DOVE OF HARMONY
Part Eight
By Arthur
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Three hours later and the city of Sydney was below us as the jet circled waiting for its instructions to land. Sydney was only a stop over for two hours before we caught our flight to Melbourne and the reunion that I partly looked forward to and also dreaded. My old Master was now in his eighties but I knew deep inside that he would have lost none of his tremendous inner strength, that same strength that could weaken men twice his size and half his age.
Looking over at Eric I smiled and wondered what he was going to think when he met Master Kristos for the first time, I had no doubts about Erics performance of his duties but the fear that Kristos could instil in other Masters was profound and to a Sub it was down right terrifying.
The lay over at Sydney was as usual boring to say the least and I was glad when we got back into the air and on our last leg of the journey.
Melbourne had changed a lot from the time I was there and although the roads had changed it was not difficult to find my way in our rental car to the Nepean Highway and as we passed Serikoski's Hotel the tingling and butterflies began to flutter in my stomach as we got closer to number 114.
The large colonial style house set back from the Highway and surrounded by smartly kept grounds brought a rush of old and sometimes painful memories to me, I turned to eric as I stopped the car in the driveway in front of the imoposing wooden doors.
"Ok Eric, this is Master Kristos house, he was my first and only Master, he is the one who taught me to be who I am today. When we go inside we will be in a small reception area, I will strip down to my boxers and you will strip completely, I'm going to remove all your restraints except your collar, ok?"
"Yes James."
I could hear the nervousness in his voice as he spoke.
"When we hear the bell we will go throught to the lounge room, this time you will stay directly behind me and when I take my position of respect you will go to Helot, understand?"
"Yes James."
"When Master Kristos speaks you dont move or make a sound, even if he talks to you, stay at Helot, now he will most probably run his hands over you, again don't move a hair, ok?"
"Yes James."
"Right, when he lets us stand you will take your place beside me as usual but this time you will keep your eyes on the floor at all times even when you are at 'Present' and one other thing don't dare go to harmony unless I tell you directly, got all that?"
"Yes James."
"Good boy now lets get this over with."
I led the way from the car and went to the door which opened silently and as we stepped in I saw the retreating back of a man of about thirty, naked except for his chastity belt and restraints. I began to undress until I stood only in my boxers, removing all symbols of my title and domination. Eric stood waiting for me to unlock his restraints and stood shaking as the silence of the house overtook him.
The old familiar smells came back to me as I looked down the hallway toward the room I knew he would be waiting in, I felt like the young guy so many years ago that had stood here uncertainly as the small greek man told me to strip or leave.
I opened my arms as I laid down the last of Erics leathers on the side table and pulled him close in a last minute hug of confidence.
"Ok my little dove, you ready?"
In a quavering voice Eric spoke into my chest as he held on for one more second.
"Yes James."
I led Eric down the Hall, our bare feet making soft padding noises as we walked on the cold stone flags of the long walk.
We stood at 'The Door' and after checkinig that Eric was directly behind me I opened the door and walked in. Master Kristos was standing in the center of the room, his slave in the third positon as I entered, Masters eyes were as keen and hard as ever and he didn't look to be more than sixty years old. His eyes bored into me while appearing to totally ignore Erics presence, but I knew better, he would not have missed a single movement either of us made.
When I was about three feet from him I went down into the thrid position and waited for his signal, I could hear Erics soft breathing from his position of Helot on the floor behind me.
Master lifted his index finger and I began to speak.
"My Master, I bring you my humble greetings, may the dove protect you always."
Kristos took the two steps toward me and then lashed out with his trade mark back hander, rattling my teeth and bringing again those long ago memories of his greetings each morning.
"Well boy about time you came calling, have you lived your life according to the teachings of the Seven Mythra 'May They Preserve'?"
"My Master, with all my being I have kept the laws."
'Crack' another backhander.
"Good Boy."
Kristos turned to his slave waiting on the floor behind him.
"Slave fetch this boy's clothes here immediately."
The slave ran to the reception room and returned with my clothes, laying them neatly at Kristos feet.
"Ok get up lazy bones and get dressed, we have a lot of old times to make up for."
