Torbernite - Margabal Mine, Aveyron, Midi-Pyrénées, France

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Torbernite - Margabal Mine, Aveyron, Midi-Pyrénées, France
Spirits
The bar smelt like a harbour. Almost-fresh fish sizzled in the kitchen. The pungent odour of piss wafted from the toilets whenever someone opened the unoiled door.
Two valkarans sat with arms crossed, unseen in a dark corner of the room. The older of the pair nodded at the crowded bar, at the patrons waving their cash-cards at the weary bartends. “Curious, the way humans socialise.” “You mean their inability to function without proper authority or their dependence on a steady stream of peer approval?” huffed the younger valkaran. “Neither.” The older valkaran pointed, “They drink that stuff to lubricate conversation. Wind down social barriers to get to the root of what they want to say. I don’t think it is the recognition they seek, more the opportunity to express what they wouldn’t have the confidence to do sober. To illustrate the kind of person they really are.”
Something was brewing, sideways looks from a group of older men at a young couple further down the bar. “Sounds a lot like seeking peer approval to me,” said the younger valkaran with disinterest. “Yes, I suppose it does.” The older valkaran watched as one of the men from the group walked over to the young couple and lent on the bar next to them. The man looked back at his friends with a knowing smirk. “See?” nodded the older valkaran, “Theory in practice.”
The older man took a step back from the bar and casually ran a hand up the thigh of the unsuspecting woman. She flinched away and her boyfriend turned around; first in confusion, then anger.
The older man got up in the face of the boyfriend. The group of men had left the bar and were sauntering over to the scene. The young woman clutched her bag and was pleading to either the boyfriend or the older man. Neither listened as they locked eyes, though the boyfriend seemed a lot less sure of himself as the group of men formed a semi-circle around them. “I really hate mobs,” the young valkaran narrowed his eyes. “Yeah and they hate you too. Leave it.”
Most of the bar had now turned their not-so-subtle attention to the confrontation. One of the older men walked over to the young woman and put his arm over her. Her futile attempts to get away from the large man were met with laughter from the group of men.
The boyfriend stood motionless with his hand on the bar, sweating and breathing hard. The older man smiled, the group of men jeered at the struggling woman.
The large man suddenly recoiled from the woman, clutching his face, screaming. A strong wash of something acidy drifted from the scene. One of the men suddenly lurched forward and hit the woman hard. Chaos ensued.
The young valkaran stood. “Please don’t,” said the older valkaran. “I really hate mobs,” the young valkaran took off his coat and put it on the back of the chair. “I’ll be right back.”
Godiva
“When I was eleven they fucked me up. Now I’m just you’re horny little bitch, daddy.” She plucked a bra strap from her shoulder. “I just wanna fuck all the time, just fuck all the time. I can’t help it. They fucked me up. Now I’m you’re cute little slut.”
His face illuminated by a pinkish glow that leaked from the screen. It was raining outside. Bars of neon flashed through the half-closed blinds.
She was almost completely naked now, writhing around her own fingers. Smiling.
He smiled too.
The room behind her adorned with soft teddies and plush dolls. Her nails were pink. Her hair was ashen, tipped with pink.
“I wish you could come over and fuck me,” she toyed with the tip of her finger. His grin grew. She sluiced her fingers through her thick hair. “I want you so bad.” He stifled a laugh. Silly girl.
The stream count ticked up. Four-hundred and twenty two pairs of eyes watched as she writhed around. Speaking in childish whispers. Trapped in the confines of their screens.
Now she had a pure white teddy, with a black nose. Just like a polar bear.
He leaned in close to the screen, hunched over the keyboard and let his fingers dance. Tap, tap, tap. Silly, silly girl.
The next day a girl with pink-tipped ashen hair walked down a crowded street. Buildings towered far above her decorated with screens and holograms that outshone the late-morning sun. People stood shoulder to shoulder, waiting for the bus. Cars sat unmoving in gridlock on the lower roads. Far above the sound of traffic bounced down from the upper highways.
Craning her neck to see straight up, seeing seagulls spiralling.
She leaned against the bus-stop shelter. The screen tried to convince her she needed an octopus-branded energy drink with a series of vivid cartoons over a lime-green backdrop.
The traffic shuffled a little. The pink-tipped ashen haired girl could see her bus a long way down the road, trapped in a mire of humming engines. She sighed and folded her arms.
A seagull, sat on the shelter opposite from hers, regarded her with curiosity. She stuck her tongue out at it, wrinkling her nose.
She stared at her trainers.
The advert beside her changed from lime-green to pink. People were looking up from the slips of glass in their palms.
Murmurs and gasps. Even a few laughs. People stopped in the middle of the street and looked up and around them. Some covered their gaping mouths. Others pointed.
Someone bumped into her. She looked up.
Her heart pumped in her ears, flushing them a hot red. Her spine slicked with a greasy, cold sweat.
On billboards, on holographs, on phones. Reflected in puddles, in windows, in pupils. On the lips, the teeth, the eyes of the whole city; a naked girl with pinked-tipped ashen hair played with a teddy. A pure white teddy, with a black nose. Just like a polar bear.