Chapter 38: A New Beginning

After breaking up with Raven and the dungeon, Sara went into a depression. She missed her job working as a Dominatrix at the Fetish Chamber, but the bridge was burnt, and she could never go back.

There was another dungeon.

Mistress Caroline, Sara's former Head Mistress, had talked trash when a new dungeon had opened called Safehaven Studios. She said the head Mistress was unattractive and many offensive things I do not agree with or care to repeat.

Mistress Azule, Safehaven Studios owner, is arguably one of the most respected experts in the industry. She was also transgender and a huge inspiration and role model for the LGBTQ+ community.

Mistress Caroline was probably jealous and threatened by the dungeon's competition.

It turns out Safehaven Studios was now at the old Passive Arts location. Passive Arts was the first dungeon Sara, and I had ever been to. It was one of the most popular dungeons in Los Angeles, until a former employee killed the owner and burned the dungeon and fetish club to the ground.

After the property was rebuilt following the arson, Safehaven's owner Mistress Azule had convinced the Passive arts property owner to allow her to start a new dungeon there. Safehaven was about 15-20 minutes from our house. It was perfect.

After months of Sara wallowing in self-pity I convinced her to apply to work at Safehaven Studios. She almost didn't show up for her interview. She was so low on confidence in herself.

Sara drove to the dungeon and parked her car in the parking lot. Then decided she was not feeling up to it. She called me from the parking lot close to tears telling me she was going home.

I had to convince her over the phone in her car in the parking lot just to go inside and try. I gave her a heartfelt speech reminding her she was the Fetish Chamber's top Dominant.

Sara was the woman hiring Dominatrices two months ago. She could do this with her eyes closed.

She would go on to become one of the top professionals at this dungeon as well. Obviously, she got the job.

Sara needed a new name. Since an early age I had created my own video games and one of the recurring characters from my games was a Dominatrix named Mistress Tetra. I used this character in erotic fiction I wrote for years as well. Mistress Tetra was my fantasy Mistress.

The name Tetra comes from weed. Tetra is the T in THC; THC is the active ingredient in weed that gets you high. I am a kinkster don't get me wrong but my number one Mistress has always been weed.

When I suggested Sara use the name Mistress Tetra and explained the meaning behind it, she was sold. From that day on she would be known as Mistress Tetra.

Sara also needed some toys of her own. The weekend before Sara started working at Safehaven I paid for us to go on a quick visit to Vegas.

We stayed in the cheapest and worst hotel in Las Vegas. The main reason we went out there was to visit Lady C’s Leather and get Sara the flogger she deserved.

At first, we could not remember where the store was. We ended up retracing our steps from the last visit and finding it after an hour driving around.

Lady C actually remembered us and was thrilled to see us return. We told her how things had changed.

Now Sara was an experienced Professional Dominatrix. Lady C said she had a special feeling about Sara when we came in. Maybe she just said that to convince us to spend money. She helped us pick out a flogger and let Sara test them on me in the store.

Sara chooses a flogger with a black handle and red tails. At the bottom of the handle was a looped strap to make swinging the flogger more graceful.

This flogger quickly became Sara’s main implement of choice in sessions.

Initially Safehaven wasn't as profitable as Sara's previous dungeon and the two of us had to come up with ideas to get clients and make money. I would have to regularly support Sara financially in times when business was slow.

There were weeks when she made thousands and then weeks where she made nothing. I always gave her advice and did as much as possible to help her make her career successful because truthfully if it wasn't I was stuck paying for everything.

At the Fetish Chamber, Mistress Caroline had a long list of regular clients and handled advertising.

The staff was limited to five or six Mistresses. Safehaven had more than three times the number of Mistresses on staff.

At Safehaven the employees were dependent on advertising and bringing in clients themselves.

Safehaven also did not allow Strap On play or many of the other taboo fetishes that the Fetish Chamber did.

Another Domme working at Safehaven named Miss Vaughn quickly took a liking to Sara and showed her the ropes of surviving there. She even helped Sara build her first website. Miss Vaughn was an older Domme who catered to clients who enjoyed BBWs (Big Beautiful Women). She was very talented and a natural Dominant. She was also a genius with web design and SEO.

She acted like the Dungeon mother looking out for and protecting the newcomers.

Miss Vaughn was one of the first of Sara's new coworkers I met. She was always very nice to me and would flirt a little bit once in a while. She said you could tell I was submissive from a mile away.

In a community and world that was pretty new to me, she was a friendly yet Dominant face that made me feel comfortable and welcome.

After about six months Miss Vaughn moved to San Diego. I had to teach myself web design so I could manage Sara's website in Miss Vaughn's absence.

I had taken a basic class in school, but truth be told I smoked a lot of weed in school and barely remembered the class.

I wasn't allowed at Safehaven during business hours as much as I was at the Fetish Chamber. They had professional female submissives on staff and house slaves, so they didn't need any submissive test dummies like me for training new employees. And they certainly had no use for cum cubes. There was a level of elitism as far as who was allowed to hang out there during business hours.

I was just the boyfriend of a Dominatrix. My experience at the Fetish Chamber helping Sara train new employees earned me no credits. I think most people did not believe me.

The only time I was really allowed to go to Safehaven was when they hosted events on the weekends. The major difference between Safehaven and the Fetish Chamber was that Safehaven was much larger (7000 sqft) and hosted events on weekends. Safehaven was heavily rooted in the kink community.

The best way I could describe the Kink Community would be to compare it to being in high school.

You had the different clicks or groups hanging out at the different dungeons. There were five dungeons in Los Angeles at the time.

Then you had the experienced talented kinksters in the popular group. Everyone at all the dungeons knew the popular group. They were the performers, the successful Mistresses, educators and veterans of the scene. People who made money.

Prior to working at Safehaven my girlfriend was relatively unknown within the kink community so many of the seasoned veterans at Safehaven doubted her qualifications and skills behind her back.

They asked Mistress Azule why a newcomer no one knew was allowed to be a Dominant. No one had heard of Mistress Tetra.

Chapter 38: Safehaven