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LYDIA'S IMAGES... It was the Baraandi's last day, and it was just after the captain had announced that the members of the ship would have to enter the life chambers. April was seeing this scene from Daggerlos's position. Technically, the chief of internal security wasn't "bridge crew", but his position was stationed on the bridge, so he had seen everything that April had seen. After the captain's announcement, he left the bridge, ostensibly to go through the ship and help maintain security, but that job actually took only a few well-placed orders delivered over his communicator. After that, he snuck into the personal quarters of his lover, the chief engineer. After a short wait, Lana entered the room and immediately went to his side. Crying, Lana said, "It's not fair! It's not fair! We were supposed to have a life. We were supposed to start a family." Daggerlos said, "I know, but sometimes life isn't fair. I know it's a cliche, but it's true. The captain is only doing what he has to." "I know, but it's still not fair." Daggerlos licked the top of Lana's forehead in a sign of affection. "Would you like me to service you?" "No, I want to penetrate you." "Really? Oh, God, yes!" Daggerlos practically threw himself on the bed and spread his legs. As Lana got up on the bed and crawled between his legs, April felt the images forcibly ended. BACK ON THE STREET... April shook her head, a little stunned at the suddenness and savagery with which Lydia had ended the dream. Lydia demanded, "Now do you see?!" "Honestly? Not really." "You don't!?! Look, maybe you can handle being bonded with a guy, but I'm not even a big fan of being around them, much less having one be a part of me, and if that wasn't bad enough, I get to be bonded with one who practically begs to get fucked!!" "Is that-" April couldn't help but laugh out loud. Angrily, Lydia asked, "What's so funny?!" After April got herself under control she said, "You. You really are fighting this, aren't you?" "You want to let me in on the joke?" "First off, the Baraandi are hermaphrodites. They have no male or female. Because we live in a two gender society, since none of them are our sex, we automatically perceive all of them as the opposite sex to us. Secondly, since all of the Baraandi can both penetrate and be penetrated, those that accept another into them are given a senior placement in the social side of the physical arrangement. It's kind of like you inviting someone into your home, although on a much more intimate level. "The chief engineer was older, better trained, higher rank, and in practically all ways your senior. In modern terms, what happened in that dream would be the equivalent of one of the school's Deans of whatever walking up to you and start begging to lick your pussy." Lydia shook, clearly confused, not sure what to believe anymore. April said, "Look. You really need to take time to sort out everything that you are, everything that you've become. Why don't you come back to my house? Kendall and I are sleeping together now, so you can use whatever room we don't." "I don't want to sort anything out. I don't even want this guy in me. I just want to be normal again." With a comforting tone, April said, "Sorry, that ship has sailed. There's no way to reverse the bonding procedure, and if you don't let your Baraandi energy adjust to your life, it'll drive you crazy." "Even if that's true, which I don't doubt, I still don't wanna go back to the house with HIM." "I don't think you have to worry much about that. You can put up some screens, and telekinetically seal the room. If you do it right, you won't be able to sense her, she won't be able to sense you, and none of us will be able to get into that room without your permission unless we use a battering ram." Lydia struggled with it for a while before saying, "Okay, I guess I can handle this. How long does it take to sort out a Baraandi life?" "If you really focus and do nothing else, it should take about six to eight hours. If you just let it work itself out on its own, it might take days, maybe even weeks." "And if I try to fight it, it'll drive me nuts. Wonderful." As they started to walk back to the house, April wrapped her arm around Lydia's shoulders. Lydia asked, "Can I ask you a question?" "Of course." "Why you keep referring to him, Lana, as a girl? You don't need to keep up pretenses with me. I sensed what was in his panties." "Because she wants to be a her. The Baraandi might not have had sexes, but they did deal with multiple gender societies. They found that, in a functioning society, gender was more about function than biology. Current human society is more than a little dysfunctional. But Lana wants to be a female, so I need to respect her choice." "I don't think it's that simple." "For humans, it's not, but we're a little more than simple humans. After you get a little better handle on your Baraandi life, you will begin to understand." "I hope so. Right now, this is all very confusing." BACK AT THE HOUSE, JUST AFTER LYDIA'S DEPARTURE... Kendall knocked on Lana's door. "Lana, we need to talk." "Go away! I don't wanna talk to anybody!" "Maybe you don't want to, but you need to, so you have a choice, either let me in and talk to me now, or wait for your sister to get back and have to deal with both her and me." After a pregnant pause, the door opened telekinetically, and Lana said, "Come on in." Kendall stepped into the room and saw Lana laying on the bed face down, her arms crossed with her chin resting on them. Kendall climbed on the bed beside Lana and took a position similar to her friend. After a few seconds of them just laying there, she said, "Y'know, bonding Lydia like that was kind of stupid." "It's all April's fault! If she had just kept quiet about my age, Lydia never would've found out." "Never would have found out? Do you really believe that? You could've kept it secret for a while, probably even long enough to start a physical relationship, but eventually someone would have mentioned that you were only 15." "But by then, Lydia would have known and loved me and been able to look past my age." "Maybe, but maybe she would also have been very angry with you for lying about your age, even if it was only a lie of omission. She probably would have also felt a lot of guilt over the fact that she was having sex with a minor. At the very least, it would've gotten in the way, if not actually break you up." "But it would have been between me and her! It was none of April's business!" "You're wrong. She definitely should have talked this out with you, but she is your sister, and she has an obligation to do what she can to keep you healthy, safe, and law- abiding. We are talking about a felony here." Lana snorted. "Only if you just look at my human years. If you factor in my Baraandi age, I'm older than either April or Lydia." Kendall laughed. "What's so funny?" "If you think of your Baraandi age, you're a middle-aged, hermaphroditic half-alien who was hitting on a college girl not old enough to even drink. Y'know, looking at you, you really don't fit the dirty old man profile." Lana thought about it, and then tried unsuccessfully to suppress a laugh. "I guess it is kind of silly. I just get tired of everybody treating me like a scatterbrained idiot." "You're right. People shouldn't treat you like you're stupid. But you need to make sure that you are not letting people push you into being stupid. You need to stop getting so angry that you wind up taking that impressive intellect and throwing it away in some overly emotional act in order to prove that you're in control of your own life. When you do that, all you do is hurt yourself, and sometimes others. Lydia seemed very distraught when she ran out of here." Lana got a sad look on her face. "I didn't want to hurt her, anything but." Lana looked to Kendall and asked, "What did