A bad debtor

It's a (very Kultish) idea from Serge Brussolo, but I don't remember the title of the novel (maybe it's "La Meute"; meaning "The Pack").

A young woman, tenant of a small apartment, didn't pay her rent for almost 6 months. The owner said her that he will not call in the police, because it's not his style. He grasped the young woman, handcuffed her, and bound her on a water canalization inside a linen closet.

He raped her, and put 10 dollars in a money box (to begin to pay back her debts).

Once per day, he fed her with his left-overs from his meals. He made her a litter with old newspapers, that he was changing regularly. He washed her from time to time with a wet sponge, and left her in the dark, tied to her canalization.

>From time to time, the door of the closet was opening, and there was a man, naked, which were raping her... And, some minutes after, the door was closing again, and there was only darkness.

She feared especially a man with his doberman, which looked at the dog raping the young woman, without a move. But the dog was brutal, vicious, with its teeth on the throat of the woman all the time.

Each time, the owner took some money from the man and put it in the money box. From time to time, he counted the sum inside the money box.

One day, maybe two or three months later, after uncounted rapes, the woman felt herself drugged and felt in a narcotic slumber. She awaked herself in a waste ground, naked in the bitter cold, weak and sick from several months of forced immobility.

Her debt was over...

Maybe this idea could be used as a dark secret for a PC?

Maybe it's a common usage in Metropolis living city, and people renting an apartment near a crack in the lie, have better to pay their rent?


Written by Jean-Loup Sabatier <sabatier@SAINT-ETIENNE.ATE.SLB.COM>

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