The Catski Gambit

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Below on this blog page is Part 5 of the science fiction story "Telepaths of Site Q". Grean the Kac'hin has been investigating the unusual types of telepathic communication that are available to the members of Betty's family. Grean hopes to learn why the tryp'At spy, Irhit became romantically involved with Betty soon after he arrived at Observer Base.

Betty has long had an interest in the history of the Asimov Reality, particularly rumors that in that Reality there were hermaphroditic humans on Earth. After Betty's visit to Yaddo she remembers the strange pet that her sister Lany had as a child and so she asks Lany about it. Lany explains that her pet was actually a synpaz replicoid from Seelie who helped develop her telepathic powers. 

Betty's search for hermaphrodites.

With help from Irhit, Betty is led to the Observer Base children's hospital where Treba, an hermaphroditic synpaz, works to keep the residents entertained. Treba has been waiting twenty years for Betty's arrival and explains that there was an hermaphroditic human scientist on Earth in the Ekcolir Reality who created a population of hermaphroditic mice. 

Betty believes that her new friends, Richard and Henry, two artists in residence at Yaddo, can tell her more about the hermaphrodites of Earth. Betty convinces Lany to go to Yaddo and help Betty with her investigation of the strange history of hermaphrodites, both within Observer Base and on Earth. Grean is following Betty's search for hermaphrodites with interest and intends to make sure that Betty does not get carried away and start spreading word around Observer Base that Grean is a Kac'hin hermaphrodite who controls all of Eternity.

Part 5 of Telepaths of Site Q (Part 1)(Part 2)(Part 3)(Part 4)

When Betty emerged from the subway station, Grean was there waiting. She followed Betty to Catski's nearby house and tried to tune into the girl's mind. Betty's telepathic faculties were rudimentary and made possible by an almost completely dysfunctional jumble of fragmented Ek'col, Asterothrope and human neural networks.

Hidden in the bushes and unobserved, Grean telepathically followed Betty's mind as the girl went into Catski's house. Betty spoke to Catski for quite a long time, sharing her adventures at Yaddo. Grean "watched" in fascination as Betty became increasingly sexually excited. At first, Grean imagined that the two women must be starting to engage in physical sexplay, but careful examination of Betty's thoughts revealed to Grean that they were not even holding hands. Catski was running on a treadmill and Betty was seated in a chair, watching Catksi run. Strangely, Catski's mind was completely opaque to Grean, although that was sometimes the case if a human had an unusual mind. In such cases, Grean needed to observe the human's behavior and learn how to tune into their mind by matching their movements to their brain activity.

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However, Grean finally realized that Betty was caught up in a kind of feedback process. Just being close to Catski was enough to set up a subconscious telepathic resonance that could- At that moment, Betty did indeed enter into an orgasm trance. Grean was intrigued by the fact that Betty continued to speak and was asking Catski to go with Betty for a visit to Yaddo.

Now having established a good telepathic rapport with Betty, Grean could sense that Catski refused to visit Yaddo. She was in training, as was usual for Catski, in advance of a running competition. Grean now realized that Betty had vast experience with orgasm trances. The girl enjoyed them, but she did not stop engaging in other activities during a trance. This was why Betty had long cultivated a friendship with Catski; Betty could reliably achieve a long-lasting orgasm simply by being with Catski. However, Catski was devoted to her athletic endeavors and not interested in a physical sexual relationship with Betty.

Finally, Betty stopped arguing with Catski and trying to convince her to take a vacation in Yaddo. When Betty emerged from Catski's home, Grean was waiting in the street, wearing big dark glasses and a hooded shirt. Seeing Grean, Betty walked past the odd woman and continued down the street walking towards home; gradually her intense orgasm trance was ending. As her mind cleared and sexual thoughts about Catski drifted from her mind, Betty felt like she was being followed. There was the haunting sound of footfalls from behind and Betty looked over her shoulder. The woman was following her, but more importantly, Betty felt something touching her mind, a sensation that she had only ever previously experienced with her mother. Finally, Betty stopped walking, turned around and stood face-to-face with the mysterious woman. Looking into the dark glasses, she asked, "Is the sun too bright for you today?"

