-mad moment, she even visualized a man’s cock sliding through the valley between her breasts, it’s hot, throbbing shaft slipping smoothly through the tunnel by the hands pushing her pink jello-quivering orbs together.
“The doctor also did some work on your labia,” said the nurse matter-of-factly, “giving them some form and support. Why don’t you reach down and touch them for yourself?”
Tamantha’s pleasure-fogged mind was beyond protesting the latest revelation of the unauthorized modifications to her body. Rather, her fingers slid down, over her flanks, over her taut belly, slowly between her thighs—and stopped short.
She could feel only smoothly-shaven skin where her bush had been.
“No . . pubic hair,” she gasped weakly.
“Naturally,” said the nurse. “We had to shave you to have unhampered access. It was a medical procedure, after all.”
Tamantha’s sense-addled brain could not think of any response. Well, the nurse was right. . .a medical procedure would require removal of hair. But what medical procedure? Her fingertips tentatively reached further down. And then she felt the changes.
Her netherlips had been augmented dramatically. Instead of the thin folds of flesh she was used to touching when she pleasured herself, now her fingers traced the loamy softness of those enhanced outer lips. When her moistened fingers slid deeper in, they touched a clit that was as firm as a rosebud and incredibly sensitive. A shudder of pure pleasure rippled through her body, amplified by the nurses continuing massage of her breasts. “What. . . what did he do?” Tamantha asked weakly.
“Oh, the doctor applied that same formula of nerve-generation around your clitoris,” said the nurse. “You’re now able to experience considerably more pleasure during sex. There, that should do your breasts for today. I want to check on your feet.”
Only then was Tamantha aware that she could not move her legs, and her feet felt some kind of odd pressure. When the nurse turned down the sheet, she saw why. Her ankles were shackled to some kind of bar across the foot of the bed. A metal contraption pressed her feet down past the heels, as if she were about ready to dance on her toes like a ballerina. She tried to move her feet, but the metal braces kept them pressed downward.
“During the workup, the doctor noticed you had hairline fractures in the arches of your feet and bruised your Achilles tendon. Did you ever do anything to cause that? Any hard falls or jumping?”
Tamantha tried to think back, but the sedatives seemed to fog her brain. “I don’t know,” she said confusedly. “I’ve been snow skiing before. . . fell sometimes. . .”
“That probably did it,” said the nurse. “The doctor thought we could cure it with a little traction on your feet, and some reduction of your tendon.” And with that, the nurse turned a ratcheted knob on each foot. With each click, Tamantha feel the pressure pointing her feet down increase even more. “That’s a little uncomfortable,” the helpless girl said.
“I know, dear,” said the nurse soothingly. “I’ll get you another sedative. Here, drink this,” she said, as she lovingly held Tamantha’s swollen lips to a paper cup with a tangy-tasting drink. “That will make you sleep. You’re doing fine. Now all you need is rest. Here, I’ll get you some music to listen to.” And the nurse slipped a pair of lightweight earphones over the girl’s ears.
Tamantha laid back on the pillow, her eyelids fluttering with sudden sleepiness. The music in her ears lulled her into a deeper slumber. And then her own synthesized voice whispered to her through the earphones: “. . . I love my new breasts. . . the bigger the better. . . I love it when mens touch my breasts. . . that’s what they’re there for. . . I love my new breasts. . .”
As soon as the nurse confirmed the patient was sleeping, she pressed an intercom to call the doctor. “Subject is sleeping with the conditioning tape, doctor.. She’s ready for further modifications.”
“Good girl,” said the doctor. “I’ll be down to scrub shortly. Prep the patient, won’t you?”
“Yes, sir.” Before she had been a nurse in the ship’s clinic, she had been chief of surgery at a Philadelphia hospital—that is, until her staff convinced her two years ago to take a cruise, from which she never returned. . .
For Tamantha, the next few days blurred into one another—an endless cycle of deep sleep and groggy wakefulness. As she would wake up from the powerful sedatives, her fogged mind would dimly notice changes in her body—her feet being arched into almost ballerina toes-down form, her breasts even larger than the last time she woke (“The bigger the better,” she thought automatically), and her face—they were always working on her face, it seemed. These periods of wakefulness began with the nurse or doctor leaning over her, obviously intent on giving her the best treatment possible. Then another sedative and she would sink into drugged slumber once again, the earphones always snug against her ears, the voice (her own synthesized voice) molding her thoughts by degrees into total submissiveness.
Once she fought her way to consciousness in the middle of the night, and couldn’t understand why she heard whispers in her mind. Then she reached up and pulled the earphones. The nurse hurried over out of nowhere. “Having trouble sleeping, sweetie?” the nurse asked. Before Tamantha could mumble a reply, the nurse slipped a pill between her patient’s lips and gave her a paper cup of water. The last thing Tamantha remembered as she slipped back into sleep was the nurse slipping the headphones back on. (". . .makes me feel so sexy. . . I love high heels, it makes me look so sexy. . . I like men to look at my legs, so they have to look as shapely as possible. . . High heels make my legs look sexy. . . I love high heels. . .it makes me look so sexy when I walk. . . I love to wear high heels. . .") Her eyelids grew heavy and she slept again.
Then next time Tamantha awoke, she thought she caught of glimpse of her roommate Kira being taken across the clinic floor. At least she thought it was Kira. But the oriental girl had a filled out body that made her wonder. The oriental girl walked across the floor on towering heels, her breasts jiggling with each step, her black glossy hair swaying over her shoulders. Tamantha tried to call out her friend’s name, but her mouth was not working right. Kira tried to struggle out of bed, but medical restraining cuffs pinned her wrists to the bed rail at the side of the bed. The doctor noticed her weak efforts to free her arms, and he gently patted her hand. “There, there, best keep those on. They’re for your protection, in case the ship goes through rough water. Can’t have patients falling out of their beds.” The doctor opened a valve on an intravenous feed.
Well, that makes sense, thought Tamantha in her compliant state of mind. She took one last look at the girl walking out the door, led by two nurses. Was it Kira? The question swirled away in a familiar mist of drug-induced sleep.
The day came when they finally let her sit up. Tamantha’s head seem to spin. She looked down at the two mounds jutting forward on her chest. Well, it was not a dream after all, she thought. And no mistaking the size—like twin volleyballs. And no mistaking the sensitivity—she could feel the nipples hardening at the mere touch of the soft fabric of her hospital gown. The nurse helped her steady herself.
“There, you’re doing fine. You’ll feel a little lightheaded.”
“How. . . how long. . .” For some reason, it was hard for Tamantha to talk, it felt like her mouth was full. “How long. . . have I been here?” she finally mumbled. For some reason it was easier to think in words of one syllable.
“Oh, several days. After all, you requested the full treatment.”
Full treatment? wondered Tamantha. She slowly swung her feet off the bed and tried to stand. And almost feel into the waiting arms of the nurse.
