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Subject: Journal Entry 282 / 0733  [ Princess Anni ]
Date: 13 Apr 1996 15:45:14 GMT
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Noren, Ring 15, 0733

    "Does it bother you?" I asked.

    "Does what?"  Arraon asked, sipping quietly from a glass of 
what I was sure was part alcohol, part blood.  It's the Uncia in 
him.

    "Knowing that you can never really go down there except in a 
heavy environment suit?"

    "Not really.  The BCA's let me experience it as if I was there.  
I've come to know much about them.  Their foods are fascinating.  
Trust me, though, that you will disagree with them.  I've attended 
dinners where the dessert was the least tasty thing they offered."

    llerkin, the world we orbited, looks like a lovely world from 
orbit; the colors were blue and green, the clouds fluffy.  But the 
atmosphere of llerkin is rich in methane, ozone, and hydrochloric 
acid.  llerkindi breathe through a hydrogen-oxygen exchange, and 
there isn't enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to activate the 
involuntary breathing response.  It was completely unbreathable by 
any of the species intrinsic to Pendor; it was destructive to our 
eyes, our skin.  What was damnably peculiar about it was that there 
was nothing unusual about the llerkin biosphere to actually produce 
such gases in such quantity.  It lived as an anomalous legacy.

    But we needed to go to llerkin; they had foolishly made war 
upon us, and they had sued for peace as well.  The economic 
advantages of being a Pendorian ally were especially valuable, 
since they were also a close neighbor.  Also, Terra was literally 
begging us to seal a Pax Pendori with llerkin, since we were almost 
perfectly situated between the two stars, and Terra's starships 
aren't anywhere near the quality of llerkin's.

    But we're a straightforward people, and I detest doing anything 
where I can't be personally.  The idea of negotiating with the 
llerkindi from inside an environment suit repulsed me.

    The solution was the BCA, or BioCybernetic Android.  They are a 
new triumph of Pendorian technology, pushing the limits of Solid 
Artificial Ergasynthesis and Nanotech to their ultimate.  Fixing 
one is more like surgery than mechanics.  Running both on chemical 
action and a microfusion plant, whatever space isn't taken up by 
the mechanics is taken up by the gradio and the interface hardware.

    Using one, though, is easy.  Basically I lie down on a biocybe 
couch for hours on end, and live through the BCA.  I've run mine in 
a normal atmosphere for several hours; sat down, ate a meal, used 
the restroom.  It's literally as if my mind had been transplanted 
into a body just like mine, except this body can survive on the 
surface of llerkin.  Oh, and just to try it out, I masturbated.  
Guess what?  Works like normal.  And the really funny thing is that 
the orientation manual recommends it.

    There's plenty of room for abuse with this technology.  There 
are wireheads who spend forever in their own private universes, and 
there are wireheads who just feed themselves full of pleasure 
signals.  I guess I'm just one of those people who's happy to be 
themselves.

    Since the early years we've had posit technology, the ability 
to build organic systems and interface them with AI centers and the 
smaller  android intelligences.  But BCA's are more general 
purpose; they can be built to stand vacuum, or in this case, 
llerkin's corrosion.

    And the AI's monitoring the back-and-forth intercept any pain 
senses, scents or tastes that wouldn't match due to alien 
environments.  So when I visit llerkin I don't smell the acids, 
ammonias and ozone.

    "Besides," Arraon was saying, bringing my mind back from 
musings, "Anni herself asked for you."

    "Anni?"

    "The princess Anlestin.  Anni, for short."

    "You're kidding," I said.

    "Not at all.  Although the Queen Stevves requested your 
presence at the signing of the treaty, I was informed by friends I 
have in the court that it was Anlestin who asked for you."

    "Any idea why?" I asked.

    "None."

              -               -              -

    Two hours ago, by 'my' watch, I had laid back into my couch and 
closed my eyes, and when 'I' opened them, 'I' was lying in a 
similar couch in the Pendor Consulate of llerkin.  I'll stop with 
the 'I's.  It was me, as far as I could tell.  I scratched my arm 
and it felt right.

    Arraon rose from his couch smoothly and walked over to the 
door.  "I guess you're used to this," I said.

