We were at sea again by early the next morning. Ben told me that we had a lot of distance to cover in order to make the next stop before dark, so we were all up with the birds.
We were under sail almost as soon as we cleared the island and with the wind at our backs we made good time.
The women went back to their at sea uniform and their at sea duties, and I continued my education under Ben's tutelage as he taught me how to handle both the boat and the cane.
I was thrilled at the prospect of handling one, and still wondering how I felt about the other.
It wasn't all work though.
We took the time to give the women a lesson about pirates, the pirates of old that is.
Amy and Laura spent a couple of hours gagged and bent over the deck railings at the fore deck, Amy to port and Laura to starboard.
They didn't stay bent over because they liked it (well maybe a little), but because Ben and I had used plenty of rope to lash them into position.
Their legs were spread, their butts high (Laura's still red from her spanking the day before, Amy's with two fading stripes), their heads low. All they could do was watch the water speeding past them only a few feet below their heads.
Ben told me that long ago female captives who were not of any ransom value were bound just like this on the rails of pirate vessels for the amusement of the crew.
Well, they certainly amused THIS crew as Ben and I took turns ravishing our maids and satisfying our lustful needs!
I was pretty sure we satisfied their needs too for there were no sounds of protest from either of them!
Fun was had by all!
Despite our early start though, the sun was grazing the horizon before we sighted land and it was completely dark by the time we reached it.
Ben took us in as close as he dared but anchored us well away from the beach.
"There's a reef I don't want to cross in the dark." he said to us.
That evening after supper, Ben and I decided to have a bondage contest. That is to say we were going to watch as Amy and Laura competed against each other.
The women listened wide eyed as we told them the rules we had decided upon earlier that day.
"Okay girls." Ben said. "Here's how it goes. Each of you will take a turn tying up the other with this six foot length of rope. The girl who gets tied then has to make her way from our cabin door to the steps by the booth, about twelve feet. Not very much, but then this is a small boat.
The object for the one doing the tying is to prevent the other from making it or at least slow them down. The winner is the girl who makes the distance in the fastest time."
Amy and Laura looked at each other, then back at us.
"Does it matter how we tie each other, Sir?" Amy asked.
"Nope! But you only get the one rope to do it with, and the rope can't be cut." Ben answered.
"What do we win...Sir?" Laura asked.
"What do you want?" I asked her.
Laura looked at Amy for a moment.
"Sir, could Amy and I have a few minutes together to decide on something?" Laura asked.
"Sure!" I said, after getting a nod from Ben.
Amy and Laura hurried into the forward cabin for a few minutes.
"Any idea what they might come up with?" I asked Ben.
He nodded. "I think so, I'd be surprised if you didn't."
I was about to ask what he meant when the women came back out. They knelt at our feet.
"Sirs." said Laura. "We have decided that what we want is a few hours alone together to play, the winner being in charge of the loser."
Ben chuckled, but I was surprised. I had kinda hoped that our ladies would want to experiment this way, but I had really considered it just a male fantasy. Yet here they were!
I looked over at Ben who winked at me. THIS was what he had been talking about.
"I assume you mean privately?" I asked.
Laura nodded, her expression anxious.
"Well...I don't know about leaving the two of you alone, I would think that we would need to keep an eye on you!" I said, joking.
Their faces fell, it was almost comical. I wondered if they would still do it if we demanded that we had to watch. But I wasn't that mean.
"I'm joking ladies." I said, bringing relieved smiles to their faces.
"Then can we?" Laura asked.
"Sure." Ben said. "I don't mind if Don doesn't."
I nodded. "Okay, you win. But I want to see an honest struggle to win from both of you. If I feel that either one of you is going slow just to be dominated later, then you both lose and you don't get your time together."
I didn't know if they HAD made such an arrangement, but I wanted it covered. I wouldn't put it past Laura to let Amy win for such a prize.
"Don, I agree." Ben said. "In fact I'm upping the ante. If I see either of you not doing your best to win then you get to be Don's first victim of the cane. He gets one strike."
This surprised us all.
"Why?" I asked him.
"You can only do so much with a pillow Don. There will come a time when you will need to strike flesh. I think this is a fair way of deciding who's, unless a reason for punishment comes up."
I looked at the stunned women on the floor. "Do you agree?"
"Yes, Sir." Amy said with a gulp. Laura nodded, but with a little fear in her eyes.
"Let's get started." Ben said. He stood up and took a coin out of his pocket. "Laura, call it!" he said and flipped it up into the air.
"Heads!" Laura said.
Ben caught it and slammed in onto the back of his hand. "Tails. Amy goes first." He handed Amy the section of rope we had prepared.
