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429 lines
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The Apgerian
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1994 Dream Weevil
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"You mean I can't just do whatever I want? That there's something
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stopping me from walking out this door, right now?"
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Ker's eyes lit up. "Try it, if you must."
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I went to the door, gripped the knob in the palm of my hand, and turned,
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somehow expecting it not to move. It was crazy, I felt-- I was letting
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her words, her look, convince me, like the willing victim of a
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hypnotist, so wanting to see the "magic" that I'd throw the experiment
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in the magician's favor.
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Nonetheless, the knob turned; the door opened.
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"Now what?" she asked.
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"You're crazy, you know that?"
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"I never said you wouldn't be able to open the door."
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The feeling was as if staring into some kind of spinning reflector; a
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welcome, disorienting dizziness. "Look. I'm going to go home, get some
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sleep, something to eat. Call me when you're feeling better, okay?"
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No response. I did feel some regret; even though this one, passionate
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night with this strange woman was one I didn't want to end, the sun had
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been shining for nearly three hours now. I needed to get out of this
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closed-in strangeness; wash this tenacious scent, of her sex, off my
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skin and from my hair. Backpedaling just a bit, I added: "I'm sorry. I
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did have a wonderful evening."
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"So did I."
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"I'll talk to you later."
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Again, no response. Ker sat, cross-legged, exactly where she had been;
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her face betraying an intense concentration. Strange.
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The air outside the door had become quite solid, like an invisible,
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heavy gelatin extending to the daytime sky. My toes moved only inches
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over the threshold before becoming "stuck"; and then, it took effort to
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pull myself back inside. I put my hand up against this wall, and felt
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much the same thing; convinced that there was some transparency across
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the frame, I tried to test it by leaning against it only to fall,
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clearly through the door, scraping my hands on the concrete steps. The
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resistance, whatever it was, was real, at least to touch; but it didn't
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support my weight, and now was gone.
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"Looks like you made it," Ker shouted through the door. Getting up, she
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took a few steps toward me. "I'm sorry; I didn't think of that. My
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link's just not strong enough yet. I couldn't feel you go off balance."
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I turned over, sitting up on the cold steps. "What?"
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"You don't believe me yet, do you?"
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Ker stood over me, and I reluctantly let her guide me to my feet.
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"I could have hurt you that way," she said, as I wiped my hands on my
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pants. "I won't let it happen again. Now come back inside."
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"Look, I really have to go..."
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With the slightest tug on one finger, I felt myself walking back into
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the room, following her lead as if I had just learned how to stand;
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clumsily swinging one arm around, hitting the edge of the door, which
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closed.
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"Ow."
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"Sorry, again." Ker let go of my finger, taking a few steps away.
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"This takes some getting used to." She sat down, up against her pillow
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again, crossing her legs.
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"Look, I--" At this moment, I realized for the first time: I was
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paralyzed; no effort would move me from this spot; yet, somehow, I
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remained balanced.
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Ker smiled. "I told you, you're mine now." She looked me over. "Nobody
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else can ever have you. You belong to me. So this... is what it feels
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like to be male?" I felt a stirring between my legs; my underwear
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tightening; the sensation vanished as soon as it had come, however.
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"Wet your pants."
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"What?"
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"Go ahead. Let loose entirely. Make a puddle."
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"You're crazy!"
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"Fine, I'll do it for you."
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The insides of my underwear became warm, then heavy; and a moment later
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the pee was running down the inside of my legs. I felt the turbulence,
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the flow; yet I hadn't done anything to cause this. Ker made a bit of a
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face and I felt my bladder tighten, and as the wetness soaked through my
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jeans, I realized that _she_ was doing it.
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Emptied entirely, I still stood, motionless.
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"Wonderful, isn't it? You're my first. Welcome... welcome to me."
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"How... did you do this?"
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"Sit," she said. "I'll have to trust you; I don't think I can balance
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you that well, yet."
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A moment later, my body fell back into my own control; muscles
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responding as if nothing had ever been wrong. Ker rambled on as I
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peeled off my wet clothes:
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"I know your friends tried to warn you, didn't they? You must have
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known. Admit it: you wanted to know for sure, to know what it would be
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like..."
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"What?"
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"Oh, come on! Do I really have to spell it out? I'm an Apgerian. You
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are the first member of my 'harem', now."
