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- Palindrome.
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- Beverly put her head through the anteroom door. She'd make an awful spy.
- She had to stop entering rooms like she was trying to tread her way through a
- lawyer's chambers without doing something that might get her billed.
- The room was heated with a stove. Orange light shone from its grille in
- tiger stripes. Deanna said she loved the idea of an in-room fire and would get
- the Enterprise's engineering department to install one in her quarters. She and
- Deanna had borrowed nightclothes from Dr Penfield's landlady and had no pleasant
- way of backing out of an invitation to stay the night. Deanna was considering
- putting a knot in the borrowed silk to keep it from trailing but didn't want to
- risk making the thin material run. Beverly had an oil lamp that burned spiced
- oil.
- 'You don't have a hairy lip so you must be Deanna.' They had often giggled
- over the mustaches the men of this period wore. The tall woman pulled her gown
- up one calf and slid into the cool bed.
- 'I can understand wanting to grow a mustache for a while if you've spent
- every morning shaving it off for years,' Deanna said.
- Beverly frowned and lurched into a diatribe.
- 'Shaving takes a few seconds. Besides, most men probably wouldn't wash
- unless they were reminded to every day. Mustaches are almost worse than beards
- They're grown by men too cowardly to grow beards.'
- 'I don't think there's anything wrong with mustaches,' the bed was very
- high, and Deanna needed to climb into it, 'it's just that I don't trust men in
- beards.' Beverly asked her about their bearded executive officer, with whom the
- Betazoid had once been close, remarking that he'd been clean-shaven then. 'No,
- but he had a hairy heart. He said he'd love me forever.'
- The older woman had grown used to living alone and was vaguely irritated
- at having to share a bed. She was used to sleeping in her bed's centre and
- having the covers to herself, nor could she go through her nighttime rituals
- Living in the crampt shuttle was hard enough, but staying here made things
- much more complicated. The Betazoid was aware of her companion's snarkiness
- but misinterpreted it.
- 'There are good reasons for living with a man: firstly, you nearly double
- your wardrobe, including shirts and jackets if you can get used to buttoning-up
- with your left hand.' Deanna nearly mentioned that she could usually wear her
- lover's shoes, but let that pass. 'Men are also good for reaching the top shelf
- and opening jars, every woman should have one.'
- Beverly was much taller than her bed-mate but merely assented.
- 'Of course, not a man from this era,' said Beverly. 'You see, a major cause
- of impotence is arterial damage to the penis. The penis's artery, it's a big
- artery, is between the balls and the penis. Damage to it restricts erectile
- blood flow. And there's no better way to damage that artery than to sit on it.
- Men don't sit on it when sitting on a normal chair but that's precisely where
- they sit when on a bicycle seat or saddle. I think that's why cowboys kissed
- their horses and rode off into the sunset, leaving the rescued widow behind:
- their guns were jammed.' She began wondering how the Klingons managed the same
- problem but noticed Deanna was gritting her teeth.
- 'I wonder if he has a flush toilet?'
- Beverly tried becoming very small inside to keep the Betazoid from looking
- within her. The red-headed woman gave a theatrical pause before shaking her head
- to signal no.
- 'He pointed out the commode to me. It's a chair with a hole cut into the
- bottom with a pot and lid.' She pointed to the hall door. 'We could sneak out
- to the shuttle.' Deanna stared at the fire in the lamp and fumed. She wouldn't
- be discussing this aspect to the mission with anyone. She asked it the pot was
- full. 'I don't know. The bottom part of the chair is like a cabinet, I couldn't
- see. Besides, there are other pots on a rack. Don't think about it, pinch your
- nose and recite the Star Fleet service oath.'
- Deanna uncrossed her legs and left with the lamp.
- Beverly lay waiting for the covers to warm. She, too, was not overjoyed
- with the period's hygiene, and understood why most holo-deck fantasists chose
- periods beginning in the teens or twenties when flush toilets and telephones
- were common. Jean-Luc had grown up on a farm so certain smells didn't surprise
- him. Beverly, however, had walked down the streets shaking her head, stunned
- by the overwhelming amount of horse down perfuming the air. She pretended to
- sleep when Deanna returned and waited with her eyes closed. In twenty minutes,
- her bed-mate's breathing grew slower and deeper and finally Deanna began
- snoring lightly. Every small movement irritated Beverly, but this was too much.
