“I guess I owe an explanation…” Siona glanced around furtively. She sat back on her haunches between Ty’s legs and folded her hands in her lap. As her hair settled, two errant strands fell in front of her face. If not for the youthful, round and generous breasts this action revealed, she would have resembled a patient handmaiden. The sight only deepened Ty’s catatonia.

“I- oh,” Siona started, but glanced down following Ty’s gaze. A moment later an opaque blue tube-top appeared to cover the statuesque bosom. It didn’t detract from the view very much. Looking back at Ty and seeing, with irritation, that he had not improved, she reached out an arm and smacked him gently. This reminded Ty that he had a headache and it that it had not improved, but it also got his brain working properly again.

“Ty! My name is Ty. Ty Kegwen. Pleased to… um, meet you, I guess.”

“Hello, Ty. Sorry I sucked you off like that.” Siona said flatly, but her blush was back. “I’ve been trapped here as a liquid for so long… and you’re the first human I’ve seen since- since I can’t remember when!” Siona flung her open hands apart in a gesture of supplication.

“I-it’s ok. Don’t mention it.” Ty stammered out. He averted his gaze and inspected the room, realizing he sounded dopey and beginning to feel self-conscious around such a beautiful girl. Ty pushed his embarrassment aside when he remembered all the questions he had. “Who are you? What is this place?”

“Well,“ Siona pulled the remainder of her mass away from Ty and into her humanoid frame, unlocking him and leaving him sitting on the crater floor (he scrambled his pants back up) “right now we’re in a control shaft, but more generally speaking we’re in Terenus, the central fortress of the Ballenta.” She thumbed the center of her chest, “I’m a Ballenta!” she said cheerfully, grinning. She seemed to be enjoying explaining these things. She modeled briefly, striking a dramatic pose.

“I’ve never heard of Ballenta. Siona? How long have you been here? And why haven’t you left?”

“Well… I don’t actually know. Here, let me start from the beginning.” Siona swelled around to sit next to Ty, bringing her knees up to her chest and leaning gently against him. The air seemed to clear when she approached, and Ty believed he smelled something like a clean, early summer breeze. Ty was compelled to put an arm around her. At this, Siona gave Ty a glad smile. Ty thought it was the sort of smile an imperiled princess might give the brave adventurer who saved her from a dragon, and he began to feel less like he had just been raped. Siona started her story.

“My people lived here ages ago. The Ballenta were allies of several other nations fighting in a great war. I don’t know many of the details because I had only just been born when Terenus was invaded. In the confusion of the evacuation, I was separated from my parents. I searched everywhere that I knew for them but I was still so small.”

“You see, we Ballenta are born as just a little fluid sphere, and we require a certain rare antigen to take a solid form. It’s found in a fruit that grows at our temple… and, also in human semen… I burned all my energy in getting here and I just melted into this pit. I was trapped.” Siona’s gaze grew distant. She took her eyes off Ty and stared distantly at her own transparent knees.

“I remember listening to the invasion force doing things for the first few years, but they eventually left or died, I’m not sure. Then for about ten years I passed the time just counting the days through the vent shaft. I think I went a little crazy after that. The rest of my time is kinda muddy.”

Ty considered the idea of other civilizations, of a whole race of goo-people. No part of Siona’s story was familiar to Ty, but the outside world was rarely mentioned in the cities, except among future deserters like himself. Siona mistook Ty’s pensive look for uncertainty. “But I’m very friendly!” she said in a worried tone, and smiled sheepishly.

Ty’s mood relaxed at this, and he chuckled. “I know! I think I understand now.” Ty hugged her slightly. “You were trapped here because you couldn’t assume any kind of shape to get out, because you were out of food. In drops a bite to eat. Jeeze, when you put it that way, it’s the least I could do.” It was Ty’s turn to blush. “I could even extend my own gratitude.” Ty looked at her sidelong and smiled.

“I’m glad.” Siona smiled innocently, “Because I need more. Right now. Please.”

That was the last thing Ty had expected from the innocent sounding girl in his arm. He went wide-eyed. “Hang on! It’s not as if I have an infinite supply-“

“Yes you do,” Siona said in her sweet, feminine voice. “it just gets a little harder to get to is all…” She glided an elegant arm around Ty’s neck and rested her other hand on Ty’s collarbone. She slid over to face him, sitting in his lap, with her translucent eyes the color of a cloudless midday sky hovering inches from Ty, she spoke in a low, demure tone, “Do you think we could do it more, um, voluntarily this time?”

She was giving Ty the pleading look again. Ty wasn’t used to being paralyzed from the neck up so frequently. Siona stared at Ty patiently. “Would you… um…” she said, but cut herself of, biting her lower lip and smiling slightly. She leaned closer to Ty, closed her eyes, and pursed her lips, waiting for a kiss.

Ty hesitated, but only for a moment. The cities forbade relationships outside the preordained, and Desert life allowed little time for romance, so Ty had only kissed a handful of girls in his lifetime. The abashed innocence sapphire angel before him seemed to strip away all trepidation.

