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Chapter 15
- Carnival Dancer
Trish spent the next two weeks uneventfully. She worked in the two yards
picking fruit and doing housework during the days and pleasing her
Mistress at night. She learned that, in spite of her domineering
personality, Eve was fairly pleasant most of the time. All Trish had to
do was obey whatever order she was given, and she was able to avoid
�unpleasantness�. Not once during the second month did Eve feel that she
needed to punish her servant.
Two weekends after the hiking trip to Thunder Mountain, Officer Eve
Bousquet took her servant to the last major town of the Island that she
had not yet seen. The place was called Safe Harbor and it was the oldest
settlement on Santa Eduviges, founded in 1573 by the Spanish and
re-named in 1799 by the British. Among other tourist attractions, Safe
Harbor boasted a restored 19th Century schooner and a French fort.
As soon as Trish saw Safe Harbor, she knew that she would need to pose
for another series of photos. However, Eve did not have her camera and
did not plan to take any pictures herself. Instead she would lend her
servant to a local commercial photographer who wanted to do a two-day
photo shoot. Trish knelt as her Mistress introduced her, and commanded
that she address the photographer as �Master Luis�.
Luis first took Trish into the French fort and put wrist and leg irons
on her. The servant posed in a series of dungeon settings and had to
endure being chained in several prison cells. Still wearing her cuffs,
Trish had to pose on the fortress wall, with her hands cuffed behind her
back and then with her hands un-cuffed, but the irons still on. She sat
on cannons and looked out guard towers. Then she was locked in a pillory
and later chained to a whipping post. Throughout the photo-shoot in the
fort, tourists and museum workers followed the model and took numerous
pictures of their own.
Trish left the cuffs behind at the fort when Luis took her to the
schooner. Trish posed all over the ship. The photographer even got
permission for her to climb the ropes and pose in the crow�s nest.
When it was time for Trish to pose in the town�s main plaza, Trish and
the photographer came across a group of teenagers sitting near the
church and listening to salsa. Trish liked salsa music and was a good
dancer. It had been two months since she had the chance to dance, so her
body involuntarily began moving with the music.
Eve had an idea for the photo shoot. Why not have Trish dance with the
teenagers? Obviously, they were happy to oblige and enjoy the chance to
dance with an attractive naked American. Trish was in a good mood, was
enjoying the music, and was enjoying the chance to show off. So, for
nearly an hour, she danced tirelessly as the teenagers took turns as
dance partners. A crowd gathered and started clapping with the music.
Trish danced with some of the spectators as well. Yes, it turned out
that Eve�s �little sex-pot� had become quite the exhibitionist and dance
star.
The photographer took pictures of Trish throughout the day, finishing
with a series during sunset on a beach near Safe Harbor. She and Eve
spent the night at the photographer�s house and were up before dawn for
a photo-shoot during sunrise. Shortly before lunch, the photographer
finished with additional pictures around Safe Harbor.
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During lunch, Eve and Luis talked about the photos and where he wanted
to post them. He assured Trish�s owner that he would put the entire
collection of pictures on a thumb-drive, even the images he considered
rejects and out-takes. The two Islanders discussed various photo-sharing
websites and the photographer alerted Eve to a popular site she didn�t
know about.
While Trish knelt and ate her usual plate of leftovers, the conversation
drifted to the shoot at the plaza and the servant�s excellent dancing
skills.
