Pleasure Cruise: Silent Skies 
By atfristdawn

*Mature content warning
(C) Keira Morrison/atfirstdawn 2015

*Dedicated to Darkstalker1


I still have no idea why I thought booking an around the world cruise after having won the lottery was a good idea. Alas, it was still something I regrettably did (and will never do again), but it wasn't all bad, at least I got to disembark with some happy memories. 

After having spent almost a year at sea on a floating city I had begun to get a little stir-crazy. I'm sure most people would have described my mental condition as homesickness or some sort of exotic psychological complex, but as far as I'm concerned the apt diagnosis for my mental state was 'thoroughly irritated'. Night after night and day after day there were fireworks and parties and loud music and screaming adults and shrieking kids, it was horrible, it was how I imagined living in Las Vegas would be. By both day and night there had been very little to take my mind off of the constant commotion, that is until I met a young blonde Australian woman named Anna. 

Our first meeting was one to remember, as was our second and our third... In fact, the cruise as a whole for me became all about her. Looking back on our time together I must admit that I grew to be quite proud of her, in that she managed to grow from a clueless submissive blonde and into a rather impressive dominatrix in just a few short weeks, (being a submissive myself I was quite happy to help nurture her latent inner talent.)

Of all of our times together though, there's one I'll always remember as being the best, not just because it was hot as hell (it was) but because, looking back on it, I can safely say that it was one of those times where I was completely and truly happy. The kind of happy that some of us only ever experience once or twice before we die. One of those times where nothing else matters and a memory that you'll always be able to call your own...

It was late one night, I don't know how late exactly, but the sky was as dark as it could get before it started getting lighter and Anna had told me to prepare myself for something special. Not knowing what she had planned and not wanting to assume that all she had on her mind was another night of kinky sex, I dressed for a night on the town, strappy heels, a classy dress and some light makeup (I am no slut). That way, if Anna did have another night of kinky sex on her mind, then she could have fun tearing off my dress and ruining my make up. 

I hadn't been dressed and made-up long before there was a knock at my cabin door. Opening the door revealed Anna who, for the first time in as long as I'd known her, managed to truly take my breath away. Looking like a vampire with her pale skin, long flowing blonde hair and heavy black eye-shadow I felt my heart skip a beat before grabbing her by the hand and pulling into my cabin.
Kicking the door closed behind me and playfully pushing her against the wall with a thud I took two greedy handfuls of her soft blonde hair and forced her into a deep lust-fueled biting kiss.

I don't know what it was about the heavy black eye shadow that drove me wild, I just know that it made her look other-worldly and supernatural and there was something about that that I just couldn't resist. Again and again I kissed her with a forceful passion and pressed my body as close as I could against hers. Between each kiss Anna had tried to speak to me but my lips had continuously cut her off after every word, eventually though, her isolated words formed the meaning of a sentence. She had somewhere she wanted to take me, something she wanted to show me and that we'd need to leave before we missed it. 

While I'd heard her words and gathered their meaning they'd still fallen on deaf ears, I was just to enamored with her to conform to rational thought. Again I kissed her and moved my hands from her hair to the thick white winter coat she wore and unzipped it. Beneath the thick winter coat she wore something she knew would get my attention; a tight black leather corset that showed off her breasts and impressive hour-glass figure. Licking my lips I moved my mouth to her bare chest but suddenly felt her fingers on my jaw which pulled me back to meet her gaze.

During our first date Anna had talked constantly about everything, she'd talked so much that gagging her on that first date was more of a necessity than an intimate gesture. Now, however, Anna had learned to speak with her large green eyes and after she'd pulled my open mouth away from her bare breasts her loving yet stern gaze told me that she was about to take control regardless of my level of obedience. 

Seeing the dominance flare up in her wide eyes lit a fire in the pit of my stomach that urged me to take a taste of her now more than ever. I wasn't going to obey her, I wanted her to force me from her and so, with a defiant smile, I pressed myself against her, caressed my tongue against hers one more time and felt her hands grab my wrists and fold them behind my back... 

Pushing me away from her welcoming body, Anna pulled me over to my bed by my folded arms, threw me down face first onto the not-so-soft mattress and straddled my body. Being a messy and somewhat lazy person, it wasn't hard for Anna to locate and grab a nearby set of cuffs which she quickly and forcefully locked around my wrists despite my struggling. Anna wasn't as strong as I was but with my legs from the knees down hanging off the side of the bed it was impossible for me to find any leverage to use against her. It had only been a few weeks but she already knew how best to tie me when I was feeling uncooperative. 