- She rolled over and gently pushed Deanna onto her side so her tongue would
- stop rattling against her uvulua.
- When Beverly's bed-mate slept deeply, she slid from the covers and tip-
- toed through the hall in her nightdress. It had been years since she'd been
- in a wooden-framed house and she started at every noise the house made as the
- cold outside and fires inside played tug-of-war with the walls. The stairs
- made unholy creaks as she climbed to William's room. His door was unlocked
- Beverly put her ear to the gap.
- His breathing was deep and soft, nearly a sigh.
- She stood in the frigid black and took one cuff in her fingers to pull
- an arm inside her nightdress. She shivered at touching her own gooseflesh.
- Her pubic hairs were slightly wet. She began strumming herself, once, twice
- and again and stopping when the friction between her and her nightdress became
- too loud for her to hear him breathe.
- She pictured his chest expanding and shrinking, breathing cold air,
- warming it, and then exhaling. Now that it had been heated in his lungs, next
- to his heart, the air would float upwards from his pink lips.
- She'd heard his batman bringing bathwater to his room, it was picturing
- him naked that kept her from sleep.
- Beverly rubbed her spine against the door frame to scratch an itch, then
- stayed against it, widening her footing. She squared her fist inside her gown
- to rub her knuckles against her loins. There was a pinch as she pulled away
- some pubic hairs. She pictured him sleeping--O, this was too delicious--with
- rosy nipples. He'd just bathed so his skin would be velvety and fresh and slip
- against the bedclothes smoothly; therefore, if she slipped her hand under the
- blankets it would first seem cool, then the secret space would grow warm as his
- body heated the bed. Also, the folds under the covers could be dank and hot
- from the water trapped by his body hair. Once she touched him her fingernails
- might scrape his leg while searching for his nightshirt's hem. Then how slowly
- would she have to be in raising it to his hips without waking him? After his
- bath his pubic hair would seem like a hot house, with a ripe fruit, just for
- her, eh? He might have gone to bed just after bathing and without taking the
- trouble to dry himself because he was tired, and so she pictured him with a
- cotton nightshirt clinging from the damp. He would be half-erect, breathing
- even deeper than now, in thick restorative sleep. It would be twenty minutes
- until his sleep cycle lightened and he could wake easily. She could kneel next
- to the bed with her arm, stretched under the covers. A she caressed herself
- there would be just enough dampness trapped on him for her to caress him in
- time. It would be too delicious just using her fingertips to pet him and she
- would build too rapidly so that she'd come just as a thick moisture pulsed
- from him. Beverly imagined herself so overwhelmed she'd push her face into
- the covers and inhale deeply until she regained control. That's how it would
- be. And his syrup would never touch her, and if it did, it would just be for
- a moment before the bedclothes scrubbed her hand as she pulled her arm free.
- She wouldn't be touched.
- Beverly slid down the door jamb and put her other hand inside her
- nightdress; she waited until the rustle subsided then pushed herself over the
- edge once she heard his slumber again. Beverly snorted softly as she came. She
- waited outside William's doorway until her heart subsided then went below to her
- room, this time putting her feet on the sides of the steps where the planks were
- less likely to groan.
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- Chapter Six:
- At opposite ends of the quad, the guard private and Deanna gaped. The
- base was alive again. Hundreds of naked men were bathing in make-shift showers.
- They'd hanged buckets from beams and filled them with the fire pump.
