Telepaths of Seelie

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Here on this page are parts 4 - 6 of a science fantasy story "The Synpaz of Seelie", which takes place in the Ekcolir Reality. Previously, the replicoid of Petra Nicholls (who uses the name "Artep") was instantiated inside the Hierion Domain as a miniature artificial human, the same size as the sy'Paz, alien-human hybrids that are about one tenth normal human size.

Artep is ready to participate in experiments designed to reverse the polarity of the Bimanoid Interface and allow Petra, on Earth, to telepathically communicate with Artep, efficiently exchanging their conscious language-like thoughts.

Bimanoid Interface

The analogue of Isaac Asimov who lives at the Writers Block already has a telepathic link to Petra who was custom designed to be his mind clone. Isaac mentions to Artep that Petra's mother, Katrina, is in residence in Eternity.

However, before the first telepathy experiment begins, Artep visits Seelie, the community that is home of the sy'Paz clans. Artep makes a new friend, Rusan, a telepathic sy'Paz. Has Grean carefully arranged to involve Katrina and Rusan in the new telepathy experiment? What might they be able to contribute to the planned test of Artep's telepathic powers?

 4. Naj. (read parts 1 -3)

Artep and Naj at the Writers Block

Artep departed from the home of Isaac and Mary, eager to learn about Seelie and its residents. She flew cautiously down the corridor that led back to the Grand Rotunda of the Writers Block where the locals often congregated for relaxation and conversation.

There was Hafren, still seated at the same table where Artep had met her earlier in the day. Hafren was leaning back in her chair, the two front legs of the chair up off the floor, her eyes closed. Artep landed rather clumsily on the table among an assortment of half empty plates and cups.

Hafren's eyes fluttered open. "Ah, Artep." She seemed distracted, perhaps drunk. "What did you learn from Asimov?"

"Tomorrow we are going to do the first hierion beam modulation experiment; try to link me to Petra's conscious mind."

Hafren suggested, "And now you want Naj."

Artep nodded and asked, "Did she fly off?"

"No. She got tired of waiting for you." Hafren lowered the feet of her chair; they hit the floor with a little 'chink'.

Artep looked around. There were a half dozen groups of writers present now, seated at other tables near them. Artep noticed several of the others were looking at Hafren. Artep followed their gazes back to Hafren and it seemed as if they were all looking under the table. "I don't see..."

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Just then, Naj emerged from inside Hafren's skirt and flitted into Hafren's lap. Naj adjusted her pants and then her head popped up above the table top and she glanced at Artep. She was standing in Hafren's lap, one foot on each of Hafren's thighs. "Hi, Artep. Now I'm ready to go." She flew up, planted a small kiss on the tip of Hefren's nose and then flew up to a position slightly above Artep.

Artep rose up off the table and asked Naj, "What were you doing down there under her skirt?"

Naj replied negligently, "The usual."

"You are usually under Hafren's skirt?"

"Don't worry about it kid. You might not believe me, but it is possible for a sy'Paz to have sex with a human." Grabbing Artep's hand, Naj flew upwards and called to Hafren, "I'll bring her back in the morning."

Naj and Artep flew upwards and passed through one of the gaps in the roof. They kept rising towards the top of the cavern that held the buildings of the Writers Block. Artep could not contain her curiosity. She asked, "How could you have sex with Hafren?"

"Hafren is an artificial lifeform, like you. Her body is composed of femtobots. She can shape the glans of her clitoris into any form that I desire... and believe me, when it comes to her sculpting, I really desire. After she shapes herself to fit me just right then I just ride her until we both have a nice orgasm... or two. You interrupted my ride, so you owe me an orgasm."

Now Naj and Artep were far above the buildings of the Writers Block. As they approached the high ceiling of the dome, Artep could see how it had been cleverly designed to simulate a cloudy sky when viewed from below. Naj said, "This is the entrance to Seelie. Follow me through the tunnel on the right."

