Dylan’s welcome by Sir Chuck

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Officer Chuck has set the record of shearing a newbie lifer at 35 seconds: his poor victim was Dylan Jones, now 12/15/25L. Dylan, a 19-year old, six-foot one blonde freckled face college guy had been caught using AI during his end of term exams. Interrogated in the Principal’s office, it was soon noticed that under his cascade of cool blonde 10-inch hair lay hidden, impressive ears which could potentially earn him lifer slave status. Dylan begged and pleaded the Principal not to call the lifer cops. He will change. He will never try to cheat again. He will never bully the less attractive guys at college. He will...he will.... ‘Hi officer, I think we have a case of slave ears here at college you should investigate...’The Principal’s strong voice on the phone could not escape Dylan’s ears, even covered as they were with his luxuriant hair. It does not take long for the slave cops to arrive at their place of call. It never does. Slave cops get a 5% cut on every lifer sale once the poor freak gets out of training camp and sold. Plus, they get a 50% reduction on the price tags put on all the new lifers’ clothing and stuff that’s taken away on arrival at the training camp. Quite some motivation there. Poor Dylan, gym toned and all, stood no chance against 3 strong young lifer cops. Handcuffed, he was dragged out of the Principal’s office, all the way to the cage-like prison van parked just outside. Dylan’s luck was really running out. He was dragged along during a change of class, in full view of his buds, his rivals and the girls he so wished to know ‘better’. Head down, bangs covering his deep red face, his cool vans hardly touched the floor as he was whisked away and pressed into the four-foot square metal cage that made up the back of the van.

The all too common agony of arrested guys being paraded around town in a small metal cage on their way to the courthouse prison was something Steve was quite familiar with. He had seen Jeff, Pete and Maurice going that way. Pete and Maurice ended up as lifers in state employ. Scrubbing walkways and painting street furniture at best. Digging, repairing and opening blocked sewers at worse. Dylan’s valiant defense in front of the judge proved useless. It took under 10 minutes to have him sentenced as a lifer slave.

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