Her hands were just as sure, rubbing my neck, back, buttocks, thighs.Her hands were just as sure, rubbing my neck, back, buttocks, thighs. I nearly passed out, it felt that wonderful. I wanted to sleep, and sleep for real. When she was finally done, I turned around and grabbed the showerhead. "In," I ordered. She smiled and got in as I again ran the water over her head, her chest, teasing at the fur to get the soap out of all of it. When she was rinsed, I turned the head on myself and rinsed off quickly. "Whew," I sighed. "Yeah," she replied. "After that, I feel ready for sleep." "Computer?" I asked aloud. There was no response. "I thought they had vocal-control computers on Tycho?" "Maybe you need to address a terminal or something," she said thoughtfully as she toweled off. Being furred, she needed more time than I did to get the water off her. "I'll go take a look." Without a concern for modesty, I walked into the main room and found what looked like a keyboard terminal with a condenser microphone. The wall appeared to be a wide-screen display. I toggled the 'power' bar in the upper-right-hand corner of the keyboard and the screen came up with a menu. "Computer?" I inquired aloud. "Listening," came back a flat and unpleasant male voice. "Where is Doctor Victoria Stoneman?" "Doctor Stoneman is in her laboratory," the computer replied. "Can you please connect..." I suddenly realized that I was still naked. I leaned far out of the chair I was sitting in to grab a long nightshirt from my bag and slipped it on. "Repeat, please," the computer responded. "Can you please connect me to Doctor Stoneman?" "I am inquiring Doctor Stoneman right now." I cursed under my breath about stupid computers and computer programmers. Finally the screen cleared and Victoria peered out at me. "Ken!" she responded cheerfully, smiling. "Hi, Vicki," I replied. "You're looking swell." "You too," she said. "Are we still having dinner tonight?" "When's 'tonight?'" I asked. "It's only noon right now. How about eight o'clock?" I closed my eyes and sighed, thanking a deity at random. I think today's was Loki. "That would be wonderful. I need to take a nap. |