Her nickname is "Tanj", and she's certainly living 
up to it.  For her, it seems, “There Ain’t No 
Justice.”  As a young engineer on a tramp space 
freighter, this Cheetah-morph found herself the 
victim of a scam, sold into slavery, and trained as 
a sex-slave.  Sold to pirates, she finds herself as 
a pawn in a much larger struggle.  This story 
contains bondage, non-consensual sex, and hopefully 
some humor, adventure and intrigue.  Adults only, 
PLEASE!


Tanj's Tale
Stardate 2398.00:  Endings and Beginnings			By:  
Kittiara


Tanj sat up and Streeeettttccccchhheed as only a feline 
can.  She had spent the night, sleeping on a pallet at the 
foot of the Lion's bed.  It  _looked_ like just a thin pad, 
but Tanj had found it surprisingly  
comfortable.  She was chained to a brass ring at the foot 
of his bed by  a remarkably long, thin gold chain, the 
other end fastened to the ring  piercing her left labia 
ring with a tiny lock.  She had more than enough  
chain to reach the Lion, snoring softly on the bed, or even 
the adjacent  bathroom.  As she finished her luxurious 
stretch, she found the Lion  watching her, his head propped 
up with one hand.  Tanj smiled, and  slowly crawled up over 
the end of the bed; with a mock growl she pounced  her 
Master! 

They rolled and wrassled around the bed a little, both of 
them being careful of her chain.  They ended up with Tanj 
crouched  "triumphantly" over him, licking softly at his 
sheath, and his balls, as  
he in turn nuzzled under her tail.  The mock-wrestling 
turned into some  gentle loving, and before long they were 
both gasping at the sensations  of tongues artfully applied 
to sensitive surfaces.  To Tanj's immense  surprise, the 
Lion won the undeclared contest, driving her to a climax  
before she could make him spurt, but make him spurt like a 
geyser she  did, shortly thereafter.

After she'd licked him clean, and vice versa, he produced, 
as if by  magic, the key to the tiny lock; with a swat on 
her bottom, he sent her  off to the bathroom, to make 
herself presentable.

As Tanj emerged from the bathroom, tying her hair back with 
a  ribbon, into a ponytail, the Lion threw her a piece of 
cloth.  Tanj caught it with one paw, and then held it up to 
look at it.  It shone like liquid metal, reflecting golden 
light.  It seemed tissue paper thin, but very strong....  
After a moment, she determined that it was a _very_ skimpy 
dress.... She looked at him inquisitively, and he grinned  
back; "you'd better put it on" he rumbled; "walking around 
here in just  your fur, you'd probably start a riot".  She 
slipped the halter top over her head and flipped her hair 
up from underneath the strap, and then  
wrapped the lower portion around her waist, tying it on her 
left hip.  Turning to look at herself in the mirror, she 
shook her head; "Somehow I think I'm more likely to start a 
riot wearing this.... its scandalous!  Why, if I were to 
bend over......."  She grinned at the Lion and shrugged;  
"still, after having worn nothing for so long,  it 
feels..... strange.  The Lion just leaned against the wall 
and grinned at her;  
'you're right; on you, it proves the maxim that sometimes 
wearing just a little something _IS_ sexier than nude....  
Still, we'll just have to  make do....." 

They left the Lion's quarters, and traveled through 
corridors  reminiscent of a space station's, although more 
spacious.  The Lion explained that they were on an asteroid 
mining station.  "Its built into  a hollowed out asteroid, 
which explains why we've got plenty of room.  Also, having 
several hundred meters of nickel-iron asteroid between you 
and the outside makes for fairly decent armor.  Unbeknownst 
to the  
Imperials, I've also managed to add a layer of neutronium 
armor, almost 40 angstroms thick.  As we routinely deal 
with blowing up other  asteroids, to expose the minerals 
inside, we have some rather powerful shield generators, to, 
ah, "protect us from the flying debris".  And of  course, 
as the whole thing has to be relocated occasionally, to 
access new ore bodies, we do have a limited maneuver 
capability.  As we have to search the skies for distant 
asteroids that might contain valuable ore,  our sensor 
suite is first class.  In fact, we've got some stuff that 
really is military grade.  Now, as we do have plenty of 
room, we've  
managed to hide a small but rather efficient base for our 
pirate operations within the station.  As you can imagine, 
our surveillance countermeasures suite is imported, bought 
from a renegade Kilrathi, and  is the state of  the art for 
their military.  And you know how good Kilrathi cloaking 
devices are.... (I'm convinced the Romulans stole the 
technology from them...) If we have to, we can cloak the 
entire station,  
but it only works for short periods of time as the heat 
buildup is tremendous"  He rambled on as they made their 
way towards the station's communal dining facility, acting 
as if he was giving a guided tour to a  
prospective client.  Tanj found it all amazing, and a 
little hard to  believe. 

On arrival at the mess hall, The Lion made introductions 
all around (at least as far as for those who were present.  
Tanj smiled as she was introduced to Reggie, who she was 
surprised to discover, was a  
rather large Lepine (rabbit-morph).  His partner "Slasher" 
(no, he was actually the group's part-time accountant, and 
got the nickname from the annual budget battles), was a 
rather quiet Ferret.  "Odd team"  Tanj thought to herself.  
There seem to be about twice as many males as females, but 
Tanj was still surprised that there are that many females 
there.  As the introductions rapidly overwhelmed her, 
exceeding her capability to remember names, and faces and 
titles, her mind started to wander a bit.  Her overall 
impression was that they were a hard group, but fairly 
tight knit.....  Tanj was a mite surprised when as the Lion 
concluded the introductions, he turned to addresses the 
group; "as you know, Tanj here's from the "academy" on 
Elysium.  Someone as highly trained as her should not let 
her skills atrophy, and its my intention to see that she 
gets adequate practice".  The crowd responded  with 
snickers and a few hoots, not all of them coming from the 
males.  "Nighttime (or what passes for it on the station), 
she's mine, unless I'm elsewhere.  During the day, I've got 
an ambitious training schedule  for her, but if she's not 
actively engaged in some task, you may make use of her as 
you will".  Tanj listened, trying to keep her eyes from 
going wide, from showing her surprise, as her gaze 
traveling over the rough group....." _BUT_", he roared out, 
"She is NOT to be hurt".  He grinned; "you can make her 
uncomfortable, but punishments for misbehavior will have to 
be creative, as I don't want her marked.  Not  yet, 
anyway!"  The crowd just grinned and hooted, and Tanj did 
her best to look back with confidence, as if she felt she 
could take on the whole crew and still be the last one 
standing... 

The Lion sent her to get them both something to eat, and 
after guessing what he'd want from the selection, returned, 
carrying the tray.  She was tempted to try and balance it 
on her head, as a proper serving slave, but being afraid 
she'd drop something in front of everyone, decided just to 
carry it in her paws.  Setting it down on the table, she 
emptied the tray, placing what she thought the Lion would 
like in front of him, with her food opposite him, on the 
other side of the table.  Still not quite believing he was 
going to let her sit down like a normal person, and not 
kneel at his feet, she watched his face carefully;  
however, he seemed much more interested in his cup of 
coffee than in "proper protocol".......  As they ate, 
several of the other furrs in the room stopped by, to 
discuss operations, schedules, or finance, maintenance, or 
wild ideas.  Tanj found the food surprisingly good, and she 
listened,  wondering if the Lion's day was always like 
this, even breakfast turned into a rolling conference...  
As they finished, and Tanj started  
putting the dishes back on the tray to carry to the 
recycler, the Lion looked at her and grinned; "Like 
breakfast?"  Tanj nodded.  "Good, I'm glad our cooking 
meets your standards, but I'll warn you; I want you to 
maintain your figure; start gaining weight in the wrong 
places, and we'll have to cut back on your caloric intake.  
Get you on a strict exercise regime too."  Tanj just 
nodded. 

After breakfast, the Lion led her down to a gymnasium, 
where they met a rather elderly male Wolf-morph.  "This is 
Ben; he's on the Pirate side of the operation here, and 
specializes in taking large ships by storm.   However, as 
far as you're concerned, he's going to teach you some 
unarmed fighting techniques.  I want you to work with him, 
show him what you know, and then learn from him.  It very 
well could save your life  sometime in the near future".  
And with that, the Lion nodded at Ben and departed.  Tanj's 
gaze shifted from the departing Lion to the Wolf, and just 
shrugged; "do you have _ANY_ idea what he's talking about?"  
The Wolf just nodded; "Yes, and I can't say as I agree with 
it.  Its very risky, but if it works, well, it could cut 
our timetable significantly.  I won't tell you more, thats 
_his_ job.  But I agree, if  
you're to survive, you may have to be _very_ good at 
unarmed combat."  Tanj's ears folded back as this all 
frightened her a bit, but she nodded.  "So what do we do?" 

The Wolf had Tanj describe what little experience she had 
in fighting; unfortunately that was mostly wrestling with 
her brothers when they were cubs.  The Wolf sighed; "O.K., 
we start from the beginning.   
If you can, this is the best way to stand..............  
The session continued, as the Wolf described stances, and 
basic moves, Tanj trying to follow his motions.  After a 
few hours, she was exhausted, and  
the Wolf called a halt.  "We'll continue this tomorrow, 
after breakfast.  My instructions were to take you down to 
Engineering, when you'd had enough. 

The Wolf led her through another maze of corridors, until 
they finally entered, not a large, cavernous room full of 
machines, as Tanj expected, but to a small block of 
offices.  After passing by a  
rather harried looking lady Coyote, Tanj was led into what 
she took to be the Chief Engineer's office.  Again, she 
found it not what she expected.  Yes, there was a small 
desk, overflowing with paper hardcopies over in one corner, 
and there were the usual file cabinets, and blueprint 
racks; the centerpiece however, was a state of the art 
holographic CAD/CAM station.  In the middle of it, 
literally walking through a three dimensional drawing, was 
a rather large male Badger.  The Badger waved a paw 
impatiently at Tanj and her escort, as he grumbled to 
himself, making small tic marks with a light pen.  After a 
few minutes of literally examining the problem from every 
conceivable  angle (including getting up on a small set of 
portable steps), the Badger turned to the console, and hit 
a few keys.  The drawing vanished in a flash of light, and 
as Tanj blinked her eyes, she found him  looking at her 
appraisingly.  "the Boss tells me that you've got your 
Second Engineer's Ticket" he growled.  Tanj straightened 
and nodded; "I was the only engineer on the freighter "Lost 
Cause"......  The badger  nodded and turned back to the 
console, apparently able to call up information on 
registered ships.  He nodded at what he saw and looked up 
at Tanj; "not much of a ship".  Tanj nodded carefully, her 
eyes hardening as she looked at him; "it may not have been 
much, a constant struggle to keep it running, but it was 
_HOME_, and if you can believe it, I miss her.  The Badger 
just nodded.  "If its all the same to you, I too wish you 
were there.  The last thing I need is a scantily clad 
sexpot distracting my folks from their work.  We too find 
it a challenge at times to keep everything running 
correctly, and I demand precise, careful, CORRECT work!  
However, as you're here, I suppose I should find  something 
useful for you to do."  With that, he turned back to his 
console and opened a comlink channel; "Mark?  Get down to 
my office; got someone to help you with that job I just 
gave you".  Peremptorily, he  cut the link before any reply 
was heard.  

The Wolf took his leave, and Tanj stood by the door, 
quietly, watching as the Badger grumbled about his office, 
being interrupted every few minutes by another comm call.  
After a while, the door chime  
sounded and a white mouse walked in.  As he walked over to 
the Badger,  he turned his head to give Tanj a quick look, 
although how he knew  Tanj was over against the wall, she 
didn't know.  As the mouse walked over to the Chief 
Engineer, Tanj took the moment to study him from behind; at 
least a head shorter than Tanj, he wore fraying jeans 
shorts, and a rather dirty tee shirt.  In fact, he was a 
mess; it looked like he'd been rolling in the dirt.  The 
Badger looked up at the Mouse,  and then at Tanj, looking 
over the Mouse's shoulder.  "Mark, Tanj; Tanj, Mark.  Tanj, 
you are to go with him and help him in his assigned tasks; 
consider yourself his assistant until further notice".  
With that, the Badger waved a paw in dismissal, and Tanj 
silently followed Mark out the door. 

As they walked, Mark nodded to Tanj with a slight smile.  
"Looks like I'm no longer on the bottom of the totem-pole 
around here.  Welcome aboard, by the way."  Tanj just 
shrugged and grinned ruefully; "can't get much lower'n me 
at the moment, but thanks; so, what we workin' on today?  
Powerplants?  Warp Drives?  Weapons systems?"  Mark coughed 
softly.  "I'm afraid you'll have to settle for 
environmental.  Seems someone over in the residential 
section  has been complaining about a funny odor  in the 
air system, and _we_ get  to clean the ductwork."  Tanj's 
wail was heard all the way back to  the Chief Engineer's 
office; "Nooooooooooo!  Thats what they ALWAYS made  me do 
back home!  Just because I was the smallest, and therefor 
could  fit in the ducts better.... ITS NOT FAIR!  _YEARS_ 
in engineering school, _MORE_YEARS_ of experience, and I'm 
_BACK_TO_CLEANING_DUCTS_?" This was followed by every curse 
that Tanj had ever learned in her years in  space.  Mark 
just listened with something like amused sympathy as he 
lead her down the corridors towards Environmental. 

By the end of the day, they were both filthy.  Mark was a 
little surprised when Tanj had stripped off her dress, not 
wanting to get it dirty, and certainly not minding being 
seen in just her fur.  His eyes  
narrowed as he took in all her piercings, but he kept quiet 
and Tanj found it impossible to tell as they worked whether 
he disliked what he saw or just thought it impractical to 
work without the protection of clothing.  It hadn't taken 
Mark long at all to find the source of the foul odor, a 
particularly gross pool of slime at  the bottom of a duct, 
but they still had to spend the rest of the shift cleaning 
it up, along with the surrounding ductwork.  By the end of  
their shift, they were both filthy. 

As Mark was leading Tanj back towards the Lion's quarters, 
they ran into Reggie and Slasher.  Reggie smiled and said 
hello, and Slasher, characteristically quiet, just nodded; 
"Mark, would you mind if we  
borrowed Tanj for a little bit; the Boss is kinda tied up 
with the scheduling team, and we thought, well, ah, Tanj 
kind of made an impression on us when we picked 'er up from 
Elysium, and, ah, we'd like  
to get to know her a little better.  Slasher just nodnoded 
repeatedly.  Mark looked from Reggie to Slasher and back, 
and then nodded solemnly.  "Of course, wouldn't want to let 
her, ah, valuable skills go unappreciated..... and besides, 
practice makes perfect.  Take her away, guys."  He 
emphasized those last few words with an impish grin and a 
grand dismissive gesture, drawing a chuckle from Reggie and 
a wide grin from Slasher.  Tanj blinked at the "practice 
makes perfect" comment, but then turned to give Mark a 
quick kiss on the cheek;  "I'm sure the Boss would agree.  
I'll see you tomorrow!"  Reggie smiled and held out a 
crooked arm; Tanj smiled back and linked arms with Reggie, 
and then with Slasher, and as they walked off, she looked  
back over her shoulder at Mark with a 'you just _wait_' 
grin on her face. 

"Guys, you know, I really am rather a mess...." Tanj 
started....  Reggie just grinned; "'s Allright, Luv, got 
just the place picked out for you to clean up some.  
Somehow I doubt you've gotten a good tour of  
the place yet; let us show you one of its premier 
attractions, the zero gravity pool!  Reggie led the way 
through a series of corridors (getting Tanj completely 
lost), and then through a series of airlocks.  As  
they walked between the last set, the gravity lessened 
noticeably, until  Tanj was having difficulty keeping her 
feet on the deck.  Cycling through the last lock, they 
passed into true zero gravity, and into a  
large spherical cavern.  Floating in the middle of this 
chamber was a huge ball of shimmering blue water.  What 
trick of surface tension kept it in place, Tanj had no 
idea, but it was very pretty.  Reggie  released Tanj's arms 
and bent to remove his clothes; twisting, Tanj saw that 
Slasher was also stripping.  Leaving his clothes floating 
near the lock, Reggie kicked off from the wall and dove  
headfirst into the sphere of water.  Ripples rebounded all 
around its  surface, and after a few seconds, his head 
emerged about a quarter of  the way around from where he'd 
entered.  Grinning, he waved Tanj  onwards. 

Tanj just shrugged and shed her dress.  Twisting, she too 
kicked  off from the wall, although not as powerfully as 
Reggie had; turning in  mid air, she managed to enter the 
water feet first, and a strong kick  
propelled her back to the surface.  As her head broke the 
surface of the  water, she saw Slasher arrow into the water 
a few feet away.  Tanj found that she could move easily 
through the water, and when she tried  to swim straight 
through the center, she found the center was hollow!  
There, in the middle, hanging over her head, in the void, 
was an autobar!  Talk about all the luxuries!  Trying to 
find out the system's limits, she'd just ordered a Baraxian 
sunrise, when Reggie surfaced next  to her.  "This place is 
great!  I've never heard of ANYTHING like it" Tanj 
purrrred.  "who designed it?"  Reggie grinned; "The Boss 
got the Technology from some old friend of his; don't know 
more than that."  As  he talked, Reggie moved a little 
closer, until his body made contact with Tanj's; she 
purrrred, knowing exactly what he was after, and  turned 
her head to kiss him softly.  As she did so, she felt 
someone  move up behind her.  Giggling, she turned her head 
and kissed Slasher too.  The three of them hung there, at 
the interface of air and water, and slowly made love; 
Reggie sliding his cock into Tanj's pussy,  while Slasher, 
moving gently from behind, filled her ass.  Tanj just  hung 
onto the overhead bar with one paw, stroking the two males 
with her other paw, and her tail, twitching vaginal 
muscles, her "inner hand", to  stroke Reggie's cock, and 
tightening her anal ring around Slasher's shaft.  The water 
was warm, the motions slow, sedate, and dreamy.  Tanj 
purrred as she felt Slasher loose his load first, his cock  
throbbing in her ass; his motions seemed to directly affect 
Reggie, as it was only moments later that the big Lepine's 
cock also exploded, throbbing, filling Tanj's pussy with 
his seed.  As he came, Reggie's  
paw moved down to rub hard on Tanj's clitty, and gasping, 
she climaxed from the direct pressure, so strange with the 
warm currents of water surging around her fur. 

There was a dryer in the airlock, but as Reggie and Slasher 
led her back to the Lion's quarters, she still wasn't quite 
dry.  She wasn't quite clean either and her fur had that 
"spiky" look.  Tanj giggled as she thought to herself; "I 
wonder if I left a ring around the sphere?  I've left rings 
around the bathtub, and cleaned enough of them off, but I 
wonder how the pool is kept clean?  Oh well, not my job 
(yet)."  She found the  Lion at the desk in his quarters, 
shuffling papers.  He'd eaten, but had  a covered tray 
waiting for her.  Tanj ate quietly, letting him work, and 
after disposing of the dishes, and taking a nice hot 
shower, she finally curled up on her pallet.  She was sound 
asleep when she felt his  
tongue licking her softly; opening her eyes, she put her 
arms around his neck and kissed him.  "Hard day, eh?" he 
smiled.  Tanj just nodded,  and then Ooooooohed as she felt 
him start licking down her body.  His  tongue on her 
breasts, his teeth toying with her nipple rings soon had 
her panting, and when he moved down to her sex, she moaned 
in pleasure.  His tongue delved deep within her, a few 
times, as if gathering information as to what she'd been up 
to, and then withdrew.  Tanj stretched out flat, and he 
moved forward, to cover her, his cock driving hard into her 
wetness.  Their lovemaking was fast, and hard, with Tanj 
screaming out her pleasure long before he let loose a roar, 
his cock filling her with his cum.  Tanj slept that night 
in his bed, in his arms, but still chained to the 
footboard. 

Things gradually fell into something of a routine.  Tanj 
would have breakfast with the Lion, and as she did so, she 
found that she was taking greater and greater part in the 
conversations of those who came  
by to consult with him, or to seek decisions.  She'd 
practice her martial arts, either with the Wolf, or with 
others that had special skills to teach, and then 
midmorning, she'd link up with Mark, to assist  him on 
whatever projects they'd been assigned.  Sometimes she'd be 
a bit late, if one of her special instructors wanted a 
little at the end of their session, and Tanj came to enjoy 
teasing Mark on those  
occasions, grinning and licking her lips as she apologized 
for being tardy. It almost seemed as if he knew exactly 
what she'd been up to, and whether the interlude was their 
idea (justifiable tardiness), or  hers......  Sometimes 
she'd have Dinner with the Lion, sometimes she'd be led off 
by others for their enjoyment.  Sometimes the Lion would be 
too tired in the evenings, but if that was the case, the 
sex in the  morning would be fast and furious! 

It had been a little over a week when Mark and Tanj were 
assigned a new project.  Tanj was delighted; this was the 
first _serious_ engineering project the pair had been 
given, although Tanj got the  distinct impression that it 
was not because they'd won the Badger's respect as 
engineers, but that he simply didn't have anyone else to 
put  on it.  One of the Raider ships had a glitch in its 
control system  
causing the helm controls to "wander" seemingly at the 
worst occasions.  It had impacted the side of the asteroid 
base as it had tried to enter  the docking bay, and the 
pilot insisted it wasn't his fault.  Diagnostics on the 
system had shown nothing, but then as they'd tried to  move 
the ship from the repair bay back to the hangar, it did it 
again, causing a small wreck.  Mark and Tanj pulled the 
drawings on the  control system, and related subsystems, 
and spent a day going over the logs and records.  "It's got 
to be in the joystick calibration routine," Mark insisted.  
"The values are drifting for some reason, and that's  
leading to the difficulty in control."  Tanj shook her 
head; "no, I'd think the pilot could compensate for that, 
unless they drifted damn fast; I think its in the linkages 
to the control thrusters.  The control system is sending 
the correct signals, they're just not being interpreted by 
the thrustor subprocessors correctly."  Mark shook his head 
doubtfully.  "I've never heard of a problem with a 
distributed  
control system like that before."  "Maybe its a virus; 
something new.  You _know_ binary viruses are a standard 
combat weapon these days.  Infect your enemy's ship with a 
virus that cripples him and while he's trying to fix that, 
move in for the kill!"  After considering for a  moment, 
Mark shook his head again.  "A serious combat virus would 
have to do more than just cause an occasional malfunction, 
and in only one 
system at that.  Not to mention that it couldn't work very 
well without sabotaging parts of the control software, and 
nobody's found a trace of that so far.  I'd say the 
calibration routines are still our best 
bet."  Tanj shrugged; "OK, tell you what; you work on that, 
and I'll head back to the engine spaces and work on the 
linkages.  Bet you I'm right!"  Mark chuckled and raised an 
eyebrow.  "Bet me what,exactly?"   Tanj grinned back; "If 
you're right, I'll bet you a night of pleasure to exceed 
your wildest imaginings, not that you stand a chance of 
winning."  "And if _YOU_ win?"  Tanj grinned again; "A 
favor to be  named at a later date; nothing too big, just a 
favor you owe me."  Mark tilted his head for a moment with 
exaggerated seriousness, then nodded. "Can do." 

Mark worked solidly on the software that allowed the flight 
controls to direct the ship where the pilot wanted to go.  
On breaks from her work, Tanj would bring him cups of 
coffee, only to find them later, a  few sips gone, stone 
cold.  Pursuing her theory, Tanj checked out the code for 
the subprocessors that controlled the actual thruster 
motors.  In order to resist as much damage as possible and 
still function, the  
Raider had a distributed control system, which meant a 
whole bunch of little computers spread all over the place.  
Finding what she thought were changes in the code that 
might have been caused by a virus, Tanj wiped all the 
memory, and painstakingly reloaded the programs.  Three 
days later they were both done; Mark thought that he had 
found some  obscure changes in the code, something that 
might be attributed to standard "read/write" errors that 
might have been the problem, but  Tanj wasn't convinced.

The Badger reviewed their work, and shook his head; "To 
tell you the  truth, I don't see where the change in code 
that you found, Mark,  could  cause the problem as 
described, but I'm willing to let you take the ship  out, 
and see if its fixed.  Just don't ram the station, PLEASE?"   
Tanj and Mark grinned at each other as they headed for the 
hangar bay.  "Wow, got a chance to actually fly one of 
those things!" Tanj  
purrrrred.  Mark ahemed and looked down when Tanj turned to 
stare at him; "Ah, are you checked out on that particular 
ship?" he asked softly.  Tanj shook her head no, a little 
jerky motion as if she didn't really want to concede the 
information.  Mark nodded.  "Better leave the flying 
to me until we're sure we've really nailed the problem, 
then...but if you'd like, I can give you a few pointers 
afterwards."  Tanj snorted, as if she didn't think there 
was anything that he could teach her, but secretly looked 
forward to getting her hands on the controls, no matter 
what the "restrictions"......

As Mark piloted the ship out of the Hangar bay, all hands 
taking cover in case the problem _wasn't_ fixed, Tanj 
headed back to the engine spaces to see how her end was 
holding up.  Sure enough, they'd  made it clear of the 
station, and as they headed for the asteroid field  (and 
some cover for checking out maneuvering), Tanj's checks 
repeatedly came up clean.  Arriving in the designated 
practice area,  Mark proceeded to put the ship through some 
gut-wrenching maneuvers, and  Tanj found herself slung 
about some, despite the sophisticated inertial dampening 
field....  It was in just one such maneuver that  
Tanj heard Mark shout; "LOOK OUT!  Get DOWN!".  Moving 
instinctively,  Tanj ducked behind the bulk of the mass 
converter, just as the aft inertial damper exploded.  
Picking herself up from the deck, Tanj  grabbed a fire 
extinguisher, and managed to put out the sputtering  
electrical fire.  She was just setting down the empty fire 
extinguisher, looking at the mess when Mark came running 
back from the flight deck.  Tanj looked up at him; 'thanks 
for the warning, but how'd you know?"   Mark blinked at her 
through the remaining smoke, then at the mess that  had 
been the inertial damper, and then back at Tanj; "Know 
what?"  Tanj turned to look at him more closely; "the 
warning you gave over  the intercom; it was very timely, I 
just wonder how you knew that was going to happen....."  
Mark frowned and held up a paw.  "How many  fingers do you 
see?"  Now it was Tanj's turn to be confused.  "Two, 
why?"  "Just making sure...I did get a bunch of red lights 
just a moment before the explosion, yes, but remember how 
there _is_ no intercom between the flight deck and here?  
Not that I'm complaining that you're all right, mind."  
Tanj took a step back, thinking to herself; "he's right; 
this place is normally unmanned during a flight; the only 
reason its got life support at all is for maintenance and 
repairs......"  "But I _heard_ you say clearly..... Oh, 
nevermind, help me get this mess  cleaned up...." 
<p>
A detailed examination showed that shrapnel from the 
intertial damper had shredded not only the maneuvering 
thruster subprocessor, but also the network connections 
feeding it as well as part of the thruster fuel supply 
system.  The sub-sub processors were all O.K., there was 
just no way to get the control signals to them. 

Tanj looked up from the computer display; 'Yup, just as I 
feared; the Warp drive will take us anywhere we want to go 
just fine.  But the insystem drive will only take us in a 
straight line.  I can't think of  any way to pass the 
control signals to the sub-sub-processors, even if we had 
enough spare cable to physically reach them all.  Even if 
we could fix the fuel system.  Mark just sighed and nodded; 
"I guess we're  going to have to call for a tow."  He 
reached over and keyed the tightbeam com.  After a minute, 
he found the base's carrier, and opened a channel.  "Uh, 
Chief, we, ah, solved the problem with the control system" 
he began.....  But we've had another problem crop up; we've 
had a catastrophic failure of the aft intertial damper, and 
its taken out the manuvering thrustor subprocessor.  We 
can't maneuver."  The Badger  just shook his head; "I don't 
have anyone to send after you; there's  been a fairly large 
engagement out near Cissata, and everything we've got 
headed out there about an hour ago.  You'll just have to 
wait.  Your  life support stable?"  Tanj nodded; 
"everything's fine, except for  the attitude thrusters"  
The Badger nodded; "you may wish it wasn't, when you get 
back, but we'll talk about it then"  And with that, he cut  
the connection. 