I rose to my feet and begasn to dress, the ringing in my ears and the tenderness of my jaw reminding me that this so called old man was still as hard as ever.
"I see you've got yourself a double."
I knew better than to be fooled by his friendly manner.
"Yes Master."
"Hmm, well I suppose you deserve one, is he any good?"
"I fear at times Master, that I'm a bit soft on him, but he's a good boy and tries hard for me."
"Well I'll have to see about that for myself, boy bring me the Strega."
Kristos's slave ran for the Strega as the my old Master looked Eric over from where he stood.
"How long have you had him?"
"For just on two years Master."
"Hmmm."
The slave returned and stood beside Kristos waiting with the Strega in his hands.
"Instruct your boy."
"Yes Master, may he go to harmony?"
"If he can before i get the first two or three in."
"Eric, go to harmony."
The room became silent and Erics deep rythmic humming began instantly. Kristos stared at me with a stunned look on his face as Erics humming continued unabated.
"My god James, (that was the first time he had ever used my name in all the years I had known him) he can go to harmony before a stroke is laid on him?"
"Yes Master."
"When did he start to do that?"
"Within the first week of having him."
"What! no training, no instructions at all?"
"Nothing Master, he just did it naturally and has been able to do it on command."
"Amazing, how many can he take from the strega?"
"At your pleasure Master."
"Are you serious James?"
"Yes Master, he will stay in harmony until i tell him not to, reguardless of the disciplinary actions being taken."
"The he is lucky to have found you James, he could be killed by someone who doesn't understand his unique ability."
"Yes Master, his parents were concerned for his safety for that very reason."
"Well damn me, Prime Master James, will you do me the honour of giving your Child of Mythra ten strokes of my Strega?"
Ten strokes from Kristos was like being hit by a Mack truck at fifty miles an hour, but I knew Eric would not break.
"At your will my Master."
"Prime Master, I am honoured."
Kristos stepped up to the side of Eric and without further ado delivered a blow that would have broken lesser boys than Eric and his ablities. Eric was pushed six inches along the floor but his humming remained steady and clear.Kristos turned to me and then said something I thought I would never hear from him.
"This boy would rather die for you than surrender his safe word, is that right James?"
"Yes Master."
"Then there is no need for the other nine strokes, release him from his harmony and position and send him to dress and then return to your side where he definately belongs, this boy has to much honour to waste uselessly."
"Eric, cease and get dressed and return to me."
The humminig stopped immediately and Eric rose to his feet with his eyes on the floor and made his way out to the hall to dress.
"Come James lets sit down and relax, you are absolved of all titles to me, you are a Master in your own right and I will honour you and your boy in my house."
I let out a breath that seemed as though I had been holding for the last twenty minutes as Kristos showed me to a comfortable chair near the windows that looked out over his back garden.
We sat there without a word as we waited for Eric to rejoin us and when he came in he took his place on the floor at 'Rest' but with his eyes on the floor in front of him, he neatly laid out his restraints in front of himself waiting for me to lock them on.
"Tell your boy to take ease James."
"To ease Eric."
Eric lowered his arms behind his back and settled back onto his heels keeping his gaze down.
Kristos looked at his boy and said.
"See boy, that's how it should be done, that is a true Child of Mythra, take note you will never see it again."
"Tell me James, would that boy be better in your lap?"
"Yes K...K...Kristos, I'm sure he would be." I still found it hard to use his name, even after all these years.
"Then release him, let him be the boy he is James."
"Come here kiddo give me a hug."
The relief in Erics face as he seemed to rise from the floor and land in my lap in one fluid movement nearly caught me by surprise, his breathe rushed out of him as he settled down on my chest. I purposefully left his restraints off so he could relax as we did so often at home.
"A beautiful boy James, and I can see he learns well, tell me have to taken him to his safe word yet."
"I've tried Kristos, but he won't word out, he goes to harmony when he is close to it but he won't use it."
"unbelievable, he is a special one that one James."
"Yes very special."
"You know the last full double, in fact the only true double that was as good as him was from my village in Greece, the boy was nine years old and could go to harmnoy when ever needed, this boy of yours is the only other one I've ever seen that could do it."
