Kai was surrounded by robot children waving balloons in their arms, but they
did not appear to pose a threat.  The room was devoid of any other life
except for the ever-present Lafftrak supercamera.

Suddenly, out of a faded orange curtain burst a yellow-haired clown, egging
the children on.  Kai watched as he danced a little jig, and then asked
them, "You all like balloons, don't you, kids?" The robot-children agreed
with him, their little robot arms waving out of sync along with the metallic
sound of failing servomotors.

Kai thought this robot posed less of a threat, and more of a nuisance, to
his mission. It turned toward Kai, asking, "And how 'bout you, Diapers?"

The question was obviously directed at himself, but the robot was calling
Kai by the incorrect name. The robot continued his speech with a more
specific question, "Which do you like more --balloons?  Or making a big
boo-boo in your bubbie?"

Kai's assault perimeter warning went off as the clown robot swung his right
arm towards Kai's posterior. Kai's vision went into wider peripheral and
vertical modes, taking in the entire scene in greater detail. In that
second, Kai analyzed that the assault of the robot must have occurred
because its programming misidentified Kai as an individual named "Diapers."
As the arm swung closer, Kai caught it in his left hand.

"I am not...," He began to correct the robot, but his vertical peripheral
vision alarm went off, and from the ceiling, a dusty orange balloon
descended.  It fell into his hands, and he was unable to complete the
sentence as the sudden surprise triggered memories...

"...Actually,..."

...of a rounded, curved orange dress...
...the soft rise of breasts peeking out of the top...
...the feeling of softness, warmth, heartbeat...
...sighs and tenderness, hot wet kisses, an explosion of pleasure....
...rounded, curved globes, like balloons...

"...I remember having a fondness for balloons."

The robot froze.   Its look was blank, an artificial layer of surprise
pasted onto its face.  Since the memory avalanche was over, and the robot
clown was immobilized, Kai released the balloon back into the air.

His priority was to find Xev, and as he paced across the stage, the lights
turned dark again. He returned to his search, but his mind began a search of
it own -- his own memories.  Balloons?  Where did that memory come from?
Moreover, why would something as childlike as a balloon trigger the memories
of vibrant feelings, desires, and pleasures?

As childlike a feeling as having a soft, silky balloon in his hands...

****************************

It was the annual Festival of The Crossing, and Kai's father, as usual,
hosted a huge family affair.  It was not *exactly* an annual event -- it was
held once every ten years -- but it might as well have been an annual event,
for all the long lifespans of the Brunnen-G.  Kai, since he was only 22, was
still considered the baby of the family, and was left out of the adult
conversations, forcing him to either eavesdrop or be ignored.  At least he
had become old enough to drink at this occasion, and the liquor was easing
his boredom.  He sat on the 3rd floor staircase, watching the party in the
room below. "Bored, bored, bored..." he recited in his thoughts.

"Are you bored?"

Kai jumped.  He had not heard anyone near him, the music was so loud.  But
that voice -- he knew that voice. Melted butter. Auda!  Kai turned and
smiled.

Auda smiled back.  He had not seen her in a while, and she now looked
younger than he did, having had the immortality treatment at 18 -- but she
was actually 216.  An adult.  In addition, Kai was still considered a
"newborn." It was a taboo in his society to have sex with newborns, no
matter what the gender.  Everything else was acceptable, including incest,
but Brunnen-G did not have sex with -- children.  Even horny-as-hell 22-year
old virgins. Kai kept the smile on his face, but mentally sighed.

Moreover, cousin Auda was not a woman who was easily missed.  Golden hair
and golden eyes, caught forever at the ripe age of 18.  She had almost
seduced him once, years ago, and if it hadn't been for one of their idiot
cousins falling into the lake they were visiting and almost drowning, he
might have...well, maybe have...become more knowledgeable about the ways of
men and women.  As such, he had a basic concept of what went where, and
understood the biology of it, but aside from some fumbled kisses here and
there, he had no experience.

There was not a chance of this with Auda, either.  A couple of days after
the incident at the lake, she made it clear that she had made a mistake, and
apologized to him.  He denied anything was wrong, but she was adamant.

So why was she looking at him like that?

"I want you to meet someone."  She grabbed him by his hand and tried to pull
him up, but he resisted.

"Why?"  Kai shook his head -- he was damned if his heart was going to be
played with again. "I know that look, Auda, and you know we can't...."  The
smile fell from her face.

"I know we can't, Kai."  She took his hand and kissed his knuckles softly.
"I understand the reasons why newborns can't have sex -- children can't
raise children.  But there are other things we can do."  Her smile again lit
up her face, accompanied by a twinkle in her eye that Kai had never seen
before on a woman.

