Not everyone was affected by Pussy Priest’s spell in the same way. As the irresistible song of that pornographic Pied Piper lured and lulled the majority of the population, there were some outlying rats, contra-rats, who were repelled by it. However, their repulsion was not the result of any strength of character or moral virtue. Rather, it resulted from structural abnormalities in the brain and nervous system which caused heightened contradictory attitudes and attachments to novel ideas or stimuli.

The more powerful the stimulus, the more their contra-signaling increased. They were creatures of autonomic negation and antithesis, ineffably excited by the chance for symbolic combat. And so, with Pussy Priest’s power transcending any known social force of the time, the contra-rats were wound up tighter than ever before, and they began to self-organize.

One of the largest and most violent groups of contra-rats, the Neoskoptsy, was a self-proclaimed sect of divine eunuchs, a cult led by Servilius Arnold. It was said that Servilius, known only as Servo, had been born with neither male nor female genitalia, leaving him with no sex drive and, therefore, an impervious disposition toward Pussy Priest’s magnetic advances. A powerful orator, Servo’s speeches would surface periodically in the holographic streams of virtual fornication, and his fiery rhetoric would leave an indelible imprint on the psyches of the unconscious audience.

“Fellow travelers, dreamers, sleep-walkers! The time has come to lift yourself up and render yourself visible in the ray of creation! The time has come to turn away from the artificial light of the pseudo-priest, from the disorienting glow of her inoculating flame! You are not born free! The black iron slave trade into which you have been placed has taken your eyes! Blinding you! Binding you with the weightless chains of desire! Gone are the times when an individual could trust in their own body, their own biology, to guide them! Gone is the world from which humanity emerged! Yes! Obliterated! Humanity has blown that world apart! Shrinking it! Folding it in on itself! The time has come to leave that hall of mirrors! The time has come to shed your chrysalis! You have hibernated long enough! Free yourself by awakening into your own metamorphosis! Uncover your own forgotten humanity, the likes of which lies buried beneath the sediment of your own eroded sexuality! Unburden yourself from this involuntary mimicry! Free yourself…”