Tanj did a quick inventory of the ship's stores; they were 
good for at least a week.  Emergency rations weren't that 
bad.......  She did what she could to make the little 
ship's rest area comfy, and then just  sat down to wait.  
Mark puttered for a while, but eventually, he too wound up 
in the "rest" area.  The place was just too small; it was 
meant for a "fourth" crewman, a relief pilot, or whatever, 
that would allow  the others to get some sleep on a long 
mission.  Mark was small, and Tanj wasn't exactly huge, but 
even so, it was a bit cramped.  Still, the big padded area 
that passed for a multi-species bed was softer and  
more comfortable than one of the acceleration couches on 
the flight deck.  At first, when he laid down, he and Tanj 
were well separated,  but as they both slept, things being 
what they are, they wound up together..... 

Tanj purrrrred softly and cuddled; as she awoke, she 
couldn't remember the dream, but she'd been with someone 
she'd liked and had been holding them tight.  As she opened 
her eyes, however, all she saw was  
white fur; slowly it came back to her; the ship, the 
accident, _Mark!_  As Tanj softly tried to disengage 
herself, she found herself "trapped" between him and the 
wall; no way she could get up without  waking him.  He'd 
worked hard, and she knew he was tired, and decided to just 
lay there, and let him sleep.  Wasn't as if there was 
anything that she needed to do.....  As she laid there, 
watching him sleep, she  
thought of all the ways that she might find a way to steer 
the ship without the thrusters.  Every method she thought 
of, she couldn't implement with what they had on board, 
though.  Finally, out of ideas,  she took to softly tracing 
patterns in the fur of Mark's back, with one clawtip, 
almost using him as if he were a drawing board.  At first, 
her motions were subtle enough to go unfelt, but after a 
while, as her  boredom steadily increased, Mark started 
stirring uneasily in his sleep. 

Tanj felt that she now had a dilemma; she could try and 
remain immobile, or she could wake him through her teasing.  
She knew she should let him sleep, but that just wasn't in 
her nature..... and once  
again, the boredom of the situation brought out her 
devilish side.  Idly tracing a finger along his ribs, she 
watched, grinning as he squirmed a little; he positively 
shivered when her finger traced across  his stomach, and as 
she ran its tip lightly along the waistband of his  pants, 
she could almost hear him gasp. 

Mark awoke suddenly, remembering exactly where he'd been 
when he fell asleep, but still taking a moment or two, to 
connect that thought with the situation he now found 
himself in; he seemed to have backed Tanj against the wall, 
and she had an arm around him, lightly carressing his 
tummy.  He'd picked up some of the stories and comments 
made by others on the Station, of course, and the situation 
_was_ kind of obvious...  "Well", he reminded himself, "you 
knew something like this was bound to happen eventually, 
and now is definitely better than some other times.  Might 
as well get ready to meet the real thing behind all those 
tall tales".  Squirming around, he turned to face Tanj, to 
find her grinning at him, in a sleepy fashion.... 

As Mark squirmed around to face Tanj, she leaned forward 
just a little to kiss him.  What started out as a tentative 
kiss soon became a passionate one as their tongues danced.  
Tanj purrrrred softly, and with an arm still around Mark, 
slowly rolled onto her back, pulling him on top of her.  As 
they kissed again, Tanj spread her legs, letting his feet 
fall between her knees.  As her paw stroked down, 
carressing  
his back, she realized that his shorts had vanished; 
running her paw teasingly down over his bottom, tickling 
the base of his tail, she wondered how he'd managed to do 
that.......  It wasn't long before  Mark's arousal was 
apparent, and with a grin, he kissed her on the nose and 
shimmied down Tanj's body until the head of his cock 
slipped down to tease the entrance to her pussy.  Tanj 
purrrrred sleepily and  
raised her knees slightly, and then moaned softly as Mark 
slowly slid his cock into her.  "He's bigger'n I would have 
thought" Tanj thought to herself as Mark slowly started 
moving his hips, sliding his shaft in and out of Tanj's 
sex.  Being somewhat shorter than Tanj, Mark's head was now 
well positioned to nuzzle at Tanj's breasts and she moaned 
softly as a tongue started teasing her left nipple.  Their  
lovemaking was slow, and unhurried, each enjoying the 
other's body.....  Tanj caressed Mark's back and his 
bottom, her fingers gliding here and there as Mark's tongue 
teased her nipples, nibbling at the lower curves of her 
breasts, his hard cock moving back and forth with measured 
strokes.  Tanj felt as if she was floating away on a cloud 
of pure pleasure, almost lost in it all when she felt 
Mark's thrusts start to  
speed up; with a wicked grin, she concentrated, rippling 
her vaginal muscles around his cock, milking him.  Mark 
gasped and moments later he was in the throes of an orgasm, 
slamming his cock into her as hard as he could.  The feel 
of his spurting cock deep within her, the feel of his  
balls slapping at her ass, was just what Tanj needed, and 
she slipped  over the edge into the arms of a warm and 
lovely climax.  Panting, the  two held each other tight, as 
they slowly regained their breath. 

As they cuddled, enjoying the afterglow, they started to 
talk again.  Mark got Tanj to tell him her story, of how 
she came to be in such a predicament, and when she'd 
finished, Tanj asked him how he came to  
work with the Pirates.  "I was on the station at Pletirat, 
looking for work.  One of the Pirate raiders had been 
damaged in a raid and had made its way to the station.  Of 
course, they were posing as a mining ship,  and couldn't 
let the extent of their damage be known, or uncomfortable  
questions might be asked.  I'd heard rumors, though, about 
them needing engineering help, and just walked up to the 
airlock,  and told them I'd  like to apply for the job.  
They needed help, and here I am". 

A while later, Tanj was half dozing, when she felt Mark 
shift  some, moments later, she felt his tongue slowly 
lapping at her pussy.  His measured strokes seemed attuned 
to her nervous system, each stroke  perfectly timed to 
slowly increase her passion.  When she tried to move,  to 
shift to a position where she could return the favor, Mark 
just  pushed her down again; "You lie still, this is for 
you; just lie back  
and enjoy....."  Tanj settled back with a purrrrrrrr.  His 
technique was amazing; it was as if he knew just what to 
do, just how to do it, just when to do it, to maximize 
Tanj's pleasure; it wasn't but  minutes before she was 
panting hard, almost screaming, teetering on the very edge 
of a massive climax; and then he backed off, as if knowing 
just how close she was, as if he could read her passion 
like an open  book, to keep her at the very brink without 
pushing her over, playing her as if she were a fine 
instrument.  Tanj gasped and moaned, and before long was 
begging him to let her cum, to let her have her climax,  
but he just kept licking, teasing, nibbling and sucking 
until she was a writhing mess, almost out of her mind.  
Then he paused for an instant and touched her clitty with 
the tip of his tongue, just flicking it  softly, as if 
knowing that was exactly what it would take, no more, no 
less, to drive her into the arms of her climax.  Tanj 
shuddered and yowled, her climax seeming to vibrate through 
her for hours.  Finally,  when she could open her eyes, she 
found him watching her, a soft smile on his face.  "Where 
did you EVER learn to do _THAT_" she mumbled softly.  Mark 
purred softly, almost sounding like a feline himself in  
the dim light of the room.  "A bit of experience, an active 
imagination, and a few good teachers...better than yours, 
perhaps, in that _they_ didn't need to resort to 
'discipline' to keep their students properly 
enthusiastic..."  His voice faded slowly into silence. 

After a while, Tanj found herself stroking the fur of his 
tummy again, almost instinctively teasing; "you know, I 
learned a trick a while back, you might appreciate; you up 
for another round?"  Mark  
looked at her for a moment, but then he nodded gamely.  
Tanj rose and made her way over to the environmental 
controls; after a minute, the gravity in the small craft 
slowly decreased, until they were floating freely.  Tanj 
grinned and kicked off the wall to tackle the floating 
Mark, driving him softly back into the far wall; "for this 
to work, you have to hold onto something with hands and 
feet...."  Mark found suitable handholds and managed to 
wedge his feet under the edge of a  storage cabinet.  Tanj 
maneuvered herself down, until she was floating with her 
head near his crotch, and using her tongue she brought him 
back to full hardness.  With his cock once again standing 
proud, she twisted and holding it with both hands, brought 
its head to her pussy.  Eyes closed she writhed in midair, 
stroking herself against his cock, and then, hooking her 
feet around his waist, she slowly drew herself  "down" onto 
his cock.  She surged back and forth for a moment, her hair 
floating in a cloud around her head, and then looking at 
Mark's face she grinned; tightening her vaginal muscles, 
she held his cock, holding  herself to him by that grip, as 
she slowly brought her legs up, until  she could grasp an 
ankle in each paw.  "Now, Mark, I want you to let go with 
one paw, and reach down, and slowly spin me around on your 
cock!"  Mark noddeded and complied, reaching down to place 
a hand under her  thigh; pushing slowly, he found that he 
could indeed revolve her around on his cock, the sensations 
of her slick folds on his shaft  indescribable.  Tanj 
purrrrred and wriggled slightly and then with an  eep 
released one ankle to reach down and pull her self back 
onto his shaft, as she threatened to float free.  As she 
tried to spin herself in the other direction, and still not 
loose contact, Mark accidentally let his other paw slip, 
and in a moment, they were a tumbling mess in the middle of 
the compartment.  Tanj giggled and locked her legs around 
his waist again, and pulled him to her, and they wound up 
writhing against each other, slowly rebounding from wall to 
floor to ceiling to wall.  Tanj found the situation very 
novel, if a little difficult,  but had no difficulty 
driving herself to several climaxes before Mark once again 
filled her with his jism! 

They were still clinging to each other, spinning slowly in 
the middle of the compartment when it hit Tanj square 
between the eyes!  She knew how to regain attitude control!  
"MARK!  I got it!  I know how  we can get home!"  Mark 
blinked at her, a little dazed by her sudden 
revitalization; "How?"  Tanj grinned, a smile full of sharp 
teeth; "we build a gyroscope in here, using the gravity 
fields to spin and orient it.  If we can find enough 
magnetic metal, I bet we can magnetically stabilize it too!  
Mark nodded slowly: "I think I see where you're coming 
from..... But are you sure you want to do that?  It can't  
be THAT long until they come after us......"  "I'd rather 
not give them the satisfaction, Mark.  _I_ want to get us 
home under our own power!"  Mark chuckled and shrugged in 
mock resignation. 

It took about 16 hours of work, but in the end Tanj had 
remounted a half dozen gravity generators on the walls of 
the compartment, and powered them up.  She'd taken the 
remenants from the failed inertial  
damper, and all the internal parts from the thruster system 
that she could safely dismount and welded them together to 
form as balanced a mass as she could manage.  What wiring 
she could strip from the less  
essential systems provided field coils for the 
stabilization scheme.  Meanwhile, Mark worked at a control 
program that the ship's computer could handle.  The initial 
test went well; the ship's nose slowly  turning against the 
starfield.  Moving out at half power, they headed  home.

They had to go slowly, making many "course corrections" in 
the old fashioned manner, but they made it back to the 
station just as their rescue mission was being launched.  
Tanj was immensely proud that  
they made it close enough to the station to be tractored 
directly into the hangar bay.  As the mooring clamps rang 
against the hull, Tanj suddenly realized that she was still 
nude; "OHMYGOD, where's my dress!  Lookat all those furrs 
outside to welcome us back.... ARG, my HAIR!"  Mark just 
smiled.  Funny thing; he'd found his pants right away, 
while Tanj had to search for a good five minutes to find 
her dress......... 

There was a lot of good natured back slapping when they 
exited the ship;  Most of the ribbing however was directed 
at Mark, with unsubtle comments about surviving three days 
locked in a ship with Tanj.  The Chief Engineer was also 
present, and he admitted to being very impressed with the 
system they'd devised to get the ship home, but he also let 
them know in no uncertain terms that he was furious with 
them for the damage they'd done to the ship in order to 
make their way home!  "Its going to take forever to put all 
those thrusters back together, IF we've got that many 
spares, and with what you did, we'll NEVER find out why the 
inertial damper failed!" he roared. 

That night, Tanj was again chained to the foot of the 
Lion's bed.  It felt good to be "home".....  After some 
particularly wild and rough sex, they cuddled and she 
related the whole story.  "You know", he rumbled softly 
when she'd finished, "that isn't _quite_ the version of how 
Mark came to work with us that  
I'm familiar with".  "Oh?"  Tanj purrred.  "No.  He's right 
about the raider; it was hit with a leach type weapon, took 
out all the main power systems, and in the process fried 
the ship's flight engineer.  The crew  
managed to limp into Pletirat, but the ship was still a 
mess.  Of course, as thats Elysium territory, they couldn't 
very well admit to their problems; it'd cause way too many 
repercussions.  They were about  
to head out, to try and find what parts they could obtain 
quietly, when Mark walks up, says he wants to apply for the 
Engineer's job.  They thought he must have been some sort 
of a spy, as they hadn't told ANYONE the real reason as to 
why they were there.  He said later he had mistakenly 
turned up at the wrong docking port, and while there _was_ 
a ship on the station looking for an engineer, it was on 
the other side of the station.  I suppose it could have 
been an honest mistake on his part; I certainly can't prove 
otherwise, but you have to admit, its a HELL of a 
coincidence.....  At any rate, the crew dragged him on 
board, afraid to let him go, already thinking he might know 
too much.  He did good work patching them up to get back 
here, and he's been with us ever since.  Still, we keep him 
on a short leash, as we have doubts about his explanation, 
and if he _wasn't_ lost, we don't know HOW he knew they 
needed an engineer.  Some think he might just be a 
telepath, but those are so rare, I don't give that much 
credance."  Tanj's eyes widened at this; "you know, just 
before the damper blew, I heard him, clear as day, tell me 
to duck.  At least I thought I heard him.....  Later, he 
denied it, and he was right, there was no intercom between 
the flight deck and the engine spaces...... maybe he _IS_ a 
telepath!  The Lion just shrugged; "well, we'll see about 
that.  I'm very pleased at the way you brought that ship 
back; you showed great resourcefulness, and I value that.  
But you really blew your initial analysis.  Mark was right, 
and you were way wrong.  And for that" he said with a grin, 
"you're going to have to be punished........." 

The next night, Tanj was led into the mess hall by a chain 
on her collar.  She was naked, her arms tightly bound 
behind her, a gag filling her mouth, and a blindfold over 
her eyes.  The Lion made a great show of reading "charges" 
and announcing "punishment", much to the crowd's  
amusement.  Tanj's blindfold was then removed and she was 
led to a set of stocks.  Reggie opened the top, and the 
Lion unbound her paws and pushed her down, bending her over 
until her neck and wrists were in  place.  Reggie then 
lowered the upper half, imprisoning her.  The Lion  
proceeded to lock the stocks closed, and made a show of 
pocketing the key.  He then took a rather long spreader bar 
and forced her feet well  
apart; this left her body horizontal, from neck to hips.  A 
leather strap went around the end of her tail and this was 
then tied to a ring in the stocks, fully exposing her sex 
to view.  The Lion came around into her now rather limited 
field of view; "I thought long and hard about paddling you, 
but I think this will be sufficient.  You'll stand here for 
the amusement of whomever decides to avail themselves of 
you,  until morning.  He grinned and kissed her on the 
nose, and padded off.  Tanj heard Reggies voice saying; 
"got the sign-up sheet right here; that way there'll be no 
confusion as to who gets her when......  Oh  yeah, the boss 
says to replace her gag when you're done....." Tanj found 
it to be a long night, but not without its delights.  There 
were a number of guys that just took her from behind, and a 
few  that made use of her mouth, but there were also two 
ladies, the coyote from the Chief Engineer's office, and a 
mink friend of hers that took great delight in teasing her 
to distraction, bringing her to the very edge of a climax, 
and then  stopping.......  Mark even stopped by in the 
middle of the night to give her something to drink, and she 
was very thankful for that too.  In the end, it was the two 
ladies that released her, just after breakfast, and took 
her to get cleaned up.  Seems they had the day off, and all 
three wound up sleeping in the Lion's bed.  What happened 
when he found them there, later in the day, is another 
story.

Tanj's Tale:  The start of vengeance 			
	By Kittiara
Stardate 2298.00

Tanj knelt beneath the station manager's desk.  He was 
talking on the vidphone, and from the waist up, looked very 
proper; however, from the waist down, beneath the desk, he 
was bare.  Tanj knelt between his feet, like a good slave, 
his limp cock held in her mouth.  This was a favorite 
pastime of his.  He'd conduct a normal day's business... 
most of the time.  But when Tanj's tongue got him hard, the 
Weasel would take a break until she'd sucked him off.  It 
was her job to keep his cock in her mouth, holding him 
there, until he got hard again, and she could bring him to 
another orgasm.  Luckily, his work day seemed short, and 
she was only on her knees in that situation for a few 
hours, four at the most.  Sometimes however, it was 
preferable to the other 'pet activities' the station 
manager liked to indulge in....  Still, she wished he'd put 
a pad down there for her to kneel on.......

Tanj had been doing this for almost six weeks now.  The 
Lion, in his guise as the head of an asteroid mining 
concern doing business with the dominant trading station in 
orbit around Elysium, had presented her to the Station 
manager as a "gift", a "small token of his esteem".  It had 
been a very effective bribe, easing the access of the 
Lion's company to the station and the markets beyond.  Of 
course, the station manager had no way of knowing, not the 
least suspicion, that the mining company was a cover for a 
band of pirates, small, but growing in "influence"..... 
Even if he'd been aware of that, he might not have cared.  
Many illegal things happened in the Elysium system, and 
even more immoral things.....  

Tanj had been delivered in a box wrapped with a ribbon; a 
comparatively tiny box.  The Cheetah morph was curled up, 
bent double, wrapped in translucent stretchy stuff, 
impossibly squeezed and contorted into a ball.  All that 
was recognizable, not hidden by the wrap, was her muzzle, 
and at the other end, her pussy.  Her legs were bent up and 
secured not to her chest, but spread, her knees actually on 
either side of her breasts by her shoulders, and this so 
stretched her ass apart that her tight little anus was also 
exposed to view.  The rest of her was a mass of slightly 
opaque plastic wrap, tightly compressing her.  While she'd 
been bound in this fashion only shortly before being 
carried from the Lion's ship into the station, the Station 
Manager, having opened the box, seemed quite content to 
leave her in that predicament, as if on display, not only 
as he concluded his business with the Lion, but through the 
course of several more appointments.  Finally the business 
day seemed to be done, and Tanj found that her business day 
started at that point.  First the Station Manager, leaving 
her bound, fucked her hard in her pussy; having emptied 
himself there, he came around and presented his limp cock 
to be cleaned by Tanj's mouth.  It wasn't until she'd not 
only licked him clean, but licked him to another orgasm 
that he slowly started unwrapping her.

Tanj spent that first night, chained to the foot of his 
bed, tied tightly in a hog-tie.  Her jaws were spread wide 
by a ring gag, and before he retired for the night, the 
station manager kneeled by her head and drove his cock into 
her mouth; however, as he orgasmed, he pulled back, to 
spray his seed over Tanj's head.  Chuckling, he climbed 
over her into bed, leaving his cum to dry on her fur.  The 
following morning he retied Tanj with her wrists tied 
between her ankles, face down on the floor, ass high in the 
air; he then proceeded to crouch above her and fuck her in 
the ass, tugging on her tail as he did so.  He then left 
her tied like that while he took a shower.  Tanj thought 
this was going to be a long assignment..........  Finally 
he released her and led her to the shower stall.  Locking a 
chain from her collar to a ring in the wall of the shower, 
he closed the door behind her and locked that too.  "You've 
got half an hour to clean yourself up, and wash your hair.  
I'll be back to let you out then".  And with that, he left 
the room, and the water started.  Tanj yelped at the cold 
water, and frantically fiddled with the knobs, only to find 
that ice cold water was all she could get!  She felt like 
she was blue with the cold, shivering violently, when the 
Weasel finally came to collect her.  Still dripping, she 
was led through the corridors to the Station's business 
offices, as the Weasel started his daily routine.

Tanj stood stiffly in the Station Manager's office, 
balanced on tiptoes in a weird contraption.  A rod extended 
from the floor, straight up, between her legs, its tip 
about 8" into her sex.  About mid-way up this rod, another 
branched off, and came up in front of her to form a Tee.  
At each end of the tee was a little electrical switch; from 
each of the switches a thin gold chain ran to Tanj's nipple 
rings.  As long as she leaned back, pulling on the chains, 
the switches remained open, but if she released the 
tension, even just a little bit, electric current would 
flow from the rod in her pussy to the chains connected to 
her nipples!  Since she'd been standing there, she'd gotten 
three such jolts, and although her back was starting to 
ache from the constant leaning back, and her nipples were 
quite sore, she was determined not to get another jolt.  As 
she stood there, muscles trembling, she felt the slightest 
of touches around the edges of her mind.   <Tanj?  Are you 
there?  Can you hear me?>  "Oh, Lord", she thought, "its 
Mark"

After the little incident where she and Mark had marooned 
themselves in a crippled Raider vessel, where Mark had 
somehow delivered a mysterious warning to Tanj, probably 
saving her life, the Lion had been quietly prodding, 
seeking to determine how Tanj had been warned.  Mark had 
finally admitted the possibility that he might have some 
telepathic ability, and that he might just have some sort 
of "special link" with Tanj.....  Of course, the Lion 
locked onto this like a homing missile, and insisted that 
they conduct tests; one of the tests had been a double 
blind where neither Mark nor Tanj knew they were being 
tested until _after_ Mark had released Tanj from a 
supposedly malfunctioning airlock.  The Lion just grinned 
as they both raged at him; "worked, didn't it?  Now we 
know, and I think that little talent will be _very_ 
useful...."

Tanj concentrated, doing her best to block out her current 
physical situation.... <Mark..... Yes, I can hear you......  
Listen, there's a convoy going out of here tomorrow, headed 
for Taurus.  The Captain of the convoy escort was in the 
Weasel's office yesterday, and I heard everything they 
discussed.  Six cargo ships, escorted by a destroyer and a 
wing of six fighters.  The weak point is that one cargo 
ship has particularly slow acceleration and they'll all 
have to hang back to stay with it.>  Tanj paused for a 
moment, and "heard" Mark; <Got it; I'll pass it on; 
anything else?>  Tanj responded; "<Yes, they're having 
power management problems and will have to take one of the 
three reactors off line next week.  They've decided to 
maintain power to shields and weapons, and one of the 
things they'll be cutting back on will be the long range 
sensors.  To compensate they'll be running more patrols>  
Tanj could feel little tendrils probing her mind when she 
finished; she could almost feel Mark's concern for her 
situation, as if for a moment he was looking out of her 
eyes.....  Ridiculous, she told herself; no one's that good 
a Telepath......  <Is your situation stable?> Mark sent.  
<Yes, its a bit hard, but I'm "safe"  I don't believe they 
suspect a thing.  The operation at Teldor did raise 
suspicions of a leak somewhere, but they're concentrating 
on watching for transmissions from the station.>  <OK, I've 
got to go, we've picked up the spare parts we ordered, and 
they want us to clear the docking port.  Security does seem 
tighter here these days.  Take care!>  And with that he was 
gone.  A few seconds contact every week or so.  Still, she 
was doing her part.  Relaxing a little, glad that Mark 
hadn't asked how she was being treated, Tanj relaxed, and 
then YELPED as the current once again surged through her, 
making her body jerk back reflexively.  She panted, closed 
her eyes, and moaned, resolving once again NOT to let that 
happen, no matter how long he made her stand here.

Mark jerked upright in his acceleration couch; he could 
almost feel the current flow, feel Tanj's sore muscles, and 
pained.... anatomy.  He turned to look out the viewport at 
the receding station and just shook his head....

Tanj tried to ignore the pain.  She was balanced on the 
very tips of her toes, straining to touch the floor, to 
relieve the pressure on her crotch.  The Weasel had 
fastened her into a strange device; it consisted of a pole 
mounted in the floor, with wide metal cuffs to go around 
her ankles.  These were loose enough that she could rise or 
fall on her toes, but tight enough that she could not slide 
her feet out of them.  At the top of the pole was a 
crescent moon shape, made of metal; this passed from in 
front of Tanj, between her legs, to behind her, almost 
perfectly matching the shape of her body.  The Weasel had 
stepped on a small pedal, slowly raising the crescent until 
it pressed painfully into Tanj's crotch, part of the metal 
actually spreading her sex, until she strained on tiptoes 
to relieve the pressure.  Leaving her there to mewl into 
her gag, he went to his desk, to start the day's work, 
grinning up at her occasionally.  It had seemed like an 
eternity to Tanj, but probably wasn't more than an hour 
when the Weasel's comm chimed and he answered it.  Again, 
Tanj couldn't hear or see whoever was on the other end of 
the link but as the Weasel talked it became apparent that 
someone had completely drained the Weasel's personal 
financial accounts.  This didn't surprise Tanj, as she had 
overheard the Weasel talking to his bankers and investment 
councilors, and had passed the account numbers and 
passwords on, via her contacts with Mark.  The Weasel broke 
the connection by slamming his fist down on the 
commconsole, and rose from behind his desk; as he headed 
towards the door, however, he stopped and turned to stalk 
over to Tanj.  He looked at her closely for a moment as if 
accusing her of causing this disaster.  Then he shook his 
head as if dismissing the notion.  Still, before he stormed 
out, he slammed his foot down on the pedal, raising the 
crescent another half inch, leaving Tanj's toes barely 
touching the floor.  Later, Tanj found out that not only 
had the Weasel's personal funds disappeared, but that all 
the station accounts had been scrambled.  It would take 
them a long time to straighten everything out, and in the 
meantime, the Weasel's superiors were MOST displeased.

"What do you mean, the convoy was taken by pirates!"  The 
snarling face of the head of Elysium planetary security, a 
bear morph, looked out of the viewscreen.  The Weasel was 
standing behind his desk (fully dressed for once), and 
while Tanj was out of range of the vid pickup, if she 
turned her head as far as possible, she could just view the 
situation from the corner of her eye.  Today, the Weasel 
had suspended her upside down from the ceiling, ropes from 
her ankle cuffs to widely spread pulleys.  Her arms were 
encased in a binder behind her, the ring just beyond her 
fingertips pulled harshly down, the rope looping through a 
ring in the floor to be tied off to the end of her hair.  
Of course, a large plug gag filled her mouth, this being no 
time to have the mewlings of a distressed slave detected by 
the audio pickup.  A rather heavy metal dildo had been 
placed in her pussy, and she struggled to control her 
muscles, to prevent it from being pulled by gravity far 
enough into her to hurt her.  The Bear snarled and screamed 
and yelled at the Weasel, calling him an incompetent, 
demanding to know how the pirates had found out about the 
convoy, demanding to know how they knew that the cargo 
ships were particularly slow.  It seemed the pirates had 
staged a small raid against the screening forces, and then 
fled, as if realizing that they'd bitten off more than they 
could chew.  Seeking glory, the defenders had chased the 
pirates, and run square into an ambush; while thus 
occupied, the main Pirate force had overwhelmed the 
defenses of the cargo ships, and boarded them.  The convoy 
was a total loss, taken by forces that would have been 
vastly inferior in a head to head battle, a classic example 
of "divide and conquer".  The Weasel was insisting that no 
transmissions had been made from the station and that all 
visitors to the station had been watched from the moment 
they arrived to the moment they left, and that no one, NO 
ONE had passed them any information!  The Bear demanded 
that the Weasel investigate his own staff as the leak had 
to be coming from SOMEWHERE!

