Chapter 108

Dear Brianna,

Yes we have a dome or covered garden inside our residential dome. Actually the township where we live is in a dome so large that it has weather. At least a little rain falls all the time from the 'ceiling' or sky. Unless you're close to the 'edge' or wall you could hardly tell that we're inside. I asked the AI and it was polite enough to tell me that the main dome is approximately 6000 meters in diameter. We've actually put in sort of specially formed sections of some sort of clear material that isn't glass to make a dome that is not dependent on the force-shield to keep the water out. The force-shield is still there (as far as I know) but it only reinforces the dome.

Anyway I don't know enough about the dome to talk about it. I know that the covered area is to control the temperature and humidity. I do think that Will worked with the AI to get it to bring the temperature down to cool enough to make the fruit trees like apples, peaches, cherries and the like at least believe that we are in a cool semitropical area. That didn't make Marcie especially happy as she wants the temperature to stay warm enough so that no one feels like they need to wear clothes. In a way that makes me an unusual person as most everyone who is old enough to be in control of their bladder and bowel goes skyclad.

And I do mean utterly naked except for a concubine's collar or the shoulder bands that some of the sponsors wear in order to identify what job they are doing. Or rather what their job is. Some people like Master Will end up wearing a uniform so that everyone can tell that they're on official business. But most like Mistress Marissa only wear an arm or shoulder band so that other people can tell they're where they're authorized to be. Not that I can imagine that the AI would ever let anything like that happen. But people being people some sort of ID that we can see is expected.

When Master Will was here I would go with him because it seemed to calm some concubines who had been mistreated by their owners to see him treating me with love and care even if I was on a leash. And again the leash was for me, not for him, nor particularly Atlantis-At. I had bad experiences with my first owner. He thought it was fun to send me and my sister concubine out to get raped by the other sponsors. And enough of them seemed to have the attitude that all concubines should be available to them that they would at least have indifferent sex with me.

However for whatever reason in his mind he decided to start torturing us. He went too far and killed my first sister concubine. That got the Captain of the Dawn Princess to recommend that his CAP score be reevaluated. Eventually I ended up with the other unowned concubines that the Civil Service Officer was escorting to Atlantis-At.