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- Day Four.
-
- "I think I've figured out why we've been put together like this."
-
- "Oh?" I said, curious.
-
- "Yeah. You're here to teach me to like men."
-
- "Intriguing scenario," I said. "And what, my dear, brings you to
- this conclusion?"
-
- "You. Everything about you is reassuring. You've taken to calling
- me 'dear' and 'sweetheart' and 'gorgeous,' and it doesn't bother me.
- You've touched me gently without making a pass at me. You have been at
- times lewd and crude and suggestive and never once have I felt
- frightened."
-
- "Never?"
-
- "Well... once I did. But it wasn't your fault! That was the
- frightening part. I found myself liking you."
-
- "What's wrong with that? Look, we're in a very strange place,
- alone for almost a week now. You're in pain, and you're confused. I
- mean, we're going somewhere so that you can give up your very humanity,
- and that's not something that's done casually. I think the Hall made a
- mistake."
-
- "I don't think so."
-
- "You don't, huh?" I asked her quietly. "The Hall knew you were
- going to be tired and hurting and vulnerable long before you got to the
- Walls of the Hall, and it put me, the most lecherous person I know, as
- your guide."
-
- "You're not such a bad choice."
-
- "And you're reverting, Greta. Look at the signs in yourself. The
- pain and the fear is driving you down, until only your more childlike
- reaction show themselves. Think."
-
- "So what if they are?" She demanded. "I like what I am, no matter
- what. Yes, it hurts. And tomorrow we should reach the Walls, and then
- what? You said yourself that all depends on the Hall. And yes, I'm
- afraid. But that's no reason to stop. I need this. More than anything
- else, I want to live."
-
- "Woah, slow down, sweetheart. I was just saying I disagree with
- the Hall's choice, not yours.
-
- She stopped, and smiled tiredly. "See? I don't get angry when you
- call me that. I even like it. Oh, well, someone revoke my rabid
- lezzie-on-a-leash card."
-
- I laughed. "Where did you get that expression?"
-
- She shrugged. "From a lover. She used to call me that when I did
- something stupid."
-
- We were quiet for a while, and then she said, "Ken?"
-
- "Hmmm?"
-
- "When you're with men, what do you do?"
-
- "Do you know the handkerchief codes?"
-
- "I remember most of them."
-
- "Right Red Checkered."
-
- She stopped for all of ten seconds, looking very thoughtful. When
- she remembered what I was talking about, her eyes widened with something
- approaching horror, or respect. "Fisting? You were into fisting?"
-
- "More like, it was into me."
-
- She shook her head. "That's a little far out, even for me."
-
- "To each his or her own, Greta."
-
-
- Day Five.
-
- "This is easier than I thought it would be," I said.
-
- "What makes you say that?"
-
- "Look." Down the hill was the Wall, and very clearly visible was a
- doorway.
-
- She took a deep breath and said, "Now that's a test."
-
- "What do you mean?"
-
- "Well, you said we might have to search for the door. I figured
- that if I had to look for it, I'd be readier to go through it when I
- found it. Now it's just... offered up to me, and I don't know if I want
- to accept it."
-
- "What choice have you got?"
-
- "I could walk all the way home."
-
- "Long walk."
-
- "Short pier," she offered. I laughed. "Come on," she said.
- "Let's get this over with." We walked out of the treeline into the
- enormous, sunlit meadow. With the wall going forever into the sky, a
- cylinder fifty kilometers across. And there, recessed into the side,
- was a very ordinary-looking, man-sized, oaken door. I reached for it
- and pulled at the knob. Nothing happened.
-
- "I guess, maybe you have to go first."
-
- "Or, maybe I go alone," she said. But she reached for the door
- anyway, and pulled at it. It opened easily. I let her go in, and
- followed. Nothing impeded my progress. We walked into the Hall.
-
- The passageway was less than five meters long, and when we broke
- out we came to... more trees. My feet hurt from the walking, and I knew
- there was a long day ahead of us. Even if the Hall let us reach the
- center.
-
- We walked on. I whistled, poorly; Greta did better. I felt
- someone was watching us; Hell, I knew someone was.
-
- "Who built the Hall?" Greta asked, interrupting my thoughts.
-
- "We did. Myself and some friends. We wanted to make it hard to
- come to Pendor, and we wanted to both celebrate and remove the
- differences between those who came and those who were here."
-
- "Oh," was all she said. There was something in her demeanor that
- said she didn't want to carry on her conversation by herself.
-
- "You okay?" I asked.
-
- "Yeah... Just thinking."
-
- "About?"
-
- "Oh, all the stuff I've left behind. All the friends, and people
- at work. People at the hospital. Things like that."
-
- The sun hadn't yet set several hours later when we reached a small
- pond. She sat down on a rock and trailed her hand through the water.
- "Mmmm. I could go for a swim right now."
-
- "Why don't you?" I asked.
-
- "We have to get going," she said.
-
- "Do we? I mean, I've got enough food for us both for another day.
- We could camp here and make for the center tomorrow. Come on."
