Archive-name: Slaves/lind000.txt Archive-author: Master Paul Archive-title: The Epic Adventures of Linda in Life AN "AFTER THOUGHT" INTRODUCTION TO THE EPIC ADVENTURES OF LINDA IN LIFE (Written Between Part 2 Chapter 6 and Part 2 Chapter 7) My name, in this story, and in the realm of B&D, S&M and D&S is MASTER PAUL (sometimes refered to by my "partners", "charges" or "slaves", if you prefer, as MP). Unlike many Masters and Mistresses, I seldom if ever carry the "profile" you will see in this epic and true story into what some people refer to as "real life". There, perhaps, was a day and a time when I could be provoked into "showing" this side of me in what some people mistakenly call "real life", but those days and times vanished when I met "linda". They came back, briefly over that past year, but only briefly. It took a while, but between us, we "cured" each other of any need or necessity to bring dominance and submission into socalled "real life". I keep refering to "socalled real life" and what "some people call real life" because, to me (and to "linda") THIS EPIC is the REAL LIFE we choose and wish to live OUR way, when we wish it, and almost always ALONE; Just two people and sometimes "selected invitees" whom we could TRUST IMPLICITLY to work with us. SPECIAL PEOPLE, like linda and I, who know the workings of Masters, Mistresses and socalled slaves or submissives, fairly well, and have demonstrated a willingness to care enough to learn another human being and know them almost as well as they know themselves. The readers of this Epic Tale or Story would do themselves a great service to think about what I have just said and to do it CAREFULLY. The story you are about to read is a true story that really occurred. The people in the story really did exist, "once upon a time". Where linda relates (to me) second hand stories and tales of her past experiences, BEFORE she met me, they are most likely somewhat embellished to fit preconceived or post-embellished fantasies. My recollections in the writing and describing of events that actually took place are as accurate as the passage of time and a slightly aging mind and body can make them. The writing of The Epic Adventures of Linda in Life was inter- rupted between Part 2 Chapter 5 and Part 2 Chapter 6 by an entire series of "events" brought about by several readers of the "Epic" who, over a several month period, contacted me, in one way or another,to seek me out to (1) find out if I was "for real", (2) try to "teach me a lesson about 'demeaning' women etc." or (3) "try me on for size and effect" to see if I could be their personal Master. Over all, the interruptions were what I would call "good for me" because they re-reminded me of just how little understood MP and linda's world really is, even among its socalled practitioners and advocates. I plan to deliver no lectures nor to pontificate in the remaining and voluminous chapters and parts of The Epic Adventures of Linda in Life. Nor will I castigate anyone in this introduction for their inter- ruptions and digressive distractions of me from this task. When you are honestly queried and questioned, you try, sincerely, to answer ALL, as best you can. In the category of "finding out if Master Paul is 'for real'", I encountered a wide assortment of psychologists, psychiatrists, parapsychologists and other professionals and para-professionals who, basically, were hell bent to prove their own personal evaluations of me, of linda and of people like us. I, for the most part, feel very very sorry for these "mind benders and fixers". In my special ways, I would caution those who "are like me and like linda" to be VERY CAREFUL about taking "advice", even from alleged or advertised professionals and para-professionals in the psychological and psychiatric professions and fields, UNLESS, THE ADVISOR(S) PERSONALLY ARE SPECIAL PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND I (and linda). Over my life time, I have read many many books of and about sadism, masochism, B&D, S&M, D&S and a whole variety of related subject areas. I have yet to find ANY writing that accurately describes what I have felt or what I have seen and felt in another, such as linda. I will say nothing further about that observation. It is a fact that has confronted me for a long long time. Perhaps more of us who do have this special people profile will eventually choose to write and elaborate upon what we are and why and how we handle it AMONG OUR OWN. We shall see. One thing I know for sure is that I am not in any way driven to explain it to anyone but MY OWN....the SPECIAL PEOPLE....and then, only because I want them to know that THEY, like linda and I, are completely normal and wholely accepted and acceptable. The rest can critique to their hearts content. I don't really care what they say or do as