Naj released Artep's hand and darted into a small hole in the ceiling. There were two of these small holes in the ceiling, one for traffic moving in each direction. Artep followed Naj into the dimly lit tunnel that was just large enough for a flying synpaz. They flew steadily for almost five minutes and then Artep emerged into another chamber, seeming to rise up out of the top of a palm tree. They were above a beautiful beach with a seemingly endless ocean to one side and a resort-like complex of huts and pavilions to the land side. Naj said, "This is Pah'anui, but the humans call it Seelie Port." She pointed down the shoreline, "Look, aeroball!" Naj zipped away down the beach flying almost too quickly for Artep to see her movements.

To Artep's side, a voice said, "I'm afraid the sy'Paz are intrinsically unreliable."

in the Ekcolir Reality

Artep turned and saw an odd looking woman, hovering in midair. A memory derived from Petra's intimate telepathic contacts with Asimov was triggered and Artep asked, "Grean?"

Grean nodded. "I knew that Naj would abandon you, so I made sure to be here at this time." Grean had shrunk herself down to synpaz size. "Follow me."

Grean flew up into the simulated sky of Seelie Port. Artep glanced down the beach and seemed to be able to see a swirl of darting synpaz, or as Grean had said with more precise pronunciation, sy'Paz. She followed Grean who flew up and up and finally into a tunnel that passed through this cavern's roof and once again it was several minutes before they emerged into the next higher cavern of Seelie. In the distance was a little village, charmingly nestled in a green valley between low mountains, yet everything looked unreal and unnatural, the landscape not having been shaped by Earthly forces. Grean pointed into the distance, "We'll wait in Naj's house."

Grean and Artep flew up the valley and as they approached the village, Artep recognized this as being the part of Seelie that had been shown to her by Mary when they were using the Seelie Simulator. In fact, Mary had been standing in the backyard garden of Naj's house.

There were no locked doors or windows in Seelie. Grean and Artep flew into Naj's house and landed in the living room. Artep was a bit dizzy from all the flying and sank down into a chair. Grean explained, "Naj will find you here when she's done playing. After she spends a long day in the Writers Block, Naj gets very horny. You'll learn.... the sy'Paz have a more fiercely compelling sex drive that you humans."

Artep's mind was over-flowing with questions. She asked, "Do you mean to say that Naj... what is aeroball?"

Grean sat down across from Artep and giggled. On the low table between them was a pair of rather provocatively decorated vibrators. "Pah'anui is designed for fun and frolics. Occasionally an aeroball game will break out here, but there is almost always one in progress at Pah'anui. In old Seelic, the word "pah" means 'penis' and 'anu' was the word for 'vagina'. I suppose you can well imagine the type of frolics that take place in Pah'anui. Aeroball is a kind of acrobatic orgy for the sy'Paz."

"It is a game? There is a ball, or..."

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"The sy'Paz are like me, hermaphrodites. A word of warning, Artep..." Grean picked up one of the vibrators and switched it on. She touched the device to the back of her neck. "Some people will see you and assume you are a biological sy'Paz, but the real sy'Paz will recognize you and call you 'human', sometimes with a sneer. In any case, the biological sy'Paz don't have external testes. They all get called "she" because unless their penis is out and on display, they look like women."

Artep asked, "What are the objectives of the aeroball game?"

"Mostly to have fun." Grean winked at Artep and put the vibrator behind her back. She pressed herself forcefully up against the back of the chair, enjoying the massage. "The game ball in an aeroball game is rather large, which creates significant wind-resistance. It is like a game of tag. The person with the ball tries to..." Grean fell silent. After a few seconds she shrugged, "It is rather complex and I've never tried to understand the rules, written or unwritten."

"It sounds tantalizingly erotic."

"It is bawdy, rather violent and can turn nasty if someone does not like the outcome..." Grean adjusted the position of the vibrator against her back. "I don't know if you noticed the lighthouses."