    "I've been on llerkin for as long as six days before getting 
out of my couch, and I've been at it for six months.  Yeah, I guess 
you could say I'm used to this."  He scratched himself behind the 
ears.

    "Let me?" I asked.

    "What?  Oh sure," he said, smiling.  I reached up and scratched 
the back of his head vigorously, and he sighed in response.

    "Better?"

    "Yeah.  I still don't understand why my android body itches 
there."

    "Let's go."

    We dressed in local clothing and went out to meet the 
neighbors.  The main capital of llerkin, the one we were in, was 
called Fhan, and it was a magnificent city, laid out strictly for 
pedestrian traffic, no independent vehicles.  Handsome, somewhat 
ziggurat-shaped buildings were    the backbone of their 
architecture, and the pedestrian courseways were raised over the 
bases of the buildings.  It struck me as strange, but I realized 
after a while that the construction basically forced people to 
interact with the weather.

    "Hard to believe, huh?" Arraon said.

    "What?"

    "That the atmosphere is so deadly to our real bodies."

    I shrugged.  "Sure is pretty."

    A few minutes later we saw the first llerkindi, and I was again 
struck by their reptilian appearance.  Humanoid, tailless, but 
their hide was made of very fine, green scales.  The scales 
themselves were somewhat flexible, I had been told.  Being unafraid 
of snakes and essentially sensual, I wanted to reach out and touch 
them.  To feel the texture of their hides.

    "I know," Arraon said, reading my mind.  "I feel the same way."

    "I thought telepaths avoid using biocybe because the local 
terminals can't emulate the ability."

    "I was watching your face.  I know how you feel, because I feel 
it to.  Part of my job as an ambassador."

    I sighed.  One of the things I'd learned was that llerkindi had 
expressions similar to ours; smiles, frowns, and the same.  A short 
nod was a 'no,' however, and a full swing of the head in either 
direction was a 'yes.'  Other differences were minor, cosmetic.  
They really were very much like us.

    "We are reaching the station," Arraon said.  He presented his 
ID card to the guards, who acknowledged our presence and allowed us 
into the complex.  For the local castle the building was 
surprisingly undistinguished externally; it looked like any other 
building.

    We were met by the Ambassador Sugna's chief secretary, who 
spoke nearly flawless Quen.  "Ambassador Arraon, so pleased to see 
you once more."

    "Mister Secretary," Arraon said in equally flawless llerki.  
But was it the AI who did that, or Arraon himself who spoke llerki?  
The secretary turned and led us further into the building, up a 
flight of stairs and out onto a large covered balcony.

    The atmosphere gave the setting sun a coppery color which 
complemented the stonework of the palace.  The Secretary asked us 
to sit and wait.

    Ambassador Sugna arrived ten minutes later.  I asked Jamis (our 
AI on llerkin) for a visual display of the language actually being 
spoken at any given moment, since Arraon was speaking in llerki, 
yet I 'saw' his lips move in accord with the Quen I was hearing.  
And the ambassador, who spoke no Quen himself, also moved his lips 
in accordance with the Quen I heard.  I asked Jamis to cut it out 
with the lip-synching.  Now the conversation was slightly less 
disorienting, although it was at times like watching a poorly 
translated foreign film.  I banished the visual display from my 
eyes.  I could pretty much tell at this point who was saying what.

    "We're to dine in less than ten minutes.  I hope your ready to 
eat."  Arraon had a slight smile.

    "What's the difference?" I asked.  "The BCA will handle it."

    "That's not the point.  Other than direct caustics, BCA 
translates all sensation accurately."

    "Oh," I said.  "What's for dinner?"

    "They cook their food, Vatare', have no fear.  But it is 
reptilian."

    "Will you stop calling me that!" I said, looking up at him.  
It's hard to feel fierce with someone who is double my weight and 
towers over me by at least ten centimeteres.

    "I apologize, but I must."  He switched over to internal 
transmission; I 'heard' his voice in my head.  ``They're probably 
listening to us; this is the royal palace, after all.  Your legend 
precedes you, and even if you don't like it, you have to play the 
part.''

    ``I know.''  I sighed.

    A few minutes later the secretary, whose name I found was 
Re'ahb, led us into a sumptuous dining hall, laid out in the gold 
lame' cloth that seemed to be the basis of much of the fashion on 
llerkin at the moment.  I wondered if they had the kind of 
Social-Darwin fashion wars I'd seen on other worlds, like Terra.  I 
must admit, though, that the color looked good on them.

