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“That’s something to look forward to,” Dark remarked, his purple eyes going half-lidded.
“Definitely,” Light agreed, his silver eyes blazing. “But for now, we’d better start our tour.”
“Yes, we should. We’ve kept f’loon waiting long enough,” Lili agreed. With some difficulty, she wrapped her see-through dress back around herself and tied it with the invisible sash.
Later she would deal with everything they had done together, she told herself. But for now, she was ready to take the tour of her life.
18
LILI
“Are you finished dealing with the sensu-blooms?” f’loon inquired as the three of them came out the door.
“Yes, thank you.” Lili nodded with as much dignity as she could. It was hard to forget that the famous art collector had seen her being fucked by a flower, but there was nothing to do but move on.
“I trust that your womb is well lubricated,” f’loon remarked obliquely.
“Oh, well…I think that’s safe to say,” Lili said, shifting uncomfortably.
“Good, good.” f’loon nodded their bulbous head. “And do you wish to have the modesty patches now? To cover your female parts?”
“No, thank you,” Lili said. She had definitely decided that she’d rather go bare than put anything else of an alien origin anywhere near her lady bits. She would just have to go around looking naked. After all, Dark and Light were and they weren’t bothered—even though both of them had extremely large erections pressing against the inside of their trousers.
“Very well, then we begin our tour—we have only a single day and there is much to cover. But first, allow me to introduce my male spouse, es’plendio.” f’loon nodded at a tall, stick-insect looking Chulaz who looked very like the guards that had brought them into the tower in the first place.
“It’s very nice to meet you,” Lili said, nodding politely.
She couldn’t help wondering at how very dissimilar the two aliens were. She knew that es’plendio was a male Chulaz and f’loon was bas’lat Chulaz but really, they didn’t even seem to be the same species. How in the world did they match up sexually? And what did a female Chulaz look like? Considering how rare they were, she doubted she’d get a chance to find out.
“Come—we will begin our tour at the top of the tower and make our way back to the bottom,” f’loon told her. Then they glided silently to the foot of the vast, round staircase at the far end of the rotunda and began to climb with their spouse, es’plendio at their side.
“All the way to the top, huh? Looks like we’re going to spend most of the day climbing,” Dark muttered as he and Light followed Lili up the spiral staircase.
Lili hoped he was wrong. They had already wasted enough time with the damn sensu-blooms. (Though when she considered the hot way the big Kindred had tasted her afterwards, she couldn’t really consider the time wasted.) But still, there was so much to see and f’loon had only agreed to have her for a single day! She could spend a lifetime here studying the art from so many planets and cultures and now they had to spend half that time climbing stairs!
In addition to her irritation at wasting time climbing, Lili soon ran into another problem—she wasn’t a great climber. When she went to the gym, the stair-stepper was the machine she almost always avoided. Or if she did hop on, she hopped back off again in five minutes. It didn’t take long for her thighs to start burning and her calves to start aching.
Still, she soldiered grimly on. This was her one and only chance to see the greatest collection of art in the galaxy—she wasn’t going to let the fact that she wasn’t an Olympic stair climber ruin it!
But despite her determination, after the first few turns of the spiral staircase, she began to fall behind. The muscles in her legs were burning and she was getting seriously out of breath! Meanwhile, f’loon just kept going—oozing up the steps in a boneless way that made climbing the endless staircase look utterly effortless.
By their side, f’loon’s spouse climbed in a completely different way—his ridiculously long legs were able to span four steps at a time. But he climbed slowly, so as to keep pace with f’loon, Lili guessed.
But even though the male Chulaz climbed slowly in relation to f’loon, both of them were quickly outpacing Lili. Behind her, Dark and Light were climbing steadily, obviously slowing their pace to accommodate her, which made her feel embarrassed.
I’m the weakest link, she thought as she forced herself upward. They’re slowing down for me and I’m still falling behind!
At last, she was beginning to think she just couldn’t go another step. They weren’t even a third of the way up the tower but she was completely out of breath and her legs felt like rubber. She was about to call up to f’loon and beg for a break when Light came up beside her and murmured in her ear,
“Lilibet, why don’t I carry you?”
Lili gave him a horrified look.
“Carry me? Up…up all these stairs?” she protested, panting. “No way—you’ll break your back!”
“Why?” Light looked honestly confused.
“Why? Because I’m not skinny,” Lili said tartly. “I know… I’m small…but I’m also…heavy. I don’t want you… hurting yourself.” She was panting now—it was hard to carry on a conversation and climb ever upwards at the same time.
