Tile Dance
"I hear from the chain master," said Samos, "that you have
learned the tile dance creditably."
The tiny cups and glasses shook on the tray. "I am pleased," she
said, "if Krobus should think so."
The tile dance is commonly performed on red tiles, usually beneath the slave
ring of the master's couch. The girl performs the dance on her back, her stomach
and sides. Usually her neck is chained to the slave ring. The dance signifies
the restlessness, the misery, of a love-starved slave girl. It is a premise of
the dance that the girl moves and twists, and squirms, in her need, as if she is
completely alone, as if her need is known only to herself; then, supposedly, the
master surprises her, and she attempts to suppress the helplessness and torment
of her needs; then, failing this, surrendering her pride in its final shred, she
writhes openly, piteously, before him, begging him to deign to touch her.
Needless to say, the entire dance is observed by the master, and this, in fact,
of course, is known to both the dancer and her audience, the master. The tile
dance, for simple psychological and behavioral reasons, having to do with the
submission context and the motions of the body, can piteously arouse even a
captured, cold free woman; in the case of a slave, of course, it can make her
scream and sob with need.
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