Chapter 45
The reign of One of Many, née Annika Hansen; Queen of Borg.
Year 01, Month 03, Day 27, Hour 10, Minute 00.
Anidan stepped away from the alcove at the same moment her Mate did. Now that Anidan was joining the Hive again while regenerating, and especially since the Hive had changed and now also allowed for irrelevant conversations with people that didn't mind joining in, they had taken to regenerating at the same time if duty allowed it. Lucky for them they were both head of a department and therefore worked on the same Alpha shift. So regenerating at the same time was more the norm than a rare occasion.
She took the two steps that brought her to her Mate, who had also taken two steps. They kissed, like they always did after regenerating, not that they needed an excuse; they liked kissing. They liked kissing, hugging, necking, making love, holding hands, talking. There really wasn't anything at all they didn't like about each other. Even the things that would normally have bugged them to no end, maybe even would have ended the relationship under different circumstances, were really cute if their mate did it. It was good to be Mated.
Anidan cupped and then squeezed one of her Mate's breasts a little, while moving her other hand to that perfect butt. She pulled her lover close. Felt her, smelt her, drank her in. A gentle caress traveled through her mind and spread out until it had reached the tip of every nerve ending in Anidan's body. Giving a strange, but wonderful, sensation of a full body kiss.
"I love it when you do that," Anidan noted when they finally broke apart.
Si'zaG smiled. "I know, that's why I do it. Hi there my wonderful Mate."
"And hi to you babe. It was fun talking to your parents."
They started to walk to their living room. Holding hands, because they could.
"They really like you," Si'zaG noted. "Not that it matters of course. They know that since we are bonded I feel more devotion to you than to my family. Such is the way the Planner made the Bond between Mates. But I really like that you get along so well."
Anidan shrugged. "I think it really helps that one of them is a builder and the other an engineer. Even if we have nothing else to talk about, we still have that. We can always talk shop. Plus I think they were quite proud of the fact that you managed to snatch yourself the Chief Engineer of the Queen's home ship."
'Snatched?' Si'zaG asked mentally. 'Let me guess, my mother.'
Anidan laughed. "Yes. While your father was keeping you busy, she and I had a little chat to see if I was worthy of a greeting as a family member next time. I think I passed the test."
Si'zaG groaned. "Well, despite that, I'm sorry that you couldn't meet them in person. They like being on the other side. They only hopped over here to talk to you, us, after hearing that I'm bonded now."
'Maybe we can go visit them in a few months,' Anidan suggested mentally. 'Take a couple of days vacation and hop on a cube that goes there. We could use one of the shuttles for me to live in once we are there. I could visit your old home in a spacesuit; it can handle the pressure and provide me the oxygen I need.'
Si'zaG trailed her fingers over her lover's face, making sure to connect to the right spots when doing so. A Vulcan mind-melt was nothing compared to a Siill's touch if they wanted. They were mental powerhouses, and if they were touching you directly that telepathic power was quadrupled. When touching you they could stop a beating heart with a mere suggestion of a thought. They could burst the veins in your lungs and let you drown in your own blood. They could make you scream in agony. And they could...
Anidan moaned when the pleasure of an almost sexual peak washed over her, keeping her on that edge for far longer than a normal orgasm ever could.
"You are such a wonderful person, my Mate. Thank you. But you don't have to leave the shuttle, we can enter it and my parents will still feel at home... ish."
Anidan didn't answer, but her thought was clear to read.
'You want to see where I grew up,' Si'zaG thought with a smile. 'You want to leave the shuttle and see things from the very same spot where I looked at the very same things. You want for my parents to be as comfortable as possible, even though it means that you won't. Oh my wonderful Mate. Open your eyes.'
Anidan did so. Si'zaG had her on that blissful razor's edge, all Anidan needed was that small little push. All that she needed, apparently, was to see those golden colored eyes look back at her with an incredible intensity. Anidan saw the depth of those black cross shaped pupils and willingly drowned in them. She came with an intensity that only Si'zaG had ever been able to give her. No former lovers had ever been worthy of standing even close to Si'zaG's shadow; let alone in it.
Si'zaG didn't remove her fingers from her lover's face, though she did stop sending the sexual stimulations to Anidan's brain. She knew what would happen when she stopped controlling her lover's body, so she prepared by pulling her lover against her with a strong arm around her back.