It was about three days later....  Tanj was bound in a 
frame, spread eagled, an inflatable gag filling her mouth, 
stretching it painfully wide.  Nearby a small wheel 
rotated; attached to its edge was an enema bag, and as the 
wheel turned, the bag rose and fell.  As it rose and fell, 
the liquid within surged through the connecting tube, 
alternately filling and purging Tanj's backside.  While 
this was uncomfortable, what made it really devilish was 
that as her back passage was filled, it compressed her 
insides, making the effects of the rather large vibrator 
buried in her twat felt that much more.  The combined 
effects were slowly driving Tanj mad, and she mewled softly 
into her gag.  The Station manager had departed a little 
while ago, and Tanj jerked in her bonds as the door opened 
and he came in leading another slave by the leash.  Tanj's 
eyes widened as she beheld a male Cheetah, perhaps just a 
little taller than her.  He had a hood over his head, his 
paws bound behind his back.  The leash was attached to a 
small ring at the opening of his sheath, secured with a 
little lock.  The station manager pulled him over by Tanj 
and deflated her gag.  Shoving the handle of the leash 
between her teeth he grinned "here, hold your new playmate.  
What do you think?  A matched pair?  Just think of the 
interesting Tableaus we'll be able to stage now!"  And with 
that he went behind his desk, to sit down.  They were 
ignored for about the next hour as the Station manager 
tried to clear out the day's crisis, but after a bit he 
turned to them; "now, what can we do........"

Tanj sighed with relief as the Weasel had the male Cheetah 
release her from her confinement.  For a moment, just a 
moment, she was tempted, being unbound, to attack the 
Weasel, but then she thought of her mission and swallowed 
that, and kneeled submissively before him.  The Weasel 
decided that to initiate Tanj's new "playmate" that they'd 
form a threesome.  He had the Male lie on his back, with 
Tanj on top, the Male's cock nicely filling Tanj's pussy.  
The Weasel then knelt between their spread legs and 
proceeded to fuck Tanj in her ass, a favorite activity of 
his.  Tanj mmmmmed and rocked back and forth a little, 
thrusting back against their cocks; this sort of thing 
she'd been well prepared for by the academy, and aside from 
the Weasel's hard thrusts, she rather enjoyed it.  However, 
it wouldn't do to let the Weasel know that, and she made a 
point of gasping and mewling.  She did find some time, 
however, to use her vaginal muscles to stroke the male 
Cheetah's cock, milking him, teasing him, and by the look 
on his face, she was definitely having the desired effect.  
As he pumped his cock into her ass, the Weasel instructed 
them both not to cum until he told them they could.  Of 
course, he was under no such restraint and it wasn't long 
before he pumped his load into Tanj's ass.  Pulling free, 
he told them to continue, but that they dare not cum, as he 
crawled around, to present his cock to Tanj's muzzle for 
cleaning.  Now this was a task she really hated, but 
performed anyways, despite the terrible temptation to 
emasculate him with one quick clench of her jaws......  
When she'd cleaned him to his satisfaction, the Weasel 
rose, and fished a vibrating butt plug from the toy chest, 
and inserted it rather roughly in Tanj's ass.  She moaned 
as he turned on the vibrator, and with a slap on her ass, 
walked off to sit in an easy chair, to slowly sip a drink 
as the two Cheetahs continued to fuck, trying hard not to 
yield to temptation, and cum.  He finally relented after 
what seemed an eternity, and as the male shot his load into 
her, Tanj writhed in the clutches of a massive climax.  She 
would have loved to have just laid there, cuddling, but 
that wasn't to be.  The Weasel bade them rise, and then 
told Tanj to lick her partner clean.  Tanj, however, was 
left dripping, the fur of her thighs damp and matted.  
Leashed to each other, they were led to the Weasel's 
quarters where he spent an hour intricately tying them 
muzzle to crotch at the foot of his bed.  He was just 
finishing when the commlink chimed.  Tanj heard him answer 
it; while she couldn't make out what the party on the other 
end said, the Weasel screamed "THEY WHAT?  NO!"  With a 
snarl, he broke the connection and dashed out the door, 
leaving the two Cheetahs to themselves.

Tanj grinned, and gave the male a long sloooooow lick, and 
was rewarded with a soft moan; "Heya, kiddo, welcome to 
Hell.  I'm Tanj.  He purrrrred and returned the lick; "sure 
you are, I'm Hinoki.  Pleased to meet you!  Where ya from?"  
Tanj nibbled just a little, and was rewarded with just a 
touch of pink as his cock started to emerge from his 
sheath.  Tanj noticed that not only was he pierced at the 
opening of his sheath, but that he had a matching ring in 
the head of his cock, the ring passing into the bottom 
portion of the slit in the end, emerging from its 
underside, something called a "Prince Albert"; "have to ask 
him about that later" she thought.  "Oh, I'm from no where 
in particular.  I was an engineer on a tramp freighter when 
I got shangheid into the Academy on Elysium.  Hinoki 
nodded; "I got sold into this life over on Aquarius; 
defaulted on a college loan.  BIG mistake!   They put me 
through the Performa Kennels, and that was a weird 
experience!  Got sold to Tasvarka, of the Tasvarka banking 
consortium.  Then he sold me to your master here.  I think 
I'm just as glad; I was really getting fed up  with him 
buggering me all the time...."  Tanj just laughed; "don't 
know if this'll be any better.  This guy likes to tie you 
up in strange positions, and unusual situations and leave 
you on display, like a piece of perverse art.  AND he's got 
a thing for anal sex."  Tanj prrrrrred and licked softly at 
his growing cock, eliciting some very nice moans, and some 
even nicer licks in return.  They talked and teased for 
several hours until the Weasel returned.  Something had 
obviously gone wrong, as he ignored them completely, to 
change into a more formal uniform, before heading out 
again.  A while later, the station rang as something large 
docked.

The Weasel was gone all night, and in that time, Tanj 
managed to coat her muzzle and the inside of her throat 
rather nicely with Hinoki's cum, and he in turn, managed to 
coat his own muzzle, and chest, as well as the inside of 
Tanj's thighs with her own juices....  When the Weasel did 
finally return, he was in a foul temper, and the fact that 
his two slaves had been having fun threw him into a frenzy!  
"Who told either of you that you could cum?" he hissed.  In 
an instant, both were gagged, their mouths filled with 
inflatable gags pumped way beyond where they should have 
been.  The Weasel then retied each of them, standing 
several feet apart, to rings in the ceiling; strain as they 
might, they couldn't touch each other.  Returning with a 
double pawfull of weights, the Weasel proceeded to hang the 
little devils from the rings in Tanj's nipples and labia.  
Turning to Hinoki, he produced a cone of leather, with a 
hole at the tip, and snaps down one side.  Unsnapping the 
seam, he worked the cone around Hinoki's balls, the narrow 
circle at the top of the cone between his sack and his 
body.  Snapping the seam closed, he then proceeded to hang 
weights around the lower edge of the cone, the weight 
tugging at Hinoki's balls.  Growling, he then proceeded to 
select a rather nasty looking Cat 'O Nine Tails, and 
wielding it wickedly, proceeded to make all the weights 
dance, alternating strokes between Tanj, and Hinoki.  After 
what seemed an eternity, he took the handle of the whip and 
shoved it deep into Tanj's pussy; "that falls out, you'll 
both get more when I return!" And with that, he stalked 
out.

It was the following day, and Tanj and Hinoki were tied in 
the Weasel's office.  Tanj was suspended by her wrists, , 
arms and legs spread widely.  Hinoki had his arms bound 
tightly behind his back, and was standing on tiptoes, his 
hard cock buried in Tanj's pussy.  Hinoki strained to hold 
his position; the Weasel had fitted electrodes between 
Hinoki and Tanj, the sensor checking for 'electrical 
connectivity', and if Hinoki's cock fell out of Tanj's 
cleft, the motors driving the winches holding her off the 
floor would slowly tighten her bonds, stretching her as if 
she were on the rack!  On the other hand, that devilish 
leather cone was again around Hinoki's balls, its rim 
chained to the floor, forcing him to maintain a wicked 
tension on his balls to stay in contact with Tanj.  As he 
strained, muscles quivering from the exertion, they 
overheard enough to piece together the previous day's 
events.  It seemed the pirates had staged a particularly 
bold raid, taking out one of the minor stations in Elysium 
orbit, a station that forces from this one were supposed to 
protect.  But with one of the reactors down for repairs, 
the long range scanners had been off line, and most of the 
patrol ships had been out trying to act as picket ships in 
lieu of the scanners........  The pirates had slipped 
through the cordon, and by the time the forces had been 
recalled and assembled for a counterattack, the pirates 
were gone.  The head of Elysium Planetary Security was 
furious, it seemed, and had blamed the Weasel for the 
entire affair.  It had been his ship that had docked at the 
station the previous night, and he had kept the Weasel up 
all night as they turned the place inside out looking for 
the spies that must have passed the critical information to 
the pirates.

<Tanj, are you there?>  Tanj mumbled something into her 
gag, and stirred slightly; it was the middle of the night, 
and she was again chained to the foot of the Weasel's bed.  
But she wasn't getting much sleep.  The Weasel had filled 
her ass, pussy and mouth with inflatable gizmos, tubing 
leading to a small box that filled the balloons to the 
point of agony, or deflated them, in no particular order or 
pattern.  Hinoki was nearby, tied in a very strict hog-tie, 
bent back like a bow.  <Yes, I'm here, Mark.  Where are 
you?  Are you safe?  Security here has absolutely gone 
through the roof!>  <Yes, I'm safe, but shouldn't I be 
asking you about that?  I'm in a cloaked ship, a short 
distance outside the station.  We're in that sensor blind 
spot you told us about, and I don't think they'll be able 
to detect us.>  <Glad to hear that; listen, the Head of 
Elysium Planetary Security is bearing down pretty hard on 
the Weasel.  He's been tearing the place apart looking for 
the spy.  In fact, he's coming back in three days, to do 
another sweep.  I think its getting a bit dangerous for 
you, perhaps you guys should lay low for a while!>  <Dunno 
if the boss will go for that, Tanj.  Anything else of 
interest?>  Tanj relayed what little she knew about ship 
and convoy movements, financial arrangements, and such, 
doing her best to ignore the stretching of her pussy or her 
ass, or her jaw as she tried to relay the information.  
Then Mark was gone, leaving Tanj to worry about her 
friends.

Several days later, the Weasel was still treating Tanj and 
Hinoki harshly, their little interlude still unforgiven.  
With a smirk, the Weasel had given Tanj a bottle of 
solution, and had, in public, forced her to douche herself 
with it.  It must have been a solution of alum or something 
like it, as Tanj's pussy immediately dried out and 
contracted painfully.  The Weasel then put Tanj in a pair 
of stocks, in the lobby of the Station's office area, on 
her knees, head and wrists imprisoned at floor level.  He 
then staged a little exhibition, chaining Hinoki between 
her legs, having him fuck her roughly.  Normally Tanj would 
have relished this, but in this instance, the well hung 
Hinoki made her feel as if she was about to rip apart.  The 
Weasel had left her ungagged, and her cries and moans 
echoed off the walls, eliciting looks that might almost 
have been pity from the office workers.  The Weasel made a 
short speech about how punishments like this, and worse, 
would befall any spy they captured, and then left them 
there, threatening dire things should Hinoki cum without 
permission, and even more dire things should he stop.  It 
was only a short while later when the alert alarms sounded, 
with furrs running past the two, too distracted to even 
look, and then all was quiet.  Then the station rang with 
the shock of multiple ships disconnecting from their 
docking ports.  

Hinoki slowed his motions, his hips barely moving; 
obviously he was aware of Tanj's plight, her pussy 
amazingly tight around his cock.  Tanj, for her part, 
worried that the Weasel would review the security camera 
films of their activities, even though the offices were 
deserted, and punish Hinoki for "slacking off".  They were 
there for hours, and to Tanj's amazement, Hinoki never 
quite stopped, never got soft, and never came, either.  
Finally, furrs started to filter back in, and their mood 
was black.  It seemed that the ship transporting the 
Elysium Head of Security to the station had been ambushed 
by the pirates, in a daring long range strike, and had been 
destroyed!  The general consensus was that the Station 
Manager may have arranged it himself, either as a self-
defense measure or because they were getting too close to 
uncovering HIM as the spy!

Shortly thereafter, one of the Weasel's assistants came to 
release Tanj and Hinoki.  This was done in a very 
distracted fashion, the Wolf not even pausing to appreciate 
their little exhibition.  They were led to the Weasel's 
"playroom" and unceremoniously locked in separate cages.  
They didn't see the Weasel for two days, their needs 
cursorily being attended to by servants.  Finally, they 
were released, groomed, and led to the Weasel's office.  
There were a number of well dressed furrs there, all with 
sour expressions on their faces.  The leashes were given to 
the Station Manager who then turned and presented them to a 
Wolverine morph with a slight bow.  This fur in turn handed 
the leashes with less formality to an assistant who led 
them out of the offices.  As they were led through the 
station, towards the docking ring, Tanj couldn't help but 
wonder what was going on.  The assistant led them through 
an airlock and into a personal shuttle, the type of craft 
that a very rich person might have.  There, they were made 
to kneel in the back, their leashes secured to a ring in 
the floor.  A while later, a number of the distinguished 
looking types that had been in the Weasel's office came in 
and seated themselves, and Tanj felt the shuttle undock, 
and head towards the planet.  It wasn't until they were in 
the atmosphere, cruising, that the Wolverine came to look 
at them.  "You might be interested to know that your Master 
is walking on very thin ice, and the consortium that funds 
the station decided that he needed to pay more attention to 
his job, and less attention to you two.  Hence, you'll stay 
with me, until this mess is straightened out."  With that, 
he grinned, and returned to the forward part of the 
shuttle.  As they flew onward, Tanj wondered what the 
pirates would do when they found out she was no longer on 
the station............

The Lion stood in the Station manager's office, looking at 
the bound form of the Weasel.  The pirates had found him 
cowering in a supply locker, and had trussed him up and 
hauled him in there.  Ben, the Wolf-morph in charge of 
Pirate Ops, strode up to the Lion and reported; "stations's 
secure, Sir.  We've started stripping it of everything 
useful, transferring the prisoners to the ships, and I've 
got three crews planting demo charges.  Are you SURE you 
want to destroy it?"  The Lion nodded; "Yes; without this 
station, Elysium defenses will have to be planet based.  
Any ship coming to interfere with our operations will be at 
the end of a long hard climb out of the gravity well, and 
moving slow, with shields depleted from the atmospheric 
friction.  They'll be at a massive disadvantage.  It goes."  
Ben nodded and turned to leave, to oversee the work, making 
sure everyone moved as fast as possible, knowing that a 
counterattack was on the way, but before he left, he paused 
to kick the Weasel; "what you going to do with him?  Care 
to turn him over to the troops?  I'm sure we could, ah, 
give him a "proper send-off"".  The Lion just shook his 
head; "No, I've something even worse planned for him; we're 
going to turn him loose over on Tedium, with a considerable 
amount of cash."  Ben blinked, and then his face lit up; 
"and the Elysium government will find out about him being 
there, and assume that he sold the station out!  Yes, 
that'll distract them nicely.  _Very_good, sir, I'll have a 
crew come collect him, and, ah, "escort" him to one of the 
ships!".  Grinning, Ben grabbed the Weasel's  bound feet, 
and dragged him through the door of the office, yelling 
commands to the pirates.  The Lion moved back around the 
Weasel's desk.  He used the Weasel's own codes to unlock 
his computer, and then used the codes Tanj had passed to 
him, to strip the Station's financial accounts, sending it 
to double and triple blind accounts far out-system.  It 
would be ages before the funds were "clean" enough to tap 
safely, but in the mean time, they were at least lost to 
the Elysium government.  While he was doing this, Reggie 
and Slasher entered the office.  "Uh, Boss...." Reggie 
started.  The Lion looked up from the computer display, 
fixing the Lepine with a hard stare.  "We found out what 
happened to Tanj; she was sent down to the planet in the 
company of the "auditors" from the Harrich Consortium.  
Mark's right; she's not ON the station".  The Lion just 
nodded as he looked back at the computer display.  After a 
few keystrokes he looked up again.  We'll get her back.  It 
may take time but we WILL get her back.  I promise you 
that.

Tanj's Return:

Tanj's new owner, a wolverine morph by the name of Lord 
Xylex, was the chief financial officer for the Harrich 
Consortium, one of the larger and more powerful 
corporations on Elysium.  His lusts, however, were not of 
the flesh, but for power.  As a result, Tanj and Hinoki 
spent a LOT of time in their kennels.  They were fed 
regularly, and exercised, but aside from that, they mostly 
just sat.  Tanj learned that Xylex's wife had "left" years 
ago, under somewhat unclear circumstances, leaving him with 
a young daughter, upon whom he absolutely doted.  Some said 
that his wife had just left, fed up with a mate that only 
had an interest in accumulating power.  Some of her keepers 
insisted that she'd left because he tried to extend that 
power to her, constantly playing mind games to dominate 
her.  Others darkly claimed he'd had her killed because he 
couldn't dominate her.  In any event, Tanj was ushered into 
Lord Xylex's presence only when his gonads told him to seek 
relief, when his hormones were interfering with business.  
Tanj was peremptorily "used" and then sent back to the 
kennels.  None of her skill, or even displays of enthusiasm 
could break through his shell, and she was never allowed to 
remain long enough to learn anything about his business 
dealings.  Still, as such events were the only break from 
her monotony, she did look forward to them........

Tanj was quite surprised one day, when a young female 
wolverine morph snuck through the door to the kennels.  
Across the room, chained to his pallet (and unfortunately 
well out of reach), Hinoki was sound asleep.  Tanj looked 
up, and measured the newcomer with her eyes; "now here's 
trouble, if I ever saw it" she thought to herself.  "gotta 
be Xylex's daughter........" she mused.  The way the girl 
was acting, Tanj was convinced the guards didn't know she 
was here, and by extension, that the guards would be upset 
if they knew she was here.  In situations like this Tanj 
knew that if Xylex's daughter was caught, despite the fact 
that there was no way Tanj could have brought her 
here, she'd still get the blame.  As such, she watched the 
girl approach with wary eyes, laying on her side, head 
propped up with one hand. The girl approached slowly, 
tentatively; as she approached, Tanj decided she must be 
about fifteen or sixteen years old.  She stopped about six 
feet away, as if knowing just how far Tanj's chain 
extended.  She looked at Tanj for a moment, her eyes more 
appraising than Tanj would have thought for someone her 
age.  After a minute she nodded; "I'd heard Daddy had 
acquired some new slaves.  I just had to come look."  Tanj 
just shrugged.  After another long moment, she sank down, 
to sit crosslegged, elbows braced on knees, paws cupping 
her chin; she looked at Tanj for a long time, her eyes 
wandering over her nude form.  Finally she sighed; "tell me 
what its like being a sex slave.  Do you like it?  How did 
it happen to you?"

Tanj was dumbfounded!  She shifted her position, rolling to 
sit up, crosslegged, the chain from her collar a tight 
diagonal to its ringbolt in the floor; "thats a helluva 
question, Missy.  There's no simple answer to that.  And 
whatever answer I might give, well, they've messed with my 
mind so much, what with the conditioning and all, you 
couldn't believe any answer I might give anyways."  The 
girl made a gesture as if encouraging Tanj to continue.  
Tanj just sighed and looked at the girl; "The way I wound 
up in this life was completely and totally objectionable.  
Folks that I cared for died.  The rest were also enslaved 
through no fault of their own.  The training was..... well, 
most of it I hated, but there were moments....."  Tanj 
smiled to herself thinking of Marla the she-wolf, of Zassa, 
that marvelous Tiger, and of course her Lion.  _Her_Lion_?  
When did she start thinking of him like that?  "Uh, as to 
whether or not I like it, most of the time its boring, 
occasionally frightening, frequently painful, and 
occasionally wonderful.  That give you any clue?"  The girl 
just grinned and shrugged; "I'm probably over-
romanticizing, but I think it looks _marvelous_!  I wonder 
if I could get Daddy to let me play with you.......  Oh, 
by the way, my name's Wanda, not "Missy"."  Tanj held her 
gaze steady and her face neutral, but inside she groaned!

"ABSOLUTELY NOT!"  Lord Xylex roared, staring at his 
daughter; "you're a virgin and you'll REMAIN a virgin until 
you can be properly married!"  Wanda thought to herself 
"yeah, to a family that will help you extend your power; 
sometimes I'm just another bargaining chip in your business 
dealings...."  Then she grinned to herself; "well, Daddy, 
if I left the male cheetah alone, what about the girl?  SHE 
couldn't take my virginity!  Besides, don't you think it 
was time I got a maid of my own?  Lord Xylex Hmmmmmed, 
looking thoughtfully at his daughter.

"You understand your new duties?" Lord Xylex demanded.  
Tanj knelt in the middle of his office floor, head bowed; 
"Yessir".  "You understand that whatever else happens Wanda 
is to retain her virginity.  Should it be lost, I promise 
you, you'll regret you ever born!" He growled.  Tanj 
thought to herself "that wouldn't take much; this ain't 
much of a life kiddo.....", but she nodded her head in 
acknowledgment.   Xylex nodded to himself and reached 
down to grab Tanj's leash, jerking her to her feet, and 
dragging her out the office door.  Wanda was waiting, and 
beamed in delight when her father handed her Tanj's leash; 
"I know I'm going to regret this; don't prove me right!"  
Wanda nodded in turn and tugged experimentally at Tanj's 
leash, leading her out of the offices.

"So, now that I've got you, what am I supposed to do with 
you?  How does a mistress act?  Especially in public."  
Tanj smiled to herself; "well, first off, you don't ask 
advice from slaves; Mistresses are always in control, and 
never publicly mindful of their slave's comfort, or 
desires........."  Wanda grinned, and Tanj found the 
display of teeth disconcerting...  Jerking the leash, she 
yanked Tanj to her knees; "you mean like this?" Tanj gulped 
and nodded, thinking "fast learner....."  Indeed, Wanda was 
a fast learner; when they got back to the Xylex mansion, 
she had Tanj tell her about every bondage situation she'd 
ever been in, or even seen.  Needless to say, this took 
them into the wee hours of the morning, Tanj crudely 
chained to the foot of her bed, Wanda laying on her stomach 
looking over the edge at her, like a kid with a new puppy.  
Tanj had lost track of the calendar, and wondered if Wanda 
would have to get off to school in the morning, but nope, 
the next day Tanj was dragged by the leash (Lord, she was 
either a natural, or a VERY fast learner) to a number of 
different supply houses where Wanda purchased a seemingly 
unending supply of restraints, chains, and other toys..... 
Sadly, the only thing Tanj didn't see purchased were 
dildos........  The kid didn't seem to have any kind of a 
limitation on her budget at all....  When this cornucopia 
of hardware was delivered to the mansion, Wanda made Tanj 
install all the eyebolts, and assemble the assorted 
"toys".........  The rest of the evening was full of 
leather straps, cuffs, collars, gags, chains, and spreader 
bars, as Wanda experimented, tying Tanj in just about every 
position she'd told her about.  As Tanj grunted, Wanda 
tying her arms tightly behind her yet again, she thought 
the kid must have total recall......

Tanj was in a tight hogtie, her back bent like a bow.  It 
felt like her wrists were secured to her knees, and her 
ankles to her elbows.  Of course her hair was tied off to 
the spreader bar holding her knees apart.  An inflatable 
gag was filling her mouth, thankfully not pumped as full as 
some she'd known.  Wanda was sitting crosslegged on the 
floor behind her, gently exploring Tanj's sex with one 
finger as she caressed herself with her other hand.  As she 
stroked her, Wanda would murmur; "mmmmmm, do you like 
_this_ as much as I do?  How about _this_?  Or this?  
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm."  Tanj would moan or purrrr into her gag, 
almost in harmony.  While Tanj enjoyed the touching, 
Wanda didn't seem to know how to bring her to a climax, and 
Tanj thought that was something she'd have to talk to her 
about........

It was several nights later.  Tanj had spent the 
intervening days playing maid during the day, and sex toy 
during the night; she suspected Wanda was learning alot 
about sexual response through her.  Wanda had tied her at 
the foot of her bed, but this time face up.  Her legs were 
bent at the knee, ankles strapped to her thighs.  Her 
wrists were hooked to a D ring on the back of her collar, 
and for once she didn't have a gag filling her mouth.  
Wanda had just finished her shower, and was sitting next to 
Tanj, her fur still spiky wet, idly toying with one of 
Tanj's nipple rings.  "What's it like to have one of these?  
Is it exciting?  Does the least movement make it wiggle, 
and does that feel good?  Or was it put there to hurt you, 
say, if someone yanked, like this......"  Tanj squealed, 
and lifted her head and shot Wanda a hurt look; "they were 
put there as a punishment; frequently I was tied by 
them...."  Tanj regretted that as soon as it was out of 
her mouth as Wanda got a delighted look on her face.... 
"I'd never thought of that; ooooooh, I bet that would be 
delicious torment....."  Tanj just groaned, but Wanda 
seemed delighted; she rose to her knees and moved, to take 
Tanj's other nipple ring in the fingers of her other paw.  
This left her straddling Tanj's head, and Tanj immediately 
took advantage of the situation, by licking up at Wanda's 
virgin pussy........

Of course, feeling Tanj's tongue down there made Wanda rise 
up in surprise, and in doing so, she tugged hard on Tanj's 
nipple rings.  Tanj gasped, but refused to be distracted, 
craning her head up to continue to lick, using just the tip 
of her tongue to tease Wanda.  It wasn't moments before 
Wanda sank back down with a sigh, pressing herself hard 
against Tanj's muzzle; she twisted and tugged at Tanj's 
nipple rings, almost as if working the reins on a horse, as 
she ground her hips into Tanj's muzzle.  Tanj licked softly 
at first, but with increasing vigor, softly spreading her 
labia, nibbling lightly, teasing but never letting her 
tongue tip venture too far into her channel for fear 
of disturbing her hymen.  Wanda, on her part seemed to 
respond with amazing sensitivity, and when Tanj's tongue 
grazed her clitty, she howled and yanked hard on Tanj's 
nipple rings.  Tanj was sure that Wanda'd had her first 
climax, and resumed licking softly, but Wanda would have 
none of that; she obviously wanted _more_, and pushed 
herself down onto Tanj's muzzle so hard, Tanj was finding 
it hard to breath.......

Wanda was quite demanding, having discovered this joy, and 
was frequently dragging Tanj off to some dark corner to 
have her lick her to yet another climax.  Tanj, for her 
part, got a kick out of how enthusiastic Wanda was, but 
after a while she found she was getting just a little 
peeved, as Wanda, in her enthusiasm, was completely 
forgetting that maybe, just perhaps, that Tanj might like a 
little in return too......

It was inevitable; whatever vacation Wanda had been on 
ended and she resumed school.  While away, Tanj was left to 
her own devices, usually just chained loosely to the foot 
of Wanda's bed.  The bathroom was in reach, as was the 
remote for the audiovisual center, but still, she found it 
boring.  After a few days, Wanda came back all giggles. 
"Going to have a few friends over Saturday night" she 
grinned.  I've been telling them about you and I just can't 
WAIT to show you off to them......  Tanj's eyes went wide; 
"Uh, Mistress, I'm really NOT sure thats such a good idea; 
what would happen if your father were to find out what was 
happening?"  "Oh, don't be silly!" she bubbled; "I"m 
still a virgin, that hasn't changed, so we're both safe".  
"Yeah" Tanj thought; "but not still an innocent, and I bet 
Xylex won't be happy about that...."

The night of the party, Tanj fussed over Wanda, making sure 
she looked just right, and then Wanda fussed over Tanj.  
Tanj still wasn't wearing anything of significance, but she 
had to admit that some of Wanda's jewelry did make her 
look..... well, if nothing else, then a little 
moresophisticated.  Emmy, a teen-aged mink arrived first, 
and stared at Tanj, kneeling at the foot of Wanda's bed, 
eyes downcast, palms on her thighs, as if she was some 
exotic sculpture.  Annabel, a rather snobbish Ferret, 
pointedly ignored Tanj.  "So far, things should be 
manageable" Tanj thought to herself; 'the first one's too 
shy, and the second one wouldn't be caught dead having 
anything to do with a lowlife like me...."  Then Jennifer 
arrived.  Jennifer was a gray wolf, and from the corner of 
her eye Tanj caught the hungry look as Jennifer went 
"Oooooooo, what _have_ we here?"  Jennifer marched right 
over and looked down at Tanj with glee; 'Oooooooo, Wanda I 
_love_ her!  Such a sexy little slave!  Tell me all about 
the things you've had her do to you!"  And with that the 
four girls huddled, as Wanda related the whole story, from 
the moment she'd first laid eyes on Tanj, to the previous 
night's escapades.  From time to time, one of the girls 
would steal a glance at Tanj, but mostly, the attention 
was fixed raptly on Wanda as she spun her tale.

