The arrest of Darren Bates was something of an anticlimax, although it made headline news and almost certainly meant the end of his career. The only offense he was charged with was indecent exposure, since the text messages he’d sent were too vague to be classed as threats. Much to Tara’s disappointment, it was clear that Bates had nothing to do with the sudden death of Shakti-Lilith. That really had been nothing more than an unfortunate accident. CCTV footage showed Bates arriving at the festival half an hour after the news of her death broke. By his own testimony, he had gotten a “raging hard-on” when he heard the dominatrix had suffocated, and had decided he really needed to show it to someone. Tara wasn’t quite sure what a raging hard-on looked like, but she was pretty sure it wasn’t t
