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stable shaped like an L to the left of the mansion. The wooden barracks encompassed a courtyard where metal fences divided the area into individual pens and training grounds. The occupants of these were the source of the sounds, but there was no normal beast in evidence.
    Human ponies were undergoing their regime of indoctrination - women sealed in a variety of costumes and prancing about at the command of whip and crop, their hoofed feet pounding the rich soil beneath them. Taller torches were being lit in this area as well, that were slightly more dense in construction, the wider bases providing more support, apparently for safety reasons, so they could not fall and harm a helplessly bound slave.
    The slaves carrying their luggage entered the house while Oceanus and Tethys paused in the courtyard to wait for Mina to catch up. As she arrived between them, they smiled and indicated a set of gallows.
    â€˜We shall be leaving you in bondage for the night, slave, to prepare you for tomorrow,’ Tethys informed her, one hand on her hip, the other running down the polished wood of the main support beam.
    â€˜You still want to be trained as our pony?’ Oceanus asked soberly.
    Mina looked up into his eyes and nodded fervently. ‘Yes, master, I do.’
    His smile deepened as he kissed his wife before preparing the gallows for Mina’s bondage. They looked ordinary, except there was no noose at the end of the rope, from which hung a heavy set of leg-spreaders. A cluster of three hoops were sealed to each end of the iron bar, and onto these had been clipped a set of sturdy leather fetters. A collection of riveted straps was configured to create a funnel-shape for the foot, with other bands for the ankles made of soft padded leather to ease the strain of suspension. The rope holding the contrivance ran through hoops set in the wood and connected to a winch placed at the side, making lifting a slave a vastly less taxing feat.
    â€˜Lay down on your back,’ Tethys commanded.
    Mina swiftly spread herself across the cold stones, her lowly position leaving the gallows and her owners towering over her, emphasising her feeling of servility as they each took hold of one of her ankles and lifted it, slotting her feet into the awaiting straps and tightening them to an exact fit, the cushioned interior clamping gently to her extremities. Once she was secured, Tethys turned the crank and the mechanism quickly gathered the rope, lifting Mina’s buttocks into the air and then her back, her shoulders and finally her head, leaving her swinging gently to and fro, her legs splayed wide by her confinement.
    Her wrists were drawn before her and locked into a set of matching shackles. The padded leather enclosed her joints and the D-rings that lay on either side were all captured by a single padlock, so she could not remove them from her wrists or even part her hands. Rope was fed around and joined her elbows, pulling them together behind her. Her cuffs were then dragged to her belly as her elbows were hauled closer in a familiar pose, depriving her of the use of her arms.
    Left hanging in the cool air of early evening, Mina watched impotently as her two owners looked her over lustfully, clearly fighting the urge to succumb to their carnal passions.
    â€˜Is our slave happy?’ Tethys asked with a purr in her voice, running her hand down Mina’s thighs and squeezing the firm flesh.
    â€˜Yes, mistress, I am glad to be yours again,’ she replied truthfully.
    â€˜Such delightfully pert mounds... they just scream for abuse, don’t they, Oceanus?’ his wife mused, tracing a finger across Mina’s buttocks. She then thrust her digit through the cleft in her bottom cheeks, riding down the tight valley and across the fabric covering her pudenda. ‘So desperately in need of discipline, and so hungry for it,’ she went on dreamily, and pulling Mina’s panties aside she shoved a finger into her moist