    I was directed to my seat, and Arraon sat across from me and to 
my right, further away from the head of the table.  I was second to 
the head; I wondered who my dining partner was to be.

    That was answered quickly.  Anlestin.  The Princess and heir to 
the matriarchal throne of llerkin.  Although they had a more 
democratic system than in their past, the llerkindi had kept a 
monarchal head.  It seemed to be working.

    "Vatare' Shardik, how do you do," she said, and her lips 
matched.

    "Princess Anlestin," I said.  I'd kept internal lip-synch.  It 
felt like I was speaking Quen, but the BCA's throat and mouth 
actually spoke llerki.  "It is my pleasure."

    "Your speak llerki very well," she said.  I laughed, and she 
recognized it as laughter.

    "You are too kind," I said.  I looked over this princess, and I  
decided that she was 'cute.'  She was about 170 cm, and llerkindi.  
Her humanoid frame was what I would call proportioned. Her skin was 
made up of the tiny green scales I'd come to expect.  llerkindi 
have a slight feline muzzle, a black triangular nose at the top of 
it, three well-defined ridges on the chin.  Her eyes were also 
vaguely feline, slitted top-to-bottom, and sharply pointed ears 
ascended in thin triangles from her hairless skull.  Female 
llerkindi have no visible mammae, yet she had something of an 
'hourglass' figure, but not too skinny.  When I returned to her 
face I noticed her eyes giving me the same sort of assessment.  
When she finally noticed, we laughed again, but this time it was 
more strained, more embarrassed.  She held out her hand.  "I 
believe you have a custom when meeting a lady, on Pendor."

    Did she expect me to... ?  I guess so.  I took her hand and 
bent over to kiss it gently.  "You seem to know a lot about our 
customs.  I know so little of yours."

    "I have studied Pendor for some time."

    "And me, I have been told."

    She shot a glance at Arraon, who was talking rather animatedly 
with two llerkindi, then returned to me.  "Well... Yes.  Terrans, 
of which you once were one, have an expression: 'Power perverts.'  
I have to agree.  You, however, seem untouched."

    "There was also a Terran once who said 'It is not that power 
corrupts, but that power attracts the corruptible.'  I don't 
believe that power was an issue in the making of Pendor.  And 
before you ask, the answer to 'What was?' is 'I don't know.'  
Honestly.  We can call it madness, desire, or love.  But not 
power."

    She blinked.  "Was that a prepared speech?" she asked, with a 
slight smile.

    "Not really.  I came across that quote just a few days ago.  
But it should be a regular statement."

    She shook her head, just a slight shake, and I recognized it 
for a 'yes.'  "You do not like to be call Vatare'," she said.

    "No."

    "Why not?  You are the father of Pendor."

    "I just don't like it.  It's become a title, and I try very 
hard not to assume any such mantle of leadership."

    "Then what shall I call you?" she asked.

    "How about, 'Kennet,' or just 'Ken?'"

    "If I am to use the short form of your name, you must call me 
Anni."

    "Very well... Anni."

    "Ken."  She smiled again.

    A llerkindi walked in with a small bar chime and sounded a 
single note.  "Please be seated."

    We went through the whole rigmarole, sitting, standing for the 
Queen, sitting again.  Queen Stevves was an older, significantly 
overweight vision of Anni herself, but she seemed calm and 
self-assured as she sat down and proclaimed dinner fit.  

    Dinner consisted of several courses, including a bluish soup, a 
leafy green, and what I guess would be analogous to baked 
amphibian.  It was surprisingly good, and I had to agree with 
Arraon that compared to the dinner, the frozen pastry they served 
for dessert was pretty pale, being excessively heavy and overly 
sugared.  And salty.

    The conversation, as usual, was the most fascinating part, and 
I listened as intently as I could.  I cursed my own restrictions; I 
had had the BCA limited to my own limitations, so I couldn't 'turn 
up' my hearing, or improve my vision.  I had equipment that could 
do so externally, but I hadn't thought to bring them.