Grean grinned, pleased that she had been able to use her telepathic ability and a few infites to relax Betty's anxieties. "Please excuse my directness, Betty, but I need to speak to you. We can keep walking... I don't want to make you late getting home."

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Betty resumed walking and she asked, "Who are you?"

"Grean."

Betty stopped walking. Betty had long been fascinated by legends and myths about hermaphroditic aliens. That interest had begun with her mother's work at the Writers Block and it was her interest in that subject which had led to her friendship with Irhit. Memories of the intriguing ancient legends about Grean, the Overseer, swirled and flitted through Betty's mind. Somehow, Betty has always pictured Grean as being tall, like the members of her own family. Betty giggled, "You?" However, even as she asked, Betty was somehow certain that she was being told the truth: this woman was Grean, an Hermaphroditic Kac'hin!

Grean tugged on Betty's arm and they were once again walking. "Please relax and answer my questions, then I'll leave you alone. You have an unusual mind that resists my telepathic probing."

Betty knew it was part of the Grean legend that Kac'hin had telepathic powers. Betty had a hundred questions that she wanted to ask, but now her tongue seemed frozen.

Grean slipped arm through Betty's and she took hold of Betty's hand. Physical contact could usually help Grean sync her mind to that of a human. "Tell me, when you are with Irhit, do you have a telepathic connection to his mind?"

Betty was surprised by the question. "No... of course not. Well, nothing like what I feel with my mother or with you right now." Betty was thinking back to the night when she and Irhit had become lovers. Grean was now deep into Betty's memories and convinced that there had been no conscious telepathic linkage between them; still, Betty had obtained information from Irhit's mind. Grean saw that they had failed to synchronize their orgasms and that had left Betty feeling cheated. Betty, upon realizing that she was starting to link telepathically to Irhit had put an end to the process, not wanting Irhit to gain access to her own memories. Grean was baffled by the depth of Betty's aversive reaction to that event and now Grean telepathically altered Betty's memory of that night with Irhit, trying to ease the pain that her memories caused.

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Grean released Betty's hand, turned and walked away. Betty imagined hearing the words: Thank you, Betty. Good night. However, the street was quiet as Betty watched Grean walk away down the street. Betty once more began walking home and told herself: What a strange woman. Who wears dark glasses at night? Already Grean's memory editing nanites were quickly erasing Betty's memories of having met Grean. Betty did not care about that erasure. Her thoughts were now quite clear and focused. She knew that she had to visit the fishbowl in the morning and almost certainly she would see Irhit. It would be a convenient opportunity to tell him goodbye. Betty now realized that it had been a mistake to try to talk Catski into going to Yaddo. Betty knew now that she must return to Yaddo with her sister, Lany. But that would have to wait. Now, Betty was eager to get home and delve into her historical research notes.

When Betty arrived home, she felt the gentle touch of Lany's mind, but almost at once Betty was searching her "history notebook". She had long studied the history of the Asimov Reality, the part of Deep Time where her mother had been born on Earth and Betty was fascinated by how that past differed from the Ekcolir Reality. Betty searched her notes for mention of anything related to Richard or Henry Morkeghsen, the twins who she had recently met in Yaddo. She confirmed her worst expectation: there was nothing there about the twins... at least not under their current names. Betty went to bed, hopeful that the database of the fishbowl would have the answers to the mystery of Richard or Henry or both.

The next day, after teasing her mother about being out all night engaged in a hot sexual adventure, Betty went downtown and searched the fishbowl database. Irhit had tried to interest Betty in working at the fishbowl, but Betty had only been interested in the fishbowl as a source of information for her researches. She was familiar with the Earth observing equipment and upon arriving, took note of the fact that Irhit was busy with an ongoing observation of some event on Earth. Betty activated one of the data terminals and began searching the databases while struggling not to think about Irhit and her growing sexual arousal. When Irhit completed his work, he came to sit beside Betty and said, "Hello."