Finally she removed her hand. Immediately Anidan's knees buckled, and only Si'zaG's secure hold kept her up. Si'zaG moved her to the couch and gently sat her down. Not a word was said, or a thought was read, while Anidan just sat there trying to calm her body down and Si'zaG merely sat on the low table and watched her with a knowing smile.
A couple of minutes later Anidan could finally speak. "Wow, that... wow. Damn I'm so glad that I told you the last time that you could do that whenever you wanted."
Si'zaG Laughed. "As I asked you then, you really want me to do that when I see you working and get hot and bothered because of it? How about I only do it when we are alone?"
Anidan nodded happily.
"Of course, that doesn't mean that we'll stop making love the other way. You taste way too good for me to stop licking you, or for me to stop sucking your nipples, or,"
"You want me to get hot again?" Anidan asked. It was interesting between them, because that question was never a real question. It was more of a warning that Anidan was actually getting excited, be it again or for the first time. This because Anidan was always hot for Si'zaG; a side effect of being bonded.
Si'zaG had assured her that they would eventually learn to control their urges, to which Anidan had countered, "Why bother? We behave in public. Why should we stop making love in the privacy of our home at least twice a day, only because others don't? We can stop doing that when we no longer feel these urges. But for now I enjoy them way too much."
Si'zaG didn't put up much of a fight. Truth be known, she enjoyed it to. And since the matter of sex... if, how, what kind, with who, where... seemed to be pretty much up to the people themselves on Unimatrix 01, as long as they didn't bother other people and abided by the rules in effect on the deck they were on, why not?
In fact, Anidan had reacted to some good-natured teasing from B'Elanna by saying that for Anidan and Si'zaG, sex was a hobby. A hobby that they kept to the privacy of their quarters. Unlike certain people that she could mention, but wouldn't.
"And I so like that hobby," Anidan said, reading Si'zaG's thoughts. "That answer shut her up though, didn't it?"
"It did," Si'zaG agreed. She got up from the table and joined her Mate on the couch. She pulled her lover into her arms before continuing. "I'm glad that they are so comfortable with us around. I like the friendships that have formed." The reference to the comfortable was because on the day Anidan had given that answer, Anidan and Si'zaG were in swimwear while the other four women were nude. "I had fun playing in the water. It reminds me of fluidic space a little."
"Just that you can't breathe water."
"True," Si'zaG agreed. "But then fluidic space is all around us so we can't play games that rely on the water's surface, like sailing. Though I don't think that people would classify it as a game."
Anidan shrugged. "It's considered a sport on many planets. But then, it's about having fun, about winning in some cases, about teamwork. Sounds a lot like a game to me."
"Just that normally it's not done nude," Si'zaG pointed out. "They are nude a lot."
"Because they know it doesn't bother us, or affect us," Anidan pointed out on her turn. "It's not like they try and find excuses to be nude. It's just... well occasions where clothing is nothing more than covering up in case someone might see you. They know they don't need to cover for us. So, sailing, swimming, lying on the beach... all stuff where normally you only wear a bathing suit, or something like that, just to cover up your body so that others don't see it. But other than that they wear their clothing if we are around, don't they? They wear clothing if they are having a barbeque. Or if they go wandering in the forest, or any kind of activity where having your boobs wave all around is a nuisance."
"True," Si'zaG agreed with a smile. "But if this is so, then why do we wear bathing suits on those occasions?"
Anidan hesitated before admitting with a grin, "Because I'm a prude. And you wear clothing too so that I won't feel like a moron. I know you Siill don't worry much about clothing. Your warriors are nude all the time as it is, even now. Not counting the security vests and stuff like that. And for the others like you, clothing is normally a cloak. And even then it's only worn on rare occasions like ceremony."
"And on duty if it's very likely that we'll meet people we don't already know," Si'zaG added. Seeing the confused look, she explained, "Clothing speaks too. From being on Unimatrix 01 I now know that most non-telepathic people assume that telepathy is the answer to all, but in some cases talking is better. Why do you think we have a mouth?"
"To eat with?" Anidan asked amused.
Si'zaG opened her mouth, then closed it, to only then open it again and admit, "Good point. Alright, why do we have vocal cords?"
Anidan turned in those strong arms and winked. "To scream my name of course."