Artep asked, "Do you have a bad back?"

Grean grimaced. "How old do you think I am?"

"You look about 30 years old."

"I've existed in this bodily form for almost eight hundred years. My medical nanites can do wonders, but I'm due for another spinal re-build. Still, my work is almost done here, so I've been delaying..."

Artep asked, "This isn't your first body?"

Grean replied, "If I keep my mouth closed, I can usually pass as a human. A Kac'hin, without modification by developmental control nanites, would be instantly recognized as alien. I had to abandon my original body form when I was selected by the pek for my mission to Earth." Grean showed off her pointy Kac'hin teeth then morphed them into normal human form. Having made her point, she let her teeth resume their normal shape. "I find it useful to display these pointy teeth sometimes, particularly when I'm trying to impress some obstinate Earthling."

Artep wanted to hear more about Grean's mission, but she was also curious about why Naj had gone off to play aeroball. "What were you telling me about lighthouses?"

"The two lighthouses of Pah'anui. Off in the distance, in both directions along the shore... A glowing red light is always emitted by just one of the lighthouses at any one time. The aeroball player with the ball tries to reach the lighthouse that is showing red. There is much debate about the algorithm for turning the lights on and off. Only rarely does the aeroball reach one of the lighthouses and the players who achieve that rare goal become legendary figures. Some claim that there is a Light Keeper, someone who makes sure that only the worthy win the game. The most recent winner lived about three centuries ago, so it is clear that for most players, winning the game is not really their reason for playing."

Artep shook her head in dismay, "I've wondered: how long do the sy'Paz live? Some small animals don't have long lives."

"With the aid of medical nanites, the average lifespan of the sy'Paz is well over a century. I don't know the exact figure."

"But that limited lifespan will not apply to me?"

"You are designed to look like a biological, but you are essentially immortal, your body composed of femtobots."

Artep was not sure how she felt about immortality. It was not an easy concept for her to wrap her head around. She could not stop imagining the "frolics" of the sy'Paz and what it might be like to make love while flying. "So, about the aeroball..."

Grean said, "I do want to warn you..." She stood up and dissolved the nanites of her pants, revealing her crotch. She pointed at her genital groove, "The sy'Paz anatomy is somewhat different, but the concept is the same. They each have a penis that is not visible unless..." She manually spread her labia and pulled out her penis. "...until it is erect." Gran had complete conscious control over the blood flow to her penis.

Artep watched with fascination as Grean's penis swelled up to full size and then deflated. Grean tucked herself back in, reformed her clothing and sat down again." Once a sy'Paz gets sexually aroused, their penis pops out and that erection won't end until they achieve an orgasm..." Grean added, "...or two or three."

Artep imagined a flock of sy'Paz flying around, all of them sporting erections. "So they chase the person with the ball and..."

The first person to reach the ball carrier knocks the ball out of the hands of the other player and then gets to screw her, right there in mid-air. The next to arrive takes the ball and heads for the lighthouse with the remaining players in pursuit."

Artep asked, "So, how fast a flyer is Naj?"

Grean laughed. "Don't worry, she'll be here soon. I've used my ability to look into the future..." Grean glanced upwards and continued, "There is just one more thing... I need to warn you about Quen."

Artep imagined that Grean had said "Ken". She asked, "Who is Ken?"

"Q U E N, Quen... she lives here with Naj. They've been partners for that past five years... actually a bit more than five. The sy'Paz are all human-alien hybrids with various mixtures of human and alien gene patterns. Since she works among humans at the Writers Block, Naj uses body-sculpting nanites to keep her body in a mostly human form. Quen is one of my agents and I use her for missions on Earth in the far past. Her appearance is crafted to alarm humans and motivate them to change their behavior..."

"She's tiny? How alarming can a synpaz appear to a much larger human?"

"You'd be surprised. Anyhow, Quen is a pretty good telepath with powers similar to those of Deomede."