-
- She thought about it, and then said "Okay."
-
- "Good," I said. I was hot, too. I stripped off my boots in record
- time, tore my shirt off and reached for my belt...
-
- I stopped, thought about it, and decided that, argument or not, I
- was not going to push my luck in any way. I emptied the contents of my
- pockets into the map pocket at the back of my vest and, pants on, leapt
- into the water.
-
- The shock was sudden and invigorating. I broke the surface
- gasping, taking huge breaths. She looked down at me, stark naked
- herself, smiled, and jumped over me into the water. I swam to the edge
- of the pond, where some rocks that were just under the surface of the
- water made a good place to lean up against, since the water seemed
- deeper than I had estimated for so small a surface area. She swam
- around, then came up next to me.
-
- "I've been assuming for the past week that you lost your hair from
- some therapeutic side-effect. But I see you're a natural blonde."
-
- "Oh, no... I just shaved it off. Wanted to look different before I
- died."
-
- "You're not going to die, Greta."
-
- "Well, maybe not. But I'm going to be different. I figured it was
- just a step." With that, she pushed against the stones and leapt onto
- the bank. She was still sitting in water, only it was just a few
- centimeters deep. "You left your pants on. They're going to be wet."
-
- "They'll dry as I walk. And they'll keep me cool."
-
- "You didn't leave them for that reason."
-
- "No, you're right. I left them on because I didn't want to scare
- you. I'm not a believer in taking stupid risks."
-
- She smiled. "Massage my feet," she said. That was the first
- direct offer I'd had to touch her since we started. I took her foot in
- hand and began to rub it, slowly trying to ease the aches from around
- the calluses and blisters of the past week. She closed her eyes and
- leaned back, sighing. When I reached for her other foot, I found myself
- between her legs. I ignored her nakedness and took the other foot,
- massaging it as well, working up against her calf.
-
- "Ken?" she said with her bare quiet voice.
-
- I looked up at her, not saying a word.
-
- "Go ahead," she whispered, parting her legs a little further.
-
- I looked between her legs at the matted blonde hair. I found
- myself a handgrip and a toegrip to hold myself in place. Her cunny was
- half in, half out of the water, the hood of her clit just visible above
- the waterline. I pulled myself towards her, kissing the matted hair,
- then parting some of it with my tongue.
-
- She cooed as I did, and I pushed more aside. I cleared away the
- hairs that I could, although the water kept me from matting them down
- the way I would have liked. I kissed her cunt fully. Her inner labia
- were tiny, and I eased them apart, sliding in between and running my
- tongue into her vagina. She shuddered gently.
-
- I circled her clitoris with my tongue, avoiding the little nub
- itself until I was sure she could take that kind of sensation. I teased
- her outer lips with my teeth, gently, then returned to her clitoris,
- licking. I didn't need to increase pressure, I could feel; she was
- simply enjoying my attention.
-
- She came, shaking, putting one hand through my hair and grabbing
- it. She didn't hold me in place, however. She did say, "More, please."
-
- I agreed, returning to her cunny, but avoiding, for the time being,
- her enlarged clit. I paused to kiss her belly, her thighs, all around
- her cunt, paying attention to her as much as to her cunt. Eventually I
- did return, though, to her pleasure, licking gently.
-
- Quietly, there among the trees and the grass, I brought her to
- orgasm twice more, my mouth usually half-full of water and my tongue
- tiring.
-
- She eventually looked down at me, her eyes heavy and half-lidded.
- "You know, it's been a long time since anyone did that for me."
-
- "Did you like it?" I asked.
-
- "Yes. You didn't lie. You're very good at that."
-
- "But you've had better," I said.
-
- "I've had different," she said emphatically, smiling. She eased
- herself into the water and said, "Let me swim around for a few more
- minutes to cool off."
-
- "Okay, but I'm going to get and and warm up. Sitting in one place
- like that, all the heat's been sucked from my body."
-
- "I'm sorry," she said. "I didn't realize..."
-
- "It's okay. I'll live." I swam to edge where my clothes lay and
- got out. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I thought very strange
- thoughts; One of them was simply that I didn't try to convery her. I
- just wanted to make a friend feel good. The difference was... pleasing
- to me. I turned around to ask her something, and...
-
- She was gone. I waited. Maybe she was under the water. I waited
- longer. Something registered in the corner of my eye. I turned to
- face... "Hello."
-
- "Hello, Ken. You don't have to be at the middle to be at the
- center."
-
- "Is she okay?"
-
- "She will be fine. Tomorrow she will be found, and treated
- respectfully. She has made her journey, and her choice. You may go
- home, now."
-
- "You take care of her," I said.
-
- "I will." The Lady Who Was The Great Hall faded, and so did the
- forest. I found myself on a beach of white sand, and a short walk away
- I could see the break in the cliff that led to my home. Monastery
- Island was to my immediate right, and the Succubus, my trustworthy
- trimaran, floated peacefully in the waves. Despite the fact that I
- believe in neither gods nor devils, I offered the waves a prayer for
- Greta.
-
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