Chapter SEVEN - The Natural Resolution
Nine out of ten people struck by lightening survive but frequently suffer some form of nerve damage. Cate and Judy were struck indirectly from a bolt that mainly hit a nearby tree. They did not suffer any outward marks and an examination revealed no physical injuries or nerve damage. But the lightening deepened their depression and loss of direction.
Shaken by this near death experience, Cate immediately questioned whether she should not go back to Taritarat. Judy tried to talk her out of it but could not offer any reason to believe that her life would ever be better as an independent woman in the United States than her life was in Taritarat. Judy was not really sure of anything. Cate was sure of something. "Judy, you and I are both depressed as all hell here. Maybe there we were just sex objects, but we've gone from being star sex objects to sad losers. Maybe I should not want to be treated as a kept pet to be fondled and used but I think it is better to be a happy pet than a miserable feminist. If men mainly want me because of my body, maybe that's because my brain is not of that much good for anyone, especially me."
Having gotten the grandchildren she wanted, Gloria told Cate she did not care what she now did. "I will visit you from time to time if you go back."
Cate called Harpin. He promised that as a woman going back voluntarily and who has siblings in Taritarat, she could truthfully say she has business in Taritarat and relatives there. She could leave Taritarat again if she ever wanted to do so and receive visitors from the United States if they obeyed the laws of Taritarat. About six months after the lightening strike, Morice enjoyed sex with Cate in the pilothouse of the boat as she sailed back for Taritarat. Cate was soon at home in the Five Star Community in Lbirne in which she had lived before.
Later, Harpin told Gloria and Judy from personal experience that Cate was content back in Lbirne, had become quite a swimmer and had become famous in the community for her sexual acts in the swimming pool. "She's like a fucking porpoise. Breaststroke or backstroke, you enter her and she tries to swim away with you inside, but you hold her shoulders and pump in and out while she swims and squeezes. Her control over vaginal muscles and breath control is simply incredible. The films of Cate in the pool are bringing in younger guys in particular from around the world who just have to do it with her. I have never seen a woman so happy."
It may have helped Judy that Cate was gone. Judy could be morose by herself. Judy had a hard time pulling herself out of bed in the morning but she got her own apartment again and started reading novels. Still, she thought that she needed a man or men to direct her life. Maybe, though, there was a compromise. Maybe, the wives that the Norman men had acquired had the right idea. Maybe, instead of just being a pretty caged bird, she could be like one of those prize animals generally kept inside but allowed to go about in the field from time to time. Perhaps, she could be a pet taken out for long walks or taken to pet shows. She wavered.
One day, Harpin came to visit. "I'm not going back to Taritarat, Harpin, I can't stand the Bible or fucking Ayn Rand anymore." "I did not come to try to talk you into going back to Taritarat. It seems apparent that your mind was deranged in college or before so that you will never really obtain the full happiness of a totally submissive woman. You should see Cate, though. I am here to bring you news of your similarly deranged friend who loves sex and submission but is also dying for Camembert, bouillabaisse, coq au ven, and oysters Rockefeller.
"Now that Julie has given birth to a second child, Eduard has told me that Julie can now present a defense against the charge that she made a false statement when she wrote that she had close relatives in Taritarat. She can now say that she has two relatives in Taritarat, her two children. Obviously, this is a bit of a stretch given that Julia had no relatives in Taritarat when she turned in her visa form but Eduard thinks he could win. Eduard says the past and the future are all present to the mind of God. Thus, Julie did not make a false statement in God's mind because he knew she would have close relatives in Taritarat in the future. Eduard believes that he can force the judges to agree that truth is what is true in the mind of God so Julie's statement was not false. Some money, of course, will be needed for such a strained argument to be accepted but that should be affordable.
"Unfortunately, Eduard has learned that after your unanticipated escape from Taritarat, Mr. Gorrig left word with certain persons in Taritarat to watch Julie's situation very carefully and to offer a bribe sufficient to defeat any effort to get her out without his permission. Your brother Eduard contacted me to tell this to you and to see if you wanted to try to do anything."
Judy could sense where this was going, "So, it is desired that I somehow persuade Gorrig to release Julie?" "My, you college grads are so smart," Harpin said, again staring at Judy's body like it was common property of men everywhere. "Eduard does not ask you to do anything, he only wishes you to be informed of the situation and offers his greetings."
Judy thought, "I really should not see Gorrig. I am not mentally well. I could barely resist his will to power over me when I was well. I cannot meet him any place where he could seize me. I know that if he grabs me by my breasts, I will surrender to whatever he wants. I know what he wants. He wants me. He wants me unconditionally and forever. Is it better to be the pet of Gorrig and his sons and anyone to whom they wish to loan me than to be a brothel slave in Taritarat? But if I am not willing to surrender myself to him, what is the point of meeting with Gorrig?"
Despite herself, though, the thought of being a slave again, to be taken frequently, to not have to think, aroused her lust and produced a longing and a series of rationalizations. "Maybe, I should go and hear him out? Maybe, there is some way to meet him that will not lead to my surrendering to him? Maybe he will want less than I fear he wants? He has a wife that he does not keep in a dungeon, but Angie was born to privilege. He will want me as a slave. But don't I at least owe it to Julie to hear out what Gorrig wants? It seemed like Julie had lost all desire to be anything but a sex toy when I last saw her but now it seems she has recovered some other interests. I must think of how to meet with Gorrig."
So, Judy pondered back and forth for days in her emotional illogical woman's mind fit for so little.
Finally she decided, "I know, I will ask Roger Norman and Gorrig to take Gloria and I to dinner on a dinner yacht out in the bay. I have always wanted to have dinner there, we can meet privately but they cannot get too fresh or try to carry me away if we are on a boat. Gloria can be my witness to whatever they offer. The $1000 or more they might drop on dinner is nothing to them."