“Careful, there,” said the nurse. “You may have to get used to walking in special shoes until the traction heals. Tamantha tried to stand, but her arches refused to let her heels down. She felt she could only walk on tiptoe. “Here,” said the nurse, try these.” And the nurse slid the girl’s feet into a pair of sleek high heeled shoes with ankle straps. Tamantha
“How. . . high. . .?” After all, she thought: (“High heels make me look sexy. . .")
“Oh, those are standard seven-inch heels. They should give your feet a lot of support.”
Support was not the word for it, thought Tamantha. Her feet seemed imprisoned, with her toes bent almost straight down. As the nurse led her across the floor, Tamantha felt like a new-born colt trying out its legs for the first time. She almost stumbled again, and barely caught a handy bed rail in time.
“You’re over-striding,” said the nurse, “Let’s try this.” And she reached in her pocket and pulled out a small silver chain. The nurse stooped down to Tamantha’s feet and expertly clipped the chain to a ring in each ankle strap that Tamantha had not noticed before. The chain only allowed her about 18 inches for each step. “That should help keep your balance,” the nurse went on, “provided you also arch your back—yes, like that—and sway your hips back and forth as you walk. That’s much better, sweetie,” she said, as Tamantha took her first mincing steps on her pointed toes with the hobble chain. The nurse was right—it did help to keep a precarious balance, but it took all of Tamantha’s limited concentration just to walk.
Tamantha stopped short when she caught sight of herself in the full-length examination mirror. She felt she was looking at a stranger, with a body that was a cross between a supermodel and silicone-pumped topless dancer. Her ripe, impossibly large breasts still jiggled from her last step, the nipples pressing hard against the loose hospital gown. Her torso narrowed considerably—liposuction work there, apparently, and what an improvement! Her hips swelled out again in almost perfect curves. Her legs seemed longer due to her perch on the high-heeled sandals. They had done something to her face, too—a definite improvement, she had to admit, in that it seemed to make her cheekbones higher, her eyes larger and more doe-like, and her lips—well, her lips seemed almost inflated. As a matter of fact, she tried to open her mouth as wide as it would go, and her lips barely parted.
“Wha’ haff you done to muh mou’?” she asked.
“Don’t your lips look luscious?” asked the nurse with an approving look. “And the boat dentist did some work on your molars while you were out. The roof of your mouth probably feels a bit swollen.”
As a matter of fact, it felt very swollen as Tamantha tentatively ran her tongue over the roof of her mouth. She felt like her whole mouth had been surgically reconfigured. Her palette now had a soft cushion that had been inserted over her mouth and fitted over her back teeth. But her tongue quickly encountered a soft arch of padding, that left her mouth more like a narrow channel about an inch in diameter. The tip of her tongue coursed over ridges and pebbled areas on that padding. She noticed that the mere touch of her tongue on that surface somehow triggered her salivary glands, and her mouth gushed full of warm saliva as if he had sucked some sweet & sour candy. She swallowed in surprise at the torrent from her hyperactive saliva glands and swallowed in reflex.
“Come along,” said the nurse. “It’s time we got you back to your cabin where you belong. After all, girl, you’re on vacation!”
Tamantha was given a tunic, as her old dress no longer could contain her enormous bustline. The nurse insisted she have one more sedative to help her nap when she got to her cabin. Tamantha swallowed the pill compliantly.
After being checked out of the clinic, she teetered along the cruise ship passageways on her high-heeled sandals toward her cabin in the bow, still very self-conscious about her new voluptuous appearance, the way the sandals made her back arch as she walked, and how she had to pull back her shoulders to counter the weight of her breasts, which made those two globes thrust out even more against the loose fabric of the tunic. When one of the male guests who had been ignoring her now caught sight of her on deck, he now gave her a new penetrating appreciative look that made Tamantha blush. She hurried on to the cabin and opened the door.
Inside was cool and dark. Tamantha saw a form curled up on the bed—it was Kira, sleeping like a cat, apparently back from her stay at the clinic. The oriental girl was half-turned on the bed, the satin sheets hugging her form, her black glossy hair cascading over the pillow. She was wearing her wireless earphones. At the foot of the bed stood her own high-heeled sandals; apparently Kira needed traction too, thought Tamantha.
Tamantha slipped under the sheet on her side of the bed, and out of habit, slipped on her own earphones. So good to be back in her own bed, she thought, next to her friend. She fell asleep remembering how stirred and excited she felt at the look from the male guest—nobody on board had looked at her that way. She snuggled closer to her friend’s warmth as she drifted into a deep slumber.
In the deep control center of the ship, Andre studied the infra-red view of the girls’ cabin. As soon as Tamantha’s eyelid’s fluttered as a prelude to sleep, Andre said, “Start the tape.” He leaned forward to the monitor to catch the subjugated girl’s reaction,.
The wireless earphones carried the synthesized voice of Tamantha direct to her own ears. It was if she were hearing herself in her own mind—which, of course, was the whole point of the procedure. It began as a barely audible whisper: (“I feel so relaxed right now. . . .so very relaxed. . .so relaxed knowing how good I look now. . . the nice people in the clinic helped me to look this good. . . I feel so sexy when I look this way. . . I love my body looking this way. . . I love my large breasts. . . I love my large breasts. . . I can’t wait until they’re played with. . . that’s what my large breasts are good for, to be played with . . .that will feel so good. . . that’s what I’m good for, to be played with. . . I can’t wait to show off my new sexy body. . . I can’t wait for my sexy body to be played with. . .mmm, the very thought of it makes me so wet. . .” The sleeping girl stirred, her body strummed by the implanted arousing messages. Her hands began to move across the top sheet to her breasts. (“I love to feel my breasts played with, I want to feel my nipples touched. . . .") Her fingers slid slowly, tantalizing up her thighs. Then she slowly pulled the top sheet over her body, uncovering her breasts. While the tape coaxed her deeper and deeper into sensual compliance, her hands slid up her taut belly and then cupped her quivering globes. (“I love feeling my breasts massaged. . . oh, yesss, that feels so good. . .") whispered the earphones, while her hands went to work kneading her soft and pliant breasts. The tropical warmth in the room was matched by the rising heat in her body, and soon a thin sheen of sweat on her undulating body could be seen on the monitors.
“Activate Kira,” ordered Andre. A technician tapped on the keyboard in front of him, and Kira’s earphones also picked up the same subliminal messages—in Kira’s own whispering voice. In no time at all Kira’s hands were also at work, stroking and caressing her breasts until her nipples were just as stiff and sensitive as her friend’s. The whispered instructions continued, until both girls surrendered to the trance-induced haze of sexual abandon, as their hands and fingers caressed their bodies closer and closer to climax. The waterbed undulated by the slow gyrations of the helplessly aroused girls, and the rolling rhythms of the water seemed to amplify the coiling spring of their lust.
Andre darted a glance at the brain-wave readings picked up by the earphones. “They’re close to coming,” he said. “Do the switch. . . now!”
