Fractured Souls Chapter 3 Southeast Fringe Benefits
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Nathan returned to camp the next day around noon without any girls to my surprise. He had left with two, and I had expected him to come back with probably four or more to have another lesbian orgy he had been talking about.
As it happens, Nathan was bored just like I had been the day before. Once we admitted we were tired of all the girls and fucking, we agreed it was time to pack things up and move on.
We spent the next three days traveling around in that shitty car before it broke down and the engine caught fire. At that point we decided we had had enough and started making our way back to the keep.
We arrived at the main entrance of the keep just after nightfall, two days early. Nobody but us was surprised at this, however, and it was a shock to me to find my name on the door across from Nathan’s pad.
Nana and I moved into our suite, then fucked in the kitchen, fucked in the shower, and finally made love again in our king size bed.
The next thing I knew, Nana was waking me up with her tongue teasing my cock to full erection.
“Come ‘ere, slut,” I said with a grin and holding my arms out to her.
“I love your body, master,” she said with eyes full of lust and love as she crawled up to my embrace.
“I know you do,” I said before extracting the kiss I wanted to take from her. “Your body isn’t so bad itself, you know.”
“Would you like to use it?” she asked immediately.
“Not right now, Nana. Can I just hold you in my arms for a while?”
“Yes, master. You may do whatever you wish with me.”
I guess that was the first time I felt anything wrong with having her completely under my control. As she settled down on top of me with her head on my chest, I stroked her soft naked body while thinking of all the things I had loved about Suzi.
Shit. Nana looked so much like Suzi, yet didn’t, especially now. I mean, even though I liked the bigger tits and overall size of her body, it still just didn’t feel right somehow to think about her as being another Suzi. Her face looked so much like her, but my memories of when I had delivered the real Suzi to Steven was really giving me a bad time. Especially when I realized that I had in fact been the one to enslave Suzi, not Steven.
After a while, my troubled thoughts just sort of melted away. I asked her to look up at me, and I just gave in to my desire to kiss her again and spent my time lovingly kissing her face and neck, then finally her nice plump tits.
She had seven orgasms from just my sucking and licking of her breasts, and because she was so tired, I decided not to fuck her cunt but instead fucked her tits then had her rub it into her skin with my dick after I had cum all over them.
I almost told her not to bother when she wearily got up to follow me when I was about to take my shower, but I let her join me and enjoyed her sensually washing me like I was her god. She did it so lovingly, so tenderly, I had to believe it was part of her real personality showing through, and that right there was something very special to me.
“Nana?” I said after she had finished and was waiting for my next command. “Have you ever loved anyone before me?”
“No, master. You are the only one I’ve ever loved like this,” she said, her eyes showing every bit of truthfulness her voice had contained.
I felt myself falling into those eyes. I didn’t consciously think about it when I reached out and stroke the side of her face, and then just let myself follow my instincts as I stepped up to her and gave her a truly loving kiss on the lips.
After ending the kiss, I looked into her eyes and purred, “You’re so beautiful. Even without your sexy body, you’d still be beautiful.”
“I am happy you are pleased with me, master,” she said with such softness and love I just melted in her arms.
After updating the encryption on her mind, I unhappily sent her out to perform her daily duties before getting ready to start my first day on the job myself.
When I left my suite, Nathan came out of his with a smile on his face and a sparkle I recognized in his eyes.
“It’s good to be back, isn’t it?” he asked as he joined me at the elevator.
“I guess I can’t complain. You know, until yesterday, I didn’t understand what made all you guys stick around here so long.”
“Si, we have it all here, don’t we?” he said with a distant look as we stepped into the elevator.
“Well, I don’t know if you have everything,” I said while fondling the breasts on the elevator attendant. “But you certainly have enough of it for me.”
Nathan and I were walking in step the whole way to Gladius’s palace, that’s how in sync we felt. He was like the only person who understood me, the only one who felt the way I felt and wanted the same things as I did. For the first time in a long time I felt content and happy about who I was and what I was doing.
Gladius’s palace was truly a palace. The building was the centerpiece of the grounds contained within the walls of the town, and even in the morning light, it seemed to radiate a powerful sense of domination due to its size dwarfing the other buildings there.