He wrapped an arm around her waist, drawing her close, and placed his lips over hers without hesitation. Her mouth was supple and cool against his, textured like flesh but yielding slightly more than flesh could allow. She sighed into him, a human sound accompanied by a small murmur of the high whale music Ty had heard from her before. She began to explore Ty’s mouth with a tongue that had a texture familiar to Ty, but agility entirely alien to him. He had almost expected her to be flavored – blueberry, perhaps – but all he tasted was a light smell like the air at dusk, foggy, heavy with moisture. It reminded him of laying out on the sand at home, waiting for the stars to emerge.

Ty took his turn to explore her, running his tongue over teeth that were as firm as his own. There was no trace of the blue syrup he had seen earlier, which dimly disappointed him. He had been aroused by it and curious as to its taste. He pressed Siona to himself and explored her further. He felt warmth in Siona’s cheek under his nose and realized that he was feeding her in more ways than one.

With the hand on Siona’s back, Ty reached down and palmed her trim but supple bum. With the other hand Ty crept up her chest - he felt invisible ribs, a sourceless pulse - and cupped her breast lightly. Her improvised top had effervesced before his hand, leaving him to cup a firm but generous and luxuriously soft breast, its nipple already standing rigid like a gemstone of incalculable value laid on a silk pillow.

Siona moaned softly as Ty ran his thumb over her areole and squeezed her breast gently, using the hand on her ass to draw her in to press against his waist and groin. Siona removed herself from his mouth and broke their kiss, leaning back but holding both of Ty’s hands in place with her own.

Ty observed that her hair moved and fell naturally, and had even felt like hair when it had been against his skin, but was composed of her gel. The motion and texture were an illusion.

Siona looked at Ty with an expression that a shy young girl might wear when preparing to ask her crush on a date.

“Did you like it?” She asked, referring to the kiss.

“You’re wonderful, but I was kinda expecting to… I don’t know, taste you more” Ty said, immediately regretting it as foolish. Siona seemed to know exactly what he was talking about.

“That wouldn’t be proper just yet.” She said with a coy expression, but seemed to reconsider momentarily.

“Would you accept me?” she asked simply.

Ty smiled slightly and nodded without considering the question. Siona grinned wide and brought both hands to her mouth in excitement. “I’m so happy!”

Before Ty could evaluate her response, she had begun to strip his pants yet again. He offered no resistance. Tossing them aside, Siona ran a hand down Ty’s penis, once again painfully erect. Ty’s hips bucked slightly at the contact. “We will, later…” Siona said at this, “for now, please just enjoy me.” Part of Siona swelled around behind Ty, forming a pillow as before. At this, her legs and torso seemed to sink into the floor. Ty gathered that she had simply redistributed them.

Siona reached under Ty and gripped him by the waist, gently pulling him closer. She brought her chest into contact with Ty’s perineum, her breasts flanking Ty’s penis. Siona made a funny face, puffing her cheeks out, and her breasts grew significantly. Two of her hands remained under Ty, cupping and teasing his ass, while another set appeared, as casually as if they were reaching out from under a jacket, squeeze her breasts together around Ty. The act made Ty’s head swim in ecstasy. Siona looked up at Ty seeking his approval and gave a timid giggle at his expression. She began to rub her enlarged breasts along the length of Ty’s shaft, admiring Ty’s squirming and wincing at the sensation as though it were the only reward she desired.

“I think you meant it when you said you’d accept me.” She said, giggling. Ty did not understand. Siona slowed her pulsing and brought her face down into her own cleavage. Ty felt her tongue snake out and around his already hypersensitive cock. It seemed to melt into a slimy foam which further lubricated Siona’s breasts. She resumed her pulsing motion, sucking savagely on Ty’s penis as it emerged from her cleavage.

“You can cum.” She cooed. “Please, relax… enjoy me. I’m yours, if you want me.”

Ty began to feel as though his brain would simply pop like an overloaded fuse. Clenching his teeth and gripping a fistful of Siona on either side of him, he came violently. Siona gasped and allowed it to fall loose on her breasts. She licked it off greedily.

Ty collapsed back onto the soft blue Siona-pillow behind him, breathing heavy.

“You’re sleepy.” Siona said in a whisper, her tone like a concerned matron. “Lay back, we’re safe here. I’ll protect you.” She caressed Ty’s forehead, emerging from the floor again to lay fully along him.

“We have all the time in the world.” She whispered directly into Ty’s ear.

After the adrenaline-added flight from the Noses and his plummet down the razor-lined shaft, Ty was too exhausted to question anything that was happening to him. He laid back, wrapping his arms around his newly found sapphire angel, and drifted off. Siona kissed him tenderly on the forehead and closed her own eyes.

The new lovers slept. Miles away, down ancient electrical conduits as wide as highways, through rooms of ruin and technology once the blood and life of the fortress known as Terenus now fallen dead; in a place that was old and forgotten when Terenus was new, a human figure; black as pitch; that had slept in a pool of tears for a millennium, became aware of them.