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In Over Her Head by Elsie Russell - Parnasse.com

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Alessandro nodded distractedly, then asked without bothering<br />

to turn around, "Do you have a passport? If you dunt, I know a guy."<br />

"Oh, really? One of your Henri for the letters buddies?" She<br />

asked sarcastically.<br />

"He's an old friend from school, yes. He is a Saudi working for<br />

T.V. here."<br />

"Actually, I have a passport, a real U.S. one, the best there is,<br />

that I got a while back for an electronic music conference I was invited<br />

to in Dublin. But, uh, thanks anyway. Just give me a few minutes to<br />

pack, okay?"<br />

Where was all her travel stuff stashed? Come to think of it,<br />

farther away would be better even than here, even with these lunatics.<br />

And she had to get to the bottom of this, before anything too terrible<br />

happened.<br />

Alessandro was still glued to the screen hopping from link to<br />

link. Now he was engrossed in a film short, perhaps a trailer for a game.<br />

A slithery Asian stripper with a fantastically bouffant geisha hairdo<br />

dressed in a black vinyl bondage getup was pumping a tattooed<br />

Japanese guy. Heavy breathing, moans and squishy sounds<br />

ac<strong>com</strong>panied.<br />

"That was her, that is how she―" he gasped.<br />

"What are you talking about?"<br />

He made an unmistakable rhythmic motion with his hands,<br />

clearly embarrassed, and furious.<br />

"They are using her for this snuff porno game! He was Yakuza!<br />

They can kill her, they do this, you know. Yes, yes, they do." He pushed<br />

away from the console, stunned.<br />

"Ula Nova moonlights doing Hentai in a mo-cap suit? Is she<br />

that hard up for cash?"<br />

"Ah! Putana, why she does this? This is why she is vanished!"<br />

His hand dragged down over his face with dread realization.<br />

"Oh, <strong>com</strong>e on, don't get bent out of shape over a dumb<br />

cartoon! It doesn't mean anything! Hentai is for, like, stressed out<br />

businessmen, it's sicko, but it's not real."<br />

Penny got back to her packing. Alessandro was watching<br />

another cartoon hooker enjoying herself on a large purple octopus sex<br />

toy and it was all pretty convincing except for the artwork. He clicked<br />

on the menu, scrolling down a list of possible adventures.<br />

The firewall stopped any virtual VD viruses but not the gross<br />

spam these cesspools unleashed. Moving towards the <strong>com</strong>puter, she<br />

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