I don’t know how they cooled the place. I mean, there weren’t any air conditioners on the roof or sides as far as I could see, but yet it was a perfect 77 degrees inside, and when the guard opened the door to let us in with a salute, both Nathan and I took in a deep breath to soak in the refreshing cool air.
The hall was detailed with gold, the marble floor of the hall was nearly mirror-like in its shine, and the deep rich carpet inside Gladius’s outer office felt like it had never been walked on before.
We simply walked up to the desk where a middle-aged woman with a great figure and the tits of an eighteen-year-old sat doing her nails, and without looking up, she said, “You may go in. Grandfather is expecting you.”
The doors leading to the inner office were opened by two albino twins around the age of eight or so, and even Nathan was unable to resist taking a good long look at them, especially when they smiled and sent us an empathic kind of kiss.
“Good. Right on time,” Gladius said from his desk with an older set of twins standing on each side of him. “Girls, go find Kain and hurry him up. He loses track of time when he’s in the middle of processing a new one.”
The two albino twins gracefully close the doors behind them, but not before giving Nathan and me a quick burst of horniness to tease us.
“Don’t get any ideas, you two. They are always teasing the male voices at that age. But you know the rules.”
“Yes, Grandfather. We know the rules,” Nathan said.
“So, Joseph,” Gladius said after looking the two of us over with a steady eye. “Now that you’ve completed your treatments and have had your two weeks out looking for your slave, I take it you wish to stay and work for me?”
“Yes sir,” I said, keeping my voice respectable.
“I thought you might. Nathan, since you have the capabilities now to defend yourself from the others, I’m putting you and Joseph in the Pit to begin with, and in a week or two, I’ll be checking to see if you can handle it.”
“The pit?” Nathan excitedly said. “You are putting us in the pit, Grandfather?”
“Are you hard of hearing child?” he said with false aggravation.
“No, Grandfather,” Nathan said with restraint. “I just never expected you to...”
“I know you have worked very hard for me for the past three years, even when the others made you miserable, you kept your mind on your job. If you can keep your mind on this job for two weeks, then the pit will be yours until you leave us or decide you want a change.”
Nathan was completely speechless, and during the momentary silence, I raised an important question that was ringing in my mind.
“Uh, excuse me. What exactly is the pit?”
Nathan and Gladius just looked at me, and then Nathan broke out in a toothy smile before saying, “Don’t let the name fool you. It’s heaven, amigo. Pure heaven.”
“You’ll find out, soon enough,” Gladius said. “Nathan, while you are telling him about the pit, you also better prepare him for the game on Saturday.”
“Oh,” Nathan said, his grin completely vanishing in an instant. “We have to play?”
“You know the rules.”
“Yes, Grandfather,” he said religiously. “I know the rules.”
Just at that moment, the doors opened wide as Kain entered, followed by the albino twins.
“You sent for me, Father?” Kain said with respect.
“Yes, Kain. Prepare these two for the pit, and don’t leave anything out. I don’t want any of the ripened ones getting spoiled again.”
“Yes, Father,” he said with a considerable amount of surprise in his voice. “Are they going into the pit?”
“Of course they are. Why would I ask you to prepare them if they weren’t?”
“What shall I do with Vinh and Parkinson?”
“They have reached the age where I cannot trust them any longer. Wipe them and send them back to their homelands. With these two, we have enough voices to cover everything.”
“Yes, Father. Is that all?”
“Yes. Go now.”
Once we were safely out in the hall, I asked, “What does he mean by wiping them?”
“Just what you think it means,” Kain snapped back. “No one leaves here with their memories intact, you should have realized that by now.”
“Will they have anything left?” I asked Nathan.
Nathan said, “They won’t be mindless, just uncertain what they have been doing while they were here. They are lucky. They actually got to work the pit before they reached twenty. Joe, we are so lucky!”
I asked him exasperated, “What is it about this pit that is so great?”
“It’s where all the girl slaves who have reached puberty go to finish their training,” Kain answered for Nathan. “And you lucky bastards are going to have five of the best cunts in three years fucking and sucking you all day long for the next several months.”
I was just starting to wrap my head around that when we reached the room where I had been given my treatments.
Kain said, “Here we are. Lay down on the cushions and try not to jerk off while I get a pair of twins to process you.”