"What other things?  What do you mean?"  Kai was puzzled, but Auda started
pulling on his arm again, insistently.

"Come on!  There's someone I definitely want you to meet."

She led him through the house until they were in a far back area.  Brunnen-G
houses were far underground, and built like a combination between beehives
and anthills -- no lines were made between one crèche (family area) and
another, as there was no private property.  A person could literally walk
into any crèche, as long as he knew the way -- but that was the tricky part,
keeping track of the thousands of tunnels and passages.  If you got lost, it
could take days to find your way back to your own crèche.  Luckily, everyone
was related to everyone else, so if you took a wrong turn, you just stopped,
introduced yourself to whomever was sitting in the living area, and sooner
or later they would turn out to be Great-great-aunt Satha on your mother's
side (or someone like that), and you'd stay for dinner.

They took an unused tunnel, which started spiraling down deeper into the
earth.  Soon, Kai could hear music -- of a different sort than his family
listened to.  He could feel the vibrations of the bass through his feet and
body.  He could smell something different as well -- smoke.  He couldn't
help it -- his feet suddenly stopped and refused to move.

"What is this place?"

Auda's hand never left his, and she gave him a tight squeeze. "It's okay,
Kai.  It's just a place where people who don't fit in go to party.  People
like you, and me."

Kai took a deep breath.  The last time he had been with Auda, she had gotten
him in deep trouble, and he suspected that this time would be no different.
But -- she was also the bringer of exceptional fun, and he was ready for
some fun.  Definitely ready. And he was definitely different from most
people.  He felt his feet move again, and they continued down the corridor.

They arrived at what appeared to be a natural cave -- not manmade like the
other Brunnen-G common areas, but one that had evolved over millions of
years.  Stalactites and stalagmites covered the ceiling and floor, some of
them large enough to look like columns.  There was moisture in the air, but
on top of that moisture was smoke from small torches -- and other types of
smoke as well.  Two men standing near the entrance put small yellow rolls in
their mouths, lit them, and after the rolls burned for a second, exhaled a
fragrant smoke.

"Are they on fire inside their bellies?"  Kai whispered, but Auda just
laughed at him and pulled him further into the room.

There had to have been five hundred people in this cave, dancing to the beat
of music that Kai *felt* more than he *heard*, it was so loud.  The beat was
primal, vibrating him to his core.  He could see people dancing on a flat
surface towards the center, but everywhere there was movement.  Hips
turning, legs shaking, arms waving, hair twisting -- it seemed that the cave
itself was alive with people.  Brunnen-G as a people loved to be together --
but this was the first party that Kai had seen where people were dancing.

As Auda pulled him through the crowd, Kai noticed that people were doing
more than dancing. Bodies jostled him back and forth as Auda led him through
the thickest part of the crowd, and then out the other side on the far end
of the cave.  As they slowly passed through the crowd, Kai saw men and women
dancing together -- and then two women holding onto each other tightly --
and then he saw two men in an embrace, their hands roaming into places that
Kai was sure his own mother had never touched.

Auda led him through a corridor, and then into a smaller room.  The music
was a little muted in here, and the people were drinking more.  Large
cushions were laid out on the floor, and couples were lounging in a sea of
bodies, the colorful Brunnen-G fashions making the floor look like a
tapestry.

Drawing over into a corner, Auda handed him a drink, indicating that he
should drink it in one gulp.  Kai obediently did so, finding the liquor
bitter compared to his family's brew.  However, it was also stronger, and he
could feel the tightness in his stomach uncoiling as the brew swept into his
system.  Auda leaned close to him, and spoke over the music, "What do you
see?"

"Happy people," responded Kai.  It was true -- they did look happy.  The
normal Brunnen-G look was that of utmost seriousness -- especially if the
person was about to recite poetry.

"Yes -- happy, and horny.  And different.  We are all different -- just like
you, Kai."

Kai looked at Auda, puzzled, searching her eyes for clues.  She smiled, and
leaned closer to his ear. "I want you to meet my friends."  She pulled him
again across the edges of the room, picking up another, stronger, drink on
the way and making him drink it to the bottom.  As they kept moving, Kai
could feel the drink's intoxicating qualities kick in, making him even more
relaxed.

They arrived in an even smaller room, a bubble off the larger space, full of
pillows and a small table full of drinks and those yellow smoke things.
Auda was greeted with kisses and hugs, and for a minute there, Kai couldn't
tell where one mass of hair ended and the other began.  "Everyone, this is
my cousin, Kai," she began.