Petra and Gina

"Deomede!" Artep (or Petra) had never fully experienced the effects of Deomede's telepathic powers, but she knew something of them, particularly how Deomede could control Gina's behavior. "Are you saying that poor Naj is under the coercive control of Quen?"

"No, the dynamics of their relationship is two-way. It is rather wild when they are both caught up in the fire of their lust, a type of positive feedback develops and... well, they can end up making love for two or even three days straight. I just wanted to warn you. This sort of thing is considered normal in Seelie."

"Thank you for the warning. I can't wait to meet Quen."

Grean stood up. "Well, I have made you wait. Without my intervention... no, I won't say any more... I'll spare you the details. Anyhow, Quen knows to stay out of my way, so she's up on the second floor cowering, but she'll be after you as soon as I depart. The sy'Paz view newly-instantiated beings as virgins and your presence here is very sexually arousing for them."

"I'm no virgin. I'm a married woman."

"Well, you are now in a new body."

"Do you mean..."

Grean nodded. "Don't worry though, Naj will be here soon." Grean teleported herself back to her workshop.

Arriving inside her workshop, Grean returned to her normal size and activated a Viewer. She had just altered the flow of Time in Eternity, and she quickly looked ahead in Time to see if she had achieved her desired results.

Telepathic emanations from Quen,
directed at Naj but also reaching Artep.

5. Quen.
Back in Seelie, Artep saw Grean disappear then there was a wiz and a blurred streak and Quen arrived, landing right in front of Artep. She told Artep, "Don't believe what Grean says about me. I'm not some evil molester of young girls."

However, Quen was looking up and down Artep's body and now Artep could feel the full force of Quen's telepathic emanations. She started wondering what it would be like to make love to Quen who looked alien and whose skin was almost completely covered by fur. Quen's crotch was right in front of Artep and she should see a bulge in her clothing where she suspected Quen's penis might be.

Sensing Artep's curiosity, Quen touched her clothing and suddenly her pants opened and her erect penis, covered in a fine layer of hair, was pointing at Artep. She asked, "Could you sense my thoughts, my rising desire to... meet you while I was waiting for Grean to depart?"

Artep gasped and said, "My... you are very hairy." Overall, Quen looked rather like a depiction of a gremlin that Petra had once seen as a child. Artep reached out and stroked the shaft of Quen's penis and discovered that her hair was silky soft. She asked, "This is how you terrorize people on Earth?"

Quen explained, "I follow the principles established by Grean. You know her manta?" She quoted, "'The penis is mightier than the sword.'"

Artep laughed, "No, I've never heard that before."

Naj flew into the room and none too gently pushed Quen away from Artep. "Leave the girl alone. She just arrived today and does not need you banging on her."

Quen told Naj, "I was just satisfying Artep's curiosity." Quen was watching Artep and trying to push deeper into her thought streams. Quen asked Naj, "Are you certain that you know her needs? I'm already working my way into her mind and I sense that she is not only curious but ready to experiment..."

Artep pointed at Quen's penis and admitted, "I do wonder what it would feel like inside me."

Quen grinned, "I've never had any complaints, even from humans."

Naj told Quen, "I'm letting Artep sleep here tonight. Tomorrow I'll show her around and help her pick out a home for herself. In the meantime, you don't need to exercise your gallantries on her."

Quen complained, "I know that dear, but what if we both want some exercise? Anyhow, speaking of exercise, I can sense that you just had your fun playing aeroball in Pah'anui. Since I've been here all day waiting for your return, it would be unfair of you to deprive me of the opportunity to..."

Naj laughed and took hold of Quen's penis. She told Artep, "Quen has never been deprived a single day of her life." Naj pushed the tip of Quen's penis between her legs and asked, "How many of your lovers visited you today?"

Quen laughed and asked, "Since when are you counting?" Quen voiced the common sy'Paz dictum, "Live and let love."