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"Apgerian? That's... impossible. Why... would I be the first?"
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"Silly! I only reached my awakening... my sexual maturity a couple of
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weeks ago. So, you might say that you were just in the right place at
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the right time."
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I looked at the puddle I had made. "I still don't get it."
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"Don't you know anything? Okay, let's put this in terms you'll
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understand. I've laid my first egg -"
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"Egg? But..."
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"When you had your face buried in my twat! Or did you just think I was
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having a particularly long orgasm that depended on you having your mouth
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fastened to my sex organs?"
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The vision was very clear - my body under hers, her legs tight around my
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head, and her hands holding me; long fingers stretched against the back
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of my neck. When she finally came; it was indeed a flood, which I
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swallowed.
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"I don't remember any 'egg'..."
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"It's tiny, my sweet. Almost microscopic. You wouldn't have felt it.
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Anyway, it's made its way to your bloodstream, and by now there's about
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a three-centimeter long organism wrapped around your the base of your
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brain stem."
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My hands flew to the base of my neck; and suddenly the resistance came
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again; I wasn't quite able to touch myself there. I could envision what
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she spoke of quite easily.
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"Uh-uh-uh! You'll hurt yourself."
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"I can't believe you. You can't possibly be an Apgerian. You don't -"
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"Don't what?"
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"Well..."
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"I don't smell bad? That's just a defense mechanism, my dear. The
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rumors are just out of control, that's all. Of course, if you're not
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convinced-"
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With the agility of a feline, uncrossing her legs to a standing
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position, Ker spun around, and leaned over. A spot between her pussy
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and anus, now clearly exposed, seemed bright red, like a primitive
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warning flag; an opening appeared here, extending, adjusting, aiming. I
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remained frozen, stupid, like a deer before headlights, as the spray
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came. She hit me square, five times, in five quick contractions that
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each sent a hard, fine stream of a clear liquid to five separate
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targets: my chest, abdomen, crotch, and thighs. As it hit, the spray
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first splattered, then almost instantly it gelled and adhered, like a
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heavy oil.
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For a fraction of a second, I was ready to throw up. It was, by far,
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the strongest, most foul scent I had ever experienced; like being
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sprayed by a skunk at close range. Then, a moment later, something
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changed; it wasn't so bad; the subtle nuances, the sweetness; like being
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immersed, somehow, in _her_.
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Shortly thereafter, I found myself smoothing this oily gel across my
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skin, covering the parts of me she hadn't already sprayed.
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"See? If you were still human, you'd have puked your guts out by now.
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But it's not so terrible, is it?"
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"But.. to others..."
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"You stink like a ocean of manure, my dear. To everyone except me, of
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course. I think it's kind of nice. And the best part is, my flower, it
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doesn't wash off. The spray's odorless until it bonds with your skin,
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which, by now, it's done quite well. So I don't think you're going
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anywhere for a while. Not anywhere near any humans, at least."
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Involuntarily, I stood, then moved behind Ker and began to massage her
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back.
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"Very nice."
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I tried to talk, and, for that moment, couldn't.
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"Sorry, my dear. I'm holding you too tight. Try again."
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"What... have you done? What is this thing..."
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"In your neck? Spreading beyond that by now, I'm sure."
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I continued to massage her back.
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"Growing at about one percent of your body mass per hour. But don't
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worry! You'll hardly notice the change. Every part of you preserved as
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is, for the moment... except... it's me."
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"Apgerians are not adverse-replacement breeders," I argued.
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"Perhaps the one bit of truth you do know about us. If I was an
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adverse-replacement breeder, you'd become my child, in about four days.
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In a few years you'd be off to lay your own eggs. If only it were that
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easy!"
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"Then..."
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"What's happening to you? For now? Don't worry about it. I have to
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acquire one more of your kind; a human female. Shouldn't take me more
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than a day or so. You, meanwhile, make yourself at home.
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The stupid thing, on my part, was staying put. I paced around the
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house, through the day and well into the evening, with at least two
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dozen trips to the door. She was clearly far enough away that she held
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no telepathic control over me, but, for my life, I couldn't decide what
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I would do if I left. With her spray on my skin, and its billions of
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dutiful microbes living in my pores, any creature with the olfactory
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capacity of a stone would know I wasn't "normal". How could I do it?
