John: „In the desert, it is just too hot to spend hours by painting.“
Adrian: „Is there nobody breathing the same air with me, who understand the culture and color?“
Telly: „There is many who understand the humor.“
Alice: „Well, Sky was someone who is adored by everyone and who orders call girls despite his feeling for Queen. That made me easy to juggle with the couple’s feeling beating the fragile glass bridge between them.“
Telly: „What had really happened?“
Alice: „I slandered Sky that Queen was feeling for someone else the right love and had slept with him, besides that she was a call girl like me and so on I told many poisonous slanders and lies about her far from what she actually looked like, being so pious, kind and frank with the world. Queen was much easier to fool, I told her just the truth about Sky, as a good minded friend of her, about the call girl lover, in fact who I was. She believed everything and cried her eyes out, suffered for the worst blow, failed her exams, but she graduated from the university. She was still single, but I told Sky that Queen was with someone else, which made him suffer too, and the pain transformed into hate, he cursed Queen, and he began to feel drawn to me.“
John: „Why the weak painting brush didn’t want to talk to Queen by himself to find out the reality to conquer her back. Oh, I am sorry, Alice, he was your husband by the way, rest in peace, Amen.“
Alice: „That is all right, John.“
Adrian: „Sky was one of the typical men, who make up the ninety percent of the male on the earth.“
Billy: „Do you mean ninety percent of all the males, even animals?“
Adrian nodded and they all laughed. The casino hall had become almost empty, the servicemen had already changed the shift announcing that the morning sun was possibly shining outside over the ocean.
John: „Alice, did Sky married to you despite your duty under Maria’s control, especially as a call girl dancing in front of other men?“
Alice: „I had told him that I was a retired dancer approaching my thirty and to earn money had to work as a private striptease, and that was all. He trusted me, asking me not to dance that way, just be his lover and he would take my worry about money away. He hadn’t known that Maria had made a millionaire out of me, in fact I was rich only regarding my bank account in the Switzerland, but in my heart the poorest person of the world. I had to free myself for my love, from Maria, which was not a piece of cake at all.“
Billy: „So, your husband had never discovered your lies till his death?“
Alice: „After I had killed Maria out of emergency, I told him everything what had happened to my life, showing him my true color, but of course I kept secret what I had arranged to the poor Queen making her a victim of the veiled human-trafficking business to remove her from the continent, from Sky.“
There was a thick silence on the couch, all eyes were revealing the fire of astonishment, besides the everlasting closed eyes of Telly sensing no single motion under the eyelids to feel. Despite the crime that Alice had committed, they all remained calm liking Alice for her frankness and feeling sympathy with her.
Billy: „What happened to the two poor women?“ Adrian: „They both had been your enemies, but in different ways.“
Alice: „After having proposed to Sky, which he accepted with a big warm hug and long lasting silence till his answer ‚yes‘, I had to visit Maria in Zurich to quit her army.“
Telly: „Did you propose him? Normally, men propose women.“
John: „Sky, the weak painting brush must be proposed, otherwise the woman had to wait till her second life, where they would be fortunate to encounter again, possibly as different species of the same territory. Oh, sorry again Alice, your husband cannot hear what I say.“
Alice was enough laid-back cool to take the irony easily, so she nodded smiling.
Billy: „Maria was wanted to be removed from your life?“
Alice: „Well, I told Maria that I was tired of that kind of duty like being a call girl and a robber, after having devoted myself loyal to her in all the years I should deserve the quit. But, her answer shocked me, that I was only till my thirty had to work for her, which meant less than a year was remained to terminate my duty. She said, that the other girls who were a year older than me had been already retired, because the clients didn’t want to have a call girl over thirty, too old to indulge the sight.“
John: „What about the boys?“
Alice: „I don’t know, they were just different matter, the male could be engaged till the boss gets lost.“
Billy: „Only till thirty you could work as such, well upwards thirty begins the fading which must be compensated with the inner beauty to keep the balloon in full size without being shrunk like a dried plum.“
John: „What happened to someone who doesn’t possess beauty even before his thirty?“
Adrian: „The ugly cannot be nobody’s taste of beauty. You know the beauty is only in the eyes of the beholder.“
John: „Well, assuming that the ugly couldn’t encounter someone in whose eyes he would be the beauty, and all life long, what would happen to him?“
Billy: „Then they count themselves happy not having to worry about the compensation with inner quality and fading colors after getting thirty.“
Telly: „John, the ugly can become a priest. In God’s eyes everyone is beautiful.“
Alice: „Well, Maria must have deserved the price for her crime. The age thirty meant not a freedom, but an ending in the casket of which content lacking two kidneys.“
Telly: „Oh my God, what a horror witch she was.“
John: „Maria adopted children of poor condition, showered them with all the luxury and made possible to be trained to harm others life, but she made them the victim of sick people who rape sleeping teenage body and experimenting human-beings like labor mice, and in the end killed them to sell the kidneys, what a hell of a witch.“
Billy: „Terrible.“
Alice: „She told me that the other two girls passed away, but of course didn’t tell me the truth about their death, because I could have brought her money from her clients almost a year, as a call girl. She was an insatiable greedy and eager woman, with a heart of stone, although she lived all by herself not having a family that would be the source of her greed.“