Nathan and I entered the room and out of habit, started stripping without having to think about it. I was about to ask Nathan all sorts of questions when I noticed he suddenly wasn’t looking happy.
I asked Nathan, “What’s wrong?”
Nathan responded on edge, “We are going to be processed. I’ve never been processed before.”
“Huh? So?”
“Lucas, one of the few people I made friends with a few years ago, was processed for teaching. He teaches the young ones now. After he was processed, he was a different person. I don’t know who we will be after this.”
“Don’t worry about it, Nathan,” I said. “Whatever they do to us, it will be worth it just to work in the pit, right?”
He perked up a little, then gave me a weak grin and a nod, but didn’t say anything more, so neither did I.
Nathan was right to be worried. Five minutes later, Parkinson and a guy I hadn’t met before walked in through the door with the mindless look on their faces I recognized immediately as the same as the five blanks I had seen. They were followed immediately by the two twins who had been standing next to Gladius in his office. The two guys laid down next to us in perfect sync while a blond set of twins around eighteen came in.
If I wasn’t so horny for their brainwashing fuck, I probably would have gotten scared enough to get up and try to run. Nathan started to do just that, and it startled me when Nathan just suddenly lost all his strength and wilted back down flat on his back, his face as blank as the other two.
As the twin mounted me, I was the only one who greeted the feel of their empathic power flowing through my mind. The last thing I clearly remember was my hands raised to fondle the blond twin’s breasts automatically as she began to hump
Shit, those twins of Gladius’ were powerful. I mean, I love every moment of their manipulation of my senses, filling my head with emotions that generated images and knowledge that still are with me even today. Oh, and they also pulled some of that shit they used on me during my treatments, and I recognized it for the first time for what it was. They were trying to literally inflict loyalty to their grandfather onto me.
They seemed completely oblivious to the fact that it wasn’t working on me. I mean, after they passed out and Nathan and I rolled them off of us, I got this weird vibe from Nathan that he was no longer interested in getting home to his sister to fuck and play but to go and do what his “Grandfather” wished, and expected that I also desired to also obey.
It was hard for me not to show how devastated I was from this realization. I had been so happy, so fucking happy to have someone who was just like me as a friend. But now that had been taken from me ... again.
You could say I have a very good poker face. All that time I spent hiding my thoughts and feelings from Tim really came in useful, especially with Nathan right then.
“What was the game that Gladius mentioned?” I asked carefully while we waited for Kain to finish checking the other two before he released us.
Nathan said with a frown, “You’re one of us now. You should call him Grandfather.”
“I don’t have to wait for him to ask me to? I didn’t want to upset anyone,” I lied while acting very pleased with this.
Nathan seemed to accept my explanation since his frown went away, and then he said, “Every Saturday night, all the voices meet somewhere on the mountain and challenge each other. The purpose is to strengthen each other in case we come under attack from the outside, and the winner has the pleasure to visit Lea for a night.”
“Lea?”
“She’s one of Grandfather’s special girls. She does not have voice and is not a twin. Some call her a witch, but I don’t know why. The other voices work very hard to spend the night with her. She is very beautiful, and...”
Kain interrupted, “And you basically have the longest orgasm in your life if you are picked by her.”
I asked, “What do you mean picked? I thought the winner...”
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Ahhh ... Life was good. I had bed companions every night from then on, James and Eric Sunday through Thursday, and two or three of my lesbian girlfriends on the weekends after swapping bodies with one of them. Having access to a campus of college students to sponge off made it easy to complete my schoolwork, especially when I could control ten of their arms to write the answers in my handwriting. Once I had ironed out the wrinkles in forming those kinds of links, Eric and James appreciated...
I seriously regretting sending Lee Vo away. Cleaning up the shitstorm of a mess she left behind was a lot harder to do than I expected. Too many mutes had witnessed what happened and there were fire trucks, ambulances, police, and even worse, the media. We would have been completely fucked if I hadn’t discovered how to throw large blanket commands. I basically rounded up everyone who had seen anything and made everyone else ignore anything unusual about the day. That caused its own problems....