I do wrong? Why was it so easy for me and April to accept this, where Kendall was so freaked?" "I'm not sure. Did you telepathically connect the two of you so that you could watch over her and let her know you were there, let her know she wasn't alone?" "I tried, but telepathy was never my best thing." "Then maybe you did something wrong, or maybe she just wasn't prepared to handle this. The older you get, the harder it is to adjust to the bonding procedure. She's almost at the age where you need a doctor to watch over the bonding procedure." "Then maybe the next Baraandi we need to bond with someone is the doctor. Y'know, just in case." "Sounds like a good idea, but from here on out, we will all discuss any bonding with any of the crystals. You, me, April, and, if she chooses to join us, Lydia. No more stealing. Okay?" "I'm sorry. I know I shouldn't have stolen the crystal, but Daggerlos meant everything to me." "I know. You weren't as sneaky as you thought you were." "I kind of suspected people knew about us, and I didn't want to get her in trouble." "I don't think anybody on the ship would have cared, but I suppose it was better safe than sorry." "That was the idea. I was going to marry her, y'know. Before the Larkoss came along, I was planning on resigning my commission so that I could raise our children." "Wow, you really did love her. Y'know, it's still possible for you to have kids with her." "Only if I haven't screwed this up so badly that she never wants to talk to me again. It's kind of a drawback to living a human life. I may feel more female than male, and thanks to my Baraandi half, I actually look like a female, but ultimately I can't do that most feminine of things, carry a baby within me." "Believe me, I know how you feel. If we had made it to a new planet with the colony ship without the Larkoss following, I was fully prepared to marry April, and then get her inside me and not let her out until I was carrying a few eggs, but c'est la vie. We're human now, and in terms of reproduction, we have to accept the male role." They lay together for a few seconds, not saying anything, until Lana finally said, "Are you the only one getting a little weirded out by this? I mean, here we are talking about having lost the ability to bear our offspring, but we never really had that ability, not really. I mean, technically we weren't the Baraandi. It's just that they're a part of us now." "Yeah, I know what you mean. I've been bonded with the captain for over a decade now, and, before this, I was always able to maintain a kind of detachment, keeping his life and my human life separate. Now, it's more and more like one big life with a huge transformation from Baraandi to human. I'm pretty sure that April is going through something similar." "I'm sure she is. I've definitely noticed that ever since you two went through the ceremony of revelations, she's been a lot more confident, more self-assured. Of course, that mean she's a lot more willing to just do what she thinks she has to without consulting those affected." "Now we're just rehashing old arguments. We'll sit down and get this all ironed out." "Okay, you're right." They lay together for a while longer. "Kendall, do you think that Lydia would be willing to go through the ceremony of revelations with me? It may help to explain why I did what I did." "Or it may show you just how foolish you were in doing what you did. The ceremony cuts both ways. But as to your question, I think this ceremony may be utterly necessary, if only to determine once and for all if the two of you can work together." They heard April and Lydia come in from outside. Kendall lightly slapped Lana and said, "C'mon, let's see what's up." The two of them left the room, but where Kendall went out into the main area of the house to greet April and Lydia, Lana hung back by the door to her room so that she could observe from a distance. Kendall asked, "So what's the story?" April said, "Lydia needs some time to work through her Baraandi life. Since you and I are sleeping together, I told her that she could use whatever room we weren't." "Sensible. But is there anything else she wants to talk about?" Kendall was referring to talking about, or rather to, Lana, and everybody knew it, but when they looked to Lydia, she remained tightlipped and silent. "For the time being, I guess not." Kendall just nodded and escorted Lydia back to her room. Lana didn't move from her space by her door, and as Kendall and Lydia walked by, she began to reach out, only to have Lydia pull away. It was small movements on both of their parts, but very telling. When Kendall and Lydia got to Kendall's bedroom door, Kendall asked, "Do you need any help in putting up some screens?" Lydia said, "No, I think I can handle it." Kendall nodded and walked away. When Lydia went inside the room, they all felt extremely, in fact overly, powerful shields put up, shields that were not only psychic, but also telekinetic in nature. No one could actually tell whether or not the shields were so powerful because of inexperience on Lydia's part, or due to Lydia's anger. As soon as those shields went up, Lana dashed back into her own room. Kendall looked to April and thought, {Go to her.} April walked into Lana's room, lightly knocking on the door as she entered. She saw Lana lying face down on the bed, her arms wrapped around and face buried in a pillow. April sat beside her sister and put a hand on Lana's shoulder. Lana immediately sat up and wrapped her arms around April, crying in April's blouse. "I've lost her, April. I've lost Daggerlos." April hugged Lana and patted her back. "C'mon, I don't think it's as bad as all that." "Yes, it is. Lydia hates me. I could feel it." "I don't think she hates you. I think she's very angry at you, but I don't think it's as bad as hate. Lydia, I think, is a very independent person. Suddenly, she's saddled with all these emotions and memories from somebody else. I think she's just afraid of forming an attachment that she didn't decide she wanted." "But she did want me, until you..." "Until I started mucking around. I am sorry. I really did want you two together; I just thought you were moving too fast." "Really? Let me see. Open yourself up telepathically and let me see what you intended." "Okay. You deserve that." April opened up her mind telepathically and allowed Lana to search through it, but what Lana found disturbed them both. "You were jealous. You knew Lydia and I were interested in each other. You figured that if you could arrange for Lydia and me to get together in your way, on your schedule, you'd be doing me this great favor and in some small way prove you were better than me." "But in order to prove my way was better than yours, I had to sabotage your way of doing it yourself. I am so sorry, Lana. I wasn't-" "You weren't doing it consciously. I know." Lana sighed. "I never asked to be a super genius, April. I would've been content to live my life reading comics and playing games with my buddies, but thanks to my intellect, I kept seeing things, seeing facts that others didn't. I kept coming up with solutions to problems that others didn't even know existed. And each time I did that, more people didn't want to be around me, didn't want to be reminded of my superiority. Everybody thought I was doing it on purpose, thought I was 'lording my intelligence' over them. Even you, and mom, and dad pushed me away." Lana looked into April's face with tears in her eyes. "But I never wanted to hurt anybody. I just wanted to be me. Was that really too much to ask for?" April clutched her sister to her. "No, it wasn't, and I am so sorry for pushing you away. From here on out, if you feel that I'm pushing you away, you go ahead and let me know, and if I begin to feel resentful, I'll make sure to talk it out with you. Let's work at being real close sisters. Okay?" Lana just nodded. The sat there