    But it mostly centered around the economic treaty; apparently 
it was a faux pax to mention the humiliating defeat the llerkin 
Defense Force had suffered at Pendor's hands.  Actually, our 
victory was won mostly through sheer sneakiness; we cheat.  
However, there were no casualties on either side, as one by one the 
llerkindi vessels were simply isolated and forced into statis.  
When it was obvious that the cause was hopeless, they surrendered.

    Which was a good thing.  The incident at Aib had been a sheer 
accident, a mistake between their mining crews and one of our 
expeditionary crews in a Mark 454 starcruiser.

    I was forced to make polite conversation with the young 
nobleman on my right who was fascinated by Pendor's medical 
technologies and wanted to know what sort of exchanges would be 
made when the economics had been worked out.  I replied calmly 
that, as Vatare', such decisions were not essentially mine to make, 
and that he should inquire of the ambassadorial staff.

    He was repeatedly insistent, switching from subject to subject 
so rapidly he may well have been reading out of an import/export 
schedule.

    I sighed, and I heard a slight whisper from behind me.  "Maerts 
can be tiring sometimes, can he not?"

    "Begging your pardon, Milady?" I asked, turning to Anni.

    "I inquired if you were enjoying the dinner."

    "Fascinating," I said.

    She smiled, then turned back to her meal.  "Vatare'," I heard 
from the front of the table.  "Are you taking kindly to our 
hospitality?  I see you and my girlchild have already met."

    I thought for a few moments, then said, "Your hospitality has 
been more than excellent, as has the conversation of your daughter.  
She is a child to be proud of."

    "Have you any children of your own, Vatare'?"

    "I have, your highness."  I launched into a long description of 
Rainy and Richard, of their mother and their present successes.

    She listened patiently.  It was, essentially, small talk.  But 
as I was talking, I felt a cool pressure against my left thigh.  I 
managed to get over the stutter that caused without much 
difficulty, and the touch went away just as quickly.

    When I had a chance, I slipped a hand down onto my left leg to 
find a small slip of paper.  I surreptitiously slid it into the 
wide pockets that were sewn very low on the clothes I was wearing.  
I wondered if that was a standard fashion, or had Arraon 
anticipated this?

    After dinner, the event disintegrated into groups of courtiers, 
well, courting each other.  I managed to slip aside for a moment 
and read the note.

    It was written in perfect Quen, in a beautiful scripted hand, 
replete with the curls and bars that are so hard to master.  It 
read, "If you would, please meet with Officer Neshlid after dinner.  
She is known to Arraon, and will direct you."  It was signed simply 
with two barred numens, a standard Pendor symbol for 'Ann,' or 
'Anni,' I guess.

    I found Arraon, who pointed out the individual in question.  
Officer Neshlid turned out to be an aging female soldier in 
uniform, who led me aside.

    "I am very pleased to me you, Vatare' Shardik."

    "Thank you, Officer."

    "Please, call me Pal."  She led me through a variety of 
hallways to a vehicle bay, and to a two-seated metallic blue 
turbofan aircraft.  She got into the right seat, and indicated I 
take the passenger's.  The craft had very little engine noise, and 
Pal expertly piloted it out of the bay and into the air.

    "Pal," I asked.  "Since you are clearly Anni's discreet 
secretary, can I ask where we are going?"

    "The Skypalace."

    "The what?" I asked.

    She smiled.  "You will see."

    After a while, she flew the little craft towards what looked 
like a platform hung suspended in the sky.  I could barely make out 
in the dark the elliptical bubble above it that was apparently the 
source of lift.  "This may be a bit rough," Pal said as she piloted 
it into a doorway.  The vehicle bucked slightly as she flew it 
through the opening and brought it to a carefully settled stop.  "I 
apologize.  Shifting from flight to ground effect modes can be a 
bit unsettling."

    "That's quite all right," I said.  Pal indicated a small door 
and led down more hallways and stairway.  The material of the 
Skypalace seemed to be mostly plastics and metals, but the railings 
of the staircases were polished wood, and when we reached one door 
Pal said, "Through there," and she left me.

    I knocked quietly on the wooden door.  "Come," was the response 
from inside.

    I opened the door and eased myself in.  The door closed behind 
me.  "Out here," she said.

    "Princess," I said.

    Anlestin turned her head towards me and smiled.  "You came."

    "Yes," I said.  "I never turn down an offer from a Princess."