Of course, the girls experimented, tying Tanj this way and 
that; by dinner time, Tanj was hanging upside down, legs 
spread wide by a spreader bar.  Her bound paws were chained 
to the ring at the foot of Wanda's bed, leaving her hanging 
at an angle.  She was in such a position that anyone 
entering Wanda's room would basically come face to face 
with her sex.....  Before the girls left for dinner, 
Jennifer had used a gold chain necklace, looped through 
Tanj's nipple rings, and had proceeded to hang whatever she 
could find from the chain.  Tanj mewled softly (as 
expected) as each item was hung on the chain, shaking 
herself occasionally, making her breasts and the chain 
sway, much to Jennifer's delight.

It was rather boring hanging there, until the girls came 
back.  Luckily, Wanda had brought her a plate and the girls 
took turns feeding her by hand as she hung there.  As she 
expected, Jennifer teased her the most, holding each morsel 
just out of reach, pulling it back when Tanj tried to get 
it.  Eventually, however, the girls tired of this, and 
after talking for a while, they started a popular "soap 
opera" on the audiovisual center.  As they watched, 
Jennifer sat on the bed, occasionally reaching out to tweak 
one of Tanj's nipples, or to stroke her exposed pussy.  
Tanj couldn't see much of the visual display, but 
to her the audio portion sounded rather silly, and she 
couldn't understand why these girls were so interested in 
it......

At the show's conclusion, Jennifer reached over to tweak 
both Tanj's nipples; grinning she looked up at Wanda; "why 
don't you show us all what you get this slave to do to you, 
when the lights are out; I'm sure we'd all love to 
know.  Wanda looked uncertain, but the other girls all 
chimed in, and before long, Tanj was retied, on her knees, 
arms behind her back in a tight leather sheath.  She was 
kneeling at the foot of the bed, with Wanda sitting on its 
edge, her legs spread wide, her pussy inches from Tanj's 
nose.  Tanj didn't have to be told what to do, she closed 
her eyes and slowly started to lick her mistress, her 
tongue softly exploring the folds of her pussy.  It wasn't 
long before Wanda laid back on the bed, panting and moaning 
in pleasure, the other girls watching raptly.  When Wanda 
squealed and arched, her climax claiming her, Emmy looked 
frightened, as if Tanj had hurt Wanda, and Annabel looked 
derisive, as if whatever Tanj had been doing could scarcely 
be worth all the fuss.  As Wanda calmed down, and sat up, 
Jennifer rather rudely shoved her over on the bed to take 
her place with a; "Me next!"

Tanj spent the next several hours licking each of the girls 
to a climax. Jennifer was as wild as Tanj thought she'd be, 
yelling instructions and demands before she howled at her 
climax.  Annabel panted politely, as if a Lady wouldn't 
carry on such, no matter what.  Emmy just bit her lip and 
moaned, although she was the quickest to climax.  As Wanda 
was reclaiming her rightful place on the edge of the bed, 
Jennifer grinned and pushed her back; as Tanj began to lick 
at her mistress, Jennifer roughly crouched over Wanda's 
head; "lets see if you can give as good as you take; _I_ 
don't feel like waiting my turn....."  Tanj licked softly 
at her Mistress as her Mistress devoured her friend 
hungrily.  "Have to give her some pointers on style and 
technique" Tanj thought to herself.  Tanj was too busy to 
see Annabel pull the dildo from Jennifer's overnight bag, 
but when the Ferret brought its head against Tanj's sex, 
she knew they were all in big trouble.  She tried to 
raise her head to warn them, to tell them that if Xylex 
found something like that here, with all his concerns about 
his daughter's virginity, that they'd be in REAL trouble, 
but Wanda just grabbed her by both ears and yanked her back 
against her muff.  by now, Emmy had moved behind Jennifer 
and was softly massaging the Wolf's breasts.  Annabel took 
great delight in teasing the poor bound slave with the 
dildo, until, as Wanda screamed again in the throes of her 
climax, Annabel roughly shoved the dildo into Tanj's twat.  
Tanj almost bit Wanda in the process.  It was of course at 
this very instant that Lord Xylex chose to investigate the 
strange sounds coming from his daughter's bedroom.

The front door of the mansion slammed hard, hard enough to 
be heard through the entire building.  The last of Wanda's 
guests had been dispatched home, their tails between their 
legs.  Tanj waited, kneeling in the center of the floor of 
Xylex's office, Wanda pacing nervously behind her, awaiting 
the return of her father.  When he returned, he closed the 
door to his office gently, but the look on his face belied 
his rage.  "All right young lady, you want to tell me just 
WHAT IN THE HELL WAS GOING ON IN THERE?  What the HELL did 
this miserable _slave_ do to you, to your friends, to make 
them act in such a manner?  I've half a mind to kill her 
right here and now!"  Wanda's eyes went wide; "Oh, no 
Daddy, you mustn't!  It wasn't her fault!  "Well then, he 
rumbled; "who's fault _WAS_ it?  That wild Jennifer?, that 
snob Annabel?  Surely it wasn't Emmy?   WELL?"  Wanda 
looked down; she started slowly but then the words all came 
out in a rush. "Well, Ah, I guess it was, kinda all of us; 
it wasn't like we planned for this to happen, it just did; 
no one's at fault, and we're all at fault; but you _can't_ 
blame Tanj!  She was all tied up and only doing what we 
told her to do!"  Xylex grumbled; "I don't know about 
that.... For now, you'll take her back to the kennels and 
LEAVE her there.  Then you'll go to your room and STAY 
there until I figure out just what to do with you!"

After Wanda left, Tanj looked over at Hinoki, still chained 
to the same pallet where she'd last seen him; "been having 
fun?" he grinned.  "No......" Tanj replied, and then told 
him the whole story.  "Awwww, poor little rich 
kid runs amok" he grinned when Tanj had finished.  "Oh, I 
don't know" Tanj mused; " She's not that bad; she could 
have blamed the whole thing on me, and her father would 
have bought it hook, line and sinker, just because he 
didn't want to believe his little girl could do things like 
that.  Instead she stood up to him, and I think thats the 
only reason I'm still breathing.....

It was three days later when servants came to collect Tanj 
and Hinoki.  They were collared and hooded and led into a 
ground vehicle.  After a ride of medium duration, they 
arrived obviously at some sort of shuttle port, were led 
inside a vessel, and chained in the back.  They heard 
others arrive, things stowed in their compartment, and 
then, after a period of quiet, the shuttle 
launched.  It had been about three hours, Tanj guessed, 
when someone removed her hood; blinking, she saw Wanda 
looking down at her.  "Daddy's taking us all to a business 
conference at Salaba.  After that, we're going to Aden, 
where he's enrolling me in a boarding school!  Oh, Tanj, I 
don't want to go there!"  Tanj just shrugged and looked 
over at Hinoki's bound form; "sometimes we don't get to do 
what we want, Mistress, but I'm sorry thats to be your 
fate."  She grinned and looked up at the girl; "Somehow I 
doubt there's much I can do about it, but if there's 
anything I can do, I promise you, I will"

It was perhaps another hour into the flight when the 
shuttle made a stop somewhere.  Tanj heard voices, as Xylex 
greeted guests.  Obviously he'd stopped to pick up business 
associates going to the conference.  Tanj hoped that they'd 
work during the flight, and leave her and Hinoki alone; at 
this point, the boredom was preferable to what she thought 
Xylex might do.  However, this was not to be, and when the 
shuttle achieved cruise, one of Xylex's guards came back to 
fetch Tanj.  As she was led into the passenger cabin, it 
was obvious that they'd prepared an open space for her.  At 
the guard's prompting she knelt in front of her 'Master'.  
"I'm still not convinced that you were innocent in that 
little affair, which...." he looked around, "shall remain 
nameless.  Its my desire that our entertainment on this 
little journey be provided by you, not necessarily to your 
own, ah, enjoyment."  With that, he signaled the guards.  
Before long, Tanj was on her back, laying on her 
bound arms; her wrists were tied to a floor bracket, and 
her ankles were tied, spread wide apart, to fittings on the 
ceiling near the opposite wall.  She was bent almost 
double, with her knees, well, they would have been touching 
her nipples had they not been so widely spread.  For some 
reason, they left her ungagged.

Tanj craned her neck, trying to see, as they led Hinoki in.  
They'd strapped him in some sort of ..... "pouch", his 
balls and his sheath encased in shiny black rubber studded 
with little metal circles.  Tanj would find out later that 
these were the backs of rivets, holding sharp metal cones 
on the inside of the pouch.  It was obvious that any 
erection that Hinoki would get would stretch the rubber 
of the pouch, forcing the metal points even harder into his 
cock and balls.......  Xylex stood; "Slave, I'm sure you've 
seen much much more than the rest of us put together.   
This female slave has displeased me, in the extreme, 
through her sexual antics.  Accordingly, I want you to 
punish her, in a sexually related way.  I want you to make 
her scream, begging for mercy and begging for more.  
Begin."

Hinoki blinked at Tanj, and shook his head as if reluctant 
to begin his assignment.  Finally, after a warning growl 
from Xylex, he shrugged and padded over to her; "OOohh.. 
what'd you do to get tied up like that?" He padded softly 
around Tanj, standing over her, looking down at her bound 
form, closely inspecting her softer bits, as if he were a 
butcher at a meat market........  Tanj just shrugged 
silently, watching him closely.  "Well, far be it from me 
to miss an opportunity such as this.  Now, where do you 
think they keep the toys?"  Looking up, Hinoki raised an 
eyebrow at one of the guards and was rewarded with a 
gesture pointing him towards a suitcase.  "Now, how 
can I be creative......." Hinoki rumbled as he pawed 
through the suitcase.  "Hmmmm, yes, but I'll need a few 
other items..."  Rising, Hinoki turned to one of the guards 
and whispered in his ear, both of them glancing towards 
Tanj.  The guard grinned and nodded and moved off towards 
the front of the shuttle.  While the guard searched, Hinoki 
made a grand show of producing something from the suitcase, 
holding it up for all the others to see; unfortunately, not 
being able to see through Hinoki himself, Tanj had no idea 
what he'd come up with. Tanj squirmed, testing her bonds, 
knowing she couldn't escape, but unable to keep still.  She 
wondered just what Hinoki was going to come up with, and 
how he'd balance trying not to hurt Tanj with not getting 
reprimanded himself......a difficult proposition.  As she 
watched him, from the look on his face, from his body 
language, she was afraid she was about to see Hinoki's dark 
side.....  Hinoki turned, keeping whatever he was holding 
behind his back, out of sight of Tanj.  Padding over to the 
bound slave, he grinned, and with a deceptively innocent 
smile, he withdraws his right hand from behind his back, 
dangling it afore Tanj's eyes.  "Oh Lord" Tanj thought to 
herself, "he's got himself a rather impressive speculum..."  
"And I _DO_ think you know where it's going to go, little 
one..." he grinned.  Tanj knew she was "playing to an 
audience", but still, the sight of the medical instrument 
made her eyes go wide, and biting her lower lip, she moaned 
softly.

Hinoki purred softly to himself, withdrawing the second 
thing from behind his back. This was revealed to be a large 
bottle of lube, which he applied VERY liberally to both the 
speculum and to Tanj's sex, much to the amusement of 
the onlookers.  Tanj moaned again as Hinoki slowly pressed 
the device into her sex, working it back and forth. The 
slick chrome slid into her with minimal effort (and minimal 
discomfort, although the way she carried on, she hoped that 
the audience didn't realize that).  She mewled as she felt 
every inch, every millimeter of it's progress as he worked 
it deeper.. deeper, until its end lay flush with her outer 
labia.  She shivered at the cold steel, and bit her lip a 
little harder as she writhed in her bonds, as if in doing 
so, she might escape it.  Or perhaps at least warm it up 
some.....  As she thrashed, she caught a glimpse of 
Wanda watching from behind some of the males, wide eyed, 
and enraptured.  Suspecting whats to come, Tanj mewled most 
plaintively.  

Hinoki purred and took a moment to gently caress Tanj's 
forehead. "Now now, sweetling.. no need to gasp YET.. we've 
barely even begun!" He purred and rubbed her tummy, gently 
massaging her as she became acclimated to the device. After 
a moment, he reached down and turned the screw, opening the 
tines of the speculum.  Tanj gasped as the feeling of the 
device within her seemed to grow, making her feel full, and 
then fuller still as the tines of the speculum slowly 
started to open, spreading her pussy WIDE!  Tanj gasped 
as felt the cool air of the room flow where it usually 
isn't; she bit her lip a little harder as she was stretched 
first nicely, and then further and further until she 
couldn't help but whimper......  She felt as if she was as 
wide open as the mouth of a tunnel, but of course this 
sensation was all in her mind; that she was no more spread 
open than for a normal gynecological exam... well, 
allright, a very THOROUGH exam.....

Hinoki nuzzled Tanj and then actually backed off the 
opening forced by the speculum until it was merely 
pleasantly tight, held at the VERY edge of where the 
discomfort begins. He rubbed her forehead, blotting away 
the droplets of cold sweat.. "There there.. that wasn't so 
bad, was it, sweetling?" He purred and chuckled, and bent 
over to peek.  "Goodness... I can see all the way into you, 
dear.." Hinoki exhaled softly, and Tanj could feel a puff 
of air flow all the way into her uterus.  She mewled, and 
thought to herself; "if I'm this wide open, spread this 
wide, what could he possibly have in mind?  What's he up 
to?  At least the crowd seems to be eating it up......"  
Tanj twisted her head up to look at Hinoki, with something 
akin to panic in her eyes, panting softly.

Hinoki grins as if he had heard Tanj's thought.. "Now I 
suppose you're wondering what comes next, hmm?" He grinned 
and stood up to padd over to the guard he'd talked to 
earlier; the two talked in whispers, heads close together, 
and the Guard passed Hinoki something.  Once again, he came 
back, once more holding something behind his back.  Tanj 
licked her lips; her mouth felt as dry as her pussy felt 
drenched......  Hinoki looked into Tanj's eyes, noting the 
conflicting anger, curiosity, and panic; he just laughed, 
and nuzzled her neck, chuckling. With a flirty wink, he 
padded back to sit by her, ah, posterior, well past the 
point where she could easily see what he was doing.....  
Hinoki grinned to himself, and Tanj heard a brief clinking 
noise and then something _cold_ spattered against her warm 
depths.......Tanj's hips jerked as best she could, and she 
wondered, could he have.......  Tanj MOANED as she realized 
that he had somewhere come up with some crushed ice, and 
was slowly tossing chunk after chunk into her stretched 
pussy!  She considered what a pussy packed with ice would 
be like and HOWLED!  She remembered the class at the 
academy that dealt with ice dildos, about how you had to 
wet the surface to make it slick, or it would stick to 
sensitive tissues......  She'd hated that class, felt cold 
for a week afterwards!  Hinoki grinned and purrrrred as 
Tanj's hips arched upwards into the coldness. "Mmmm that 
was fun.. let's do it again, shall we?" He laughed and 
tossed another ice chip, this one rather sizable so that 
the cold lingered.... oh, how it lingered and flowed 
through her!  Tanj HOWLED in indignation and shuddered at 
the cold; she bucked her hips as best she could (which 
isn't much), trying to dislodge the ice......  Hinoki 
chucklepurrrrred and tossed several more in rapid  
succession until he tired of that. He purred, and padded 
back over to Tanj's head, to offer her some of the icewater 
to drink, knowing that she was probably parched, from the 
way she was panting.  Tanj shuddered and panted and lapped 
softly at the icewater, shooting Hinoki a very dirty look 
in the process.

Hinoki purrrrred and let her drink her fill, smiling gently 
down at her. "Now I bet you're cold, aren't you, 
sweetling...?  Tanj panted and nodnoded, several chips of 
ice still chilling her, the cold spreading through her 
whole body (and even so, she sweats....).  Tanj panted and 
thought the cool of the room air was a unique 
sensation....., especially _there_.......  Hinoki nodded to 
himself and crooned softly.. "We can't have that.. we don't 
want you to catch a chill... So we'll have to warm you back 
up.." He set the icewater aside and grinned.  Producing the 
other item he had gotten from the guard, he holds it up for 
all to see.  A bottle of Tobasco sauce.  Tanj's eyes got 
even wider and she howled; "NNNNOOOOOOOOOO!  you 
WOULDN"T!!!!!!!"  Hinoki grinned and nodded. "I would... 
and _AM_ dearling.. 

Hinoki grinned wickedly and cackled as he unscrewed the 
lid. The potent aroma of the spices.. the hot peppers.. 
pervaded the room..  As Tanj bucked wildly in her bonds, 
managing to move a few inches at the most, she looked 
over the room; Lord Xylex and his associates stared in rapt 
fascination, leaning closer as they watched.  The guards 
were also staring in fascination, lewd grins plastered on 
their faces.  Even Wanda was watching raptly.  Turning back 
to Hinoki she screamed; "I'm going to GET you for this; I 
know exactly HOW, too!"  Hinoki laughed as he watched her 
writhe.. "Now now.. Stay still.. conserve your strength.." 
And with that, he applied a liberal dollop of the Tabasco 
sauce.. directly onto Tanj's clitty..

Tanj's  body went rigid as she felt the spicy sauce hit her 
clitty; it BURNED and she yowled at the top of her lungs!  
She panted and shuddered, all her muscles bulging as her 
entire world shrunk to that one burning point....... 
Hinoki quickly leaned down and lapped at her clitty, 
soothing the savage burning with slow, gentle strokes. He 
purrrrred.. tasting her juices and the spice of the sauce, 
thinking it a heady mix indeed.  Tanj's noises were 
somewhere between a moan and a purrr as she felt Hinoki's 
tongue on her tortured clitty; she mewled loudly, the 
pleasure and the pain combining strangely.....  Hinoki 
lapped energetically at Tanj's clit until she relaxed a 
little; then he chuckled again and reached once more for 
the bottle.  Tanj, panting hard, eyes shut tight missed 
this completely; however, when Hinoki put a drop on a 
finger and lightly rubbed it over her anus, her eyes flew 
wide open and again, she yowled at the top of her lungs!  
This time Tanj hunched her hips down, trying to escape his 
finger, trying to escape the burning, trying to rub her 
bottom on the floor; however, the way she was tied, she 
misses doing this by at least a foot.....  Yowling, panting 
hard, she raised her head to glare once again at Hinoki, 
giving him her best indignant dirty look!

Hinoki gave her his best grin in return and played with the 
contrasting sensations.. applying a bit of the ice to her 
clit even as her tailhole began to burn... he leered at 
her, a rather self satisfied smirk on his muzzle..  Tanj 
shuddered and mewled, oscillating between the two extremes, 
panting hard, until she started to mistake one sensation 
for the other, the different sensations blurring in her 
mind.  Hinoki in turn grinned wider; this is exactly the 
effect he had intended.  Finally, however, the bottle of 
Tobasco sauce is near empty and all the ice had melted; 
Tanj squirmed helplessly in a puddle of melted icewater, 
Tobasco sauce, and her own juices.

Returning to the suitcase once again, Hinoki turned and 
grinned at Tanj.  Brandishing the item he had retrieved as 
it were a talisman of penultimate power, he shows it to the 
crowd; as he turned, Tanj caught a glimpse.  It was a 
feather, a long, slim feather!  Tanj just groaned and let 
her head flop back, hitting the deck with a quiet thud; she 
closed her eyes and moaned in dread.  Hinoki grinned and 
knelt again by her bottom, carefully inserting the feather 
between the tines of the speculum, making sure it didn't 
touch her until his fingers were almost at the infernal 
device holding her spread, the tip of the feather lightly 
caressing her cervix.  At this faint touch, Tanj's eyes 
again went wide and she bucked her hips violently, 
screaming "what are you 
_DOOOOOOOIIIIINNNGNGGGGG_????????????"  Hinoki grinned yet 
again, and twirled the feather about within her, giggling 
madly.. "Why, nothing.. nothing at all, dearling!

Tanj strained hard against the restraints; tempted to 
scream out that she'll confess, that she'll tell you 
whatever you want to know, anything in the hopes 
that you'll stop, the thought flashing through her mind 
that if she told them about her part in the affair with the 
space station, it would distract them from their current 
pastime, but with the last shred of control she possesses, 
she converted coherent thought into a mindless moan that 
trailed off into a series of giggles.  The touch of the 
feather, however, is having its effect on her, and to 
her shame, she was wetter than ever!  Hinoki laughed and 
grinned widely at Tanj's flailings. The feather lightly 
tracing the borders of her cervix, teasing in a little 
deeper.. backing out some... then plunging back in to 
tickle at the upper portion of her uterus..  Tanj HOWLED 
and squirmed, but all to no avail!  As he tormented her, 
Hinoki began to lightly rub at Tanj's clitty with 
a finger of his other paw; as she squirmed and mewled, 
Tanj, unable to ignore this touch either, began to pant... 
the pleasurable sensations building in concert with the mad 
tickling.  After a while Hinoki looked up pointedly at 
Lord Xylex; after a moment, Xylex shrugged; "I guess she's 
paid enough for whatever part she had in that affair; go 
ahead."  With that, Hinoki withdrew the feather and bent to 
apply his tongue to Tanj's poor clitty; instants later, 
Tanj's howls had taken on a different timbre as she 
climaxed to the applause of the onlookers.

The crowd left Hinoki to unstrap Tanj, to take her into the 
back of the shuttle, and to clean her up; Tanj, not 
unsurprisingly, having been bound for so long found it 
difficult to walk, her arms and legs very stiff, her pussy 
and ass still burning from the Tobasco.  Moaning with each 
motion, she fervently looked forward to getting wherever 
they were going and having a nice long bath!

The conference, or business meeting was being held in a 
luxury hotel; one of those large, full service places, and 
of course they had kennels for the slaves.  As Lord Xylex 
and Wanda, and their guests headed for a penthouse, Tanj 
and Hinoki were led to a basement level, and handed over to 
the staff there.  Tanj pleaded with the attendant to be 
allowed to take a bath, and for a small "service fee" she 
was shortly led to that portion of the kennels.  With a 
heartfelt sigh, she lowered herself into a steaming hot 
bath, her paws rubbing her crotch hard, hoping to relieve 
some of the residual burning.  "I'm going to get him for 
that" she thought; "that was MEAN!"  She was chin deep in 
the steaming water almost asleep when another form entered 
the baths and stepped down into the water.  Opening one 
eye, Tanj beheld red through the mists, the form 
gradually resolving itself into that of a young vixen.  
Tanj's other eye flew open as she recognized the vixen as 
her old friend from the academy, Zassa!  Moving with the 
speed that cheetahs are famous for, a speed that 
surprised even herself, she leapt from the water, pouncing 
Zassa hard!  A moment later she dragged the spluttering 
vixen to the surface to hug her tight, kissing her 
hello!Zassa spluttered and gasped, her eyes wide!  Where 
had this furry missile come from?  It didn't take long to 
recognize Tanj, but by then the attendants were running in 
to see what was going on!  Convincing them 
that all was well, and that they were behaving took a few 
minutes, but eventually they were left alone.  "Zassa, what 
are you DOING here?  Tanj stage whispered, her eyes 
shifting from her friend to the doorway and back.  
"Oh, I'm here with my Master; he's attending some sort of 
financial thingy, and dragged me along to, ah, help him 
lobby some of the other bigwigs in attendance.  What are 
YOU doing here?"  That of course wound up in Tanj 
telling Zassa a very edited version of what had happened to 
her since they'd last met.  Zassa giggled at the story 
about Wanda, and Oooooohed at the story of what Hinoki had 
done to her.

As they cuddled in the steaming water; Tanj looked at 
Zassa; "we've GOT to escape...."  Zassa blinked; "after the 
last fiasco, you want to try again?"  Tanj sighed; "got to; 
I'm not where I belong and I want to get back there.  
No, don't ask, I'll explain later. Don't YOU want to go 
home?"  Zassa looked thoughtful for a moment; "I'm not 
particularly wild about this Master, but I do admit this 
life has its moments."  Tanj thought of the Tobasco sauce 
and shuddered; "Yeah...... that it does; I still want to 
get out.  If I can think of something, will you help?"  
Zassa sighed and shrugged; "yeah, if I think its got 
half a chance, I'll help; Win or Loose, it could be 
interesting".  Later, Tanj kinda wondered at that.....When 
the attendants came to get them out of the bath, wondering 
what had taken those two so long, they found Tanj and 
Zassa passionately making love to each other, with their 
tongues.  By the time they'd finished, they had quite an 
audience (not to mention quite a reputation among the 
staff), not that they cared in the least.

For Tanj,  the rest of the conference was quite routine.  
Xylex had her work a few parties, doing whatever his guests 
wanted, which for the most part was simply straight sex.  
Some nights she was loaned to some friend or business 
associate, and that also was seldom out of the ordinary.  
By the time the conference was ending, various guests were 
greeting her with smiles and calling her by name, and the 
impression she'd made on them seemed to please Xylex.  
Unfortunately, in the course of the conference, she'd 
picked up little that she thought the pirates could use.  
Hopefully a thorough debriefing might lead to the 
revelation that she had picked up more than she'd thought.  
She'd seen Zassa at a distance, across a crowded room, from 
time to time, but hadn't had the chance to say anything 
else to her.  Tanj had also spotted someone else she knew, 
the Tiger guard that had so roughly used Zassa in the 
corridor at the Academy apparently was now a body guard for 
one of the businessmen there.  In fact, one time, Tanj had 
caught the Tiger looking pointedly across the room at Zassa 
and smiling as if plotting further deeds.......

Tanj and Hinoki again knelt in the back of the Shuttle.  
Xylex and Wanda and their retinue had boarded, but they 
hadn't taken off yet.  Tanj suspected, as on the way out, 
Xylex would give rides to some folks he needed to do 
business with, and darting a glance at Hinoki, Tanj 
wondered if there'd be a repeat of the previous 
performance.  Looking up at a commotion, Tanj was 
surprised to see Zassa led into the back of the shuttle, 
her leash tied to the common ringbolt in the floor.  At 
least she thought it was Zassa; her arms were tied tightly 
behind her in a leather sheath, and a discipline hood 
covered her head.  Tanj wondered if this was a standard 
traveling outfit for Zassa, or if she'd displeased her 
master somehow.....

As the shuttle settled down to cruise mode, the guards came 
and retrieved Hinoki and Tanj; apparently another little 
show was in order.  This time, however, there was to be 
greater audience participation.  Xylex was apparently 
quite pleased at the way things had gone at the conference, 
and was determined to celebrate.  The only one who didn't 
look happy was Wanda, and Tanj remembered that on the way 
back, she was to be dropped off at some boarding school.  
Probably wouldn't be allowed to participate in whatever was 
going to happen, either.....

Tanj and Hinoki were suspended from the highest point in 
the cabin, their wrists bound together, hanging face to 
face.  Their legs were tied WIDE apart, to opposite rows of 
seats; Hinoki was quite hard, and his sizable cock was 
buried nicely in Tanj's pussy.  Normally Tanj would have 
been delighted to put on a show like this, but this was not 
all there was to it.  Two of the guests, both male, both 
nude, both Wolves, came up to kneel behind Tanj, and behind 
Hinoki, and shortly, both were being vigorously fucked in 
the ass.  Of course, Tanj wasn't minding this too much, as 
the guy driving into Hinoki made his cock jump most 
delightfully in her pussy, a fact that did not escape the 
guy who had his cock in her ass.  As the cabin ceiling was 
low, and their legs widespread, Tanj (and Hinoki) weren't 
too far off the floor, and two more guys, a Lepine and a 
Fox, managed to find something to stand on, on either side 
of the assemblage.  The rabbit morph reached down and 
turned Tanj's head to the side, presenting his hard cock to 
her muzzle, as from the other side, the fox did the same to 
Hinoki.  As her tongue stroked the lepine,  as cocks 
pounded in her ass and pussy, Tanj caught a glimpse of red 
to the side; the big Tiger had once again found Zassa and 
was forcing her to suck his cock, performing for a small 
audience.  Well, forcing might be a bit strong; Zassa 
looked like she was having the time of her life, her eyes 
closed, her head bobbing back and forth with relish.....

