slave screams he's being beaten into submission

[parasitus]

It isn't often that Genie elects to play with her food, so to speak, or to hurt the ones she keeps closest; but this creature is most fascinating, and requires further study, she believes. He claims to be utterly hers, but still he acts on her own.

She's always wondered what it will take to break a man. Today she intends to begin learning just that.

The knocking that taps at Foster's door is polite and sharp, a rapping of knuckles that is over as quickly as it began, and then the person responsible waits in silence.