Ty ran another handful up the side of Sionas face, her dainty tongue darted out to lick the webbing between his fingers and suck on them.

“Do it.” Siona said abruptly. Ty’s hands stopped, he’d been about to rub another load into her belly. “You’ve wanted to do it since the first handful, and I’ve wanted you to do it, so now I’m asking you. You’re not confused, you can’t fool me love.” She parted her knees slightly to allow him access.

Ty obliged, rubbing a handful of gel into her hot vagina, inserting his fingers into her. Siona let out a startled gasp and arched her back away from him, her clamped anus pulling him along with her. Ty cupped his other handful into her breast, evoking another gasp of pleasure.

Ty nibbled on her neck and resolved to bring her to orgasm. Siona turned her head at an impossible angle and met his mouth with hers, the dainty tongue flicking and filling his mouth. The familiar blue syrup began to drool around Ty’s hand; Siona gasped her climax into Ty’s mouth and bit down on his lip almost painfully.

“I came.” She said, panting. “You made me.” She turned around abruptly. “Do my back now, bad boy.” Siona lined her glistening labia up with Ty’s penis, but did nothing else. As before, Ty reached around her for a handful of the heavy gel and let the motion push him into her.

Siona gripped Ty around the back fiercely as he entered, her eyes shut tight and her teeth raking lightly over his shoulder.

“I try to be all sultry and commanding” Siona gasped at him, “but every time you go in it’s even better than the last, and I just melt in your hands.”

“Don’t feel bad, if you hadn’t been draining me dry for the past two days I’d have come six times by now. Twelve times even.” Ty rocked gently against her as he rubbed more clear gel into her hair and back like some leaden baby oil.

“Oooh but I want you to!” Siona cooed at him mischievously, “I want you to come in my body as much and as many times as you can.” Siona began to pump her hips rhythmically, her vagina walls biting down on Ty’s shaft savagely while her unassuming and damp labia parted around him innocently; her clitoris, hard as an amethyst, dug into him excitingly.

Siona clutched Ty’s head to her breasts; he gripped her round and pert ass tight, the last of the clear gel dissolving to blue on it. She sped her rhythm, sensing him drawing close to climax. Buried in her chest, Ty could barely breathe, but he felt only heat and immense pleasure.

“Melt for me, baby. Mmm, there, that’s it, let it all go.” Siona whispered to him. Ty was beyond self control, and exploded into her. Sionas eyes opened wide as his gush triggered an unexpected climax in Sionas own body. Her ass flexed tight, the dimples deepening, and a patter of her fluid dripped down to the pedestal below them.

Ty wanted to collapse, but their perch prevented him. He reclined back against Sionas powerful arms instead.

“Insatiable human.” She giggled and flicked at his nose. “I think we’re ready.”

Siona streamed around Ty with alien grace, her body turning to fine ribbons that parted through the air and reunited behind him. It was a new trick, and it unsettled Ty.

He was now kneeling before the immense drop to the jagged crystals and their bottomless reservoir of the dense slime. Every muscle in his body was still limp post-coitus, but he allowed Siona to restrain him and he was not afraid. The obsidian crystal loomed before him and he saw himself clearly reflected in the glossy surface below the layer of glassy slime.

“What surprise do you have for me now?” he remarked wryly.

“No surprises.” She took a serious tone. “Not any new duties or anything. I have something else to offer you now.”

Ty looked at her face reflected over his shoulder in the crystal.

“When a part of me separates permanently, like with the blanket, it’s still the same basic substance, but it’s lost to me. Like it’s… dead. The part of me that I offered to you before, to consume and bind with your blood, is like this. It will stay with you, it makes you healthier and you develop better. After a while you’ll be a bit stronger and faster than all your friends, but built just the same, and you’ll get sick much less frequently.”

Ty sighed. He wasn’t thinking about getting sick less or being strong, he was thinking about introducing the girl behind him to the people he knew.

“That is the first step of a Ballentas relationship to a human. You willingly accept me into your body, and I become a part of you. This is the second step. Hold out your hands again.”

Ty did so, scooping up a handful of the oddly dense, clear gel. “If you eat some of this, the part of me that is in you already will come alive again. You’ll be able to feel my heart, as I feel yours. I’ll be able to actively guide your growth, your strength. I may even be able to make you as strong as I am. I can extend your life as long as you wish. I willingly accept you into my body, and you will become a part of me. There is a price, however.”

Ty’s hands trembled slightly, and not because of the weight.

“You may never leave me. If a living part of my body strays too far away from any other living part for very long, it will die. You’ll become sick and, eventually, you will die and I will as well. If you accept this gift, we will be together forever. We will have no choice.”

Ty raised his cupped hands to eye level and glanced across the surface of the fluid, considering the gravity of this offer. “It’s an immense amount of trust – for both of us.” He said, almost under his breath.

“The most that any one entity can give another, yes.” She replied.

Ty looked at his reflection again, but this time he noticed something he had not before: A half-moon scar nearly at his hairline. It was light blue, the same color as the starburst on his chest.

Ty dropped the handful he’d been holding. It tumbled through the air below their balcony and landed in the incalculable pool amidst the black jagged crystals.

“This is the real reason you brought me here, isn’t it.”

Ty dismounted the small pedestal. Siona glanced around, confused and, Ty saw now, ashamed.

“There’s no way out from here. There’s no fruit here, there isn’t even a place for anything to grow.”

“I…” Siona began. She placed her hand along the side of her face, unable to meet his gaze.

“How did I get this?” Ty said, jabbing his finger at the blue half moon scar in the center of his forehead.

Siona winced. “I… healed you…”

“I had this before you were able to move. I saw this reflected in you when you were a puddle, only I couldn’t see that it was blue because it was reflected in a blue mirror. Siona, how did you move to heal this before you first attacked me? If you could move, why were you there? Why would you lie to bring me here?”

Ty’s façade broke and he punched the pedestal with all his force. A chip cracked off. “HAS ANYTHING YOU’VE TOLD ME BEEN TRUE!?”

Siona only stammered and glanced around. “I… I…” She began crying. Ty was unfazed.

“And that’s not all! If this place was invaded, why are vital military secrets laying around in a relatively unguarded library? Why wasn’t this place looted? Why was all this advanced tech left laying around? What is going on here!?”

Ty stared at her, furious. She had balled her hands into fists and was clutching them to her temples, her face clenched in agony; she trembled as though he might strike her.

Ty said nothing. He pulled his pants on, gathered his sword, and headed back toward the misty, mote-lit tunnel. “You brought me here to cage me.” He said venomously, not looking back.

A blue ribbon, like a stream of paint, jetted out along the floor from behind Ty and circled the entrance to the tunnel. When it met at the top, razor sharp crystals shot out of it, crisscrossing with a sound like swords clashing, blocking his path. Furious, Ty swung his own sword at them, but it only clanged harmlessly off of them, stinging his hand. Ty turned around and saw only a field of blue. His gaze traveled upward and he promptly fell on his ass at what he saw.