She was terrified.


    When she opened her eyes again, she realized she was no longer on the floor. Quietly looking around, she saw the monster facing the other direction. She curled in on herself. She didn''t know what was happening, but she was terrified.


    Where was she?


    Had she been sold?


    It didn’t make any sense for a new owner to have protection for themselves when she still had a collar on. A single button would make her unable to move. She must be near the remote, or the collar would have been punishing her and putting out a location signal. Had that been what the ship shaking was, a buyer docking? It must have been. She didn’t recognize anything around her.


    She seemed to be in some kind of medical bay. It was massive for a ship. No, it was massive for anywhere, it was unheard of for a ship. Even the giant that was now looking at her didn’t need this much room.


    She shivered.


    She didn’t know what species the giant was, but the eyes seemed to bore into her, as if her thoughts were laid bare. She could tell the giant was female, as she had the same characteristics as herself, just scaled up. Minus the fur and tail of course. She had no idea why the giant wasn’t wearing anything though. Or why these beds seemed to be so large. Or the doors. Or anything at all really.


    She was so lost that the panic was starting to hurt. What was going to happen to her?


    She could see the darkness start to edge into her vision again when something even bigger ducked through the door the giant had been looking at. Could there be small giants?


    Because the new being would need another word otherwise.


    It was so tall she could see why the room was that big now. Even with the room’s size the newcomer filled it, not having much space above its head.


    His head.


    Why was everything naked?


    His eyes though. They stole her attention.


    She found it impossible to look away. Whatever quality the smaller one had that made her gaze feel like it could see every intimate thing, the big one put it to shame. His eyes seemed to look into her very being. As if no matter how she tried, nothing was hidden from him. She could feel her instincts taking over. Feel her body rolling onto her back, with her tail curled and submissive.


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    She had heard the whispers before. How the slave races had instincts they couldn’t overcome. How they would fall back to animal acts if they weren’t collared and taken into strict hand. She had dismissed them. She had never felt these so-called instincts. Never experienced the desire for these animal acts.


    She couldn’t deny them anymore.


    As the male giant came closer, every fiber of her being told her to freeze and expose her neck. Her mind couldn’t really figure out how to do both, but fortunately her body was already on it. It was a good thing there was nothing left in her bladder. Not only would she have gotten it all over herself in a bid to not move, she would likely have been the one to clean it up afterwards. She hoped whoever her new owner was came soon. She was very much on the verge of whimpering and she didn’t want to draw the real giants attention.


    Seemed she failed though.


    She really did whimper as the giant put down something nearby and lifted her into a sitting position like she weighed nothing. She was too afraid to look at what was happening, but she could feel giant hands pushing and touching all over her. The giant seemed to start near her tail and worked its way up.


    Right up to her collar.


    The collar seemed to get in the way, though she wasn’t sure what the giant was looking for on her neck. She wasn’t even sure she was feeling everything correctly.


    "Uh…”


    Had…. had that been her collar?


    She had felt it more than anything, not much noise beyond a soft crack. When she felt the collar fall from her neck, her head was pulled down by the weight of sheer incredulity. She didn’t see anything, so she looked up and saw the giant looking strangely at her collar, the back portion crushed too almost nothing.


    That wasn’t possible.


    If someone messed with the collar without it being turned off, it gave a powerful shock to everyone involved. So much so, she should be writhing on the floor. When the giant handed her the collar and she felt, more than heard, a rumble, it returned to putting its hands all over her.


    She was only barely conscious of it.


    The collar was in her hands.


    The collar that had dominated her entire life.


    Had given others so much power over her.


    Had given her so much pain.


    Had it always been so easy?


    Such a minor movement and she could have been free of it?


    She felt something drop onto her fingers. When she looked, she was shocked to see water there. She was even more shocked when another drop joined it. When she reached up to see where they were coming from, she found her cheeks wet.


    Were they tears? She was crying?


    “Safe. Not danger.”


    She startled when she heard the female giant speak. They could talk? Was she allowed to talk? Should she ask?


    She opened her mouth to ask and promptly forgot what she was doing. Her tail wanted to move a little. What was happening right now?


    When the moment passed, she looked back at her surroundings only to realize the male giant had undone the fastener for her suit. When he pulled the top down exposing her back, her tail was still curled between her legs, he rumbled a bit more.


    She only realized it was speech when the female giant rumbled back.


    The male giant seemed to need something and left the room, while the female giant moved towards her.


    ‘I guess the naked thing applies to me as well then.’