"Funny, but true occasionally. No, I'll you why. Sound travels clearly. If you close your eyes and I talk, you can still pinpoint where I am, pretty much, simply by where my voice is coming from. But,"
Si'zaG switched from talking verbally to talking mentally, 'Is it just as clear now? Since you can only hear me telepathically but not the other telepaths close to our quarters, you might be able to make a good guess. But now picture being in a place where there are hundreds of telepaths around you. Just who 'called' your name?'
"I see, and I see your point." Suddenly Anidan slapped herself against her forehead. "Duh, now I get it. Now I know why the transmitters have such a problem with translating your language. It's because you are used to talking by having fluidic space travel over your vocal cords and the sound you produce is automatically designed to carry through liquid instead of air."
"Is that important?" Si'zaG asked, confused by the sudden change in subject. Confused, but not surprised. Anidan had the tendency to jump to other things when she thought of something. It happened sometimes, and it was simply part of Anidan.
"It means that I can calibrate the translator database so that you and all of your people can talk in your own language instead of having to use the Borg language. I know that for people that are here permanently, like you, it doesn't matter. But it does matter for people that only jump to this universe for a moment, like your parents."
Si'zaG kissed her Mate. "You are so sweet."
"Hush, don't let it get around," Anidan grinned. "Anyway, to come back to the clothing, I guess that with 'clothing talks too', you mean that you can use it to indicate the difference between, say a Maintainer and an Engineer? Especially since they look pretty much alike body-type wise."
"Right," Si'zaG agreed. "Here you would call the clothing we had a uniform, even though it was just a cloak. But it talked. Not with the obvious things like color, since in green/brown space everything is by definition a shade of green and brown. No, our clothing talks with the weaving pattern."
Si'zaG indicated a flowing line in the air with her finger. Up, down a little, up slightly, down some more, up slightly, down a lot, and then back up to the starting height. "That's the pattern worn by Maintainers like me." She made another line. "And this is the sign for the influence level I have."
"Influence level is kinda like ranks with us, right?" Anidan said in understanding. She noticed that the finger had stopped once again on the same height as where it had started. Indicating that the patterns could be repeated time and again all through the fabric.
"Right," Si'zaG agreed. "Now, to come back to us spending time with our friends. You are the one for whom keeping her clothes on in situations like that is the most important; why?"
"I don't know," Anidan admitted. "I don't like people seeing me nude, looking at my body."
"As you said, it's not like they run around the ship nude. Just on those occasions where they are alone, or with their two friends that couldn't care less if they are nude." Si'zaG made a show of looking at Anidan's body, which was at that moment covered by the Borg uniform. "You know what I have discovered here though?"
"What?"
"That clothing can enhance eroticism. You see me naked every day, seeing me naked can turn you on if I want to. But seeing me actually in that bikini has made you hot every time I put it on, every single time. Three times we made love because just seeing me like that made you burn."
Anidan smiled. "Yeah, sometimes I look at you then and," She growled.
"And we have to excuse ourselves and leave our friends alone for half an hour or so. Speculation is always more interesting than clear facts, the hidden can be more alluring than what is in plain sight. A pair of naked breasts is nice to look at. You can admire the form, how nice the nipples sit on them. But it's plain to see. After that initial appraisal they don't stimulate the mind if you aren't also touching them. But have those same breasts covered and leave just enough to stimulate imagination and they are a lot more tempting. Instead of simply seeing nipples you now see nipples poking fabric up, and wonder about how those nipples might look."
Knowing her Mate well enough to also hear the things she didn't say, Anidan said, "So what you are telling me is... you are getting bored with having clothes on if they don't, but you will continue to do so if I want to keep my clothes on so that I won't be the odd person out. And that you think that they won't care what we look like."
"Close." Si'zaG smiled. "I also won't mind continuing to wear bathing clothes because seeing me in them turns you on, and I like you turned on. And also, they will definitely care what we look like. The first time they see us nude they will look at us. After all, they might be Mates, but they don't have a Siill bond that makes all other people uninteresting to them. If they did, the couples wouldn't watch each other having sex regularly. But that's just it. Think, just how often do you see them looking at each other's bodies?"
Anidan thought about that and then groaned. "I have seen more looks in our direction than in the direction of the others."
"Because they know what their bodies look like. And on those occasions, because of that, they simply see skin. Nothing more. A breast is just a curve covered by skin, it only gets arousing if they get horny. I honestly think that they look at us exactly because we are hiding our bodies."