"Better tie her up by the door." I suggested.
Ben and I settled back in our seats in the booth while Amy and Laura slowly made their way to the door to the forward cabin.
"How do you want to do this?" Laura asked her.
"A hogtie, I think. Get down on your front." Amy said.
Laura did as she was asked, and Amy took the nude woman's arms and pulled them together behind her back. She then used one end of the rope to tie Laura's elbows together.
"Ow!" Laura said as the single strand tightened around her.
"Sorry. Do you want me to stop?" Amy asked, concerned.
"No, it's okay. I've taken worse." Laura replied, smiling. As Amy continued Laura stuck her tongue out at me, knowing I heard her comment. I smiled back.
Amy passed the rope down to Laura's wrists and made a single figure eight loop around them, pulling them tight together. She then reached for Laura's feet, crossing them and bringing up to meet Laura's hands. Deftly she made a couple of loops around each ankle and tied them in place, passing what was left of the free end up again, past Laura's wrists and up to the elbow tie. She then tied off the remainder of the rope at that point.
"There you go!" Amy said, patting Laura on the butt.
Laura twisted a little, settling in to the bondage. I thought it an interesting tie, none of the knots were available for Laura to reach, and I wondered how well Laura would be able to move.
"Come here Amy." Ben said, and Amy padded over to kneel at Ben's feet. He had his watch out. "Ready Laura?"
Laura nodded.
"Go!"
Laura immediately began wriggling, attempting to find purchase on the hard wood floor. She looked great as her naked body wriggled from side to side in the narrow walk way, slowly inching forward toward us. Her breasts were pressed and lifted as she moved, alternately exposed and hidden, her hips and legs shifting back and forth, the glint of her collar shining through her hair which quickly began to get in the way.
Amy had made a good choice in crossing Laura's ankles, in the confines of the cabin it spread Laura's knees and gave her less room to work with. I was impressed.
Eventually Laura made her goal after a lot of puffing and moaning, and Ben called time while Amy untied her friend.
Laura had deep red lines on her elbows, wrists and ankles, evidence of the rope biting in.
"I think you did your best." I told her, relief in her eyes.
Now it was Amy's turn. "Be gentle." Amy said with a smile.
"Yeah, right!" Laura said grinning.
Laura led Amy back to the door and used the rope to bind her hands together behind her back. She used the middle of the rope, leaving the ends dangling. Then Laura pushed Amy to the wall. At about the height of their heads was a wall mounted light fixture. Laura took the free ends of the rope and pulled upwards, bending Amy forward in the process. She began to tie the ends to the light fixture.
Amy protested. "Hey! You cant tie me to anything!"
"They didn't say I couldn't!" Laura said with a smile.
"This isn't fair!" Amy cried out. "Ben, tell her!"
Ben just chuckled. "She's right Amy, we didn't say anything about not tying to solid objects."
"Maybe next time." I added.
"But..." Amy said.
"Stop complaining." Ben ordered, and Amy shut her mouth.
Laura finished binding Amy and stood back to admire her work. Amy was standing half bent over, her arms pulled up behind her, attached to the fixture at the wrists. The knots holding her were well out of her reach.
She looked wonderful, up on her toes to take the weight of her arms, the muscles of her legs standing out well defined, her small breasts dangling.
"Ready? Go!" Ben said.
"How am I supposed to get to you like this?" Amy said.
"Didn't I tell you to stop complaining?" Ben said to her.
Amy paled and began struggling. I motioned to Laura to come to me and she came over and knelt down.
"That was a dirty trick." I whispered to her.
"Yeah, well my butt was on the line." Laura whispered back.
We watched as Amy fruitlessly pulled and tugged at the rope that held her, but the awkward position didn't give her much leverage and I would think that she would also be afraid of pulling the fixture off the wall. Who knew what Ben would do if she damaged his boat.
Ben let her struggle until we passed Laura's time and then he called it quits. "Go untie her Laura." he ordered.
"Yes Sir." Laura said and she went over to the sulking Amy.
"I think Amy did her best to win!" I said, hoping to save Amy's butt.
"I agree." Ben said. "But she also complained after I told her to stop, so she gets the cane anyway, just as a reminder."
I was going to protest, but I saw his point. She HAD disobeyed him and I did agree that he had to discipline her.
I turned back to the women in silence.
As Laura untied Amy she spoke softly and what ever it was she said seemed to mend any hard feelings Amy might have had for her. They hugged briefly once Amy was free and then they both came back to us.
"Well, Laura, it seems you won your prize." Ben said smiling. "Amy, you will receive yours when I feel that Don is ready to give it to you."