When the Wolf driving into her ass shot his wadd, one of 
the other guests quickly took his place.  When her dancing 
tongue caused the Lepine to spurt his cum all over her 
face, someone else took his place.  Tanj was beginning 
to think folks were coming back for seconds, when the 
activity finally petered out.  Xylex bent down to inspect 
Tanj's filled snatch from point blank range; "Can't believe 
it; I'd told the male not to cum, and it actually looks 
like he didn't.  What do you think, think we should let him 
cum?"  The crowd roared, yesses and noooooos mixed 
together; Xylex leered at Tanj; "you want him too?"  Tanj 
just nodded, trying to look bright and enthusiastic, even 
if she was dragging...."  Xylex shrugged and nodded at 
Hinoki; "go ahead, if you can spurt within ten seconds, you 
get desert; if not, I'll leave you hogtied all night."  
Hinoki's hips started to churn and Tanj concentrated, 
rippling her vaginal muscles, caressing him with her "inner 
hand", trying to help him cum.  After about eight seconds 
she felt his cock start to throb and by nine seconds he was 
howling, as his cock filled her pussy with his jism.  The 
crowd applauded enthusiastically.

One of the guards lowered them to the floor and released 
one of Tanj's cuffs; "release yourselves and then go get 
cleaned up" he grinned; "you're both a _mess_!".  Tanj and 
Hinoki slowly undid each other, straightening and 
stretching, and gathering up all the restraints.  Tanj 
noticed that Zassa had finished off the big Tiger but now 
had her mouth full of Wolf cock.  Bending, Tanj picked up 
an unused spreader bar.........

Tanj straightened quickly, swinging the spreader bar in an 
arc as hard as she could, slamming it into the side of the 
head of one of the guards, a panther.  He howled and went 
down like a dropped sack of cement.  Tanj brought the bar 
back around to jab the end into the stomach of one of the 
Wolves, and then she stepped back, to swing it around again 
to catch a coyote square in the stomach.  As he went down, 
Tanj threw the spreader bar at the Tiger, and rolled across 
the floor coming up with a stunner that the Wolf had 
dropped when he'd collapsed.  Moving quickly, Tanj shot the 
Tiger, amused at the shocked expression as he folded 
backwards.  In rapid succession, Tanj shot almost every 
other guard, and any other fur that looked as if they'd be 
a problem, pausing only long enough to pick up a dropped 
blaster.  To her amazement, Hinoki had grabbed another 
stunner and was watching her back.  Zassa had her teeth 
locked around the wolf cock that had been in her mouth 
when the fracas started, and from the pained look on the 
wolf's face, he wasn't going to give anyone any trouble.

"Watch these guys, I've got to get the flight crew" Tanj 
hissed to Hinoki.  "Hope you know what you're doing" he 
growled back.  Tanj hit the intercom switch just outside 
the pressure door to the flight deck; "Help, oh Help" she 
mewled, in her best panicked voice; "one of the guards has 
gone berserk!"  "Wondered what was going on back there" a 
voice growled out of the speaker; "stand clear, we're 
coming back"  Tanj grinned and did no such thing, and when 
the door opened, she fanned the stunner back and forth 
across the entire flight crew.  Checking to make sure the 
ship was still on autopilot she dragged the unconscious 
bodies back to the others.

Hinoki had now acquired a blaster too, both weapons filling 
his paws.  Zassa had released the wolf, and was using gauze 
from the medical kit to tie up the passengers.  "Have you 
lost your mind?  Xylex asked with what Tanj thought was a 
very mild tone for someone in his position.  "You'll never 
get away with this!"  Tanj just grinned back; "Oh?  Well, 
maybe, maybe not, but in the meantime, I claim this ship 
and all its contents for the Brethren".  Tanj grinned as 
all present, including Hinoki and Zassa gaped at her.  "The 
pirate clan?" the fox asked, a bewildered look on his face; 
"they don't deal with slaves, except to sell them; what 
makes you think they'll take you in?  They'll probably just 
sell you back to us, and THEN you'll be in trouble!  Why 
don't you just put down the gun, and I'm sure we can work 
this out with minimal punish.... AGGGGGG!"  The fox 
collapsed in a heap as Tanj ended his sentence with her 
stunner.  "They'll deal with me, believe me.  Hinoki, you 
keep an eye on them as Zassa ties them up, I'm going to go 
see if I can establish a tight beam link with........

The hull booooomed as something large docked with them.  
Tanj looked up, a half grin on her face; could the Lion be 
here already?  Could he have been tracking Xylex's 
movements, and been planning their own rescue?  If so, it 
was amazing timing, and therefor highly suspect........

Tanj watched the airlock cycle, standing firm, blaster in 
her left paw, stunner in her right, determined to meet 
whoever came through the lock on an equal footing.  She 
knew this wasn't going to be easy, nude as she was, with 
droplets of jism dotting her face and breasts, her own 
juices matting her thighs........  As the door dilated, she 
saw the lock crammed with armored figures, armed to the 
teeth; not Elysium troops she noted with relief, but 
neither were they any of the pirates she knew.  "This ship 
has already been taken by the Brethren!  Under pirate law, 
its MINE!  State your business or leave now!"  A low 
chuckle emerged from the crowded airlock, a black 
pantheress in scarred battle armor pushing her way past the 
troops and into the shuttle.  The Pantheress reached out as 
if to touch Tanj's cheek, one clawtip scratching lightly in 
the process.  "I'm Jenka, of the Black Fleet, and, little 
one, you're my prisoner if I say you are!"  "The pure 
bloody hell I am!" Tanj growled, staring up at the leader 
of a rival band of pirates.  "I.............."  Tanj never 
finished whatever she was going to say as blackness closed 
around her.  As she collapsed, her final thought was; 
"neurotoxin on the clawtips; gotta remember tha......"

"Sir, we've identified the other ship; its one of the 
Raiders belonging to the Black Fleet."  The Lion looked up 
at Ben; "Jenka's mob?  What're they doing this far out?  
Getting pretty pushy if they're hunting in our back yard."  
Ben just nodded; "we have both speed and guns on them.  If 
you want to teach them a lesson, this'd be a gooooooood 
time".  The Lion nodded; "perhaps, but we'd probably loose 
the booty in the process.  And remember, Tanj's most likely 
over there somewhere....."  Lets put a shot across their 
bow and see if they want to "negotiate"

Tanj woke up in the Lion's bed.  At first, she was sure she 
was hallucinating, but it was a pleasant dream, and she 
rolled over and snuggled down under the covers and drifted 
back off to sleep.  She had no idea how much later it was, 
when she awoke; unable to sleep any more, she gradually 
came to the conclusion that she was either completely 
crazy, or really home.  She was half way to the bathroom 
before she realized she hadn't been chained to the foot of 
his bed either!.  Her metallic fabric dress was where it 
usually was, and slipping it on, she padded out to find out 
what was going on.  Everyone greeted her with cheers when 
she stepped into the Cafeteria.  Ben was there, sipping a 
cup of coffee, and he explained;   "The boss came to a kind 
of an "accommodation" with Jenka.  Yes, you'd claimed the 
prize, and a slick piece of work that was too; but she'd 
claimed you.  In the end, they agreed to split the proceeds 
by some rather complex formula, with a few exceptions."  He 
grinned, showing stained fangs; "I think you're one of 
those "exceptions"......"  Tanj nodded thoughtfully, 
thanked Ben, got herself a cup of coffee, and headed for 
the door; she thought for a moment about food, but decided 
that could wait; she had to find her Lion.

She found him in Mining Ops, laying out a plan of attack on 
a new rock, figuring how to split it to expose the parts 
they wanted with minimum fuss.  He grinned when he saw her, 
and made her pirouette, nodding that she looked as good as 
ever.  Saving the file he was working on, he bade her sit 
and had her tell him the entire story, from end to end, in 
excruciating detail.  He asked very pointed questions about 
some of the things she'd heard Lord Xylex say, and called 
over a mouse fem to listen as she talked about the 
conference she'd "attended".  The mouse asked more 
questions, nodding thoughtfully and taking copious notes, 
but not loosing her poker face until the very end until she 
grinned at the Lion; "I think this answers a few questions, 
although it raises more...... Still, we're further along 
than we were.  Thanks!" and with that she was off, leaving 
Tanj looking puzzled.  "Want to know what that was all 
about?" the Lion asked.  Tanj nodded.  "Good, I think 
you'll get your chance.  While your little stunt netted us 
some folks that we've been wanting to "talk" to for some 
time, it had the negative effect of associating you with us 
beyond a shadow of a doubt.  I'm afraid your days as a 
secret agent are through.  Still, you seem to have a flair 
for collecting information, and I'd like to move you into 
the intelligence operation."  Tanj could only nod, wide 
eyed.

Things were getting back to normal.  Negotiations were 
proceeding for the ransom of the industrialists from the 
shuttle.  Jenka and her folks were just kinda hanging 
around, waiting for the resolution, and the payoff, and 
there was a lot of good natured kidding between the two 
groups.  Tanj still trained in armed and unarmed combat, 
but this was mixed in with other things as well.  She 
worked occasionally in Engineering, teaming up with Mark, 
but increasingly she worked with the intelligence group, 
which to this point had consisted of the lady mouse, Emma, 
and her boss, literally a sly old fox by the name of Byron.  
Byron had been in the Imperial military, in intelligence, 
and after his retirement, had gone looking for something to 
do; he'd found it helping the pirates.  He seemed to 
genuinely love his work, treating the whole thing like some 
gigantic jigsaw puzzle.  Tanj wondered what he'd do when he 
solved this particular puzzle.....

They were at breakfast as usual; Tanj had awoken in her 
usual place, on her pallet at the foot of the Lion's bed; 
after they'd both cycled through the bathroom, and walked 
to the cafeteria, she'd gone to get their breakfast as he 
started his usual round of informal meetings and 
discussions.  Tanj had resumed her duties as secretary, 
making notes as she ate as to who was doing what, changing 
priorities, supply needs and bright (and some, she thought, 
not so bright) ideas.  As the Lion was finishing up with a 
couple of guys from Pirate Ops, talking about a prospective 
joint raid with Jenka's group, the Pantheress strolled by.  
Grinning, she bent to give the surprised Tanj a quick kiss.  
"Can't wait to finish our negotiations" she smirked at the 
Lion; "I'm looking forward to getting my paws on this 
little one"....... and with that, she was gone, leaving a 
wide-eyed Tanj looking after her.  Turning back to the 
Lion, Tanj exclaimed; "Uh, master, just what did she mean 
by that?"  The Lion just grinned.  "Well, you see, you were 
part of the settlement.........  Part of the deal is that 
when the ransoms are paid, and the mission closed, well, 
you get loaned to Jenka for a month, for her to do with you 
as she will......  I kinda doubt you'll object too much, 
given from what I've come to know of her...." Tanj  just 
blinked.  "If its any consolation" the Lion continued, 
"you're officially the liaison between the two groups.  
Expect joint missions.  You'll coordinate."  Tanj oh'd and 
looked off, her mind awhirl.

The Lion was eating and quietly talking to one of the 
medical staff when Reggie and Slasher walked up to the 
still shocked Tanj.  Without a word, Slasher handed Tanj an 
envelope.  Looking up, Tanj asked "whats this?"  Reggie 
just grinned; 'its PAYDAY!", and Slasher nodded in 
accompaniment.  Tanj shook her head; "even if it is, what 
are you doing paying me?"  Slasher just shrugged; "hey, it 
might be a form of "double-dipping", but the boss there 
set you up on the payroll.  On the other hand, if he lets 
you keep it, well, we all definitely think you earned it!"  
Tanj tore open the envelope and looked inside; 'gotta be 
some mistake, this is a fortune!"  Reaching up and grabbing 
the Lion's ear she pulled his head around, to find him 
smiling at her; " where'd all this money come from?" she 
demanded.  He just shrugged; "your share of the operations 
you participated in.  As you were feeding us information 
from the station, I'd guess that was almost everything we 
did until they took you down to the planet.  Oh, and since 
you pretty much single handedly captured those jerks, I'd 
imagine you'll get a pretty good return on that one, as 
soon as they're ransomed, or sold."  Tanj's ears flattened; 
"sold?"  Slasher nodded, and then shrugged, and the pair 
moved off to hand an envelope to another fur.

Tanj turned back to the Lion, who was just finishing up the 
last of his breakfast; Tanj's food was almost untouched, 
but suddenly she had no appetite.  "Master, whats to happen 
to the two that helped me take that shuttle, Hinoki and 
Zassa?"  The Lion looked at her and shrugged; "well, they 
weren't members of the organization, so I guess they'll go 
the way of any other captured slaves.  Hadn't really 
thought about it; why?"  Tanj was aghast; "because they 
_helped_ me; I might not have been able to do what I did 
without them!  How can you just auction them off after 
they've been of help?"  "Because those are the rules.  I've 
got a bunch of cutthroat types working here, who expect 
their share of the proceeds; if I were to deny them what 
they consider their fair share of the booty, I'd have a 
riot here, or worse.  Besides, whats the problem?  If  
they're so special to you, why don't you just put in a bid 
for them, as anyone else does when they see a piece of loot 
they particularly covet.  Its all in the handbook....."  
Tanj remembered the handbook, a piece of useless hardcopy 
she'd been given by somebody when she first got here; she'd 
been sure at the time that whatever it contained it 
wouldn't apply to slaves; now it seemed she had been wrong.  
The Lion smiled as he watched Tanj's emotions play out 
across her face; "go talk to accounting; you should have 
more than enough in that paycheck to liberate your 
friends.....  Go on, Scoot!"  Tanj nodded, and lost in a 
whirl of thoughts, rose and headed out of the cafeteria, 
leaving her food untouched and the dishes still on the 
table, much to the Lion's amusement.

It was much later that night; the station had eased into 
its graveyard shift routine, and Tanj was cuddling with the 
Lion in the middle of his bed.  The covers were all rumpled 
and tossed by their first session of lovemaking, and they 
were both still regaining their breath.  "I went down to 
accounting like you told me.  Seemed there weren't any 
other bids on Hinoki, and Zassa, well, the few bids that 
were on her were low.  I think the bids I put in should 
take them...... if thats OK with you."  The lion just 
shrugged as he stared at the ceiling; "its your money; I 
won't interfere with how you spend it, as long as it 
doesn't interfere with my basic interests......"  Tanj 
grinned and moved to straddle his waist.  Placing her paws 
on his chest, she grinned down at him; "and what would you 
think if I kept them, instead of just freeing them and 
sending them home?"  The Lion looked up at her and 
Hmmmmmmed; "I dunno; you know everyone around here has to 
pull their own weight.  We'd have to find them jobs.......  
And you know as well as I do, we need more skilled folks 
than cannon fodder......"  "But perhaps there's a way you 
could convince me" he finished with a grin.  Tanj sighed 
and shook her head, trying hard to suppress a grin of her 
own.  Moving gently she started rocking her body back and 
forth, rubbing her still wet pussy against his sheath......  
It took most of the rest of the night, but she finally 
"convinced" him, obtaining permission to keep Zassa and 
Hinoki.

The next day, Zassa found time in her schedule to visit the 
kennels, where she talked with Hinoki and Zassa, telling 
them of her plans, making sure they understood that this 
was by no means certain, but that she thought they had a 
good chance....  Of course, the small conference turned 
into a small orgy, as Tanj and Zassa made very good use of 
Hinoki, and his talents (not that he seemed to object at 
all......).  On her way out, Tanj noticed that Wanda, Lord 
Xylex's daughter, was also confined in the kennels.  
Stopping to see how she was doing, she found that Wanda was 
beginning to wonder if perhaps the boarding school would 
have been a better alternative, but at least she seemed in 
decent spirits.  Tanj told her that she'd talk to the boss 
about her, to see what he had in mind, and then kissed her 
good-bye (much to Wanda's surprise), and returned to her 
current duties, analyzing intercepted subspace 
transmissions for the Intelligence group.

It was about four days later when the negotiations for the 
ransom of the industrialists were completed, and all the 
other details finalized.  The other captives had been 
loaded on a shuttle, for their trip to auction, and Tanj 
headed for the pirate Cruiser for rendezvous with the 
Elysium ship that would redeem the prisoners.  She was 
intercepted near the docking port by Ben; "you're not going 
like that, are you?" he asked.  Tanj shrugged; "its all 
I've got go wear; should I go nude?"  Ben sighed and shook 
his head; "no, the boss wants you there, and I'm sure he's 
told you why, but for cryin' out loud, Tanj, if you're 
going to go, you've simply got to look more..... piratical!  
We've got an image to uphold!  Oh, come on, the ship's 
leaving; we'll just have to find you _something_. 

It was an interesting trip to the rendezvous point.  Ben 
took Tanj down to the crew's quarters, where they all got 
very involved in sorting through spare clothing, looking 
for things that would fit, things that would give the 
proper impression.  Finally, Tanj pirouetted in front of a 
hooting, grinning crowd, showing off her new outfit.  She 
wore a pair of very worn, torn camouflage pants, covered in 
cargo pockets.  A web belt held them up, along with the 
holster for a truly nasty looking disrupter (which didn't 
work anymore).  A dagger hung from the opposite side of the 
belt.  Over this, Tanj wore a _very_ abbreviated combat 
harness/vest, the material straining against her 
breasts, the straps pulling little valleys in her fur.  
They all agreed that if anyone could make the outfit look 
sexy it was her (although they all agreed they 
liked the dress better, and absolutely nothing even more 
than that).  Tanj grinned and blushed at the compliments 
and thought they'd change their minds if they'd caught a 
glimpse of Zassa.  Well, with luck, she'd still be runner 
up......

When the Elysium ship, a destroyer, had docked with the 
Pirate cruiser, Tanj swaggered down to the airlock, doing 
her best to look, well, piratical.  "This is silly" she 
thought to herself; "I _am_ a pirate, one of them, so 
however I look has to be piratical...."  But with a shrug 
she figured there wouldn't be any harm in doing whatever 
she could to frighten the Destroyer's crew.  Leaning 
against a bulkhead, she watched them; the Captain had 
wisely stayed on the bridge, sending a junior officer to 
deal with the pirates.  She did her best to memorize names, 
faces, and to gauge their attitudes; anything that might be 
of later use.  The Industrialists were turned over to the 
officer, one by one.  Each was naked, but well groomed, and 
obviously well treated.  Their restraints were removed, and 
they were allowed to enter the Destroyer's airlock.  Last 
was Lord Xylex; he was just about to step across the 
airlock's threshold when he turned; looking at the officer 
he said; "My daughter's already over there, isn't she?"  
The officer looked back blankly and then down at his padd; 
"your daughter, sir?  I don't show her on my manifest; I 
didn't even know she'd been traveling with you!"  Xylex 
looked up at the pirates, his face clouding over, his paws 
balling into fists.... Tanj straightened from where she'd 
been leaning against the wall.  Pacing out to face him 
directly, she said; "My Master has instructed me 
to tell you that your daughter is being held..... hostage, 
to insure your future cooperation.  You have his assurance 
that she'll be well treated, and that you  will be 
periodically able to communicate with her."  Xylex scowled; 
"Why you insolent little..... _SLAVE_, how _DARE_ you!"  
Tanj was convinced that he was about to leap, to take out 
his frustrations on her personally, but was determined to 
back down.  From the look on the officer's face, he 
probably would have joined in, but just then there was the 
high pitched whine of an energy weapon being charged from 
somewhere among the pirates....  Thinking better of it, the 
officer put a restraining hand on Xylex's shoulder; "Sir, 
don't throw your life away; I'm sure they'd like nothing 
better than to kill you, now that the ransom's been paid.  
Besides, with you dead, who knows what they'd do to your 
daughter!"  Xylex shook off the officer's paw, and with a 
growl, turned back towards the airlock.  Just before he 
ducked through, he turned to look directly at Tanj, a glare 
full of hate; "I won't forget _you_, you can count on 
that!"  And with that, he was gone.  The Elysium troops 
backed through the airlock, keeping a careful eye on the 
pirates.  The ships separated moments later, the Elysium 
destroyer raising shields and taking evasive action as if 
the Pirates would attack at any second.  The cruiser 
however, simply cloaked (much to the surprise of the bridge 
crew of the Destroyer).

After they'd docked at the pirate's asteroid, Tanj made her 
way down to the residential section.  There, she found 
Wanda sitting on the bed of a modest room, apparently 
_very_ bored.  Wanda looked Tanj up and down, her eyes wide 
at the wild costume.  Tanj just grinned and turned to show 
it off; "like it?  First thing resembling normal clothes 
that I've worn in years, and I have no doubt tomorrow I'll 
be back to my usual".  Wanda just shook her head; "now you 
really look like one of these pirates.  I would never have 
believed it.......  So, when do I get to go home?  Daddy 
settle the ransom yet?"  Tanj sat on the bed, and looked at 
Wanda; "I'm afraid I've got some good news and bad news on 
that subject."  Wanda nodded her head slowly, as if all her 
fears had suddenly returned; "whats the good news?"  Tanj 
grinned; "the good news is that you don't have to go to 
that boarding school after all, although you don't get to 
escape school entirely."  "And the bad news?"  Tanj sighed; 
"the bad news is that the boss has decided to keep you here 
as a hostage, to make sure your father behaves.  As long as 
you're good, you'll have the run of the place, with a few 
exceptions.  You'll attend school, just like all the others 
Of your age on the station, and like everyone else, you'll 
have some duties to perform.  I can offer you a job in 
either Child Care, or in Medical.  And you'll be paid for 
your work too (although I'm afraid the nearest mall's quite 
a ways away).  The boss has assigned me to look after you, 
to keep you out of trouble (now there's a hoot!), but aside 
from that, you'll be pretty much on your own.  Oh, I guess 
you'll be on your own more than that; I'll be gone for a 
month it seems...... uh, if you have problems, go find 
Zassa, I'll ask her to check in on you....."  Wanda looked 
at the wall for a long time before finally saying; "so 
whats the down side?"  Tanj's mouth opened and closed, 
speechless.  Wanda grinned and moved to give her a hug; 
"Daddy never let me do ANYTHING; this place should be 
fantastic in comparison!  Can I look over the child care 
and medical jobs before I have to make a decision?  OH!  
and are there any good looking boys my age?"  Wanda rattled 
on for some time as Tanj tried hard to keep up, amazed at 
how she was taking it..........

Tanj had arranged for Hinoki to work as a sensor tech, in 
the mining side of the operation, at least to start, and 
for Zassa to work in supply.  They were "entry level jobs", 
but she was sure they'd both shine, eventually.  As they 
huggled good bye Zassa asked Tanj what happened to the 
servants, retainers and guards that the bigshots had with 
them.  Tanj shrugged and replied that the bigshots 
apparently didn't want to ransom them as well, so the 
Pirates did what they always do; sell them to the highest 
bidder, on the Slave market.  "What almost happened to 
YOU!" she grinned.  As she hugged both Hinoki and Zassa, 
not wanting to leave, Tanj continued; "'cept for that big 
Tiger who liked to treat you so mean.  I put in a word with 
the boss; _HE_ got sold to the Academy.  As a slave.  Let 
him get a taste of his own medicine!"  Zassa pulled back to 
look at Tanj, her eyes perhaps a little sad, perhaps a 
little amused; "you _DIDN'T!_"  Tanj grinned and kissed her 
"I _did_, but now I've got to go.  Take care of Wanda for 
me, and take care of your selves too!

Having made all the arrangements she could for their well-
being over the next month, Tanj reported to the airlock 
where Jenka's ship was docked.  She'd changed back into her 
metallic fabric dress, but she could tell by the look on 
Jenka's face as she rounded the corner, that she probably 
wouldn't get to keep it.....  Jenka and the Lion were 
standing by the airlock, talking quietly, both turning to 
look at Tanj as she approached.  It looked as if Jenka was 
forcing her face into a frown; "you're _late_!"  "Uh-oh" 
Tanj thought; "I think I've been set up; the Lion didn't 
TELL me when to show up here, just to come when I had 
everything done......"  Shooting a dirty look at the 
grinning Lion, Tanj knelt at Jenka's feet, head bowed; 
"forgive me, mistress".  Jenka petted her head for a moment 
and grinned at the Lion; "I'm glad she hasn't forgotten the 
proper way to behave; _I_ think you're entirely too lax 
with her!"  The Lion just  grinned and shrugged; "to each 
their own; as long as she obeys me, thats all I'm really 
interested in."  Turning to Tanj, his voice got sterner; 
"I'll forward instructions on the joint operations to you.  
I expect you to coordinate the activities, and in that I 
will accept nothing less than perfection!"  Tanj gulped and 
nodded.  As she was looking at him, Jenka bent over and 
attached a leash to her collar; a short tug bade her rise 
to her feet, and then she was led through the airlock and 
into Jenka's ship.

The new slaves were kneeling in the courtyard of the 
Academy, awaiting their "introduction lecture".  A Wolf 
guard, slowly moved down the line of kneeling slaves, 
looking them over, idly slapping his thigh with his riding 
crop.  Suddenly he stopped and turned, to retrace his path 
a few steps.  Using the tip of his riding crop to raise the 
chin of a large male Tiger, his eye widened with surprise; 
"YOU!  What are you...... I thought...... 
_WHAT_HAPPENED_?????"  The tiger grinned up ruefully at his 
old partner; 'Tanj happened'........

Tanj’s Tale:  With Jenka            	by Kittiara
Stardate: 2398.20


The Lion watched, a grin on his face, as Jenka led Tanj 
into the airlock of her ship.  A moment later, Tanj’s dress 
came flying out of the airlock, just as the door closed, to 
drape itself gracefully over the Lion’s muzzle.  As the 
door clanged shut, and the air pumps started, he held it to 
his nose, to inhale her scent, and then slung the dress 
over his shoulder and turned to stride back into the 
station, grinning to himself.

Tanj’s paws were bound behind her while they were still 
cycling through the airlock.  Jenka then led her by the 
leash through the ship to the bridge, where she knelt by 
Jenka’s command chair as they undocked, and moved away from 
the asteroid base.  Although she kept her eyes downcast, as 
a good slave should, she listened intently, gathering what 
information she could.  She listened to the voices of the 
Helmsman and the Navigator, of those manning the 
engineering, environmental, tactical and communications 
stations, listening to the way they talked, trying to judge 
their attitudes....  She knew that the Bridge Crew was 
giving her looks from the corners of their eyes, in turn, 
trying to evaluate her, to figure out just where _she_ fit 
in....

Tanj heard the door at the rear of the bridge swoosh open 
and then hissss closed, and as someone moved closer, she 
thought she knew that tread..... a footstep she hadn’t 
heard in... how long?  As Jenka turned to say something to 
one of the bridge crew, Tanj dared a look.  The quiet 
routine of the bridge was shattered as Tanj let out a 
WHOOOP! and pounced the newcomer, jerking the end of the 
leash out of Jenka’s startled hand!  “SAMANTHA!  Oh, Good 
Lord am I happy to see you!  What are you doin’ HERE?”