"I want you to meet Lett..." A tall, brown-haired young man nodded at him,
his eyes taking in Kai from head to toe, and then back again.  Lett's eyes
crinkled into a smile, and he opened his mouth slightly, wetting his lips.
He had seen Lett before at his Naming Ceremony several years ago, when they
both had gotten their tattoo of the Crossing.  Kai nodded at him, properly,
wondering what it was about himself that seemed to amuse Lett so much.

"...and Kalta..." Auda gestured to a black-haired young woman with intense
dark eyes.  Kalta's hands made fists of her dress, but she nodded at Kai
properly just the same.

"...and Kyoo..." Kyoo's face was first obscured by a puff of smoke, but he
blinked and nodded at Kai several times in a jerky manner.  He looked like
he was holding his breath, and Kai was astonished when a great puff of smoke
finally emerged.  Kyoo inhaled the room air, blinked a few more times, and
then smiled at Kai dreamily.

"...and Busa..."  Auda gestured to her right, and Kai saw a curvy young
woman with light blonde hair.

"...and ...."  Auda's introduction of the rest of the folk was lost as Kai's
libido caught up with his mind, telling him to look at Busa again.  Busa sat
up attentively, looking at Kai with the sweetest smile, but her eyes held
that same twinkle that he had seen in Auda's earlier in the evening.
However, it wasn't her eyes that caught his attention.  What were... those?

Busa had the most perfect breasts Kai had ever seen, tucked into a low cut
orange dress.  But these breasts were also the largest breasts he had ever
seen -- high, full, and spectacular in proportion.  Kai could see round
nipples drawing circles under the material of the dress, and he
automatically estimated the size of her breasts.  They would easily each
twice spill over his open palms -- and he had noticed that compared to other
Brunnen-G men, Kai had large hands.

Kai lowered his eyes, and tried to look away, following Auda's introduction
of the rest of her friends.  However, his mind was back with those creamy
breasts, imagining his hands on them, sucking on the nipples...licking....

"Kai!"  Auda's face appeared before him suddenly, frowning.  "You're
staring!"

Kai could feel the blush start at the roots of his hair and spread downward,
his cheeks quickly catching fire. "I'm sorry," he managed to get out in his
smallest voice, closing his eyes shut in embarrassment.

"It's okay, Auda, I don't mind."  The voice floated up behind Kai, a voice
light and silvery with laughter -- quite a different voice from Auda's lower
tones.  "I'm used to it...and besides...he's a newborn.  He's probably never
seen a woman who looked like me before."

At the mention of his lamented social state, Kai opened his eyes, only to
see Busa once again in his vision.  He tried -- he really, really tried to
keep his eyes on her face, but he could feel his heartbeat start to pound
and his mouth go dry as he miserably lost his attempt at politeness.  They
were just...so...so....wide and full and firm and bouncy, spilling over the
top of the dress...

"Do you want to touch them?"

"Yes..." he whispered, and then realized he had said it aloud, his blush
returning in vengeance.  He turned to Auda, shaking his head.  "Auda, I
should go.  I'm sorry."

"No, Kai, you're doing just fine.  I wanted you to meet my friends...I just
had no idea that you would get along with them so well so quickly."  Auda
smiled fully, the firelight sparkling off the whites of her teeth.

Busa touched his far cheek, turning his face back towards hers. "I'll tell
you what...I'll trade you," she said.  "A kiss for a feel.  I'd like to kiss
that mouth, and you'd like to feel me up.  What do you say?"  Kai had never
met a woman like her, yes.  He had never met a woman that daring, or that
outspoken.   Busa smiled at him, her eyes full of that twinkle -- that
twinkle that Kai now understood meant desire, need...lust.

Kai decided he liked that look on a woman, and smiled.  Busa smiled back,
and a low noise began in the room from the dozen or so people in it.
"Kiss...kiss...kiss...kiss...kiss...," they chanted, and Kai had no option
but to kiss Busa.  It was even less of an option when she wrapped her hands
around his neck and bent his face to hers.

Her fingers warmly caressed the back of his neck under his braid as she
tilted her face up to his and captured his mouth.  She forced his lips apart
for her, then her tongue burned into his mouth, making his mind spin with
delight, and his body lose all resistance.  Kai wrapped his arms around her
body, pulling her close, and he could feel her huge breasts pushing against
his chest, the warm cushions heating up his body...and his lower parts, too,
were at attention as well.  Kai did not have a chance to become
self-conscious, though, as the kiss was practically vertical sex.  Busa
covered his lips possessively with hers, kissing the corners of his mouth,
and then dove back in for one long moment of tangled tongues.  Softly, she
ended the kiss, releasing him from her arms.