All my life I had hoped, prayed and dreamed for the day which had finally arrived. My mother was to marry my father, and it just sort of hit me all of a sudden while driving up to the huge church where it was going to actually happen. “Shit,” I said, shutting off the engine and staring at the rather impressive house of God. While trying to see what I was looking at, Eric asked, “What’s the matter?” “Nothing really. It’s just I once promised my mom I’d be the first one to throw the rice at...
I woke alone in my bed at the Marlfield mansion, feeling completely rested and relaxed. I was so comfortable and at ease that I just laid there completely nude on top of the covers, not wishing to disturb the perfect stillness and peace after having such a wonderful dream. My attention wandered around the room a bit, not really thinking of anything specific, just letting the objects in the room trigger whatever vague images and feelings they wished to give me. But when my eyes fell on the...
Puffy white clouds hang high in the sky, casting shadows on the fields of grass surrounding a road, a peaceful and quiet scene. A car - a familiar red car - approaches from the distance, then pulls up beside me. I’m sitting in my Mustang and finding myself looking Tim in the eyes as Eric silently gets out of his car without a word. I hear a count down, “Three, two, one,” and instinctively push on the petal to make my car go, but my ears only hear the roar of Tim’s engine as we pull out. I...
The next morning, I opened my eyes to find Vera on top of Nathan, both still sound asleep. I studied their faces again, trying to find common traits to their features, but quickly found my attention being diverted to Nathan’s face by itself as it slept. Something kept tugging the back of my mind, a nagging feeling of familiarity yet I couldn’t put my finger on it. I spent the longest time trying to recall ever having met him before somehow, then tensed up when the thought occurred that it...
That Saturday, Nathan and I were a little nervous yet excited as we walked up the path leading up the hillside. We were following the other voices to participate in the Games, and when we entered the only area of the fortified town that was normally off-limits to everyone, I got more excited at the prospect of finding out what was up there. The entire town sat on a leveled out area carved into the side of a mountain, and the fortified wall had been constructed using the rock that had been...
As we reached the base of the mountain, Nathan complained, “But why would you want to help her? She has done some very bad things to me and...” I groaned, “For the last time, Nathan. I did it to help myself as much as her. Shit, I’m hungry. Hey, how did you guys know I was up there, anyway?” Gordon said with a grin, “When your link thing broke with Nathan, he came running to us saying he thought you died or something. When we couldn’t find you, we went to Grandfather and found out you were...
Thursday, December 18, 2014, 9:24 pm Rebecca bent at the waist, hands on her knees, and breathed deeply through her mouth. Her head swam and her ears rang. Her stomach felt assaulted by a 24-hour bug from Hell. Busy with homework, Younger-Rebecca hadn’t witnessed her arrival. Rebecca pushed upright and gazed around her room. The clock on her night stand advanced to 9:25 pm as she watched. It was her bedroom, of course, and she was Iris, the uninvited guest. Twin Sister also, she realized....
Thursday, June 3, 3109, 10:50 AM The Hall of the Gate was empty of other occupants. Hands on her knees as she waited on the nausea to subside, Rebecca glanced around for the Bizzy K ball cap, but spotted it nowhere. A logical place for Leda to stash it was inside the control panel, she thought, atop the raised dais. The control panel interested her, anyway, and she headed over to take a look. She halted as Leda appeared in the passageway beyond. “There you are! Perfect timing! One last thing...
Thursday, December 18, 2014, 9:35 pm Iris urged Younger-Rebecca: “You should see what the other side has to offer, Becs! It’s crazy there, but you can come back any time you want. You might not want to come back, though: Imagine never having to kowtow to—HEY!” Driven sideways by Rebecca’s sudden plunge through the gate, she squealed and half-landed on the bed, Rebecca in her arms. Jumping frantically out of the way, Younger-Rebecca cried: “Who are you?” Rebecca groaned loudly and dropped to...
Thursday, December 18, 2014, 9:55 pm Standing before the mirror in the bathroom across the hall from her bedroom, Rebecca stripped off her shirt and tossed it on the floor. She’d worn these clothes for two days now; she hadn’t bathed in that time and she could smell herself. Her hair hung limp; worse, she had slept on it and not had a brush to get out the tangles. She grabbed up her brush now, and went to work. In the shower, she shampooed and shaved her underarms and legs, then rinsed her...
