Alpha or Beta.. That is the question?

A new sub came to live with the Old Dom and his family. Almost instantly the new sub and her older counterpart began to bicker back and forth about their jobs, duties, status and positions within the family. After a few days of this the Old Dom gathered them both in a room and stripped them of their clothes and sent them outside in the rain. They both stood there wet, naked and cold as the rain fell from the sky. There bodies trembling there feet covered in mud; neither sub looked at the other as they bared their punishment.
After a few minutes the Old Dom came outside to join them. He stood there in the pouring rain; just as naked, just as cold, just as wet. The same mud that covered there feet covered his. The same cold wind chilling his bones as it did theirs. He took each subs hand and said, “Look at each other.” And they did… slowly… reluctantly. The Old Dom asked them both, “Are you both women?” “Yes Sire” they mumbled. He pulled them both close to him and said, “Are you both here to serve your purpose for the benefit of our relationship and our family?” “Yes Sire, we are.” they said again. The Old Dom pulled each of them into his chest. Each sub embraced him and then each other as he said “Do either of you truly see a difference between who you are, what you are or why you are here?” “No Sire” they replied. The Old Dom Said “Then I don’t either.”

The Old Dom led them in the house where there were two washbowls filled with warm soapy water, three chairs and dry towels laid across them. Both subs sat the Old Dom down in one of the chairs and they both began to tend to him. One washed his feet while the other dried his hair and body. After he was clean and dry the Old Dom got up and sat both of the subs down and dried their hair and body. Then he knelt down and washed their feet saying, “You call me your Master and so I am. I call you both my servants and so you are. If I am your Master and I have washed your feet as you have washed mine then it is only right that you should also wash one another’s feet with all the care and concern that I have shown you and you have shown me.” “Remember” he said as he carefully rinsed the mud from there feet, “just as the servant is not greater or lesser than their Master; neither is one servant greater or lesser than the other. In the eyes of true Mastery all are equal. So tend to each other as you would tend to me… as I tend to you. And care for each other as you would care for me… as I care for you.”

And from that point on they did.

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Liquid Submission

A young Dom and the Old Dom were walking near a rushing river one day when the young Dom says, “I have had my little one (youngest sub) for almost 3 years and I still can’t control her.” “Can you tell me what  I am doing wrong Sir?” The Old Dom paused for a second and said, “A sub is a lot like a rushing river; if you want the river to bend to your will you don’t stand in the middle of the river trying to confront it head on… even the strongest of beings haven fallen to its influence. But, if you give the river a different path to follow and guidance along that path, it will surely follow your direction.” “But” the young Dom said bewildered “isn't it the high walls that keep the river under control? How do I create the walls that will control my sub Sir?” The Old Master shook his head solemnly and sighed, “ Is it the walls that got higher or did the river carve its way deeper into the path?” The young Dom’s eyes opened wide as the old Master continued… “Let the river run along the path that you have laid and it will carve out its own prison…. the key is to control the path not the river.”

                                                             O (Orpheus Black)

The Enso: Letting Go

An old sub and a young sub where serving their Sire his nightly cup of coffee. The old sub presented it, just as he liked her to, just as she had so many nights before. And as was tradition, he accepted it. But this time… when the Dom tried to take the cup from her the old sub wouldn't let go and gently pulled the cup away from him. “Let go of the cup!” The Dom said forcefully. The old sub, timidly and in her most humble voice looked down at the ground and said “The cup is hot and I don’t want you to burn you’re self so please forgive me Sire for not letting go and take the cup by the handle.” The Dom took the cup by the handle and she let go.

The next day, when the two subs where alone, the young sub said to the older, “I have to say something about what happened last night” “Yes” The older sub said as she set quietly be side her sewing a button on their Sire’s shirt. “You know better than any of us that we are not to deny Sire anything and yet you played that little game with him. You know we are to give him what ever he wants and that is the rule etc…” the young sub went on listing very valid points as to why the old subs conduct was unbecoming.

The old sub looked at her and said “I have been in this life a long time and I have an understanding of things that you don’t.” The young sub with all the attitude she could muster replied “Like what?” The old sub continued sewing the button onto the shirt began, “I understand that a subs life is full of rules that conflict and (or) contradict each other and that it is not my job to judge them but, to let them guide me in my duties. I also understand that it is up to each sub to make her own decisions based on not only those rules but, on her own judgment and that sometimes my choices will be right and sometimes they will be wrong and that I may be punished for doing something wrong but what I don’t understand is that I let go of that cup last night… why didn't you?”