�I have a question, Eve. I�m really impressed by how well your servant
dances, and also by how long she can go without getting tired. I think
she�d make a great dancer for Carnival. I was wondering if you had any
thoughts about registering her.�
�No, not really. I don�t want her wearing any outfits, not even for
Carnival. One of the things I plan to do with her is keep her naked for
the rest of her life.�
�That�s not a problem, keeping her naked. You don�t know about the
changes the Carnival directors approved last month?�
�No, like what?�
�They�re getting rid of the clothing requirement. Carnival dancers can
either go in costume, or they can be nude.�
Eve�s attention perked up. She�d love to have Trish dance in the
Carnival if she could remain nude. Luis continued:
�I�m bringing this up because Safe Harbor tasked me with designing a
float for this year�s parade. I have an idea in mind, but to make it the
way I want, I�d like to have a naked dancer.�
�So, what�s your idea?�
�The float is going to represent the Night Spirits. It will have three
levels. The bottom level will have dancers dressed like the dead, you
know, funeral clothes and skeleton masks. The next level will be
animals, like bats and owls. The top section would be the moon, riding
above everything else, pure and unadorned. I�d been thinking about
trying to recruit a Danubian tourist to represent the moon. Those women
don�t mind running around naked in public, but the problem is they�re
terrible dancers. A Danubian couldn�t dance to Latin music to save her
life.�
�So my servant would be the only naked person on the float?�
�Yes, because I want her to stand out. The float will be all dark
colors, except the moon section, which will be much brighter.�
Eve smiled and caressed her servant�s shoulder. �Well, you�ve just
recruited your moon dancer.�
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For the next two weeks, Servant Trish was relieved of her normal duties
in Flora�s yard. Instead, she traveled with her Mistress to the airport,
where one of Luis�s assistants was on-hand to take her to Safe Harbor.
She reported to a warehouse that Luis had rented for float construction
and dance rehearsals. For seven hours each day she practiced with 19
Islanders and one girl from Panama, evenly divided between men and
women. There would be a total of 21 dancers on the float: 12 on the
lower level, eight on the second level, and one on the top.
On the first day Trish knelt while Luis introduced her to the other
dancers. They stared at her with blatant curiosity. She was extremely
nervous, but when Luis ordered the DJ of the project to play a salsa
tune, Trish started dancing to prove herself. After just two songs she
had impressed the others: for an American she danced extremely well.
Trish wondered if any of her companions would resent her being the
featured dancer at the top of the float. Under ordinary circumstances
the answer would have been �yes�, but none of the others had any desire
to spend an entire evening dancing naked on top of a well-lit moving
platform. The Carnival would be broadcast on live television and the
parade route would be crowded with tens of thousands of spectators.
So�the answer was no. No one had any desire to change places with the
American servant.
The music consisted mostly of Spanish salsa, with some Samba tunes mixed
in. Reggatone, which had become the favored genre of music elsewhere in
the Caribbean, was not yet popular in Santa Eduviges. Trish�s talent for
dancing to salsa allowed her to quickly pick up Samba. She was able to
detach herself from her surroundings and move with the music. There were
times she was able to totally forget where she was and what had become
of her life.
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As Luis�s dancers synchronized their moves and learned the order of the
music planned for Carnival, the float itself took shape. The lower
section consisted of dark vegetation, the upper part was surrounded with
paper Mache to resemble clouds, and the top platform had a large
translucent cloth circle to portray moon. The platform where Trish would
dance was two meters in diameter, plenty of room for her to move about.
The lighting was designed to illuminate both the circle and the dancer,
but the circle was designed to absorb some of the lighting to direct the
spectators� eyes to the uncovered figure of the performer.
Carnival in Santa Eduviges lasted two days and mostly was celebrated in
the capitol. Unfortunately, Trish had to miss most of the first day of
festivities, because Luis wanted the dancers to be well-rested and
stretched out before the nighttime parade. Shortly before sunset the
group (with the notable exception of the moon dancer) put on their
outfits and boarded a bus for the capitol.
Luis already had taken care of most of the preparations, so there was
not much for the performers to do apart from having one last drink of
water, climb into their positions, and wait for the float to start
moving. When Trish took her position on her platform, she was four
meters above the level of the street. She was very, very visible,
especially when the lights illuminating her body were turned on. She was
not embarrassed in the least. She felt very aroused and excited. Above
all, she was eager to perform well so her Mistress would be proud of
her.
The parade slowly moved along the main boulevard of the Island�s
capitol. The music played and the spectators cheered and applauded.
Cameras were flashing everywhere. Trish did the one thing she knew how
to do well: dance. She lost herself in the music. She quit thinking
about anything other than the rhythm. She needed to focus on the beat,
move her body, and ignore everything else. She was energetic and
cheerful, and moved around her platform with confidence. She turned
continuously; making sure everyone from both sides of the street had a
chance to see her bare figure from all angles.