like that for a little while until they were interrupted by a beeping sound. April asked, "What's that?" Lana started getting up, saying, "It's the scanner I built for getting a reading on the core radiation in the atmosphere." "Great. Just when I think I forgot about the Larkoss. So where is it?" Lana walked towards a desk in the room. "Right over here. It's this lamp that isn't on. I built the scanner to look like just a normal lamp so that in case anybody saw it, I wouldn't have to answer a bunch of stupid questions." "That makes sense, but isn't this a little small? Can it do the job?" "It's as big as most of the scanners on the ship." "Are you sure? They always seemed so much bigger to me." Lana opened up the top of her portable computer. "That's because you were a lot smaller as a Baraandi." "I was? It didn't feel any smaller." Lana got a somewhat introspective look on her face, and April said, "You're trying to think of a way to let me know something that I should have already figured out. Go ahead and tell me. We don't have time for me to figure it out on my own." "Well, you remember the life chambers from when we were Baraandi?" "Yeah." "Then you remember the chambers came up to the waists of most of the Baraandi. Well, those life chambers didn't shrink over time. The six inch chambers that Kendall pushed into our butts are the exact same size now as they were then. The average Baraandi was only about ten to eleven inches tall." April shook her head. "I missed that entirely, but thinking of Kendall..." April sent a quick telepathic summons to Kendall, letting her know what was going on. Kendall quickly came into the room and asked, "So how long have we got before the Larkoss attack?" Lana looked at the results on her computer and, with a depressing sigh, said, "We've got six more months of guaranteed Larkoss-free time. After that, depending upon all the prevailing factors, distance of the Larkoss from earth, atmospheric changes, etc., we should suffer our first Larkoss attack within a month or two after that." April said, "That figures. That means that our first Larkoss attack will be coming up about the same time as mid-terms for second semester." It was a weak attempt at humor and nobody laughed. THE NEXT DAY... April and Lana waited in the main room of the house. both were pensive, but Lana was clearly the more agitated of the two. They both knew that Lydia had had plenty of time to work through her memories, but so far, they had heard nothing from inside Kendall's room where Lydia was working. Shortly after noon, they felt the shields and screens come down, and Lydia soon came out of the room. When she walked into the same room that they were in, they immediately felt that she was still upset and angry, although not as intensely as she had been the night before. she briefly looked to Lana, then asked April, "Where's Kendall? I can't sense her." April replied, "She went out to a local auto parts store to pick up some stuff for the cars. She's actually coming down the street now. She'll be back in about a minute or two. Have a seat." "No, thanks. I'll wait outside." Lydia went outside, and Lana hung her head in sorrow and shame. April patted Lana's arm and said, "Don't make any snap judgments. She hasn't given you an absolute no, yet." Outside, Lydia saw Kendall driving down the road towards the house. After Kendall pulled into the driveway and stepped out of the car, Lydia stepped up and asked, "You still want my help working on your car?" "Sure. I'm going to be draining all the fluids and replacing all the hoses and gaskets that look worn. It's not hard work, but it is time consuming." They got the stuff that Kendall had bought out of the car, and laid it out where they could easily reach it. As they began to work, Lydia asked, "What about the other car?" "I checked it out earlier. It's in great shape, so we won't have to do any work on it." "So where did it come from?" "April won it last night in a car race. She acted as a driver for someone and won a bunch of cars for him, so she got this one in payment." "Pretty impressive. She been racing long?" "Last night was *April's* first time." "That's right. Quillthana was an amateur racer, wasn't she?" "Yup, a real speed junkie. She probably would've become a pro racer if she hadn't found a greater rush in flying space ships around the galaxy." "I suppose with her abilities, no one else had a chance." "You're right. No one else at that race was able to get close to her." They continued to work for a little while until Lydia stopped and asked, "Don't April's new abilities give her an unfair advantage? I mean, her psychic abilities allowed her to do things that the others never could." Kendall stopped and contemplated it. "I hadn't really thought about it. These abilities are completely natural to use, and become more so the longer you use them. It's like strength to a pro body builder, something you get better at the more you work at." "Yeah, but there's a difference. If someone small sees someone really big and buff, he immediately knows not to start a fight or anything with him. There's no way to tell at first glance that April or any of us are anything more than we seem. Normal people have no idea what they're getting into if they challenge one of us. With my new abilities, I could face Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal, and Jean-Claude Van Damme all at the same time and stand a good chance of winning, but you'd never know it to look at me." "Perhaps, but what about those whose abilities aren't quite so overt? People like chess champions or war simulation strategists. Those people have abilities, either from genetic quirks or from training, which I, even with all my Baraandi abilities, will never be able to challenge. Well, actually, I think I could do a pretty good job on war strategies, but that's because the captain was trained in war strategy, but even with that, I'd never stand a chance against the best on this planet." "Yeah, but people rarely risk things like cars on chess games and war games. If people knew what they were facing, they'd be a lot more hesitant to risk their property. By not letting them know, you put yourself in the same category as card sharks and pool hustlers." "I hadn't thought of it like that. My only real experience with using these powers comes from my Baraandi life where everybody had similar abilities. Perhaps they weren't as well trained or didn't have the same potential, but everybody had some ability. I guess we're going to have to refine the ethics of this as we go." "I guess we are. Of course, there's always the old maxim: don't gamble what you can't afford to lose." They continued to work on the car until Kendall said, "Let's take a break. Want a soda?" "Sure." "Have a seat. I'll be out in a little bit." Lydia took a seat on the lawn while Kendall went inside to get something to drink. Kendall returned only a short while later carrying two cans of soda. She handed one to Lydia and sat down beside her friend. After a little while of sitting and drinking, Kendall asked, "Made a decision about Lana, yet?" Lydia sighed. "Not yet." "You don't sound too angry." "I'm not. I'm still a little upset, but after going through Daggerlos's life, I can understand why Lana felt the need to do what she did. If our situations had been reversed, I probably would've done something similar." "So what is the problem?" "The problem is, I don't know if the feelings I've got are real or just some leftover echo of someone who died millions of years ago. I want to believe that the feelings I've got are real." Lydia got a smile on her face. "Their love was so powerful, that I want to believe that I could feel that way about anybody. To Daggerlos at least, their love felt like the kind you hear about in storybooks." "But you're not sure if those feelings are real or induced." "Exactly." "So what do you plan