"CHAP-17" - читать интересную книгу автора (Jerome Bigge - Warlady 3 - The Queen Of Swords)THE QUEEN OF SWORDS! A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN THE SECOND DARK AGE OF MAN 2566 A.D.! By Jerome B. Bigge Chapter Seventeen "I have reason now to believe from what I've found that Ja- net Rogers used this as a sort of `refuge'," Princess Tara of Baja said to me with a smile as she opened the stainless steel door there far below Triskelion, the room below brightly lit, not by the torches or lamps I would have expected, but by glowing panels set in the ceiling and the walls, panels that spoke of a technology now far beyond ours. THE TECHNOLOGY OF THE ANCIENTS! Scattered about machines, devices like none I'd ever seen before! "Originally, there was a system of computers, but those have over the centuries given out, and I have to rely upon much more primitive and crude means of communication," Tara said to me as I stood there naked, helpless, leashed as a slave there before her. The room around me once hewn out of the living rock itself speak- ing of an age now long dead. An age now more legend than fact! An age when men traveled in space to other worlds like the Lorr. On the wall a great map of the Earth, vividly detailed in color! The countries clearly marked out in different colors. A flag of THE NEW ORDER, the "Crossed Thunderbolts", yet draped over it! And to my utter amazement on either side paired photographs, one of Janet Rogers herself, the other of Lorraine in her own time! My friend looking little different than what she did now, I saw!! "Janet Rogers `credited' Lorraine with developing the con- cepts that made up `THE NEW ORDER'," the Princess of Baja spoke. Her dark eyes burning into mine. "A social order that had a num- ber of parallels with that of another some eighty years before."* * There were of course "parallels" if you "look" enough, but to even compare Janet Rogers with Adolph Hitler is utter nonsense! On the other he had his "NEW ORDER" and she had her "NEW ORDER"! "That is `your opinion', not mine," I answered her, looking about at things that I'd seen before only in the Royal Museum! I had no doubt that at least some of the equipment was still usable too! And in the hands of Tara? The woman Lorraine called "The Princess of Darkness" perhaps with good reason, I suspected now! "Most of this still `functions'," Tara replied with a smile. "How?" I breathed, awed, impressed even despite myself! I could recognize the computers by their keyboards, monitor screens, but some of the devices were beyond my comprehension! I supposed Lorraine MIGHT have understood, but she was a woman of the 20th Century, and this was of the 21st, decades beyond her! "The power of the atom," Tara smiled. "The direct conver- sion of the energy released by atomic disintegration into elec- trical energy." Such a power source, I knew, could operate for centuries without any attention. "They were far beyond us." I nodded, seeing her eyes. I wondered just how "sane" she was now! Tara was a "dangerous" woman, especially now with all this stuff! "There are weapons?" I ventured then, fearing the worst now. "Unfortunately none of them are functional any more," she answered. I was "thankful" for that. I knew something of the weaponry of the 21st Century. The perfection of "small arms". A few dozen men armed with the military rifles of the last years of Janet Roger's World Federation could have routed a full Legion! "Thank Lys for that," I breathed, not thinking just then. Tara is an atheist, and makes no "bones" about that fact either! "There is no Lys, only a `myth' spread by the Priestesses for their own `profit'," Princess Tara answered with a laugh. I recalled her own atheism. Her belief that there was no LYS. I also recalled what Lorraine had told me. What she had written in her book of her experiences there on the planet Mars. The "reli- gious" experience she had experienced there. I had tended to discount the fantastic tale, especially her predictions about me. None of that made any sense. None at all! Why should I be "THE QUEEN OF LIGHT" that Lys (who Lorraine called "SHE") had spoken about to her? And while Tara was an evil person, she certainly didn't really qualify as being the "Anti-Lys" that the Priestess- es talk about! And my destroying Tara in a "BLAST OF LIGHT" was equally ridiculous! The entire tale was simply the "result" of Raspa's venom working on Lorraine's mind. That she had seen a "vision" didn't surprise me all that much! There are after all a number of well known drugs that do almost the exact same thing to people! And even Raspa had said it was just the effects of her venom upon Lorraine and nothing else. That had "settled" it for me! I did however, believe in an "after-life", which Tara did- n't. Not solely because of the Priestesses or Lorraine's own ex- periences in the 20th Century, but because