The Woman They Kept

The Woman They Kept by Andrew Krause

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ancient warfare. Daniel never took his eyes off Gideon.
“What should I call you then?”
    “ Daniel is fine. It's not
my real name anyway.”
    The door opened and a beautiful
woman in a silk robe entered. She had black hair held together by a
silk ribbon, her eyes downcast but lined darkly, her cheeks flushed.
Her lower lip quivered as she stood before them, opening her robe.
Daniel motioned to Gideon to pick up his glass, and after he did so
the woman laid down on the table, face up, completely nude. In the
open air her nipples quickly became hard.
    “ This isn't the one I
want. She's wonderful, but she's not the one I'm looking for.”
    Daniel laughed and the door
opened again. “This one isn't for sale. She's just our
serving platter. Patience my young friend.” Through the door
walked another woman, heavier and older than the first, less made
up, her arms flexing as they carried plates full of covered silver
dishes. She kneeled before the naked woman and removed the covers
for the platters, revealing rolls of sushi that she lay out on the
naked woman's body. After an entire meal had been placed there, she
gave each Daniel and Gideon a set of chopsticks.
    “ Will you eat with me? I
would learn of a man before doing business with him.” Daniel
took a roll from the woman's nipple and shoveled it into his mouth,
murmuring with delight. Gideon followed suit, knowing he would have
to play his part, and took a roll just aside from her neatly shaved
pubic hair. He wondered what he would have to do to convince this
Daniel character that he was a trafficker like him.
    “ Delicious, delicious.
What is it you would like to learn of me? I am but a poor business
man,” Gideon said.
    Daniel took out a small coin
from his pocket and rubbed it between his fingers. “We are
both businessmen, but I want to know your motivations. Most people
are motivated by these shining bits of metal. Are you? Are you
motivated by the power of it? Is it the sex? What motivates you?
What kind of a person are you that you would sit here trying to buy
a human being from a complete stranger? Here we have been eating
food off this woman, and you haven't even acted surprised. When we
are done she will rise and service us both, and she'll never once
look us in the eye, and that is because she is mine completely, I
own her, I broke her myself. Look, she doesn't even flinch when we
talk about her. She is nothing more than a table right now, and in
about twenty minutes she'll be nothing more than a mouth. And here
you are with me. Why?”
    “ Here I am,” Gideon
echoed. This was the lynchpin moment, the moment Akem was talking
about, and he recognized it as such. Daniel was feeling him out,
testing him, seeing if he was on the level. The only way to make
any sort of progress in finding Rolanda would be to pass this test
without any question. Something extreme had to happen, something
evil. “Here I am,” Gideon repeated, placing his entire
self inside the littlest box in the darkest corner of his mind,
hiding himself from what he was about to do. “You want to
know what motivates a man like me?” He stood and unbuckled
his belt while looking down at the girl on the table. She never
looked back at him, but her eyes seemed to edge closer. Gideon got
the impression that she saw things well out of the corners of her
eyes, and he silently apologized for what he was about to do. He
traded her discomfort and his dignity for the possibility of
Rolanda's life.
    He
began to relieve his bladder on their serving platter. Thick hot
ropy streams of piss landed all over her face and upper chest, she
never turned away but she closed her eyes and puckered her mouth.
“Nothing motivates a man like me,” Gideon said, his
whole self locked away, “I'm a man who believes in no god but
would sell his soul to any devil offering to buy. I do things for
the plain and simple reason that I can. ”
Gideon finished his stream and flicked the last few drops at

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