Thursday, June 3, 3109, 11:03 AM The Hall of the Gate stood empty. Nauseated and clutching her stomach, Rebecca hurried around the dais to the passageway beyond, half-expecting to hear Leda chastising Iris in the distance. She neither saw, nor heard, anyone. Stepping onto the dais, she approached the control panel and extended her right hand toward the central globe. She still had the list in her hand, she discovered. Curious despite her sense of urgency, she unfolded the paper and glanced at...
Thursday, December 18, 2014, 9:27 am. Stumbling away from the gate, she freed the Diet Coke from her pocket and twisted off the lid. The hiss/fizz of escaping carbon dioxide was Iggy Azalea to her ears. Lifting the rim to her lips, she couldn’t drink the soda; her nausea was too great. Cold and disgusted, she capped the bottle and staggered to the nearby patio table, yanked out the closest chair and collapsed onto the seat. Her nausea grew worse every time she jumped back to 2014, and lasted...
Thursday, December 18, 2014, 12:41 pm. Leda had taken the gate. Cursing, Rebecca kicked the wall directly above the dropped penny and staggered back, hopping one-footed as her left ankle screamed in pain. You stupid bimbo, she thought angrily, trying to walk it off. What are you so angry about, anyway? “Because!” she hissed angrily. “I’m stranded with my other, unsuspecting self, due home from school at 3 o’clock. How am I going to explain this to her?” Hobbling from the shed to the far...
Thursday, June 3, 3109, 11:55 AM The Hall of the Gate remained empty. Stressed to the point of nearly peeing herself, Rebecca dropped the bags and staggered rubber-kneed to the dais and dropped to her butt. She had nothing to calm her stomach this time; she’d left her Diet Coke in Gunther’s car, and not thought to grab a bottle from the fridge. Distractedly, she wondered if she had drunk any of the sodas in the refrigerator twice. Requiring more logic skills and concentration than she...
Monday, June 3, 3089, 2:29 pm She experienced no nausea at all. Looking about, Rebecca considered her decision to step through, wondered if having it out with Leda wasn’t a better plan of action. Stepping away from the portal, she lowered the bags and automatically glanced back. What if Leda followed her through? Certainly the woman had seen her, disappearing through the gate. Her glimpse of the person turning the corner was so fleeting that she hadn’t actually identified the figure as Leda,...
Monday, June 3, 3089, 3:06 pm Rebecca arose from the dais, pushing erect with both hands on her right knee. She swayed, the toe of her left boot just making contact with the floor. “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck,” she repeated slowly. She’d yelled herself hoarse, screaming Leda’s name. Hobbling to the record-shop bag, she snatched it up and searched out the Baby Ruth bars at the bottom. She’d bought one and gotten one free from Mr. Klause, when he’d rung up her sale and bagged her items. The bars were...
Tuesday, June 4, 3089, 9:07 am She had to do something fast. Her only food was the remaining candy bar in her coat pocket, and she’d gone without water--or any other liquid--since her Diet Coke some 20 hours ago. Not a tremendously long time under normal circumstances, but she had awoken with a burning bladder, a bad sign. A more indicative sign of her jump-induced dehydration lay in the color of her urine—a disturbingly dark yellow—and the scant amount she had deposited on the floor 5...
Tuesday, June 4, 3089, 11:55 am Leaving her parka to block the balcony gate—and theoretically, any railing closure—Rebecca boarded the escalator and stood calmly with the bags at her feet. The small girl, whom Rebecca guessed to be 5 or 6 years old, shifted anxiously at the bottom, rocking side to side, fitfully moving her lips. She seemed consumed equally by curiously and fear. As she slowly withdrew from the ramp, Rebecca cursed the gods for not revealing the girl sooner. Her antics on the...
Tuesday, June 4, 3089, 3:06 pm At 3:06 pm, Rebecca glanced up from the journal and discovered a procession wending its way along the path. Perhaps 50 natives in all; at the head of the line was a wizened old man, long white hair braided Native American style. The leader appeared legless, borne aloft in a canopied transport by four young, heavily-muscled male bearers, also with long braided hair. Each wore the same, hand-stitched tanned skins as Gudrun and Frieda. The elder’s chest was...