Telly: „How did you find out about the tragic ending?“
Alice: „Maybe she might have sold me to one of her clients in North Africa. Because she liked me, she would have left me alive, but still as a slave. During my visit in her home, Maria had left me alone in the office room of her lovely house in Zurich, to talk to the gardener who was asking something urgent. By accident, I discovered a medical bill, million sum signed by someone, and there was the name of one of the girls whose kidneys were successfully sold and the identity was erased. I was trembling, my back sweated, knowing my future, but I decided to turn the sword, actually it was Maria who made me into someone able to kill and lie, as a rifle in her hands. I tried to concentrate my energy to cumulate the strength inside me, as the kung-fu master taught us, whose technique had been rarely used since the summer in South China. As Maria entered the office room, I put an end to her life with only one kick on her heart which the doctors would have diagnosed as a heart failure. Maria, who had overseen the human development that made inside the silent rage grow, was lying in her own poison caused by the greed which she was not able to restrain. Thank to all what she had taught me, I was able to remove the footsteps in her home office, but I needed an address of her client for my other purpose. Having found it, I left the room in neat silence and flew to Munich, to my love who was still trying to paint the picture of his most expectations, but had never succeeded.“
John: „That sounds like in the movies. Well, the anonymous operation of Maria had prepared her own burial, anyway.“
Telly: „What was the other purpose regarding the some client’s address?“
Alice: „Queen was look
ing for a job, sending her application to every possible vacancy, but the job offer for a fresh graduated psychologist was so rare like porks in the desert Gobi, so there were too many applicants for a single vacancy, despite the queue of the aching souls not able to deal with their own psychology, in the waiting room of a psychological therapist.“
John: „Why do they have psychological therapy?“
Adrian: „Well, the psychology is in fact an organ of the human-being, only virtual. So, the same way we go to the dentist, some of us need a psychological therapist to heal our psychology in other words our soul which become sick of suffering. Some part of the society makes a soul complete sick treating badly like mobbing, harassment and slandering and so on.“
Billy: „Well, there is a need of shaking the pieces of shattered heart or a kind of ointment on troubled soul, to get rid of its pain or to grow on it by dealing properly.“
Telly: „How?“
Billy: „People need to talk and to be accepted as a human-being, be heard and showered with sympathetic words.“
Adrian: „That is right, by the way with the decreasing distrust of the people, they tend to go to any neutral psychological therapist to talk about the problem that bother them, instead to swallow them growing the pain, suffering in silence.“
John: „Like lava of a volcano, the problem gathers inside you and someday the Vesuvius explodes ruining the Pompeii.“
Billy: „There are also many inactive volcanos.“
Adrian: „Yes, like me.“
Alice: „Well, the address belonged to a client of Maria, whose call girl I used to be, a rich businessman who was a well educated Arabian gentleman, also good-looking, but the thousand-and-one-night paradise had its black point like in the Chinese Ylan-Ylan, that was his addiction to beautiful women and he was looking for a good-looking Asian woman to make her his third wife. Maria had offered him a lot of Asian beauty, but none of them could stand more than a night in his castle of the thousand-and-one-night. Queen was the best offer that he would accept highly guaranteed. I called the man without any bad conscience of having broken the rule of Maria, who had already landed in the hell, and told him lies that Maria had ordered me to send him the woman, highly cultivated and well educated, as well good-looking. He accepted my offer gladly and the picture in advance he had liked anyway, but I had to arrange a plot with him, in order to make Queen take the plane to Marrakech. Queen was a psychologist, who became an attractive job offer from North Africa provided by Alice’s support, so the client of Maria could have Queen first as her own psychologist, not as a more than a one-night story-teller. He agreed and offered a considerable condition and big sum, so I told Queen the news, who was so happy being able to work and leave the sadness and the pieces of her broken heart behind. Besides the girl was happy to get the possibility regarding the considerable earning, which her profession would have never earned somewhere else. She thanked to me believing that I was the angel and hugged me many times not knowing the devil from the same country and nationality, but different personality and culture.“
Billy: „What happened to Queen? Have you had any contact to her?“
Alice: „No, in fact I had sent her to exile to get rid of her, not being afraid of feeling myself a drop of ketchup on the white paper, in appearance of Queen. As arranged, she took the opportunity and flew to the thousand-and-one-night castle, where the attractive job offer and her hope disappeared like a Fata Morgana.“
John: „How did you know, that had been a Fata Morgana, you haven’t heard about her anything.“
Alice: „Well, since her leaving, about five years ago, I hadn’t had any contact with the Arabian businessman and never asked about Queen, I just wanted to forget her, not to have the pain of jealousy again. But shortly after the burial of my husband, I wanted to confess her the truth and ask for forgiveness, that is why I came to Marrakech to find her, but she had gone away after having stayed in the castle under the cruel slavery, three years ago. One of the wives who was the only kind person to Queen told me that she helped her the escape and she was heading for Casablanca to get a ship to Europe.“
