Thanks again to Shygirlwhore for editing.
In the event you want to read the whole saga of the Sex Slave Lottery in the intended order, one must read Sex Slave Lottery Chapters 1 to 10, the Concluding Nonconsenual Postscript, the 150th Sex Slave Chapters 1 to 10, Alternative Version (Chapter 5 of the Alternative Ending is unnumbered and listed out of order) and then Whole New Slave Game Chapters 1-14.
Of course, any resemblance between any of the characters in these stories and any real person, living or dead, is purely a coincidence.
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Chapter 14 (Epilog 1 completed and Epilog 2) – Absolute Submission, Advocacy, More explosions and the Future
YET MORE GIRL TALK
Sunday August 28, I slept in a bit after the humiliation of the post-Lottery party and the rough use by Ursula and others the night before. After reading, a trip to the gym, legal work and a swim, I met with Helen Clark, Irina, Sofia, Crystal and Svetlana for lunch. Svetlana said that Ursula, Walker and Anderson are offering Pyotr big money to have Svetlana participate in the Lottery again and that Pyotr is amused. She explained further that Pyotr does not think that having Svetlana as a lottery participant again would reflect well on the regime but that Svetlana the Great carrying on like Catherine the Great with her young lovers was not helping things either. Also, Pyotr reportedly is not thrilled about the role model Aunt Svetlana sets for his children either.
"Kurbetski and Dvorzhinski say they think it is time to send me to the convent to play my violin. If the convent in question was more dedicated to sex than God that would be fine with them. They added that there was no need to embarrass the family through public humiliations. If I lost in the Lottery, they could just announce that Cultural Minister Svetlana Tolski had decided to retire to focus on her musical and religious interests without bothering to explain what they mean by 'my religion.'"
I asked, "They would not make you participate without your consent, would they?"
"No, they would not, but they may make me behave or leave the country. Lermanov makess a point that most of the country has traditional values whether we like it or not. He does not want me to participate in the Lottery. He says that letting me participate in the lottery even at a high level of risk leaves me to continue to embarrass local morals for months or years depending entirely on the Lottery Machine. He suggested I should marry someone my own age and cheat on him if I want, but with lovers outside Bolry. He suggested further that maybe I could move to Italy, develop a great interest in Italian art or Vivaldi and find some classic Italian gigolos."
"You have to hand it to Lermanov and the others for sexism and hypocrisy," Irina said. "It's just fine for them to screw around and live far better than their state salaries would allow but it is a scandal for you to do it."
"Yes, they are terrible," Svetlana said, "except for one thing."
She paused and then added, "Part of me wants to participate in the Lottery. I only stopped participating ten years ago to keep Dimitry's hands off me. After Dimitry's accident, Pyotr would not let me participate and had me work in the resort as a slave. He thought it would cure me of any desire to risk becoming a sex slave again. But Pyotr understands much less than he thinks. The four months in the Resort were the happiest months of my life. I was safe from bullets, safe from responsibility, safe from everything but occasionally boring sex, but boring sex is better than boring meetings, boring arguments, boring conspiracies or boring administrative work. Most importantly, when I was in the Resort I had an excuse to not have to be powerful and ambitious all the time. I was so damn driven, though, I did not make full use of my excuse, just as you three who are sex slaves have gotten yourself back into the power game even after you had an excuse to leave."
Svetlana was engaging in some revisionist history. I never really attained freedom from responsibility, I was asked to do legal work within days of my initiation as a sex slave. Also, Crystal and I got back into non-sex work at her suggestion. On the other hand, Irina wants to get away but cannot given her loss in the Lottery and who her father was.
"The Lottery is very corrupting." Svetlana continued. "It allows people to come close to tasting their fantasies. I had the taste but I was far from satiated. I have compensated with other fantasies and tastes. I will think about participating again because despite it all, deep within me is a submissive slut wanting to be taken in every safe way."
Sofia and Irina, still mad at Svetlana over how she had used them, seemed to relish the idea of Svetlana getting a taste of her own medicine. As always, I thought of how the changes would affect me. I could not see how Svetlana becoming a sex slave would help my position.
"Svetlana," I said, "You have unintentionally explained why you must never participate again. If you were to lose, you would not really be able to release all your responsibilities any more than Irina, Crystal or I have. The only difference is that you would be spending a lot more time in bed with partners you did not chose and would be attending the Board meeting in the nude like Irina and me. You'd be better off taking Lermanov's suggestion of Italy or just going on as you have and being much quieter about it." I was hoping she'd take the later road.
Hearing Lermanov mentioned again, Crystal interjected somewhat irrelevantly that Lermanov was only doing what he thinks best for the state and works 70 hours a week. "If he enjoys old cars and a few younger women on the side, he is still taking much less and working much more than most world leaders." Clearly, Crystal had forgiven Lermanov, who she loves when she does not hate him.
Svetlana came back to the point. "But Lermanov's choices don't excite me. They don't satisfy the horrible need that I know I should not have but can't get out of my soul."
Crystal piped in, "If it is abject degradation and pain you want, you could marry Walker. He'd take you to Texas, give you all the sex and abuse you could ever want, and have you be a plaything for his enterprise of several hundred employees. He'd certainly share you with his brutal friends. It would be the next best thing to having lost as a chattel slave back when we took that risk, only Dimitry would not be around and I think Walker could be counted on not to do physical damage."