Betty looked away from her display screen and smiled at Irhit. Her nipples were poking out towards Irhit through the thin fabric of her shirt. For a minute they looked at each-other. Irhit was trying not to look at Betty's nipples and trying to find a way to tell Betty about Yenti, but there were blocking nanites in his brain restricting what he could say to her. Betty really wanted to get back to her data search, but she finally said, "Sorry about the way I stormed off to Yaddo, but it was for the best. I'm going back, but I need to take a helper with me..." She was looking steadily into Irhit's eyes.

Irhit wondered if Betty might ask him to go to Yaddo, but then for some reason he thought of Betty's friend Catski. He glanced at the display screen and asked, "A new research project?"

Betty nodded. "I'm stuck. I can trace Richard and Henry back fifteen years, but no further."

Irhit read the data files for Richard and Henry. "Not much here. They must have lived somewhere else before they took up residence in Yaddo."

"But where?" Betty was frustrated. She'd been very confident that she would learn an important truth by searching the vast databases that were accessible through the fishbowl. "I've searched everywhere, even the Writers Block list of writers, and I found nothing."

Irhit suggested, "They could be recent arrivals, from Earth."

Betty had already searched the planetary database and found nothing. "Oh, well..."

Irhit sat down at the next workstation and performed another search. Betty asked, "What database is that?"

"I thought you might have missed this one. It is the Seelie database."

"Seelie? No... Richard and Henry are human-sized..." Suddenly, Betty remembered something from her past. Irhit was looking at a list of about a dozen former residents of Seelie who had taken up residence in other parts of Observer Base. Betty asked, "So many?"

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"The synpaz are usually trying to avoid attention. I've only ever seen two. One at the Writers Block and one here... he works at the pediatric hospital." Irhit tapped one of the names on the list. However, the names Richard and Henry Morkeghsen fished nothing out of the Seelie database.

But now Betty was eager to get home. She asked Irhit, "Can you print that list for me?" He gave the print command. Betty muttered, "I need to cross-check these names against my research files at home."

Knowing Betty's obsessive interest in hermaphrodites, Irhit chuckled. "These files can tell you if they are hermaphrodites. Most synpaz are."

"No, this isn't about sex." Betty was thinking about her childhood, the years before she even knew how to read. She took the printout, kissed Irhit's cheek and hurried off. "See you around!"

Irhit watched Betty skip out of the fishbowl, feeling relieved that he had never needed to say anything to her about Yenti. It seemed like Betty was moving on with her life, and that was just fine with Irhit. For a minute he thought about Betty's interest in Richard and Henry, two men who were twice as old as Irhit and Betty. Shaking his head in dismay at Betty's quirks, Irhit returned to his workstation and made another observation of Earth. By the end of his shift, he had almost completely forgotten about Richard and Henry. Exiting from the fishbowl, his thoughts were on Yenti and he stopped off to get her a gift before going to her home.

Betty had not thought about it for years, by while in the fishbowl and thinking about Seelie, she had remembered the "pet" that Lany once had when they were both very young. Walking home, Betty slowly recovered from her sexual excitement which had been stimulated by being in close proximity to Irhit. There had been a strange scent clinging to him, and she began fantasizing that he had found another girlfriend. If so, that suited Betty just fine.

Arriving home, Betty went to Lany's suite of rooms and found her sister loading a large crate onto a wheeled hand truck. Betty asked, "What's in the box?"

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"My homework project for sex ed." Lany took her hands off the truck and put her fists on her hips. "I'm on my way to turn in the assignment."

"Before you run off, I need to ask you a question. I remember that when we were little... you had a pet. A cat, I think."

Lany laughed. "I suppose that it was easiest for Albert to appear to you as a cat."

"Albert?"

"Ya, Albert the synpaz."

Betty felt a surge of delight. Her hunch had been correct! "I was very young. I had no concept of Seelie and the synpaz."

