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Off the coast of North Carolina
The Eros IV airliner turned southeast over international waters and throttled up. Off to the southwest, a tropical storm was creeping northeast from the deep south.
The crew of a fishing boat bobbing in the swells below looked up in time to see the Eros IV go supersonic, the sound reverberating like a thunderclap as the big aircraft disappeared in the distance.
Onboard Flight 118, no one other than the pilots and stewardesses knew anything had happened.
High above, spy satellites watched Flight 118 closely. To most people, the Eros IV was nothing but a flying brothel, but military intelligence saw it as the largest transport aircraft ever built. It had more carrying capacity than any aircraft in history, capable of landing anywhere without requiring a runway. Soon, it would be upgraded to nuclear power giving it an effectively infinite range.
It had an almost non-existent heat signature.
The airframe was nearly invisible to radar from its shape and the mystery metal that formed its skin.
In darkened rooms in the Pentagon, generals read the reports of its capabilities and shivered.
The flying brothel was the most terrifying aircraft ever built - not for what it did, but for what it
could
do.
In the crystal spires of the Cathedral of Morpheus in Havana, Sister and her followers saw the Eros IV as a crowning achievement.
Had they looked closer, they too might have shivered.
***
In her New York penthouse, the adorable blonde wearing black plastic glasses without lenses stared at the spiral notebook on the table. Columns of numbers were written on one side, beside those, a column of locations.
"Flight 118 is where?" She asked in her pink bubble gum voice. "Off the course of North Carolina heading south. Gotcha," she repeated the words of the Air Cuba ticket agent speaking to her over the pink plastic Bluetooth in her ear.
The blonde's formal name was Bubble Brain Brittney di Marapova, personal assistant and official snuggle bunny of Mistress Maria Anastasia Marapova di Morpheus.
However, increasingly the moniker "Bubble Brain" was inaccurate. Once she had been a lawyer and a very good one. Something Maria had done had changed that, changed her.
She would be angry if she didn't know that Maria was totes sorry about how things had worked out.
And, of course, there was also the fact she was head over heels in love with Maria Marapova.
You are her memento mori
, a voice whispered in her head.
Well, a memento humani, I suppose
.
"I don't know those words," Brittney whispered.
Sure, you do.
"Memento humani... a... reminder of being human?" Brittney whispered.
Yes, you remind her she is still part of the human race. That's important for a goddess... a demi-goddess anyway.
"That's for sure. She'd break a lot of things not meaning to if I didn't keep an eye on her," Brittney said.
And, by things you mean people?
"Yep." She liked talking to the voice in her head. She had to be careful not to let Maria hear her because... well, she'd sound like a nut.
And, Brittney knew she was simply talking to herself. Just Bubble Brain Brittney having a discussion with the genius Britt Conners.
Britt hadn't liked Brittney at first, and Brittney had been intimidated by Britt.
But, they were slowly merging into one person: a genius lawyer with impeccable fashion sense and a taste for sugary, pink suckers.
She stood up and stretched, balancing on the stilettos. She twisted left and right in the tight pink latex unitard. Then she grabbed a pink sucker from the desk and popped it in her mouth - a sweet reward for finishing her report.
She skipped on the perilously high heels into Maria's home office. She slid to a stop when she saw Maria standing with her back turned.
Brittney's goddess was staring at the drawing on her wall - of all the enigmas of Maria Marapova, Brittney was most intrigued by the picture.
It was a nude and obviously of Maria. The artist had been behind her and her back and buttocks were expertly rendered in charcoal. The curves were softer but still perfect, the muscles not so well defined but still impressive - a previous version of Maria, not the goddess she had become but the woman she had been.
The hair was different - still white as snow but the style was older, something from the early twentieth century.
The eyes, though, the eyes were timeless: almond-shaped and dark with a touch of sadness looking back at the artist over her shoulder.
"Did I hear you talking earlier?" Maria asked softly without turning.
"Nope," Brittney said.
"Are you sure?"
"Geez, Maria, you think I'm talkin' to myself or somethin'?"
She gave Brittney a sideways glance, a smile that she saved for times when the two of them were alone. "My report?"
Brittney handed it to her. "Can I ask a silly question?"
"Better than anyone I know," Maria said as she looked at the page of flight numbers and locations.
"Very funny. Why am I keeping track of these planes every day? We could just pull it up on the Internet."
"I'm old. I like pen and paper reports." She ran her finger down the page. "Flight 118... this is the flight with the gift for Senator Craig?"
"Yes, Maria."
"Very important flight."
"Maria, why am I doing this every day? Why do I make this list every single motherboinging day?"
"Because I asked."
Brittney pouted. "You're frustrating."
Maria reached out and touched her honey blonde hair. "I need to know where the planes are at all times. All of them."
Brittney frowned. "Ok, but you make me call instead of looking online... and you make me call through that phone spoofer thingy..."
"Darling? I don't want people to know I'm watching."
"But, why? It's just sex flights..."
Maria kissed her tenderly and, like always, Brittney melted.
Maria smiled. "Nothing is ever as it seems, my love. I need to know where the Eros IV's are at all times... lest they be needed."
Brittney and Britt smiled.
***
Nancy
Flight 118
Off the Coast of North Carolina
Stop me if you've heard this one: a slutty cougar, an oversexed and possibly possessed coed, and a nearly eight foot tall succubus with a horse cock walk into a bar
, Nancy thought and giggled.
The three of them stood outside a door marked "Observation Bar".
A sign on the door said, "NO ADMITTANCE - PRIVATE PARTY."
There was a raucous party going on inside and the sound of someone "laying down the bass" made the door rattle.
Baphista sniffed the air. "I smell... college boys. I want them." She ran an onyx claw down the door and scratched it.
"You mean for sex, right?" Nancy asked. "Not... you know... for food or something?"
Baphista smiled and showed her fangs. "I want to fill them with my master's dark lust. I want to devour their souls and leave them as evil, corrupting servants of Satan. After I have molded them? They will leave horror and perversion in their wake across all of creation."
Terri's pentagram eyes grew wide. "Golly, I just wanna fuck 'em."