there were just too many examples of "ghosts" and other things to believe otherwise! "Lys exists," I smiled, "And you'll met Her someday too." I suspected that Tara wouldn't much "enjoy" the experience either. "You always were a `dumb blonde'," Tara snapped back. I smiled at that. There is no evidence that hair color has any- thing to do with intelligence. Such ideas are nothing but myth. "Calling me `names' does not alter the truth," I answered, looking up at the map, the flag suspended there on the rock wall. "I suppose such beliefs have their value," she smiled back. "The Priestesses do have a pretty good `thing' going for them- selves. Just like the Christians and the others once used to do before the other religions were stamped out by the Priestesses." Tara now going on to say that the Priestesses had done so so that they might better control all of Mankind for their own profit! I have heard such arguments before. Christianity was a disaster! The simple fact that it actually "encouraged" overpopulation was enough in itself to condemn it. Read THE BOOK OF LYS for proof! "What the Priestesses tell us is the truth," I answered her. I knew that Lorraine claimed that they were an "invention" of Ja- net Rogers, but that did not alter the reality of the "truths" that they spoke, but merely showed that Janet had somehow discov- ered by her awesome technology the TRUTH of the nature of LYS! "You have read Lorraine's book?" Tara challenged me back. Lorraine's book is in two parts, the first being published just shortly before all this happened. The second part at the time I was a captive of Tara not having yet at that time been published. "Of course," I laughed. I even had several chapters in the second part. Lorraine had asked me to write them, to add "color" to her own writings. I had done so. Even Sanda had a "chapter"! "She writes that she suggested to Janet Rogers before she was transported here to our time that an organization like our present Priestesses should be established as a means of `social control'," Tara smiled back, a gleam of triumph there in her eye. "And her mind is one that I do respect," she admitted, to my sur- prise. Lorraine had once hinted to me Tara was her mental equal. "And?" I challenged the Princess back. The setting around us a strange one for an argument over the merits of our religion. If the Priestesses were the "invention" of Lorraine or Janet Rog- ers, that merely indicated how intelligent both women had been!* * The present "role" of the Priestesses is only further proof! "And that `means' that she, or more likely Janet Rogers was responsible for the Priestesses of Lys!" Tara smiled, now acting quite pleased with herself as if she had "won" this discussion! "Lorraine admitted to me that she discovered the existence of the after-life back in her own time and no doubt Janet contin- ued on with her work after she disappeared through the Gateway," I smiled back. I had once spoken with Lorraine of such matters. "Or perhaps Lorraine suggested to Janet that such a thing might be helpful in their plans to rule the world," Tara smiled. "Since as you know, that was her `ambition' back in her own time. And one, I suspect, that she still believes to be possible now." "And where did you get that idea?" I challenged her back. Doubtlessly a bit "mouthy" for a female slave in my own position. "You are too `dumb' to notice the fact that Lorraine has ri- sen here in our time from a homeless time traveler to being the second most powerful woman in the Empire of California," Tara an- swered. "And doesn't that prove that she now plans to do to the world what the Gateway prevented her from doing in her own time?" I really couldn't see "how" Lorraine could "do" it even if she tried to do so. Not as long as the EDICT yet remained in effect! "The `technology' doesn't exist for a world government," I pointed out with a smile. A sudden chill going over me as I then realized that Lorraine was a good friend of Raspa, First among the Lorr. That if Raspa put the resources of the Lorr at Lor- raine's disposal, my Warlady could take over the world whenever she wanted to! And Lorraine had done enough things in the time she had been here in our own time to indicate that she viewed the present political situation as being one badly in need of change! "The Lorr maintain three battle-discs in high orbit around the Earth along with who knows how many agents here on Earth," the Princess answered. "And Lorraine is the friend of the Lorr." There was also "Deimos", their old star ship now in orbit around the Earth being used as an "eye in the sky" to watch over us too! "But she's my friend! My best friend!" I hotly protested! "She's `using' you like I did all those years," Tara smiled, her dark eyes burning into mine. "As I will `use' you once more for my own purposes, but this time as a beautiful slave slut!" "I once also thought