"I never knew that Kristos, I knew that Eric had something really special but I didn't know it was that rare."
"It is James, what he does is very rare, a lot can go to harmony with the usual training but to be able to do it from the first moment is almost unheard of."
I could feel Eric's head move slightly and as I looked down I could see him trying to take a look at Kristos for the first time.
"What's the matter kiddo?"
Eric lifted his head and when his lips were close to my ear he asked.
"Can I look at the Master now James?"
"Ha ha ha ha, Master Kristos, My boy has asked permission to see you?"
"Master James, I would welcome your boy to 'Present' himself to me."
"Eric, 'Present' yourself before Master Kristos and answer any questions he may have for you."
Eric moved rapidly but with a confidence i didn't know he had as he approached Kristos who was watching him like a hawk as he took his 'Present' and stood rock solid. Kristos rose to his feet and his eyes changed to their old hardenss as he took in the sight of my little Dove before him.
"So slave you think you are good enough to be Mythra's Child?"
"Master, I am as my Master made me."
"Oh so you give honour to your Master do you?"
Master, it is my duty and my desire to do so."
"So you love your Master do you slave?"
"Master, all that is me belongs to my Master."
"Would you like a taste of my cat, slave?"
"Master, if it be my Masters wish."
"What if I just take you and do it ,slave?"
"Master, I would have to safe word to save my Masters honour."
"What, you would safe word over a little whipping, slave?"
"Master, I would gladly take your whipping without question, but I could not let another Master dishonour my Master in such a way."
"And you would safe word?"
"Master, it would be my duty to my Master."
"What if your Master sends you to me for a whipping?"
"Master, if that is my Masters wish then it will be so."
"Do I scare you, Slave?"
"Master, I can not answer that without dishonouring my Master."
"And if I push you for and answer Slave?"
"Master I would have to safe word to not dishonour my Master."
"Return to your Master Boy."
As Eric rejoined me and sat on my lap he let out a deep sigh, his face showed the strain and the sweat was running down his cheeks, I pulled him close as Kristos regained his chair.
"Congratulations James, he is truly Mythras Child."
"Thank you Kristos, you honour us both."
"It's well deserved James, and you say he won't safe word when being worked yet he would have given it up immediately for your honour, truly a remarkable boy James."
"Again you honour us Kristos."
"Well time for some dinner I think, you will be staying here won't you, no need for a hotel we have a lot of cathing up to do and I would like to see you work that boy some time."
"It would be an honour and a pleasure kristos."
"Good, now where is that damned boy, come boy, go to Mythras Child and prsent yourself and then get dinner ready."
"Kristos, may I offer Erics services for dinner?"
"That would be very kind of you James, yes I accept, do you want to set his restraints first?"
"Yes thank you, Eric 'Present', go out to the car and bring back your belt, then strip and I'll lock you down, after go with Master Kristos's boy and help with dinner."
"Yes Master."
Eric shot off like a rabbit and within three minutes was standing before me being locked down for the rest of the night.
"Ah James he holds position well, almost the best I've seen for a lot of years, you were always a little lax at 'Present' never could get you to do it properly. Mmmmmm the fun I had trying to get you to do it, remember that night with the Bastanado, I thought I had you when you used your goslow, then when you got up and limped back to the table I knew you weren't going to give up on it."
"yes Kristos I remember that very well, my left ankle is still a bit weak from that."
"You know that's the only time I've ever been stopped from finishing a task?"
"No, you never told me that."
"Damn it all James, you were the most stubborn bugger I ever had the pleasure of training, I only hope you get as much from that boy as you gave to me."
"He's already given me more than that Kristos, he will be my last boy, I would never be able to work another boy after him and besides I think he wouldn't leave me anyway."
"You're right there James, I can see it in his eyes, you are the only one he will go to, no doubt about that, I onnly fear for him if anything happens to you."
"Yes it's one thing I have to talk to him about."
"So he's that devoted is he?"
"More than you could guess Kristos."
"Well there's the two boys now so I think we better go eat before they're serving it for breakfast.
To Be Continued: