PART III: MEETING HYPO-LIAM
The celebration did not last long. With an uproar, the doors to Jane's special tattoo parlor swung open and in came another set of six huge sumo wrestlers. They were carrying a man just as gingerly as they had carried in Draguette an hour before. They were followed by an equally raucous group of Chinese women, all elegantly dressed. They were accompanying a mature woman, attired in a high class Chinese outfit. She was short and fat, bossy, and mean-looking, must like the Mandarin princess. Jane and Draguette and the artists all surmised she had to be his wife, the Mandarin princess.
In her mind, Draguette quickly made the connections. The man had been forced to model, just like she had, on a platform, he had been auctioned off among a huge crowd of Chinese women, the Mandarin princess had made the overwhelming bid to purchase him, and in the mayhem he had peed and lost his senses. Just like Draguette, he was now brought to the tattoo parlor and laid down on the tattoo table. His legs were raised high and parted wide, held in place by the stirrups. He was still in a daze.
The Mandarin princess seemed unusually keen on not letting anyone touch the man's penis. Furthermore, the Mandarin princess was intently focused on staring at it. At first, Draguette could not understand why. After all, it did strike her as being a very small penis. Perhaps almost too small for what Draguette estimated to be a very large, strong and handsome man. The Mandarin princess could not take her eyes away from it. The Chinese women were also looking at it, albeit from a distance.
The Mandarin princess turned to Jane with a quizzical look. Jane understood it as a question and replied,
"This is Liam. He has a
hypospadias
penis."
The translator turned pale. It was evident he did not know what it meant, much less how to translate the term