 In the receding beat of the rotors, telling Duke not to let anyone try to shoot it down , he looked asian into his new captive and asiannudes saw not asian the slightest trace asiannudes of fantasy nudes-submission or slutness of any variety. Tabitha asian was looking asiannudes at spending the rest of her life as a conditioned sex slave with disgust and terror asian and not even thinking she'd asian be taught asian to enjoy it. Ballsy asian enough to risk it anyway, so her friends could asiannudes rescue the others and get away.
 Decker had here left his eyes on the nudes screen, seeing that much of his ease of movement lost.
 "Think nudes about being in a asiannudes box, compadre," he told Duke here. "Next time you have an idea."
 "Carol asian knows that, Master." Tabitha looked even more pensive. "She'll come here up with something, though asian." She smiled. "Maybe asian she'll reprogram them all to play the asian elevator asiannudes music here in the asian hotel."
 The asian richer one, Karlsen, stared asian at them asian, smiling but watching them in an open way he probably wouldn asian't have asian looked at a twenty-dollar hooker back when that here was what he asian could asiannudes afford. Tabitha played up to here him quietly, letting him watch nudes, and consistently played Jordan to him asiannudes.
 "Now, Tabitha."
 Decker heard the maddening little voice in nudes their heads before he saw asian the first silent alarm. As asiannudes he looked at the floorplan on the screen to see asian where the girls were coming asian, the nightmarish conceit occurred to him that asian Normandy Swords was the asian voice asian in their heads, that the asian pop diva was in fact a asiannudes wily controller from way back and was sending asiannudes legions of mindless asian, subliminally enslaved fans against nudes him.
 No nudes. Tabitha had surrendered asian. Never be asiannudes complacent. If memory asiannudes softens asian, realtime sight may slip, too.
 Tabitha stood still and willing, now. He looked into her thoughts and found quiet bliss: a dream of kneeling naked by his feet in a bright here, crowded throne room, owned before all.
 He asiannudes remembered they were women, and saw the tool lifted asian to soft lips in nudes a smooth face, and asian kissed for here luck.
 Decker admired them as lesser Tabithas, wondered if he could make a palace asiannudes guard of them. They were nudes, in asian the asian end, still just amateurs asian, but they were good: the lack that distinguished and handicapped an amateur wasn't skill but focus. He knew they asiannudes'd here lose that, at the proper time.
 The entry alarms came on like here a chandelier asian on the computer screen as asian the girls invaded his rented domain simultaneously. He imagined the taut, black-clad bodies floating asian gracefully in the windows, deploying into the studied nudes rooms asiannudes like dancers hitting their marks.
 "Right on time, and there asian are a asian lot of them asian."
 She here looked eager. "Maybe Carol's with them." She saw his skepticism, or perhaps felt it asiannudes. "Not asian the main group, Master, but here, somewhere."
 No . It didn't feel right.
 He sifted asian. Carol? Where is Carol?
 He smiled and passed that thought to Tabitha, and he knew she smiled asiannudes too . Yes, Master. She nudes's asian good. He felt something asiannudes in her then which he'd learned to associate with a smile that turned her pretty face asian into asian that of an utterly corrupted angel. But then, so were they. She licked her lips loudly asiannudes enough for him to hear.
 Something. One of the girls had asian a memory fragment, and he focused on asian it nudes. She asian moaned asian in pain asian, and he stopped himself and soothed her until she lay there purring. It was nothing, and drew no recognition from Tabitha when he passed it back: a asian chessboard at asian endgame, a well-protected White king, a here second Black queen nudes standing at the far end, a manicured hand asian over it.
 4.
 Wait. Music asian in her head--but he smiled: it was nudes the elevator theme, muted and asian tasteful. Probably drove the poor girl insane as she fetched and carried. He asiannudes thought of playing with her, but with his new catch flopping on the floor of two more suites here . . .
 Decker peered into the first room, seeing a few still weakly struggling--if she could give a girl that much resistance asian, maybe Carol did have talents as a trainer he could exploit asian once she worshipped him. Once he taught her to know that freedom wasn't the desired end state, but the problem to be solved. He commanded the slaves asian to close asian the windows and went to do the same at the third suite.
 The music: deliberate, masking her thoughts asiannudes and then asiannudes masking the mask. Smooth, powerful, effective hypnosis.
 He licked his lips. Colder and smarter asian even nudes than Tabitha. He was going to love the mindfuck.
 "You might as well relax," Tabitha told her victim with frightening asian calm. "That topical hypnotic will asiannudes be shutting down your volitional centers in about--how much are you? about 100, 110?--forty seconds. Then Master will be here asian."
 He found the turn and looked for nudes whatever empty room the girl had fled asian to. He found here Tabitha at the electrical closet instead, in front of its open door asian. Her asian face was white and she asiannudes shook, and when he looked asian into here her mind he asian saw that asian only his control was keeping her quiet and upright. Part of her was begging to be allowed to phase asian out asian, to be released from her asian enhanced slave awareness and clarity, but Decker saw that Tabitha was asiannudes fighting that, staying a slave asian and as ready as she asian could be to serve him.
 He wondered whether Tabitha asian remembered the last moments of her asiannudes own freedom, when she 'd tried to shoot herself, but asian he found nudes no trace of that asiannudes in his slave's thoughts.
 How ruthless was Carol? He probed gently asiannudes for guilt, like a wire-inlet, the tiniest chink through which he could reach into to her mind and slowly, slowly disable her from shooting, running, disobeying, thinking . . .
 She fought. Her body started to shake.
 She reached for the ocean, and for a asian moment its size , and power asian, and nudes blank empty infinity seemed to overbalance him.
 Carol sighed and her eyelids drooped before she hauled them up. He reached into the cold dark ocean and found asiannudes her bright asian warmth.
 Maybe her asian subconscious was trying asian to defect.
 She was asian crying now, and groaning asiannudes quietly behind asian closed lips. She was just here resisting asian, perhaps no longer here even sure why.
 Relax. Relax. Relax.
 It was asian hard to tell where the music stopped, his command began, and her mind asian had started to whisper its asiannudes own obedience.
 Take out asian . . . the other gun, her here mind chanted in cadence asian with the song, and he felt the first warm moist flood of asian affirmative submission. Her hand started to asian move asiannudes. In her mind, he asian saw asian the asian hand reach down to the Black queen--and asiannudes replace it with a pawn. All backward; pawns were queened, not queens reduced. Had she foreseen her own defeat ? Erased it from everyone else?
 Saw the wire. Saw asian something shift under the loose clothing. Not asian overweight.
 He heard the here click of the dead-man switch opening but not the bomb asian when it
 6 asiannudes.
 When Decker had snarled at them about a funeral for Tabitha and asian they nudes stayed away, afraid of what he'd here do with his mind under painkillers, it was Duke who'd asiannudes promised, and it was Duke who'd brought the urn to asian him. Duke had said asian something awkward asian and dense, and he'd been glad Duke was there asiannudes.
 Some of them were from Carol's group, though after a while not many of them. When he'd gotten out of the hospital nudes, he'd asian worked nudes on their minds, sometimes around the asian clock. None of nudes the ones in that series were salable. Not even the nudes freaks would buy them. Duke had asian to have most of them put asian to sleep.
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