Starmind: A Science Fiction Novel by Dave Van Arnam

Author:Dave Van Arnam [Van Arnam, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: space, ftl, asteroid, telepathy, ESP
ISBN: 9781434408938
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2014-09-11T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

“What makes you think I’ll give you anything else besides my fair body,” Miss Kim said smiling, as she sat beside Joe.

Her uniform was on, and he had his orange trunks back, and the door no longer on “medical privacy.”

And Joe felt more than a little disappointed.

He had rather expected to be like a young stallion with this charming female beside him. His body was young and strong; he himself had been skilled in the restraints and recuperations of the body; but past a certain point the Tylerbody had more or less acted on its own. Not exactly Benjy; the body itself.

So it had lasted only a few minutes, and none of Joe’s skilled restraint had been of any use, and the Tylerbody seemed disinclined to arouse itself again. He began to feel basically rather depressed about the whole thing, despite pleasant physical and mental aftereffects.

No, it hadn’t been the way he’d expected—more like when he had been a schoolboy, making it for the first time with a wise young girl teacher, helpless (as he had felt those twelve years ago) in her hands, not to mention her body.

“I’m not demanding that much, you know,” Joe answered. “I’ll take anything I can get at this point, of course—information at least, up through complete aiding-and-abetting in our, hm, escape. Or if not, well, I’ve no regrets.” (This last was not true; he wanted to spend hours in bed with this woman.) “But at the least, I’m curious, and rightfully so, I believe.”

“Dr. Brian has... determined ideas,” said Miss Kim, snuggling a little closer to the handsome body beside her, and wondering about the principles of nursing off in one corner of her mind while the rest of her was still soaking in pleasant memories. “You’ve guessed already that he never had any intentions of letting anyone you know get in to see you. He had good sound reasons, true—but some were less so, which is not your business. Except, of course,” she reflected, “that it is all your business, in a sense. Sanctity of the individual, and all. Honored in the breach in this case, I’m afraid.”

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