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only, and long o'er now."
"Did he tell you that he loved you?" Agape asked, concealing the tightness she suddenly felt.
"Nay, o' course not! Bane ne'er deceived others; he spoke only truth." Then she looked sharply at Agape.
"He told thee that?"
"Yes."
"And Mach told Fleta!" Suchevane shook her head.
"Oh, did he e'er tell her! He spake her the triple Thee. I was there, and ne'er saw the like! The air, the
cliffside, indeed all the world it seemed turned sparkling clean, and she " She shook her head. "I envy
both!"
Agape remembered the way the Red Adept had reacted to this young woman. "Adepts don't marry
nonhumans?"
"Ne'er! Why should they, an they have anything they want o' us anyway? They marry seldom at all, and
then only human women, as did Blue."
"Forgive me if I am speaking inappropriately but would you marry an Adept if he asked you?"
Suchevane shrugged. "That be entirely theoretical. Any animal would marry any Adept, an he asked her.
Or any decent human man. I would have married Bane, an he e'er wished. But an Adept ne'er would."
"But what about a nonhuman Adept?"
"There be only one, and he be Trool the Troll. He be separated from his own kind since he adopted
human ways, and he be kind to my folk. An he wish to take one o' us for play, she would do it readily
enough."
"Even you, the most beautiful of creatures?"
"Aye, especially me! I tired early o' handsome males; fain would I settle with one like him, with decency
and power. But he has no interest." She looked at Agape. "But this be a diversion. I must show thee how
to eliminate."
True enough. Agape was suffering some discomfort but was unable to relieve it in her natural fashion.
"Is it like eating?"
"Nay, not precisely. Here, mayhap I can show thee. Let me take the hole."
Agape moved off, and Suchevane moved on. She lifted her cloak out of the way to reveal her bare
posterior. "Here do the solids come out, and here the liquids."
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"Aye. The major functions be set close together, for convenience."
"I recognize it now; I have seen anatomical illustrations. I made surface emulations, with only the
aperture required for the sexual congress. On Proton, I mean. I suppose the others are functional now. I
should have realized."
"It be hard at first to learn the nuances o' a new form," Suchevane agreed. "I had trouble learning the
human way, when I had practiced only the bat way as a cub. Now there be muscles here, and thou dost
normally keep them tight, but now thou must let them relax. See, when I do, it comes out." A stream of
yellow liquid jetted from her, down into the darkness below the hole.
"Let me see, that muscle should be about here," Agape said, lifting her own cloak and touching her
body. "If I relax it oops!"
Suchevane leaped from the hole, put her hands on Agape's shoulders, and swung her around and down
on it. Liquid splashed on the board. "Thou hast it now!"
"But there is substance in the other "
"Let that out too! This be the place for all o' it."
Agape let it all out, and her body felt much relieved. Then the vampire showed her how to use paper to
clean herself up, and how to wash where necessary. The process took some time, but now she had
learned what she needed to. She would be able to handle it herself in the future.
Suchevane also showed her how to change forms from human to flying, and back. There were a number
of misstarts, but when Agape finally got it straight, she realized that she could have done this at any
time, had she only known how. It was a matter of concentrating on the right form in the right way: a
talent which, once learned, she knew she would never forget, as with the elimination. Now she could
change freely from girl to hummingbird, and from birdform to girlform, as Suchevane put it.
But flying was more complicated. Agape could flap her wings, but this only resulted in disaster. They
decided to leave this aspect for another day.
Suchevane went home, and Agape settled down to another big meal. Trool joined her, at her request; she [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]