Chapter 27

“ THE FIGURE ON RED... ”

              ~ Unknown ~

"Lie down." He ordered and Lora sat down on the bed and looked at what was coming out of the black bag.

"On your stomach," Lucas said. He was holding a bottle and tilting the contents of the bottle into his cupped hand.

Lora lay down on her stomach and while Lucas applied the liquid where the marks of the stays reddened the flesh.

"Ow," Lora cried. "It stings!"

"This is an astringent, the first thing is to restore circulation," Lucas explained as he rubbed Lora's back and buttocks and thighs.

Lora was squirming and her flesh cringing with each application. She buried her face in the pillow to smother her cries.

"I know, I know," Lucas said. "This will hurt a little as well as it will help."

Under Lucas’s vigorous Lora’s flesh seemed to spring into its fullest conformations. She was shivering now and her buttocks were clenched against the invigor