- Deanna was slowly going bats. This display was all she needed on top of
- squatting into chamber pots while erectionless armies were poisoned by Romulan
- diseases. She'd never been in a city with horses. Though passing a cruelly-
- treated brute who knew only maltreatment made her cry; walking and riding in the
- city between thousands of horses with genitals swinging between their hind legs
- made her thoughts drift. This, and the costumed play-acting and danger of their
- mission seemed to heighten every sense. Holo-deck illusions could be as perfect
- as this, but lacked the detail. Unpleasantness was rarely programmed into holo-
- deck fantasies, horse down, flies, poverty and hacking coughs, never figured in
- holo-deck programmes of ancient cities. Knowing you could always shut the
- programme off also flattened the experience; as she'd kept telling Lt. Barclay
- in working-through his immature retreat, knowing something is real makes
- anything else a bleached substitute.
- Now, through Dr. Penfield's office window, two hundred and more naked men
- of every age bathed in large troughs in the sunlight's meagre warmth. Of course,
- of her oft-repeated criteria, that men be taller than her so they'd be able to
- get
- stuff from the top shelf, she remembered to include that they know what a toilet
- brush was, but this was, at present, beside the point. Even the older soldiers
- with pale lines scratched over their arms and legs were pretty.
- Also, and possibly most importantly, was the texture of everything around
- her. While her clothes made the Montreal October tolerable they took forever
- getting into every morning. Yet knowing the bloomers and boots and buttons and
- bustles were all part of a disguise and must therefore be perfect made dressing
- in the foreign clothes exciting. Thank God she hadn't gone into research, what
- compared with field-work like this? How could teaching, a delight of its own,
- compare?
- She knew physical threats heightened concentration, as the captain had more
- than once quoted to first-tour ensigns the scene from Three Musketeers where
- D'Artanian first fights with the Cardinal's Guard. Dumas described both as
- having the highest possible concern for the safety and wholeness of their skins,
- but to feel it was delicious. She could almost swim in the sensation. Every part
- of her felt heightened, from her fingers to her thoughts. She'd finally
- understood how men could chase _les_sensations_fortes_ like a will'o'-the-wisp
- and wanted to re-read T.E. Lawrence's memoirs; unfortunately he hadn't yet
- written them. Right now he'd still be a young man, not yet grown twisted but
- with his foundation weakened permanently. One of the saddest passages she'd ever
- read was by a friend of his: 'He is not himself...he is never alive in what he
- does.' Lawrence described himself as a pipe through which life flowed. 'It was
- hard for me to straddle feeling and action,' he said. Throughout his life, and
- despite his tremendous powers of self-analysis, everything felt unreal for him
- except those few times when all Creation seemed at risk, poor man. For all his
- physical courage he lacked the confidence to let life flow, to revel in the
- pleasures of a moment. Danger was seductive and she wondered if she could wade
- without getting too far from shore. Standing as still as possible she could feel
- the silk and cotton under her dress covering her in gentle layers from toe to
- neck.
- The earth grew orange as the sun lowered. The water the soldiers splashed
- into the air flashed like brass. For moments, as the water rippled down faces,
- forearms, chests and stomachs, the figures seemed to turn into into men of metal.
- Her eyes kept flicking to the dark patches between their legs where the water
- collected before showering away like sparks.
- Deanna knew Dr Penfield was very attracted to Dr Crusher and that he was
- disappointed when she vanished, she'd escaped by cab back to the shuttle,
- promising to send a message for Deanna, giving her in turn an excuse to leave.
- Deanna knew Beverly wouldn't take advantage of the opportunity; Beverly was
- actually cripplingly shy, actually. Beverly took pleasure in the quiet,
- mechanical competence she had in her calling, but the closest she came to
- opening up was in her amateur dramatics. Still, those were performances,
- artifices. Privately, the counsellor hoped Beverly was playing doctor with a
- handsome middle-aged bachelor now and again, there certainly wasn't a dearth of
- those onboard the Enterprise.
- Outside the troopers got berated by Dr Penfield for risking a relapse
- or worse and slowly the dancing pale men and boys stopped doing lovely things
- with well-water and daylight as October imposed itself and made them cold.
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- Chapter Seven:
- Deanna entered and closed his door. Both wore only nightclothes. Deanna
- gave him an armful of cedar bush branches. She knelt on his turned-down bed
- and gave him the evergreen bough.