on doing about it?" "I don't know. I'm not sure how to handle this. What would you suggest?" "I'd suggest doing the ceremony of revelations. April and I went through it, and it really helped us put our relationship in order." "The ceremony of revelations? How exactly do you do that? I remember Costhenofa wanting to go through it with me, but we never managed to get around to it." "Don't you know how already? Oh, that's right. The enlisted ranks have a different set of rituals and ceremonies for command stuff." "Yeah. We were grunts. Our rituals were about setting up an easy command structure. We got commands telepathically, as well as the general intent behind the commands. That way, we knew what we were supposed to do without getting any details that we might risk losing to the enemy. We also knew that we weren't being exploited or just thrown away uselessly." "The ceremony of revelations gives the participants a complete review of each others' lives. That way, you know the best person in your command structure to get a job done based on individual abilities." "I can see why it wouldn't be necessary for the enlisted levels. At our level, it was more about simple implementation of commands. Being an interchangeable cog was pretty much part of the job description. But how does this ceremony help me and Lana?" "When it's done between two individuals, gives them a chance to look over their lives and see if they can work together. It's actually the first part of the Baraandi marriage ceremony." "So how do we go about doing this ceremony?" "If you decide you want to go through it, then Lana knows how to do it. You should probably get it done soon. As soon as possible, I'd like all of us to go through a group version of the ceremony." "What for? Are you going to insist we finish out the duration of our military contracts?" "The contracts aren't the issue. The Larkoss are still out there, waiting. According to Lana and the scanner she built, we've only got a little more than a year before the radiation protection we created starts to disappear, and the Larkoss can attack." "You're kidding. You would think that they would have left the planet, if only to search out food sources." "Well, apparently they were built with the ability to wait a very long time. April scanned out to the asteroid belt and detected them alive." "Damn!" They sat there for a while until Lydia finally asked, "Kendall, how do we stop a flock of creatures like the Larkoss without access to the super technology we used to have; particularly considering that technology didn't allow us to stop them in the first place?" "I have no idea. Right now, let's just worry about what we can fix, like this car." The two got back to work on the car through the rest of the day. When the sun started to set, they heard April call out from the door, "Hey, you two, we've got some dinner in here if you're ready to eat." When Lydia's stomach grumbled loud enough for her to hear, April said, "I'll take that as a yes to dinner. You better get in here before it gets cold or eaten or both." April went inside, and Lydia said, "God! I didn't realize how hungry I was." Kendall asked, "Did you remember to get something to eat after you got finished sorting out Daggerlos' life?" "Nope. Which means that I haven't had anything substantial to eat since before the party. Which reminds me, I probably ought to call the sorority to let them know where I am." "You can use the phone inside." Kendall and Lydia went inside to be greeted by the smell of cooked eggs, vegetables, and ground beef. Lydia asked, "What is that delicious aroma?" April said, "It's a special mix of Lana's. It's eggs, meat, and veggies cooked up in a pie shell." Lana tentatively offered, "It's nothing special. It's just kind of a home recipe for quiche." April got up close to Lydia and whispered, "She cooks when she's nervous." Lydia said, "Okay, before we eat, I need to make a call." "Phone's right over there." Lydia made her call to the sorority, and then they began to get ready to eat. As they moved around, Lydia slipped next to Lana and said, "After dinner, we need to talk." It was said with enough softness that it didn't leave the impression of finality, but not enough for Lana to feel it imparted any promises. They ate dinner and chatted about various subjects (although April and Kendall did most of the talking). After dinner, April and Kendall handled the dishes while Lydia and Lana went to talk. Kendall and April didn't eavesdrop, but their special senses allowed them to detect the movement of the other two through the house. They sensed the two of them move to right in front of Lana's room, talk for a little bit, and then go into it. Lydia and Lana then worked together to create powerful shields within the room to screen out external distractions. After those shields went up, April said, "Well, I guess that means they're gonna see how things could work out between them with the ceremony of revelations." Kendall said, "I think that's a pretty good guess. C'mon, let's get the dishes done and over with. It'll help to pass the time." "Yeah, maybe 20 or 30 minutes. That ceremony takes 12 to 14 hours. Don't tell me that you're not as anxious as I am to find out how this is going to turn out." "You know I am, but this is going to take as long as it's going to take, and our being anxious about it isn't going to change that. C'mon. If we just sit here and think about it, we really will go nuts." Kendall and April did the dishes together, and then went into April's room (which was quickly becoming THEIR room) to try to get some sleep. They were just too nervous to even try to have sex. TWELVE AND A HALF HOURS LATER, LANA'S ROOM... Lana slowly opened her eyes and looked into Lydia's face. "Well," she asks, "what do you think? Do we have a chance together?" Lydia reached up and stroked Lana's face. With extreme tenderness, she said, "At least now I understand why you did what you did. You were just so lonely, years ahead in school, ostracized by your peer group. I think I would've done the same thing." "But do we have a chance together, a chance at a real relationship?" Lydia sighed, got up off the bed, and walked around a little. "Okay, psychologically and emotionally, we're perfect for each other. We could be even better together than Costhenofa and Daggerlos were." "But the age difference is still bothering you. Is it really that big a deal? It's only a little more than four years." "It's not the raw numbers, and you should know that, and you should know why, too." "It's the fact that I'm a minor, and you're not. It comes from the fact that when you were in high school, a friend got into a consensual relationship with a teacher, a relationship she really wasn't mature enough to handle. When the two of them broke up, she had to be treated for clinical depression." "Exactly." "But you don't have to worry about that with me. I've already been through one puberty, and you know we're not gonna break up. With the ceremony done, neither of us has any more hidden emotional baggage to bring to the relationship, and by regularly linking and resolving our problems telepathically, we're destined to last together for decades." "First off, you've been through a Baraandian puberty which is far less physiologically intense as a human one, so you can't really apply one to the other. Secondly, even if all the rest of it is true, which I'm not gonna argue, there is still the matter of the fact that any physical relationship between us would still be illegal. Both Daggerlos and I have both led very physical lives. I don't think I could be content with just hand holdings and hugs." "We could do something else. We could start a mental stimulation relationship." Ideas flashed into both of their heads. In Baraandi culture, just as in human culture, when Baraandi children went through puberty, they would be expected to discipline