Billy: „That must be a long walk through the desert.“
Adrian: „Was she married to the Arabian businessman?“
Alice: „The woman who helped her, told me that she ignored the forced marriage, which made her land in the hell, hated by everyone, under discrimination and inhuman treatment, she became one of the servants in the castle. As the first wife of the businessman told me, if Queen had married to him, that would have brought her a life of shallow abundance, suffering inside dependent on everyone in the castle. She had already been suffering from the pain which caused by me, who made Sky disappear.“
Adrian: „A modern woman, who grew up in the communist Mongolia being part of the elite society and later had to study in the old Europe, cannot stand that kind of surrounding like in the castle of the thousand-and-one-night.“
John: „Yes, you are right, maybe she was able to get any Mongolian ambassador in Marrakech who would have helped her to gain her identity and to go back to Munich or Mongolia, wherever she liked to go.“
Alice: „I don’t know, I also asked the nearest Ambassador who hadn’t had any idea. The first wife told me that her husband had taken her passport away and named her differently, but I don’t remember exactly, although it sounded not that much exotic.“
Telly: „Hopefully she could have survived the desert.“ John: „You had proposed your husband and could you have led a happy life with him?“
Alice: „Well, even my nationality was changed into Swiss. As I have told you, I had told Sky all about what had happened to me, but left the footprint, which I had stepped before I came to the training camp in the Siberia. Sky had believed that I was adopted from Siberia.“
Adrian: „Love made you tell lies and live with them.“
Alice: „But, that hadn’t made me happy, I had always feared of losing him and felt guilty that I couldn’t be by his side what I am naturally. The dark clouds inside made me drown into sadness which was expressed easily in rage more and more, day by day.“
John: „Did you marry in Munich?“
Alice: „No, we have married in a romantic church in Transylvania, where the vampires at home.“
Telly: „Oh my God, that cannot be a romantic wedding.“
Alice: „That was what Sky wanted, as I asked him his suggestion regarding the place of the wedding. He told me that if love was bitten by a vampire, the love would have found its eternity, even limited by the night, the part of a day where the love is highly required, in the darkness.“
Adrian: „That smells of sadness, if he had said that.“
Alice: „In fact, he was sad, suffering from his shattered love with Queen, who he misunderstood that she had left him for a rich Arabian businessman to lead a life in the fairy tales as an Arabian princess. He cursed Queen calling her with all possible worst insulting words, but in the deep in his soul, he had been loving her till his death. The forced love hadn’t made me happy at all, he began to drink and to order call girls, which made me suffer the worst blows, and he became drug addict to bear up with the feeling being neglected by someone, who he loved and who left him for another ‚better‘ one, which was not the reality. I have been the evil.“
Adrian: „The suffering had been caused by Sky himself, in fact.“
Alice: „I had done much worse sin to Queen.“
Adrian: „Nothing can be worse than the lies you had been spreading and the consequences Queen had to face and suffer.“
Alice: „As I have told you, in our group there were men, I mean the boys who were trained with the girls. Well, of course I new their private contact addresses. Since Maria was dead, there was nobody to set me any rule, so I called the boys, who hadn’t been informed about the Maria’s death and I told them lies that it was Maria’s order, so I gathered them in Munich and while Queen was asleep in the night, me and the boys broke her apartment and we made he
r unconscious without giving a chance to wake up. I touched her unconscious body for fun, and took revenge both on what Maria had done to me as I was a teenage girl and on Sky’s feeling for Queen, I let her rape by the men, the devils made by Maria.“
Telly: „You slept with Sky and let Queen rape in the night by your cruel boys?“
Billy: „How cruel you are!“
Adrian: „You told lies to the weak immature boyfriend and let the girlfriend pass through real hell! You are a real devil made both by your jealousy of Queen and love for Sky.“
Billy: „Sky was such a fool, not a man at all. Man should protect the woman who he loves.“
Telly: „Didn’t Queen find out anything? How may times the poor girl must have been abused by your cruel unashamed soldiers, who followed your order to harm the girl for your envy?“
Alice: „Till her leaving for Marrakech she had been abused. All I want was to have Sky, the rich fool painter addicted to call girls who were able to share his dirty heart with him. Like a Tarzan, who is fond of monkeys.“
Adrian: „You compare yourself with a monkey? There you are right!“
Billy: „Sky was just a cheap soul.“
Alice: „My jealousy of Queen drove me crazy, I was ready to kill her, but more than that, I wanted to harm her lighting the worst hell burning her baby skin and soft soul. I just wanted her to be in pain, suffering and ruined in her life. I wanted the whole attention of Sky only to me.“
John: „Yes, He should have been careful with Queen in time, listening to his soul instead of any jealous lover of him. He should have held the umbrella for Queen during the rain, instead of letting her get wet and tremble in the cold rain, afterwards blaming the sunshine for making the umbrella useless.“
Adrian: „The sunshine in the desert has not the same effect as in the oasis.“
Alice: „I understood Sky very well, I loved him so much, so I tried to return him into life, but he had already ruined his health with alcohol and drug. After his burial in Munich, I couldn’t stand the life anymore, filled with sins accumulated during all the years harming people. In fact, I had been living in the life of others, so now I don’t see any sense in life.“
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