- 'Stoke the fire.' She'd grown to love the scent of woodsmoke on this
- mission, the cedar would scent the room nicely.
- William leapt to the hearth and threw in some coal, then too much kindling
- and enough logs to burn until doomsday. Anything to make a lady happy. The room
- was divided by the clothes horse before the fire, which cast a shadow along the
- floor. He grew hard inside his blue nightshirt and tried standing slightly bent
- so his penis wouldn't jutt-out ridiculously but couldn't and pulled the cloth
- over his back and head. For an instant, as the cloth was wrapped about his face,
- William could have been any man: a collection of soft and hard parts, all for
- holding and kissing.
- He had a magnificent, broad scar on the inside of his biceps, underarm
- and down his ribs. 'A Prussian lancer.' The counsellor never seen a healed scar
- that large before. She pursed her lips nodded knowingly when he explained,
- pretending to understand what a lancer was. 'It convinced me beyond question
- or controversy to be a military doctor alone, not a soldier and doctor. Bugger
- heroics.'
- Deanna knelt over him with her knees apart so she couldn't pleasure
- herself. She pressed her arms like bars across his voice box and hips. Her
- fists were balled then she locked herself into position so he couldn't squirm
- free when he leapt at the first shock. Deanna relaxed her arms and pulled her
- hair from her face so she could see what she was doing then stiffened again. He
- had no idea what approached, but stared at her incredulously. He smelled nicely,
- of linen and lavendar.
- Deanna took his hairy nipple in her mouth.
- He arched as though shot in the back and tried pushing her away but she
- dug her forearm into his throat. The woman further calmed him by lessening
- her touch to a thin point on his chest. She felt him tense and relax through
- the tip of her tongue. His nipples were chrysanthemum burgundy. For fun she
- bit him, to make certain he was paying attention. Deanna felt her nightgown
- straining at her knee, almost to ripping. She bent forward and worked his
- chest's other side until she purpled his skin, sucking persistently enough to
- pull blood upwards.
- She took her forearm from his neck and traced his larynx with her
- fingernails. His chest expanded as broadly as though he were running. Deanna
- put her ear to his ribs and listened to the rushing inside his chest. She
- traced down his abdomen with her face so close she couldn't focus on his hair
- Then she closed her eyes and plunged her tongue into his belly button.
- William rolled and stood from the bed, pulling one of the blankets with
- him. He put both fists to his lips and shivered. He was nearly hyperventilating
- and stood with his feet widely apart to keep his balance.
- Deanna took his waist and ran her fingers over his abdomen as lightly
- as she could, just tickling his light hairs. When she brushed the stringy
- hairs on his scrotum he cringed and twisted. Deanna bit his hip bone and
- suckled gently on its crown. The woman ran her hand up from the warm space
- between his legs, up his sack and his penis, making him cringe so much that
- she had to wrap one arm around him to keep him from escaping. She spider-
- walked her fingers up his cock. He was lovely there, his skin was hard with
- a soft plum on top. The moving yellow light made its blue veins rosy. Despite
- her light touch he nearly had an orgasm. For a moment, when her fingers were
- hanging above his shaft she thought he might spend into the air as though
- she'd done a magic trick. William leapt from her into darkness for a moment
- In the light again, he raised his hand to indicate a minute, as though he
- were having a conversation with someone in the shadows and would rejoin her
- He was ashamed of himself for being so weak that he nearly polluted the rug
- like a schoolboy.
- In front of a woman.
- Deanna wasn't afraid of him, his legs were too beautiful for him to be
- cruel. She watched him take a step further away from her as he waited to get
- control of himself again. She'd never grow to like the men of this time, they
- were unfinished diamonds that, however pretty, were still dark inside. Holo-
- deck westerns wouldn't be the same, now, and that made her whistful.
- William backed toward her and turned. Deanna sat with her knees up, under
- her nightgown. He touched his fingertips to hers, leading her around the bed.