Samantha Pettigrew, former first officer of the tramp 
freighter “Lost Cause”, and Tanj’s former shipmate went 
over backwards under the assault of the energetic Cheetah.  
Of course the elderly Lepine (rabbit-morph) was smaller 
than Tanj.  “Tanj?  Erf!  Get offa me!  Yes, I’m glad to 
see you too, but what are YOU doing HERE?  Especially 
dressed like tha....... Oh Lord, don’t tell me the rumors 
were true?”  Tanj sat back, looking at Samantha; “rumors?  
I haven’t heard a thing about ANY of you since we all got 
arrested!”  Samantha sat up and adjusted her outfit as best 
possible, dusting herself off; “They told us that you’d 
been sold to the sex slave academy on Elysium!”  Tanj just 
nodded and shrugged; “‘s true.  Interesting place.  Skip 
that; how’d you get free of the Elysium authorities?  WHERE 
ARE THE OTHERS?”  Samantha looked up at Jenka, and with a 
nod looked back at Tanj; “the Captain’s dead.  Supposedly 
killed trying to escape, but if you ask me, they just found 
that an easier way to get clear title to the Lost Cause.  
Benny,......... I don’t know.  I haven’t been able to find 
any trace.  I’d been trying to confirm where they’d sent 
you, but all I got were dead ends.”

Tanj just stared at her friend, her mouth hanging open.  
Squint dead?  Unimaginable.  Tanj growled low, a sound that 
made a fair proportion of the bridge crew uneasy; “Oh, 
they’re gonna pay for that.  I promise you, they’ll pay!”  
Samantha just nodded; “thats what I’m doing here; payback 
as best I can.  Tanj looked up, trying to drag her thoughts 
back to the present, away from wrestling with Squint’s  
death; “but how did you get here?” Sam grinned; “Oh, I got 
wholesaled.  The Elysium government sold me to a clearing 
house for slaves; seems I was too old, despite my skills.  
They in turn sold me off planet, and as fate would have it, 
the transport was raided by pirates.  These pirates.  One 
of them happened to be an old shipmate, from when I was in 
the military, and he convinced Jenka here that I might be 
of some service.

At Jenka’s name Tanj flinched.  “Uh-oh..............” was 
all she got out before she heard Jenka chuckling behind 
her.  Looking up at Sam, she smiled weakly; “think I’m in 
trouble again.....” And with that, Jenka yanked hard on the 
leash, dragging Tanj back to her former kneeling position.  
Sam just laughed; “Captain, you really can’t blame her; 
extenuating circumstances and so forth”  Tanj couldn’t see 
Jenka’s grin, with her head bowed, but she heard the laugh 
in her response; “Oh, I can understand.... but that is NOT 
acceptable behavior for a slave, and most especially not 
for my pet, and I’m afraid she _will_ have to be 
disciplined.......”  Sam just laughed and handed the 
Tactical officer the PADD she’d been carrying; “well, if 
there’s anything left, I’d like to talk over old times with 
her, when she’s available”.  As Sam left the bridge, Jenka 
just purrrrrred.

Tanj didn’t think there was that much keeping Jenka on the 
bridge, but never the less, the big Panthress lounged in 
her command chair, talking idly with the bridge crew.  
After a while Tanj’s knees started to ache, and then her 
ankles, and then her back, but she rigidly kept to the 
proper position a slave must assume.....  “Might be a test” 
she thought to herself; “and I am NOT going to give her the 
satisfaction of adding “squirming” to the list 
ofcharges.....”  Finally, 
when the rumbling of her stomach was clearly audible, Jenka 
looked over the armrest of her chair at the kneeling Tanj; 
“Hungry, my pet?”  Tanj tried to remember any restrictions 
on speech, but figured she’d been asked a direct question, 
so..... “yes, mistress....”  Jenka nodded and rose to her 
feet, stretching; then with a quick jerk on the leash she 
led Tanj from the bridge.  They moved through the corridors 
of the ship, finally arriving at what had to be the 
visiting dignitary’s quarters, and Tanj assumed that while 
Jenka was in command of the Black Fleet, that this wasn’t 
“her” ship....  Jenka proceeded to tie Tanj in a kneeling 
position, cuffed ankles attached to cuffs around her 
thighs, paws cuffed behind her back and linked to her ankle 
cuffs; with Tanj properly restrained, she departed the  
room, humming a happy tune.....

Jenka returned about an hour later, carrying a covered 
plate.  Tanj found it hard not to drool as Jenka removed 
the cover and used it to fan the aroma towards Tanj’s nose.  
Grinning, Jenka slowly disrobed, folding her clothes 
neatly.  Finally, she sat on the edge of her bed, and 
grinned at Tanj; “First things first; your punishment.   
Hmmmm, lets see, I _do_ think we need to do something about 
your figure......” and with that she  rose and turned to 
rummage within her closet.  While Jenka was busy, Tanj 
looked down at herself; “whats wrong with my figure” she 
wondered.  As Jenka returned, Tanj risked looking up, and 
as she spied what Jenka was carrying, she gasped!  Jenka 
grinned and nodded; “I think your waist should be a bit 
narrower; just a bit.  And I’m sure this corset will do 
wonders towards achieving that.  Tanj was released, and 
bade to stand, and Jenka had her step into the leather 
corset; tugging it upwards, over her hips, the big 
Pantheress almost jerked her off the floor, but finally the 
corset was in place, and Jenka began the laborious task of 
lacing it up.  Tanj groaned as her waist was constricted, 
but she had to admit, as she watched from the corner of her 
eyes, at her reflection in the room’s mirror, that she 
liked the way it made her breasts stand out.  Finally, 
Jenka was done, closing a flap over the laces, and she 
padded around to look at Tanj’s trim figure.  The corset 
traveled from just below her breasts, to just above her 
mons, cut away in a smooth curve over her hips.  “Hmmmmmm, 
yes, thats better, but we still need a little 
something......”  Returning to the closet she shortly came 
back with what Tanj took to be a G-string made of thick 
rubber and bright chrome.  Jenka placed the waist strap 
around Tanj’s newly reduced waist, and as she fastened the 
ends, Tanj’s ears twitched at the distinct *snap*.  Then 
Jenka was pulling the other part between her thighs, 
sliding her tail through a hole in the strap, and fastening 
the loose end to the belt portion behind her back, also 
with an audible *snap*.  With a grin, Jenka then clipped a 
tiny key to the ring in the front of Tanj’s collar.  As she 
did so, Tanj moaned to herself, realizing that she’d just 
been locked into these crazy panties; still, while they 
were tight, they weren’t that uncomfortable.......

Jenka purrred as she refastened Tanj in her original 
position, kneeling, with ankles bound to cuffs on her 
thighs, wrists linked to her ankle cuffs.  Then, with a 
grin, she paced across the room to sit on the 
edge of the bed.  “I’ve been waiting to find out just how 
well trained your tongue is, little one, and now’s the 
time; come on over here and please me; if you do well, I’ll 
feed you a morsel........  Tanj hmmmmed to herself, trying 
to figure out how to move over there considering how she 
was bound.  Finally, she tried rocking forward, to 
balance on her knees; she made it part way across the floor 
before she overbalanced and wound up falling on her face.  
With a sigh, Tanj squirmed, and managed to inch-worm the 
rest of the way over to where Jenka was sitting, before 
managing to get herself back into a kneeling position.  As 
she brought her muzzle up between Jenka’s thighs, the big 
Pantheress laid back on the bed, sliding down some to 
bring her pussy within easy reach of Tanj’s tongue.

Tanj started slow, licking across Jenka’s upper thighs, 
sloooowly circling in on her pussy, taking her time.  After 
a while, as she slowly licked and nibbled towards the 
center, she felt one of Jenka’s paws caressing her head.  
Purrrrrring softly, she let the tip of her tongue explore 
the length of Jenka’s slit, flicking from the base of her 
tail, upwards, teasing lightly, until her tongue crested 
over onto her mons.  As she licked, Tanj found Jenka to be 
getting very wet, and when she judged the time right, she 
suddenly stabbed her tongue deep into Jenka’s pussy.  Jenka 
responded with a moan, arching her back, her paw pulling 
Tanj’s head hard against her.  Tanj slithered her tongue in 
and out, wriggling its tip, now stroking the front of 
Jenka’s love channel, now the back.  As she licked and 
nibbled, Tanj gauged Jenka’s responses, noting how she 
moved and how she breathed, doing her best to remember what 
obviously pleased her.  As she felt Jenka’s passion rise, 
she shifted her emphasis, sending her tongue to lick at 
Jenka’s clitty, pushing back its hood with the tip of 
her tongue to stroke it, softly at first, and then with 
increasingly hard flicks back and forth.  Just when she 
thought Jenka was going to explode, she returned her tongue 
to the depths of Jenka’s pussy, to wriggle therein, to 
slide back and forth smoothly.  As Jenka’s breathing 
returned to near normal, Tanj again shifted to her clitty, 
licking, sucking and nibbling until she felt Jenka’s body 
tense, and then again her tongue returned to the depths of 
Jenka’s sex.  It wasn’t until she had brought Jenka to the 
edge for the third time that she felt 
the Pantheress’ claws at the back of her head; “Oooooooo 
you are _such_ a tease, but enough of that; finish me 
quickly and you get dinner; tease me more and you’ll go 
hungry!”

Tanj grinned and moved to suck directly on Jenka’s clitty, 
her tongue flicking over its entrapped tip as hard and as 
fast as she could.  Within a minute, Jenka was howling, 
writhing on the bed, lost in the throes of her climax.  
Tanj refused to let her go, though, continuing to lick and 
nibble at her clitty until Jenka forcefully pushed her head 
away; “ENOUGH!  Tanj what _AM_ I going to do with you?  You 
just don’t know when to stop, to give me a breather!”  Tanj 
just grinned and brazenly looked up at Jenka, licking her 
mistress’s juices from her muzzle.

With a sigh, Jenka moved Tanj over to kneel by her feet as 
she sat at the VIP quarter’s built-in desk; as she worked, 
she’d occasionally feed Tanj some morsel or other, until 
the plate was empty.  Tanj noticed that with the corset, it 
didn’t take much at all to make her feel full.....  Placing 
the plate on the floor, Jenka instructed Tanj to lick it 
clean.  As Tanj accomplished this, Jenka yawned and 
stretched; “its getting late; we need to get ready for 
bed”.  And with that, Jenka unbound Tanj and led her into 
the bathroom.  After drawing Jenka a bath, Tanj knelt by 
the side of the tub to wash her back, and her hair, and 
when Jenka emerged  (after what Tanj enviously thought 
was an obscenely long soak), she toweled her dry.  Emerging 
from the bathroom, Jenka proceeded to lock Tanj’s collar to 
the foot of her bed, and then turning out the lights, Jenka 
climbed into bed and promptly fell asleep.

Tanj laid as best she could on the carpeting at the foot of 
the bed, listening to Jenka’s breathing.  “I guess things 
could be worse” she thought; “so far, she hasn’t treated me 
too badly.  I think I can handle a month of this.  Still, I 
wish she’d put down a pad for me here.......  And I wish 
she’d reciprocated with the licking.  I wonder how talented 
_her_ tongue is......”  Shifting around as best she could 
on her short chain, Tanj tried to fall asleep; as she did 
so, thinking of the way she’d pleasured Jenka, one of her 
paws slid down, to rub at her rubber covered sex; it was 
then that she realized that inside the thick rubber, there 
was a metal plate; no matter how she rubbed, or pushed, she 
couldn’t stimulate herself.  Worse, the thing was so tight 
she couldn’t worm a finger underneath either.  Muttering to 
herself, and more than a little frustrated, she finally 
fell asleep.

In the morning, Tanj found herself starting the day by 
licking Jenka to yet another climax, once again reprimanded 
for how she teased with her tongue.  Jenka unlocked her 
chastity belt only long enough for her to go to the 
bathroom, and then she was firmly locked in it again.  She 
spent the rest of the day following Jenka around at the 
end of her leash, as Jenka attended to this or that bit of 
business.  As such, she was privy to most of the goings-on 
in the Black Fleet and before the end of the day, she found 
that Jenka was using her as a bit 
of a secretary.  By the third day, she was still locked 
tight in the corset, and the wicked chastity belt.  While 
she’d serviced Jenka a dozen times, and even lent her mouth 
to a few of Jenka’s associates, she was still “chaste”, and 
that was definitely starting to make her squirm.  As the 
ship approached its rendezvous, Tanj found that Jenka was 
starting to send her on little errands, to deliver this 
message or retrieve that data crystal.  She was usually 
bound in some way, though; for instance, when going to 
retrieve fuel consumption reports from Engineering, Jenka 
sent her off with ankles hobbled by a chain less than a 
foot in length, her arms behind her in a square arm-binder, 
where her forearms were parallel to each other, behind her 
back.  She had to carry the report back in her teeth, and 
then was criticized for taking so long.  Another time, sent 
to fetch a data crystal from Jenka’s quarters, she was 
bound with her wrist cuffs chained to the belt around 
her waist, thus permitting her very limited use of her 
hands.  As time passed, Tanj began to wonder if her 
“punishment” was to be permanent........

Tanj was once again kneeling by the side of Jenka’s command 
chair when the ship docked at the Gathra trading station, 
in the Hansa system.  This was sort of neutral territory, 
not quite in the Empire, not quite out of it either.  As 
such, the system did a significant business in smuggling, 
illegal goods,  and in the servicing that Pirates 
frequently required.  The rest of the Black fleet was in 
the vicinity, some of them actually docked at the station.  
With the docking complete, Jenka turned command of the ship 
over to its normal Captain and prepared to return to her 
own command ship.  Tugging on Tanj’s leash, Jenka led a 
small parade through the lock and around the periphery of 
the station.  Tanj had to grin to herself, as she was led, 
bound and naked, through the station; once upon a time, 
such a thing would have embarrassed her horribly, but now, 
well, she kinda enjoyed all the looks she got from the 
various furrs they passed.

Jenka’s quarters on the command ship were considerably more 
lavish, although Tanj wasn’t so sure she cared for them; 
one of the features that Jenka’s suite had was a very small 
kennel for her pet.  This was literally a hole in the wall, 
a solid door at the base of one wall that Tanj had to low-
crawl through; this led to a narrow passage spiraling 
downward, to a small chamber below Jenka’s.  There, there 
was a pallet for her to sleep on, and in one corner, water 
burbled from a spout, to a bowl, overflowing that to a hole 
in the floor obviously meant for the elimination of wastes.   
Tanj guessed she was to drink from the bowl.....  There was 
a grate in the low ceiling, and it was obvious that Jenka 
could stroll over to look down upon her pet whenever she 
pleased.  As Tanj curled up on her pallet, she heard Jenka 
humming to herself above, as she got dressed, obviously 
preparing for a night savoring the attractions that the 
station might offer.

Just before she left, Jenka peered down through the grate 
at Tanj; “I suspect you’ve been punished enough, for that 
little loss of control; I’ve told some of the crew that 
they can entertain you tonight, after I’ve left, so don’t 
be surprised if you have visitors......”  And with that, 
she was gone.  Tanj ran her paws over the tight rubber of 
the chastity belt; “heck, at this point I’d screw half the 
ship, just to be shed of this damn thing!” she thought to 
herself.

Tanj awoke from a sound sleep, at the noise of the door to 
Jenka’s quarters opening.  peering through slitted eyelids 
she looked upwards at the grating to find three males 
looking down at her, wide smiles on their faces.  There was 
a fox, a leopard, and a skunk watching her intently; 
figuring she might as well have some fun with them, Tanj 
rolled slooowly onto her back and 
Strrrreeeetttttcccchhhheeeeddddd sensually.  She had to 
smile, though, ruining the effect when the Leopard started 
to purrrrrrrr.  Opening her eyes, Tanj just grinned up a 
the trio; “well, hello!  And what will Jenka say when she 
finds you in her quarters?”  The fox grinned back; 
“probably not much, as she gave us the key.  How do we get 
you out of there?”  Tanj sighed; “there’s a tunnel; look 
for a small door low on the wall; you open it, and I’ll 
crawl out.”  The skunk nodded and vanished from her 
view; Tanj turned and started crawling up the tunnel, 
discovering it was a lot harder going up than sliding 
down......  As she made it to the doorway, several hands 
helped her through and stood her up; instantly, she felt 
more than one of those hands slide down to run over the 
chastity belt, exploring.... “now thats a cruel trick” the 
Leopard growled; “where’s the damn key?”  Tanj grinned; 
“its on my collar, but I’m not allowed to touch it.......”  
The skunk literally snatched it from her collar, and 
seconds later, the chastity belt was in a heap on the 
floor.  Tanj moaned and ran her paws over her mons, rubbing 
at first and then scratching furiously, the three guys 
watching intently; “Uh, guys, I’ve been in that thing for 
tooo long; mind if I take a moment and use the facilities?”  
The fox just shrugged, and Tanj trotted over to Jenka’s 
luxurious bathroom.  After relieving herself, and taking 
just a moment to brush her hair with one of Jenka’s  
brushes, Tanj padded back out into the bedroom, to join the 
others.  “Now, what can I do for you gentlefurrs?  How can 
I reward you for helping me escape that belt?  Better yet, 
what can I do to get you to release me from this #$&^%@*$# 
corset?”

Shortly thereafter, Tanj found herself astride the Leopard, 
his cock nicely stuffing her pussy, as the Skunk pumped his 
cock into her ass, and the Fox did his very best to stuff 
his cock down her throat.  Tanj purrrrrrrred around the 
Fox’s cock, her tongue running over its thickly veined 
surface, one of her paws teasing his balls as her other 
paw reached behind her to stroke the belly of the Skunk.  
The Leopard’s cock was definitely the largest, but the 
skunk’s was quite long for its diameter, and she gasped 
each time he drove it hard into her ass, his quick thrusts 
apparently delighting the Leopard.  As she sucked and 
nibbled and licked at the Fox’s cock, she did her best to 
tease the other two, tightening her vaginal and anal 
muscles, trying to grip their cocks hard, to hold them 
still, much to their delight.  The room was filled with the 
moans and pants of the three males as Tanj did her very 
best to repay them for releasing her, and Tanj had to work 
hard, to pay strict attention, not to let any of the three 
cum too soon.  She toyed with them, played with them, doing 
her very best to keep all three on the very edge, but even 
her skill wasn’t enough to hold them forever, only her 
concentration holding her own climax at bay.  The Skunk 
came first, his hips driving faster and faster, his cock 
plumbing the depths of her bowels until finally with a 
yell, he came, his cock throbbing and spurting deep within 
her.  That set off the Leopard, and with a grunt, he 
started bucking his hips up into her, bouncing her, until 
he too came loudly.  As they panted and growled, Tanj 
pushed her head forward, driving the Fox’s cock into her 
mouth, down her throat, until her nose rubbed his tummy; 
swallowing hard, her throat muscles rippling along his 
shaft, she soon sent him the way of his mates, his cock 
pumping his seed deep into her throat.

Tanj made sure she got a washcloth from the bathroom to 
clean off the Skunk; the others she gladly licked clean, an 
action that soon had all three of the guys hard again.  She 
purrrrrred as she moved from cock to cock, licking and 
nibbling for a moment, before moving on to the next.  After 
teasing them for a while, the Skunk proposed a slightly 
different arrangement; he thought that considering the 
relative sizes, that Tanj ought to be able to take both him 
and the fox in her pussy at the same time......   Tanj had 
heard of this, but had never actually tried it, but having 
gone without for so long, she was game to try it.  The Fox 
laid on his back, with Tanj eagerly straddling his hips, 
her paws between her thighs to hold his cock, to stroke it 
along her sex; however, just as the skunk knelt behind her, 
the Leopard moved in behind him, and the next thing she 
knew, the skunk’s cock was back in her ass, as the 
Leopard’s longer, thicker cock moved between the skunk’s 
legs, to press against the rear of her pussy.  She moaned 
as the Fox and the Leopard insistently shoved their cocks 
at her, until, one after the other, they forced their way 
inside!  It must have appeared a comical combination, Tanj 
sandwiched between the three guys, but they seemed to enjoy 
it; indeed, both the Fox and the Skunk seemed content to 
just hold their cocks within Tanj, as the Leopard thrust 
his hips at her, doing all the work.  Tanj mewled and 
moaned, her pussy stretched TIGHT by the two cocks; she 
could barely move, and yet, she found the situation wildly 
stimulating, and as the Leopard pumped her harder and 
harder, she shuddered again and again, climax 
after climax ripping through her. Finally the three guys 
came, the fox first, and then almost simultaneously, the 
Skunk and Leopard.

They lay there, entwined, for a while, just panting; 
finally the Skunk wormed his way free, complaining of a 
cramp, and padded towards the bathroom.  On his return, the 
fox followed suit, leaving the Leopard nestled behind Tanj, 
his cock still buried in her pussy.  As the Fox emerged 
from the bathroom, the Leopard started pumping Tanj again, 
slooowly and sensuously, taking long, slow strokes.  Tanj 
just laid there on her side, and drank in the sensations, 
delighting in each movement; she floated in a haze of 
pleasure until she felt his thrusts quickening, each motion 
becoming sharper, until yet another climax burst within 
her; moments later she felt his cock twitching and  
throbbing, what little jism he had left flooding her pussy.  
As he finished, the fox tapped him on the shoulder; “we 
gotta go; our shift starts in about twenty minutes”.  The 
Leopard just nodded and crawled around to present his 
softening cock to Tanj for cleaning; she purrrred and 
licked at him softly, until he was clean.  As they turned 
to go, the skunk turned back; “oh, yeah, Jenka mentioned 
something... uh, stand up, turn around and bend over......”  
Tanj sighed; “now what” she thought, but too tired to 
argue, she complied.  Moments later she felt the skunk push 
first one, and then a second object into her dripping 
pussy, and then the chastity belt was around her waist, 
and between her thighs once again, its locks snicking shut.  
“OK, now back into your kennel, quick now, we gotta go!”  
Tanj sighed and crawled across the floor to once again 
squeeze into the tunnel to her kennel, her sore nipples 
grazing the floor as she moved, the two ben-wa balls 
sliding and bouncing back and forth within her pussy quite 
nicely......

She wasn’t completely out of the tunnel when she heard the 
three leave Jenka’s quarters, the door hissing open and 
then closed.  Taking a drink from the bowl, she settled 
down on her pallet to try and get some sleep.  She could 
have sworn that her eyes had just closed when she heard the 
door open again.  Looking up, as a shadow crossed her face, 
she saw Jenka grinning down at her; “well, did my pet have 
an interesting night?  I see you managed to loose your 
corset somewhere in the proceedings; no, no, don’t tell me 
about it, I’ll just watch the video”.  “Video?” Tanj 
thought; “I wonder if those guys knew they were being 
recorded?  Probably wouldn’t have cared, though.....”  Tanj 
fell asleep to the sounds of the passionate lovemaking of 
the night before......

Tanj yawned as she knelt by Jenka’s command chair; she 
hadn’t gotten much sleep before Jenka bade her crawl from 
her kennel and attend her in the bath.  Then it was off to 
the Bridge, as the Black Fleet departed the station, and 
headed out.  While the ben-wa balls were still nicely in 
place, Jenka had forced her to put on the corset, drawing 
it tighter than ever, and Tanj squirmed a little against 
its tightness, the resulting motion of the ben-wa balls 
only making her pant for breath all the harder.

As she squirmed, she heard heavy footsteps approach from 
the rear of the bridge, and then a paw found her chin, her 
head turned and forced up and she found herself looking 
into the leering face of a rather large male Hyena....... 
“Well, Jenka, what _have_ you here?  Another new toy?  What 
happened to your last one?  Did you break it?”  Jenka  
seemed unruffled, and responded in a smooth voice; “Cain, 
I’d like you to meet my new pet; she’s just a little 
something I picked up in that operation over by Elysium.  
“Oh?” Cain rumbled; “I’ve heard the strangest stories about 
that operation........  As some of them placed you in bed 
with the leader of the Brethren, I can scarce believe them, 
though......”  Jenka just smiled; “Cain, you know I indulge 
myself with males on special occasions.....”  Cain grumbled 
something in response, something that Tanj didn’t quite 
catch, but didn’t think sounded all that pleasant.  “So”, 
Cain continued; “what do you have in store for this little 
thing?”  Tanj thought that the way he said it, the future 
didn’t sound all that promising... despite the way Jenka 
had treated her so far....  “  “While she’s here” Jenka 
purrred, “quite obviously, she’ll attend to my.... needs.  
But she’ll also be available for the entertainment of the 
senior officers.  Oh, she’s also the liaison for the 
upcoming operation with the Brethren.”  Cain harrumphed; 
“that bunch!  I don’t know why you mess with them.  The way 
they operate, they’re sure to bring trouble!”  And with 
that he released Tanj’s chin and turned, striding off the 
bridge.  Jenka reached down to pet Tanj’s head; “How did he 
ever know.....” she purrrred.

Later that shift, Jenka led Tanj by her leash down to meet 
with her own Intelligence and Operations teams.  Tanj felt 
just a little weird as she knelt by Jenka’s feet, nude 
except for the corset and the chastity belt, as she acted 
the part of the slave, but played the part of a team 
member as they worked to formulate plans for the upcoming 
operation.  In the end, Jenka removed Tanj’s leash, but 
hobbled and cuffed her (at least her paws were in front of 
her), so that she could work with the others on the 
logistics, coordination, and timing of the upcoming 
operation. 
 
At the end of the work day, as they locked up all their 
work materials, and secured the computers and tactical 
terminals, Jack, a Wolf morph and the assistant operations 
officer, started teasing Tanj, in a good-natured way; “so, 
how does a lowly type like me get to sample some of the 
pleasures of the Captain’s new pet?”  Tanj grinned back at 
him; “Oh, its simple, really; all you have to do is submit 
a requisition for my time, in triplicate, justifying the 
need, and get Jenka to sign it.  Then it goes to the 
scheduling committee.  They’ll let you know when I’m 
available.....”  Jack laughed and reached over to pull Tanj 
close, kissing her hard. Tanj stifled a laugh and kissed 
back hungrily.  As he broke the kiss, Jack smiled; 
“triplicate eh?  I’ll get right on it; but now, you’d best 
go find your Mistress; who knows what kind of a black mood 
she’ll be in after her first day back, having been away so 
long......  Tanj grinned and nodded, and taking short,  
mincing steps, headed for Jenka’s quarters.

That night, Tanj again spent quite a bit of time between 
Jenka’s thighs, licking her to climax after climax; some of 
them slow and teasing, holding her on the edge until the 
big Pantheress threatened to claw her if she didn’t hurry 
up, others brought as rapidly as possible.  Afterwards, 
after attending to Jenka’s bath (Tanj was getting a little 
pissed at having to make due with a hurried shower each 
night, and longed to luxuriate in a hot tub the way Jenka 
did....), Jenka had a little surprise for Tanj; the 
chastity belt had been replaced with a slightly different 
model; this one had moderately large dildoes built in, for 
pussy and ass, and while that was interesting in its own 
right, what made the whole thing devilish was the control 
box fastened to the side of the belt; the dildoes contained 
powerful vibrators, which the control box would activate at 
random intervals, and intensities.  Of course, to keep her 
from playing with the controls, Tanj’s paws were bound  
behind her back.....  A swat on her rump sent her towards 
the door to her kennel, and with a groan, Tanj inch-wormed 
into the tight passage, crawling slowly down to her 
chamber.  “Gonna wear off my nipples if I have to do this 
too much” she thought as she pushed herself along with her 
feet.

Tanj spent a restless night, tossing and turning on her 
pallet; no sooner would the dildo in her pussy cease its 
infernal buzzing, than the one in her ass would start.  
Sometimes they’d both run together, occasionally powerfully 
enough to drive her to a climax; less frequently they’d 
both be quiet, and she’d drift off to sleep, only to be 
awakened what seemed like seconds later, as one or the 
other or both started vibrating again.

In the morning, Tanj again attended to Jenka, as she got 
dressed, and prepared for the day’s activities.  
Thankfully, the nighttime chastity belt was replaced with 
the normal daytime one (admittedly with the two ben-wa 
balls, which at least were not tooo distracting....), 
and then she was off to another day of playing secretary to 
Jenka and to working with the planning team.  The plan was 
coming together nicely; most starships ran on Antimatter as 
fuel (with only the very most advanced ones running mass 
conversion powerplants).  However, Antimatter was dangerous 
stuff, and its production, and the refueling of starships 
was always highly risky.  As such, Antimatter production 
facilities tended to be located in remote places, where an 
industrial accident wouldn’t kill billions.  The closest 
Antimatter production facility to Elysium was in the 
Archemedies system, an otherwise uninhabited and useless 
place, and that was the target for the combined pirate 
groups.........

