Kamao's Dessecration
The stench of cheap cigar smoke and expensive cologne was a thick, cloying perfume that filled the expansive, windowless chamber. It was the smell of absolute power, of old money and older hatreds. In the center of this opulent dungeon, under the cold glare of halogen spotlights arranged for the cameras, hung Kamao. His sun-kissed, tautly muscled body, a masterpiece of poverty-forged discipline, was suspended in a grotesque parody of a crucifixion. A thick, black leather collar was buckled around his neck, the attached chain pulled taut to a ceiling hook, forcing his head up in a permanent, straining arc. His arms, usually instruments of lightning-fast justice, were chained wide apart. But the most profound violation was below. He was impaled, forced to sit upon the engorged, veiny cock of Silas Thorne, the patriarch of this cabal of rich, perverted racists. Thorne, a man in his late sixties with a shock of white hair and eyes the colour of a winter sky, lay on a low, leather-pad...