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Plead for help, before the reaction she had started-- one percent per
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hour-- consumed my entire body? Any human coming near me wouldn't
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merely be offended-- they'd become physically sick from the exposure.
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We had never suspected that a single Apgerian might live among us. The
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most I can think is that she was brought here as a young girl-- which is
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strange enough, since a young of their kind would need substantial
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training to pass for human, and then would need "connections" to get
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started. The portent was of true despair. On any world where these
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creatures had gained a foothold, the native population has been reduced
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to subserviency. If I could only get the word out, somehow, they'd stop
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her--
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And me. A single egg had sealed my fate to hers. How was I to know?
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If they even thought that I might somehow already carry the Apgerian
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breeding ability, there'd be an "accident," and that would be that. But
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still, myself or an entire, thriving population... of people who don't
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value my life, why should I value theirs... but then again...
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And so it went, until Ker returned. Total indecision.
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"In the bathtub with you," Ker demanded, although she didn't exert her
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control. "We've got company coming, and you're a bit strong for her
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right now."
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On my back, in her tub, slender legs spreading over me, and a moment
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later I was completely soaked in Apgerian urine. The only antidote, so
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it seems. She made me lay there, in her yellowish humiliation, for
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minutes before allowing me to rinse and dry, and then dress.
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"You haven't eaten anything," she said. "You'll have to wait for
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dinner."
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The woman who arrived for dinner was beautiful, and, as I realized,
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_entirely normal_, human, as I had been. Too beautiful for this; too
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intelligent. And in a moment of distraction, I tried to cry out:
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"Wait--"
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And this was all I said, all I could say, before she tightened her
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control again. The woman become more relaxed, a bit of alcohol, and
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soon the conversation became free, and Ker called me "her plaything",
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and as the sexual frenzy began to build, as I slowly teased this woman
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to excitement, it was really Ker pulling the strings. Inside I was
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split between passion-- those lips, all that wonderful skin-- and
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anguish. For it was within Ker's belly that lay the second egg, which
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would be this woman's undoing. Ker waited on the sidelines, playing
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with herself as I sprawled on the bed with a woman whose name I didn't
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know. My head between her legs, tickling, teasing her, and just moments
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before orgasm I saw Ker emerge from the periphery, as aroused as the
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human was, and as I watched, she spread her legs across the woman's
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body, and fixed her pussy to the woman's mouth.
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I stopped licking. Ker didn't force me to continue. Minutes passed,
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and then the contractions began. For Ker, it was labor; childbirth; for
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the woman who swallowed Ker's discharge... it might as well have been
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death.
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She kept me quiet, and curled next to us, and the two of them slept.
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I kept hoping that, somehow, I'd get control when Ker fell asleep, but
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she used her power to drag me to sleep alongside.
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I did, however, wake up first. And Ker-- somehow, woke up last.
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"You have to get out of here. She's an Apgerian!" My whispers
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strained; the words needed to be shouted. "You-- You've been--"
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The woman got the point. We were barely out of the bedroom when the
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spray came; all five shots hitting the woman, in her hair, her
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shoulders, buttocks, back, legs. I wheeled, furious, to see the red
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warning spot between Ker's legs. The woman fell, sick, unable to
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breathe.
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Then I fell over onto my bottom, just in the doorway, nearly hitting the
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stricken human.
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"Hold her," Ker commanded, on her feet, walking closer.
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I resisted.
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"Do it."
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I lay on my side, putting my arms around the female, protectively,
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holding her close. The poor lady was _not_ throwing up; it was too
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late. The organism would have control of that part of her brain, now.
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Ker stood above us, legs spread, menacing. Her red spot glared,
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flushed; then she brought her pelvis down close, and took the first
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spray at my head, and covered the two of us with at least ten more.
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She stood. "That'll last at least a week," she said. "Frankly, I'm
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surprised at you. By now, everything but the tips of your fingers and
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toes must be mine. I shouldn't have to restrain you at all. I didn't
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want to have to break you completely."
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"I... I'm sorry," I said. I felt, in the bottom of my soul, that I was
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honest. "I _am_ yours."
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She knew I was telling the truth, for she released me. I helped the
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woman -- Andlina -- to her feet, and the three of us sat, waiting for
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the egg to grow.