long as they leave people like linda and I to ourselves. We can handle US. Far better than they handle their "things". And I'll bet any amount of money or anything else on that statement, ANY TIME! At one point, in my experiences with linda, I sought outside help to deal with my problems (for me to detail when and how that happened will ruin the story for you, so I will not, here). After several months of "treatment", I decided I was "OK" and that my "doctor" was, perhaps not "nuts", but shall we say, "incapable of understanding what I knew and felt and how I was and wanted to be"........FOR, INDEED, I WANTED TO BE THIS WAY AND STILL DO AND AM. I was pronounced "cured" when I stated this fact to the "doctor" and carefully stated that I was no longer in need of "help". Ah, the mysteries of modern medicine and its practi- tioners, eh? Have we REALLY advanced from the tribal medicine men of old to a new and enlightened age, or have we merely developed a new way to market a very old profession and its methodologies. Who knows? Not I, and that's for sure! The other category of "finding out if MP is/was 'for real'" contains assorted Masters, Mistresses and submissives of both sexes who apparently have some penchants toward "competing with the best" (and I NEVER said I was the best or anything close to it to THEM, ever....they just seemingly 'surmised' such or same...ASS-U-ME'ed it). The dominants who did the "is He for real" trick on me, almost always hit me with the line "if you knew who I was in 'real life', you'd...." (you fill it in here....I'm tired of hearing it!). And both the dominants and the submissives who approached me to "check me out" (with several noteworthy exceptions) always made a point of this "real life" distinction and called this scene and realm, "playing". I don't believe any of them ever considered themselves phonies or charlatans, nor do I so consider them, even now. But, as you will read and understand in The Epic Adventures of Linda in Life, this is not unreal and it is definitely not something one "plays with or at", EVER. Sincere and honest SPECIAL PEOPLE put thousands of hours and dollars into their efforts and "partnership" in this realm. And, yes, it is, in many ways, a socalled "sexual pursuit" (but not an "abberation"!).......the strongest of all human "drives" is SEXUAL. Human norms of socalled civilized society try to convince us that OUR REALM is perverse and perverted. Really? Then, sir, why does your wife reach down and grasp her ankles and pull them out and upward when you are "doing it" missionary style, hummmmm? (And if that "hits home" with you, dear reader, think on it...long and carefully!) I believe there is a reason for sexuality and sexually based relationships being the strongest of all. It's based in intimacy and understanding between human beings of the opposite or same sex. I do not care to "pass on" or "judge" the pairings by sex or gender, thank you, because to each pair or group, goes their own things and choices. It's not tolerance on my part that makes me say this but a recognition that I don't know what drives other people who are not "like me" and I have neither the time nor the money to find out, even if I wanted to; which I do not. I understand ME and I understand a very few special women who are almost exact opposites from me and therefore nearly perfectly matched TO ME, in THIS, our special, mutual, realm. The category of people who approached me that fall under what I decribed in (2), above, did not and do upset me or in any way infuriate me. I choose to simply ignore them unless they become persistant enough to make permanent pests of themselves among me and mine, which, often, they have and they do. Their special little penchant or game is to categorize all males who supposedly "demean" women as wife beaters and bullies. SPECIAL PEOPLE, especially MASTERS, do not hit, punish, bind or do anything else in anger, EVER. The real MASTERS I know are very generous, very considerate and very understanding men whose powers of obser- vation and understanding of submissive women enable them to see something that all others, who lack their powers, can not see, much more, understand and deal with. The Epic Adventures of Linda in Life has been getting some very very wide circulation since it hit the boards about a year ago. As it becomes "more popular" among OUR special people, it becomes a "target" for other people to hit on and try to stop. It's a sad commentary on our times that some people can not leave other people be, to do what they want to do, by consent, with partners who have chosen them on a mutual basis, through understanding, many hours of discussion and "feeling out" and a great deal of plain trust. I don't plan to say ANYTHING more on this subject nor to defend myself or anyone else in MY realm.....linda's