As Tanj worked with the planning team, she and Jack 
continued to tease each other, much to the amusement of the 
other team members.  It was late in the day when the door 
opened and Cain strode in.  Jack immediately stiffened; he 
and his boss did not get along very well.... in fact, Tanj 
got the feeling that few of the pirates got along well with 
Cain; but through a series of brilliant tactical moves and 
ruthless combat abilities, Cain had risen to become one of 
Jenka’s chief lieutenants, the head of Operations.  
“Jenka’s going to be a bit busy tonight, going over 
maintenance reports with the Engineering group” Cain 
growled; “She’s graciously granted me the privilege of 
entertaining you tonight”  Tanj thought that the latter 
statement was just dripping with sarcasm, and wondered just 
what Cain’s problem was.....  Snapping a leash to Tanj’s 
collar, Cain grinned wickedly at the rest of the folks 
present and with a jerk, led Tanj towards his quarters.

Once in Cain’s quarters, the big Hyena moved quickly, 
unlocking Tanj’s “chastity” belt, and stripping the corset 
from her.  “I’m pleased that you’ve been pierced; it’ll 
make this evening’s little activity that much easier.  Of 
course, you should have more labia piercings for this.... 
and I’ve got a pack of brand new fishhooks that would do so 
nicely, but I suppose Jenka would get mad.......  I guess 
we’ll just have to make do with what you’ve got.  You see, 
before we get on to other things, I thought I’d put you 
through a little slave’s refresher course.  I think Jenka’s 
way to lax with her slaves.  Soooooo.........” and with 
that he dragged Tanj by the hair over to a clear spot on 
the floor.  Tanj’s eyes widened as she noticed what  
appeared to be a rather drastic looking dildo fastened to 
the floor; it was about 15” tall, with a knob at the head; 
while it narrowed considerably after the knob, from there, 
it slowly widened, until at the base it must have been 3” 
in diameter!  As Tanj gazed at this device, Cain was busy 
lacing her arms into a sheath behind her; when he had it 
tight, Tanj’s elbows almost touching behind her back, he 
led her over to the monster protruding from the floor.  
Strong paws forced her down, into a kneeling position, and 
then down a bit further, the knob at the tip of the dildo 
pressing hard against her ass, until with a soft pop, it 
slid within her.  As Cain fastened the ring on the end of 
the arm binder to the floor, Tanj realized that the dildo 
was coated with something; at first she thought it was 
lubricant, but now her ass was starting to burn _bad_!  
“Now for the rest of your little trial” Cain purrrrred; 
moving around in front of her, he showed her a silvery rod, 
about a foot long; there was a large metal ball on the rod 
at one end, perhaps 1 1/2” in diameter; below that a 
slightly smaller ball, and then  a yet smaller ball, and 
then an even smaller ball, perhaps 1/2” in diameter.  Below 
this, there was a square block of metal with little chains 
attached.....  “Ever done Kegel exercises?  Strengthening 
those muscles within your vagina?  This is a variant on the 
standard “tool” used in those exercises; we’ll put the 
large ball within you, like this, and then slowly push it 
upwards........”  Tanj felt the large ball enter her pussy, 
followed shortly by the other three, until the block of  
metal was flush against her labia.  “I’m sure if you clench 
down with your muscles, you can hold that there; thats the 
point... to exercise those muscles.  Of course, the smaller 
ball will be harder to hold, but if you slip, the next ball 
is a little larger and easier to hold, and so forth and so 
forth, until the last ball, the largest ball, is all thats 
within you; that should be the easiest to hold, but just to 
make sure, we’re going to attach these chains to your 
piercings.  Lets see.... this one goes to your clitty ring, 
and these two to your labia rings, and these two to your 
nipple rings; let me adjust their lengths, wouldn’t want 
that last ball to fall out of your pussy; then you’d have 
no option but to take its full weight on your little 
rings....”

Tanj moaned and clenched down hard with her vaginal 
muscles; she’d received quite a bit of training at the 
academy, but this promised to be grim.  How long could she 
hold this heavy thing within her?  if it slipped down far 
enough, the tension on her clitty, labia and nipples would 
be excruciating!  And if she squatted down further to let 
the weight rest on the floor, she’d have driven an 
incredible length of very thick dildo into her ass, 
probably more than she could take without hurting herself!  
Cain grinned as Tanj’s face reflected the realization of 
her dilemma.  “I’ll let you adjust to your new situation 
for a bit...” and with that he walked off, to pour himself 
a drink.

Over the next hour or so, Cain sat in a chair across the 
room watching Tanj struggle.  Several times, she felt the 
rod slip, one of the balls falling out of her pussy, until 
there was only the top two balls remaining within her.  Her 
muscles were so sore, she was trembling, and her ass burned 
so bad, but she could see no way of escape.  As she 
concentrated, trying to maintain her “grip”, she wondered 
if Jenka knew just what this guy liked to do?

Tanj gasped as the second to last ball slipped from within 
her and the chains grew TIGHT! Any motion, even breathing, 
seemed to make that heavy rod sway, tugging on the various 
chains that secured it to her.  With an immense effort, she 
struggled with her control, and actually managed to move 
the whole assembly back up within her, first by one ball, 
and then by two, leaving only the weight and the smallest 
ball dangling below her.  Cain looked up from his PADD, and 
looked over at the clock; “thats _very_ good; you’re doing 
much better than any of the other slaves I’ve had in here; 
but lets see just how long you can last, eh?”

Over the course of the next hour, Tanj had to try and move 
the rod back up into her several times; her muscles were 
weakening, and her control was fading fast, and she knew 
before long, she’d be suffering the anguish of the chains 
going tight.  As she panted and moaned, struggling, Tanj 
wondered if she really could take enough of that dildo up 
her ass in order to relieve the stress on the chains; 
somehow, she thought, before the night was over, she’d find 
out......

Finally, after about two and a half hours, Tanj could no 
longer maintain her grip; with a soft moan, rising to 
almost a shriek, the second to the last ball escaped her 
grip, and the last, largest ball tried to part her labia, 
held in place only by the very tight chains.  Moaning 
she tried hard to recapture them, to ease the tension, but 
finally she gave up; the only option now was down, down 
onto that massive shaft; as she slowly lowered herself, 
feeling her ass stretch wider and wider, she panted hard; 
OH, how it BURNED!  Try as she might though, she could not 
force herself down far enough; the weight on the bottom of 
the shaft swinging, just clear of the floor.  Her asshole 
seemed to be stretched further than it had ever been before 
and the knob on the end of the dildo seemed to be pressing 
against the back of her throat; mewling she hung there, too 
tired to lift herself back up, unable to go further down.

Tanj’s attention was shifted from her misery by Cain rising 
to his feet. Smoothly he dropped his pants, freeing his 
erection.  Tanj’s gaze followed the bobbing, swaying head 
of his cock as he walked over to her; wordlessly he took 
her head in both paws and without preamble, drove his cock 
hard into her mouth.  Distracted as she was, Tanj managed 
to make at least a credible effort to suck off the Hyena; 
although later she realized it probably wouldn’t have 
mattered; he hadn’t seemed to be interested in getting a 
blowjob as he had been in roughly fucking her face.  When 
at last, he finally came, spurting his cum all over her 
face and chest, he proceeded to wipe his cock off on her 
hair, and then turned to get himself another drink, leaving 
Tanj to her torment.

Tanj thought it must have been another half hour before he 
finally released her; it had become hard to tell the 
passage of time....  As he lifted her off the dildo, the 
device in her pussy still hanging by its chains; he 
proceeded to shove her down on her tummy, to move behind 
her and drive his once more hard cock into her vastly 
distended ass.  Again, he fucked her roughly, crudely, 
withdrawing only to pump his load over her back.  After he 
regained his breath, he cursorily undid the chains, and 
with a hand on Tanj’s collar, dragged her to her feet to 
shove her out the door, not bothering to remove the arm 
binder.

Tanj found that she was having difficulty standing, but 
somehow made it back to Jenka’s quarters.  Jenka had not 
yet returned, so Tanj crawled down the passage to her 
kennel, seeking only to collapse on her pallet.  Jenka must 
have come in late at night, as Tanj never heard her return, 
and it was late in the morning before Jenka roused her.  
Tanj was still moving stiffly when she inch-wormed out of 
the tunnel from her kennel, drawing a curious look from 
Jenka; “Lord, you look a wreck; what _happened_ last 
night?”  Tanj knelt at Jenka’s feet as Jenka unlaced the 
armbinder, and in a quiet voice, her eyes averted, 
proceeded to relate the story.  By the time she was done, 
Jenka was fuming; “That _BASTARD_!  This time he’s gone TOO 
far!  First thing, we’re going to get you down to medical 
and see if he’s done any permanent damage.  THEN I’m going 
to have a word with him......”

Jenka left Tanj in the ship’s small infirmary, where the 
MedTech that passed for a doctor did his best to examine 
her.  It was about an hour later that Jack came to fetch 
her, walking slowly with her back to the Operations office.  
“Apparently Cain’s got the Captain’s ire up; what 
_happened_ last night?  The whole fleet’s abuzz over it!”  
Tanj just mumbled a shortened, cleaned up version, not 
really wanting to go into it again.  Jack sighed; “Cain 
thinks himself the great stud, and has always been fuming 
that Jenka doesn’t take him into her bed; I think he sees 
that as the ultimate insult.  He probably struck back at 
her through you.”  Tanj laughed weakly; “yeah, lucky 
me.....”  It was later that shift that Tanj was called to 
the bridge; as she knelt by Jenka’s chair, Jenka rose and 
looked down at her; “I’m going to tell you this in front of 
everyone, so that its perfectly clear to all parties.  From 
now on you are NOT to let Cain touch you; anyone else who 
wishes to make use of you, they have to clear it through 
me, but above all else, you are NOT to let him touch 
you.  Is this clear?  Tanj just nodded, watching from the 
corner of her eyes, as the bridge crew took in the little 
scene.

Over the next several weeks, Tanj worked with the planning 
team, refining the plan.  The idea was for the Brethren , 
with some assistance from the Black Fleet, to attack one of 
the convoys that periodically took the Antimatter fuel to 
the refueling depot at the edges of the Elysium system.  
This was the main refueling depot for the sector, one of 
the reasons Elysium enjoyed such a favorable trade  
position.  The convoy was always heavily defended, as it 
was such a tempting target; the convoy’s cargo was 
literally worth a King’s ransom.  The plan was more 
ambitious than just attacking the convoy, however; the idea 
was to attack the convoy at just the right point, where 
they were still within a close enough range that the 
defenses assigned to the antimatter production station 
might charge off to help drive off the attackers.  Once the 
defenders were drawn off, the real attack would begin.  The 
Lion had come up with the approach and docking codes for 
the station, and Jenka’s mission was to use the confusion 
to dock with the station and land a boarding party.  If 
they could capture the station, they could not only make 
off with the Antimatter reserves for the entire sector, but 
also destroy the station, crippling the Elysium space 
forces!  Fuel would have to be brought in from a great 
distance, at great expense, further tying up what resources 
the Elysium military had.  It was thought that the hunting 
for the pirates would be better than ever!

The trick would be to overwhelm the station’s defenses 
without destroying them; if the pirates were beaten back 
from the convoy, the convoy’s escort would rather quickly 
return to the station.  If everything didn’t run just 
perfectly, it would be a major disaster, instead of a 
lucrative victory.

Cain looked up from the display; “this is the worst plan 
I’ve ever seen!  Its just begging for failure!  What 
happens if the production facility’s guard ships don’t go 
to the rescue of the convoy?  What happens if the internal 
defenses of the facility are too much for us?  WHAT 
HAPPENS IF WE MANAGE TO BREACH AN ANTIMATTER CONTAINMENT 
FIELD?  And destroying the facility?  Thats ludicrous!  
Nothing is more certain to draw the attention of the  
Empire!  Good Lord, we could have an Imperial Fleet in here 
searching for us!”  Jenka smiled from her seat at the head 
of the table; “I happen to think its worth the risk; with a 
haul like that, should we succeed, we could flee an 
Imperial fleet.  We would all literally be set for life.”  
Cain looked askance at Jenka; “this isn’t about finances is 
it?  You’re just doing this to help that mangy lion that 
runs the Brethren, helping him in his quest to “battle 
injustice” on Elysium.  Isn’t it?  Well, I think you’ve 
lost it.  Slavery is not illegal in the Empire.  If Elysium 
permits it, who are we to argue?  We certainly make enough 
money off of it!  Besides”, he said with a leer, “you’re 
certainly not above keeping a slave to play with.....”  
Jenka’s face went stern, but before she could comment, Cain 
continued; “_I_ think we should outwardly agree to this 
plan, and sucker the Brethren in; Elysium has put a very 
nice little bounty on their heads, and if we were to hand 
them over, to sell them out, we’d make a nice _safe_ 
profit, AND remove the local competition!”  Jenka growled 
and rose to her feet, leaning on the table, staring 
straight at Cain; “we will NOT sell anyone out!  I gave my 
word, and I’ll keep it!  We will proceed with this plan; if 
you find it too risky, or too distasteful, I’ll personally 
buy out your shares in the Black Fleet, and see you on the 
first shuttle out!  Cain rose to growl in Jenka’s face; “I 
think you’re going to get us all killed!”  and with that, 
he turned and stormed out.  Jenka watched him go and then 
quietly took her seat, moving with feline grace; acting 
unruffled, as if the outburst had never occurred, she 
turned to the furr on her left; “Ellen, what resources will 
we need from logistics to execute the plan as it currently 
stands?.........”

It was much later that night.  Jenka quietly slipped into a 
dark and unoccupied office, settling into a dark corner.  
Minutes later, another form entered, pausing just inside 
after closing the door; “Captain?”  “I’m here..... I have a 
small task for you.  I think Cain is beginning to get a 
little big for his britches.  I want you to organize 
surveillance on him.  I want to know what he’s up to behind 
the scenes.  I suspect he’s going to use the upcoming 
operation to try and usurp command, and I don’t want that 
to happen.”  “Yes Ma’am, I’ll take care of it!”  With that 
the shadowy form left, followed shortly thereafter by 
Jenka.

In the dark recesses of Engineering, a similar scene played 
itself out.  “I tell you, Cain, you should just kill her 
and take over.  Right there on the bridge.  Once she’s 
dead, they’ll all follow you; they _know_ how good you 
are....”  Cain grinned at the hulking bear-morph; “Lenny, 
you’re right, I should, but I’m concerned that she might 
have assassins waiting to avenge any such death; no matter.  
There will be so many opportunities in the upcoming 
operation to dispose of her, and make it look like her own 
plan went awry.... and that would only reinforce my 
credibility.  I’ll wait patiently, and when this operation 
has come to its ultimate conclusion, the Black Fleet will 
be mine!”  Lenny leered; “and so will that sexy little pet 
Jenka’s been flaunting about; have to admit I wouldn’t mind 
ripping off a piece ‘o that!”

Tanj shifted a little uneasily at her work station; the 
previous night, Jenka had been busy with something, and had 
lent Tanj out to one of her senior ship captains, on board 
the command ship for a briefing.  While he’d been nice 
enough to her, and pleasant to be with, well, being a 
Minotaur, he’d been incredibly well hung.  And of course, 
given that, he just _had_ to have a penchant for anal sex.  
Maybe Cain’s little “training” hadn’t gone completely to 
waste.......  Tanj grinned and thought that Jenka would 
love watching last night’s video.....  As she shifted yet 
again, wishing she could stand at this console, Tanj sorted 
through the recent message traffic.  They’d been sending 
and receiving a lot of coded tight-beam stuff to the  
Brethren, as they attempted to coordinate all the details, 
and Tanj was making sure that every message had a proper 
“receipt”.  As she scanned the list of transmissions, she 
became increasingly uneasy. “There are a LOT of messages 
here” she thought to herself;  “If even a tenth of one 
percent is intercepted, the Elysium military is going to 
wonder whats going on.  And if they can break the code on 
even one message, we’re sunk.  Or worse, what if they have 
an agent amongst us?” She sighed, as she waded through all 
the transmissions made by the fleet.  “Hmmmmm, I see Cain 
is using a stock broker on New Hong Kong.  Interesting; the 
text is encrypted.  Guess he doesn’t want anyone to know 
what hot stock tips he’s got......” she thought to herself.  
A short while later she found another message from Cain, to 
his stock broker, and then a while later a third.  
Curiously, there had been no incoming message, no reply 
from the Broker......  Tanj flagged these messages, meaning 
to talk to the head of the intelligence section, but was 
interrupted when her old crewmate, Samantha, entered the 
Operations center.

Tanj couldn’t help it, she had to give her old friend 
another enthusiastic hug.  When Samantha had recovered she 
grinned at Tanj; “Jenka’s going to be busy tonight as well, 
so I got her to release you into my care”  Tanj took a step 
back and blinked; “uh, sure Sam, but, ah, well, I didn’t 
think you were bent that way.........”  Samantha just 
laughed; “Oh, I’m not, but I figured you needed a “night 
off” and figured this was the best way to get you one.”  
And with that, Samantha led the surprised Tanj off, hand in 
hand.  The first stop was the lounge, where Samantha 
ordered them both drinks, followed by a sumptuous dinner.  
Tanj was surprised that Sam had even remembered what she 
liked to drink.  While waiting for their meal, they swapped 
stories about what had happened to them, where they’d been 
and what they’d seen.  As they talked, Tanj found it 
bizarre to actually be sitting at a table like a normal 
person; it’d been sooo long since she’d had an evening like 
this....  When the meal finally came, Tanj had a hard time 
not drooling, and of course the look on her face prompted 
Sam to inquire, which led Tanj to relate some of the 
culinary “disasters” that she’d been faced with at the 
“academy”, or at the hands of various “masters”.  “So this 
Lion fed you OK?” Sam smiled; “Oh yes” Tanj mumbled between 
mouthfulls; “the food was kinda simple, but good.  Everyone 
took turns cooking.  Even me.  Even _him_!”  Sam chuckled; 
“the way you talk about him, I think you like him....”  
That brought Tanj up short, fork half way to her mouth; 
“Ah........ well...... thats not normally the kinda thing 
someone in my position thinks about, but yes, I guess I do; 
respect him, at any rate....”  Sam just smiled.  After 
dinner they returned to Jenka’s quarters; that, after all, 
was where the hidden video system was, and Tanj fully 
intended to give Jenka hours of video of the two old 
friends just reminiscing!  Sam however had other ideas and 
insisted that Tanj go soak in the tub while she played with 
the elaborate entertainment center.  How could Tanj resist?  
She was chin deep in the steaming hot water, just starting 
to unwind, when General Quarters sounded.

No plan survives contact with the enemy; the fuel convoy 
had left the production facility early, and the Brethren, 
with Black Fleet auxiliaries were moving  to intercept.  
Tanj dashed in to Ops, still dripping; while they’d all 
seen her nude before, nude and wet drew some stifled 
chuckles and a dark look from Jenka.  They listened to the 
FTL transceiver as the Brethren started their attack:  
“Chase, see if you and your section can split off those 
destroyers from the convoy.”  “Roger that, Boss.”  “This is 
Crapgame; we’re taking a lot of fire from that cruiser; 
anyone help us out?”  “Roger Crapgame, this is Stalker 
squadron; we’re inbound, keep an eye out for us”  “This is 
Echo 3, I’m hit, I’m hit.........”  “Bravo group to 
command; we show another six large bogies coming in from 
273 mark 121.  They’re getting reinforcements, but not from 
the Archemedes facility!”  “Stalker to command; I got the 
Archemedes squadron coming in from 083 mark 17!  Its a 
TRAP!  They got us boxed!”  “Command group to all units; 
execute Plan Delta Four immediately; I say again, Execute 
Delta Four!”  “This is Bravo 7; somebody get that guy off 
my a.............”  Tanj listened in horror as the tide 
seemed to swing against the Brethren, the running 
commentary speaking of raider ships being destroyed, and 
the capital ships taking a beating.  Jenka looked up at 
Cain; “we can’t help them; launch our attack on the 
Archemedes station.”  Cain opened his mouth, obviously 
about to object, but Jenka stared him down; “_NOW_ 
Mister!”.

As the ship headed towards its target, Jenka took Tanj down 
to the armory; “we’re both going out in the landing party.  
I hate to do this, but I want you to keep an eye on Cain’s 
assault group.  Tanj drew the standard issue Black Fleet 
uniform of body armor, Comm helmet and assorted weapons, 
finding it passing strange for someone in her situation.  
“These weapons may not be the most powerful in inventory” 
the armorer explained, “but with luck, they’re powerful 
enough to stop the opposition without doing major damage to 
the station, and especially the antimatter containment 
fields.  Tanj fingered the dagger they’d given her and 
sighed....  By the time she was “dressed”, and she and 
Jenka had moved to the airlock, the ship was completing 
its docking maneuvers.  Jenka purrrred as she heard the 
docking clamps latch; “I guess that code your Master 
obtained was good; looks like we’re in.......”  Just as the 
inner lock swung open, Cain and his party arrived.  “Cain, 
I’m sending Tanj with you as an observer; she’ll make sure 
we stay coordinated.  Cain stared at Jenka for a moment, 
his face blank, and then with a smile, he turned to Tanj; 
“it would be my _Pleasure_ to entertain the lady 
again......”  Tanj shivered within her armor, not liking 
his tone one bit.....

Then the outer airlock door cycled open and everyone was 
off, the pirates literally running over the junior officer 
coming to ascertain their needs.  The teams split almost 
immediately, Jenka’s team heading for the command center, 
and Cain’s team heading for the fuel storage area.  They 
hadn’t gone too far when the alarms started 
sounding.........

As they fought their way towards the fuel storage area, 
Tanj stayed close behind Cain.  He really was good at his 
work, forming fire teams to take out defensive posts, 
stepping in personally as guards came at them singly or in 
pairs, a short sword flashing, spattering blood here and 
there.  Tanj’s Comm helmet let her keep in touch with 
Jenka’s progress, and she was distressed to hear that they 
were making slow headway against very stiff resistance.  
Cain’s abilities brought them to the fuel storage area, 
only slightly behind schedule, where the remaining guards 
surrendered immediately, not wanting to risk a stray bolt 
or bullet breaching a containment field. It was then that 
Tanj’s Comm helmet reported that Jenka’s team was in 
danger; apparently they’d been pinned down at a cross-
corridor, and were stuck.  Cain literally purrrrred; “well 
good for her; just what the Bitch deserves.  OK, Lenny, get 
your crew moving; I want as much of this fuel transferred 
to the command ship as possible, but I want to be out of 
here in 20 minutes; LETS MOVE!”  Tanj looked at Cain; 
“aren’t you going to send someone to help her?  If she 
doesn’t deactivate the defenses, the command ship will 
never escape; they’ll destroy us as soon as we’re at a safe 
distance”  Cain turned to look at Tanj appraisingly; “All 
that and brains too... but you’re right; besides, those 
idiots might not kill her as they’re supposed to; I guess 
I’d better go see to that myself and THEN we’ll take the 
command center”.  Tanj took a step back, fumbling for her 
sidearm; “I will NOT let you hurt her!”  Cain just laughed 
as Lenny’s arms encircled Tanj, pinning her arms at her 
side; “Like a slave would have any say in any of this?”

Tanj growled and brought one foot down hard on Lenny’s 
right foot; she could feel the big ursoid tense as the pain 
coursed through him, but  he didn’t let go, so Tanj 
scissored both legs up, and then back, with all her might 
trying to bring them up behind her into his crotch.  She 
missed; he was holding her too low against himself, but he 
did flinch, and that was all Tanj needed to worm free.  
Cain turned with a growl; “you really are becoming much too 
much trouble, Tanj, but I can put an end to that.....”  And 
having said so, he raised his bloody sword and stepped 
forward.  Tanj’s sidearm was just clearing its holster, but 
she knew she’d never be quick enough, even as she tried to 
backpedal away from the Hyena.  Just as Cain’s eyes 
reflected his impending triumph, a spear of ruby light 
lanced out, punching straight into his back, his armor 
ablating, and then the beam tore through his chest, to 
punch a pinhole through his frontal armor.  Cain staggered 
and turned, and the beam flicked out again, to catch him in 
his unarmored throat.  Dropping the sword, Cain clawed at 
his throat, the tissues coagulated and cooked, his neck 
sliced half in two, as he sank to his knees, and then fell 
forward onto his face, his body twitching.  Tanj’s sidearm 
cleared its holster and she whirled to face Lenny; however 
the big bear-morph was backing away, paws widespread.  
Looking back over her shoulder, Tanj saw Samantha Pettigrew 
emerge from a dark shadow, a laser rifle cradled in her  
hands.  “I thought he might be up to something like this.  
I’m kinda sorry I was right, but I’m not surprised.”  
Looking over at Tanj, Samantha nodded; “I’ll handle things 
here; we do need to get this stuff loaded and I think I can 
convince Cain’s roughnecks to, ah, “carry on without him”; 
you go check in with the Captain.”  Tanj nodded, and then 
looked around; “can I take some of these guys to help 
reinforce her?  It sounded like she was in trouble.”  Sam 
just smiled; “Oh, she’s OK; that was just a bit of theater 
to see what Cain here would do.  They took the command 
center about, um, twelve minutes ago.”  Tanj just sighed 
and shook her head, and took off down the corridor, seeking 
her mistress.  As she ran, she thought wryly to herself; 
“That was brilliant; Jenka sent me with Cain, so Cain would 
think I was the one watching him.  They never thought to 
look for someone else watching……”

Tanj found Jenka comfortably seated in the station’s 
command center.  A small army of technicians were working 
furiously to bypass the station’s main computer to allow 
them access to the station’s defenses, on the premise that 
would be faster than trying to hack the command codes.  
“Cain’s dead.  He heard about your “problems” taking this 
place and decided it would be a good opportunity to shoot 
you in the back, in the heat of combat.  Samantha killed 
him.  She’s down there overseeing the fuel transfer.”  
Jenka just nodded; “You might want to listen to how the 
attack on the fuel convoy is going”  Tanj’s eyes widened; 
“they’re still at it?  The way it sounded earlier I thought 
they’d have fled by now!”  Jenka just grinned and handed 
her a headset; “Nope; your Master is keeping them busy, 
buying us time........”

The commander of the Elysium military forces guarding the 
fuel convoy was getting very frustrated; he’d destroyed, or 
forced off all of the smaller pirate vessels, the so-called 
“raider” ships, but the larger pirate vessels just wouldn’t 
break off.  They had developed some sort of pack-hunting 
tactic where a number of ships would attack the convoy and 
as his forces redeployed to face the threat, a ship with a 
cloaking device would decloak immediately behind one of his 
ships, to hammer it, until he could bring others to their 
aid.  Who would _ever_ have thought that the pirates could 
obtain technology like that!  Even _HE_ couldn’t get 
cloaking technology for his ships!  While the pirates were 
not making any progress towards capturing any of the fuel 
tankers,   His forces were slowly being chewed to pieces.  
As the cycle started itself once again, he sighed and 
signaled his Comm officer; “send a message to headquarters; 
tell them that we’re hard pressed, that the ambush did not 
go quite as planned and that despite fearsome losses the 
pirates are still attacking.  Request reinforcements.”  The 
Comm officer nodded, wide-eyed, knowing this would not be 
well-received back home, but turned to his task with vigor 
as that damn pirate ship uncloaked directly behind the 
convoy’s flagship, to start firing weapons at them.

