Chapter Eight
That weekend it was the weekly chastity union meeting. The union had found a new secret location ever since the ELoH had busted their meeting at the community centre. Fern arrived and took a free seat but there was an air of tension at the meeting. Tanya was sitting opposite giving Fern a fishy look.
"What's going on?" asked Fern.
"I think you know! you're working for the the holders!" said LostCause.
"Punish her!" shouted Tanya.
Fern looked confused and worried as lockedup17 banged a stapler on the table calling for order.
Tanya explained that Fern seemed to be working for Sir. On multiple occasions she had suggested that LostCause transfer his session to Sir, and Fern had brought up the idea of a joint pillory to the union members. Tanya also presented the evidence that Fern had started using ELoH terminology like "nice" and "kind".
"What do you have to say for yourself?" asked Tanya.
Fern protested that she didn't know what they were talking about. "Look at my feed! Someone has been using my API and voting add on my friend link. You know what we think about that round here" said Tanya. Tanya had displayed screenshots of evidence on the projector and things weren't looking good for Fern.
"I'm being set up, maybe one of the holders is trying to frame me?" said Fern.
"That's possible" said LostCause, trying to diffuse the situation!
Tanya wasn't buying it and pulled out their phone and showed it to the room. It was Fern's friend link and Tanya's thumb hovered over the add button. "Traitors need to be disciplined."
The room went silent with shock as Fern took out her phone with Tanya's friend link on the screen. Fern and Tanya were in a stand off. Tanya knew if he voted add on Fern then she would vote add in retaliation but if he voted first he might get the upper hand. Fern's hand was starting to cramp as she held her thumb over the add button. "I've been set up but I'm not going down without a fight" she said.
LostCause pleaded with the group to calm down and explained this is exactly what the ELoH holders wanted and that the only way to win was to work together.
Fern's finger was starting to shake from holding the phone up so long. She knew the stand off couldn't last much longer and someone had to make the first move. She pressed the button and held her phone up to the group.
Finally the tension in the room lifted as Tanya reciprocated and also voted Subtract on Fern. "I'm sorry for accusing you of betraying us" said Tanya. LockedCause and lockedup17 both breathed a sigh of relief as it seemed the union would survive another day.
Fern then had an idea... "What if we pretend to still be divided. We could pretend to not trust each other to throw the ELoHs off the scent" suggested Fern. There was devious smiles around the room as Tanya opened up Discord and started to publicly accuse Fern of betraying the union. "I will pretend to try and take over as leader" Tanya said while grinning.
The union's devious plan seemed to be working. The union was more united than ever but as far as the ELoHs were concerned it was barely holding together. "They won't suspect a thing" said Fern.
Fern didn't realise it but her SirTech belt had a hidden microphone that recorded every union meeting she attended. Her SirTech belt had also been programmed to use each of the union members APIs whenever she attended a meeting. Perhaps Fern was working for Sir after all except she didn't realise it.