War and Peace is over 1000 pages but Tolstoy added two long epilogs. Whole New Slave Game is certainly not War and Peace but there will be two epilogs to tie up the loose ends I have left and add a few salacious incidents.
Thanks again to Shygirlwhore for editing.
Roseyfingers.
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Chapter 13 - (Epilog Part I)- Aftermath
IDLE SPECULATIONS AND GRIM FATES
Now I am on the plane for the first part of the trip back to New York, after another trip to Bolry the last week of August. I hate Heathrow Airport. I have to change planes there often. It does not seem likely, though, that there will be a direct flight from New York to Bolry any time soon.
The life-threatening excitement ended a month ago with the rescue at the truck repair shed but there were important events relating to the Bolrian Lottery Corporation and the Republic of Bolry that have occurred since the rescue. I will start back on August 3.
I went to sleep all tired, wet and creamy the night after the bomb went off. I slept like I had not done since June. When I finally woke, I saw I had messages that I was to report to the doctor and that Svetlana was going with me to the airport. The doctor's visit consisted of a complete examination of how I had faired over the last few hard weeks and another gynecological exam. The IUD was replaced.
I tried to see Irina but she'd left Bolry right after the coup was foiled and she'd made a brief appearance on Bolrian television to say that she was proud to have been part of the glorious effort to expose traitors and secure the future of the great people of Bolry. Under the inspired leadership of Pyotr Tolski, the Republic of Bolry would prosper and take its place among the great nations of earth.
Crystal greeted me at breakfast. She was in the company of Lermanov. I joked that it was nice of him to stop by at the BLC facilities to visit with Crystal. Crystal said, "It was the very least the fucker could do, but, if he is very nice for a very long time, I am going to forgive him if he cares." Lermanov smiled indulgently. I did not pursue the matter of Lermanov's relationship with Crystal further.
On the way to the airport, I learned from Svetlana that Anfisa had left the cabinet meeting minutes after I had. She had jumped into a car with Studlovity. Svetlana explained the Security Police arrested Anfisa and Studlovity on the way to the border. Anfisa, having listened to the radio about the failed coup and seen the security police roadblock in advance, hoped not to be killed resisting arrest.
"She decided to follow an example from a silly old story that she'd heard. Leaving Studlovity in the car, she stripped completely nude and walked up past a number of people near the street to the police with her hands over her head and her breasts thrust out for attention. A very attractive woman and apparently an effective advocate, she persuaded the Security Police not to shoot her or Studlovity. She did have to ride back nude, separate from Studlovity, in a large van where she learned that mercy from the Security Police is not a mixed blessing," Svetlana said. "Some of the Security Police joked about how she looked when they took her from the van into the BSP headquarters until Daria issued a memo reminding agents to "keep their fucking mouths shut about BSP business no matter how entertaining they thought it."
"Now, though, we need to decide what to do with the Anfisa and Studlovity. Maybe Laurel you can help with that when you come back in three weeks. I don't think they will die in an accident before that. Lermanov is concerned because too many people saw Anfisa surrender to the BSP to just kill her right now. The tale of her surrender is being told everywhere. I believe, though, that she will be killed very quietly and painfully in a few weeks after no one cares any longer. Studlovity will probably just be shot in the head and dumped near a pipeline."
I was appalled by her casual discussion of future state-sanctioned murders. I was even more upset by her announcement that I would be back in three weeks. I briefly thought of complaining of how she had used Crystal, Irina and me as shark bait when we were supposed to be her friends. I knew, though, that discussion would go nowhere.
I sought to relieve my curiosity about another matter, "I'm told Sofia got down to the final Saturday and looked very worried she'd become a BDSM slave. Surely, you did not intend her to lose. Did you rig Anderson's perfect quantum Lottery Machine?"
"Sofia looked tense because she had an even chance of becoming one of our most sought after BDSM slaves, with hundreds of men and women with a mortal grudge against her, combined with a body that just says 'fuck me hard' all over it. The Board, except for Kurbetski and me, put a lot of pressure on Sofia to participate, believing that the voluptuous assassin slave would be a huge attraction. I'm sure, though, that Pyotr would never have allowed her to be forced into participating.
"She surrendered to becoming a participant in the Lottery although I urged her not to do it and I was mad when she agreed. I know she had been depressed. She said seriously and stoically that surrendering to a life of submissive sex was perhaps what she wanted. Indeed, she said at one point that maybe dying on a rack was better than going on forever as an unsatisfied slave security guard and a killer. With the napalm scar removed, her body is now perfect but mentally she is as damaged as any of us. This is hardly surprising. I wish I knew how to replace her and protect her from her past but I don't know how. The killings she had to do in connection with crushing the coup probably did not help things.
"We'd never tamper with the Lottery Machine. It's the basis of the perverted legitimacy of our entire operation. If Sofia's number had come up, we'd have watched like a hawk while she was thumped for a couple weeks in Bolry by a fraction of the people who'd like to see her gang raped to death, then sent her to the Pacific Resort to be kept pregnant as much as possible. Somehow, aside from the Manson gang, most people are reluctant to hurt pregnant women too badly. We'd also have to protect her from the post-partum depression that almost killed you. With those precautions taken, I think she would have been a very profitable sex slave for the BLC. I would have enjoyed flogging her for participating in the Lottery against my wishes."
The flight back to New York was tiring as always; once home for a few days, Bolry, the Shades of Pain lotteries, the Whole New Slave Game and the attempted coup all started to seem like a dream. My near-death experiences made me love Fred and the children more than ever.
There was an account in the press that Helen Clark was taking a leave of absence from Clark Pharmaceuticals. There was a hint in a society gossip page that Ms. Clark may finally be leaving Phil Clark. The lack of further information was notable.
I read from news accounts and government newsletters from Bolry that at the trial they had transcripts of what had been said in places where Fortmanov, Sazarbeyev, and others had taken me outside of the BLC. How did they get that information?
I'd been a foot soldier in a huge sting operation. I thought about the details of what had happened and talked to Fred. It seemed clear that they had used Crystal, Irina, Ludmila and me to get information, even when we did not know we were being used. Mostly, though, we had been used to tempt the conspirators to move prematurely. In retrospect, it was obvious that I was to check on or draw out some of the actors, particularly the non-Bolrians. Meanwhile, Irina was sent to the higher parliament leaders and leftover Orsinov men and Ludmila was working inside the army. I think Crystal was sent to create some sort of diversion in Moscow and they had done a lot to make it look like the Security Police supported the coup so that Gorsuchin would signal Fortmanov and the others to go forward. We all were forced to do research on the loyalty of the Security Police. There was much overlap and many intentional red herrings.
But there was much I could not understand, for example, Pirko Dupov. He'd not been seen after the coup attempt. This would normally mean he'd been killed by the Security Police. I was not so sure in his case.