Naj agreed with that sentiment. "Well, I don't really care, but I'm trying to teach Artep a lesson..." Naj bent down and sniffed Quen's genitals. She slipped a finger into Quen's vagina and then sniffed her finger. "That smells like Rusan." Rusan's semen had a distinctly minty aroma characteristic of the Bobry Clan.

Quen admitted, "Yes, Rusan dropped by just a short time ago. Then Grean arrived and scared her off..."

Naj promised Quen, "Don't worry, darling, I will entertain you tonight, so you can leave Artep out of your lecherous plans. She has plans for a big day tomorrow and needs her rest." Naj went to a shelf and took down a thick volume. She handed the book to Artep. "Here, entertain yourself for a while while I take care of this." She pointed at Quen's penis. Naj let her clothing dissolve and she hugged Quen, kissed her passionately then flew up through the hole that connected to the second floor of the house. There were no stairs.

Quen told Artep, "I hope to see you later, my lovely." She flew off to the second floor.

Artep opened the book and tried to ignore the sounds coming from the second floor. Geneology of the sy'Paz Clans was an historical account of the origins of the various varieties of sy'Paz. The anatomical features of each clan were illustrated by several photographs. Artep turned pages past the introductory chapter of the book.

The second chapter explained that the first residents of Seelie were small hermaphroditic aliens, originally brought into Eternity by R. Nyrtia. That first clan of Seelie was known as the Paz. Genetics experiments were begun, aimed at mixing Asterothrope gene combinations with those of the Paz. Right from the start, there were also femtobot replicoids, the first synthetic Paz (synpaz) who were instantiated at the small body size of the Paz; artificial lifeforms who helped the Paz create a new culture within Eternity.

With time and genetic refinement, telepathic sy'Paz were created and used as Interventionist agents on Earth, being sent into the far past, most often to times before the development of agriculture on Earth.

Artep was trying to not think about what was happening on the second floor, but telepathic signals from Quen were leaking into Artep's mind. Artep began leafing through the book, getting glimpses of the many different sy'Paz clans. She found the chapter describing Quen's clan and a picture that looked very much like Quen's furry genitals. Artep could hear Naj moaning contentedly. She slipped her hand into her pants and pushed a couple of fingers into her wet vagina. She was able to confirms Grean's hints: Atrep's new body had been formed so as to include a robust hymen that almost completely occluded her vagina. There on the table were two big, inviting vibrators and Artep considered rupturing her hymen the old fashioned way, but Artep was a bit squeamish about using someone else's play things. She could not help wondering if one of them smelled like Rusan. Instead, Artep used her body-shaping nanites to remove the childish hymen.

Under the telepathic stimuli from Quen, Artep was now quite sexually aroused. She was working her way towards a delicious orgasm when Naj returned to the first floor, not bothering to have dressed. Her penis was still semi-erect and glistening wet. Naj told Artep, "Don't be a stoic." She handed one of the vibrators to Artep, but Artep pulled her hand out of her pants. Naj insisted, "Don't stop on my account, particularly if this will be your first orgasm as a synpaz."

Artep admitted, "I already managed one earlier today." Artep showed Naj the book. "This says that Quen is from the Urisk clan."

"Quen is half Urisk. Her mother was human. The purebred Urisk are rather spooky, as you can see." She pointed at the open page of the book. "When she's here at home with me, Quen uses cosmetic nanites to tidy herself up. When she goes on a mission to Earth, she emphasized her demon-like features."

"I can tolerate Quen, but I don't think I'd like to meet a pure-blood Urisk."

"That's why many humans reside here in this lower level of Seelie. Sy'Paz purebreds tend to inhabit the upper caverns."

"I was told that Seelie is a popular place here in Eternity. There is no housing shortage?"

