I wakened suddenly, thinking those pixies had to go. But they were quiet. Instead, there was a weak light burning and I wasn’t alone in my bed. When I turned to tell Singe, yet again, that this couldn’t happen, a spidery gray finger fell upon my lips. Another spidery finger touched a large eye, then tapped my temple.
Oh, boy. What was this? The silver elf woman, Evas, knelt on the edge of my bed. She’d seen that naughty image after all. And she’d brought a sheaf of papers with her. I recognized them. They’d all been in my office, on my desk, before I’d come upstairs.
Evas could read and write Karentine. And she’d been a busy little scribbler.
She placed the papers in my hands. The top sheet said, simply, Teach me.
She removed that raggedy, short shirt. And again placed a finger on my lips when I started to tell her to go away.
That petite form definitely did have its appeal, suddenly. I couldn’t resist wondering about its possibilities.
Later I would wonder if there was any chance my thoughts had been guided from outside.
Evas moved the top sheet of paper to the bottom of the stack.
Followed a story of an extremely ancient people who, ages ago, had decided to set aside the insidious and constant distortions of the intellect that are caused by the stormy demands of sexual reproduction.
I could relate to that. Some would claim that I’m intellectually distorted most of the time. I confess freely that I’d be much more respectable and much less emotionally vagrant if the gods hadn’t seen fit to bless and curse the rest of us with women.
Evas declared herself a despicable throwback who suffered wicked urges and curiosities all the time. She’d fought those successfully until now only because she’d always been surrounded by people who wouldn’t let her get into situations where she might embarrass herself.
Here, tonight, she had an opportunity to pursue the curiosities that were driving her mad. And her people would never be the wiser.
Chances were excellent that such an opportunity would never come to her again.
She knew the mechanics. She’d taken advantage of her ability to move around unseen to indulge her curiosity intellectually. They all had. She was the only one who hadn’t been repelled.
Back to sheet one and Teach me.
Hers was a whole new, entirely intellectual approach to the art of seduction. Backed up by what my rude senses could gather of her mental state. Evas wasn’t kidding. And in that weak light she looked far more exotic and desirable than weird.
I had fallen into every red-blooded boy’s favorite daydream.
At some point Evas took time out to use a thin fingertip to trace letters on my skin to pass me the message, “I will not break.” She wanted me to know that she wasn’t nearly as fragile as she looked.