Evening! It is dark already. I am in an individual cell now, after some light dinner, another dose of drugs and some pretreatment. The cell I am in is located in a remote part of the resort. I guess it must have been used formerly for lodging staff. Meanwhile it got dark. There seems to be going on some fuzz in the other cells. But once more, ‘my’ CEO has kept me aside. It is muggy in the cell, and I would not have protested if she had brought me outside, where it is much more mild.
I still wonder how all this can go on undisturbed. As if we are alone in this country. Has no one noticed our presence? Is there no supervision around here? Police, army, ISIL? While I stood attached to the pillory, I had noticed a strange, brief flash of light in the hills in the distance. Was someone monitoring us with a binoculars? Or had it been a distant incidental passer-by, unaware of what was happening here.
Imagine, some militia would sneak in, covered by darkness? But the only one sneaking in, was 'my' CEO.
“What are you up to do with me now?”
“Nothing! That’s the clue! If you had expected I would give you a hot night, forget it! But since you are under my personal custody, no one else will neither with you! But I will order Cross Headmistress to chain you to the wall!”
“Pity! Since our close encounter at the pillory, I started to like you!” I replied cynically.
“I want you to preserve all your energy for the apotheosis tomorrow. It’s not up to me to give you pleasure! You have to take care of that yourself, using these weird fantasies of yours! People like you are so ambiguous that they may find pleasure in being restrained! After all, there are people who pay a lot in a dungeon or a brothel to be subjected to such experience as you are getting! Here, we pay and you get it all free! Just remember, it’s nothing personal!”
“I know! I am just the to be deleted output of an algorithm!”
“Do you hate me now, Loxuru?” she suddenly asks.
“Why hate? That’s such a strong, evil emotion!?”
“What’s wrong with hate?” she asks “Hate is one of the most powerful creative forces in mankind’s mind! It moves things that otherwise could not be moved, and its force can eradicate what is obsolete, in a way no other emotions are able to! Remember, we have once flown to the moon with rockets, devices that had originated from an invention intended to spread around death and terror, instigated by shear hate! Much of my people in the company hate me! Yet, that’s the very source of our innovation!”
“You know, I start thinking, you and me have the same kink! Aren’t you silently hoping, those people who hate you, will one day grab you, strip you, humiliate you at a pillory and crucify you in public? For you, that is an even exciting fantasy as it is for us?”
She hesitated a moment.
“What’s wrong!? Did I surprise you!?” I asked "By telling a truth?"
“I have fired people for less boldness!”
“What are you waiting for?”
“I don’t want you fired, I want you writhing on a cross!”
“Now you are getting personal!”
“Let’s stop this discussion, Lox! Prepare yourself for tomorrow! I have to call the office! Over there in California, it is around 11 am now, and business does not stop!”
“One more thing! Is this place safe? Could there be ISIL in the neighbourhood?”
“There are militias around here, which claim alliance with ISIL, whether that is political boasting or not. I have been told that the people who organized this event, have made an agreement with them to leave us alone. ISIL or not, when it comes to getting hard currency, they are all for sale.”