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Not noticing my misgivings, Garth moved on to another wall. "This is different from our built-in closet on theVyper," he explained, opening another icon, which gave me a choice of an unimaginable wardrobe. The choices included shoes, underwear, pajamas, dresses, pants, anythingone could possibly want to wear, down to the most minute accessories.
He showed me how to pick what I wanted and seconds later a tray came out of the wall, bearing my selection.
He pulled on a handle and it opened, sort of like a pull-out trashcan. "You put your worn clothes in here and they will be cleaned, folded, and put away for your next use."
I gaped at him.That is my kind of laundry chore, I thought delightedly.
He lifted a finger. "Don't get used to it though, this is one of the technological achievements we shun on Astrionis."
He must have seen the disappointment on my face, because he laughed. "If the idea of doing laundry is so abhorrent to you, then I can assure you that we have servants do this chore for us."
The idea of having servants unsettled me more than the idea of having to wash my laundry in a creek, but I refrained from saying anything, because just then his eyes held me captivated.
"You will get used to all this, in time," he promised. "Come, let me show you thelast room, the cleansing chamber."
"Thank you," I said after we inspected every nook and cranny of our apartments in the palace.
He didn't pretend not to understand what I was thanking him for and simply said, "You are welcome," which was just what I needed.
I sensed her sadnessand disappointment at not being able to help her people, and wished there was something I could do to lighten her mood, and burden. I understood the guilt she experienced over being treated well, while others suffered, but that was life. And I wondered what kind of species she belonged to that could empathize so much with the plight of another, and yet—according to her—had treated their fellow brothers and sisters not much differently than the Cryons were treating the humans.
"When we return to Astrionis, I promise we will bring in as many humans as possible and you can find homes andwork for them." An idea blossomed in me, "By the gods, I will get an entire planet ready for your people."
"But not if you have to conquer it first," she objected.
I pulled her into my arms. "Cinna, nothing in this universe is free, you either are the conqueror or the conquered. There is nothing else."
Sad eyes locked onto mine. "Why can't there just simply be peace and everybody be happy with each other?"
Her naivete intrigued me, as did her entire contradictory person. Just hours ago she had slugged a woman because she flirted with me, and now she wondered why the universe didn't get along in peace.
"Because one will always strive for more and if we didn't have that drive, we would never go forward—all species are like that. There is always a price to pay, for everything." I didn't tell her that I had wondered from the moment I met her what my price would be to pay for the happiness she brought me, but I had also decided that whatever it would be, it would have been worth it. Just being with her was making me happier than I had ever been before.
She sighed. "I guess so."
She looked so forlorn, I pulled her closer to me and kissed her, driven by the need to make her forget, even if only temporarily. And I knew just how.
"Trust me," I said, offeringmy hand.
Without hesitation she took it and I led her to the bed, where I slowly disrobed her—relishing every piece of flesh I freed. I suspected that she still felt vulnerable and unlovable because of what the Cryons had done to her skin, but it didn't matter to me. She could have been green and I would have desired her just the same. My only worry was as to any long-term effects this might have on her. With effort I suppressed the rage building in me for the Cryons having abused her like this and focused fully on her.
"You are breathtaking," I said, peeling the shirt over her head, and exposing her exquisite tits.
I kissed a trail down her neck until I reached one nipple before I sucked the stiff bud into my mouth and teased it with my tongue. My free hand caressed her other breast, rolled her other nub between my thumb and pointer finger, while a deep moan escaped her.
Then I trailed my lips down the middle of her chest, her belly button, before I hooked two fingers between her hips and pants to pull the garment off her. Her panties came next.
I knelt between her legs, gently pushed them open for me, and inhaled the tangy scent of her arousal deeply. "Ah, you smell so frygging good, cinna."
I pulled her legs forward and her upper body fell back against the bed. "There, relax, let me make you forget,cinna," I purred, kissing first the left, then the right inside of her thighs, relishing in the quivering flesh underneath my lips.
The sight of her glistening pussy nearly undid me and my cock jerked in my pants, ready to enter and possess her.
Carefully I pushed her folds apart until her cunt was fully exposed. I flicked my tongue against her clit and was rewarded with a sharp inhale of her breath and a tremor moving through her.
Gods, she tasted like the sweetest nectar of the gods.
Slowly I began to insert three of my fingers into her pussy. My cock jerked in response and jealousy, but I ignored it, fully focused on making her forget her worries and enjoy a wave of bliss.
