Jack L. Chalker Dancing Gods 4 Songs of the Dancers

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that will put him out cold without his noticing, then we do not deserve
membership in the Sisterhood."
"Why not just let them go off in the Devastation?"
"He and the mad one have done what he says he was sent here to do find a
security breach to the palace. I am certainly not about to let the mad one go,
unless enslaved. A mind that can work out that sort of thing would be of even
more danger, should he make it in, and, being mad, he might be uncontrollable.
If that happened, we would be blamed. As for the big one, we have nothing but
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and I have never seen anyone in the empire who operated without clearance. He
had to acknowledge knowing the other one because the little one, being mad,
might well recognize and spoil his cover. It is no more difficult and much
more efficient to enslave two at one time."
"But what if he is truly working for the Master of the Dead?"
"Then we did our duty, and it is his fault for not insuring our cooperation.
The man will have failed in his mission, thanks to us, and that will go well
for our records, while he will have paid the price of failure. I would much
rather answer for following procedure, in any event, than have to explain why
and how I
allowed possible spies to make it to the palace."
"All right, but do we have to cut him, too? It gets so lonely here sometimes,
and he's so good looking ..."
"Not only does the law mandate it, but it also would be taken wrongly if we
did not, by those to whom we must report. I would rather follow regulations
and do without a while longer rather than risk joining his status. As for his
bitch, we'll drug her, too, so that she does not try and protect him. Once he
is converted, she will be common property and we can bind her to the coven."
"When do you plan to do all this?"
"I told him our sister was due back the day after tomorrow. As you well know,
she is due back any time now, and certainly by tomorrow. I say tomorrow night,
moon or no moon."
Mia crouched there, hardly daring to breathe, hoping against hope that the
staff slave would not betray her. She waited, pretending to keep working,
until the two women finished their drinks and left, then got up and went out
the door.
Finding Joe wasn't hard in that tiny place; finding him alone, when he was the
only sane man around for hundreds of miles who was not in the palace, was more
difficult. She had trouble unobtrusively separating him from the crowd, but
finally managed.
"Master, in the bar, I overheard this Quasa woman saying that they were going
to drug both of us and enslave us both to them as well as
Macore," she whispered excitedly to him.
He stiffened. "You're sure?"
She nodded.
"Did they see you or know you were there?"
"No, Master."
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"When?"
"Tomorrow, Master. Their missing one arrives a day early. You are deceived."
He sighed, thinking. "Then we will have to go tonight. After dinner, I should
think. They won't do it tonight, since they'd have both of us to take care of
for a day and night. Get together the supplies, everything we've talked about.
Meet me behind the security shack as soon as you can with what you can manage.
Food, but only one small wine flagon. We'll use snow." He shook his head,
thinking about what they were going to attempt. "I sure hope Macore worked out
those details."
Marge had found a clever hiding place in the supplies building, where the
slaves went to get what was needed. Now Joe headed there, knowing that he'd
have to
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ods%204%20-%20Songs%20of%20the%20Dancing%20.txt awaken her early, but she had
to be ready.
He startled her so much when he shook her that she changed three shades of
color before she realized it was him. Quickly, though, he outlined the changed
situation.
"Joe, I'm not going to make it," she told him. "You know we aren't great
walkers, and I haven't fed in two days."
"If you stay here, you'll die. Same reason."
"I know. Joe we've been through a lot together. We've been as close as we
could as comrades. I'm only alive and here in this world now due to your
kindness long ago on a lonely road in West Texas. I've tried as much as
possible to pay you back. Now I need something from you. Now. Right here. They
won't be coming back in tonight; I know their routine and what they already
got."
"Marge! Here? Now? I "
She was changing, becoming a vision of an idealized Tiana, mixed with Mia, and
now with every vision of every woman he'd ever loved or wanted to love. She
was
Venus, and Diana, and Lust herself.
"It is finally time, Joe," the vision whispered to him, those big eyes holding
him. "Make love to me, Joe. Make love to me now."
Joe feigned an upset stomach at the end of the meal and excused himself,
saying it was definitely not the food or the cooking, but rather an old
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