Pulling a length of thin rope from beneath my duvet (that I'd used myself earlier that day), Anna looped it around my elbows and pulled them together behind my back. Being kind of double jointed meant that I could get my elbows to meet but it still took effort and put an uncomfortable torque on my chest, Anna knew this already but this was the cost of my defiance, and with each coiling of the wire-like rope around my helpless arms I felt my chest tighten and make it difficult to catch a deep breath. Having finished immobilizing my arms, Anna took a handful of my hair and raised my head from the bed. Directing my gaze to her free hand she showed me the key to the handcuffs which she then dropped and folded into a rag that I'd used to stuff her mouth just a few nights ago during another night of rough passion. With the key firmly wrapped into the balled up rag Anna picked it up and pushed it my mouth. The balled up rag was bigger than my mouth would allow but she kept pushing and forcing it further and further into my mouth until I could no longer fight against it or dislodge it with my tongue. 

Stepping off the bed, Anna pulled me to my feet by my hair and wrapped an arm around my throat to keep me from running. As she'd stood up from the bed she'd picked up a roll of duct tape, again she showed it to me and again I struggled to be free of her and my bonds. Helplessly I watched as Anna pulled the tape between her hands and brought it over my mouth. Rather than tearing a strip from the roll, Anna instead proceeded to wrap one long continuous length around my lips and hair. I quickly lost count of how many passes she made with the tape to effectively silence me because of how hard I could feel her heart beating through her chest and into my back. Knowing she was enjoying our game as much as I was filled me up inside and caused me to release a long and loving moan as she finally ripped the tape from the roll and smoothed it over my mouth. 

Spinning me around in front of her so that I was once again facing her, Anna took off her thick white coat, placed it over my shoulders and zipped up the front of it as I stared back at her with a look of confusion. Cupping my jaw with her strong fingers she pulled my taped mouth to her breasts and pressed my lips against them solely just to tease me. I growled and struggled against my bonds that were now hidden beneath her thick white coat to let her know that I didn't find her gesture funny, though she did and laughed at my muffled protests. 
Pulling away from her grip I stood up straight and stared through her with a Medusa-like stare. Thinking nothing of it, she pulled up the hood of her thick white coat and zipped the zipper up further so that the hood and collar of the coat hid most of my face...
Stepping away to find one of my coats to cover her half naked body, she pulled on and buttoned up my floor length trench coat before wrapping and arm around my shoulders and leading me to the door of my cabin.

I felt a fresh rush of helplessness as my cabin door slammed shut behind me and the cold winter night's air washed over my throbbing hot body. The deck just outside of my cabin was jammed with people all looking up to the sky. I was curious as to what they were looking at but I dared not move my head for fear of my hood falling down and revealing my bound mouth.
Not content with joining the crowd, Anna walked me through dozens and dozens of tightly packed people. Time and time again as we walked I feared my hood falling down or a light hitting my face in such a way that someone would notice the tightly wound tape but mercifully no one did. Eventually Anna and I reached the highest deck of the ship which was also crowded with people looking skyward.

Resting her hand on the top of my hood so that it didn't fall, Anna tilted my head upwards so that I could finally see what everyone had been so engrossed with. 

"This is what I wanted to show you," she said to me as my eyes widened with awe. "It doesn't last long so we needed to be quick. I thought you might like it."

Above us the sky danced with colour. Trails of greens and blues and purples and sometimes orange snaked across the black night sky above us, it was the Aurora Borealis, the 'Northern Lights'. I'd never seen it before, I didn't even know it was part of the trip. 
As I stood with my hands bound behind my back under a thick white coat and mouth tightly taped beneath its hood and my eyes fixed upon a sight that most people go their entire lives without seeing I felt Anna by my side cuddle up against me with a loving sigh. 

This moment is one that I knew was going to stay with me, it was going to be a moment I'd never forget. The beauty of the sky was only surpassed by the woman at my side and the elation I felt within me was only matched with the awe I felt for the marvel above me. It took me a long while to realise that the ship had stopped so that we could marvel at the spectacle above us for its duration. I don't remember the ship starting up again and I don't remember returning to my cabin with Anna. All I do remember is the happiness that I felt because it is the same happiness that still remains inside me more than a year later.