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Four days later, I could no longer stand to be apart from Andlina. The
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skin on my ventral surfaces was red, and raw, matching Andlina's dorsal.
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When Ker released us to push our way into each other, I knew there was
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no turning back. I came to her from behind, and held her, my body
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entering hers, my skin adhering. Her body emptied its waste into mine
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at the first opportunity, to make room for the uterus which now occupied
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more than half her body, _empty_, and soon overflowed into mine. There
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was no disgust, however, no horror; Andlina's genital slit soon
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spreading between my legs as it enlarged, our legs adhering, a single
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pelvis between us, and-- growing fur. the back of her head sinking
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into my chest, her breasts vanishing. We were a creature no human had
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ever seen, or ever would. Two-thirds of a true Apgerian; the kind that
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can reproduce.
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Ker had amazing patience, or so it seemed, as she waited for us. Little
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seemed to happen to her. We didn't notice all of the things that were
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happening to us.
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And finally, she came close. And closer. My arms, seemingly useful for
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nothing else, grabbed Ker's legs-- my head, whatever shape it was by
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now, between them. And pushing. Pushing hard. It didn't fit, and Ker
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tried to relax and I tried to breathe the right way and pull down on her
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legs just right, and wiggle the right way, to build Ker's excitement,
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until she could stretch the lips of her alien vagina down over me.
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Push. Push. Push. Ker made a bit more room as I entered, urine
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splashing down before me, then, quickly, all her weight upon us, lifting
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her feet from the floor, praying that the lubrication was enough.
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And her pussy tightened around my neck, and that was it. The
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connections were clean, and numerous, nerves, blood flow, elimination.
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A strange kind of centaur, now, but complete. Ker had the mouth, so she
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would eat and drink; the one who was Andlina had the urethra, so she
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would urinate for the three of us; I had the anus. Six days after
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joining, Ker began to fill her lower half -- us -- with her eggs, one at
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a time, once per day, passing them down my throat, and Andlina was all
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too ready to take them from me and start them growing within our shared
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uterus.
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We'd lie down, on our side, and marvel at what we were doing. The
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vagina we shared would change this world, as we brought eleven Apgerians
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into the world with it.
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Three days before labor began, Ker separated her body from mine; she
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simply closed her connections and pulled violently away. It was heart-
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wrenching to have her leave us behind, to know she regained her normal
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appearance even as we were gasping for air, something I had not tasted
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for so long; dormant lungs unused for nearly two years. It was a full
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day before I could even see again. Our body is bloated and useless, and
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where we were once dominated by Ker, we are now being tormented from
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within. The children-- so many of them, so large, have been making
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increasing demands upon us. We cannot eat-- Ker took the key components
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of a digestive system with her when she left, so we are being digested
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from within. The children will leave us only enough to survive until we
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give birth to all of them.
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Recording the story quickly now, with Ker long gone. Now I know why
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they are hated so. They traded the lives of two humans for these eleven
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children, but we grant them that. We fell for their lures; they deserve
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to replace us. The ten children are normal-- appearing adolescent,
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somehow; innocent, harmless, except for the last.
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The one remaining Apgerian girl within our womb knows us. She knows she
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is the last. It is one other thing about Apgerians that we do know. Even
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now, as she takes the last bit of useable energy from us, she holds
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within herself -- in her bladder, the toxin, the substance that will
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finally end this existence. The others did not have this. We took
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their wastes from them as easily as we fed them. But she holds hers.
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Ker told us this: No matter how hard we try, as we exert the last of our
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strength to expel her, to bring her to this world, she will find the
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time to do it.
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I don't doubt that this act is one of merciful kindness. To persist
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beyond, as... this-- would be nothing but agony. That she has taken my
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life is not why I despise her. I despise their kind... only because
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I... was in love with her.
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The last one is coming. Despite all my wisdom and destiny, I do what
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Ker says I will do: expel her quickly, get rid of the living time-bomb
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within my uterus. Head, shoulders, arms, abdomen. I-- I can't push
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any more, her waist, still inside. The devil! She's spreading her legs
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within me; I can't squeeze them back together! Let go of my legs! I
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can't believe-- she's still half-inside, sitting up, smiling-- at me!
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"Just one more second..."
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Her smile-- suddenly comfortable-- Oh god, I feel it, warm, no, hot,
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melting, I--
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