you were my `friend'," I answered her. "You were always a `dumb blonde'," Tara smiled coldly. "Someone to be `used' by others for their own gain. First me, then Lorraine. Just a `dumb slut' good for nothing but pleasing men. That's all you really are, Darlanis. Just a `dumb cunt'!" "Lorraine will come for you someday, Tara," I answered her. "I have already taken `measures' to deal with Lorraine," the evil Princess smiled back. "My `agent' among the Servitors will see that she comes to a swift if perhaps `flaming' end soon now." The Princess going to say that she would see to it that Black Lady was "shot down" by a Lorr ship flown by her "agent"! "She has always been a far more serious threat to my ambitions than you were, you dumb cunt," Tara laughed, standing there among the computers and the communications equipment of the 21st Century so remarkably "preserved" despite the passage now of centuries!* * This of course also explains the several attempts on my life by the evil Princess as I have related in my two books. (Lorraine) "And you might be `interested' in this," she then said to me, taking me into another part of this amazing underground world of hers. To a room she lit by flicking a switch on the wall, the dried skeletal remains of a blonde haired woman lying there on a bed. The bones yet clad in a beautiful golden mesh like some ex- otic goddess! She had been in life a good sized woman, her bones leaving no doubt that she had once been a magnificent creature! A woman no doubt who had once played an important role in things! "She `was' Domino Tremaine," Tara said to me with a grin. I nodded, remembering my history lessons. She had been the Leader- ess of the World Federation after the death of Janet Rogers. The Warlady of the World Federation, and Janet Rogers' own lover too! Such was not, of course, usually spoken of too much by teachers!! "I have seen a picture of her in life," I said. She had been a beautiful woman, an "equal" of me, and a woman who could I knew have perhaps even "stood" blade to blade with Lorraine! The sword still strapped about the skeletal remains proof of that! I judged from the remains that she had come here, took poison, and lying down on the bed, breathed her last over five centuries ago! "She was `responsible' for `The War'," Tara said to me, her dark eyes now burning into mine like evil coals. I nodded "no". I did not think that someone like "her" would have done "that". "We have no way of `knowing'," I pointed out to Tara. "She was the `Leaderess'," Tara snapped back at me. "As I was then the `Empress of California'," I smiled. "She was perhaps much like you," Tara smiled back at me. "Perhaps she too had her own `Tara'," I told the Princess. "I don't like what you are `implying'," Tara snapped back. "Perhaps I am but an `insolent slave girl'," I smiled back. "You are a `slut' who will gain me much," Tara grinned back. With this she then took me on a tour of her amazing under- ground world, showing me the technology of the Ancients still able to operate after all these years. A series of caverns far beneath the earth that went all the way to the sea. Some sort of a submarine floating there at a dock, everything brightly lit by those glowing panels that Tara said would glow for centuries yet! A somewhat similar technology is used in the hidden under- ground city of Leith that was established by the Lorr even before the Indians came across the Bering Strait to North America ac- cording to what my mother Aurora tells me. It is interesting to note here that "legends" of such a place have existed for several thousand years, both among the Indians and among those who lived in the area later on. There was once a study made to show that more "flying saucers" were seen in this area than anywhere else! I may also add here that Leith is so well "hidden" that even the technology of the 21st Century never detected it. On the other hand the Lorr probably also made sure with their own feminine agents here on Earth back then that anyone of Earth who learned anything about such a hidden city would be quickly discredited!* * One also now "wonders" here about reports of UFO's, etc. (JBB) ***************************************************************** "And now I think that it's time that you `retired' for the night, Tara said to me with a smile perhaps half an hour later. "I fear, however, that you will probably not get much sleep," she added with a grim smile as I saw with horror what was to be done to me! How I would be confined. The form fitting adjustable cage there on the main floor of the castle designed to display a naked woman to perfection, while at the same time holding her perfectly and utterly and totally helpless. The design such that I would be kept silent as well as helpless, while forced to stand inside without any chance to rest. My naked body helplessly held there inside this device! And