" "That's because they didn't advertise last year, remember?" answered Mandy." "That's because they didn't advertise last year, remember?" answered Mandy. "It was invitation only." Jason looked startled. "You mean you guys have been to one of these before? Why didn't you tell me?" "You didn't ask," retorted Flora. Mandy just grinned at him. They pressed through the crowds lining up in front of the registration desk, grateful that they had been registered since yesterday. A sign at the doors into the event area pointed the way toward the dealers room, and they moved in that direction as best they could through the press of bodies. Jason was amazed and delighted to be surrounded by what seemed like hundreds of people, all with an apparent interest in bondage, discipline, and various fetishes. Eventually, they arrived at the dealers room, where a leather-uniformed police officer checked their convention name-badges, to verify that they weren't just curiosity seekers off the street. At closer range, it became obvious that while said officer looked tall and imposing in his black leather state-trooper uniform, he bore no badge, his shoulder insignia were actually membership patches for the National Leather Association of America, and his prominent belly was almost certainly non-regulation. After checking their badges, he tipped his hat to the ladies, and stepped out of the way. The inside of the dealers room was positively wedged with bodies- bodies of every conceivable shape, sex, and size, covered (more or less) in every conceivable fetishey material, and some that had certainly never occurred to Jason. The first table on their right, just inside the door, was covered in pamphlets and tended by a serious-looking young man dressed in spandex. Mandy took a pamphlet absent-mindedly, while Flora and Jason ogled the sights. Mandy appeared to be searching the room for something. "Well, I'm not going to just stand here," declared Flora, "Come on!" This last directed at Jason. Jason followed, calling over his shoulder to Mandy, "Meet you back here in an hour?" while Flora tugged his hand. In short order, both Flora and Jason were in seventh heaven. |