Two slightly yellowish spotlights converging on them , Louise and Felina faced each other at a little table. "Odd and Louise begins, an even number and Miss Feli-i-ina (he stretched the vowel out and her fans roared) gets to restrain Louise first". They watched as he shook the dice in his hand, and then let it fall and roll onto the table.<br/><br/>A single dot greeted them. "It's a one!" he exclaimed, and Louise grinned softly, not that it mattered a great deal. She winked at Audrey and cheerfully advised Felina to stand with her legs and feet tight together. There was no need to add "facing the audience and the cameras" - Louise knew this was part of the decorum at a big show like this one.<br/><br/>The muscular woman showed her naked legs and black bikini panties to the world, while Louise, taking in their strength, set about binding her with firm, slim but unyielding trekking-quality rope. She placed a steady knot on the side of her right ankle and made three coils around the same ankle, pulled very tight and motioned Felina to cross her feet. She added a small, tight knot right between the ankles, then went on to place three or four coils in the same way around the other one. After lashing the rope in three coils around both ankles, pressing them tight over each other, she rounded off with a new knot on the other side of the layer of rope seen from the earlier one. The woman had not stopped smiling, Louise noted: Felina was indeed a good performer, she had realized that years ago.<br/><br/>Louise moved up to the knees and tied them firmly, above the kneecaps, in a way similar to what she had applied to the ankles, with two firm knots between the knees and one, earlier, at the first coil at the base of the right thigh, then adding another rope under the knees with a double loop in three or four coils and tying it off with a knot at the back. Then she pickd up a strand of rope she had left aside from the ankle rope, trailing from out of the first coils on Felina's right foot. She took hold of the rope, about 75 cm long, and pulled it taut up to above the kneecaps, pulled it in under some of the rope there and all around the base of the woman's thighs. She finally fixed a secure knot deep under the coils on the frontal side of the left thigh. Felina would find it very hard to give her ankles any free movement without first undoing all the rope on her knees, Louise thought, and she had something up her sleeve that would make it not only hard but painful for her adversary to move her feet.<br/><br/>"Hands crossed behind your back" she said unemotionally to Felina. The other obeyed, while a camera moved into close-up of the location of the next bindings and a drumroll was heard from the orchestral pit below the stage.front. Louise lashed them together, one wrist crossed over the other, with strainingly tight rope first around each wrist, tying it off with a knot (not the same kind as she had used on her feet and knees; she knew that variation could spell a vital advantage) and then coiling the rope tightly around the two hand joints. Felina fleetingly arched her neck backwards slightly and gasped as her arms were dragged backwards, but her posture was not much affected and the gasp would not have been heard beyond a few meters.<br/><br/>Louise finished with a knot above the upper rim of the wrist ropes, pulled out all slack, tied off and shoved the knot down under the coils on Felina's right wrist. But just like before she had a wee strand of rope left and pulled it to midway up the forearm, made two new coils there and tied it off with a final knot, securely out of reach for Felina's fingers even if she would bend them up along the back of her hand.<br/><br/>"On your knees, Miss, if you please" Louise commanded. She was taller than Felina herself, but what she was going to apply now required that Felina's head rest below her. She could not deny that she also enjoyed putting the other in this position, but it wasn't much to dwell on: both of them, and their secondants, knew the two would find themselves in much more humiliating and excruciating positions during the challenge. With satisfaction, she saw Felina's firmly bound knees sinking to the floor.