Sorry for the late review, irl has beet me up.

So this chapter was hard to read. No fault of your writing, its just well from the moment I realized they were at a formal event, I realized this was when Donnica would find out about Rebecca and she did, (sort of0. 

This chapter started so well to. It was actually kinda sweet. I also did like Rebecca asking about the future and where Amber saw them heading. Though Amber is way to spoiled and selfish to really be able to handle that question. Probably why she couldnt answer it. 

The dance it self was cute. Very wholesome. I was on edge here, kept waiting for something to happen. It finally did. So Donnica now knows that AMber is in a relationship with a tiny. She both took that much better and worse then expected. Rebbeca is alive (plus) and Donnica didnt kill her for her temarity to speak so horrribly (justified) to Donnica. Now exactyl what Donnica thinks is going on remains unclear. But for now she is safe from Donnica. 

     So, Rebecca is now fully in thrall with Amber. Rebecca is still there, but she is no longer in control. She has fully submitted to Amber. If Amber wasnt such a bitch yay. But Amber is A Grade a bitch, not suprising considering her mother, but Amber needs a strong partner, and I am afraid she wont see what see has lost in Rebecca. I really do hope there is a positive light at the end of this tunnel. I dont mind a tiny being subserviant to their owner, but they need some spit and vigor. Rebecca may have just lost that. I hope Amber realizes that. I really am rooting for these two. 

Your sex scenes remain top tear.

Okay, so I spoke a little too soon in my review a couple chapters ago, when I thought Amber had broken Rebecca.

Just a little, though.

A lot of what I said then applies to the back end of this chapter. Amber's power tripping, surrendering herself to those darker, primal urges, herself, ironically enough, becoming a slave to them, is still something I strongly believe she's going to come to regret.

This time we actually got to see Rebecca's sense of self being wiped away, both in Donnica's hand and at the smell of Amber's feet. If not for the former, I might have assumed this was just pheromones playing a larger role in things than we were initially led to believe. But between that act of submission to Donnica and the way Trevor carries himself in general, clearly there's more to this than that. In fact, we saw Trevor almost succumb to something kind of similar when he confronted Helena, with the thought of standing up for Annabel grounding him and allowing him to fight it.

But with Rebecca, it's the one she would fight for that's doing this to her.

This was a heartbreaking chapter, agonizing in the most beautiful of ways. I think what made this worse was how much of the real Amber we saw come through here. Now, I already know what you're going to say here in your response:

Who's to say which part of Amber is real and which part isn't? Those primal urges are real, right? Maybe this was who Amber has been all along. Look at me being all cryptic and shit.

So let me go ahead and nip that in the bud. By the "real" Amber, I mean the one capable of rational thought and complex emotions. The one that needed Rebecca to give her the strength to overcome her fear and go into the dance and make friends. The one that freaked out in the dress store because she knew how capable and smart Rebecca is and that the abuse Amber had done to her in the past could make the tiny want to leave her. The one that tiptoes into her room and keeps her voice down so that Rebecca doesn't become startled.

The one that actually loves Rebecca.

But yeah, we saw Amber trying to reconcile primal Amber with real Amber early on in that first segment. She tried to dominate Rebecca, attempting to force her to talk about how many times she had slept with someone in the back seat of a car and defending her mother. But when Rebecca resisted, Amber became confused. Actually, when she asked why Rebecca was "making it weird," it reminded me of that scene when Amber got off for destroying Trevor's house. There, too, she insisted that the tinies actually liked what she was doing to them, even though they made it clear that they didn't. It was slightly different here, as Rebecca's thoughts on that treatment are a bit more ambiguous, but, to me at least, this was more or less the same thing.

This is important for two reasons.

First, seeing this part of Amber's thinking helps make what she ends up doing to Rebecca later on seem less evil and more unfortunate. Yeah, she was punishing Rebecca with her ass and pussy, but a part of her really does believe that Rebecca wants this. That's why using her smell and authority to strip Rebecca of her free will, even with Rebecca fighting it so admirably, doesn't contradict with Amber's love for her.

Amber just doesn't understand. Not yet, anyway.

Second, this stood out to me particularly because I feel like Amber has been backsliding the last couple times we've seen her. She's going back to punishing Rebecca, putting her "in her place" and establishing that she's the giant here. That's pre-abuse-talk Amber stuff. Only this time, that primal urge is backing up that behavior, which makes it even more dangerous.

Oh, and the fact that Amber is really starting to like her mom again isn't helping things, either.

But Amber's concern at seeing Rebecca so disturbed in S1 was really touching, and it showed that real Amber is still in there, that she still cares for and loves Rebecca, despite that urge to dominate threatening that love. And Rebecca reciprocating by deciding that they should still go to the dance despite having no energy or desire to, let alone the dangers she faced, all for the sake of helping Amber overcome her trauma and have the life she neve did was so fucking sweet! I love Rebecca so much! Poor girl!

And seeing how Rebecca moved past her own (very justified) insecurities about the danger she could face and how even wealthy tinies were free of such concerns in order to help Amber socialize and have a great time at the dance was so endearing, The love Rebecca has for Amber is very real and clearly goes far beyond any primal urges or simple master/slave relationship. Rebecca even got into the mix, socializing with Amber's teammates too, which was super cute (I love how she pumped Amber up to Megan and her friends).

Actually, I'm always curious when a new named character shows up. Was Megan just named in order to show that Amber was familiar with one of them, or might we see some more of her in the future. The brief glimpse we got of her made her seem pretty sweet, but I wonder if that would have changed if she knew that Rebecca was unregistered or even just that Amber was actually dating a tiny. We haven't seen a lot of how people feel about tinies outside of the firm and the characters that we're following, so I actually found myself pretty curious about how someone like Megan might feel about these things.

