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Lavelyn Rynn
Apr 27th, 2004, 12:05:11 PM
There had been four of them. Suvin, Tiyl, Irae, and Lavelyn. Sisters and Brother. Quadruplets. Money-makers. They could sing, the four of them. Little children who sang together in sync as if they'd been trained for years. Mother and Father saw an opportunity. Mother and Father never let an opportunity pass. The four were exploited.

Go, sing!

Don't stop!

Now... dance...

Sing!

They were only five. Five and in costumes, parading in front of crowds that thought it was cute and yet unnerving to see four nearly identicle forms singing and dancing together. Lavelyn didn't think it was cute. She didn't think it was unnerving. It was sick.

Sick.

But that had been years ago, when she had been a child. Now she was nineteen. Nineteen and the only one left. The only one left of four.

* * *

She hated the prison. The stage, and the tables, and the bar, and the patrons... it was a prison. Every night she paid her debt, every night she made her money.

The lights in Garters shifted from bright red to a cold, cold blue. On the stage stood a young woman. She had milky, smooth skin that looked paler in the filtered light. Her short blonde hair fell forward as her head bowed, hiding her face. She was almost naked, a black leather bra and panties covering her frame, hugging her curves greedily. It was cold in the bar; goosebumps rose on her skin. Her breasts, hardly encased in the braziere, rose slowly up and down in a dance all their own as she struggled to breathe normally.

Lavelyn was still being exploited.

The music started then, a piano, notes dropping lightly in the air, a far cry from the raunchy bout that had preceeded her. She could feel their eyes, hungry eyes. Men, old and young, wanting her. Not just men either; there were women too, in the back, and it scared Lavelyn.

She wasn't sexy. She wasn't voluptuous. She was timid, scared, young... innocent. They were hungry for innocence.

"It's haaaarder than it seeeems...

It gets dark....

It gets cold with no one here to warm me..."



Lavelyn did not have an extroidinary voice. It wasn't bad, it wasn't great. It was just there. Soft and smoky, sliding over the words like ice. SHe delivered the song without any huzzah; she did not try to rouse the crowd, get them cheering. Only the ones sitting close, or paying attention to her face, could see that tears were sliding down her cheeks silently.

She was still being explioted.



* * *

"Go to th' back room."

Ziggy. The owner. Lavelyn shook her head, looking at the ground. The back room had only a bed inside, and a lock on the door.

"It's not my night."

"I dun't care; you've been 'quested, and I dun't turn away the creds. Go to th' back room."

She went to the back room.

who am i?

The back room had a red light. It made her feel cheap. The sagging matress that she sat on made her feel cheap. Lavelyn shivered. The doorknob turned...

Dan the Man
Apr 27th, 2004, 12:24:18 PM
Dan slowly opened the door, and looked at the girl. A genteel smile crossed his aged face.

"Howdy."

Lavelyn Rynn
Apr 28th, 2004, 11:38:26 AM
A man.

Relief, it wasn't a woman. Lavelyn almost smiled, but she was too scared. The light scared her, the lock scared her... her willingness terrified her.

She looked at the floor.

She could forget. When it was done she could just forget everything, like flipping a switch.

you didn't erase us.

But she could erase him. She would erase Howdy. Lavelyn stood up, still looking down. She didn't have any shoes on, her barefeet cringed on the cold floor. Lavelyn was small, maybe five-two on a generous night. The only thing big about her was her eyes; blue and flat, nothing hiding behind them, no secrets or plots or memories. They were honest eyes, in appearance if not nature.

"Hi." she whispered.

Dan the Man
Apr 28th, 2004, 11:45:40 AM
Raising a stim to his lips, Dan lit up, the smoke rising gently above him as he did so. He looked at the girl, who in turn looked at the floor. That she was unable to meet his eyes spoke volumes.

"So, how do you suppose we should start this?"

Lavelyn Rynn
Apr 28th, 2004, 11:49:49 AM
No, no, no, she couldn't make decisions. That wasn't her choice to make.

Shoulders rose in a shrug.

"Doesn't matter."

She could smell the stim smoke, stark against the flat scent of the room; it needed airing out. Lavelyn's shoulders drew tighter. She blinked and traced a crack in the floor that ended--or started?--at her big toe.

Dan the Man
Apr 28th, 2004, 12:23:22 PM
"What's your name?"

Dan approached her, but didn't make any other move otherwise.

Lavelyn Rynn
Apr 28th, 2004, 01:49:38 PM
She shrugged; her back was sore. Maybe she'd wrenched it.

"That doesn't matter either."

Lavelyn shivered again. The room was quite warm.

Dan the Man
Apr 28th, 2004, 03:54:33 PM
"Then what does matter?" Dan queried, taking a long draw from his smoke.

Lavelyn Rynn
Apr 29th, 2004, 11:34:18 AM
"Fulfilling the customers payed-for physical experience is top priority. You do not get personal. This is a job, act accordingly."

Lavelyn recited in a hushed voice. She shrugged her shoulders slightly.

"Those are the rules that we're given."

Dan the Man
May 13th, 2004, 01:36:02 PM
"And if you were paid more to make it personal, would it not be worth it?"

Lavelyn Rynn
May 14th, 2004, 11:34:32 AM
More credits would make the boss happy. Maybe she would get a night off if he was happy. Maybe if she got a night off she could get dressed, covered all over, and go to real restaurant and get a cup of stimcaf like a real person.

"Yes."

Dan the Man
May 19th, 2004, 10:47:05 PM
Dan produced another chit from his jacket, extending it to her cautiously.

"Now, what's your name?"

Lavelyn Rynn
May 20th, 2004, 11:35:26 AM
Slowly her hand reached for the cred. Lavelyn's eyes stayed fixed on it until it was safely in her hand; then down they went again.

"I'm Lavelyn."

Something comforting washed over her; it was relieving to be "Lavelyn" rather than "girl", even if just for one night.

Dan the Man
Jun 1st, 2004, 01:51:30 PM
"That's a pretty name. I'm glad to hear it."

Exhaling, he continued.

"My name's Dan."

Lavelyn Rynn
Jun 2nd, 2004, 11:40:42 AM
"Hello... Dan."

The name echoed in her mind over and over; a name for the face, a name for the face! Lavvy lifted her head slowly, her gaze rising up the mans body until it rested on her mouth. She trembled at her daring. Did she risk going further?

a name isn't an invitation, Lavvy.

No. Not yet.