    "Promise?" she asked.

    I chuckled.  Who was in control here?  "That depends."

    "Do you wonder why I asked you here?"

    "You'll tell me in your own time," I said.

    "Come with me," she said, holding out her hand.  I took it.  It 
felt cool and dry.  She led me to a window and pressed a button, 
and the window opened.  The cold wind swept into the room, and we 
looked down on Fahn.  "It is a magnificent view.  And a coup for 
our scientists."

    I waited.  "You castle floats on gravitics, I am told.  The 
Skypalace floats in the atmosphere because it is lighter than air.  
The blimp shell above our heads is completely rigid, and holds no 
air."

    A rigid shell strong enough to hold a vacuum can be made 
buoyant, if the material is light enough.  Just as a balloon floats 
on water.  I blinked, impressed, and said so.

    She smiled, prettily.  "Thank you.  We are pleased with the 
results.  I understand your technology can do the same."

    "It can.  But did you invite me here to discuss science?"

    "Partly," said the alien princess.  "I wanted to meet you, away 
from the court, away from Arraon... and my mother," she said, her 
voice dropping with a slight sarcasm.  I laughed.

    "Tell me," she said.  "I have been reading some of your 
published journals, and I wanted to ask you a question."

    "What question?" I asked.

    "Do you find me pretty?"

    I missed less than a heartbeat before I answered.  "Yes."

    "Why?"

    "Does it make a difference?"

    "It does to me," she said, crossing the room and sitting on the 
bed that I hadn't seen when I first entered.

    "Well, you seem to have taken care of yourself.  You seem to 
care about other people.  And, I guess I just find you... cute."

    She smiled.  "Come here," she said.  I walked over to her and 
sat on the bed next to her.  She took my hands.  "You often refer 
to yourself as a sensualist.  

    "When I look at you, I see a strangeness I had never thought I 
should see in my life.  Before the incident at Aib, we did not know 
that  there was any other intelligent life in the universe, 
although I was sure there was.  Imagine our shock that the first 
vessel we meet had four different species on it.  And those four 
were Pendorian.  It took us quite a while to understand that Pendor 
was not the standard, but the exception.  Terra we understood much 
easier.

    "When I look at you, I see light, smooth, unbroken hide, 
covered in a light fur.  Your eyes are round, and you have this 
shag on your head."  Her hand reached up and ruffled my hair.  I 
found the gesture amusing and laughed.  She laughed back.  "Your 
females have those... breasts on their chest.  That is not..." she 
stopped.  "The word was almost 'normal,' but it is normal, for you.  
Not for us."

    I reached up and stroked her cheek with the back my hand.  She 
pressed her hand against it and held me there.

    "Do you find this touch... interesting?" she asked.

    "Fascinating," I said.  I moved my hand a little and she let it 
go, and I traced my hand down her cheek and under her throat.  She 
closed her eyes slowly, and I noticed that her lids closed 
diagonally, downward, but also from her nose, outwards, as well.  A 
low hum escaped from her, not quite a growl or purr, but not quite 
a moan, either.  

    It became obvious why I was here, at least immediately.  I 
wondered idly if there was some political reason for my being here, 
such as blackmail or seduction.  But Arraon also clearly knew where 
I was, and what could they get me on?

    And there was still the tension, the newness of this.  I 
decided there was only one way to get in, and that was to jump.  I 
leaned over and kissed her under her chin, on her throat, gently.  
I felt her skin under my lips, and it could feel the slight texture 
as my lips slid over her scaled.  She canted her head away to give 
me a clearer reach, and the rippling of muscles under her hide 
tickled me gently.  My hand reached around and stroked her side.  
She hummed again, and this time it was more of a moan.

    "I have also been told by my scientists that we are physically 
compatible," she said.

    I laughed.  As I touched her my fingers were searching for the 
clasps of her clothing, and when I found them I asked her "Anni, 
would you object if I took off your clothes?"

    She chuckled.  "You are too much a diplomat, Kennet.  I have no 
nudity taboos, if that is what you wonder."  I tried to figure out 
the clasp, confused.  "Allow me," she said, reaching around her 
back and undoing the clasp.  I shook my head.  I still had trouble 
with normal bras; I should hardly be ready to figure out alien 
clasps, as well.