"No, conditions here are not at all like the chronic space shortage at the the Writers Block. Seelie is about the same total size as the Writers Block... I suppose they originated in the same way, as auxiliary hierion field bubbles branching off of Observer Base. However, since we synpaz are so small, there is plenty of room here. This village is popular with synpaz who commute to the Block, but there are six more, each with room to expand their housing. You could have a new house built if you don't like any of the available ones."

Naj activated a display screen and showed Artep one of the available homes. "I almost moved into this house when it became available. The former resident died a few years ago, her name is... was... Kelpy Lusina. I'll show you Lusina's place tomorrow. It continues to be available because of rumors that it is haunted."

Trying to entice Kelpy into playing aeroball.

"Haunted?"

"They say that Lusina remains there, as a nanoscopic replicoid. She died tragically in an accident, but it is rumored that she had a backup..."

Artep sighed. "I'm not sure I'm going to fit in around here."

"Why? What do you mean?"

"Maybe I'll get used to it, but I can't really see myself living here... playing aeroball and letting creatures like Quen stick their hairy-"

Naj laughed. "Don't knock until you try it! You are still young. I remember the first time I saw Quen. I was scared.... for just a moment... then..."

"Then she took over your mind."

"It is not like that. I invited her in."

"Well, I hope she understands that I'm not inviting her in."

"If you are uncomfortable sleeping here tonight, I'll take you over to Lusina's place."

"The haunted house?"

"Artep, you might have too much imagination for your own good. But maybe you are right. No sense tempting fate..."

"Grean will protect me."

"Grean?"

Artep nodded. "She was here earlier. That's how I found your place after you abandoned me."

Grean: master of Time

"I did not abandon you. I expected you to watch the game, maybe even join in..." A strange thought came to Naj. She asked, "You think Grean is watching over you?"

"Maybe not, she's probably busy. But I think she would protect me from any... she protected me from Quen."

"If so, then relax. You are certainly safe here. I'll keep Quen under ... my direct supervision tonight. At first light, I'll take you back to the Block. Things are coming at you quickly now, but with time, you'll grow to enjoy Seelie and all it offers."

"Thank you, Naj. I know you are trying to help me adjust to Seelie." Artep set aside the book. "If you could help me... I need some advice on how to fly better."

"Practice is important. Here, let's try some close-quarters flight here inside the house." With Naj as her tutor, Artep kept practicing and challenging herself to make precise little flights within the house. She made some good progress towards achieving smoother turns and landings. She noticed that Naj kept looking upwards, towards what Artep imagined was Quen's location on the second floor. Artep thought she was hearing voices from above and it seemed like she was again receiving telepathic signals from Quen. Flying back and forth in close proximity to the naked Naj was becoming a source of frustration. Naj noticed Artep's eyes on her penis and she tucked it back into her genital groove.

For Artep, that removed one source of erotic stimulation, but then, back on Earth, Petra began making love to Sven.

Finally, Naj stopped the flying lessons and opened up the couch in the den into a fold-out bed. "I'll see you in the morning." Naj returned to the second floor. Artep was grateful that while in the den she was insulated from sounds coming from the second floor, but she was still bombarded by erotic telepathic signals from both Quen and Petra. Artep turned off the room lights and got into bed, but a minute later she got up and grabbed a cute little vibrator off a shelf. She sniffed the device and thought to detect the faint smell of Naj's body. She got back into bed and finally drifted into sleep with the vibrator between her legs.

Espanola in the Ekcolir Reality

6. Rusan.
In the morning, Artep, Naj, Quen and Rusan lingered over cups of tea and bowls of berries. Rusan lived in the house next door and like Quen was one of Grean's agents who often went on time travel missions to ancient Earth.

Rusan had not bothered to dress and her rather flashy body was on display. She had ancestors in the Bobry Clan, but she was also part human. Artep found it impossible to keep her eyes of Rusan's two rows of breasts. The top pair was closer to the neck than human breasts and then there were sets of smaller breasts descending in gracefully sculpted rows below the top ones.

