Seth's eyes went dark and cold when 2 asked him a strange question. She asked about dollars. Seth's grip on her dirty blonde hair tightened as he bunched it up on the unfinished side, pulling slowly on her scalp with a steady grip. He scanned the other girls, one by one, looking over the top of 2's head. His jaw went tense as he ground his teeth together.<br/><br/>"Who?" Seth barked, more of a demand than a question and he seemed to be demanding it of everyone present except for 2. "Who told you something about dollars?"<br/><br/>It was only a matter of time before 2 spilled the beans on whoever it was that had been talking about money with her, she could certainly tell that he was angry. All of the girls learned quickly to distinguish and respect Seth's anger. 4, on the even numbered side of the yard looked back into his eyes with tears already welling in her own, obviously terrified. When someone was guilty of filling 2's head with dangerous, unnecessary or forbidden thoughts; 4 was the likeliest suspect as their cages shared a wall. 4's eyes however told a very different story, the girl was terrified that she might be suspected and punished.<br/><br/>3 was also able to look him in the eye, something dangerously close to defiance glaring back at him, but nothing like guilt. She still wore the marks of her last punishment, and would have been quite a trial to punish again for something that she hadn't been guilty of.<br/><br/>7, the unlikeliest of suspects, could not meet his eyes. Instead she was tucking herself up in the thread bear quilt that was provided her, already breaking the rules by messing up her freshly arranged hair.<br/><br/>Before 2 even got a reply to escape from her terror wrought chest, Seth had tied the ribbon tightly in her hair and clipped her leash to a D-ring bolted into the side of the house. Seth went straight to the last cage on the odd side of the yard and kicked 7's metal cage door.<br/><br/>"Look at me!" Seth demanded, as the frightened girl tucked herself farther into the back corner of her cage. "I know you understand me, you deceitful fucking bitch. Look at Me!"<br/><br/>When 7 just tried to tuck herself into the corner more still, Seth pulled from his pocket a device that looked like the remote for a garage door opener. The black, plastic box was adorned with buttons numbered 1-8, each button remotely linked to electroshock plates inside the corresponding collar. Seth pressed the 7 button hard and held it down as the young girl's body went rigid and her limbs thrashed outward.<br/><br/>"You stupid fucking cunt. You've been getting off easy all this time because I didn't think you could understand me. Now I find out that not only do you speak English, but you've been filling my favorite's head with bullshit about money? About business? My business? What did you tell her?"<br/><br/>7's body went rigid again and she thrashed over onto her back, her black hair tossed into chaos by the wall of her cage. When Seth released the button again, 7 lost control of her bladder and wet the cardboard floor of her cage.<br/><br/>"I ought to let you rot in your own filthy mess. You're lucky this buyer is on the way, otherwise I'd really run you fucking ragged." Seth seethed. "You'd better hope he wants to buy you, otherwise you'll be sleeping in the small box tonight."<br/><br/>Seth still had so much to do, he didn't have time to deal with 7 right now. He still had to empty out the girls' "waste" buckets down the drain in the center of the yard and give all the buckets a good rinse out. He also needed to refill all four, two-gallon drinking jugs with hose water. Now, he needed to change the cardboard in the bottom of 7's cage and then fix her hair again.<br/><br/>It couldn't have been more than a few minutes after Seth latched 7's cage closed again that his cell phone rang. The buyer was already outside.<br/><br/>"Yeah, alright. Here I come." Seth said flatly into his phone before hanging up and turning back to the girls. "Alright, bitches. Chins up and chests out, I'm bringing him back."<br/><br/><div align="center">***</div><br/>The buyer was a businessman from Arizona, he was dressed in a sharp suit with a bolo instead of a proper tie, but he still wore a blazer in spite of the warm weather. He introduced himself as Keith, and Seth didn't really care if that was his real name or not.