"Yes...Mistress."
Though Edith's body had matured, and though she had already been through quite a bit, what remained of her innocence had guarded her as an emotional shield. Elsa, through her ministrations, had shattered it, had shattered Edith's will.
"I'm sorry," Elsa said. "I didn't quite hear that. What did you say?"
"Yes, Mistress!" Edith repeated, louder as tears formed, her eyes staring forward.
Elsa looked deep into those eyes and smiled. Glassy and lifeless, not a spark of will left in them. She giggled. "Just like all my other dolls. They think they can defy me, but then I play with them and they fall right in line."
She snapped her fingers, and her servants returned with another China Doll, dressed in a dress identical to the one that had just been destroyed. Elsa had Edith redressed and her ringlets and makeup touched up. "Put her in the closet with my other dolls," she ordered.
No longer capable of resisting, Edith fell limp as she was carried to a nearby door. What she saw inside neither surprised her, nor made her feel any emotion at all. Lined up in the room was a collection of other "dolls" like her, each one brought to the lowest level of submissiveness and subservience. There was another blonde girl, her hair tied in braided pigtails wearing a Swiss milkmaid's outfit. A Japanese girl, her skin made white like a geisha with ruby-red lips and deep blue eyeshadow, was dressed in a tight-fitting kimono. A redhead, her hair held up with a pin behind her head, dressed in a Victorian dress, her midsection held stiff by a tight corset.
As Edith was set down and her wrists and ankles were chained to the floor, she felt a hand grip at her face and a small pill was shoved down her throat. Though no one told her, it was a pill designed specifically for Elsa's dolls. One pill per month gave them all the subsistence and nutrition that her biologically-alive dolls required.
The door closed, and Edith was left in the dark with her fellow prisoners. No one said anything or dare to even move. They all knew their place as Elsa's dolls, and simply waited for their mistress's return.
An unknown amount of time later...
Sat Aug 16 14:01:29 2008