upon display for everyone to see! THE QUEEN OF SWORDS! A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN THE SECOND DARK AGE OF MAN 2566 A.D.! By Jerome B. Bigge Chapter Seventeen "I have reason now to believe from what I've found that Ja- net Rogers used this as a sort of `refuge'," Princess Tara of Baja said to me with a smile as she opened the stainless steel door there far below Triskelion, the room below brightly lit, not by the torches or lamps I would have expected, but by glowing panels set in the ceiling and the walls, panels that spoke of a technology now far beyond ours. THE TECHNOLOGY OF THE ANCIENTS! Scattered about machines, devices like none I'd ever seen before! "Originally, there was a system of computers, but those have over the centuries given out, and I have to rely upon much more primitive and crude means of communication," Tara said to me as I stood there naked, helpless, leashed as a slave there before her. The room around me once hewn out of the living rock itself speak- ing of an age now long dead. An age now more legend than fact! An age when men traveled in space to other worlds like the Lorr. On the wall a great map of the Earth, vividly detailed in color! The countries clearly marked out in different colors. A flag of THE NEW ORDER, the "Crossed Thunderbolts", yet draped over it! And to my utter amazement on either side paired photographs, one of Janet Rogers herself, the other of Lorraine in her own time! My friend looking little different than what she did now, I saw!! "Janet Rogers `credited' Lorraine with developing the con- cepts that made up `THE NEW ORDER'," the Princess of Baja spoke. Her dark eyes burning into mine. "A social order that had a num- ber of parallels with that of another some eighty years before."* * There were of course "parallels" if you "look" enough, but to even compare Janet Rogers with Adolph Hitler is utter nonsense! On the other he had his "NEW ORDER" and she had her "NEW ORDER"! "That is `your opinion', not mine," I answered her, looking about at things that I'd seen before only in the Royal Museum! I had no doubt that at least some of the equipment was still usable too! And in the hands of Tara? The woman Lorraine called "The Princess of Darkness" perhaps with good reason, I suspected now! "Most of this still `functions'," Tara replied with a smile. "How?" I breathed, awed, impressed even despite myself! I could recognize the computers by their keyboards, monitor screens, but some of the devices were beyond my comprehension! I supposed Lorraine MIGHT have understood, but she was a woman of the 20th Century, and this was of the 21st, decades beyond her! "The power of the atom," Tara smiled. "The direct conver- sion of the energy released by atomic disintegration into elec- trical energy." Such a power source, I knew, could operate for centuries without any attention. "They were far beyond us." I nodded, seeing her eyes. I wondered just how "sane" she was now! Tara was a "dangerous" woman, especially now with all this stuff! "There are weapons?" I ventured then, fearing the worst now. "Unfortunately none of them are functional any more," she answered. I was "thankful" for that. I knew something of the weaponry of the 21st Century. The perfection of "small arms". A few dozen men armed with the military rifles of the last years of Janet Roger's World Federation could have routed a full Legion! "Thank Lys for that," I breathed, not thinking just then. Tara is an atheist, and makes no "bones" about that fact either! "There is no Lys, only a `myth' spread by the Priestesses for their own `profit'," Princess Tara answered with a laugh. I recalled her own atheism. Her belief that there was no LYS. I also recalled what Lorraine had told me. What she had written in her book of her experiences there on the planet Mars. The "reli- gious" experience she had experienced there. I had tended to discount the fantastic tale, especially her predictions about me. None of that made any sense. None at all! Why should I be "THE QUEEN OF LIGHT" that Lys (who Lorraine called "SHE") had spoken about to her? And while Tara was an evil person, she certainly didn't really qualify as being the "Anti-Lys" that the Priestess- es talk about! And my destroying Tara in a "BLAST OF LIGHT" was equally ridiculous! The entire tale was simply the "result" of Raspa's venom working on Lorraine's mind. That she had seen a "vision" didn't surprise me all that much! There are after all a number of well known drugs that do almost the exact same thing to people! And even Raspa had said it was just the effects of her venom upon Lorraine and nothing else. That had "settled" it for me! I did however, believe in an "after-life", which Tara did- n't. Not solely because of the Priestesses or Lorraine's own ex- periences in the 20th Century, but because there were just too many examples of "ghosts" and