Lany went back to the truck and started wheeling the crate towards the door. Betty rushed to the door and stood in front of it. "Why did you have a pet synpaz? I've never heard of such a thing."

Lany seemed to realize that Betty was not going to let her slip away. "This is so silly." Lany did not want to talk about Albert.

Betty was puzzled by Lany's reluctance to talk. "Silly?"

Lany explained, "When you were a baby you had me around. When I was a baby, mom gave me Albert."

"I don't understand what you are saying. Hana was there for you."

"Hana and I never had a telepathic connection."

Betty said, "Well, I've only been connected to mom. I guess it is the same for you."

Lany sighed and shook her head. "I've always been amazed that you never figured it out."

"What?"

"You and I have always been telepathically linked."

Somehow Betty knew that was true, but she'd never had a conscious link to Lany. "What good is an unconscious link to someone?"

Lany shrugged. "I like the theory that it is for such unconscious mind links that telepathy evolved in the first place... for social bonding."

"I suppose that's possible, but as you say, even if you and I are are linked subconsciously, what does it matter... or are you trying to tell me that it is different for you?"

"No, don't imagine that I can read your thoughts, Betty. It is not like that."

"Then what are you talking about?"

"I'd tell you, but you would not believe me. Now, get out of my way." Lany tried to get at the door and be on her way, but Betty stood her ground.

"No! This is important. You are going to tell me all about Albert." Betty leaned against the door, blocking Lany's escape from her art studio.

Lany warned ominously, "You won't be happy when I tell you."

"Tell me what?" Betty felt her nipples pop erect and a chill went up her spine.

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Lany began to reply then stopped. She went to the smaller door that connected from her art studio to her bathroom. "Let's do an experiment. I'll go in there, "Lany pointed into the bathroom, "Where I can't see you. Then we'll do a telepathy test. Okay?" Without waiting for a reply, she went through the narrow doorway into the bathroom then closed the door, leaving it open only an inch.

Betty felt a trickle of fluid dribble from her vagina and slide down her leg. Lany said, "You are getting very horny." It was true. The glans of Betty's clitoris was now stiff. Lany said, "I wonder how fast......" Now Betty could not resist putting her hand down inside her skirt. She began massaging her hot genitals and as she did so, reached an intense sexual climax and gasped in astonishment. From the bathroom came the sound of Lany's giggle. Lany asked, "Now do you believe me?"

Betty went and pushed open the bathroom door. There was Lany, with a sly grin on her face. Betty turned around and went to sit down. Lany followed behind. Betty wiped her wet hand on her skirt. Lany explained, "You never figured it out, but every time I have an orgasm, so do you. That's the nature of our telepathic linkage. And Albert taught me how to enter into an orgasm trance at will. I've continued my training with Albert, but I stopped experimenting on you years ago. I didn't want you to know my secret."

While Betty waited for her orgasm to fade away, she thought back through the course of her life and now so much made sense. But it had only begun with Lany. The same kind of power that Lany had must also exist in Catski... and in Irhit. She thought about being in the fishbowl earlier with Irhit and how she had become so sexually aroused just being near him. Betty asked her sister, "So, it was Albert who taught you all about orgasms? Mom had nothing to do with this?"

"That's an interesting question. It all began even before I could talk, so I never really understood... until the day Albert left. That was a shocking transition for me, when he suddenly abandoned me. But there was a method to his mean and abrupt act of desertion. With time, I eventually learned to masturbate, but it took mom almost a year to make me understand how I could give myself pleasure." Lany laughed rather hysterically. "I suppose she hoped that I'd grow out of it. During that year without orgasms, you went into some sort of deep depression and that really scared mom."

"What about Hana?"

"Hana won't talk to me about her childhood memories, but I suspect she went through something similar. However, I suspect that something went wrong in her orgasm training and she never attained the ability to achieve orgasms just by thinking... she's like other humans... she needs physical stimulation."

"So she does not know that Albert..."

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"Neither Hana or Mom has ever admitted to knowing about Albert, but I've never pressed the point. Of course, mom has never really explained why she allowed Albert to stay in the house."