"Hide under bikinis that still show a lot of skin and make you wonder about those few parts you don't see," Anidan added in defeat.
"Do, do you mind them looking at us?" Si'zaG asked. She knew that the question had never crossed Anidan's mind because the woman was new to being Mated and had lost her eye for all that now happened around her that didn't involve Si'zaG, at least erotic wise.
"No I don't," Anidan assured right away. "Hey, believe me, before I bonded with you I looked a lot more than they did. In fact, they look, I stared. Sometimes for minutes on end, and not those few seconds our friends look at us. On my Homeworld it was perfectly normal for guys to go topless if the weather was warm enough to allow for it, and I lived in a warm region. There was more than one day where I would go to my favorite restaurant with patio, and just look and devour some hunks that were walking around showing off their body."
"And a couple of them even ended up in bed with you," Si'zaG added.
Anidan smiled. "And the funny part is that I bet you a day's work that you guessed that, and didn't even need to read my mind."
"When we are talking like this I don't read your mind, unless you pause to think about something. Because then reading your thoughts is faster than listening to you trying to explain something. But if we have a fluent conversation like now, reading your mind as well would only give me an echo while I hear slightly different worded sentences than what you are talking. It can be... confusing."
"Hey, I learned something new about you," Anidan said happily. "Great. I didn't know that. So, how long of a pause before you start reading my mind again?"
"About three seconds of hesitation. Or if I get a feeling that you are actually thinking about the words you are talking."
"Ah, so that I don't reword my thoughts to make a 'no' sound like a 'maybe'."
"Things like that," Si'zaG agreed. "You know that I want you just as you are; blunt thoughts and all. But I also know that before you were assimilated you lived for decades in a society where telling the truth isn't always a good thing. You are very used to not giving exactly the answer you are thinking. You are blunt, yes, but you often say things like 'let me see if it's possible', when you know it's not. Just so that you can make it look like you at least tried. Now, tell me, are we going to bring our bikinis next time we go swimming?"
"Alright," Anidan relented. "No more swimwear next time. Unless of course it's a situation where we need them to hold our boobs in place while we play in the water, like last time. What did they call that game again? Waterball? Anyway, it consisted out of a lot of jumping around and I have enough in front of me to want to have it confined in situations like that."
"Yes you do," Si'zaG agreed while trailing a hand over one of her Mate's sex swells. "And such fine 'enoughs' they are." Si'zaG smiled. "They might actually be disappointed by you not hiding them anymore."
"Oh, I don't think so," Anidan said while thinking very deliberately about how beautiful she thought her Mate's body was. "And I don't think my view is clouded by love. You really are that hot."
"As are you," Si'zaG pointed out.
"But I ain't having sex in front of them," Anidan said with resoluteness. Only to wink and show that she was just playing the gruff part of the resoluteness, not the resoluteness itself.
Si'zaG laughed and placed her hand once more against Anidan's head. This time she didn't trigger any feelings though, the hand was only meant as an indicator to give meaning to her next words. "Why not? They wouldn't even know that we are."
Anidan took her Mate's hand and placed a kiss on those wonderful fingers. "I was thinking more of those other ways we have sex as well. Like when you use these talented digits on parts lower than my head."
"You have nothing to worry about," Si'zaG assured. "Remember, I'm a very powerful telepath; I can't help but pick up thoughts from people close to me, unless I shut my abilities off. And I can assure you that never once have I picked up anything from them about them wanting to see us, or having us watch them, have sex. They are very happy with the arrangement they have between them. All their needs of watching and being watched are fully met between them."
"You have picked up other things from them though, haven't you?" Anidan guessed. "You have seen memories?"
"I have," Si'zaG admitted. "It's... it are not thoughts that will be picked up by every telepath on this ship. But I am a friend, and the closer I became to them, the more barriers were breached. Everyone has those barriers; it's nature. It's what makes you go from not trusting someone, to trusting someone a little, to trusting them with your life. They welcomed me as a friend, they trust me, so barriers fell and now I pick up stray thoughts from them. Unless I were to shut my senses off around them."
"Which they would never ask you to do because they want people, or at least friends, to be themselves around them. All or nothing. Which means with you, accepting that you have telepathic abilities."