The technician tapped on the keys again. Gradually, the message in Tamantha’s earphones changed. (“I love touching my body. . . I love the touch of warm skin, it feels so good. . .Kira’s my friend. . .I love Kira. . .I would love to touch Kira, that would feel so good to me . . . that would feel so good for her, too. . .it’s good to feel this much pleasure. . . it’s good to give pleasure to my friend. . . I want to touch her. . . her breasts feel so good. . . “) Kira’s earphones whispered the same message about her friend Tamantha. The friendship both girls had for each other was molded by Andre’s staff into lesbian lust. The half-awake girls drew close to one another, and soon were wrapped in each other’s arms, kissing and stroking one another. Kira’s mouth slid between the valley of Tamantha’s voluptuous breasts, with the oriental girl’s black glossy hair draped over Tamantha’s chest. Tamantha’s hands were sliding down the sweat-streaked flanks of her friend Kira. Their body rhythms melded into one slow, unified pulsing of mutual need that began to pick up speed as their earphones urged them to pleasure each other.
Even though Andre had seen this same scene replayed dozens of time, he could not help but get aroused himself, at the sight of the two beautiful women exploring the pleasure their sexually- modified bodies now offered—and now totally under his orchestration. He knew they would function best as sex slaves if their inhibitions were first dispensed with; what better way to crack their core of their prior personalities than to make them lesbian lovers?
“They’re both approaching orgasm, according to the readouts,” said a technician in the background.
Andre said, “I will tell you when to bring them back down, and I won’t need your control panel to do it. I can tell when a woman is near the peak.”
“How so, sir?” asked one of the technicians, a new one fresh from the island.
“I’m French,” answered Andre. He waited until the moans of the women reached a level of husky, frantic need. “Now,” he said. “Bring them back down now.”
Once again the message in the earphones changed. Soothing, calming, it urged to them to relax. . . relax. . . save it for the men. . . The girls slowly fell apart, their breasts rising and falling from their exertions. Andre imagined how their libidos were still churning with unsatisfied lust, how primed they would be for later use.
“Ah, bon,” said Andre, nodding in satisfaction at the image on the monitor of the two women drifting back off into sleep. “I’d say our little cabbages are primed for the next stage. Let’s give them something new to think about—transmit protocol five.” The audio tape technician tapped in yet another message that was soon whispering in the earphones of the slumbering girls.

PLEASURE CREWS OF THE ULTIMATE LOVEDOLLS PART 3 OF 10 by Vendatrix

PART THREE

Later that evening Tamantha and Kira dressed to the nines to attend the inaugural banquet of the cruise. The tables were set out on the upper deck so a canopy of stars played counterpoint to the flickering candles that lighted the banquet. The two girls found their placecards set at a table where Andre was holding court with three or four other women in attendance. Eating quietly by herself was a tall attractive blonde. Tamantha thought she looked familiar.
“Pardon me,” she said, as she and Kira took their seats, “But aren’t you Candace Wellington, the famed fashion designer?”
“I don’t know about famed,” she said, “But I do design clothes.” The three women introduced themselves while the girls around Andre burst into another round of laughter at one of his comments.
“Been on the cruise long?” asked Kira.
“Three days,” Candace replied. “Three glorious days. And I hardly miss my work at all. I didn’t even bother to phone in for messages today—that’s a first.”
“So you’ve been enjoying yourself?” asked Tamantha as she started in on her salad.
“Very much so. I’ve never slept so well. Have you used those headphones they got attached to the bed? Three minutes of audio programs and I’m out like a light. I’m going to see if I can get one of those installed at home.”
Kira looked around a little wistfully. “I was sort of hoping the men would arrive soon. Things are a little too relaxed for me.” And she smiled naughtily.
Candace smiled an aristocratic smile. “You too are a little younger than I am. A good book and a sunny deck work just fine with me. I’m not exactly the type to hang over men, if you know what I mean,” she added with a sidelong condescending glance at the cluster of giggling girls around Andre. Following her glance, Tamantha noticed that the girls were hardly dressed for dinner. Some of them were hostesses with the chain-necklace golden medallions, others were guests—but all of them were still dressed in the barest of swimsuits, their ample breasts jiggling with each burst of laughter. Andre basked in their attention.
“Has Andre showed you the treasure-hunting rig they set up in the sonar room?” asked Candace.
“We did that today,” said Tamantha.
“Find any?”
“None yet. Did you.”
“Still looking,” said Candace with a smile. “Andre said I can take a shift every day, since all the other girls apparently got tired of it. No patience, apparently, unlike us working girls.”
“So where did all these other girls come from?” asked Tamantha. “They all seem so. . .immature. Like a bunch of party-girls, I mean.”
Candace shrugged. “Who knows,” she said with a hint of disdain in her voice. “They were here when I got here. I tried to get acquainted, but they all get this blank look in their eyes. They all seem to be waiting for the male passengers to come—sort of a Bring On The Guys kind of attitude.”
That night, Tamantha and Kira dropped into bed, pleasantly tired by the days activities. Both girls reached automatically for the headboard earphones. And both girls soon slumbered while their minds soaked in the next lesson: “. . .dress for comfort. . . I want to dress for comfort. . .I don’t need to dress up on the ship . . I don’t need to dress up on the ship. . .I really don’t want to work today. . . I really don’t want to think today. . . working just gives me a headache. . . thinking too hard just gives me a headache. . . .” And then, repeated over and over again as the girls passed through their cycles of sleep: “I want to hunt for treasure. . .”
The next morning after breakfast Tamantha tried to concentrate on her laptop computer. She stared at the list of incoming e-mails in dismay—this was no better than working at the office! She scowled and tried to respond to the first one, frustrated that she could not keep her mind from wandering.
“Whatcha doing?” asked Kira, slipping into a very brief set of shorts and an equally minimal tanktop.
“Work,” growled Tamantha, bent over her laptop on the table in the room. “But I’m just spinning my wheels. Can’t seem to keep my mind on it.”
“I don’t want to work today,” said Kira. “It just gives me a big headache.”
“Me too. My head seems like it’s splitting.”
“Then come on deck, silly. That’s where I’m going.”
“Dressed like that?”
Kira stepped into some high-heeled sandals and took a backward glance at herself in the mirror. “Hey, I’m on a cruise. I’m dressing for comfort.” The tanktop molded her pert breasts perfectly, and the low-slung shorts displayed far more than they covered. Both bore the monogram of the cruise line.
“Where did you even get that stuff?” asked Tamantha.
“In the closet, the shelf. Just my size, too.” And Kira left, deck towel in hand, with a little attitude-sway in her hips.
Tamantha tried to word a reply to an e-mail from her office, but the more she tried to think, the harder the pounding in her head. She rubbed her temples and deliberately let her mind go blank, and after a few minutes, her headache melted away. Strange! Only when she tried to think. . .
The closet door caught her eye. She got up and checked—sure enough, a set of hip-hugging shorts and small tanktop awaited her. They were hardly the thing a high-powered female executive would expect to wear, even shipboard. But she decided to try them on, just to see if they fit.
They did, of course. And since she had them on, no reason not to try them out. She slipped into the high-heeled sandals—also her size, no surprise there—and stood there in front of the mirror studying the her new look: her nipples could be seen poking through the thin cotton of the tanktop, and the shorts looked as if they had been sprayed on, the fit was so tight. Her back arched provocatively as a counter to her high-heeled stance. Then the thought came unbidden to her mind: Time to hunt for treasure! She applied her make-up and hurried out the door.