Eve was not able to enjoy the sight of her servant�s performance,
because she had to march in formation with other police officers.
However, the Island�s main television station had posted several camera
crews along the parade route, so the Mistress would be able to see the
videos later. Luis frenetically ran about the float, directing the
driver and constantly taking pictures of his project and the performers.
Trish never felt sexier in her life. She knew that she looked really
good. Her body was toned, evenly tanned, and glistening with sweat.
Dancing was the only thing she was good at and could be proud of, so she
was determined to show off her talent to the entire Island.
After five hours of non-stop dancing, Trish was exhausted, but she was
determined not to disappoint anyone watching her along the final part of
the parade. Besides, the final part was the most important, the part
where the parade dancers had one final chance to make a good impression
on the audience and the judges. Trish was indeed making an impression on
the Island. The TV camera crews had bunched up along the end of the
parade to thoroughly document Luis�s nighttime spirits float and its
lovely star dancer.
Trish noticed a spectators� platform full of important-looking men as
the float neared the finish-line for the parade. One of the dignitaries
was Generalissimo Renaud, the country�s leader. She knew that it was
especially important to make a good impression on the Generalissimo, so
she used up her remaining energy sensuously performing while the float
slowly passed the dignitaries. She tried to stay focused on nothing but
the music�s beat, but she noticed the Generalissimo staring at her the
entire time she was within his sight. Many of the officials with him
were enthusiastically clapping.
The float turned off the main boulevard just a couple of blocks past the
Generalissimo�s platform. The area was unlit and there were no
spectators, so it was obvious the parade was over. Luis signaled the DJ
to cut off the music. The dancers collapsed on the platform, totally
worn out after six hours of non-stop movement. They did not get down,
however, because the float still needed to move away from the parade
route to allow other floats to get off the main road. Instead, they
shared bottles of water as they rode several blocks towards a parking
lot where the floats would be dismantled. It was an anticlimactic end to
the parade, but it came none too soon for the participants.
When the float finally stopped and Trish�s companions helped her get
down, it was obvious that Luis and everyone else participating in his
float project was very pleased with her performance. Eve was present as
well, smartly dressed in her best uniform. When Trish knelt to greet her
Mistress, the policewoman smiled and stroked her cheek.
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Luis and his crew spent the remaining hours of the night getting cleaned
up and resting for a few hours. At noon on the following day the entire
group went to the National Stadium to attend the closing ceremony for
Carnival. They sat with the crews from the competing floats and watched
a police parade and some folkloric dancers. Then the Generalissimo took
the microphone and announced the winner for the float competition: the
delegation from Safe Harbor.
After Luis accepted the year�s trophy and gave a brief speech thanking
both his dancers and the people who had built his float, the entire crew
posed for numerous pictures. Luis, proudly posing with his trophy, had
his star dancer stand next to him. The Generalissimo called Luis and
Trish to the dignitaries� platform to allow them to pose with him. Trish
knelt while the Generalissimo shook Luis�s hand.
Then, it became obvious why Luis�s float had won: the Generalissimo
ordered Trish to stand up so he could have several pictures of her taken
with him alone. The other officials also wanted pictures of themselves
with Trish. The servant obliged, knowing better than to do anything to
irritate the Island�s top leaders. Finally, the Generalissimo called
Officer Eve Bousquet to the platform and publicly congratulated her for
her servant�s performance. The final set of pictures consisted of the
Generalissmo and Officer Bousquet standing together in full uniform,
while the naked servant knelt next to her Mistress.
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Images of Trish�s Carnival performance were published in various
newspapers and magazines throughout the Caribbean. The Island�s
television channel repeatedly played video of the servant with the
Generalissimo over the following week. Several videos of Safe Harbor�s
moon dancer were posted on-line and Internet became sensations.
Journalists and private citizens competed with each other to see who
could post the most, and the best, pictures of Trish in the
photo-sharing sites.
As Eve read the comments to her blog postings and browsed the Internet,
she realized that her goal of exposing her servant and sharing her with
the world had been realized. She also knew that she had some real
bragging rights.
Yes�you know that famous naked dancer from this year�s Carnival? I�m
her owner...