"Yes. It's made easier because they know I don't care. But yes. In fact, one time Seven sent me a direct message. She saw Pagsha and Katzi playing, some mock wrestling, and Seven's mind went back to a time where she had seen them do the same and where it had led to sex. B'Elanna and Seven had watched them, before giving their friends something to watch as well. I was surprised by the fact that the scene I saw was longer than the normal flash I see otherwise. And then suddenly I get this direct and clear thought from Seven. She thought, 'I, we, are still not sure if we should be happy or sad that you do not care about that, Si'zaG'. She deliberately used my name."
"Sad?' Anidan asked.
Si'zaG kissed her. "Well, think about it my love. They like to watch and be watched by their friends. Though they don't want others to join in that little experience, it doesn't mean that they would mind it too much if I actually could enjoy their memories, seeing that I have become a friend that's close enough to be trusted with very private information."
Anidan thought about that for a moment. Though she really didn't care about the sex between their friends, she did wonder about one thing. "Are they any good for each other, sex wise I mean? When I was on my Homeworld I had great sex, and lousy sex. For people not bonded, sex can be a lousy experience."
"They think much like us; that they must be the luckiest person in the Universe. A very lucky person that, besides having the best loving relationship ever, is also getting the best sex that ever happened."
Anidan nodded. "I never was in love before you, but I did hear that love does that to people. Love is blind and all that. You know how we changed to be exactly what the other needs? Well, I heard that for people truly in love, but that don't bond, it's also a little like that. Looks become beautiful to you, even if they are average to others. What you want from sex changes."
Si'zaG tilted her head a little. "Maybe that explains why I never get any true feelings of want for the others from them. They love to watch each other, they even indulge in fantasies of being with the others, but they never truly want to have sex with the others."
"That's one thing I do miss a little," Anidan admitted. "That I can't have fantasies anymore. Mind you, I love what we have. I love it all, I love the fact that we can have sex in different ways. That you can make love to me while we are using our bodies, or by you stimulating my mind like you did before. And how you are even able to make me come with words when I'm on an away mission and I need you. But I can't fantasize anymore, not even about you. I might plan something I want to do, how I want to spend an evening with you, but I can't get worked up just thinking of you touching me. For that I need that touch, I need that thought, I need that wonderful voice of yours."
"Nothing is perfect, my perfection," Si'zaG said with a smile, having used the paradox deliberately.
Anidan shrugged. "It's not that bad really. I mean, if I could still fantasize, it would only mean that I would probably miss something else. You always miss what you can't have. Personally, I'd much rather miss my fantasies than missing some of the things you do to me. Alright, so fantasies are out, but love, you can make me come by talking to me over the Borg link. I'd rather hear your real voice that gets me worked up than just fantasizing about you doing something to me."
"And talking about Borg link, let me change the subject a little," Si'zaG said as she shifted position slightly so that she could easily reach her Mate's head with her now free hand. She slowly started to move her fingers through the hair, massaging her lover's scalp softly.
"Sure," Anidan agreed. "We are just babbling anyway."
Si'zaG smiled when the thought of her Mate that had triggered the comment registered. "Yes, poor you. Actually wanting to talk instead of saying piss off. You are so whipped."
Anidan laughed. "I'm so glad that you find the occasional thought like that funny instead of offensive."
Si'zaG ruffled her Mate's hairs playfully. "That's because reading thoughts is only a small part of being a telepath. I hear you think that you are whipped like a Ran kitty addicted to milk, but I also feel how much you love that, and how much you like being my willing slave."
Anidan blushed.
"Not that kind of slave, love," Si'zaG said amused. "Though come to think of it, that was fun too. We should do that again sometimes."
"I can't help it. I simply get turned on by how strong you are," Anidan admitted.
"And by my voice, and my smile, my touch, my eyes, my... how many things was it on last count?"
"Almost three thousand. Keeping a list of those things is one of my little hobbies. Anyway you wanted to talk about something else?"
Si'zaG nodded. "Ah, yes. I was a little curious about behavior and I was wondering if you could explain something to me. I know that the Borg communicator is one of your pet projects, which is why I never asked for it to be in my department even though it's finished."