"What do you mean, she allowed it?"

"At first, mom probably thought I had an imaginary friend. But Albert was real! Of course, Albert could not always hide, so mom got glimpses of Albert, as did you. After Albert got synchronized with my mind the orgasm trances began..."

"Trances?"

"That's what Albert calls them. That may have been the first word I learned to speak. I'd beg Albert for orgasms and he'd tell me to do other things. It was a struggle of wills. Really though, it did not take long before I learned to make the trances last... eventually for hours... and then I learned I could do other things at the same time... with my orgasm there in the background, like sweet music. Anyhow, I'm sure mom knew that something was going on. She'd ask about my orgasms and I'd blame Albert."

Betty nodded. Sweet music. That was how her orgasms had seemed, as far back as she could remember. Until she was ten... that was when Betty had discovered the art of masturbation. Then she could trigger her own orgasms without being dependent on an outside stimulus... which she now understood had been Lany. Now it was all clear. She's befriended both Catski and Irhit because they, like Lany, had the telepathic ability to put Betty into an orgasm trance. 

Lany hugged Betty. "So, I'm sorry, sis. For a time, I tried to give you orgasms at the most inconvenient times possible. It was a silly game for me. But... with time, you learned to ignore me."

Betty shook her head. "No, I don't think it is possible for me to block your connection to me. I can't prevent you from putting me into and orgasm trance. But I did learn to live with my orgasms. I began to take them as just a part of life. A very nice part of life, but...."

Lany went to the door, opened it and started hauling away the crate. Over her shoulder she said, "I'm glad you are not mad at me."

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Betty watched Lany head off down the street pushing her homework assignment towards the school campus. Betty pondered the mystery of how her mother had allowed a rogue synpaz to teach Lany about orgasm trances. Then Betty reached into her pocket and took out the list of the known synpaz who lived outside of Seelie. Betty started reading down the list... names and locations of each synpaz. Just then, Sara came up the walkway with Allyn and called out, "Are you running off again?"

Betty came down the walkway and exchanged hugs with her parents. "Yes, I'm off to the hospital."

Sara tried to peer into her daughter's mind but could not get very deep into her shielded thoughts. Sara was appalled to detect some sort of lingering sexual frustration in Betty's mind, and wondered if she had again been thinking about Irhit. Betty headed off down the street.

Sara called after her daughter, "When will you be back?"

Betty replied, "This should not take long. I'll be back for dinner."

Everyone knew about Treba, the mutant synpaz who worked at the pediatric hospital in the core district of Observer Base. There were sophisticated medical nanites inside Observer Base that could deal with most human illnesses, but some babies were born with severe genetic defects. Those children were cared for at the pediatric hospital and that is where Treba worked as a kind of entertainment system for the children. Betty found Treba running a crossgolf contest for a group of about ten children. They were out on the front lawn of the hospital and a small audience of family members was watching and cheering from the sidelines. 

After the golf match, Betty approached Treba as he was collecting the wickets. Treba was struggling to extract a wicket from the thick turf. He looked at Betty and said, "A little help?" Betty pulled out the wicket and helped finish picking up the rest of the equipment. When they had the golf materials stored away, Treba led Betty to his private suite of rooms in the attic space of the hospital. Betty bent low and then sat on the floor of Treba's compact little parlor. He said, "I was warned to expect your arrival today."

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Betty had been trying to establish a telepathic connection to Treba, but she could not feel his mind. "I hope you can tell me about another synpaz who might be known to you-"

Treba interrupted, "How can you not realize..." The synpaz fell silent. "There is no point in me being dismayed by clueless humans. Still, it might be expected that after twenty years I'd... " After a long silence he continued, "I'm Albert, but I was never Lany's pet. Please erase that silly idea from you mind! I had an important job to do and now it has come to fruition. Here you are... at last."

Betty was confused. "Who told you I was going to visit? I only decided just-"

Interrupting again, Treba said, "It was decided for you long ago. I'm the only one at Observer Base who knows what you seek, so of course you had to find me."