Kira already sat in her chair in the sonar room, her eyes bright with anticipation. Andre was there too, chatting her up. It was so dark and cool and relaxing inside the sonar room, with everything bathed in dim red light except the sonar screens themselves glowing the soft luminescence of pale green. Andre looked up at the sound of the door. “Hello, Miss Tamantha, just have a seat,” he said. Kira felt a surge of excitement as she clamored into her chair and adjusted the sonar headphones over her ears. The screen in front of her filled her vision, its tracking beam circling around and round the center, drawing her eyes inward. . .She concentrated hard, wanting to be the first to discover a possible shipwreck. Her concentration was slightly distracted when she felt Andre pulling some straps in the chair across her slim midriff. “We may have some rough water ahead, we need to use these seat belts as a precaution,” he explained. The buckles snapped shut. Whatever, thought Tamantha. The important thing was to keep watching the screen, and listen to the steady tone of the sonar that sounded over the soft background whisper of noise (“sea-static” is how Andre described the background). The sonar image dissolved in a lazy arc that spiraled around and around. Tamantha had no trouble following the ghostly green turns with her eyes. . . so restful. Minutes passed into hours. The strange thing was, she didn’t really mind that they weren’t actually finding anything, it was so restful and calming just to keep watching the screen, sort of like sleeping with yours eyes open, only she was not really sleeping, more like dreaming while awake. . .
Andre’s assistant quietly opened the sonar room door and quickly closed it again. “Message from the island,” he told Andre as he handed him the decoded message slip.
MAX TO ANDRE: SPECIFICATIONS FOR TWO NEWEST PASSENGERS PER CLIENT’S REQUESTS: TAMANTHA FULL BODIED LOOK, AT LEAST 38DD AND MINOR LIPOSUCTION AUTHORIZED FOR THIGHS AND POSTERIOR/STOP/ KIRA PROPORTIONS SATISFACTORY BUT CAN SOMETHING BE DONE ABOUT HER CHIN (DETAILS TO FOLLOW) /STOP/ DOWN PAYMENT ALREADY DEPOSITED BY CLIENT /STOP/ CONFIRM RECONFIGURATION IN TIME FOR ARRIVAL AT ISLAND/STOP/END MESSAGE
Andre’s assistant stole a glance at Kira, oblivious to the world, her half-closed eyes glued to the radar screen. “Chin?” he asked Andre. “There’s nothing wrong with that girl’s chin.”
“All in the eyes of the beholder,” said Andre. “It’s the client’s concept of beauty, not our own. Each to his own tastes. As for the precious Tamantha, who would want to tamper with breasts like that?” He gestured at the bust of Tamantha, the woman’s breasts uplifted from the strap across her upper waist in twin half-spherical mounds. “Those are quite elegant as they are, no? And now a client wants to make her into a cow,” he said with disdain. “Must be an American,” he added. “They see too many airbrushed magazine models in their formative years.”
The assistant knew there was no arguing with Andre on matters of relative beauty. So he changed the subject. “How goes the programming?”
“See for yourself,” he said, nodding at the two women sitting in motionless attention to the screen. “We’ve already reinforcing the programming they get at night in their cabins. The two men put on spare earphones specifically designed to capture the signal of the subliminal messages being driven into the women’s minds:( " . . .so relaxing to listen to the sound in the earphones before going to bed. . . it helps me sleep to listen to the earphones. . . so relaxing to sleep with the earphones on and not have to think so much. . .thinking gives me a headache. . . thinking gives me a headache. . . I might as well have some things done in the clinic this trip. . . I know the clinic can make me more beautiful. . . “) Andre re-read the note from Max, and typed in another message that was immediately converted into audio for Tamantha’s earphones alone: (. . .bigger the better. . . I need bigger breasts to look pretty, the bigger the better. . . I’ll look so pretty when my breasts are bigger. . .I’ll feel so good about myself when my breasts are bigger. . . the bigger the better. . . “)
“Are we getting good visuals?” asked Andre.
“Yes, sir. We’ve assembled quite a collection of video of both girls. We’ll edit it into a training program.”
Andre nodded. When Tamantha had earlier asked about the cameras mounted all over the ship, he had told her they were for security. Their real reason was to capture a continuing set of images of each girl to be played back during a conditioning process yet to come. Also, Andre knew the tapes had great marketing value. Many of their clients enjoyed watching a tape showing a montage of his lovedoll’s gradual subjugation, captured on video as the voyage progressed. It was all there on tape, the whole transformation: from haughty, supremely self-reliant and accomplished women, to docile love-slaves programmed for pleasure.
Andre smiled. “Au revoir, free will,” he said with a mischievous smile.
Later that afternoon, Kira and Tamantha lay on their deck-mats near the bow of the boat, their skin drinking in the sun. Their bodies glistened with suntan lotion, but the sea breezes coming over the bow kept them pleasantly cool. Tamantha had tried to do some long-overdue work in her cabin, but the act of even uploading her e-mail gave her a headache. She just couldn’t concentrate. It was so much easier to read the stack of fashion magazines that someone had left in their cabin. Even those became too hard to read, so she gave up the work idea and agreed to go sunbathing with Kira.
They settled themselves on the deck with their bathtowels. A few of the other girls were sunbathing too—and more than one of them were shamelessly topless. One of the crewmen strolled past, and Tamantha studied his reaction over the top of her sunglasses to all this exposed feminine flesh. His glance settled on one of the topless beauties, and as Tamantha watched, he reached down and deftly unsnapped the curious black device from the girl’s hip thong. Tamantha had wondered about these devices before. As she watched, the man casually thumbed something into the control panel. The topless girl rose from her towel and obediently followed the man to his cabin.
Now that’s curious, she thought. Tamantha beckoned one of the medallioned cruise attendants for another drink. She came over in her high-heeled sandals and skimpy swimsuit and obediently offered Tamantha her favorite drink, a fruit-juice concoction with just a dash of vodka. Tamantha noticed her full breasts barely restrained by the swimsuit top—the ever present small black device riding on the girl’s hip.
“Amazing,” said Tamantha.
“What’s that?” murmured Kira beside her.
“The hostesses they have on this ship. Our waitress knew exactly what drink I wanted, didn’t even need to ask. Such service.”
“Mmmm. We deserve it, Tamantha.”
“Wonder what those little boxes are for,” she said casually.
“I dunno,” said the drowsing Kira. “Cell phones or pagers, or something like that, I imagine.”
Tamantha shrugged at the little mystery and instead studied the girls retreating form of the waitress, the girl’s hips swaying rhythmically. “What a body. I’d give anything to have a body like that.”
After a while, Kira said, “Well, they do have that clinic here. You ought to check it out. Probably cost you a year’s bonus, though.”
“I’ve often wondered about. . . you know, augmentation.”
Kira slipped her sunglasses down on her nose? “Really?”