their sexual urges and not indulge their bodies in reckless consummation of their lusts. But the Baraandi, with their telepathic abilities, had a better way of handling it than humans did. Any two people, if they were feeling particularly needy, could connect telepathically and then create realistic telepathic scenarios that could stimulate them to orgasm. To the Baraandi, it was something like heavy petting to humans, although on a much more intense level. It wasn't as fulfilling as a more physical relationship would be, but it did help them to assuage their physical desires. Lydia said, "A mental simulation relationship? Isn't that a little childish?" "Isn't that the point? That we're really children, despite the Baraandi souls we have within us?" "I suppose you've got a point, but do you think it will work?" "Maybe, maybe not, but I really think we have to try." "Well, we don't HAVE to." "Yeah, we do. This is a case of the ceremony cutting both ways. We KNOW that we would be perfect for each other. Not just have a good idea of, but KNOW that we'd be perfect for each other." "So?" "So if we don't do everything we can to see if the relationship between us is possible, then every time we are with somebody else, anybody else, or for that matter just thinking of being with anybody else, we're going to know that we're not with each other, and it's going to drive us nuts." "I hadn't thought about that." "Yeah, I get that a lot, but the fact is we have to do this. We have to at least try." "You're right, of course." "I get that a lot, too. So do you want to do this now?" "I want to do this and more right now, but I can wait for the rest." Lydia climbed back on the bed and took Lana's hands in hers. Before they connected telepathically, Lana said, "A couple of advantages to this. If anyone asks, we can honestly say that we haven't done anything more physically intimate than holding hands and imagine a lot." Lydia smiled. "Funny, what's the other advantage?" "Since this is all going to be a mental creation, we can create whatever images we want. I can be whoever you'd like. I can be a full woman for you." "You don't have to do that." "I don't mind. I know how little you care for real cock." "Actually, it's just men that I'm not real fond of. Yours will be the first woman cock I've ever had, so I want to know what it's like." "Are you sure?" Lydia leaned over and gave Lana a kiss on the lips. "I'm sure. It's like you said, physically, this isn't happening, so letting the happen mentally will give me a chance to get used the idea. One day, you and I are going to be getting together physically, so this will be good practice." "Any particular clothes you want me to wear?" "Let me pick the clothes and the environment. You just bring that hot body you made." "Okay." The two of them closed their eyes and reached out telepathically to each other... IN A WORLD WHOLLY WITHIN THEIR MINDS... Lana opened her eyes to find herself within a grand ballroom. Off to one side was an antique mirror. It was wholly out of place within the context of the ballroom, but it was also exactly placed so that Lana could see herself easily. Turning to take a look at herself, Lana saw that she was now wearing a corset that was covered with a red and black, mottled pattern. The corset lifted her breasts without covering them. At the bottom of the back of the corset was a train that stretched out at least ten feet behind her. The straps at the base the corset attached to black, mesh stockings. On her feet were a pair of three inch heels with the same black and red pattern that was on her corset. Lydia stepped up behind Lana, reached around her, and took her breasts in hand. Lightly massaging them, Lydia asked, "So do you like the outfit?" Lana reached up and behind Lydia's neck and pulled Lydia's head down where their lips were only inches apart. "It's absolutely dreamy, but I notice you didn't include any panties or bra." Lydia kissed Lana passionately. Then, without breaking the lip lock or letting Lana slide from her grip, Lydia turned her lover around and pressed their bodies together. After their kiss finished, Lydia said, "Now why, in my fantasy dreamscape, would I want my fantasy girl covering up her goodies?" and playfully squeezed Lana's behind. Lana put her arms around Lydia's neck and said, "You sweet talker, you." Lana then pulled their bodies together and gave Lydia a very long, very passionate kiss. Music started playing from nowhere, and the new couple started moving around to the music. It was more than just undulating in rhythm with the music, but not quite formulaic or regulated enough to be a dance. Neither of the girls cared. The two of them moved together like that, both reveling in the romance of the moment. They moved together with the grace of two swans, and when they kissed, it was like all the universe was stopping to let them finish. After a while of just moving around, Lydia moved Lana over to a bed that was just there. Lana got a good look at Lydia as the older girl lay her back on the bed. Lydia was wearing an outfit almost exactly the same as Lana, but where Lana's was red and black, Lydia's was blue and black. Lydia asked, "Are you ready?" Lana said, "Oh, yes! I've been wanting this ever since I saw it in Kendall's mind." "Don't build it up too much. You're basing the sensations you're going to feel on my experiences and what little you picked up from Kendall. If you make too much of this, you may wind up getting disappointed by the real thing." "Would you stop bothering me with technical details? I know the limitations of this environment as well as you do, but right now, I don't care. So finish your outfit, and do what you know I want so much." Lydia considered Lana for a while, and then said, "Y'know, you're cute when you're needy." When Lana gave a cry of frustration, Lydia said, "Relax." With a flourish, Lydia waved her hand, and a big, strap-on dildo suddenly appeared upon her, all the straps properly in place around her hips. "You know that I want this as much as you do." Lydia got up between Lana's bent legs. She gently slid her hands underneath Lana's knees and lifted them to the younger girl's chest. With real tenderness, Lydia asked, "You ready?" Lana nodded and said, "Yes, I am. Please do me now." Lydia kissed the first two fingers on her own hand, pressed those fingers to Lana's lips, and then took Lana by her thighs and pushed the dildo into Lana's ass. Both Lana and the dildo were already lubed up (it was one of those details that was automatically handled within the confines of a mental landscape), so the dildo slid in easily. When the dildo was all the way in and Lydia's hips were pressed up against Lana's, Lydia reached down around Lana's legs and took Lana's breasts in hand, using only her upper arms to hold Lana's legs. Then she started the actual fucking, pumping her hips against her lover, causing the dildo to move in and out of Lana's ass. It took only a little while before Lana tensed up and orgasmed. With how she felt being reflected into the physical reality of the landscape, the entire room shook, and she sprayed semen ten feet into the air. After Lana finished cumming, Lydia said, "I take it you liked that?" Breathing heavily, Lana replied, "That's an understatement!" "Good. Because as soon as you're ready, it's your turn to get me to cum." Lana felt a surge of energy thinking of sex with Lydia. "Gladly!" The dildo disappeared from Lydia's hips, and she lay back on the bed. Lana got between Lydia's legs and bent down to taste her lover. Just before she stuck out her tongue, Lydia said, "I hope you understand..." "That you can't reciprocate," finished Lana. "I know. I understand that it will take you time to get used to the fact that your lover has a penis. I know you better than I know myself. Since we're going to have to be doing this on the mental level anyway, I can have a vagina