Amy glanced at me and them lowered her eyes. I wasn't sure how I'd feel caning her, certainly not happy.
Ben looked a me. "Anything else before we let them play?" he asked.
"Yeah, one thing. Wait here." I got up and went to my cabin, coming back with a length of chain and a couple of leather cuffs. I locked a cuff on each girl's left ankle and then locked one end of the eight foot chain to Laura's cuff.
"Which cabin?" I asked Ben.
"They can use ours." Ben said.
"Okay ladies!" I said and the women got up and went to the forward cabin. I had them climb on the bed and I passed the end of the chain through a metal loop mounted to the base of the bed (funny, there were a lot of those hoops all over the boat, I wonder why :) and locked it to Amy's ankle cuff.
I looked around. "There should be enough toys in here for you guys to have fun!" I said grinning.
Both women smiled.
I went to Laura. "You sure about this?" I asked quietly.
Laura nodded. "Amy and I have been talking about this ever since you tied us together, this isn't a quick decision."
"Okay." I said, and I left them alone, closing the door behind me.
Ben had moved to the Navigation nook and had turned on the weather radio. "I'll meet you up top." he said.
I nodded and grabbed a beer.
I sat down on one of the built in seats at the stern and gazed up at the stars, wondering what was going on in the forward cabin. The stars seemed so clear and sharp, like I could just reach up and touch them if I cared to.
The gentle rocking of the boat made them swing back and forth above me, a beautiful sight.
Ben came out and collapsed next to me, and I saw him pull a pipe out.
"I didn't know you smoked." I said.
"Oh, just every once and a while I treat myself to a pipe. Just when I feel the need."
"And you need it now?" I asked.
Ben didn't answer. Instead I watched as he slowly coaxed the pipe to life, before settling back.
"I could tell you were surprised by their request." Ben said to me eventually.
"I was. But not totally. I mean, what guys wouldn't wonder if their women wouldn't get together if they were like ours.
We do subscribe to a pretty sexually oriented lifestyle."
"I know. It's only natural to wonder."
"Why weren't YOU surprised?" I asked him.
"Amy told me earlier what she and Laura discussed."
"She what?"
Ben chuckled. "It's okay, she wasn't reporting to me or anything like that, it's just that over time Amy has learned to open herself verbally to me, confessing sins and generally keeping me informed about everything that she does. I doubt now there is a thought in her head that she doesn't pass on to me in some way."
"Oh." I said, wondering what other thoughts she may have passed on.
"To be honest, we have had conversations about her and Laura since before we planned this trip. As you say, it's normal to wonder and Amy has always had a powerful fantasy life."
"I see."
Ben sat quietly for a while, puffing on his pipe while I sipped at my beer, the both of us gazing at the stars and the huge black shadow of the island next to us.
"She also gave voice to some other thoughts." Ben said, and I thought, here it comes.
"I take it that you have given her reason to think that you might want to be involved with her." Ben said quietly.
I said nothing, for a minute, I just looked down at the deck. "Like I said, our chosen lifestyles open up those possibilities."
"Don't give me that bullshit!" Ben snarled. "You're not some horny teenager scouting the web for unsuspecting women!
You aren't some geek who thinks that all we do in this LIFESTYLE is tie our women down, whip them until they pass out and then fuck them! You know better than that. So don't give me this LIFESTYLE crap, Don, and tell me how you feel! I won't get mad."
"You sound mad already!" I said.
"No, Don, just frustrated. As much as you know about bondage and submission you still seem to think in terms of owner and property sometimes. You figure that once you decide to follow a set of rules that all that should matter ARE the rules. Don't forget that below are two real people that we love. REAL PEOPLE, Don! That they have chosen to live with us, be with us, in a role that places them in a submissive position to us is the greatest gift we will ever get. The GREATEST gift we will ever see. It is NOT something to treat casually, not that you do, Don. I know that. But there are times you seem to put Laura second to the process. It's something I've noticed talking with you online as well as out here on this trip."
I said nothing, realizing the truth in his words yet wondering where he was heading.
"Don, let me ask you something. If Laura came up to you and said that she wanted to stop, that she felt that she no longer needed to play the part of your submissive and that she wanted to live with you as a vanilla husband and wife, what would you do?"
"That's a hell of a question, Ben." I said to him.
"Can you answer it, and be confident that your answer is the right one?"
Could I?
I sat for a bit, considering the question he had posed. If Laura really wanted to drop all the bondage, all the rules and the comfortable routine we had developed, the LIFESTYLE, could I?
