Dance Band On The Titanic by Jack L. Chalker

Author:Jack L. Chalker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-02-01T01:18:59+00:00

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He had been sleeping. How long he didn't know, but it was a deep, dreamless sleep, and when he awoke he knew immediately who and where he was with an almost astonishing clarity of mind. Abruptly he remembered Jenny and for a moment was afraid that she'd be gone again like some will-o'-the-wisp, leaving him alone and confused. He was relieved to see that she was still there and looking a bit calmer and saner than she'd seemed the first time. Still, when she turned to look at him, she seemed much older, somehow, than he'd remembered, and her eyes still seemed to reflect some inner pain.

He sat up, stretched, and nodded to her. "How long was I asleep?"

She shrugged. "A long time. Who can say in here?"

"I'm sorry for passing out on you so abruptly."

Again a shrug. "I did the same thing. You come back kinda dizzy and not really knowing who you are, then you conk out, and when you wake up-well, I don't know."

He nodded sympathetically. "You've changed, Jenny. You've-well, I'm not sure how to put it. Grown up."

"Aged, you mean. Or maybe you're right. Anyway, I know who I am now and all that, but I also have the memories of that other life, just as real, but I'm in con-trol, if you know what I mean."

"Yeah. The same way. Any sign of the others?"

"Not yet. I really was beginning to think that I'd never see any of you again, when you popped up."

Her voice seemed to soften, then crack, and tears formed in her eyes. "Thank God you showed up."

He went over to her and just took her hand, squeezing it lightly to reassure her and tell her he understood.

And when she'd cried it out, she wanted to talk about it. He let her take her own time.

"You know, I always us'ta have these fantasies," she said. "I dunno-we're all supposed to be liberated, you know? And I like the freedom and all, but I'd still fanta-size. Submission. Bondage. You know, like I was a slave girl in some sultan's empire. Like that, you know. I mean, I never really wanted that; it was just a fun thing, for masturbating, that sort of shit."

"You mean this thing gave you your fantasy?"

"Sort of. It was way far back, I'm pretty sure. An Oriental tribe, somewhere in Asia. Nobody was too clear on geography, you understand."

He nodded. "I've only an educated guess as to where I was too."

"Well, anyway, it was a nomad tribe, picking up and moving from valley to valley and across big mountains and deserts. They were a rough, tough group, too, and they didn't think much of women. They treated us like slaves, like property. Some of 'em got so mad when they got daughters they killed them.

Just little babies. We cooked, we cleaned, we took down and put up the tents and fucked whenever the men got in the mood, and we got beat when we did it wrong or too slow or even if the man had problems.

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