other things to believe otherwise! "Lys exists," I smiled, "And you'll met Her someday too." I suspected that Tara wouldn't much "enjoy" the experience either. "You always were a `dumb blonde'," Tara snapped back. I smiled at that. There is no evidence that hair color has any- thing to do with intelligence. Such ideas are nothing but myth. "Calling me `names' does not alter the truth," I answered, looking up at the map, the flag suspended there on the rock wall. "I suppose such beliefs have their value," she smiled back. "The Priestesses do have a pretty good `thing' going for them- selves. Just like the Christians and the others once used to do before the other religions were stamped out by the Priestesses." Tara now going on to say that the Priestesses had done so so that they might better control all of Mankind for their own profit! I have heard such arguments before. Christianity was a disaster! The simple fact that it actually "encouraged" overpopulation was enough in itself to condemn it. Read THE BOOK OF LYS for proof! "What the Priestesses tell us is the truth," I answered her. I knew that Lorraine claimed that they were an "invention" of Ja- net Rogers, but that did not alter the reality of the "truths" that they spoke, but merely showed that Janet had somehow discov- ered by her awesome technology the TRUTH of the nature of LYS! "You have read Lorraine's book?" Tara challenged me back. Lorraine's book is in two parts, the first being published just shortly before all this happened. The second part at the time I was a captive of Tara not having yet at that time been published. "Of course," I laughed. I even had several chapters in the second part. Lorraine had asked me to write them, to add "color" to her own writings. I had done so. Even Sanda had a "chapter"! "She writes that she suggested to Janet Rogers before she was transported here to our time that an organization like our present Priestesses should be established as a means of `social control'," Tara smiled back, a gleam of triumph there in her eye. "And her mind is one that I do respect," she admitted, to my sur- prise. Lorraine had once hinted to me Tara was her mental equal. "And?" I challenged the Princess back. The setting around us a strange one for an argument over the merits of our religion. If the Priestesses were the "invention" of Lorraine or Janet Rog- ers, that merely indicated how intelligent both women had been!* * The present "role" of the Priestesses is only further proof! "And that `means' that she, or more likely Janet Rogers was responsible for the Priestesses of Lys!" Tara smiled, now acting quite pleased with herself as if she had "won" this discussion! "Lorraine admitted to me that she discovered the existence of the after-life back in her own time and no doubt Janet contin- ued on with her work after she disappeared through the Gateway," I smiled back. I had once spoken with Lorraine of such matters. "Or perhaps Lorraine suggested to Janet that such a thing might be helpful in their plans to rule the world," Tara smiled. "Since as you know, that was her `ambition' back in her own time. And one, I suspect, that she still believes to be possible now." "And where did you get that idea?" I challenged her back. Doubtlessly a bit "mouthy" for a female slave in my own position. "You are too `dumb' to notice the fact that Lorraine has ri- sen here in our time from a homeless time traveler to being the second most powerful woman in the Empire of California," Tara an- swered. "And doesn't that prove that she now plans to do to the world what the Gateway prevented her from doing in her own time?" I really couldn't see "how" Lorraine could "do" it even if she tried to do so. Not as long as the EDICT yet remained in effect! "The `technology' doesn't exist for a world government," I pointed out with a smile. A sudden chill going over me as I then realized that Lorraine was a good friend of Raspa, First among the Lorr. That if Raspa put the resources of the Lorr at Lor- raine's disposal, my Warlady could take over the world whenever she wanted to! And Lorraine had done enough things in the time she had been here in our own time to indicate that she viewed the present political situation as being one badly in need of change! "The Lorr maintain three battle-discs in high orbit around the Earth along with who knows how many agents here on Earth," the Princess answered. "And Lorraine is the friend of the Lorr." There was also "Deimos", their old star ship now in orbit around the Earth being used as an "eye in the sky" to watch over us too! "But she's my friend! My best friend!" I hotly protested! "She's `using' you like I did all those years," Tara smiled, her dark eyes burning into mine. "As I will `use' you once more for my own purposes, but this time as a beautiful slave slut!" "I once also thought you were my `friend'," I answered her. "You were