Davey Dixon couldn't decide if he was drunk, high, or just dreaming. The world around him had a dreamlike quality to it. There was a fuzz to the edges of his vision that covered everything in a soft, ethereal filter. That same fuzz extended inside his skull, making his thoughts feel like they'd been smothered in warm cotton wool.
He didn't know where he was or how he'd got here.
Here
looked like an intimate downstairs bar. Very swanky. Upmarket. The seats were upholstered in glossy red leather. The walls were decorated with scandalous imagery of neon lips and naked women.
Maybe a bit too scandalous.
Wait a minute...
The bar was small--little more than a narrow counter. There was a small wooden stage in the corner with a stripper's pole. Davey was the only patron.
The place looked fancy, but it also had an indelible
grubbiness
to it.
Had he wandered off the street into some upmarket knocking shop?
It had that look to it. A layer of swank and polish to disguise the seediness of its function.
Or Davey was in the middle of a weird dream.
It felt too
real
to be a dream. Smoky, but also solid. Vivid.
Maybe it was just his thoughts that were soft and fuzzy.
What did you get us to try this time, Bennie?
If it wasn't a dream, then Davey was blasted. On about three different things at least. If it wasn't a dream, he'd really mushed his brains this night.
If it was night. There were no windows to tell.
A statuesque hottie in high heels entered and walked over to him. She was dressed in a sexy fancy-dress devil costume that showed off plenty of flesh. It didn't leave much to the imagination when it came to her lovely long legs and the deep chasm of her cleavage. Strangely, her outfit also seemed like some kind of uniform. Like a waitress or hostess costume, but far beyond what normie tastes would allow.
Davey found it hard to focus on her. He wondered again if he was dreaming. His vision swam in and out of focus. He had the impression he was looking at a gorgeous creature with a truly knockout figure, but it was an incomplete picture. When he tried to concentrate and look at her more closely, he couldn't fill in all the details. As if she was nothing more than a dream that would melt away by morning.
"Mr Dixon, Sutruyasa is ready for you," the girl in the devil costume said in elegant clipped tones.
Very plummy.
Plummy face as well. She was made-up like a whore--plump supple lips covered in vivid red lipstick, eyes accentuated with black kohl--but the plumminess was still there. Posh totty playing at being a slut.
Davey knew the type. Daddy issues. They thought they were just pretending to be a slut to be cool, but it was the real them. They were all sluts at heart.
"Follow me," the girl in the devil costume said.
She turned to reveal an equally splendid ass, and bade Davey follow her through the padded door at the back of the reception area.
Who was Sutruyasa?
She was probably the tart he'd chosen while in his earlier alcoholic or drug-fuelled fugue state.
Fuck it. Davey hoped Past-off-his-face-Davey had chosen with good taste. He followed the devil girl hostess with the shapely ass through the door.
* * * *
The middle-aged man in a dapper waistcoat slipped into a less-than-salubrious side alley that looked at odds with his immaculate attire. He waited patiently there until a buzzer went off in his pocket. Then he walked down a short flight of steps and rapped his knuckles on a wooden door so inobtrusive it could easily have been mistaken as a continuation of the wall.
The door was opened and the man was admitted into an opulent reception area at odds with the grimy alley behind him. The room was decorated to the height of licentious glamour. Sinful paintings of flesh upon flesh adorned the walls. Comfortable, overstuffed sofas upholstered in rich red leather ran along the walls.
The middle-aged man was greeted by a tall, strikingly beautiful woman. Her generous curves were contained within a fancy-dress devil costume. Her outfit--or maybe uniform--revealed enough flesh to titillate without being tasteless. Her high cheekbones gave her elegant face a regal beauty out of keeping with both her costume and establishment. However, it was a vulpine beauty. A little too sharp. A little too predatory.
"Welcome to ValVi's," the woman said.
Her voice was rich and oozed sensuality.
"We are ready for you. Please, follow me."
She led the middle-aged man through a padded door at the back of the opulent reception area. It led to a short corridor with a strange opening at the end. It looked like rubber curtains fashioned into the shape of a vagina, but with strange tooth-like protrusions. It invoked a competing mix of arousal and fear at the same time, being at once both reminiscent of a woman's gaping sex and the toothy maw of a carnivorous plant or deep-sea predator.