"Ben, I can't honestly answer that." I said.
"Why not?"
"Something like that is too important not to discuss, and the only person I could discuss it with is Laura."
Ben nodded. "Good. If you had given me any other answer I'd have made you walk the plank."
I laughed.
"I'm not joking." he said with a smile I could only see by the light of his pipe and the faint light from the top of the mast. "I think I have a plank somewhere."
I chuckled.
"You're a good man Don, but you still have a lot to learn."
"Glad you're here to teach me Ben." I answered.
"Hey, it's only fair. You've taught Amy and me a lot about deep bondage and it's many varied forms. Introduced us to new pleasures."
I shrugged.
"So Don, will you tell me what's really on your mind concerning Amy?" Ben asked.
"To be honest, I'm not really sure." I said. "Given the fact that she and Laura both spend so much time running around in front of us naked it's hard to think with the head on my shoulders instead of the other one sometimes."
Ben laughed. "I know what you mean."
"I know that when we discussed mutual play a the beginning of the trip we decided to leave out any sexual play. But frankly I have to tell you that given the opportunity," I looked directly at him, "and the permission, I wouldn't feel guilty about playing with Amy that way."
Ben looked me in the eye, then looked back up at the sky.
"Well, that's honest enough. Thank you, Don." he said.
I watched him for a minute but when he didn't say anything I sat back and looked out at the water. I figured he needed time to think about what I had said. Me, I couldn't believe I had just told him what I had. What was I thinking!
"You know," Ben said after a while, "I'd be lying if I said I hadn't entertained the same thoughts about your wife."
I looked at him.
"She is a very beautiful lady, and with her nude all the time it is hard to concentrate." He smiled behind his pipe.
"So what are you suggesting," I said. "that we make them dress?"
"I don't think we need to go THAT far, do you?"
"It would diminish the beauty of this cruise." I said.
"Exactly." replied Ben and we laughed quietly. "But I think we do need to be aware of each other's intentions, Don."
I agreed.
"Don. Right now, I have no intentions toward Laura, but I'm not closing my mind to the possibility that in the future that might change. It's just that right now, Amy is all I need."
I nodded, a little sad for some reason.
"We've only been together a few days, Don. We still have a couple of weeks ahead of us. Let's not rush things right now. I'd rather you didn't involve yourself with Amy at the moment, at least, any more than you already have. I know where your hands have been." he chuckled. "It might be good for her if you kept those hands at work on her at odd moments, keep her guessing that is, so feel free to allow them to roam a little from time to time. But otherwise leave her be."
"Okay."
"We'll talk again about this."
"We'd better, or I'm asking my travel agent for a refund!" I replied, grateful that Ben hadn't bitten my head off for making moves on his woman.
Ben laughed and held out his hand. "Friends?"
"You got it!" I said, and we shook.
We sat back and looked at the perfect sky again.
"I wonder what they're doing down there?" I asked.
"Let's leave them their privacy shall we?" Ben said.
I nodded, and wondered if Amy would tell him all about it afterward.
"How do you feel about them, being together like that?" I asked him.
"I know how much they feel for each other." he answered.
It seemed all the answer he was prepared to give.
We sat together for a couple of hours, just staring at the sky and talking of inconsequential things, before sleep started to take over. It was late and we thought it time the games ended.
We walked quietly below and to the forward cabin. I knocked on the door and after a moment opened it.
What we saw made us pause.
Amy and Laura lay together on the bed, arms and legs twisted and wrapped about each other. A considerable number of chains had been added to the single chain I had left them with, and I saw places where ankles were connected to wrists and other combinations.
But what made us pause was that they were asleep.
Their heads were close together and the light in the room reflected off the collars they always wore, silver for Laura and gold for Amy. In their slumber this made them look even more vulnerable and in need of our protection.
They looked beautiful.
I glanced at Ben who backed up. I moved back and shut the door.
"Should we let them sleep?" I asked quietly.
Ben nodded. "I wouldn't want to disturb that." he said.
"They truly are beauties aren't they?"
Ben put a hand on my shoulder. "We are very lucky men." He moved past me. "I'll sleep in the single berth, but I have to get a few things first. I'll leave them a key. Everything they locked onto each other they used with the knowledge that we would have to unlock them. Well, they have duties to perform in the morning and I'm not going to get up to free them."
I laughed.
He stepped forward into the cabin for a minute and came out with a small bag, his toiletries I assumed.
"Good night Don." he said.
"Good night Ben." I replied.
I went to my cabin and climbed alone into bed.
As I fell asleep I wondered what Laura and Amy had done together and what we all might do together in the future.
End of Part 8.