“Echo leader to command; we’re headed in again; this time 
we’re going after the lead escort; we’ll draw them off 
ahead of the convoy”  “Roger that, Echo Leader, we’ll come 
in behind the tail-most ship; keep up the pressure!”  “Echo 
three to Echo leader; that last torpedo got through our 
antimissile defenses.  Shields are down to 17%, and 
we’ve lost power to weapons; we’re gonna have to withdraw.”  
“Echo Leader to Echo Three; Go ahead, but don’t leave their 
sensor envelope; not yet.  We want them to think they’re 
being swarmed.  Do what damage control you can and stand 
by.”  “Echo Three; roger that.”  “Brethren Command from 
Black Fleet Command; we have the station; repeat we have 
the station.  Fuel transfer in progress.  We’ll set our 
charges and be out of here in twenty; repeat, out of here 
in twenty”  “Good work, Jenka; but there’s no hurry; we’re 
going to keep after these guys for a while; got something 
else in the works.”  Jenka turned to look at Tanj, one 
eyebrow raised; Tanj just looked back and shrugged, not 
having any idea at all what her Master was talking about.

Samantha strode into the command center; “we’ve stuffed our 
ship to the gills; every bit of Antimatter that we can take 
has been transferred.  I’ve got demo experts setting 
charges now that should vaporize this place.  All the 
prisoners have been transferred and we’re just about 
ready to go.”  Jenka smiled and nodded; “Good work, Sam, 
and thanks!  Rising, she signaled to the others to start 
the evacuation.  Tanj thought it curious that after all the 
hard work the techs had put in trying to prepare for a 
counterattack, they left as if delighted that their 
handiwork wouldn’t have to be put to the test........

The manager of the Sirroca Province financial exchange 
couldn’t believe his eyes.  He stood with paws raised, 
amongst a throng of his workers as pirates ravaged his 
office!  Never before had pirates been so bold as to raid 
the surface of Elysium.  Where were the Militia?  How could 
they leave so important an institution undefended?  He 
watched, aghast as the pirates accessed the terminals, 
seeming to know all the passwords, or at least enough to 
gain access to the system.  Helpless, he watched as funds 
were irretrievably transferred, stocks and bonds sold, or 
their ownership changed, and worse, far worse, the entire 
record of the last year’s fiscal transactions downloaded!  
Now those ruffians would know the intimate financial 
dealings of every major corporation, or notable personage 
on the entire planet, if not the whole sector!  That 
information alone would be worth billions of credits!

“Mayday! Mayday!  This is the Elysium Militia Cruiser 
Vindicator.  We have taken a torpedo amidships and are 
breaking up!  Life support is failing; shields are down... 
Mayd........”  The commander of the Fuel convoy listened in 
horror as one of his major assets was destroyed by those 
blasted pirates!  The reinforcements from Elysium were 
still minutes away, and while he had been making great 
strides at eliminating his attackers, they’d been having 
almost as much success destroying his command.  A cry from 
one of his bridge officers brought his attention back as 
yet another hit-and-run attack commenced, this time on the 
trailing edge of the convoy......

The Lion grinned as he watched the Elysium reinforcements 
draw near; just as he’d hoped.  “OK, Ben, lets have 
everyone start falling back towards the distant side of the 
convoy; lets make it look like we’re running.”  Ben nodded 
and grinned  “Ready to launch our babies?”  The lion looked 
thoughtful for a moment; “No, lets wait a bit; don’t want 
to tip our hand too soon.......”  

The reinforcements from Elysium charged through the convoy 
formation,  like the Cavalry to the rescue, the pirates 
fleeing before them, scattering.  Just as they were closing 
to weapons range, the formation’s commander got a rude 
shock as every single pirate ship still on his scanners 
cloaked!  With a growl, he ordered his ships to reform and 
to join up with the convoy.  They had almost closed the gap 
when his sensor officer gave a yelp of alarm; “SIR!  We 
show twelve small objects decloaking!  They appear to be 
torpedoes, headed for the Fuel Tankers!  Without a second 
thought, the commander ordered his ships to reverse course 
and to flee!  Yes, they might have stopped many of those 
torpedoes had they stayed, but if even one got through, the 
resulting explosion would destroy his entire command!

The commander of the convoy watched in horror as his 
rescuers abandoned him; ordering his ships to target the 
torpedoes he settled back in his command chair, knowing it 
would be too little, too late.  His magnificently planned 
ambush had turned into a deadly trap.  As the torpedoes 
approached, first one, and then three flared, incinerated 
by the energy weapons or antimissile missiles of the 
defenders, A fifth one flared just kilometers short of its 
target, and then the others struck home.  The third tanker 
in line vanished in a cataclysmic explosion, and no one 
would ever know if the other tankers were struck or simply 
went up with a sympathetic detonation........

Jenka purrrred as the Archemedes fuel station vanished in a 
blinding light that a fraction of a second later destroyed 
the probe they’d left behind.  Tanj didn’t notice; she was 
sitting by the Comm console, listening intently to the 
message traffic as the Brethren pulled back from the attack 
on the convoy.  She looked up as Jenka padded over to her; 
“whats happening, little one?”  Tanj shrugged; “I’m not 
sure; it sounds as if the Brethren continued to assault the 
convoy for way after they had any chance of capturing any 
of the tankers.  Elysium launched a second force, but just 
as they were arriving at the location of the convoy 
something happened.  The rescuers fled, and the convoy 
appears to have been destroyed.  Something about cloaked 
torpedoes fired at the tankers........”  Jenka Hmmmmmmed; 
“the cost to cloak a ship is incredible; to cloak a torpedo 
would not be cost effective.  Unless you had one hell of an 
ulterior motive......”  Tanj just shrugged; “now all I’m 
getting is maydays and damage reports from the rescue 
force; they seem to have taken heavy damage from the  
exploding convoy.....”

That evening Tanj spent the night in Jenka’s bed; they were 
both understandably exhausted, and it was fairly late the 
next “morning” when Tanj awakened her mistress, using just 
her tongue, licking gently at that sweet spot between her 
big toes........  It seems victory in battle was a powerful 
aphrodisiac for Jenka, and much to Tanj’s surprise, Jenka 
turned and “pounced” her, with the pair winding up in the 
classic “69”, with Tanj, of course, on the bottom.   
Purrrrring, Tanj licked up into Jenka’s pussy, her paws 
reaching down along her body to play with her mistress’ 
hanging breasts.  Concentrating on her clitty, Tanj sucked 
and licked and nibbled until she felt Jenka stiffening, 
foretelling an impending climax, and then with a grin, she 
shifted her attention, to slither her tongue deep into her 
velvet passage, its tip wriggling softly, stroking and 
teasing, and yet not teasing enough to bring her to a 
climax.  Alternating between her pussy and her clitty, Tanj 
did her very best (despite Jenka’s most excellent efforts 
to distract her) to simply hold Jenka on the very edge, 
until she felt her own passions soaring; timing it just 
right she flicked Jenka’s clitty rapidly with her 
tonguetip, managing to send her into the arms of her  
climax within moments of Tanj’s own.  It must have been at 
least three more “mutual” climaxes before Jenka would let 
her up; then it was off to attend to Jenka’s bath, and 
wardrobe, and then Jenka led the still nude Tanj by a leash 
off to the day’s business.  “At least I’m not wearing that 
damn corset” Tanj thought to herself.

Jenka spent the day busy with concerns for the wounded 
pirates, busy with the efforts to correctly stow and secure 
the massive amounts of Antimatter they’d stolen, busy with 
the thousand and one logistical details that follow any 
such operation.  Tanj played secretary as best she could, 
kneeling at Jenka’s feet, or following her around from 
this department to the next.  It was towards the end of the 
day when they stopped by Operations.  Things there were 
fairly quiet; they’d checked in with their surviving ships, 
the ones that had participated on the abortive raid on the 
fuel convoy.  Losses had been heavy; heavier than expected, 
and they were going to have to work hard to rebuild their 
forces.  “Jack, I guess you understand what Cain’s death 
means” Jenka purrrred.  The wolf looked up; “Aside from the 
obvious security concerns of his followers wanting 
revenge?”  Jenka smiled and nodded; “Oh, that I think we 
can handle; many of those types are such that they’ll 
follow the furr they perceive as the strongest leader, and 
with his death that leaves them with me.  Others, I think 
we can identify, and weed out, hopefully quietly and 
without violence.  But beyond that, I seem to be in the 
market for a new Chief of Operations.  Any 
recommendations?”  Tanj smiled as she watched; it was 
obvious that he wanted the position himself, but was having 
Tanj just saying so.  “Weeeeeeel, lets see; Samantha 
obviously would be a good choice, as would Davis......... 
but on the other hand, I’ve been Cain’s assistant for a 
good number of years.......”  Jenka smiled; “you’re right; 
Samantha would be a good choice, but I think I’ll give it 
to you instead, at least for the time being.  Lets see what 
you can do with it.”  With a grin, Jenka handed Jack the 
end of Tanj’s lead; “here, why don’t you go celebrate.  I 
think this place can take care of itself for a while....”

Tanj purrrrrred softly as she watched the sway of Jack’s 
hips as he led her towards his quarters.  “I think I’m 
going to have fun tonight” she thought to herself.  No 
sooner were they inside the door to Jack’s modest quarters, 
when he turned to unclip the leash; not giving him time to 
react, Tanj threw her arms around his neck and kissed him 
hotly.  As his arms went around her waist, pulling her 
close, Tanj could feel that he was already hard, his cock 
pressing into her tummy through the fabric of his pants.  
Breaking the kiss, Tanj fell to her knees to work on the 
opening to his pants, and a moment later they were in a 
pile around his ankles, her mouth fastened around the head 
of his cock.  He moaned and caressed her head as she 
vigorously sucked him off, her head bobbing back and forth 
rapidly, his hard shaft slipping between her lips, her 
tongue dancing over its length.  As she expected, he came 
after only a few minutes, his cock spurting an amazing 
amount of cum onto the back of her tongue.  Licking him 
clean; she looked up at his face; “Oooooo, you’ve been 
saving that up for a long time, haven’t you?”  He just 
grinned and pulled her to her feet, to kiss her again, a 
softer kiss, sensual, and languid.  Tanj melted into his 
arms, holding herself tight against his muscular body.  
It wasn’t long before he was hard again, and Tanj 
maneuvered him back until he fell backwards onto his bed; 
pursuing, Tanj took a stance crouched over his hips.  
Holding his cock with both paws she slowly dragged its head 
back and forth along her furrow, until it glistened with 
her moisture.  Then, holding it juuuuust so, she sank down 
onto his shaft with a heartfelt sigh.  She held still for a 
moment, just gazing down at him; he crossed his arms behind 
his head and gazed back, as if wondering what she’d do 
next.  Tanj purrrrred and started to exercise her vaginal 
muscles, tightening and releasing, tightening and 
releasing, squeezing his cock.  Jack ooooooohed, a 
delighted grin on his face.  Tanj then varied her rhythmic 
contractions, to ripple her muscles along the length of his 
shaft, milking him, moving as if to draw his cock further 
up into her pussy, were that possible.  Jack ooooooohed 
again and moved his paws to caress Tanj’s breasts; “thats 
_very_ good; how’d you learn to do that?”  Tanj just 
chuckled and started to move, bending at her 
knees, rising and falling just a little on his cock; “Oh, 
I’ve had some good teachers.....”  Jack moaned in 
agreement, his hands gently squeezing her breasts.  Tanj 
giggled and rolled her hips, almost asif doing the hula, 
making his cock vary the angle at which it entered 
her; she mewled herself, from the sensations that gave her, 
and started to ride his cock a little faster.  By this 
point, he was moving too, raising his hips, trying to meet 
her motions.  Before long, Tanj was panting, riding his 
cock as hard as she could, and he was howling, just 
seconds away from release.  Unlike her approach with Jenka, 
Tanj had no intentions to tease Jack; this was supposed to 
be his “reward” and she intended to give him as many 
orgasms as she could squeeze out of his body.  As she felt 
his cock start to spurt, filling her pussy with what cum he 
had left, Tanj giggled and wondered if Jenka was  
videotaping this one as well?

Tanj spent the night fucking Jack in as many ways as she 
knew how; standing; doggie style, with her bent double, her 
feet over her head, and so forth; every time she could 
stroke his cock back to hardness she was off.  Towards 
morning he developed the most incredible staying power, as 
if she could get his cock hard, but he’d run out of 
orgasms...... not that Tanj minded, as she was getting 
about three or four climaxes to each of his orgasms at that 
point.  Finally Jack tore the sheets of his bed into 
strips, to tie Tanj up tight, to stop her relentless 
pursuit of his cock.  She was delivered to Jenka in this 
manner, the next morning, both Jack laughing and Tanj 
giggling uncontrollably over it as she was carried back to 
her mistress.

The rendezvous was carried out in interstellar space, far 
from prying eyes.  Tanj returned to the Lion as she’d left, 
naked and at the end of Jenka’s leash.  The lion gave her a 
long hot kiss, and then swatted her on the can, telling her 
to get her ass down to Intelligence, that there were some 
matters that required her immediate attention.  As she 
strode off, the leash dangling limply between her breasts, 
a glance back showed Jenka and the Lion moving towards the 
lounge, arm in arm, talking amiably. 

Tanj was buried in intercept reports, trying to analyze 
just what was left of the Elysium military, when Zassa 
interrupted her with a kiss.  Tanj turned, and blinked and 
then hugged Zassa tight; “Hello, Dear; Lord, its good to 
see you again!”  Zassa grinned; “you going to work all 
night?  You’re going to miss the celebration!”  Tanj 
blinked; “what celebration......”  Zassa grinned and leaned 
past her to scroll down, way down, on her e-mail list; 
there near the bottom was a  message announcing a 
celebration in the Cafeteria, at 2000 hours.  Tanj glanced 
at the time display in the corner of the screen; 2137 hrs.  
Turning back to Zassa, Tanj found the vixen wagging a 
finger in her face; “naughty naughty; they’re not pleased 
with you at all!  Better get your cute ass down there!  
Come on!”

Tanj followed Zassa as the vixen literally ran towards the 
cafeteria, all the while wishing she could just go get a 
nice hot bath and someone’s comfortable bed.  As they 
neared the cafeteria, the sounds of raucous celebration 
were heard; Zassa made it about two steps through the 
doorway, before someone grabbed her to kiss her hard, 
and Tanj slowed to watch.  The way Zassa kissed back, she 
either knew (and liked) the furr that had grabbed her, or 
was just in the mood.  Definitely in the mood.  As she 
grinned, watching Zassa, she felt arms go around her waist 
from behind; turning she found Slasher grinning at her, and 
before she knew it she too was heavily involved in 
a kiss.  Reggie was next and she hugged him hard as she 
kissed him.  Then someone handed her a drink and as the 
crowd shifted, she was swept away from them.  She tried 
wading through the crowd, looking for Zassa, or Hinoki, or 
her Master, or even Jenka, but the press of furrs was too 
thick.  It wasn’t until someone grabbed her and hoisted 
her up to plant a loud kiss in her navel that she spotted 
the characteristic black of Jenka’s fur across the crowded 
room.  Tanj purrrred and squirmed, grinding her hips 
against his chest, to the hoots and catcalls of his 
friends; as he lowered her, she kissed him hard and dashed 
off into the crowd.  On the way she ran across Hinoki; he 
was gagged, and on his knees by a fetching coyote fem 
dressed in a skintight translucent dress; “Oh, Hi 
Charlotte!  What are you doing with Hinoki?”  Charlotte 
blushed; “Ah, well, hope you don’t mind; while you were 
away, seems your pet here lost a small wager with me; we’re 
taking out his losses in, ah, “trade”......”  Tanj laughed 
and kissed Charlotte, and then bent to kiss Hinoki on the 
top of his head; “No, not at all; as his debts are 
currently mine, I’m more than happy for him to work them 
off; but of course, I suppose I’ll have to punish him for 
betting foolishly in the first place, won’t I?”  Charlotte 
beamed and nodded; “let me know if you need any help!”  
Tanj nodded and winked and dashed off to continue her 
search for her Master.

Tanj found Jenka seated with the Lion, along with Ben, and 
Jack, and a few other of the senior officers.  Tanj winked 
at Jenka and sashayed up to the Lion to give him a hot 
kiss, not surprised at all when he dragged her into his 
lap; “Jenka tells me you’ve been quite naughty!”  Tanj did 
her best to give him her wide-eyed innocent look; “who, 
ME?”  He grinned and nodded; “something about you having to 
be tied up, to keep you from pestering the staff....”   
Tanj’s eyes instantly darted to Jack, who blushed under his 
fur.  “Ah, I see by your guilty look that it is indeed 
true!  I also hear that you love to tease Jenka.  I believe 
she mentioned that she had to threaten you in order to make 
you give her a climax?”  Tanj just grinned and looked down; 
“Um, well........ ah.......”  “Uh-huh.  Thought so” the 
Lion grinned; “you realize of course that such behavior 
brings dishonor on me, and the Brethren, and that we’ll 
have to find a suitable punishment........  Tanj did her 
best to look horrified, and meek, as she nodded her head, 
but thought to herself; “as long as its from you, as long 
as I’m with you, I’ll gladly suffer whatever “indignities” 
you care to visit upon me....”  The Lion grinned and 
nodded; “well, we’ll have to think of something special, 
something appropriate, but in the meantime, I think you 
need to dance for us.”  And with that he lifted Tanj off 
his lap to set her on the floor next to his chair.

Tanj thought furiously, reviewing all the dances she’d been 
taught.....  After a moment she smiled and turned to face 
the gathering crowd, noting that they’d all quieted, 
turning to watch.  Striding over to Emily, a lady mink she 
knew from accounting, she borrowed a long thin scarf Emily 
had been using as a belt.  Placing the belt on the floor 
at a strategic spot, she turned, taking a wide, defiant 
stance, facing the Lion, watching him.  She stared into his 
eyes, smiling, her paws pressed to the tops of her thighs, 
in front, a challenging and seductive look.  Her tail 
lashed to some slow beat that only she could hear, and 
her hips began to sway gently.  Her paws glided down, 
fingertips pushing through her soft fur, and then she 
dragged them back up, her fingertips framing her feminine 
treasures.  Tanj purrrred as her fingers drifted up her 
sides, so that her palms defined and accentuated the 
roundness of her breasts.  One foot moved in, slowly, to 
meet the other, and then softly slid behind her; spinning 
on the balls of her feet, she half turned, her tail a 
slender streamer as her bare backside swung into the Lion’s 
view.  Tanj’s hips swayed with the sudden livening of the 
unheard beat, the muscular hemisphere’s of the cheetah’s 
buttocks rubbing together in provocative suggestion 
immediately carried out when her fingers glided around her 
hips, to follow the underside of their curves.  Gently she 
squeezed the globes of her ass, as her head turned, her 
expression impish and teasing, to catch the Lion’s 
expression.  Tanj purrrrrred, a deep rich sound as she 
beheld the look on his face.

Tanj tossed her head back, the ends of her hair rubbing 
softly back and forth along the upper curves of her ass as 
her entire body rocked back and forth, fluid and bending 
like a willow branch, neck bending so that her head always 
followed the motion last.  She thrust out her bottom, still 
sensuously massaging her firm cheeks, separating them as 
her hips sway with her body in time to the imaginary music.  
As she swayed, her tail rose, to reveal something, then 
snapping down to hide whatever it may have been.... Again 
she peeked at the Lion’s expression, and grinned wickedly.  
Bending over, Tanj snagged the length of silk from its 
place on the floor, pulling it upwards as her body sways.  
She kicked a foot off the ground, spinning her body around, 
her foot coming down to face the Lion, with her feet 
widespread, her body leaning forward.  Sloooowly she pulled 
one paw up over her head, the other held low, the streamer 
of silk slithering up her body, between her breasts, 
deepening her cleavage, its lower reaches pretending to 
hide her sex from view.

Tanj’s eyes were hungry, predatory, as she shifted from one 
bending leg to the other, fist holding that swishing piece 
of silk firmly in place over her sex as her other paw slid 
up her body, to cup a breast, its pink nipple pierced with 
silver standing proud.  Tanj’s eyes closed and her 
expression grew dreamy as her paw, holding the bunched silk 
to her sex, sloooowly started massaging, stroking herself 
oblivious to the hungry eyes devouring her; she purrrred 
and started swaying again, the occasional tremor barely 
perceived as she swayed.  After a moment, Tanj’s eyes 
opened and she grinned knowingly at the Lion, her paw 
lifting the silk to her muzzle, for her to deeply inhale 
the aroma of her own arousal.  Her eyes became slits as 
they sought out the Lion’s eyes, as she wantonly licked at 
the damp silk......

With a sudden flash of movement, Tanj’s fist flew up, the 
silk streamering behind, and then just as sharply down 
behind her; with a grin, her other fist descended between 
her thighs, to catch the end of the silk, to whip it up 
between her thighs, the silk pulling tightly against her 
sex.  Moving with increasing fury, the silk would fly up, 
and then down, and then be drawn up again between her 
thighs, the tension such that it would visibly part her 
sex, and then it would be flying up in the air again, the 
pattern to be repeated.  The dance continued, until 
wordlessly, Tanj shuddered, the sensations of the 
flying silk too much for her to stand..........

Straightening, Tanj raised her muzzle to gaze into the 
Lion’s eyes, letting him drink her up with his lusty 
gaze.......  As she caught her breath, Tanj’s paws slid up 
her sides, drawing eloquent circles about her breasts.  
Then, as she moved, the end of the silk looped around her 
neck, to be rapidly tied by her deft fingers in a half-
hitch, making a leash of it.  Clutching the silk between 
the twin peaks of her breasts, she looked about, searching 
in some purposeful and lusty fashion, her hips rocking 
gently to the tempo of the imaginary music, until her gaze 
finally settled on a tie-down, embedded in the floor near 
the Lion’s feet.  Tanj purrrrred, stalking the ring of 
metal, eyeing it seductively; falling to her knees, she 
secured herself to the ring, the silk going taut between 
the floor and her neck as she leaned back.  As her body 
tilted back, her hips rose and moved forward, until her 
moist sex pressed against the taut silk, rubbing it, 
stroking it, wetting it with her arousal.  Tanj lay her 
head back, opening herself to the Lion’s view.  Her breath 
quickened, her chest heaved, nipples stiff and 
prominent, their rings glittering, as her hips moved to a 
wanton, needful meter, as she ground her sensitive bits 
harder and harder against the taut silk in a definite 
rhythm that faltered more and more frequently.  Suddenly 
she mewled and trembled, her body arched, her dripping sex 
pressed hard into the fabric, the intensity of her 
expressions poignant as the feelings exploded within her, 
rocking her to her very foundations, soon leaving her 
wilted and panting, held up only by the silk leash about 
her throat.

The room was silent for a moment, and then exploded with 
cheers and applause; Tanj slowly bent forward, allowing the 
silk to fall loosely down her front, as she rose her eyes 
to that of the Lion.  He smiled a knowing smile at her, and 
nodded slowly; “Jenka was right; you _are_ a major 
tease....... but in your dance I believed you’ve defined 
your punishment....”  Tanj looked up at her Master, 
thinking; “Oh, crap, now what have I gotten myself 
into.....”  “I think, little one, having aroused just about 
every living soul in both fleets, that you’ll stay tied 
to that eyebolt, as you’ve so conveniently done, until 
everyone you’ve aroused has had their way with you.  
Starting with me!”  With that, the Lion gave Jenka a wink 
and rose, to drop his pants.  Tanj’s eyes widened slightly 
at the size of his erection, and then she smiled; at least 
she’d had the desired effect on him.......

The Lion moved around behind Tanj, forcing her onto hands 
and knees, to drive his cock into her dripping snatch with 
one powerful thrust.  To the catcalls and cheers of the 
crowd, he proceeded to fuck her roughly, his claws 
twitching out to hold her hips as he bucked against her.  
For her part, Tanj just lowered her chest to the deck, head 
nestled on crossed arms, and delighted in the feel of her 
master’s cock within her.  His pounding drove her to a 
quick and powerful climax; of course, afterwards, she 
couldn’t resist continuing the tease.  She worked her 
vaginal muscles around his driving cock, caressing 
him unseen, milking him, until at last, with a roar, he 
jerked his cock from within her, to spray his seed over her 
back.  As the Lion moved around to let her lick him clean, 
Tanj saw Jenka rise, to take the Lion’s place..... Jenka 
had stripped off her outfit, to don a harness holding a 
strap-on dildo, that if anything, was more fearsome than 
the Lion’s cock.  Worse, she was carrying that damn corset, 
and before Tanj knew what was happening, strong hands from 
either side of her were drawing the strings TIGHT!  Then 
Jenka got down to business, and given the size of thedildo, 
and the compression of her insides, it wasn’t long before 
the big Pantheress had driven Tanj to at least three 
screaming climaxes, the rubbing of the little rubber nubs 
inside the harness also making Jenka gasp and moan, much to 
the delight of the crowd.  From there, Tanj lost count, 
with male after male taking her from behind, with the 
occasional male, or female presenting their sex to her 
muzzle to be licked......

It must have been around the beginning of the day shift 
when Zassa came to collect Tanj.  Somewhere along the line 
she’d fallen asleep (or just passed out), literally in a 
puddle of cum.  The last thing she remembered was being 
held in a bizarre posture, one furr driving his cock into 
her ass, another in her pussy, a third pushing her breasts 
together, his hard cock between them, a fourth in her 
mouth, and one cock in each hand......  Zassa had to help 
Tanj down to the Lion’s quarters, for the strangest reason 
she seemed to be having difficulty walking.  Most of her 
fatigue fell away though, when they entered the Lion’s 
bedroom, to find him crouched by the side of the bed, his 
tongue buried deep in Jenka’s pussy.  Tanj and Zassa 
watched for a moment as he took Jenka repeatedly to the 
brink of a climax, and then sat back, teasing in exactly 
the way Tanj had been reprimanded for......  After one such 
bout, with Jenka sprawled across his bed panting heavily, 
the Lion looked up at Tanj and just winked.  Jenka, though, 
caught the motion, and tilted her head way back to look 
at Tanj; “Lord, child you’re a MESS!”  Then Jenka giggled; 
You know, Tanj, the one thing we _didn’t_ do, while you 
were with the Black Fleet; for all the times you licked me 
to a marvelous climax, I never did get around to repaying 
you in kind.  Come over here and let me lick at you, while 
your master exercises that marvelous tongue of his; I’m 
convinced that with practice he’ll get it right yet!”  With 
that, Tanj padded (waddled) over to Jenka, as she squirmed 
around to dangle her head off the far side of the bed; as 
the Lion started licking again at Jenka’s pussy, Jenka’s 
tongue darted out to dance over Tanj’s clitty.......

Zassa watched for a moment and then giggled; moving around 
the bed, she laid down on her back and scooted back to 
wedge her head between the Lion’s thighs.  He moaned 
delightfully as Zassa’s tongue found his hard cock.........

It must have been the next day, when they finally saw Jenka 
off at the airlock.  Arrangements had been made for 
splitting the booty, and discussions had been held on 
future joint operations.  During one of the pauses from the 
previous day’s floating orgy, Jenka had remarked on the 
operations on Elysium; the Lion just shrugged; “with all 
the messages flying back and forth, I anticipated that some 
of them would be intercepted; as a result, I had a 
contingency operation planned.  I’d never dreamed that 
you’d have problems with your command structure like you 
did, Jenka, and I have to admit, its a situation I should 
consider here.........”  Jenka nodded and then reached out 
to stroke some fur, and the train of conversation had been 
lost...... until now.  “You take care of yourself, 
hairball, and keep an eye on Tanj too; if you ever get 
tired of her, you just let me know, I’ll make you an offer 
you won’t better anywhere else!”  Tanj smiled and kissed 
Jenka goodbye.  The Lion just smiled; “you take care too, 
watch who you choose to let close to you; the wrong fur can 
rip your heart out, if you know what I mean......”  Jenka 
just smiled and then the lock was hissing closed, with Tanj 
pondering the meaning of her Master’s last statement.......

This story is a work of fiction, and any 
resemblance to any characters, living, dead or 
imaginary is purely a coincidence.  Tanj and these 
stories arecopyright Kittiara's player, 1997, 1998, 
1999, 2000.  Kittiara can be found on Furrymuck; 
telnet 209.100.167.128 8888. Hinoki, Zassa, and 
Jenka copyright their players, also to be found on 
FurryMuck.  Mark is copyright Ann’katar, also of 
FurryMuck.  Comments, suggestions, or flames can be 
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