Chapter 6, Part 6 (1)
Zita
Magnificent Chaos, residing in the nether,
Come to erase all names,
bring forth the disorder,
blind us in darkness.
Let us starve in the fog,
for that is better than living in lies!
I uttered a silent, self-created prayer in the chapel of the Trojan castle, half-sane and glamorously dressed by my virtual father´s servants. I can´t eat in my fantasy, but I wish they´d made the lime green skirt out of sugar.
Pious Zeena," my satyr butler addressed me. "Your adventurous court ladies have arrived. Shall they join you in worship, or shall I send them to the cartography room?"
"They must prepare maps for me. Also, send laurels with hot water. We need to warm our feet."
Today I committed myself to solve two things. I must remove Barbara´s character from the plot. Now that she's gotten eyes on her, she should be able to name a replacement. Surely everyone will be impressed when I interview her.
At the same time, I wanted to suggest that in one of the five next five episodes, the party should finally attack the Werewolf Queen´s lair. When there is no direct attack, it damages the reputation of both parties. Plotting, oh, plotting.
Maybe I'm abusing the possibilities of virtual reality, but we live in an even worse distortion of the truth. Like Weatherby´s lecture on the civil rights movement.
"The government is a cog of reason, and that cog alone has to decide when to rewrite human rights policy. When people like Martin Luther King and his supporters kindly petitioned the government, it was only up to their formulation and the governing bodies to decide when to comply."
No one in the class wanted to point out that they remembered it differently.
The truth is frequently more important than human´s life. That´s why I think Therese´s condition for Jenine je self-righteous bullshit
Therese, if one us doesn´t cooperate, the entire boat sinks," Stacey said.
"She could have kill as all," Therese repeated the earlier accusation. "She is not our friend, she simply does what suits her and then is thinking why it was right!"
"No, I thought beforehands it is good if I will not be cooking and screwing here," Jenine said, exhausted.
She will never turn herself in, and it may take weeks for Stacey to soften Therese and Barbara. She might feel bad about betraying their trust, but I wasn't going to let everything we worked for go to waste. Sadly, Therese didn't tell me the details, but I guessed that her mighty contact was the only woman she was hanging out with besides us - Larissa Lewandowska. All I have to do was stop her on a weekend walk in the park.
"Howdy, lady! How about I know where Jenine Thompson is, and she needs your help?"
Lewandowska walked around me and stroked the back of my neck. “I would ask you why she con-fided in that little Loyalist rat, lass.”
"Wait,” I called for her. "I also have contact with Richard Neumann!”
"He's sending you ice cream, isn't he?" she joked, laughing at her joke for a minute.
The cow demands proof, so I'll probably make it for her. In the meantime, my ingenuity has been fuelled by homework in biology and androcentrism. Flipping through encyclopedias of marine life, I became overcome with envy of clownfish, where individuals mature into females, and selected males change sex earlier to lead the school. If humans reproduced this way, there would not be gender discrimination.
The homework on androcentrism, constantly defending its logic, has perhaps 200 conditions, with Weatherby emphasizing that we could always ask him if we had any questions. Of course, we felt that we would have to admit we were just stupid girls and needed help.
One of the most difficult conditions this time was that we were to concentrate on androcentric literature written by women. So-so digestible was the relatively new Elizabeth Chiswick. She built her views about the family around the basic thesis that 'hierarchy is what makes a relationship beautiful.' I kept coming back to this simple sentence because I couldn't find a way to refute it. Rather, I expanded its scope until I exhausted it and got to the point. I packed up my homework and was about to leave the library when I heard a smacking sound. I went to the nearest shelves and looked around furtively. I saw Cabrera and Dr. Beck pressed against each other, kissing for a long time. Cabrera was wearing a dress that was strangely neither short nor see-through, yet suggested that its owner was available for sale. The white fabric, crisscrossed with gold latticework and strapless, looked like the only thing holding it in place massive breasts. Beck clawed at them, his tuxedo crushing against her as he locked her leg with his knees. I was thrilled as they turned around, and I couldn't help but admire his thighs and shapely ass.
The sexologist pushed his lover between two massive bookshelves. I followed them discreetly from the other side and pulled up a stool. They had no shame here, so why should I?
I removed a few books from the shelf and saw Cabrera folding her skirt on the table. Lately, the Heirs often don't give back chastity belts to their mistresses, but Cabrera wasn´t protecting her pussy with anything "I already pleased you, and you pleased me," the prostitute sighed. "Now, let's try to pretend we both have an exam!"
Beck made himself comfortable in front of her, and it seemed as if his cock was constantly reaching forward. I couldn't massage the front with my chastity belt very well, but I moved the panties to the back and began slapping my ass rhythmically. There was an exhilarating feeling of guilt, but it couldn't compare to having someone hold you and subjugate you uncompromisingly. I couldn't even apply enough force to keep it from rattling.
Cabrera, meanwhile, arched back on the table, responding to Beck's humps with her whole body as if she were riding a toboggan. Her hands, driven by pleasure, felt the muscles on his back and, at times, held his waist, urging him to thrust harder. Meanwhile, the man took her breasts out of her cleavage, apparently trying to delay the climax. My ass felt cheated, longing for what the pussy of Cabrera was now getting.
I remembered how I recently had to play their daughter.
“Zitiee, when you take a boy to your room, try to be aware of where he looks at you most of the time so that you know what part of your clothes to take off the last time. It will be a more attractive secret for him. Act like a little girl. Then he will feel superior, and his testosterone will rise. However, use your body as flexibly as possible. More like a well-functioning doll with a key in the back."