Betty suspected that Treba could read her thoughts. As a test, she asked, "What is it that I seek?"

Sounding bored by her game, Treba said, "You are enthralled by the two mystery men of Yaddo, Henry and Richard. Irhit now understands... they were brought up from Earth... by Grean."

Betty cried, "Grean!"

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Treba briefly pressed his hands against his ears then asked, "Who else?" He held up a small hand as if to forestall any further ejaculations of surprise from Betty. "They say curiosity kills cats, but in this case, your curiosity about cats has gotten the better of you, Betty. Why can't you just be happy with Henry and Richard? No... you must figure out where they came from. Sure, they are unique and for you they are catnip."

Betty giggled. "You're so funny."

"I'm glad I amuse you. That's my job... to amuse... but you are now a woman. Well, why shouldn't you know? It as not as if it will do you any good. Henry and Richard originated on Earth, as a scientist named Hedy Wolcat."

"Wolcat!"

Treba seemed to wince at Betty's cry of surprise. "Please my dear, not so loud. We synpaz have delicate ears. Don't blame me for the silly name. I suppose Grean could not be bothered to come up with a better one."

"Grean again?"

"Well, who knows if she is really to blame? But it was certainly Grean who teleported Hedy here from Earth after she unleashed her rodents on the world."

"Rodents?"

Treba explained, "Hedy left behind on Earth a colony of hermaphroditic mice."

Betty was thinking about the legends of an ancient hermaphrodite named Grean, but mice? "Hermaphroditic mice? Then that weird story from the Writers Block... it was real?"

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Treba laughed and for a moment seemed to float out of his little chair. "Yes, it seems like a bad joke, but Hedy was able to isolate a set of genes from her body that can confer an hermaphroditic phenotype on just about any mammal. Treba stood up and waved a hand. His clothing nanites dissipated and he stood there like a skinny foot-tall doll. He had two small round breasts and was digging into his pubic hair with his fingers. He pulled out a little penis and waggled it at Betty. "I'm an hermaphrodite myself, but in the interest of public relations for the hospital, don't go blabbering about my anatomy."

Betty promised, "I won't."

A moment later Treba gave up on trying to cram "his" penis back into its recessed compartment. He complained, "I'm afraid you remind me of your sister, and now I'm getting an erection."

Betty asked, "When you left Lany you came to work here at the hospital?"

Treba shrugged. "I could have gone back to Seelie while waiting for today, but... well, I have my weaknesses. It's rather embarrassing, actually." Treba tried to cover himself with clothing but that only drew more attention to his erection. He turned his back on Betty and said, "Now, you may depart."

"But you haven't told me anything!" Betty asked, "Why did Hedy make hermaphroditic mice?"

Treba half turned back towards Betty. "Isn't it obvious? Hedy was an hermaphrodite."

Suddenly Betty understood everything. "Henry and Richard are hermaphrodites!" She wanted to shake Treba's hand. She reached out her hand and her fingers brushed the little erection of the synpaz. Suddenly she had a brief fantasy of Treba engaged in sexplay with Lany. She muttered, "You horny little devil!"

He said, "Well, how else was I supposed to teach Lany about orgasms? And I was working under a deadline. You were scheduled to appear in less than three years."

Betty said accusingly, "So that's why Lany has never had a boyfriend."

"Lany is in a difficult situation... there is only one man for her, but she had not figured that out yet. I feel sorry for Lany. So, I drop by occasionally..." Treba floated off the floor and stayed there, half a foot above the carpet. "Whenever Lany leaves her window open at night, I know she is lonely..."

Now Betty was curious about how the synpaz might engage in sexplay. She lifted up her skirt and spread her legs around Treba. "This I have to experience. Give me you best shot, Treba."

The synpaz said, "Lany won't be amused when she finds out."

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"Why does she need to find out what we do here today?" Betty was suddenly feeling very horny and eager for some sexplay. "Lany's had you for twenty years, now it is my turn!" She pulled off his clothing and touched his stiff little erection. Betty picked up Treba and pushed him against her hot wet labia.