The man followed the woman in the sexy devil costume through the aperture.
It was too late for second thoughts. The events of the evening had already been set in motion. There was no turning back now.
* * * *
Davey followed the girl in the devil uniform down a narrow, intimate corridor. The carpet was black and the walls a very dark shade of red. The lighting was also red and barely provided enough illumination for Davey to see where he was going.
"Um, where am I?" he asked the girl in front of him.
He didn't remember... well, anything. He assumed it was night. The whole evening leading up to it was a complete blank. The day before was pretty hazy as well. He couldn't even remember what he'd been celebrating to cause this massive bender.
"You are in St Valentyne's Gentleman's Club," the girl replied.
Valentines? That rang a bell. Was it Valentine's Day? That sounded... sort of right. And this bender... because some girl had blown him out?
Nah, that didn't sound right. Davey didn't give a shit about what any bitch thought. None of them were worth it.
The lights blurred and shifted. The shadows looked like bodies moving together suggestively.
"I am so blasted," Davey said, more to himself.
"That's fine," the girl in the devil uniform replied in breezy clipped tones. "Sutruyasa will take good care of you."
Davey hoped so, given he didn't remember picking her.
And what was St Valentine's Gentleman's Club? He thought he knew all the places in town, especially the dodgy ones, and he'd never heard of a Valentine's Gentleman's Club.
If it even existed.
This could still be a dream.
Whatever, might as well see it through.
He just hoped she was hot. If he was paying for it.
* * * *
Beyond the strange aperture was a short flight of stairs. The middle-aged man followed the shapely rump of the woman in the devil uniform as she led him up the stairs. It was an extremely shapely ass. Full and peachy. The tightness of the woman's costume fully showed off the curves.
"You remember the rules?" The woman looked over her shoulder and said to the man. Her eyes shone in the gloom as if there were red LEDs behind her pupils.
The man nodded.
The woman continued up the stairs, her hips sashaying alluringly. A slender red devil's tail swung back and forth with the motions of her body. If a man wasn't paying attention he'd think it part of her costume. If a man was paying attention...
They exited the close confines of the carpeted stairwell and up onto a strange long corridor. To the eyes it looked like a walkway over a film set, with opulent bedchambers and other rooms beneath them to the left and right. Yet, to the other senses it felt like a regular, enclosed corridor. And while the devil woman and middle-aged man could see right into the other rooms, their occupants showed no indication they were aware of being observed. It was as if the walls were akin to a two-way mirror. Though, whether it was because the occupants were physically unable to see the people in the corridor or were too engrossed in their own activities to notice, it was impossible to tell.
The man looked down into a dark bedroom to his right. Another stunningly attractive woman in a devil costume was vigorously riding a man tied to a bed. One could delude oneself the bat wings on her back were part of the same costume. It would be a delusion, shown for such when the succubus extended them as she tipped her head back and let out an exultant cry of climax.
"Ignore the rooms to the right," the woman said. "They're not for you."
They continued down the corridor.
"The night of St Valentyne's Day is always one of our busiest times," the devil woman commented. "It is a night of passion after all. It is the one night of the year where the heart is allowed to be truly unbound."
The next room on the right was filled with a giant blob of jelly that glowed with a sickly yellow-green colour. A naked man was lying on top and partially submerged within it. A buxom woman fashioned from the same glowing jelly sat on top and rode him languidly cowgirl style. The whole blob rocked and undulated with her movements. The man's face was contorted--either in pain or orgasmic ecstasy, or maybe even both. His hands and feet were embedded in the translucent jelly and appeared to be slowly dissolving. Blood leaked from his extremities and diffused into the jelly in a pink cloud.
"This date has a longer history than people realise," the woman said. "In Roman times it was known as Lupercalia, a ritual of purification and fertility for the coming year. Before then it was the day of Santa Valentyne, when darker passions were allowed to run free."
The next room was even worse. A pack of naked and nubile girls surrounded a wet red thing that might once have been a human being. The girls' chins were stained red as they lowered their heads and took dainty bites.
"And some passions are dark indeed."
Down below, a lissom young thing, barely more than a slip of a girl, tore away a strip of red flesh like a ravenous wolf.
"We cater to some very dark passions here at ValVi's," the woman said. Her sensual red lips turned up in a carmine smile.