Chapter Two
I went to bed and fell asleep immediately, but it was one of those nights where you blink and it's suddenly morning. When my alarm went off, I felt like I hadn't slept at all.
My daily routine after waking up was simple. I showered, shaved, caffeinated, eliminated, and then went to work. Somewhere in the middle of that, I watched the news. The whole thing took, on average, a little over an hour.
Almost nothing was different that day. I went to work and did my job. Occasionally a bit of memory from the night before would pop into my head, but that's all it was, a bit of memory. At first, I had a broad picture of the events, but then some minute detail would pop out at me like the way the Princess dug at her thighs or how I couldn't stray from the lines of the fork the Follower had drawn for me or even, my favorite, the look of self-satisfied authority from the Matron as she watched me go down on her.
It was like remembering a dream, which was appropriate because I had decided it was all a dream the instant I returned from it. That was the only logical explanation. There wasn't a single element that fit in with reality as I knew it. Vivid, bizarre, and thought-provoking as it was, it was just a fantasy. Every time I found my focus creeping back there, I reminded myself of that, pushed it out of my mind, and went back to work.
I had a routine for after-work too, and that didn't change either. While my work colleagues went out and socialized, I returned home, threw a frozen pizza in the toaster oven, dialed up the television to a program I had seen a hundred times before, and stared blankly at it. I didn't dislike people. I just didn't have any desire to be around them. Friends, I felt, were more of an obligation. You had to do things with them and for them, and throughout my life, I only ever came to see maintaining relationships as a burden.
Take, for example, the women of my dream. Even they were only interested in what I could do for them. it was all just "Quiet" and "Crawl to us" and "Perform oral sex on us, Demon." They didn't care that I wasn't really a demon. They didn't even ask me what my name was. Life my way was easier if lonelier.
Yet I couldn't stop thinking about them. At work, I could distract myself with my daily tasks, but at home, a pizza and a predictably scripted sitcom couldn't pull me away from my daydreams. After all, it had started and finished right there on my couch. When I concentrated, I could feel that cold concrete floor beneath my hands and knees and smell each woman that presented herself to me.
Before I knew it, I was erect. That wasn't a part of my routine, but it had its time and when the flood of memories returned to me and I found myself wishing I could revisit the dream all over, I couldn't resist doing what lonely men do.
As I stroked myself, I pictured them one at a time in the same order I had been with them the night before. First, there was the Matron. As I crawled my way between her thighs, she revealed herself to me, and I enthusiastically sought to please her.
The scene flowed from the creative centers of my brain into my mind's eye so vividly I could have just as easily been reliving it. This time I didn't jump right in. I studied her, both with sight and touch, charting the length from her ankles to her waist.
In an instant, her shape changed, and it was the Princess in front of me. Her eyes were closed, and she seemed oblivious to my presence. She was asleep, I decided, but as I touched her, running my fingers through the thin patch of hair above her pubic mound, she began to stir. Even though it was just a fantasy I could feel her heat on my fingertips. She was incredibly warm.
Just as soon as I thought her eyes would open and she would acknowledge my touch, their Follower appeared. She looked down at me with desperate need. I leaned forward to explore her upper body, taking her breasts into my hands. Her chest rose as she inhaled sharply.