- Ungracefully, Deanna hopped forward on her backside with her feet out. He knelt
- at the bed's edge and held her ankles as she propelled herself with her arms
- until she sat with her back square on the mattress edge with her feet on either
- side of the angle; her nightgown was twisted and ballooning gently in the
- shifting air. William let go her ankles and lifted her gown from between them.
- She looked at him with a happy half grin. His eyes flicked toward her once and
- vanished from her sight as he leaned into her.
- She hadn't a clue how she'd got the impression, but thought like many that
- people from the deep, dark past didn't like oral pleasure. She knew the Greeks
- had their Baccanalia and the Romans their orgies, but somehow cunnilingus was
- supposed to have fallen from the arts and flowered into being again shortly
- before her own generation. Then she remembered her mother causing a great stink
- at a cultural conference where she announced in a round-table discussion among
- academics, ambassadors, potentates and prime ministers that, 'Each generation
- believes it alone discovered oral sex.'
- Deanna sensed William open his mouth a centimeter from her and inhaled
- broadly, dragging cool air over her. She watched his chest expand under his
- shoulders; then he exhaled a humid caress. His mustache began brushing her
- clitoris an instant before she took his tongue inside her.
- Her pleasure was fractured. Deanna kept wondering why he'd stared at her
- feet, perhaps he thought they were too large? In fact, he'd been fascinated
- by seeing nail varnish on toes, a fashion that wouldn't come about until the
- l920s.
- As he suckled softly, she stroked his ears and filled the the room with
- female sounds. Bending to nuzzle his sweet-smelling hair arced a sharpness over
- her back as she over-stretched. He suckled earnestly and forcefully, driving her
- toward her upward, not permitting her to enjoy her ascent. She couldn't push him
- away during her orgasm and detected malicious joy, nearly schadenfreud. Deanna's
- eyes teared as she lurched from one crest into another forceful ascent
- immediately, he was paying her in turn for not letting him up before.
- Her breasts ached. She tried slipping her gown from her shoulders
- gracefully but accidentally dragged the silk over one nipple and quickened her
- mad climb; she pinched her breasts' tips, mingling sharpness and delight.
- Lastly, she stretched backwards to lean on one elbow, letting orgasm overtake
- her.
- She sagged and her vision darkened slightly. Deanna knew what would happen
- now and waited in a hot languor for him. She began inching backwards, toward
- the headboard but gave up for lack of energy and looked at him blearily as he
- climbed over the stain they'd left on the bed's corner. He walked on his knees
- toward her and dropped to his hands and knees. William smelled nicely; Deanna
- didn't look at him, her eyelids were heavy. The fire was a deceptive pleasure:
- it had made the room too hot and stolen oxygen from the air, making her dozy.
- She wanted sleep but knew one more act needed playing. She made him wait a
- moment as she arranged herself. Unevenly, he put himself atop her on all fours
- with his hairy member dangling under him like an ornament. She marvelled at the
- different textures he had: the crinkled skin on his bag, the smooth, oily shaft
- and soft bloom of a head. A sugar cane stalk with a liquor inside for her
- pleasure. Deanna caressed top of his glans to bend him to the right angle. She
- held William still until she could focus. Deanna giggled when he nudged inside
- her slowly. He was overwhelmed and opened his mouth into a wide O. A pearl of
- saliva onto her cheek. Deanna pushed and pulled on his thighs, urging him to
- hurry-up and wait. Something she adored but was always gone in an instant was
- the difference in temperatures she felt as she enveloped a man. Men seemed
- always cooler to her, but only for a sliding second, before they absorbed her
- heat. Deanna smiled under closed eyes as she took him and felt his muscles
- tighten and slacken. His ocean rocking made her doze lightly, she didn't feel
- him spurt but woke as William shivered and grunted. His public hairs tickled
- her clitoris such that she was aroused again. Deanna took her wrists in her
- opposing hands and pressed against his kidneys, keeping him within.
- 'Wait,' she said, and rocked her hips under him until she came. He
- withdrew just as she crested and from her dozing confusion surfaced a fleeting
- impression of maleness, as though she expelled him with her orgasm. They
- separated and rolled sideways, sleeping immediately in the cotton and wool nest.
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