until you get used to my penis. Even after that, I think I'm going to be preferring that you take the active role in sex, anyway." "Thank you, lover." "You're welcome. Now, do you want to keep talking, or are you going to let me put my tongue to you?" Lydia smiled. "You just go ahead and do what you want to do." Lana leaned forward, stuck her tongue out, and gently began to lick at Lydia's slit. Using the experience she had gained from going through Lydia's life, both as a licker and as the licked, Lana made oral love to Lydia's cunt. She used long, slow strokes, starting at the base and moving up to the top. She gently teased the area around the clit, finally taking it in her mouth and gently sucking on it. Just before Lydia got to the point of no return, Lana let go of her clit, and leaned back just a little. Lydia bit her bottom lip to keep from crying out. She reached up and took her own breasts in hand, teasing herself to keep from cooling down too quickly. Lydia loved this gentle torture, being brought to the edge of the orgasm and being allowed to cool down, and Lana knew it. After Lydia did cool down, Lana went in once more, this time sliding her hands up and replacing Lydia's hands on her own breasts. Three more times they did this, bringing Lydia right to the edge and stopping, before it became too much, and when Lana brought Lydia to the edge the next time, Lydia found herself crashing over it into orgasm, even though both intended to let her cool down again. After the orgasm, Lana crawled up beside Lydia and the two snuggled together. Lydia said, "That was incredible." "Thanks. I had a good teacher, or more accurately, teachers, every lover you have ever had in your life." Lydia stroked Lana's face. "I'm glad you paid such rapt attention." "For you, I was glad to do it." Lydia sighed. "I suppose we'd better get back to reality." "I suppose you're right." With that, they drifted back from the mental world. BACK IN LANA'S ROOM... The two opened their eyes and smiled. The only physical evidence of what they had just done with the juices that had been produced from the physical reactions of their orgasm. Lana's semen had sprayed out so forcefully that not only were her own panties soaked, but the semen was now streaked over the underside of Lana's dress, and the top of Lydia's blouse, skirt, and legs, as well as some of the blankets between them on the bed. Lydia's panties and the sheets beneath her were now soaked with the results of her own cum. However, neither one of them cared about the mess they had made. Lana leaned over and, using one finger, scooped up a little bit of her own semen, saying, "I didn't know that I could spray this far." Lydia surprised both of them by taking Lana's hand, raising it to her mouth, and sucking on Lana's finger. "I think you probably gave it a little telekinetic assist. I also think that I'm going to have to borrow someone else's blouse. Considering that many of the girls of the sorority know my feelings on cum, I'm not sure I could explain the stains." Lana was downhearted and said, "You're going back to live in the sorority House?" "No, I'm going back get my stuff to move in here. You surely don't think that I could be that far away from you for any serious length of time, do you?" Lana squealed with glee. "Goody!" she exclaimed before throwing her arms around Lydia and giving her a big hug. Both of them knew that a more serious reason for having Lydia move in was the fact that the telepathic mind she now had would hear the surface thoughts of others as a constant, mad buzz. She'd probably get used to it in time (Kendall certainly did), but until then, the temptation to eavesdrop, as well as the annoyance value, might lead to some unexplainable complications, so it was better that she spend her time around other minds disciplined by Baraandi training. By unspoken agreement, they got off the bed, clasped hands, took down their shields, and went out into the front room where April and Kendall waited for them. As soon as they entered the room, an impatient April asked, "Well? What's the scoop?" Lydia said, "We've decided we're going to be together, but at least for the time being, anything beyond what can be done in public, kissing, hugging, hand holding, and so on, will be done only in a mental simulation." April and Kendall rushed the two, and they had a group hug; after which, Kendall said, "Congratulations. Now, not to be too much of a downer, but we need to discuss Baraandi business." Lydia simply said, "The Larkoss." "Exactly. We've got to discuss possible ideas that we might be able to come up with to save the planet." April said, "Do we have any chance at all? All the resources of the entire Baraandi Federation weren't able to find a way to defeat the Larkoss before. Now, we only have the resources of Earth to draw on." "I know, but we have to try. The Larkoss are coming whether we want them to or not." Lydia said, "Well, near as I can tell, we have two advantages that we didn't have as Baraandi. One, we're bigger than the Baraandi were. It's a lot easier for us to build really big weapons and machines to fight them with, and two, the Larkoss have to be at a much lower level energy-wise then they were when they chased us into the solar system. After all, it's been 65 million years, and without energy, the Larkoss can't reproduce. If we can manage to pick them off in small numbers as the radiation field decays, then we might be able to win a war of attrition." "That second advantage might be a small advantage. We might be able to knock off a third to half that way, but as time goes by, it's going to be easier and easier for the Larkoss to get through. Eventually, the Larkoss will attack in such numbers that if we don't have a plan ready, the planet is doomed. That first advantage, however much I hate to say it, really doesn't mean much. The Baraandi had factories the size of our moon that were capable of putting out space ships and weapons that were capable of fighting the Larkoss, and it didn't help in the end." April said, "Well, one advantage to our human-Baraandi pairing is that psychically, we are far more powerful than we were as Baraandi alone. If we can build psychic amplifiers like we used to have, we might actually have a fighting chance." Lana said, "That might be doable, but really, to have any chance against a significant number of Larkoss, we're going to have to have all our Baraandi sisters. We should also think about trying to awaken human psychic potential. In terms of raw strength, a human is only slightly less strong than a Baraandi, but they're completely undeveloped." "I guess we have a plan," Kendall said. "If we're going to do this, then we need to start looking for who, both in terms of human hosts and Baraandi who will be the first to get bonded." Lydia said, "I think the first two obvious Baraandi choices to get bonded have to be the doctor and the tactical officer. Unless we get lucky, or unless we decide to start picking hosts at random, we'll probably have to deal with at least a few Larkoss before we have a planetary defense set up. We'll need the tactical officer to be able to handle whatever weapons we build, and we should get the doctor, just in case." "That makes sense. Since you're the one most familiar with the people around the University, do you know of anybody who can serve as hosts?" "I don't really know. Remember, as enlisted personnel, I wasn't trained as to what to look for in case hosts were needed. The only ones who got that training were officers." Lana said, "They had to be command level as well. I didn't get that training until after I was made chief engineer." "So what am I looking for in a host?" Kendall said, "In terms of their personality, you should look for a human host that's as close to the Baraandi they're being matched up with as possible. They should be relatively healthy, athletic interests