Tamantha nodded thoughtfully to herself. I bet I’d look a lot prettier if my breasts were larger,” she thought. The thought seemed locked in her mind. She could see herself with breasts like the hostess could boast of—full, ripe, attracting attention, so soft. . .
Tamantha got up off her mat. “Well, I just might do that. Want to come and check out the clinic with me?” she asked her friend.
“No, you go ahead, I’m too relaxed to move,” mumbled Kira.
Tamantha retraced their steps earlier to the clinic. She noticed a beauty salon in the room next door, with chair filled with the other women on the trip. Beautification was apparently quite the flavor of this cruise, she thought.
She stopped at the door to the clinic, hesitating, then resolutely pushed it open. The receptionist behind the desk smiled.
“Why, Tamantha, isn’t it? How nice of you to drop by again. What can we do for you?”
Her friendliness and the fact she knew her name startled Tamantha, but she recovered by answering, “Hello. I just thought I would talk to someone here about. . .breast augmentation.”
The receptionist consulted a clipboard. “Have a seat,” she said, “the doctor could schedule a procedure in this morning.”
“Well, I wasn’t meaning to have it done, now, exactly—”
“Why, here’s the doctor now, Tamantha,” the receptionist. “Doctor, Tamantha is interested in the breast augmentation procedure.”
The doctor had gray hair and a tanned face and calm friendliness that Tamantha felt an instant response of trust. He nodded with a smile. “Yes, I’ve seen you on deck. I think we have a protocol that interests you. Right this way, Tamantha.”
She found herself following him with docile automation. He took her into a clinic with three women lying prone on beds. Tamantha immediately noticed the clear plastic suction bulbs placed over their breasts and hooked up to a machine through a connection of hoses. The machines pumped and hummed, and Tamantha could see how the vacuum expanded the pliant breast-flesh into the form-fitting suction cups. It might have been an optical illusion, but the breasts appeared enormous beneath the cups as they rose and fell with each steady pump of the machine. Tamantha recognized one of the patients—Candace, the fashion designer. The doctor noticed her gaze.
“We find that steady suction on the breasts helps to redistribute the injected solution. Each suction cups not only expands the breasts, but fits it to the proper form. The idea here is not just to have larger breasts, but larger perfect breasts.”
The words barely had enough time to sink in before Tamantha found herself undressed and gently guided to a gurney. She barely felt the prick of a needle, then everything swirled in a mist before her eyes.
* * *

DECRYPTED MESSAGE

TO: MAX
FROM: ANDRE
PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONING PROCEEDING WELL. SUBJECTS COMPLIANT AND READY FOR PERMANENT BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION ROUTINES. PHYSICAL ENHANCEMENTS ALSO IN PROGRESS PER SPECIFICATIONS. APPROACHING ISLAND ON COURSE 220. WEATHER IS FINE AND SO ARE THE GIRLS.

DECRYPTED MESSAGE

TO: ANDRE
FROM: MAX
MARKET STILL STRONG FOR NEW RECRUITS, WITH BRISK BIDDING FROM OUR STANDARD CLIENTS BASED ON PRE-ACQUISITION PHOTOS. WHEN PHYSICAL ENHANCEMENTS COMPLETED, UPLOAD OF NEW IMAGES TO ADD TO AUCTION CATALOG.
* * *

PLEASURE CREWS OF THE ULTIMATE LOVEDOLLS PART 2 OF 10 by Vendatrix

PART TWO

The girls slept late. Tamantha woke first. The sunlight filtering through the porthole made her think she had slept late for work; usually she was dressed in her power dress suit and out the door gulping down her instant coffee before the sun came up. She now reared up with a start. She got her bearings. “You’re on a vacation, silly,” she said. “First one in five years.” Her voice sounded stuffy in her ears until she remembered she still wore the earphones. The gentle sound of the surf must have worked, because she recalled having vivid dreams although the details seemed to have evaporated in the sunlight. She stretched and turned to her roommate.
“Hey, Kira, wake up! We’re sleeping away the day!”
The oriental girl remained curled up. Tamantha swung her legs off the bed and lifted the earphones off the sleeping girl. “Kira, dear, time to get up.”
Kira blinked and opened her eyes, then stretched lazily like a cat. “Now that was what I call a good night’s sleep,” she said. Her voice had a husky, early-morning quality that sent a warm stir into Tamantha’s loins. “I’m going to use these earphones every night!” She hopped out of bed and looked out the porthole. “Look at that water, Tamantha! And that sky!” she squealed in delight.
Tamantha glanced ruefully at the laptop computer and satchel of financial reports she had promised herself to digest during the trip. “I suppose we should check our e-mail,” she said in a way that she wasn’t convinced they should.
Kira said, “I don’t know about you, but I want to relax on this trip.”
“Well,” Tamantha conceded, “I do hate to work on vacations. Maybe later.”
“Let’s get some breakfast and start our great adventure. We’re supposed to cruise by some islands today, I think the schedule said. Who knows, we might even get to hunt for buried treasure, or something.” Both girls quickly got dressed and headed for the dining room.
The coffee was thick and delicious, the croissants served with an assortment of jams. Both girls came back from with a second helping from a buffet table groaning with fruits and yogurt and eggs any style. They had just resumed their seats when a handsome man with tousled hair and a silk scarf stopped by their table.
“Mind if I join you?” he asked in his debonair French accent. “I with the cruise line, and I always like to meet our newest guests.”
“Sure,” said Tamantha. “You the captain, then?”
“Oh, no. mon cherie, nothing quite that grand. I’m more on the administrative end. I just make it my job to see to it that everybody enjoys themselves. My friends call me Andre, which I hope you do too.” He extended a hand with slender fingers. The hands of a pianist, thought Tamantha. She watched, fascinated, as the man delicately spread some jam on his croissant, his fingers—such control! She also noticed that even though he radiated good humor, it was his mouth and never his eyes that smiled.
Tamantha gestured to one of the many cameras mounted in a ceiling corner that surveyed the room. “What are all the cameras for?” she asked.
Andre said, “Security. We want to account for all our guests, make sure they are safe.”
“The officer told us yesterday we were the last women to arrive. So when to the rest get here?” asked Tamantha.
“She means the guys,” added Kira pointedly to Andre, then fluttered her eyes innocently back at Tamantha. “We understood this to be a mixed group.”
“Ah, but of course,” said Andre. “There’s a separate tour we pick up on the island of Kelos. A soccer team—victory cruise, they won their province finals—and a separate tour of rather wealthy Continental businessmen—a single’s group’, as you say in the States, I believe. I can tell you they are all most assuredly looking forward to meeting you.”
“Just us? How flattering,” said Kira, as she sipped her coffee, her jet black hair glossy and luxuriant in its straight-down bangs.
“Yes, you and the rest of your delightful companions,” said Andre diplomatically with a wave of his hand around them.
