I asked Crystal why she always plays with her life. "It really bothers me that you do that." "Dawn, don't worry about me," she replied. "I don't have a hair trigger like you. I like it rough. I can only get off with pain or sometimes giving pain. Being a sex slave for life without some of what you think is abuse would be harder on me than an early death." I wondered how could someone be so twisted?
When Crystal and I got to the hotel, there was even more tension than usual. I suggested to Crystal that it was because the Lottery seemed to have gotten meaner with worse odds, more humiliation and bigger offers to bet everything. Crystal disagreed. "It's not really much worse. The same number become a slave every month, the odds are only worse because we accepted them and does the touching and humiliation in the semi-final round really matter to someone with a 1/6th chance of taking a hard fall?" "I think it does," I said, "particularly with Anderson and who knows who else watching." I think Crystal was turned out by the idea of being forced to an organism in front of a large audience.
My discomfort with Anderson and his pals potentially watching me humiliated on stage increased greatly the following day when Walker, the guy who'd set me up for the gang assault, Scott, and a dozen of the top managers of Anderson's firm, Walker's firm and other people I knew got off the bus. When I expressed my disgust to Crystal, she said, "I don't see why you hate Anderson so much. I think he has your best interests at heart and he's really great in bed." "You went to bed with him?" I almost screamed. Crystal just smiled.
Later that day, I sort of got back at Crystal by going to bed with an older Bolrian official, Alexis Lermanov, said to be a top deputy to Pyotr Tolski that I knew Crystal wanted and had probably secretly met. I had to go off into town to find him at his office as he did not normally hang around the hotel or the Lottery studio. He was very reluctant to see me and long resisted my attempts to seduce him although I pulled out all the stops. Still, when I finally got him to loosen up, he was very attentive to my needs and had a lot of stamina.
When I mentioned having sex with Alexis to Crystal, she became cross. She said that she had already heard rumors of my partying in Bolry and that I now had pretty much the same reputation in Bolry that I had in Dallas. I said, "you should talk" and thought, "So what?" To her credit, Crystal, thought a few seconds, apologized, and said that I was right to do as I pleased, and that we should not feel ashamed of being who we are.
We learned how the first of our lotteries would go during the chit chat in the beauty parlor. In addition to Crystal and me, Ashira, Alya, Veronika and Amber had agreed to start in the third round. I learned that all six of us had signed up to start in the third round three times. Johanna, Durrah, Marta, Alina and two others who'd participated a number of times had agreed to skip to the bikini round. I did not understand it but Crystal said that meant there should be only 24 in the first round and only 12 in the second round to pick 6 and then 6 to join us in the third round.
Irina was prudently, by our standards, not skipping any rounds although she had been offered a lot of money to take on more risk.
Very unlikely things happen all the time
After spending a lot of money to make sure Lottery stars got into later rounds, unaided random chance worked out well for the Lottery Corporation and Dimitry this time. The six of us standing topless in the area for the third round had nothing to do but watch as Irina was one of the 6 chosen to be in the bikini round. This is the first time she had gone to the second round although she had participated in about a dozen lotteries. While looking great in the swimsuit, one could feel her discomfort even from a distance. Although her breasts looked full and extremely beautiful, Irina was obviously dismayed when she was one of the six chosen to go to the topless round along with Alina, Marta, an Indian woman, Lyoti, Johanna, and Durrah. So, the topless 12 were 3 notorious women from Bolry (Alina, Irina and Veronika), 2 crowd-pleasing Arabic princesses, two women from the U.S. who apparently had much appeal (Crystal and me), plus Amber, Ashira, Johanna, Marta and Lyoti.
Generally in the past there had not been much talk during the topless rounds. We just showed our breasts and the Lottery Machine ran. This time Dimitry told Johanna how beautiful she was and said that a lot of men had expressed a great desire to stick their pikes into a hard-bodied mountain climber and make the climber pay for her arrogance. He offered Johanna 500,000 Euros to risk her life as a chattel slave. She immediately accepted the offer as though he'd offered her a cup of coffee. I did not like it. I liked it even less when the Lottery Machine picked Johanna, Ashira, Veronika, Amber, Irina, and me to be in the nude semi-final.
Having a license to humiliate a number of beautiful women against whom he had grudges or prejudices, Dimitry was on his very worst behavior. He physically pushed Svetlana out of the proceeding and brought in a couple large local brutes who looked like the stereotyped image of what a KGB agent should look like, to assist in the thorough display of our charms for the audience.
The first one Dimitry went after was me, squeezing, weighing and fondling my breasts for the camera until my nipples were as erect and dark as possible. He next had me lie back on the center platform to display every curve, chamber and fold of my wet pussy to the studio audience and the viewing world. I wondered who of my acquaintances in Texas were now storing videos of my awful embarrassment. It was still more awful that I was so turned on.
Still, I tried to resist putting on a big show. It would be just too humiliating in front of the Texas crowd and who knows who, but it was hopeless. I had a tremendous almost screaming orgasm in the most embarrassing possible way shortly after he inserted a vibrating dildo into me. I guess I am an exhibitionist as well as an idiot. I must have panted through the next three women being forced to orgasm.
Amber got about the same treatment I had received with Amber reacting pretty much as I had when she was assaulted with the sex toy. Dimitry had Ashira assume the doggy position on the center platform and the camera projected every detail of both entrances onto the screen while Dimitry said how much fun it would be to whip that bottom, ram both her holes and then maybe invite some dogs and other animals to fuck the lovely bitch. Ashira closed her eyes, gritted her teeth and blushed.
For some reason, he treated Johanna with some respect. Maybe he felt he'd enjoy her later in some torture chamber. All he did was asked her why she had accepted his offer to risk everything. She answered very calmly for someone standing nude with her breasts jutting forward, her legs spread and a 1/6th chance of becoming a chattel slave, that she'd been offered a lot of money to take a 1/12th risk of death. She had faced such odds on the north face of the Eiger without nearly so great a financial inducement. Dimitry merely commented that she now had a 1/6th chance of falling down the cliff.
Either Dimitry did not have a warm relationship with his brother's third wife or Pyotr had told him to be rough on her. This semi-final round seemed to me to be going on for an eternity as Dimitry and his friends presented Veronika in every possible angle and position like a gumby doll and then used the vibrator on her until she was a screaming, gasping, sobbing wreck.
I expected even worse treatment of Irina and that happened except there was no vibrator and there was much more pain to go with the humiliation. Fiercely squeezing her right nipple with his left hand, Dimitry began to massage her clitoris through her curly pubic hair until she let out a low moan. He then asked in a language that was translated in sub-captions to say, "Ice queen, how would you like to risk your life for the chance of having enough money to get out of Bolry? We offer you 20 million Russian Rubles." Irina said, "Da" as several men literally held Svetlana from coming onto the stage. Even some members of the audience gasped. Dimitry smiled and said something about reliving old times.
I thought taking the offer was a suicidal decision for Irina.