He cried out in dismay, "What are you doing?" Treba tried to maintain "his" dignity and said, "Don't be absurd. I'm not going to crawl into your vagina, although your sister used to fantasize about that." He plunged his small hands into her pubic hair and found the stiff gland of her clitoris. He gave Betty a small taste of synpaz telepathic stimulation.

Five minute later, Betty had regained her ability to speak and asked breathlessly, "How did you do that? I've never had an orgasm that intense!"

"Just a little trick of synpaz telepathy. We can directly access the parts of the human brain that create sexual pleasure." Now he was standing there between Betty's legs, holding onto his stiff little erection with both hands. 

As she got her thoughts off of her tingling clitoris, Betty noticed that that Treba's penis had doubled in size during the past few minutes. "Are you growing?"

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Treba replied, "I'm a replicoid. An artificial lifeform. I can change my body form any time I want to do so. Now, stop delaying me... you got me aroused and it is my turn. Please turn yourself over." He spun the fingers of one hand in a tight loop.

Betty finally realized what Treba had in mind. She laid down on her belly and felt him press against her bottom. He slid his penis into her tight anus and said, "Thank you, my dear. I hope you enjoy this as much as Lany does..."

Betty had never understood the point of anal sex. Since she had never defecated, she had seldom paid any attention to her anus or rectum. She'd once tried putting a vibrator into her rectum, but it had crashed into the one that she had inside her vagina and it had seemed like pointless excess. But now Treba was telepathically stimulating Betty and before her clitoral orgasm had completely faded away, she found herself in a shared orgasm trance with Treba. For a time, she was lost in a fantasy thought space with the synpaz and she imagined that they were flying while making love. 

Later, Treba was sitting cross-legged on her chest, between her little breasts, gazing into Betty's glazed and blindly staring eyes. After very a satisfying orgasm, he'd finally gotten his penis back inside his body and he was thinking about the fact that he'd been specifically ordered not to use medical nanites to provide Lany with an allzaurish. Manny had insisted that Lany always have the uncomfortable feeling that Albert was an alien invader of her body. Treba understood that it had been important for Lany to not fall in love with him, that she would eventually find her true mate. However, Manny had also specifically told Treba that Betty, unlike Lany, was in need of an Allzaurish... 

Betty was emerging from her trance and he said, "You don't need to tell Lany about our sexplay. She might get jealous."

Betty asked, "Well, did you?"

"What?"

"Crawl around in Lany's vagina."

"Yes, a couple of times. But I have claustrophobia." Treba's eyes widened. "Please don't ask me to do that with you."

Betty sighed. She sat up and Treba floated into the air. Betty ran her fingers through the small puddle of fragrant synpaz semen that had flowed out of her anus. She pulled her skirt back into place, crawled out of Treba's suite of tiny rooms and departed from the hospital grounds.

Upon arriving home, Betty ran into her mom. Sara said, "Dinner is just going on the table!"

Betty went to her room and put on underpants. She was still leaking dribbles of Treba's semen. Back at the dinner table, Lany was glaring at Betty and asked, "Where have you been?" Lany could smell the sweet aroma of Albert.

"Down to the hospital to meet Treba the synpaz. How did Mrs. Tapsey like your statue?" There was little eating during Dryswyn family "dinner", just mostly talk and sips of various fragrant liquors.

Lany told the story of how Mrs. Tapsey had carefully examined and commented on the statue, providing her professional evaluation of Lany's psychological state based on the shape of the statue. While Lany spoke, Sara was trying to wheedle into Betty's mind, but the girl had her telepathic defenses up. Still, Sara could sense that her daughter was emerging from an intense orgasm trance. Lany was saying, "Mrs. Tapsey simply cannot accept the fact that I don't care to take a... lover."

It was quite clear to Sara that Lany had almost said "human lover". She asked Betty, "Why did you want to meet Treba?"

