| You might recall we left Barbara dripping on the floor
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| This was her favorite way to freak out important visitors, especially foreign
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| diplomats, who were already so intimidated by the instructions in etiquette
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| they had received from The Demon Ping that they were quite terrified of making
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| a social mistake
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| Yes, on a good day, Barbara could actually make quite a splash on the Royal
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| tiles so to speak. |
| Mind you, sometimes that nasty little Greek, the Howler,
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| would spoil her triumph and scurry across the floor licking up her juices
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| whilst making a totally unnecessary slurping and sucking noise just for added
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| effect, and extra attention of course
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| Foul little man. |
| Why on earth was MacQueen still with him? |
| God knows what THEY
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| got up to in private, wherever that was. |
| «Whip Me!» |
| indeed. |
| She’d like to
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| fuckin' whip him. |
| Little turd. |
| He’d soon take off that stupid sign
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| Her thoughts drifted for a moment. |
| Away from the dwarf’s cock, away from the
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| Howler, back to those earlier, more innocent parties that Feelin' Bored used to
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| organize for everyone. |
| No, that was crap. |
| Just straight sex, titillation and
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| whores. |
| They’d all become connoisseurs since then. |
| Only the silly «Whip Me»
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| sign remained as a witness to those appetites. |
| Maybe, after all,
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| the Howler had it right. |
| Maybe it was okay to keep a symbol of how it began,
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| a relic that contained all the energy ever released and satiated since then.
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| Shit! |
| What a lot of filth they’d managed to enjoy
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| Being descended from God and above the law sure made pleasure perfect
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| «Cap orve tay, Babs?» |
| asked MacQueen
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| «Oh most certainly, of course, not too much cream, just one sugar please.»
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| MacQueen motioned to one of the mosquitoes, as they all called the servants
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| «You know Babs, I really love it here. |
| These spring mornings. |
| The smell of the
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| grass as the overnight dew evaporates. |
| The mist hanging around the edges of the
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| fields like poison gas. |
| The grey sky before it gets warm. |
| Especially if it’s
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| rained during the night. |
| D’you know, I even start to like the dawn chorus and
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| that terrible cockerel over by the stables. |
| I wonder how many eggs he’s
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| fertilized…»
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| MacQueen’s voice trailed off. |
| Being fucked by pregnant teenagers wielding
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| hand-carved bone dildos was her favorite fetish. |
| BY now she’d had so many her
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| labia were callused and hard, Though she liked to joke it was through horse
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| riding. |
| Whore riding more like!
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| The Demon Ping returned. |
| How did he do that, wondered the Howler,
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| how did he manage to always sound like a roulette wheel as the ball settled
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| into a slot?
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| «May I, Ma’am?» |
| Ping leaned over Barbara’s left shoulder gracefully.
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| With a surprising sense of purpose, and a great deal of mysterious sensuality,
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| he tumbled the most delicious and juicy looking strawberries into her cereal
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| bowl without splashing a single drop of cream. |
| One by one he added the berries,
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| and each time, by some extraordinary erotic association, Barbara gasped,
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| clenching and opening her slim legs in spasms. |
| Her silk bathrobe fell open,
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| so lightly tied at the waist was it, to reveal a symmetrical cluster of
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| vesicular and bulbous lesions. |
| A small, clear trail of viscous fluid was
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| running from her swollen vagina onto the purple velvet seat
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| «Eh'll hev som of thet wane you’ve feneshed op thare, Ping.» |
| said MacQueen.
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| «End be queck about et. |
| Eh don’t want them too go orff. |
| Those are thee
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| strawberries grown in Sourth Americon nightsoil, aren’t thay?»
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| «Of course, Ma’am. |
| Of course to both questions, Ma’am,» replied Ping
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| He had chosen control and dispassion as his path to perfection so long ago.
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| For huge segments of time he had persisted, an entity believing so completely
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| in itself that it became almost real. |
| But entities can only do so much on their
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| own you see. |
| They can approximate form, and seem to matter. |
| They can even set
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| themselves up as strange attractors outside earthly time and space.
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| That is how they get nourishment and density. |
| But to manifest as beings with a
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| form and purpose all of their own, able to co-exist with a planetary species,
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| they need directed desire. |
| They require fixated individuals, whose urges to |
| infinite, limitless pleasure redefine hedonism. |
| They must be invoked;
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| assembled orgasm by orgasm; |
| transgression by transgression; |
| unspeakable dream
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| by unspeakable dream; |
| insatiable sexual disgrace by insatiable sexual disgrace.
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| Until, as remorse and regret become laughably atrophied, and in an accelerated
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| kaleidoscope of fractured images and loops of meaning, all is flattened.
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| Meaning is ruptured, and only irreversible terror is left
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| There is a sound that accompanies this. |
| Once this noise begins, nothing,
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| nothing at all can stop it
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| The sound of several galactic histories passing immeasurably fast,
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| as such an entity finds planetary form, is a sound not dissimilar to the sound
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| of a roulette wheel slowing down until the steel ball is able to drop into its
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| apparently random spot. |
| At such times are the fates and futures of more mundane
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| creatures decided irrevocably, in a rush of fear and excitement
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| Ping was born out of risk and ennui, out of irresponsibility and fixated
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| sexuality, out of a most considered form of reckless behavior, out of this
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| appalling sound. |
| Once this noise begins, nothing, nothing at all can ever stop
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| it
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| Recklessness being the most appealing human emotion to those such as Ping |