"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
β Baron de Montesquieu
Nothing green touched Vegas Vic's plate. The fired circle of porcelain was off limits to anything grown in the ground, at one time hanging from a vine, or initially dangling from a tree.
The dinnerware obviously had an invisible barricade around it, keeping that which didn't perish in a slaughterhouse from penetrating its perimeter.
I wondered if V2 β i.e. The Rocket β was allergic to vegetables. Not wishing to tread on distressing dirt, I didn't say a word.
Lovingly embraced by a free Palace Station buffet, I stuffed my face full of leaves, roots and stalks, while V-Squared solely engulfed that which had bled.
We couldn't have been more opposite. Twin-V appeared to never miss a meal. I, on the other hand, was a poster child for the undernourished. Swinging adjudicates no one; the only glue necessary being the desire to fuck, and fuck like mad.
As such, we'd just completed yet another gangbang β this one with a Dungeons & Dragons aficionado, and his cock-craving concubine.
Riding the elevator to the event at the Rio, I'd stared up at an ad for Chippendale's male revue. Six topless torsos, attached to dudes who spent more time in the gym than they did breathing. "Who do you think gets laid more?" motioning to the airbrushed poster of perfect corporeal specimens. "Those guys, or us?" I'd asked.
Vic chuckled. We didn't have a definite answer to that one. The correct rejoinder may have seemed obvious, but it was just another example of what this system offers, and what we decide to take on our own.
"Tough to tell, man. Tough to tell," responded Sin City's premiere Organ-Izer.
At best, we were...grubby. I'd never heard my name mentioned in the same sentence with the phrase "hot stud." Vic, although at least tolerable, wasn't gonna be featured on The Bachelor anytime soon.
Still, here we were, more fucked than the only Fleshlight in a prison.
I was averagin' eight to 10 new women per week, at that time, and I don't think Vic was too far behind.
The LP of my mind skipped a groove, recalling a recent memory.