realm, also! The last category of people, who have approached me over the past year or so, (and over the years, in private, when there was no "draw" or "bait" in the form of a REAL story like this one, just the part of me they, and they alone could "SEE".....and feel, and hear and smell and taste etc), are the VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE, the submissive women, who seek a Master and want one of their very own to feed the hunger they genuinely have. I will not specifically discuss them here, or anywhere, for that matter, except to say, in general, that they are REAL; they are SINCERE; and they ARE understood, by me, very very well. Perhaps, better then they understand themselves. A long time ago, I discovered that I could stand in a room containing several score to a hundred or more men and women and, through some inate and special "talent" or understanding, I could pick out, identify and be identified by, certain special women who had an active or latent "submissive streak or nature" in them or about them. When you ARE a Master and you have the "profile", your "opposites" can "see" you for what you are, BECAUSE THEY, LIKE YOU, ARE "SEEKING" A "REAL" PARTNER. The sequences in The Epic Adventures of Linda In Life that involve the introduction of Master Paul and linda are precisely the way it happened in every respect. The "eyes" and other things "have it", I guess. Guess? No, I KNOW it. Linda "saw" me for what I was as plainly as I "saw" her. Both of us knew that I could make her do things no one else would dare to even try and both of us knew that, between us, we would eventually teach each other the "right" ways to do it. If you are SPECIAL PEOPLE, like us, you want to consider that statement very very carefully. That's all I will say to you. Read the story if you want better "instructions". Over the years, I have had some strange things happen to me in strange places, with regard to this "ability to see and be seen" by a seeking, hungering, genuinely submissive woman. I can recall sitting at a banquet table at a "fraternal meeting" not so long back and feeling a pair of eyes boring into me from down the table...feeling it! I sat there, not embarrassed, but certainly very cautious not to mess with "a brother's wife or girl friend" and carefully considered if I was going to ignore the source of the "feelings" or let the MP side of me respond by seeking back. I gave in and did return the "stare". What I saw made me warm inside and all over..........a pair of eyes, a face and, above all, a very very intelligent mind, that was literally screaming "I KNOW WHO YOU ARE, MASTER.........I K-N-O-W YOU, M-A-S-T-E-R!!! Do you KNOW *ME*"? As we who are SPECIAL can do without much effort, I sent the message back....."YES, I K-N-O-W you, my submissive and hungering friend. I KNOW YOU". We never spoke a word to each other the whole evening or any time afterward. But, between us, we passed some pretty powerful body messages and gestures, back and forth, over the course of a couple of hours. It is a good thing my silent "partner" at that banquet table was wearing a long dress, because I have a feeling a pair of slacks would have "told all". She had a similar effect upon me and I did not have the "advantage" of loose outer garments to cover the "evidence". I'm still laughing about that. Every time my submissive, seeking and hungering friend and special but opposite person got anywhere near me, she would glance at me and then lower her eyes and her head, when she was sure I was paying attention, which I NEVER failed to do...believe me, I didn't. She had "ways" of placing her hands, or standing or sitting that sent signals to me that were very very plain to me and also very unnoticed by everyone else, including her husband, my "brother". I was formally introduced to her, later in the evening, across a table, in a bar. I made no move to take her hand nor was one offered. She looked across the table at me, briefly, and then lowered her head and put her hands in her lap, with a faint smile and a little tiny shudder, as she did. When the two of them left the bar, later, everyone got up to say good night and pay their respects, except me....the MP side of me knew enough to stay seated and then speak to her from that position. For better than an hour at that table, we all talked back and forth except for she and I. Between us, there were no words. There did not have to be any words. We both KNEW that. As she walked out of the bar, she glanced back over her shoulder, briefly, and laid her wrists across each other behind her back, then lowered her head and went on out that way. I left early the next morning and never saw her again. But if she ever reads The Epic Adventures of Linda in Life, I send her my respect and my honor and I tell her, here, that linda would