"Irhit reminded me that Treba works at the hospital." Trying to avoid talking about the details of her visit with Treba, she added whistfully, "Irhit is always so intrigued by alien mysteries... we really are a good match..."

"You saw Irhit today?"

"At the fishbowl. He helped me search the databases and reminded me that not all the synpaz reside in Seelie."

Allyn was completely lost in the disjointed discussion. He asked Betty, "Are you changing your research to include Seelie?"

Betty shrugged. "I've always avoided the temptation to do that. It seems like such a huge yet inaccessible field of study... unless you happen to be only 12 inches tall."

Sara turned to Allyn and said, "Speaking of accessibility, guess who called while I was prepping dinner?"

Allyn chuckled and said, "I guess Olyv. She seemed to enjoy your clever tongue work."

"You are correct. I hope you don't mind if I pay her a visit."

Allyn shrugged, "When I get painting, sometimes it is best if you get out of the house."

Lany said, "Excuse us." She grabbed Betty by the hand and they went to Lany's suite. The statue was there in Lany's parlor, half uncrated. "I knew I should never have told you about Albert."

"Don't be silly. Or jealous."

"How did you figure out that Treba is Albert?"

"I didn't figure it out, but he told me."

"Then why..."

Already the very existence of Treba was being erased from Betty's memories by the nanites that Manny had planted in her brain. "Listen, Lany. Forget about Albert. I have something more important to discuss. I need you to go with me to Yaddo."

"Tell me; did you have sex with Albert?"

Betty sighed. "Yes."

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"Isn't it wild?" Lany did not seem upset. It seemed like she wanted to be able to talk to someone about her experiences with the synpaz.

Betty giggled. "I'd heard rumors about synpaz sex, but.... well, I never believed those rumors. Do you suppose that's what its like to have sex with mom?"

Lany nodded, "Why else would all those women like Miss Olyv line up to schedule sexplay with mom?"

Betty sighed deeply. "Father is a lucky man. But don't distract me! We must go to Yaddo in the morning."

Lany said, "Whoa! What is this about Yaddo? I'm not going anywhere."

"Yes you are. I need your help."

"No, I'm not." Lany added, "I could not find a way to tell mom, but tomorrow my new sexbot will arrive."

Betty giggled. "Mrs. Tapsey finally assigned you a sexbot?"

"Yes. This is so embarrassing." Among the young folk of Observer Base, conventional wisdom held that only the most sexually frigid school graduates were provided with robotic sex partners as part of their remedial sex education.

Betty sighed. "Listen, Lany, you might think that you're satisfied with the kinky relationship that you have with Albert, and you might actually benefit from having a robotic sex partner, but listen to my plan. There are two human hermaphrodites living in Yaddo. I've already got a weak telepathic connection to Henry and I'll bet that you can connect to Richard-"

Lany interrupted and asked, "What are you blathering about girl?"

Betty and Lany spoke late into the night. Betty described how she had met Henry and immediately felt a telepathic link to his mind. After much discussion, Betty finally told Lany, "Even if you are not lucky enough to have such a telepathic link to Richard, I need you to keep him occupied while I seduce Henry and learn his secrets."

Lany said, "If you are right, Henry isn't really a man."

"And Richard must also be an hermaphrodite." Betty was being compulsively driven by the infites that Manny the bumpha had inserted into her brain. "I have to find out... well, think of the implications of hermaphrodites on Earth! Lany, I won't take no for an answer. Your sexbot will be waiting for you when you return home from Yaddo, but first you have to help me!"

In the morning, Betty awoke feeling very eager to return to Yaddo and probe deeply into the mystery of Henry. All her memories of Albert/Treba had been erased or suppressed. Stepping out of their house, both Betty and Lany carried small travel bags. Lany had packed and was bringing along several of her sex toys, including a big pink vibrator that had been given to her by Sara. She told herself: Okay, mom, maybe I'll finally find a use for your gift. The two sisters rode the subway to Yaddo and went right to the home of Henry and Richard.

Next: Part 6 of "Telepaths of Site Q"