    The golden shrift came off over her head, and she laughed.  "Do 
you still think I am... 'cute?'"

    I laughed and leaned closer to her, kissing her chin.

    "We too, kiss on llerkin," she murmured, lowering her head a 
fraction to kiss my lips, her lips fascinatingly cool and soft.  I 
opened my mouth just slightly and licked her lip; her response was 
to slither her tongue against mine.  It wasn't a forked tongue, but 
pointy, 
and I'm afraid I may have been concentrating too hard on it to 
concentrate on her.

    We parted, a gentle "aaah," breaking from both our throats, and 
we giggled again.  My fingers stroked her bare, flat chest, feeling 
the scales there.  I leaned down and kissed her chest, and she 
shivered.  "Ticklish?" I asked.

    "Yes.. if that word translated correctly."

    "Let's see," I said, plying my fingers against her belly and 
tickling.  She squirmed and sighed, lying back on the bed.

    "More," she sighed.  I scratched her chest and belly, trying to 
tickle her; instead she just closed her eyes and sighed.  I leaned 
over and kissed her belly, and she shivered and put her hand on my 
head, twining her fingers among my long hair.  "Feels soft," she 
said.  I wasn't sure if she referred to my kisses or my hair, and 
it didn't really matter.

    As I kissed her, her other hand ran along my legs and up my 
thighs, touching closer and closer to my groin, and I groaned as 
she moved closer.

    "Kennet?  Did I hurt you?"

    "No, no... that felt good.  Keep going."

    I returned to her belly, scratching and kissing her, and her 
hand moved ever closer to my crotch, and her hand found my balls 
through the material of my overly formal clothing, and she closed 
gently on them.  "You humans have external testes.  That is so 
different."

    I looked up at her and said, "It's a design flaw."

    She laughed.  "That must be it."  Her hand moved just a little 
further and found my cock, fondling me.  I found the clasp on her 
floor-length skirt and had less trouble this time.  It came loose 
quickly, and I found that it opened all the way down along the 
front.  I  spread it out on the bed and looked down along the 
length of my alien princess.  She was still green, and still cute.

    She moved her hand up against my chest and said, "Wait."

    "Hm?"

    "Let me undress you."  Undress me?  She nearly tore my shirt 
off of me.  I helped her with my kilt and threw it aside as well.  
"Zhal," she said, a name I recognized as the local deity.

    "What?" I asked.

    "It... I had not expected it to be so... big."

    "llerkindi males are much smaller?" I asked, looking at face.

    She glanced left, a gesture I recognized as a small 'yes.'  
"Half as thick, but just as long."

    I gently pushed her back down onto the bed.  "Just because 
we're not built right doesn't mean we can't enjoy ourselves.  Your 
scientists were not quite correct."

    "Ken, tell me... are you very large for your species?"

    "You mean, my cock?"  She gestures 'yes' again.  "No.  I am 
actually close to the average human male. Why?"

    "Just... wondering.  They come much larger?"

    "I have seen humans twice as large as myself," I said.  "Other 
species can be smaller and larger.  My own male lover is much 
larger than I."

    She gasped.  "I do not think... I could take such a thing.  It 
is just so... so BIG!  And Aaden Satpulov is larger?"

    I nodded, laughing.  "Much.  That's quite a complement," I 
said.

    "You do not think I am being silly, do you?"

    "Not at all."  I straddled her as she lie on the bed and began 
to methodically scratch her chest, a little harder than before, and 
she hummed quietly, enjoying it.  "Tell me, Princess, why am I 
here?"

    "Because I wanted to do something different, more different 
than my  classmates had ever done.  And I find you.. compelling.

    "Are you enjoying what I'm doing?"

    "Very much," she sighed.  "Would you kiss me... on my... 
femaleness?"  I smiled, and scooted down off the bed.  Kneeling on 
the floor, my head was just a little higher than the bed.  I parted 
her knees and kissed her hairless cunt.

