Ariel seems to be having problems following orders today: the instruction was simple enough. Stand in the corner, on tiptoes, and don't lean on the wall. How hard can it be? Well, given that she'd already taken countless strokes of bastinado from the cane and had been standing there for some time, quite hard actually. But that's no excuse, the Restrained Elegance resident slavegirl should be well trained and perfectly capable of maintaining such a basic position for hours on end if need be.

What we needed was some encouragement. And since this was Ariel's foot torture day, that encouragement should certainly be a foot torture. Something to literally keep her on her toes.

Like a wicked electric double pinwheel. The pins themselves were bad enough, but hooked up to the magic box, whenever Ariel came down even slightly from her alloted position, the two wheels would make contact with the sensitive soles of her bare feet and give her a stiff electric shock!

Let's see if that improves her discipline and persuades her to obey her orders, for a change...