Speaking of which, detailing the tiny walkway and noting that there was a tiny food table, despite the fact that the school had no tiny students (at least I assume as much, given that Rebecca going to St. James seemed to justify her tiny status), was pretty cool! Again, it made me wonder how most of the students and mothers there actually feel about tinies, but it was awesome to see how this society is capable of accommodating them (and the fact that these things are even available seems to imply that at least some people have a more favorable view of tinies).

But man, just seeing Rebecca reassure Amber throughout the night was fantastic. It was cathartic, in a way. Seeing Amber relax and get into things thanks to Rebecca's help kind of allowed the reader to experience that relief vicariously through Amber.

Registration continues to be an open question in this story. If only there was some worldbuilding to clarify things! But seriously, I am curious as to what, exactly registration is. I know it amounts to letting bigs do whatever they want to tinies, but that can't seriously be the law, right? I mean, is the government literally making tinies pay protection money in order to survive? If I had to guess, it's probably more about recordkeeping and how much harder it would be to even know that an unregistered was murdered rather than the law just saying, "Fuck it, squish 'em. It's cool."

But hey, I could be wrong, too.

Then Donnica had to show up and ruin everything! Ha!

When Donnica asked Annabel to seek out a school even she could surprise Amber by showing up at, I figured it would be the prom. After careful consideration and deliberation, I've decided to give myself the point on this one. After all, you invented a whole different "test dance" that we weren't privy to knowing about beforehand, so close enough. Adjust my current tally accordingly.

It was so intriguing watching Donnica navigate handling tinies in the outside world. I assume it was a combination of thinking Rebecca was registered, knowing how some people think higher of tinies than she does, and not wanting to upset Amber that led to Donnica taking the nice, yet condescending approach. I also wonder how much of Donnica talking down to Rebecca had to do with Donnica actually thinking of her as a lesser being versus knowing full well how insulting she was being and enjoying throwing it in the tiny's face.

But then the biproduct of Rebecca's abuse struck again! That condescension from Donnica and the belief that she was protected led Rebecca to tapping into that hate in her heart for Donnica, and she couldn't stop herself. Amber was right to be pissed here, as Rebecca herself later acknowledged, but I understand why Rebecca couldn't hold back. Amber might too, if she stopped and thought about it. I mean, Amber almost killed a dude for pushing Rebecca down some stairs and being a jerk about it later on, but Donnica set the stage for that to happen and , oh yeah, took everything away from Rebecca. Of course Rebecca can't contain her anger when she thinks she's free to let it out.

Then it got worse when Amber stuck with their "great friends" cover story. Rebecca took it as a slap in the face, as though Amber was ashamed to admit to her mother that they were dating. Or maybe a part of it was, with the shift in their relationship, Rebecca might have been starting to doubt whether Amber really views her as a girlfriend or not (which is a really, really valid concern at this point, even if Amber doesn't realize it yet).

And now Donnica knows that Amber is dating Rebecca, which makes perfect sense, between how poorly their story could stand up to the slightest of scrutiny and Rebecca fighting over the "great friends" thing. Her reaction was really interesting, though. She wasn't angry or shocked that Amber was actually dating a tiny woman, she just wanted to make sure that Rebecca treated her daughter "with the utmost respect."

Rebecca submitting to her so thoroughly was a bit of shocker, though. But that shows that the primal urge we keep hearing about within both Amber and Rebecca really isn't sexual in nature at all, even if that's primarily where it came out for them up until recently. Donnica seems to have a pretty good understanding of this, too. I wonder if she just haughtily expects this or if she actually knows something about this phenomenon that we haven't seen yet.

Amber freaking out about Donnica holding Rebecca and demanding she put the tiny down was so sweet to see. Despite her behavior sometimes, she really does care about Rebecca. Of course, that description could be used to describe a lot of abusive relationships (I'm looking at you, notepad). Donnica playing around by not setting Rebecca down right away, offering the tiny to Rebecca like she was a party favor, was a very Donnica way to handle the situation.

But I get why Amber is taking her mom's side here. She's not wrong that Donnica is trying. We've seen Donnica want to repair her relationship with her daughter, and for Amber to recognize that here felt kind of good. However, Amber using this to brush aside the truth about what Donnica is trying to do and getting upset at Rebecca for telling the truth is really unfortunate.

Not that Amber didn't have good reason to be pissed. I do understand Amber wanting to defend her mom, even if she was at least partially wrong in doing so. And Rebecca ditching the plan and attacking Donnica like that did leave Amber out to dry. I don't necessarily agree that Rebecca is ungrateful (although it makes sense to me that Amber would think that). Actually, I kind of think the opposite is true. Rebecca has helped Amber so much, bringing out the beautiful person that was buried inside that trauma and past abuse, including on that very night. But Amber was too busy pretending that she was a god to recognize this.

Like I said before, Amber making Rebecca say she would obey, with the foot smell, the quiet authority in her voice, and that finger bearing down on her, while incredibly manipulative and intentional at this point, is something I can understand Amber doing because she feels like, deep down, Rebecca wants this too. It's easier this way. She's doing it for Rebecca's own good, really.

But man, she's going to hate herself by the time she finally has Rebecca where she thinks she wants her.

Because at some point, Amber is going to have to choose: Does she want a slave or a girlfriend? Because she can't have both. Rebecca's thoughts while this was happening have removed any doubt I had about that before.

Right now, Amber thinks she can have it both ways, leaning on Rebecca when she needs to and enslaving her when she doesn't. Sooner or later, though, she's going to realize just how wrong she is. The only question is whether or not she'll be able to bring the Rebecca she loves back once she finishes breaking her.

Wow this relationship between Amber and Rebecca is so wild and so interesting and intense lol but it continues to grow and evolve in every aspect