"Yeah," Anidan admitted. "It's one of my favorites. I really love the transwarp project, simply because I invented it. I brought faster than light travel to my Homeworld, and I did it with the bang of transwarp that is normally the Holy Grail for species that already have the normal faster than light travel of warp. And then it turns out that it's so damn good that, after assimilating me, the entire Borg Collective use it. It's an invention to be proud of for the rest of my life. But the communicator... I love it just as much. This time it's because it is a wonderful weapon in my mission of destroying the Borg that assimilated me. Yes, it was Seven's changes that allowed for Borg drones to talk to each other, but it was me that made it possible for them to do so privately. It was that communicator that made it possible for drones to talk nonsense talk with their lover light-years away on a mission. And every time a drone is able to say 'I love you' to another drone, the Borg that destroyed my life die a little more."
"Easy there my little rebel," Si'zaG said with a smile. "Who would have thought a year ago that the Borg would admire you so much because you are so determined to destroy them?"
"Irony, you got to love it."
"Especially when other drones give you suggestions on what also could use changing to further your goal, and that every single member of the Hive knows exactly what your goal is."
Anidan shrugged. "I'm not a threat to them because my reasons are irrelevant to them as long as they benefit from my creations."
"True," Si'zaG agreed. "But the reason I brought up the communicator is not the device so much, but the messages you have added. You added fifteen standard messages that people can use that don't want to bother with creating their own."
"B'Elanna has," Anidan corrected. "You weren't there that day because at that point you didn't go with me every time I hung out with them."
"I didn't go with you then because you only talked shop when you hung with them," Si'zaG corrected. "You still do sometimes, but at least now if it happens it's merely a fair and relatively short discussion when something else you were talking about, that has nothing to do with work, triggers an idea."
"Fair enough," Anidan relented. "Anyway, I started with suggesting some messages and as a joke B'Elanna asked me if I also wanted to add messages like, 'my Mate and I are enjoying some quality time, only contact me fully if you want me pissed at you.' I found it actually quite funny because there have been more than one occasion where people pissed me off by contacting me while we were,"
"Enjoying Quality time," Si'zaG offered with a smile.
"Right. So, as I said, it was B'Elanna that came up with the actual messages. 'Please don't disturb' was the second suggestion she made. The one I myself use most was the third suggestion; 'If it's not that important and it can wait until you see me in person, and/or I'm on duty, let it wait'."
"And that is where my question comes in," Si'zaG said. "I noticed that the, um, more creative ones are actually used more than the five simple and obvious ones. 'Busy' and 'available' are used, yes, but the, 'my Mate and I are enjoying some quality time, only contact me fully if you want me pissed at you', is actually used more than the simple 'busy'. Why?"
"Because it's more fun?" Anidan said with a smile. She saw that her Mate was about to answer and waved her off. "Because of Human nature. Or more to the point, Humanoid nature. It's the very reason why people can add their own messages if they want. Yes, 'busy' is obvious. But I might not find it gruff enough. Me being gruff to people is part of my nature. I sometimes even do it to you, my wonderful Mate. I have even told the Queen once, while I was on duty, to stop fucking bugging me. I apologized for it then because I realized that I had gone too far. At that point she was not my friend that I was talking to in private; she was my Queen. The point is that Seven accepted it, as soon as I apologized, without even batting her eyes so to speak. Simply because it's part of my nature and character. People expect it of me."
"True," Si'zaG agreed.
"So when people that know me would see a simple 'busy' they would ignore it because to them it would actually seem like an indicator that I'm in a good mood because it's so tame. So for me a more blunt 'leave me alone if possible' is more fitting. Katzi, being the proud warrior, might actually want to boast a little, and put up a message letting everyone who is trying to contact her know that she should not be disturbed if it's not important because she's training, again. Pagsha... well, I can go on. Point is that the character of a person has a lot to do with how they want to tell the universe that, yes, they can be contacted if needed, but rather not."
"But then why use your... B'Elanna's... messages instead of making their own?"
"Because for a lot of people it's only a matter of just a little bit more. 'Busy' is boring, but using the 'I'm spending quality time' is more fun and fits with a lot of species. Even the ones that don't dare to show a square millimeter of skin in public might use the 'quality time' one because it's so open to interpretation. If we are spending quality time, it might mean that we are screwing around like the possessed, but it might also mean that we are merely having a serious and thought provoking discussion. After all, wouldn't you also call what we are doing right now spending quality time?"
