Chapter XIII

Several days passed after they let you out of the station. In a sense life went back to normal. Your new ship was made by the same company as the previous one. It is a more compact design. But all the elements are identical. Praise the corpos!

Yet somehow you feel sad and empty. You've been on the road for years. How many meaningful relationships you had in that time? None. Friendships? None. What were you doing? Trying to make ends meet all the time every day.

Those few days you spent as Mr. Garcia's slave was relief from all that. Suddenly your fate was beyond your control. Always was in a sense. And somehow all that simplicity made everything so damn good.

Yet you have him locked up as your own slave. What's the sense of that?

You kept telling yourself that being a slave is bad. Because you could die. Or end up being a slave forever. But in reality you can very easily die during this mission. Or the next. Or your new employer could change his mind and decide to keep you as entertainment. Or something else could happen.

A small smile appears in your face. You realize that his bid was about the statue all along. In the beginning you thought it was something bigger. But he simply got wind that you were a competitor and, as the psychopath he is, he engaged you with an inferior vessel.

In a sense he got what he bargained for. At least he would have. Because by now all your seals are broken. Your life is an unexpected mess. Always have been. Always will be. That is just you. Why would you then prohibit yourself some enjoyment between the end of one storm and the beginning of another?

"So... You like tying up women and having your wee wee in their mouth, huh?"

You ask after you removed his ballgag, leaning against the cage's bars.

"Please... It was just of a one time thing..." He pleads. During all these days this is the first time you have a conversation about the events. Somehow until now it didn't feel appropriate.

"Fortunately for you, I liked this one time thing," you say, and you open the cage's door.