being a big plus, and as young as possible." "How young is young?" "You really shouldn't choose anyone older than the main growth cycle of the species, which for a human is approximately 20 to 21 years of age. If there is someone a little older than that who is just an absolutely perfect match for any particular Baraandi from the ship, then you could go up to 120% of the main growth cycle, but we have to have the doctor to supervise the proceedings in that case." "So the absolute cut off age is 25, but we need somebody 21 or younger for the doctor first. The personality match would be the hardest thing for me to determine. The only people I really knew well were the security staff. Anybody else would be sheer guess." "Do you have anybody who might fit the doctor on a guess? Pre-med students or someone similar?" "There are a couple in the sorority who fit that description. You'd have to make a final determination as to how close they match with the doctor on the ship." "Okay, give me their names and I'll check them out. Now, that just leaves the more material aspects of our plan. Lana, as the engineer you would be most familiar with what we need for the machinery. What materials are we going to need for psychic amplifiers, both personal and large scale, a couple of large scale energy cannons, and some flying platforms to mount the cannons on. We'll need to be able to get those weapons anywhere on the planet, preferably in as short a time as possible." Lana said, "For the devices themselves, we can get most of what we need at a good building supply store. The only problems I can see are going to be with the cannons and the power cells for running these things. Our big guns are going to need at least one big pipe apiece, at least if we want them powerful enough to take on the Larkoss." "How big do we need these pipes to be?" "Big enough to walk through. I'd say at least eight to ten feet in diameter, too big to be gotten at a construction shop." "What about the power cells? What's the problem with making those?" "The problem will be with the delivery of power. The actual reaction that creates the energy is pretty easy to start up and keep stable once it gets going, but we'll need special wires in order to deliver the energy where it needs to go." "Will the materials for these wires be hard to get?" "The material itself? No. Basically, it's just a special molecular composition of glass. It may take looking around to find the material, but all were looking for is basically sand. The problem will be when we try to refine it into the right stuff. We'll need a static free environment in order to make our stuff molecularly pure. That's going to be hard, if not impossible to find, at least not without revealing what we plan on doing with it." "Are you sure? How clean do we need the room you work in to be?" "As clean as bloody, fucking possible." April warned, "Watch your language." "Sorry, but it needed to be said to get the point across. The fact is, when the Baraandi manufactured these wires, they not only used static free environments, they did it in a vacuum in order to preserve the integrity of the material." Kendall asked, "Would it be possible to make any of the material without a clean room?" "I might be able to make some of the energy delivery wires without a clean room, but those wires would only be usable once, if we're lucky." Lydia asked, "Why lucky if we can only use it once? Wouldn't it be lucky if we could use it multiple times?" "Nope. If those wires didn't instantly incinerate themselves after the first usage, then the impurities would wind up causing an energy feedback loop in the main reactor. Any use after that would wind up causing an explosion that would wind up taking out anything within about five meters, and that's with the smallest reactor. The explosion caused by a reactor big enough to power the weapons we're talking about would take out an area the size of the Houston Astrodome." After a few seconds, Kendall said, "Okay, then we won't be taking even the risk of building a reactor that large. Just in case, build a couple of personal amplifiers with impure materials. They'll be used only as a last ditch resort, but even as a one shot device, it'll be good to have them in reserve." April asked, "Should I look around the city to see if I can find a clean room?" "Yeah. Work with your sister. She'll be most familiar with what you need to be looking for." Lydia asked, "What about informing Earth governments about what's about to happen. Don't they deserve to know?" "Yeah, they do, but from a political standpoint, the earth is too fractured right now. We don't have any proof, any objective proof, that is, of the threat that's going to be coming. The first reaction would be to consider us a bunch of silly girls with a strange story. Then, if we can make it past that, we'd be shuffled off to some little room to work in private for the benefit of only one government, and if we did somehow manage to make an appeal directly to the U.N., we'd have half a dozen governments working against us just because one or two decided to work with us." "So how are we going to handle letting people know what's going on? I think they're going to figure out that something's going wrong when giant bugs descend from space and start eating everything living in sight: plants, animals, and humans." "We'll have to wait until after the Larkoss make their first attack. Then, when we go to the government with our story, there will be a genetically engineered body to back up our story." "What if the Larkoss who attack that first time are too much for us to handle?" "If everything goes according to plan, there's no way one or two Larkoss will be a problem. If they are, there's no point to doing anything, because we're all doomed anyway." "Not be too much of a devil's advocate, but what if things don't go according to plan? What if we can't get the materials we need to make a suitable defense against the Larkoss?" "Then we'll have to revise the plan, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Let's see if we can make this plan work, and if we run into trouble, then we'll discuss other options. Agreed?" Everybody nodded. Lana said, "Then April and I should get to work on finding a clean room that we can use." April said, "As well as all the materials we'll need to build all our equipment." Kendall said, "Sounds good. Lydia, how about you and I go get your stuff to help you move in?" Lydia said, "Okay, we might as well get that done and over with. Y'know, I haven't even gotten a chance to look at my books for classes this semester." April said, "I had almost forgotten about classes. It almost doesn't seem fair. Here we are, saving the planet, and yet, we still have to go to classes and get good grades just like anybody else." Kendall said, "Life is funny that way." A MONTH LATER... Lydia said, "I don't like this. I really wish you'd just tell me what needed to be done, then I could go in, get it done, and get out with no problems. You're not trained for this." Lana said, "Technically, neither are you. You're just trained in preventing this kind of stuff, and you're just reverse applying it." "And what exactly do you have that's any where near similar?" "Admittedly, nothing. Just think of it as one more reason why I need you so much." Lydia grumbled under her breath. Lana put her hand on Lydia's and said, "Lydia love, we've been over this. Even in this clean room, I'm going to need to use my telekinetic abilities in order to preserve the integrity of the room to make of wires we need. Since I'm the only one familiar enough with the procedure to do that, I can't just. I'm going to have to be there." "Yeah, I know, but that doesn't mean I have to like it." Lana and Lydia stood on top of the building that overlooked a private lab in Richmond, Virginia. After a thorough scan of Washington, D.C., April determined that