Author's Note

To help readers get to know a little bit about the main character of this story before they jump in, I have decided to add a little bit of exposition here to explain a few details about her (in order to more fluidly tell the story without having to pause and explain some bits later).

The story follows a female gryphon by the name of Anya. She is 38 years old, and was born in Griffinstone. Like many gryphons who grow up in their homelands, she was not well taken care of by her parents, and eventually taken in by Grampa Gruff. Likewise, she became very disenfranchised with her nation of birth at a young age, and sought to leave it as she got older, in order to improve her life. One day after reaching adulthood, she simply left Griffonstone to find her fortune in Equestria, believing that she would never look back.

Once she got to Equestria, she started looking for work of any kind to get started, and after a few failed attempts, found a career she enjoyed in being a bouncer at a few pony clubs. Not only did it allow her to work off some of the frustration she was harboring from her youth, but the bits were enough to keep her interested. Over time, she found that her skills at dealing with ponies lead to a new line of work as a bodyguard for high profile ponies, which was incredibly well paying, but lead to an incident where her right eye was damaged beyond repair, and having to wear an eyepatch from that point on.

After some time working for some more seedy business ponies, she was one day hired to escort a unicorn stallion to a secret location, discovering on arrival that it was a meeting place for BDSM enthusiasts, her not knowing what that was prior. After a few time of this, having to sit on the side lines as she watched her employer partake of the event as a dominant, Anya developed her own interest in the practice, and asked if she was allowed to participate. The pony told her she could, but that there was a rule that all newbies had to spend their first party as a submissive. Anya agreed, if only to have the chance to participate as a dom.

While the submissive position was not horrible, with most who interacted with her treating her well, she discovered that it was the hope of her employer to tame her that night, and have her as his permanent submissive gryphon. His plan failed though, as she really wasn’t a submissive spirit, but her employer wasn’t upset that things didn’t go to plan, and graciously accepted his defeat. After that point, Anya was allowed to participate as a dominant, and developed a taste for putting submissive ponies in their place with displays of humiliation, staying within the rules of the group and never pushing a pony past their limits, knowing well what it was like to be in their position, which was of course the point of the initiation.

As years went by, Anya juggled her lifestyle with her job, accepting as much work as she could in order to pay for the expenses that came with her hobby. This eventually lead her to meet with a pegasus stallion named Pathfinder, who was a map maker pony who needed some protection as he charted out some more dangerous parts of Equestria. At first it was a normal worker/client relationship, but after a few misadventures, the gryphoness grew a bit attached, and formed a romantic relationship, where she would introduce the uninitiated stallion to her hobby in private. Years later, the two would stumble upon a baby kelpie lost in the wild, and Path would end up adopting the child, naming her Scylla. While Anya didn’t want to be a mother in a direct sense, she did act as a female figure to Scylla as the kelpie grew up, the girl understanding in time how Anya and her adopted father’s relationship was just a little more than ‘good friends’, but not enough that they would ever get married, as Anya hated being tied down to one pony or one job for too long.

Now just a few years past Scylla’s entrance into adulthood, something has happened to both her and Pathfinder, making them vanish off the face of Equestria. Not wishing to lose her two favorite ponies, Anya will track them down, only to discover a new type of group of BDSM enthusiasts, ones that aren’t all that concerned with the consent of their submissives.