Page 94 of The Gathering
Fucking wonderful. “Then please educate me as to how you arrived at your conclusions, Hope.”
She eagerly set her cup down with an energy that made him set his down too. She was thrilled to educate, and for him it was a different sexual position. He cared nothing about the right and wrong of it, only about the pleasure of this different angle.
“Well, the beauty of human beings is our unique adaptability to other humans.”
His balls pulsed. “It is a trait we possess.”
“Notjusta trait,” she said, leaning closer, her low excitement making her eyes and skin glow. “Humans are bydesignadaptable.”
He stared at her, realizing she’d just told him the answer. And he didn’t see it.
“Can you extrapolate?”
She gave a throaty giggle, and his throbbing cock had a startling revelation. She was literally fucking aroused. Philosophy and psychology were her familiar lovers, and she was logic-lusting all fucking over him.
“Take a mother and child,” she said, emphatic. “Her entire mind and body conforms to that little human. By design,” she repeated, outlining the clue word.
“I can concede to this with a mother and child.”
“Why only a mother and child?” she pressed.
He was in a very hot corner now. “I realize that humans are adaptable. A man and woman can certainly conform to oneanother but they are still individual… you’re shaking your head, I’m clearly missing the mark.”
She nodded now and her big smile meant she was having the time of her life. All that mattered now was being the exact kind of stupid that continued producing her orgasms. “What I’m saying is that we aredesignedtobecome morethan just ourselves.” She leaned even closer, putting her hand on his wrist. “We are designed to merge with another human! Think of this merging like a flower blooming. Only it’shumanitiesbloom!”
She threw her head back with a big laugh then slathered her exuberance all over him. “I was just asamazedas you are when I discovered this!”
“I’m amazed, but I can’t say I have discovered it yet. Wouldn’t you have to experience such a thing to truly test it?”
He watched her ease back in her rocking chair, her energy softening. “No,” she said simply. “To know a thing through the experiences of others is a valid knowing.”
His gaze moved over her face then stopped on her neck. “I would have to cast that one into the doubting bucket,” he said, getting her immediate grin and happy giggle.
“Tell mewhy,” she urged, excited to be challenged.
“I agree with you that you can come to know a thing through the experiences of others but… to know a thing through direct experience is…”
She sighed. “The motherload of knowing.”
Fuck, she’d dreamed of such an experience?
“One day I’m sure I’ll learn it this way.”
It was the same tone she’d had when talking about one day getting visitors.
“Have you ever merged this way?” she asked, clobbering his cock.
He locked his gaze on the swamp before him. “Isn’t that answer obvious?”
“I don’t like to assume those things,” she whispered, ushering in a crushing silence.
“We could,” she barely said, so low he wondered if he’d fantasized it.
“What?”
She grabbed her tea and brought it to her mouth. “What?”
“Did you say something?”