Busa's face glowed with heat, and a warm flush had spread to her chest,
making the skin above her breasts pink with desire and her nipples erect
under her dress.  Kai could not take his eyes off her, even though he heard
the applause in the room erupt as their kiss finished.  The applause
increased as Busa stepped back, revealing the prominent bulge in Kai's
trousers, and he peeked around the room.

Auda's jaw had dropped with surprise, "I could feel that kiss from over
here."

"Then think about how it felt for me," Busa winked at her.

Kai could not believe this was happening, but didn't regret a moment of it.
Standing in front of a room full of strangers with a hard-on was not on his
"to-do list" for today, but everyone was smiling and laughing, delighted in
his actions.  Busa snaked her arm around his waist, and led him over to one
side of the room where there appeared to be a darkened corner.  But it was
not a corner at all, it was a natural passageway in the rock.

For several moments Busa led him down the passage, until they entered an
even tinier room, basically just a cul-de-sac in the rock.  To one side was
a shelf, roughly the height and width of a single bed, and it was covered in
pillows.  A small brazier was burning for light.  Busa turned around and
pulled Kai close, kissing him again deeply.  "Come here," she whispered, "I
want to feel your body, too."

They did not exchange another word after that, nothing that made any sense,
anyway, because Kai was not thinking -- only feeling.  Busa asked him if he
wanted to undress her, and he did, as fast as he could.  Her bra and panties
were ice blue, see-through, with lots of lacy edges.  (Kai immediately
decided that ice-blue was his favorite color.)  Her breasts were bigger than
he had even imagined, with large, pert nipples.  Licking his lips, he bent
and suckled them for a long moment, in utter bliss, his cock straining
against his trousers.

Busa pulled him back up and kissed him, dragging off his colorful over
garment and then his silky undershirt.  Kai pulled off his boots and
trousers, feeling no shame at his nakedness in all his excitement.  Then
they were all over each other, rolling together on the pillows, grabbing,
kissing, and stroking.  One of Kai's hands were roving and probing a warm
swelling breast while the other smothered the great long curve of her firm
butt.  The kissing never slowed.  Busa pulled Kai's body towards her until
their bellies squeezed together, running her smooth hands in circles on his
bare back.  His bursting cock pressed against her thigh, but Kai could only
feel the gorgeous resilient softness of her breasts.

A hard nipple stuck into the palm of his hand.  It was pink, with a round
tip, and the areolas were flat on the edges, and slightly wrinkled before
the rise of the nipple.  He let go of Busa's waist to grasp a breast in each
hand, licking each of the nipples in turn.  His first touch of those
mountains of flesh sent an electrical jolt through Kai's body, and he
couldn't help his reaction -- he pressed his face in between each of the
breasts, pushing the soft mounds against each of his cheeks as he rubbed his
face back and forth.  He wanted to dig in, to grab a hold of the breasts
hard, to eat them alive.  The instinct was overpowering, and he could only
survive it by tucking as much as he could of one of Busa's nipples into his
mouth, and sucking hard.  Very hard.  Busa gasped, and writhed beneath him
in pleasure.

"Oh, Kai...do that again!"

Kai aimed to please, and he turned his mouth to the other breast, sucking
hard on the nipple, his hand gently squeezing her breast, his free hand
twisting her other nipple between his fingertips. Busa's body rippled and
shook, her outer thigh rubbing Kai's cock over and over, and becoming slick
with precum.  Busa finally shivered and gave out soft grunts of pleasure
before relaxing.

Kai knew he had done something right, but he wasn't sure what.  Busa let go
of his head and slipped her hand downward to grasp his cock.  She ran her
hand up and down it a few strokes.  Kai stopped sucking...feeling the
intensity of pleasure in his crotch beginning to build into an orgasm.  He
closed his eyes and gasped, pressing his face into the breast.  But the hand
on his cock stopped and went lower, squeezing hard.

"Not yet, lover...not yet."

Busa sat up and straddled Kai.  "Lick here," she said, indicating the valley
between her breasts.  Kai complied, making the area slick with saliva.  Busa
then threw a pillow on the floor and kneeled on it, pushing Kai's legs
apart.  When he felt her lips moving up and down on his cock, he almost
screamed.

The heat and softness of her mouth was beyond anything he had imagined --
even in his wettest, wildest sheet-soaked dreams.  Busa licked and sucked,
using her tongue, lips and teeth to tug the skin on his cock up and down.
Then, when Busa felt his balls tense up and his cock begin to throb, she put
her hand lower, squeezing hard again to slow him down.  Kai gasped at the
unwelcome pressure, but opened his eyes and looked at the beautiful woman
who was giving him so much pleasure.