New Family Week didn't always teach how to honor one´s parents honestly.
"Dad, what if my husband has a crush on our daughter?"
Beck preferred to drink after a question of that kind.
"Then you must prove your claim convincingly to the Bureau of Sexual Morality. If proven, your husband will go to prison for life. You and your daughter will work for the Bureau, each until marriage. New one in your case."
I wasn't going to give him a break.
"What if we get harassed by a superior in the Bureau?"
Beck stroked my hair. "They already have courses on how to sexually use their employees considerately."
I left burning with desire, however, Cabrera caught me at the door again. It was embarrassing to look at her face now, but luckily she didn't seem to notice. "Woodroof, don't forget we're doing politics at Mayson's tomorrow!"
I nodded as if I knew, but my mind was elsewhere. I felt like Montserrat when I didn't want to participate in Stacey's argument with Therese in the room, and instead, I quickly unlocked my chastity belt and tried all the fingers in my wet hole, one after the other, sometimes sticking even two.
I continued with breaks long after dark. The babysitters used to masturbate boys to help them sleep, and I wouldn't have slept tonight without it. I kept seeing the tension on Beck and what the guy was able to do with Cabrera. Who would I want to do it with? Certainly not with Mayson, or Weatherby, but maybe with Malcolm.
We Loyalists could only eat half a ham baguette for breakfast and then hurry to the principal's office. Mayson looked as if he hadn't eaten anything at all, as to not throw up. He glanced at me for a moment, but otherwise, he preferred to focus on the glittering flashes of his chandelier and didn´t bend down to meet us at all. "Don't sit. You'll be waiting for the elected representatives."
Prefect ordered Mayson to consult with the Privileged and the Heirs on the running of the Tower from now on. For the first time, someone voted for someone here, even though the selection hardly coincides with decent persons. No matter what, politics is always dirty, and I was glad to be able to participate in the Coordination Council in its formation ("Supreme Chancellor, Delegates of the Senate...").
"Turn around and bow!"
It wasn't until we were staring at the floor that he let people into the office, most of whom I knew. Cabrera, carrying himself proudly as always. Her roommate Olivia with an unreadable expression on her face. Claudia Fleischer, brazenly defiant. They lined up to Mayson's left.
The Heirs were represented by Cruz, who couldn't miss this event, a fat boy with short legs, and a girl with Drag King charm and only slightly grown hair in ponytails.
"Mr. Director, we come before you in a spirit of reconciliation and hope for cooperation," Cruz said, ceremoniously naming the council members. When he reached his side, he revealed that his companions were Earnest Randell and Oriona Termen.
“Thank you for coming.” Mayson didn't even look at Cruz. He was addressing Cabrera and her party. "I have not yet given the younger Loyalists time to choose representatives, as the question is largely impractical. Miss Pignon has become a venerable mother, so it is necessary to protect her. If she desires anything, any of the female lectors, or Miss Rosenstein, or Miss Arnolph will interpret her over-the-top demands. Mrs. Cabrera already represents the Loyalists. So, with the results I know, I'm asking our student girls to keep only the Misses Woodroof and Butcher here."
I was pleased that three of my classmates had to leave. I could finally sit down with a sense of grander political superiority. I am becoming someone like Jenine. Now, to be just as brave.
We finally sat in our chairs, and Mayson cleared his throat loudly, drowning out the sounds of the others as they settled down.
"As we all understood, the Prefect gave us the freedom to participate in the workings of our mechanism, but at the same time, he gave us the confidence to silence the skeptics and fill in the blanks. The fugitive assassin had still not been caught and this information could not be withheld. I know that you have not yet used up all your resources, so you have a free hand for me. At least the Prefect will know that you have done what you could. Early next year, you will speak to Mr. Manabe, whom I know better than I wish to. I have explained to him that many of the women we have here are too dangerous to take part in the normal running of society. This incident demonstrated that. I hope you can show him that you are imparting some values to them, not just practicing with them in bed ."
"You have already run away from us," Oriona reminded him, raising both hands, clenched into fists. “We will frighten every other enemy of the Prefect and confirm who the Princeps can appoint as his deputy.”
"They'll be afraid of you," Mayson said. "But you know, you can't just scare the enemy off the battlefield. You have to get ahead of them and plunder their hometown. That's why the real strategists, like me, will be needed. Prefect hasn't told me the details of his plans yet, but he's going to ask a lot of us. If the force of argument and some people won´t work, you will use your fervor against our so-called brothers and show them that you are the Prefect's army. As you have done in this room.”
"We have not lost our honor through faithful service," said Cruz. "We will only gain more of it." He emphasized every word of the last sentence. "You threw it away."
That was it. In the room sat four women who were still inmates. If Mayson was angry, Heirs won't be ones paying for it.
I raised my hand.
"As far as I know, Mr. Principal's instructions to the pilot have not been made public. Unless we are certain that he wanted to leave the compound, it is not so illogical to assume that he only wanted to exit a small office where he was in danger."
Lydia looked at me with disdain, and the Heirs giggled without opening their mouths. However, Mayson began to follow me. The discussion about his honor was over, and Mayson kissed the hands of the two ladies as we parted. Cabrera and me.
"Fellow Principal," I paused in the doorway. "I may know how to improve your image. "The whole controversy started the moment you refused to connect Ms. Pignon with her soon-to-be relatives."
"Right," Mayson growled.
"I could prepare a special edition of the show for you."
It's never too late to ingratiate yourself.