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“Would it?” I asked. “How does us going into exile help anyone?”
“Not exile,” Eve said. “If I could get High Command to accept the inevitability of the whole planet being tainted, and if they agreed to let us back home to advise on future interactions…” She trailed off, realizing that High Command would never accept that. “None of that is ever going to happen, right?”
Emissary shook her head. “No, I don’t think so. I’m just trying to see through the taint and my desire to have one of these orgasms. I’m doing my utmost to make sure there isn’t some way for us to meaningfully help our planet by refusing to go with Thuliak.”
“If you found a way,” I asked, “would you really refuse what Airlock is describing? You’d settle for shadows of flowers across a hallway after seeing and smelling a real flower?”
“I can’t find any reasonable advantage to us going aboard the Khetar ship,” Emissary said. “Can either of you?”
“No,” I said, “and without going into details, I think I can help our planet a lot moreonthat ship.”
“There’s more scions coming,” Airlock said.
We both looked up.
“Thuliak said he’d—um—offer you to them if you go. Scions are supposedly better at giving orgasms. From my personal experience, I’d say he’s likely not just bluffing about that.”
I grabbed Emissary and leaned in, whispering low enough that not even Airlock could hear. “Did you hear that? What could help our planet more than us being coupled up with alienkings. We can make sure they treat all the women well. Not just us.”
Sex had been such an abstract concept to me just mere hours ago. It had been the shadow of a flower, or maybe even more vague than what Airlock had described. At least now that I’d seen a Khetar man and a real dingdong, I knew whatshapethe shadow had. Before, I didn’t even have that. Now that I’d been tainted, everything about sex was very quickly solidifying in my mind’s eye. It could be intense. It was wet. It even had a smell. And from the way Thuliak looked at Airlock, it could even make a big powerful alien see you as some kind of equal.
Sex—I was just now realizing—could even be used as a weapon. A weapon that could control an alien king.