    The taste was, for sex, utterly different, but if I had to find 
a more mundane taste to compare it to, try pistachio, but without 
most of the sugar.  Pleasant.  The texture was firm, and the 
scaling of her hide was so fine here it was almost like unbroken 
skin.  The color wasn't pink, but a light green fading into soft 
white.  The shape was very different, as well; still a vertical 
slit, but no obvious clitoris.  No inner labia, either, but a deep 
trough shape, at the bottom of which was her opening.  The muscles 
on either side of her cunt gave a slightly 'terraced' texture to 
her flesh, of which I thought it must be rather pleasant to get 
inside.

    She moaned softly as my tongue parted her only labia, probing 
inside.  "Yes," she moaned.  "Just inside, lick the sides, please.  
Just  like that."  I tilted my head to lick the whole sides of her 
inner cunt, and she squirmed on the bed, possessed of some special 
pleasure.  "Yes, more..." she sighed.

    I pushed in a little harder, parting her open with my nose and 
chin as I licked deeper.  Her hands were in my hair, twisting as 
she twisted, shaking and coming, quietly and spasmodically.

    I leaned up and looked along the length of her green body.  Her 
jaw lay wide open as she gasped for a few more breaths.  I crawled 
up along the bed to kneel beside her, and she looked up at me and 
smiled.  "You are very good."  Her voice took on an accusatory tone 
as she said, "You have done this before!"

    "You mean, on a llerkindi?"

    "Yes!"

    "No, Princess.  All it means is that I am enthusiastic.  It 
comes from taking a mentor's words to heart."

    "What words are those?"

    "'Dear, a lady takes off her persona with her clothes and does 
her whorish best.'  What he didn't say is that his words are lesson 
for males as well; too many females have told me males, too, hold 
back in bed."

    She laughed.  "Your mentor is right.  Perhaps I should meet 
him?"

    "He mentored through his writings to a generation of Terrans, 
Anni, and I'm afraid he is no longer alive."

    "I am saddened."

    "Don't be," I said, tilting her head up by the chin to kiss 
her.  "We've got more important things to think about right now."

    "That is very true.  And this is one important thing," she said 
with an impetuous grin as she dove towards my crotch, taking my 
cock into her mouth.  This was a more familiar feeling; there are 
only so many ways to design a mouth, and she sucked me down 
wonderfully.  Her tongue was very long, and I realized that it must 
have been mounted more forward in her mouth, because she was 
managing to wrap a significant length of if around my cock as she 
slid back and forth.

    I stretched my legs and lay back along the bed, noting that 
llerkindi used pillows as well, although these were more 
cylindrical in design.  Like her to me, I reached out to stroke her 
hair and instead touched her hairless head, running my fingers 
along what looked like dangerously pointy ears.  They were actually 
quite flexible.

    She stopped, sat back and looked at me.  "I am sorry, Ken... 
You are just so big.  I am not used to opening my mouth that wide, 
and my jaw hurts."

    "Aww..." I said, mock-pouting.  "C'mere," I gestured, and she 
crawled over to me.  I reached up and gently rubbed her jaws where 
I thought the muscles that ached would be, but she took my hands 
and moved them lower and back a few cm.  "There," she said.

    I smiled and rubbed.  "Better?"

    "Yes."  She developed a slightly puzzled frown, and I said, 
"What's wrong?"

    "I want you to get inside me.  I want to be fucked by you.  But 
I doubt I can take it."

    "I'm more worried that if you do take me, you'll never be 
satisfied with your own males again."

    "I do not think that's a concern.  I will always be interested 
in my own males.  You are an interesting diversion."

    "Thank you for being so honest," I said, without sarcasm.

    "Thank you," she replied, leaning in away from my fingers to 
kiss me.  "Stay here," she ordered, turning around and padding on 
all fours to the other end of the bed, and the dresser.  She pulled 
out a small bottle, labeled but unreadable to me, and I wasn't 
about to ask Jamis to do any translating now.  

    It suddenly occurred to me that 'I' wasn't really 'here.'  
Funny how I'd never noticed.  I decided to stop noticing now.  As 
far as I was concerned, I was still me, and I was here, staring 
unabashedly at the cute green ass of Princess Anlestin.

    The thought made me smile.  She crawled back to me and said 
"Lie down."  I complied with her wish and lay down on my back.  She 
straddled 
my legs and took my cock in her hands, stroking it insistently.  I 
noticed, oddly, that she had no fingernails, and decided to file it 
away for later inquiry.

