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ost my only friend
among the Lati. What was I to do? My college classes,
some scant five years before, hadn't told me about how
to fight off an amorous advance from an alien!
But it had, I realized. The Krith were squidlike
creatures, but their form of greetings was, to put it
bluntly, to have sex with them, a brief enough affair
for the Krith with its quick squirt of sperm into the
female's sexual opening. But humans had to copulate
with them at every meeting, or face explusion from their
culture.
Morals vary from planet to planet, even among
humans. I had to be sure.
"I like you, too." I said. "But I'm not sure...."
Lar looked exasperated. "I have watched your body
when we swim together. I have watched your eyes. You
watch me. Do you not want me?"
Want a beautiful teenaged boy? Man, that is? "Of
course I want you."
"Then that is enough." Lar said, and kissed me.
I kissed him back, stooping down to match faces
with him (Lati stand only five feet high), and I felt
his tongues slide into mine. I matched his two slender
tongues with my bigger one, and felt them wrap around my
tongue as t
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