Quen and Rusan began discussing a mission that they had recently completed on Earth. It sounded to Artep that they had visited ancient Espanola in the times when what later became the Mayan civilization was just getting established.

Naj spoke to Artep. "Rusan is quite eye-catching, eh?"

Artep nodded enthusiastically. She felt a powerful urge to reach out and touch Rusan's body. She asked Naj, "You share Quen with her?"

Naj replied, "I don't own Quen. They are usually deployed by Grean as a team with several other sy'Paz. I know that when they are on Earth they keep each other entertained."

Naj had been speaking to Artep, but also listening with half and ear to Quen. Rusan and Quen had shifted their conversation from the past to their next mission. Now Naj asked Quen, "You are going to Earth tomorrow?"

Rusan tapped her head and replied, "I just got word from Grean." Rusan had twitino-mediated telepathic abilities that were similar to those of a Kac'hin. "We were scheduled for another week of training here at our home base, but the new plan is to spend the next week in another section of Eternity where we can receive some special training."

Naj laughed. She said, "I believe you are correct, Artep. Grean must be watching us." Naj told Quen, "To keep Artep safe, Grean suddenly needs to ship you off for 'training'." Absorbing the sudden change of plans, Naj said, "Well, I always spend Quen's last day before a deployment with her at Pah'anui. Rusan, could you do me a favor. Fly with us to Pah'anui and then escort Artep on to the Writers Block."

Rusan asked, "What's in it for me?"

"Oh, I don't know." Naj giggled. "Maybe I won't scold you for sneaking in here yesterday and making love to Quen while I was at work."

Rusan laughed, leaned over and kissed Naj rather passionately on the lips. She told Artep, "I wasn't sneaking. Naj knows that I'm often getting my fill of Quen while she's off at the Block."

Artep asked, "So you three are... what? A kind of family?"

Naj shrugged. "We sy'Paz don't really use that term... we each have our clans and our friends... However, I understand your meaning. I'm happy to have Rusan living right next door. She helps me take care of Quen and I even get to have an occasional play session with Rusan, which tickles my fancy."

Artep glanced at Rusan's crotch and wondered what her genitals might look like. For a moment she had a fantasy image in her mind of two side-by-side penises to match her two rows of breasts. Quen stood up and told Naj, "Give me a moment, dear, then we can head over to Pah'anui."

Rusan inherited many Asterothrope genes

Artep, Rusan and Naj drifted upwards and waited for Quen, hovering above the house. Rusan pointed to her house and told Artep, "Feel free to drop in anytime. I'll satisfy your curiosity about my penis. Sadly, I only have one."

Artep asked, "You are a telepath?"

Rusan nodded. "That's how Grean selects her sy'Paz agents. We have to go to Earth and change the behavior of people, make adjustments to the flow of Time." Having gathered up a small bundle of her favorite sex toys, Quen joined them and they set off to Pah'anui. Artep struggled to keep up with the fast flight pace without going out of control, but she already felt like she was growing accustomed to flight.

Quen and Naj went directly to the Pah'anui resort, but Rusan took Artep on from Pah'anui to the Writers Block. As they flew together downwards towards the Grand Rotunda, Rusan told Artep, "I haven't been here in years, and I don't think I ever knew where Asimov lives."

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"That's fine, Rusan, I can find my way from here. I suspect you want to be off so that you can enjoy your last day before being sent back in Time."

"Well, not really. I have nothing to do today. Rather than wait restlessly or go around pestering my friends, I'd be interested to tag along with you. I'd like to learn about your telepathy experiments. I've heard intriguing rumors about the Bimanoid Interface."

Artep said, "Okay, but a word of advice. Asimov is easily distractable. You better cover up."

Rusan waved her hand and her clothing nanites assembled into a jumpsuit that mostly concealed her eye-popping anatomy. Artep nodded with approval and said, "Follow me through the Grand Rotunda. Asimov's apartments are through that archway on the far side."

Next: part 7 of "The Synpaz of Seelie".

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