admire her at least as much as I do. She *IS*, indeed, SPECIAL PEOPLE to us. I don't think my "brother" knows what he has. I KNOW he doesn't. I DO! I am MASTER Paul!!! I guess I had better get on with this introduction and finish it so you can read The Epic Adventures of Linda in Life and enjoy OUR experiences to your fullest, my friend and SPECIAL PERSON, be you dominant or submissive. Before I finish, let me explain something I just said in that last sentence. One of the strange "characteristics" of The Epic Adventures of Linda in Life is that it appeals to male dominants and female submissives, alike, and in about equal numbers. I KNOW that there are a lot of female submissives out there reading about MP and linda and hungering greatly as they do. A few of them have approached me, quietly, to learn more about me and to check themselves out, as well as me. One, and only one, truly "matters" to me in the special and wonderful way linda and I "mattered" to each other. The others are very special, wonderful and very potentially (and in some cases, ACTUALLY) submissive women who are hungering and seeking a real Master. All of them, so far, have been, either before approaching me, or during, or after, in some way, hurt by some Master who didn't understand them or didn't want to understand them. I have not failed to understand any of them. I know the "hunger" and I can see it. I know the need and desire for trust and I can satisfy that IF I CHOOSE TO DO IT. Mostly, I do not. It takes a great deal of MY time and MY effort to work with and to learn ANY submissive woman I accept as my slave and charge. It also requires a substantial amount of money to do it right and absolutely correct. Thus, I choose carefully, after a short, very experimental "look", in person, always. And the CHOICE must be a mutual one....ALWAYS and in ALL WAYS. Some are argumentative, belying the "truth" about themselves to me and to others. I suspect that that is mostly out of fear of what might happen if they ever truly admitted their submissiveness, completely, to themselves, and then seriously, as linda did, went out "hunting" for the right Master....HER MASTER....and partner to train with and trust for as long as both could make it work. Submissives DO hunt. There is not question about that. The truth of the matter is well laid out in the epic you are about to read. They also, at some time, and perhaps MANY times, get hurt by a would be, chosen Master. Emotionally and sometimes physically. And eventually, THEY have to break it off before serious and permanent harm is really done. Some very few submissives get too far in and too deeply "involved" to get out. In The Epic Adventures of Linda in Life you will read about linda getting in that deep with one Master, who WAS a Master, beyond any doubt and who had "connections" with people who either "make submissive women from scratch" (that's not only possible, but a proven fact!) or hunt real ones down and haul them off to train and learn obedience for profit and for others. Slavery, even in this day and age, is not unknown and it is not always unwanted by the slave. This is especially true in the sexual slavery realm... ...the realm The Epic Adventures of Linda in Life deals with. It is not every woman's dream to sexual serve a man...a Master.... but it is some women's fantasy to TRY it, just once, to see how it feels. The experience, to a genuine, "for real", sexually submissive woman, can be more "habit forming" (and debilitating) than alcohol is to an alcoholic or heroin is to a junkie. Once "hooked" and once the "hunger" has been satisfactorily and very adequately "fed", she is unable to obtain real and genuine sexual satisfaction of the deepest kind with anyone but HER MASTER. A very few special women have tried it and they love it...with the RIGHT Master. Those statements, just made above, bring hellfire and damnation from the womens' liberation troops. In abundance and with utter vehemence, I might add. I have had my fair share of the "shots" from that quarter over this story. But, largely, I will ignore them because I knew linda and I CARED FOR and LOVED linda in my special way, just as she did in return; and perhaps even more so. People who try to deny and/or dictate what others do/could/should feel and hear and taste and see and smell and KNOW about MP and linda's special realm, and behavior in that realm, are the greatest violators of individual human rights in this entire world. MP and linda wanted to be the way they were, for as long as they could be, in any one socalled "session". I *KNOW* that because I lived it. It's true! Just as I know that my VOICE has the capability of driving my special charge and slave into headlong sexual flight into her realm of submissiveness, from which she does not EVER want to return without fully