    She tipped the bottle over and poured some of the clear liquid 
onto my cock, stroking it into my skin.  "This should make it 
easier," she said, crawling awkwardly towards me.  She let go of my 
cock.  It slapped loudly against my belly, and she settled down on 
top of it, parting her labia with her hands so that my cock lay 
sandwiched between them.  She slowly stroked back and forth over my 
belly, and the sensation was mind-wrenchingly good.  I couldn't get 
over her sexy she looked, this reptilian female, sliding over my 
cock and undulating as she did so.

    Her moans were hot and loud, and after a few minutes she said, 
"Are  you ready?"

    "It's 'Are you ready?'" I replied.  She looked at me 
quizzically.  "Are you ready?" I asked.

    Comprehension dawned on her face, and she nodded.  She raised 
herself up off of me and said, "Hold yourself," with a tone both 
breathless and imperious.  I reached down and grabbed the base of 
my cock, pointing it straight up.  She lowered herself onto me, 
holding her labia apart with her hands until my cock had entered 
her measurably deep outer cunt, and she let go of herself to place 
her hands on my chest, to hold her up.

    She began to push down, and I could feel my cock bending.  With 
one hand she held me in place, pushing down further, and she said, 
"I am going to get you inside me even it is my last act ever!"

    "Take it slow," I said in an ordering tone.

    "I want it," she said, and her voice was thick, heavy with 
lust.

    "Then take it.  Think about opening.  Relax," I said, and I 
felt her vaginal opening loosen, tighten, loosen against the head 
of my rigid cock, and as I slid in the portal itself was so tight 
it felt sharp.  She gasped, her eyes wide with lust and maybe fear 
as my cock sank into her.  She slithered all the way down, her hips 
meeting mine, and I could feel the ring of her opening just below 
my circumcision scar, and we lay there, together.

    "I do not believe it," she said.  Her legs were trembling.

    "You've got it, Anni."

    "Yes, yes I do."  She began to rise off of me, and I could feel 
the coolness as the air hit my cock.  She sank back down onto me.

    She was so tight I wasn't even sure I was going to enjoy this.  
But it felt powerful as she began to fuck herself atop me, riding 
me.  After a while I did feel the same old feeling, that wonderful 
tightening as she screamed and came and kept on stroking, going for 
another, and another, and I grabbed her hands as I began to 
respond, meeting her hips  for every stroke.  I groaned through 
clenched teeth as I rode closer and closer to it under her, and 
when I came the tension loosed from me with an enormous scream of 
satisfaction.

    She stopped then, when I came, realizing that, for me at least, 
it was over, and when the drive was gone she simply collapsed on 
top of me.  We lay together, gasping for our respective 
atmospheres.  She laughed a little as my softened cock dropped out 
of her.  "I am... amazed," she said.  "And you may be right; I may 
never seek a llerkindi male again."

    "I hope you do."

    "I will; I was only making a joke."  I laughed.  "Thank you, 
Shardik," she said.

    "You're welcome, Princess."

              -               -              -

    I awoke by daylight in her bed, next to my cool, alien 
princess.  She stirred as I cuddled close to her, and awoke.  We 
bathed together in a small pool next door.  She provided me with 
clothing suitable to my day.

    We returned to the royal palace and Arraon was there, waiting 
for me, biting a claw in nervousness.  "You were gone all night!" 
he hissed.

    "On my request, Mister Ambassador," Anni said.

    "Apologies, Princess.  It is my duty to be concerned for the 
soul of Vatare' Shardik, if not the body."  I chuckled at that.

    "Rest assured, Arraon, his body is quite... excellent.  Excuse 
me."  She walked off.

    "You didn't," he said.

    "I did.  You'd be amazed how well the BCA's work."

    "I am impressed.  And I will have to debrief you.  Will this 
one go into a Journal Entry?" he asked.

    "Should.  Wonder what the political clime will be in five 
hundred years?"

    "More to the immediate point, I wonder if I should take Anni up 
on her offer," he said.

    "You mean she offered... ?"

    "Let's discuss it at the embassy.  We have to be back in about 
four hours, and you have an exercise regimen to go through."

    "Yeah, yeah."

              -               -              -

    The treaty was signed later that day.  Queen Stevves was 
quite... politic about the whole manner.  But then, I was starting 
to expect that from this family.

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