<br/><br/>"Nice to meet you Keith, I was just about to give the girls their vitamins." Seth explained as he stood over the sink, dropping pills into paper cups labeled with the girls' numbers. "I give them a cocktail that includes: Iron, vitamin C, fish oil, calcium, vitamin D, an aphrodisiac from Japan and birth control pills. So, you don’t have to worry about cumming inside. It’s up to you how much of that you want to continue if you decide to purchase one of them.”<br/><br/>Seth dropped the last pill into the cup and then placed the pill bottles back into the cabinet loaded with nothing but plastic pill bottles.<br/><br/>“Ready to meet them?” Seth asked, smiling as he grabbed the tray of pills. “Follow me.”<br/><br/>Seth led Keith out into the yard, the middle of the yard still wet from where he had hosed the concrete off after dumping the buckets. He led him to 2’s cage first, ever the shining example of the efficacy of Seth’s system.<br/><br/>“This one’s mine. She’s not for sale, but as you see, she knows her place well and loves to serve.” Seth told him, opening her cage and holding the cup forward, pouring the pills into her open mouth. “Swallow and show me.”<br/><br/>Seth commanded, a ritual which required 2 to swallow the medication and then open her mouth, pull her cheeks apart and wiggle her tongue around so that he could be sure she had actually swallowed.<br/><br/>“How much for this one?” Keith asked suspiciously.<br/><br/>“Again, she’s not for sale. Let’s move on.” Seth said, a faint hint of irritation in his voice as he closed 2’s cage and moved across the yard to 3’s cage. “This one is 3, she’s still a little bit willful but she’s learning fast. You might need to do some training of your own, so she’s only going for one and a half. She’s beautiful and American though, and obviously desperate to find a real home.”<br/><br/>3 was really putting on a show for Keith, obviously ready to be free of Seth’s yard, even if it wasn’t the same as actually being free. She touched her throat seductively as she swallowed the pills and started touching her clit as she wiggled her tongue at Keith for longer than she needed to show that she had swallowed all the pills. She was moaning a bit as she looked into Keith’s eyes and starting to press herself against the cage door after Seth closed it.<br/><br/>“What about the red-head over there?” Keith asked, gesturing back to 4. “How much for her?”<br/><br/>“Ah, you have good taste. She’s one of the best trained of the ones for sale. American, twenty years old and very well trained. She’s learned a lot from 2, and she’ll do anything to keep her Master happy.” Seth smiled, proud as 4 presented herself with dignity and poise before the buyer, she had never looked more beautiful. “She’s going to set you back three, but you’ll know where that extra money went when you get her in bed.”<br/><br/>Keith and 4 made long eye contact, likely communicating more than words ever could.<br/><br/>“And lastly, 7 over here. For just a scant million you can plunge your cock into the tight, wetness of-”<br/><br/>“I don’t like Asians. Besides, I can get a fresh of the boat chink whore for half that.” Keith replied, still staring at 4. “Can I take her for a test drive?”<br/><br/>“Of course you can, Keith. I’ve got a room prepared downstairs. Here.” Seth leaned down and opened 4’s cage, clipping a leash on her and handing the lead to Keith. “She shouldn’t give you any trouble, but if she does, just call me and I’ll go set the bitch straight. Just be gentle, retail rules apply: You break it, you bought it.”<br/><br/>As 4 followed Keith down into the basement that Seth had converted into a dungeon for intensive training sessions, Seth sat down on the edge of 2’s cage and lit a cigarette.<br/><br/>“We might need to get you a new sister, 2.” Seth smiled through the smoke, slipping a small Tootsie Roll from his shirt pocket into 2’s waiting hands. “And 3, that was a good show, but buyers can smell desperation. It was a nice try though, you’re starting to learn.”<br/><br/>Seth flipped another candy across the yard into 3’s cage. Just then 4’s moans and cries began to rise up through the small basement windows at the base of the house.<br/><br/>“I’d better get the kit ready. Maybe we could move in a new girl by tonight.”