"Are we going to...you know....I thought you were..." Kai gasped.

"Going to fuck you?" Busa smirked. "I can't do that, and you know it."

Kai closed his eyes, threw his head back, and howled in frustration.

Busa chuckled at Kai when he finally ran out of breath. "Another time,
darling Kai.  Something to think about and savor for the future."

Kai looked at her, knowing he looked dazed and pitiful, a wreck of flesh,
and a pathetic excuse for a Brunnen-G male.  He decided he was not too proud
to beg on his hands and knees, but as he opened his mouth to ask, Busa
grasped his cock again and put it in the most amazing place -- between her
huge, satiny breasts.  Busa whispered, "Do you want to know what it feels
like?"  Kai could only nod dumbly.

Sticky syrup flowed out of the tip of his cock as Busa crushed her breasts
together, lifting them up and down and around his cock.  Kai couldn't help
but thrust up between those luscious mounds, feeling the heat and wetness
around his member.  Every stroke or so, when the head of his cock popped up
through the valley, Busa's tongue would meet the head and lick it rapidly or
run her tongue around the tip.  If this were anything close to being inside
a woman, Kai thought, he would not be able to wait until he was of age.
This feeling was wonderful, the most amazing and intimate sensation he had
ever felt in his life.  He could feel her hard nipples rubbing against his
lower abdomen, and he could not help but begin to thrust rapidly as his
orgasm approached for a third time.

This time, Busa let him reach the peak of pleasure.  With a bucking,
shattering orgasm, Kai came, his joyous yelps signaling the eruption of
every gush of hot cum onto Busa's breasts.  Busa milked his cock softly and
gently as Kai caught his breath, shuddering with the aftermath of pleasure.
Still panting from coming so hard, Kai leaned forward and kissed his lover,
her mouth tasting like sex in the most delicious way.  Busa kissed him back,
deeply, and then broke it off, sitting back and smiling.  Kai could see his
white cum sprinkling her generous breasts, sliding down into the valley in
small droplets.

"Do you think you'd like it?  The real thing, I mean," asked Busa.

"I think...I think...oh, yes," murmured Kai.  He closed his eyes and started
to laugh weakly, a laugh full of amazement and frustration, of desire and
satisfaction.  He shook his head to clear it, taking in deep gulps of air.
He could hear rustlings as Busa wiped her breasts on a loose pillow, and
then opened her eyes as she began to dress.

First, her ice-blue lacy underwear, and silvery orange stockings were pulled
over her legs.  Then she snapped the ice-blue bra around her midsection and
over her shoulders, tucking her voluminous breasts into the delicate fabric.
The orange silky dress was next, Busa arranging her breasts so that the
rounded curves overflowed out of the top like half globes of balloons.  Just
watching her was amazing in itself, and Kai could feel himself getting hard
again.

Busa stopped, looking at him out of the corner of her eye.  "You'd better
put that thing away before you hurt yourself."  Kai grinned, and pulled his
clothes on, tucking his member underneath the fabric.

They joined the party, wide smiles greeting them as they re-entered the
room.  Auda snuggled close and gave him a kiss on his cheek. "I always
thought you were the sexiest member of our family," she whispered.

"Oh yes," Busa agreed, wrapping her arms around Kai. "He is going to be
amazing when he grows up."

"You're right," Auda nodded and then leaned over and gave Busa a little kiss
on the mouth, "And there's nothing we wouldn't do for family, hmmm?"

Kai watched this interaction, mentally taking notes. After all, like the old
Brunnis saying goes, "Family is everything, and to be alone is lonely." He
was going to have a hell of a 30th birthday party.

****************************

His remembering was cut short as he rounded the corner of a room and saw
Stanley -- about to have his head cut off.

"Kai?" Stanley asked sleepily. Kai's affinity for Stanley preceded his own
microscopic sense of self preservation, and he swiftly pushed Stanley's
assailants out of the way, and then shoved Stanley himself out of the
machine.

"I suggest you try to find Xev," Kai managed to get out as the machinery
locked onto his body. He felt the pressure descend on his neck, and there
was a moment of displacement, but that was all.  He could hear his body fall
through the trap door below.

The only other person with whom he had affinity was in extreme danger if
this were standard procedure on this planet, Kai thought, as he felt his
head transported through the machinery. After all, even though he could only
feel an affinity for them, they were still...family.

Fin.
4/25/00 9:19 PM

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