Tamantha looked around the dining hall. About a dozen beautiful girls sat at separate tables, also enjoying breakfast. Not a one of them would have looked out of place as a runway model or cover girl. Tamantha felt a stab of envy, then quickly quashed it. High school stuff, she thought, worried about who gets the guys. This was supposed to be a working vacation anyhow. If that McPherson deal gets snagged while they’re out of the office—
“Tamantha!” Kira’s voice interrupted her thoughts. “Andre just asked us a question.”
“Oh, sorry,” said Tamantha.
Andre dabbed his lips with one of the ship’s monogrammed silk napkins. “I was just commenting to your lovely friend here that our course takes us over several sunken shipwrecks. We always turn on our sonar over this passage, you never know what you find.”
“Treasure,” breathed Kira, and the two girls laughed. Then Kira explained to the bemused Andre that they had both joked about finding treasure on the trip.
Andre smiled. “When you finish your breakfast, come on up to the wheelhouse—Deck Three, take the stairs to the left—and maybe I can persuade the Captain to let you use the sonar. Would you like that?”
“Sure,” said Tamantha. “Sounds like fun!”
“Excellent,” said Andre. “I need to check some radio signals, weather, that sort of thing, then I can meet you up there. Say, twenty minutes?”
After he had gone, Kira said, “Watch out for that one. He’s a charmer.”
Tamantha smiled knowingly. “I interned with the Credit Mobilier bank in Paris, remember? I know French men. If I want him, I can twist him around my little finger.”
Kira arched her eyebrows. “If you say so, girl,” she said.
Andre swiped his entry card to the communication room he had been using last night to monitor the sleeping girls. All the monitors from the secret cabin cameras remained on, spying on empty rooms in most cases.
“Any word from the Island?” asked Andre to the duty officer. He didn’t need to ask which island.
“Yes, sir, this came in about fifteen minutes ago. I just decoded it.”
Andre took the slip of paper. It read: MAX TO ANDRE. CONFIRM PICKUP OF FULL COMPLEMENT OF PASSENGERS. ADVISE ON ETA SO WE CAN PREPARE BODYSUITS. FORWARD MEASUREMENTS ASAP. ORDERS INCREASING.
“That’s our leader Max,” said Andre with a grin. “All business, eh?” He caught sight of himself in a mirror on wall, adjusted his scarf, and left for his appointment with his latest passengers in the sonar room.
The two girls, Tamantha and Kira, found their way to the sonar room. The door opened invitingly, and Andre helped them step through the doorway. Dim red overhead lights cast dark-hued shadows around the two matching chairs and sonar screens. Andre hustled the regular operators out, and invited the girls to each have a seat.
“We have two stations, one for forward sensors, the other looking aft. Just follow the blips as the sonar sweeps your area. You have to concentrate. A single blip could be all that you see to show a shipwreck. And here, try these headphones, you can follow the audio signal as it makes its sweep, too. If the sonar encounters something, it will sound a high ping. Otherwise, just the regular tick, comprevue?”
The two girls squirmed with excitement as they glued their eyes to the screen. Tamantha couldn’t wait to be the first to spot any treasure. All her old competitive instincts revved up and she shot a quick glance to see how Kira was doing. The earphones blocked out all external noise, so that all she could hear was the soothing tone of the sonar and the steady rhythm of her own breathing. Soon the girls began to relax. As minutes slipped by Andre watched with approval as their bodies seemed to settle into the chairs, and their eyes grew docile and unblinking as they followed the steady track of the sonar scope.
It wasn’t long until Tamantha felt her mind grow quite still. The steady sweep of the sonar was like the regular ticking of a metronome, the soft green light on the screen so easy on here eyes. . . back and forth . . . back and forth. Andre picked up a microphone that had a direct hook-up to the girls’ headphones. His voice came over the lines clear and low. “That’s right, mon cherie, keep watching. . . it’s important that you keep concentrating. . .just let your mind grow blank, it’s easier that way.” He saw them lean forward to watch the screen even closer. Then Andre casually flipped a switch that blended a recording of his voice, slightly deeper and more authoritive on a pre-programmed routine. He picked up a spare set of headphones and listened in, to confirm the program was running.
“. . . That’s it. . . just relax. . . it feels so good to relax and just watch the screen. . .it is so soothing to watch the screen. . .it’s so important to keep watching the screen. . . so that all you see is the screen. . .and all you hear is the sound of my voice. . .you feel very comfortable listening to my voice and watching the screen. . .you feel your mind emptying of all worry, you feel so relaxed, so ready to hear my voice.” In fact, he watched the lithe bodies of the young women sag even further in their form-fitted chairs, their eyes glassy and half-lidded as their focus was drawn inexorably to the center of the sonar screen by the rotating blips as the first trigger words of entrancement were firmly planted in their minds.. Tamantha’s breasts rose and fell in regular rhythm to her slowed breathing. Kira’s face seemed utterly placid, like the mask of a Japanese Noh actress. Her oval face was bathed in the soft green of the sonar light, making her smooth skin look almost ethereal. Her eyes were mere slits. She sat motionless, like Tamantha, watching the screen, absorbing her first lessons as the seductive words coiled around their minds.
Andre quietly left the room.

PLEASURE CREWS OF THE ULTIMATE LOVEDOLLS PART 1 OF 10 by Vendatrix

PART ONE

“Make her kneel,” the buyer said.
“Why don’t you make her kneel,” answered Max, and handed him the remote control console.
The buyer nervously held the small black console that Max had told him controlled not only the girl’s movements, but her very thoughts and impulses.
“Just scroll down until you see the command,” added Max helpfully. The buyer’s thumb flicked the knob and he stopped at “KNEEL”. He pressed the command button. The girl behind the glass in the Viewing Chamber obediently dropped gracefully to her knees.
“Excellent,” murmured the buyer, and stroked his thin black beard.
“She also responds to voice commands, just like the old models,” said Max. “Just press that button on the side and speak naturally.”
The buyer followed the suggestion, and said, “Massage your breasts.”
The girl’s hands rose to her breasts, and she began caressing them slowly, first cupping them in her palms and then using her slender fingers to tweak her erect nipples and stroke the rounded orbs. Her face wore an expression of dreamy rapture.
“What is she thinking?” asked the buyer. The usual first question.
“She isn’t thinking. She’s responding. She’s waiting for your next command,” said Max. He glanced down at the silver pocket watch kept open on his desk, ticking away with comforting precision. Max was a busy man, and he carefully managed his time.
The buyer looked thoughtfully at Max, and then at the girl behind the glass still playing with her breasts. “Max, I do believe you’re trying to induce me to make an up-front purchase.”
Max shrugged and flicked a speck of lint off his dark pinstripe suit. I don’t need to induce anybody, my friend. The product sells itself. I was just demonstrating the latest enhancements to our dolls. May I see the console, please? Thank you.” Max’s fingers danced over the control panel with practiced ease. The girl’s hands dropped to her side, and she slowly rose to her feet. The doll’s hair was cut so that her glossy bangs curled just past her neckline. She looked ahead, her expressionless green eyes focused in the middle distance. Her body was lithe and athletic, her breasts nicely rounded without the ballooning size favored by younger clients. Her pubic hair was tastefully trimmed, and her legs were shapely as she stood balanced on slim high heels. Responding to Max’s programming fingers, the girl knelt down again, this time on all fours—back arched, her chin up, and her rounded ass raised high.
