[Sodium_noir] A saturday in Darktown

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Maurice, Goldie
Serpent, Whore
The Chaste Dragon

>"Thats right honey, right here from a boy." Her expression 
>changes as she stares more thoughtfully at Maurice. Thoser 
>years of slavery and abuse are not memories she cares to visit 
>too often, but she also has no intention of telling this man 
>to change the subject. She lets a little of those times back 
>into her thoughts, a controlled trickle of the pain and 
>disgust. She wasn't much older than Panic, and had joined the 
>bordello towards the end of its nightmare years. She only knew 
>him as a young adult. 

Maurice noticed the discomfort this subject caused her. He took another
idle puff from the cigar, while he considered her answer. Either the
whores here shouldn't talk about Panic's past and his nice personality
was causing her to loosen her tongue. Improbable. Or, she has
experienced the previous owners first hand. Could be important to
remember that.
 
>"Some of the older girls, Tess for 
>example, they taught hiom to read and write and all that. 
>Brought him up with a proper education!"

He nearly snorted as a laugh built up inside him that he tried to
stifle. There were lots of people who wouldn't call an education by
whores a 'proper' education. "Musst 'ave been a ssight to ssee. I 'ave
no idea about sse previouss ownerss 'abitss, but I 'ave 'eard a ssing or
two. Maybe we should leave it at ssat." He stared for a while at the
embers of the cigar, apparently deep in thought. "Ssome ssingss are
better kept quiet. To dwell upon ssem only bringss pain. And osserss
wouldn't undersstand. What people are capable of doing. Mosst like to
deceive ssemsselvess ssat people are nice and only 'ave your besst at
sseir 'eartss."
He turned to Goldie to look again into her eyes. "But people sseldom are
and 'ave. Usually ssey only ssink about ssemsselvess. Osserss, sstill,
are even worsse. Sso we keep our little painful memoriess buried deep
insside our 'eartss. And let sse woundss fesster and sse pain grow." He
smiled, but it didn't reach his eyes. "But sse pain dullss and wiss it
all osser feelingss."

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