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“But I thought they had a strict policy here about not allowing any kind of recording equipment in the Dome?”
“They don’t want you bringing anythinginbut they have plenty of equipment themselves,” Sev pointed out. “I wouldn’t be surprised if the Elders gave Enoc the camera bug themselves and told him to film what he does with his wife. Then they turned the recordings into Informational vids.” He snorted. “Probably jerked off to them too—horny fuckers. Even if it is supposed to be a ‘sin’ here for a male to ‘spill his seed upon the ground.’”
“You know,” Mia remarked. “I met a woman during my time in the communal kitchen who said her husband is too lazy to ‘punish’ her anymore. She says he just wants to sit around watching those Informational vids and, uh, jerking off.”
She giggled as she said it and Sev had laughed too. He sent the camera bug around to get a picture of the two of them grinning and it showed up on the viewer at once. As she looked at it, Mia thought she had never seen herself look so happy.
“What a great picture—can we keep it?” she asked her partner/Master/lover. Really, Sev was all those things to her—as well as her best friend, she thought dreamily.
“Sure we can keep it, baby.” He pressed the tiny control on his hand, which was actually a ring that fit on his pinky finger and the image blinked for a moment. “This is a handy little gadget—it can take hours and hours of footage and save and send live streaming vids to any device anywhere.”
“Doesn’t it have to be compatible with the device first?” Mia asked, frowning.
“Now you’re thinking of Earth technology—which really isyearsbehind most other sentient species,” Sev told her. “The camera bug is designed to read other devices and form digital compatibility instantly. That’s why it’s so useful.” He frowned thoughtfully. “Think I’m going to take it to work with me today—maybe I can get some quotes from some of the people living here without them knowing.”
“Won’t they see you filming them?” Mia asked anxiously—she didn’t want Sev to get into trouble.
But he shook his head.
“Nah—the camera bug really doeslooklike a bug. See?” He called it over and it landed on his big hand so he could show it to Mia.
She peered at it and saw that it really did look like a large, shiny green beetle, complete with compound eyes, a hard shell, and long, trembling antennae.
“It looks so real!” she exclaimed.
“Now look at the viewer,” Sev had directed her.
Mia looked and saw an extreme close up of her own face. She had laughed and shooed the bug away. It had flown up to the ceiling, taking another shot of her cradled in Sev’s arms, the two of them looking so happy and sorighttogether…
Mia sighed contentedly as she remembered. It really had been awonderfulmorning. She’d decided she was going to put the past away—into a box—and lock it up tight. She would let go of the pain and bad memories from her time with the sect and trust Sev when he said they could be together as lovers on their off-hours without affecting their relationship as partners at work.
When she had woken up in his arms, she hadn’t moved away or listened to the guilty voices in her head. She had pushed them resolutely away and cuddled closer to the big warrior as he stroked her hair and rumbled,
“Good Morning, Mia.”
And then he—
“Mia?Mia?”
Mia blinked to see that Kissie was snapping her fingers right under her nose.
“Uh, what?” she asked, blinking.
Kissie laughed.
“Just checking. For a minute it seemed like you drifted away from us completely.”
“Oh, sorry.” Mia laughed. “Just, uh, thinking.” Twilight was beginning to fall—or at least, they were beginning to dim the artificial star. Which meant that the day was almost over and she would soon get to see Sev again…
Teebra arched an eyebrow at her.
“And whatexactlywere you thinking about?” she asked, giving Mia a knowing grin.
“Oh, um…”
“Was it your first milking?” Teebra probed.
Mia shot Zellah a startled look, but the other woman only gave a short, sharp shake of her head. Clearly, she hadn’t told anyone about their conversation yesterday.