“With this generation of dolls, we’ve done some interesting things with the pelvic movement,” said Max. More light tappings by Max on the controls, and the girl’s hips began to undulate invitingly, with her breasts swaying in seductive syncopation. “Nicht schlecht, nein?,” said Max. Not bad, eh? The buyer noticed the slight trace of pride in Max’s Bavarian accent, like a craftsman modestly boasting about his latest work. Well, why not? thought the buyer. The two men settled down into serious negotiation. They spoke in German, Max’s native language, and talked dollars.
Several hundred miles away, Tamantha stood in the bright sunshine admiring the docked cruise ship. The scent of salt and adventure wafted through the air, and for the first time in six months she felt as carefree as the seagulls wheeling and soaring over the harbor. Some deckhands passed by them on the dock, and Tamantha felt warmed by their lingering backward glances. With her shipboard outfit carefully put together—high-heeled sandals, loose cotton blouse, shorts that stopped at high-thigh, and brightly colored scarf—she looked like a model posing for seaside photo opportunity.
“Well, at least the ship looks first class,” she said to her companion Kira.
Kira raised her sunglasses and gave the gleaming hull a careful inspection. Black, glossy hair framed her oval oriental face. Tamantha had never quite figured out her friends’s tangled oriental linage—part Japanese, part Thai, a mix of other eastern origins—but the net result of this genetic mix was the look of a jade princess. Many businessmen had been so dazzled by Kira’s exotic looks that they soon found themselves utterly confounded by her abacus-like mind. They would later wonder in their hotel rooms how that lithe oriental girl could be so demure and charming while expertly fleecing them in the day’s negotiation.
“It ought to be, Tamantha, for the price we’re paying. We’ll spend the next six months at work just paying for this trip.”
“But you agree it was time we took a break from investment banking,” asked Tamantha.
Kira shrugged, hefted her laptop computer. “Some break. We’ll be online most of the time. We still have several deals waiting to close. How you got us vacation time is beyond me.”
Tamantha looked over the top of her sunglasses. “Blackmail.”
“What?”
“The Vice-President made a rather indelicate invitation on our last trip together to London. Silly man, didn’t realize my portable dictaphone was still on. When I played it back for him, he was, shall we say, unnerved. So we made a deal: You and I finally get a vacation and a bonus, and he avoids a sexual harassment lawsuit and saves his marriage... for the time being, that is.”
Kira shook her head. “Your a wonder, Tamantha. Now let’s go join our pleasure cruise, shall we?” The two women stroke up the gangplank with carry-on luggage and were met by an officer in a crisp white uniform. He saluted them when they gave him their names. “Welcome aboard, ladies,” he said with an appreciative up-and-down glance, and gestured to the guest book.. “You two are the last of our women passengers to embark. As soon as you sign the guest log, it’s off to the Greek islands.” Both girls signed their names with a flourish. He gave them directions to their cabin. One of the deckhands took Tamantha’s carrying case from her hands and almost dropped it. Tamantha gave him a withering look, the kind she gave fumbling office boys. “First day on the job?” she asked, then strode off with her friend.
As they made their way down the deck to find their room, a gorgeous girl sauntered past. Her skin was deeply tanned, her hair sun-bleached to a radiant blonde, and undulating hip roll in her walk had nothing to do with the gentle ocean swell. Tamantha caught sight of polished gold medallion, about the size of a silver dollar, suspended beneath the girl’s slender throat by a gold necklace. The medallion read: “Cari”. On the girl’s thong-string bikini bottom was attached a small box, like a pager. Tamantha glared at the girl’s bouncing glossy blonde hair, comparing it in her mind to her own dark brown hair cut mannishly short.
After she passed, Tamantha said, “Did you see that hussy? Do you call that scrap of nothing a swimsuit?”
Kira said, “Looks like you may have some competition in finding a hunk on this ship to for recreation.”
“Ha. I can dazzle them with my mind. But you and I both have too much work to do to go romping around. Let them come to us, then we’ll choose. After all, this cruise was advertized for single professionals.” They passed rowing machines bolted against the seaboard side of the deck. “Looks like people like to take their exercise outdoors on this ship,” she said.
They found their cabin number and opened the door. The room was both spotless and luxurious. Sunlight streamed in the wide windows, washing the entire room in bright colors. Tamantha studied the large-screen television built into the wall across from the beds, and the music system, complete with padded earphones, built into the bed headboards. “All the comforts of home,” she commented.
“According to the schedule, dinner at seven tonight. Guess we’d better dress up. Maybe we can hold off our work until tomorrow,” said Kira.
“Suits me,” said Tamantha. “The brochure said casual dress, so that’s what I’m wearing.”
At dinner, they realized that casual dress on this ship meant really casual. About half the girls were wearing swimsuits or shorts-and-tops that covered no more than swimsuits. The two girls took their seats at the table that held their placecards and surveyed the other passengers.
“Hi, I’m Tamantha, and this is my friend Kira,” Tamantha said. Then men around the table—most of them in their thirties, she guessed—greeted them with enthusiasm. One or two of the girls also glanced in their direction and smiled vacantly, then went back to giggling and giving adoring attention to the men they were next to. Again Tamantha noticed the gold medallions that some of the girls sported—the ones with the best figures and least clothes to hide it.
The officer who had greeted them at the gangplank arrived. He took a chair between Kira and Tamantha. “Anybody sitting here?” he asked pleasantly. Both girls shook their heads, and Kira offered one of her mysterious smiles. Flirting already, thought Tamantha. The fellow was handsome enough, with black curly hair and a dark tan of his own that spoke of a life at sea.
A girl sporting a necklace medallion and string bikini came by the table to take drink orders. The bikini was so skimpy that it barely covering the young woman’s nipples. Tamantha wondered how the girl was able to keep her balance with the high-heeled sandals which also appeared a part of the hostess uniform on this ship.
“You two are the new ones, right?” asked the officer. They both nodded. “Welcome aboard,” he said. “I hope you found your cabin to your liking. Any questions?”
“What are those badges some of the girls are wearing,” asked Tamantha.
“Oh, those are worn by all our hostesses. If you need anything, just ask one of them.”
Kira noticed one of the male guests reach over to one of the hostesses and let his hand slide down the smooth tanned skin of her flanks as he asked her for more wine. “Looks like we won’t be the only ones doing the asking,” she whispered to her friend Tamantha.
“We leave port tonight,” said the officer. “In a few hours we will be out to sea, headed for our first island, Mykonos. You two should get a good night sleep tonight. You might try those headphones, they have a tape made of ocean sounds, perfect for falling asleep.”
On their way back to the cabin, the two girls passed a door labeled “Sick Bay”. “Let’s check it out, in case one of us gets seasick. They opened the door and both reacted in surprise.
The clinic was a large room, with over ten beds. The wall was covered by banks of medical equipment. A nurse looked up from a patient in a bed. “Can I help you,” the nurse asked solicitously.
