The Silver Queen [AU]

[Isabela]

"Alright," she says, with clear relief as she cuddles up to him. "Thank you," she murmurs. 

[Tethras Clan]

Zevran smiles, relieved as well, as he pulls her close so she's laying partially on him. "Can... can you talk about it at all yet? I..." He winces. "if naught else, we need to tell the crew what to do about Coquette. If she is rescued or captive."

[Isabela]

Isabela stills. "What would be your preference?" she asks, after a moment. 

[Tethras Clan]

"I don't know," Zevran says slowly. "Well, rescued, if only because that would mean we saved someone as opposed to captured a slaver. Rather like being the hero. Executioner is... less enjoyable."

[Isabela]

"The husband wasn't the one who ran over my safeword," she says quietly. "But... I'm not certain which is the real her."

[Tethras Clan]

"Real her?" he asks slowly.

[Isabela]

"She seemed to... change. Vacillate. Sometimes she was his submissive. Sometimes she was his pet, his slave. Sometimes she was his partner."

[Tethras Clan]

Zevran is quiet a moment. "That... sounds like she was... hmmm. She could have been submissive as part of a game between the two of them and actually been his partner... But it seems more likely she was broken, and he was training her to be... a second pair of hands." He shudders a little. "I think perhaps we might need to speak to her under a Truthing."

[Isabela]

"Cool. Maybe you and Carver can do that? I want to walk the ship, make sure the lines are clean." She knows she can trust her crew -- she wouldn't have hired them if they didn't know the job as well as she did -- but then, it's common enough for the captain to be paranoid about fouling the sails, and while the ship used an artifact to take to the air, it still used wind to maneuver.

[Tethras Clan]

"...do you wish to listen? Out of sight perhaps?" he asks gently.

[Isabela]

"I... no. Maybe, later, I'll have questions, but Helene's record will be enough for now."

[Tethras Clan]

"Alright," he says softly, gently. "Do... can you talk about it yet? Any of it?"

[Isabela]

"If... if you need me to, I can. It... wasn't so bad, this time."

She's never talked about what happened with Hawke; he was there for enough of what happened with Luis that he knew the worst of it, and she'd not brought that up again since their reunion.

[Tethras Clan]

Not as... I suppose that's... well, you're older, tougher now. And it was not... your rapist did not wear the face of a loved one. So. "You need not... no details, if you do not wish it but... What you can and no more. I will not push you on this, I swear it."

[Isabela]

Bela is quiet for a long white before speaking, getting her thoughts in order.

"It was... fun, at first. We decided on a safeword, and then I got to play with Lady Olocaryn for a time. He kept encouraging me to be rougher, but she didn't seem to like it until he did it, so I kept my own touches gentler. He... I suspect it was his intent, to make me feel superior, thinking I knew more about her than he did. Or perhaps her intent. Either way, it all seemed innocent at first. Her submissive, him dominant, myself in between. We shared her between us, even. When we took a break, it was I who tended to her -- it seems he usually has her lady's maid tend to her between rounds. I had to fight him to get her a moment to herself, but she seemed to be on his side in the matter. I don't.. believe she was feigning, but i was... confusing," she says, shaking her head a little. 

"He bound the pair of us together, and thing escalated. I can't recall.. I can't recall if I was... why did I enjoy it so much? I..." She shakes her head again. "It's a blur from there. Things kept escalating, and I don't... I should have stopped there, but I didn't. I was enjoying myself too much to stop." Unnoticed by her, she's trembling now. Because I'm a whore. "I didn't... I don't remember if we discussed nonverbal safewords, but I was... there was a gag, you see, and... Lady Olocaryn picked a whip that was barbed, and I tried to safeword -- you know how I don't like whips as much, and that's just... with strangers, I wouldn't... but I was tied and gagged, so I kept trying to safeword, but she... I had taken her for a submissive, but she was more savage to me than her husband, and I just kept screaming, I..."