always a `dumb blonde'," Tara smiled coldly. "Someone to be `used' by others for their own gain. First me, then Lorraine. Just a `dumb slut' good for nothing but pleasing men. That's all you really are, Darlanis. Just a `dumb cunt'!" "Lorraine will come for you someday, Tara," I answered her. "I have already taken `measures' to deal with Lorraine," the evil Princess smiled back. "My `agent' among the Servitors will see that she comes to a swift if perhaps `flaming' end soon now." The Princess going to say that she would see to it that Black Lady was "shot down" by a Lorr ship flown by her "agent"! "She has always been a far more serious threat to my ambitions than you were, you dumb cunt," Tara laughed, standing there among the computers and the communications equipment of the 21st Century so remarkably "preserved" despite the passage now of centuries!* * This of course also explains the several attempts on my life by the evil Princess as I have related in my two books. (Lorraine) "And you might be `interested' in this," she then said to me, taking me into another part of this amazing underground world of hers. To a room she lit by flicking a switch on the wall, the dried skeletal remains of a blonde haired woman lying there on a bed. The bones yet clad in a beautiful golden mesh like some ex- otic goddess! She had been in life a good sized woman, her bones leaving no doubt that she had once been a magnificent creature! A woman no doubt who had once played an important role in things! "She `was' Domino Tremaine," Tara said to me with a grin. I nodded, remembering my history lessons. She had been the Leader- ess of the World Federation after the death of Janet Rogers. The Warlady of the World Federation, and Janet Rogers' own lover too! Such was not, of course, usually spoken of too much by teachers!! "I have seen a picture of her in life," I said. She had been a beautiful woman, an "equal" of me, and a woman who could I knew have perhaps even "stood" blade to blade with Lorraine! The sword still strapped about the skeletal remains proof of that! I judged from the remains that she had come here, took poison, and lying down on the bed, breathed her last over five centuries ago! "She was `responsible' for `The War'," Tara said to me, her dark eyes now burning into mine like evil coals. I nodded "no". I did not think that someone like "her" would have done "that". "We have no way of `knowing'," I pointed out to Tara. "She was the `Leaderess'," Tara snapped back at me. "As I was then the `Empress of California'," I smiled. "She was perhaps much like you," Tara smiled back at me. "Perhaps she too had her own `Tara'," I told the Princess. "I don't like what you are `implying'," Tara snapped back. "Perhaps I am but an `insolent slave girl'," I smiled back. "You are a `slut' who will gain me much," Tara grinned back. With this she then took me on a tour of her amazing under- ground world, showing me the technology of the Ancients still able to operate after all these years. A series of caverns far beneath the earth that went all the way to the sea. Some sort of a submarine floating there at a dock, everything brightly lit by those glowing panels that Tara said would glow for centuries yet! A somewhat similar technology is used in the hidden under- ground city of Leith that was established by the Lorr even before the Indians came across the Bering Strait to North America ac- cording to what my mother Aurora tells me. It is interesting to note here that "legends" of such a place have existed for several thousand years, both among the Indians and among those who lived in the area later on. There was once a study made to show that more "flying saucers" were seen in this area than anywhere else! I may also add here that Leith is so well "hidden" that even the technology of the 21st Century never detected it. On the other hand the Lorr probably also made sure with their own feminine agents here on Earth back then that anyone of Earth who learned anything about such a hidden city would be quickly discredited!* * One also now "wonders" here about reports of UFO's, etc. (JBB) ***************************************************************** "And now I think that it's time that you `retired' for the night, Tara said to me with a smile perhaps half an hour later. "I fear, however, that you will probably not get much sleep," she added with a grim smile as I saw with horror what was to be done to me! How I would be confined. The form fitting adjustable cage there on the main floor of the castle designed to display a naked woman to perfection, while at the same time holding her perfectly and utterly and totally helpless. The design such that I would be kept silent as well as helpless, while forced to stand inside without any chance to rest. My naked body helplessly held there inside this device! 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