“Uh, we were just looking around. We’re new on board,” said Tamantha. “Hope we didn’t intrude.”
“Not at all,” said the nurse. Tamantha noticed the nurse’s white smock was unbuttoned, revealing the glint of a gold medallion and the tanned skin of her torso. She too wore the high-heeled sandals and was uncommonly attractive.
“Is that your only patient here?” asked Kira. “Hope it’s nothing serious.”
The nurse said, “Oh, it’s nothing serious. Elective surgery, as a matter of fact. Part of spa services.”
“Really?” asked Tamantha. “I’ve been wanting to have a mole removed.”
“Not a problem,” said the nurse, her nurse’s hat bobbing with the nodding of her head. “Just let us know when, and I’m sure the doctor could schedule you in.”
“What’s she in for?” asked Kira, always the curious one, thought Tamantha.
“Implants and augmentation,” replied the nurse. “Standard procedure. The patient said she and her boyfriend have been wanting them for a while, and this is the first opportunity she could find the time, on her vacation. Would you like to see them?”
“Well, I don’t know—” said Tamantha.
“Sure, said Kira. The nurse flipped back the sheets to reveal a pair of enormous breasts. They had the shape and form of ripe honeydew melons, with erect nipples and plum-colored aureole.
“What do you think?” asked the nurse.
“Well, I can’t see a single blemish,” said Kira. “But . . . they’re huge!”
The nurse picked up the chart from the bed. “That’s what the patient wanted. See?” And both girls could see a questionnaire, with “Size of Augmentation” answered “The bigger the better” and signed by the patient, a Sandra Something-or-other, hard to read with her quick scrawl of a signature. “Our doctor on this ship is a world-class plastic surgeon, so this is probably one of the best places to have a procedure done. Let us know if we can help.” She carefully tucked the sheet back over the patient.
In the cabin, both girls exploded into pent up laughter. “Did you see the size of those knockers?” asked Tamantha.
“What do you do with them—store water?”
“I hope she enjoys sleeping on her back for the rest of her life!”
“If her boyfriend has any say in the matter, she’ll do more than just sleeping on her back.”
They both got ready for bed. Although the two women had been on business trips together, they had never been with each other in such relaxed surroundings. So they were both shy and a little curious.
Tamantha stole a glance of Kira before her naked form slipped into the shower. Tamantha gazed in envy: I wish I could be as slender and delicate as Kira, she thought. She felt an unexpected warmth in her loins. Oh, no, she thought, not that. A few minutes later, as Kira was drying herself and watching Tamantha slip into her satin pajamas, Kira thought: I’d give anything to have the curves that woman has. No wonder the men all hit on her, not me.
They both snuggled into their separate beds. Kira slept in the nude, Tamantha noticed, for out of the corner of her eye she saw a flash of golden bare skin slide between the bed sheets. The deep growl of the engine and the slight rocking of the boat conspired with the excitement of the day to keep them both awake.
“Kira?”
“Yes?”
“I can’t sleep. I’m just lying here.”
There was a long sigh from across the room. “Me too, Tamantha. I usually sleep with a stuffed animal. Forgot to bring it along.”
They listened to the noises of the ship.
“You still awake, Tamantha?”
“Yep.”
“I have an idea, I mean, since we both can’t sleep.”
Tamantha felt her heart beat faster. The idea of that lithe oriental girl slipping beside her made her want to fling the bed sheets open as an invitation. She felt the same hot-blooded stirrings that first touched her when she saw Kira in the shower.
“Yes?”
“Well, I don’t know how you feel about this, Tamantha, but . . .”
“Go on.” Tamantha tried to keep her voice calm.
“Well, I was wondering if we shouldn’t try the headphones that guy told us about.”
Tamantha bit her lip in frustration. Oh, well. . .
“Sure, Kira, let’s try them out.” Tamantha leaned over and switched on the light. The two women withdrew the earphones from where they had been conveniently pegged to the headboards of their beds. They fumbled with the volume controls and then switched the light back out.
Tamantha felt the sensurating sound of gentle waves lapping on a synthetic shore, the soft blowing of a sea breeze in the background. Almost immediately she found the rhythms of the waves to soothing. . .her eyelids grew heavy. . .after a timeless passage, it’s almost as if wind seemed to speak to her, a soft whisper in her mind, telling her to relax . . .relax. . . .
In the control room deep inside the ship, a lean man with tousled hair and lips that usually maintained the half-smile of cheerful cynicism leaned over the computer console and sophisticated sound and neurological sensing equipment. He glanced over the monitors with a speed that bespoke a practiced experience.
“We seem to be getting good read-outs,” he said to his assistant manning the equipment. The lean man’s English was perfect, but he made no effort to disguise his French accent.
The younger man nodded. “The sensors in the headphones are reading their brain activity with no interference. Both women have entered the REM stage. . . brain-wave pattern is consistent. . .Kira is sleeping more soundly, Tamantha seems restless.”
“But still receptive, no?” asked the lean man.
“Correct, sir, still receptive.”
The lean man shook out a Gauloises Caporal cigarette from a packet marked “Filtre” and offered one to his assistant. The assistant shook his head slightly, his eyes still intent on the flickering monitors. The lean man put the packet back into the pocket of his blazer, the crackling of the cellophane wrapper the only counter-point to the beeps of the brain-wave console. He said, “Bon, mon enfant. . .let’s start the program.”
His assistant tapped the keyboard in front of him.
“Audio, please,” instructed the lean man, with a nod at the speaker. “Let’s see what the tape is telling her, now that her mind is open.” His assistant flipped a switch.
The voice came through as a contralto whisper, soft but relentless: “—going to relax this trip. I’m really going to relax this trip. . . I hate to work on my vacation. . . I hate to work on my vacation. . . maybe we can hunt for treasure. . . It would be so much fun to hunt for treasure. . .I really want to look my best when the men come on board. . .I really want to look my best when the men come on board. . . I really want to hunt for treasure. . .I really want—”
The assistant flipped off the switch. “Endless loop, sir.”
The lean man smiled without humor. “First lesson, you might say. Now visual, please. Night vision.”
The assistant touched one of the keys on his console. A monitor, one of a dozen on a built in shelf above their heads, flickered to life to reveal a wide-angle camera view of the two supine girls. Kira slept soundly, her oriental features utterly relaxed as her mind soaked in the message coming through the earphones. Her pert breasts could be seen rising and falling beneath the thin satin sheet in a slow rhythm to her relaxed breathing. Tamantha, on the other hand, tossed fitfully, and her brows knitted together against some errant fleeting dream-thought.
“Tamantha’s readouts show some mental agitation,” observed the assistant. “She seems to be wrestling with some problem. Might be she has feelings for this other girl.”
The lean man smoothed the silk scarf he wore in his shirt. “Hmm, could be. You saw how she looked at Kira before they went to bed. This could be interesting. Make a note in the file. Keep me advised of their progress. If they take the full lesson, we can go to stage one tomorrow.”
The assistant nodded without taking his eyes off his instruments. “Understood, Andre.”