pleasing HER MASTER and feeling the tight balled knot of fear in her belly and the spreading fire of extreme sexual hunger for all that He can deliver to her in their mutually chosen and accepted realm. I know what I *DO* to certain, very special and very talented submissive women, without touching them and oft times without speaking directly to them. I KNOW THAT! Just as well as they do, and perhaps, I think, better. I know the joy and the fear, combined, of a "special one" being able to call someone MASTER who truly *IS* her carefully and trustingly selected MASTER. Of prefacing or following every short statement to Him with the word "Master".......and of savoring the "MY" that oft times preceeds it. Submissives can be, and mostly are, AT LEAST AS POSSESSIVE of their Masters as their Masters are of them. And, so called "slave stealing" is, more often then not, done by submissives, more than Masters! That aspect of MP and linda's scene or realm is NOT as well understood as it should be. Perhaps this "Epic" will help. But, from Master Paul to all the Real Masters and Submissives out there who read my "works" in this epic, I say this: I understand, and always will, what "more than anything", "forever", "Anything, Master...AAAANNNYYYTTTHHHIIINNNGGG!" mean and the trust conveyed by the words. I have been there and I have lived it. Several times. It is beautiful and it can be DEADLY, when abused or misused. That is why I will not accept MOST submissives, except to "have a look at them in person", after which I usually and politely try to say "thanks, but no thanks". Several times, I've said "yes" and regreted it, mightily. "Chamelions" are not all found in the reptile world, or so it seems. For, even now, "SOME ONE WOULD CALL *ME* MASTER".....and she is trying to mean it with every fiber of her being. To find a "way" to make it work in her circumstances and mine. Perhaps it will. I don't know, but I care, if it can and will. Others will try, I'm sure. Over the years, I have developed a way to keep all but the most sincere and the most submissive away from me. That is far more for their protection than mine, I might add. A genuinely real sexually submissive woman knows that the "pain" depicted in this Epic is both transient and quite "different" from "normal" pain or suffering. It, when coupled with the tightly knotted ball of pure fear in the stomach or belly and the acute sexual arrousal that accompanies the "knot" before HER MASTER, is wholely ADDITIVE and almost entirely indistinguishable from "normal" sexual stimulation. Together, pain, fear and sexual arousal build what you will read and "see" in this epic in a REAL sexually submissive female who has the courage, the daring and the comfort to seek it from HER MASTER when her hunger demands it. For you see, my would be Master and slave readers and friends ....THIS IS NOT A GAME.....THIS IS NOT UNREALITY AND MAKE BELIEVE.....AND IT IS NOT "PLAYING"....to some of us this is a real world of real things that we like more than anything else in this world and have learned to handle in real ways that work very well. If you are timid or lack courage, do NOT read the Epic! The fear of a Master is genuine and real in a genuine and real slave...a TRUE submissive. A real Master truly owns His slave and true submissive and knows when and when not to punish and demand and get obedience and submission. He also knows that any time He begins with her, she will "fly"........rise into a state of sexual excitment and arrousal that causes a fear built knot to grip her insides and turn her sexually into a starving, hungering sexual being that requires progressive stepping of pleasure and pain and humiliation and submission that remove everything else from her coonsideration as she rushes upward to return where she has often been, before HER MASTER, and loves, more than anything in this world. She will "allow" Him "freedoms" with her body, her mind and her very soul, itself, that defy adequate descrpition in words, but are understood by BOTH of them; BOTH Master and slave. TO and FOR the "flying" and so sexually submissive special women whom I have known, know and may one day get to know, I write this epic tale. As linda did, I call them BUTTERFLIES, and I, always and forever, shall! To the Masters who would or will "fly" them, I bring greetings and a hope that they will learn to listen, see, feel, taste and smell, and more, everything that they create in their charges and slaves in our special realm. For here, in MP and linda's "world", there truly are no limits of performance and no limitations on how far up and into the flight of the butterfly a Master's creation and charge may go. Her tolerances and her understandings of herself are a function of, and the responsibility of, HER MASTER, not her. She has a duty and a responsibility to "show Him everything about her that she possibly can" and to differentiate for Him, carefully, between "fear" and real "terror" so that He never transgresses upon her and causes real, permanent harm and damage, later. Real permanent damage comes in two basic forms.... perhaps three. Physical damage. Marks and scars that should never have "happened" and which she does not and cannot control. He can and MUST! By agreement, as you will read, linda permitted SOME permanent marking etc.. BY PRIOR AGREEMENT, not always specifically defined so that it was a fear based "surprise" to her in some ways and thus enjoyed and savored later. Emotional and mental damage, often not recognized when being built or imposed on her, by either of them. Simple but debil- itating things that will not allow her to function at work or in social gatherings. Or perhaps with a husband who is not her Master. Hand positions that become "automatic". Eye contacts or the inability to maintain eye contact. Ways of sitting, standing or kneeling that she does for her Master and cannot undo elsewhere. The list of accidental possibilities is virtually endless. A GOOD Master knows His power over His submissive and does not abuse it by doing permanent emotional damage. A GOOD Master does not interfere with His slave's personal, family, and/or work obligations in any substantive way, if that is her wish and choice. I know a very few married partners in this realm who willingly have chosen to maintain the realm MOST of the time, in the home and elsewhere, and a FEW, a very few, have largely succeeded. They do it BY CONSENT OF BOTH PARTIES and because they want and wish to, mutually. They have agreed that it will be this way, BETWEEN them. Married Masters and slaves are the exception, not the rule. It's not that it won't work, for a while, at least. It's that PEOPLE DO CHANGE OR THINGS CHANGE THEM....like children, for instance. Like, job or profession, for another. The "list" is endless. But SPECIAL PEOPLE need to understand the accomodations they will HAVE TO make should they choose to marry or make the relationship life long and permanent. That's all I can say on the subject, but it's quite enough, I think. You take it from there. The last permanent damage possibility is what I would call a lack of comfort and a lack of a feeling of well being in the sexually submissive woman over what she is and has or may become. We live in a very imperfect world that passes judgements upon people in the flickering of an eye, because, mainly, the people being passed upon are "different" and therefore, somehow, NOT NORMAL and to be LOOKED DOWN UPON.. Or so it is thought to be. As a Master I "look down upon" my possession(s).....my submissive(s) .....my slave(s)....in a very very special way. With honor, with respect and with a recognition that my RIGHT to do so comes from the loving, hungering, obedient sexually diven creature who kneels before me and submits to my will. There are few things I would not do for or give to her because of that honor and respect, and she knows that better than I do. But there is ONE THING SHE MUST HAVE THAT I CANNOT GIVE HER IN ANYWAY and that is a feeling of comfort and acceptance and total understanding of "the way she is" in respect to the rest of a very cruel and unkind world. She *IS* my possession and my slave and she wants to be. I *AM* her Master and I want to be. I feel good about being her Master and I feel no necessity to explain my role to anyone in this world with regard to MP and linda's realm. She must also feel the same way. I can walk every inch of this world, totally at peace with myself about what I am and what I do. ALL OF ME. The whole me. My sexually submissive woman, partner and slave HAS TO FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT HERSELF. Proud and except WITH ME, totally FREE and comfortable. With *ME* she will never be free and never "comfortable". Together we have something that is beautiful and beyond all words in description. Two people must actually experience the feelings and the exchanges to fully understand them in their totality. The power and the submission, flowing together. The trust and the caring and the, yes, I suppose you CAN call it *LOVE*, though it is a very DIFFERENT KIND OF LOVE THAN ONE WOULD NORMALLY SEE OR DESCRIBE. I had it. Linda had it. We had it together, I have seen it in others and I understand what it is and above all, I understand how it feels, not just to me, but to her....she whom I own and control in this, our special realm. A place for SPECIAL PEOPLE who want to be here; who enjoy being here and who could stay here forever and SOMETIMES, God bless them, DO!!! This is the realm of the BUTTERFLY and her flights for HER MASTER. This is MASTER PAUL AND LINDA's (linda's!) REALM. Master Paul The Last Master of the Rings. --