There was a slight pause as he listened and nodded at her answer.  Then suddenly the cane snapped forward to strike across her bare ass cheeks.<br/><br/>"This rod is thin and flexible," he said as he laid a second red line across her rump.<br/><br/>"That makes the sensation sharper.  More intense."  A third slashing blow added one more line of red to her ass.<br/><br/>He stepped to stand directly behind her and swung to lay a blow along her thigh and cheek instead of across.  "Also, the angle and the location and even the movement of my wrist..."  he twisted his arm to bring the rod against her other hip before continuing, "Change the type and degree of the pain."<br/><br/>He paused then, moving closer and running his left hand over the lines he'd made so far.  "Though you are right, the spikes would have hurt more than this one.  The least painful would have been the wide strap.  Though even that could hurt more if I swung it harder than the cane.  I have so far only given you fairly light strikes."<br/><br/>His fingers drifted down and between her legs then, exploring her womanly cleft now with a light and knowing touch.<br/><br/>"You will learn a great deal about pain and pleasure under my hand," he said softly, "And how they are truly naught but two sides of the same coin."