"So along that line, that would also explain two of the other ones I see used a lot. The 'I'm bored, who wants to talk to me' one, and the 'I'm horny, who wants to take care of that' one. Both are invitations for social interactions. It just depends on the species just what kind of activities are considered normal and recreational social activities."
"Right," Anidan agreed. "Especially if you keep in mind that pretty much everyone knows that things like the 'I'm horny' one doesn't mean that you will have sex in the next minute. It just means that the person is open to talk about the subject and that sex might be next if the talk allows for it. I mean, for me, I might actually have used that line before you my love. But if a woman had reacted to that, the conversation would have been over after the first question; gender? And then there's the second question, species, to see if people are compatible and so on. Hell, I think that a lot of those people don't even end up really having sex, but they sure might talk about it. Being able to talk about the subject without actually doing it might be fun too."
"It would?" Si'zaG asked surprised. "Even for people not bonded like us?"
Anidan nodded. "Sure. Let's take my theoretical un-Bonded self. Say I used that message. The first question reveals that the other person is a guy. Great. But the second question reveals that he is a Kreek. There goes the possibility of intercourse because as you know, our two species can't even touch without the acids in our skin reacting and burning both of us. But that doesn't mean that we can't still talk. If I'm frisky enough I might talk to him and explain in great detail just what I would do to him if we only could."
"Ah, that fantasizing thing," Si'zaG said in understanding.
"Plays a part in it," Anidan partially agrees. "Alright, so we can't touch, but we are compatible in regards to the rest of our body. So he can still talk dirty to me about playing with my breasts, or about filling me. Fun talk. Hell, we might then get bored with the subject eventually, but since we are talking we might talk about something else and realize that we have a lot in common. We might even end up as friends."
"So, what you are saying, besides what you are literally saying, is that the other messages are used more because they give a hint of more spice, sexual or not, but aren't really any more defined than 'available' is. After all, available for what? You might be available now, but that still doesn't mean that you are available for a lunch with someone. You might just have eaten a minute ago."
"Right."
Si'zaG tilted her head a little. "I really do like that you can explain things like that to me. Being a telepath helps with knowing what a person does, but it's of absolutely no use in finding out why a group of people you aren't in contact with prefers to do one thing over another. As far as things like that are concerned we Siill are like newborn babies. We only know how other Siill's will behave for whatever reason."
Anidan laughed. "Love, you are most definitely a babe, but a baby you are not. I would be just as lost in your space. More so even. Hell, even I myself would be lost on most Homeworlds of Borg species before Assimilation happened. I can only guess about behavior because most species do have a range. There are conservatives and liberals in every species, including mine. Therefore I can guess what a person will do, if I know if they are from this or that species in general, but more so if I'm told if the person itself is more a liberal or conservative. But more importantly, exactly because the Borg is a group of thousands of species, billions of people, I can give you an educated guess of the center line of behavior because liberal and conservative equal each other out."
"Well, I still like the fact that you can be my teacher in how and why people do a lot of things here," Si'zaG persisted. "Thanks to the Borg link I can look up all kinds of information on species, but a lot has been filtered out as irrelevant. And that's normally the fun stuff. Yes, I could contact people of that species and ask, but I much rather ask you and get your 'general opinion as far as I know' answer."
"And I enjoy giving it to you," Anidan assured. She reluctantly got up from the couch and looked down at her sitting lover. "Now, we have today off, and nothing planned. Any ideas what we should do with our time?"
Si'zaG smiled up. "You mean besides my standard suggestion of going to bed?"
"Yes, besides that one. Though I won't object too much if you really were to suggest that."
Si'zaG thought for a moment. "How about we see if the First Family has time today to do something that will probably result in nudity being shown, so that we can take care of that before your chicken out and it takes me months to convince you again that us being nude as well is simply a lot more easier?"
"Hey, I don't chicken out."
Si'zaG merely give Anidan a look.
"That much," Anidan added before sticking out her tongue.
"Uh huh," Si'zaG said before continuing. "And once we know what time they are free, we make the choice if I ravish you before or after we go spend time with them."
"Ravish?" Anidan asked happily.
"Oh yeah. Ravish. Nice and slow, and looong. Until you can't walk anymore."
Anidan swallowed. "God woman, you expect me to think about anything else but jumping you after that?"
Si'zaG smiled sweetly. "Who's stopping you? Contacting our friends can wait a little longer."
Anidan pounced.
To Be Continued...