there had been only a couple of clean rooms in the city, and neither of them had a security level low enough to risk sneaking in long enough to make the power wires they needed. So April branched out and started investigating nearby cities to find what was needed. The closest lab with a low enough security was in Richmond, so Lana, as the expert in what needed to be done, and Lydia, as the security expert, went out the first Friday night in order to get into the lab. Lana said, "I know you don't like it. To tell you the truth, I don't much like it either. If it were possible, I would just give you what you needed to do, and let you handle it." "Yeah, but I know you. Waiting for me to get done and wondering how I was doing would've driven you nuts. In fact, I'm not sure you're not saying you can't hand this off just because you don't want me to go in alone." "I might if I thought I could get away with that, but if you didn't catch me, then undoubtedly April or Kendall would have. Believe me, if there was any way to keep me out of this, one or both of them would have taken it. Sorry, my dear, I guess you're stuck with me." "Yeah, you're probably just doing this so you can come out dressed in black." Lana put one hand behind her head in a fake pose. She, like Lydia, was dressed in the outfit the stereotypical burglar: black pants, black turtleneck, black boots, and a black hat, all topped off with some black makeup on face and hands to reduce glare. "Well, I do look good in black, and they say black is slimming. What do you think?" Lydia rolled her eyes and pulled Lana's hand down. "Knock it off. Don't do anything to attract attention." "Please. We're standing on a building almost three hundred feet in the air. Even if someone were looking right at us, they'd just write us off as some bird who decided to perch on the roof for the night." "I don't want to take a chance. Now do as I say, or I'll turn you over my knee and spank you." "Gee, weren't you going to do that anyway?" said Lana, hinting at the sexual spanking games they were playing in their simulations. "Alright, then if you don't do as I say, I won't spank you tonight." "Now, there is a threat I can respect." "Hush, the plant is powering down. Help me scan to see who's still inside." The two reached out with their senses and looked over the entire building. Eventually, Lana said, "I'm picking up two people inside. Considering the sense of authority they emit, I'd guess security guards." "So it's not just me? You can't get a specific lock on them either, get a look at them inside the building?" "No. But we knew to expect that. The protections they have against interference from outside magnetic fields also act as a pretty good scrambler for our long range sensing. April, or maybe even Kendall, could look right through it, but it's giving us fits." "Well, we've got to get this done, so let's get going." "Okay, just one second." Lana reached out to the building where they would be going and extended her senses through the security system. Almost immediately thereafter, she said, "I've got control of security. As long as we avoid direct sight, no one will know we were ever in there." "So let's move." Lydia swept Lana into her arms, amplified her physique, and leapt the distance to the front door, three hundred feet down and four hundred feet across, in one large leap. The electronic security, even if Lana hadn't been controlling it, would have been only a short pause for their telekinetic talents, and in short order, they were at the room they needed, changing into static free suits. Everything they needed to build a couple of psychic amplifiers was contained in a couple of backpacks they were wearing. All four of their group had determined that they would be committing as few felonies as they could manage. To that end, they would be illegally using this clean room only long enough for Lana to build the two personal amplifiers she intended. After that, they would use the amplifiers to establish a temporary clean room of their own. It would be more taxing, particularly on Lana, but they felt it would be more fair towards those not involved and more private as well. Once inside the room, Lana quickly got to work. An hour later, when she was almost finished with the second amplifier, Lydia asked, "How much longer?" "Only about 10 minutes." Almost as if by fate, they heard the door of the room start to open. Lydia said, "Damn it! I got distracted!" and telekinetically reached out to hold the door shut. "That won't hold for long. If she spends too long in that entryway, the computer automatically moves to alert status, and I'm at too critical a juncture to be able to divert myself to either stop it or hide long enough for whoever it is to come in, do what they have to, and then leave." "What do I do?" After a few seconds of thinking, Lana said, "Bring her inside, but then grab her telekinetically, keep her from calling out or even moving." "Got it." Focused on her work, Lana could only listen as the door opened and a person stepped in and said, "What the-" Lydia said, "Don't struggle. You will only hurt yourself. Don't worry. We'll be finished in about five to ten minutes." Lana felt fear and confusion coming from the person, but ignored it and continued on with her work. It took her about eight minutes to finish up. When she turned around, she saw the person, a woman, being held about a foot off the floor facing the wall. Lydia asked, "Done? Are we ready to go?" Studying the woman, Lana, in a rather noncommittal voice, said, "I guess so." "Something up?" "Possibly." Lana used her telepathy to scan the woman. From what she saw, she made a quick decision, extended her senses through the lab's communications system, made some changes, and said, "Okay, we're done here. Let's go." Lydia and Lana left the clean room, changed out of their garb, and reversed their path through the building, ending up on the very building where they had started. Once they were safely there, Lydia asked, "So what was all that with that woman?" "I did a quick scan to see if she would be suitable to host a Baraandi." "A security guard? Why?" "She wasn't a security guard. I checked lab protocols before we left. The security guards aren't allowed into the clean room. They're not trained in proper procedure and activities within one. Rather than go through all the expense of training them in such things, it's just easier and cheaper to mandate that they don't enter. That woman was actually one of the scientists of the lab; working late, I guess. So I checked her age and training and such for compatibility." "So what were your results?" "She looks like a good candidate. She's only 22 years old, but she has a graduate level of training. She's actually a full scientist at the lab, not some kind of assistant or some such." "So what did you do?" "I left an e-mail on her personal account as to where she should come if she wanted to find out what happened tonight." "You didn't tell her where we live at? Did you?" "Give me some credit, love. I gave the address of that mall where we regularly shop. It's nice and public, and since Kendall or April are going to have to do the follow-up check on her, there's no risk that she'll see somebody she recognizes. She didn't even get a good look at either of us except as a general outline inside those suits." "She'll probably bring some security." "Undoubtedly, but since they won't know what to look for either, it won't matter." The alarms at the lab started to ring. "Speaking of security, it's really time to get out of here." Lydia swept Lana into her arms and then ran across the rooftops to where they had parked the car, the racing Chevy that April had won that night at the races. Just before they got in the car, Lydia noticed a slip of paper on the windshield, picked it up, and said, "Damn, I got a ticket. What for? I didn't park illegally." Lana point