“They always did say to leave the best for last.” Bergen winks and spreads out on his chair.
“We need to catch you up to the game. Joanna and I have been wrestling for power for quite some time now. 2015 is when I started getting up in her face. There was signs of me before then. We don’t really know when I showed up.
I just have always been there. 14, I would say, during Anna’s “tom boy” phase. That was me.
She would hold my hand while her Owners had sex with her. I was who she held onto. That’s what I do. I am her Guardian. She just doesn’t know it yet. I am her body guard. In a way, I’m her Daddy.
I am 6’2” and am all over Anna’s books. I am the Story teller. The Bard. It’s what I do. I speak with an accent and I come out when Anna drinks. I smoke clove cigarettes… or, I used to until the System banned me from those. And Joanna’s daughter, Elizabeth, caught me smoking one day and she made me promise never to do it again. So…
I stopped. Now, I just drink Guinness, but am limited to how much alcohol the System let’s me have. I am the fun inside Anna. Her playful side. The swords and katanas Anna collects are mine. I have a serious thing for feminine and bisexual men.
We’re all still trying to figure out if that makes me gay or heterosexual. I am poly.
Kallan had one lover who had sex with her and I both at the same time. A man. It was… quite the experience. Joanna also. I am Anna’s sexuality. The side she won’t embrace.
She took all of me. Her sex and her masculinity, and she suppressed me all the way down… It’s me she avoids most days. One day, she’ll come around.