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“Ugh… mm…”d66aaac8d040cdc0

The sensation shot up b18c321f9b from the base of a1b0228d08 her spine, crackling all b2e28e2ae3 the way to the cb2207b568 back of her head.590f951d75db9b99

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His hands gripped her a2137b8ff7 hips, and Lieutenant Erabelle 77da84a34b Vermilion gasped, drooling as 444c79f355 her mouth fell open. Reflexively, instead f25a251be6 of pushing b9c0f6f102 him away, 247acece1f she clutched c364232ec5 at whatever 055b0abfe5 she could 0ab32ac356 reach, anchoring cb77767898 herself against a1aa5cdce1 the overwhelming 519456b608 stimulation. It was all b1cf54a366 she could do 96857cc978 to handle it.c4f4f29b93571768

Why… why me again? Well… setting that aside, what the hell is going on with this daily routine?8ac474dc94d378b5

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Sure, technically, intimacy was b454c41f7f a part of daily 40ffe340f4 life—but this? This felt off.03c58e743ef34650

Just like the past couple of weeks, they’d left work together, eaten dinner together, watched some boring horror movie… and now this was just tacked on like another mundane part of the day.1143788c8992c859

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Why…? Sure, this might’ve become routine, but no one actually shares their entire routine with someone else unless… unless they’ve only got one partner. And Dezeb Avganis definitely wasn’t that kind of man. To share his full daily routine with all of them, he’d need a dozen bodies at least.cf09d05f5853fcb0

Erabelle had 00c8ec28e1 quietly assumed bd030dc637 that after 895be12a01 what happened 9c6e5ac4d9 last night, 5eefa46b0c this bizarre 466d733d78 streak of dbeb23e288 routine with 9891b01e5e him would 9a58d201a5 be over. In fact, b2cab5cca2 she’d been 4d7c79b946 nearly certain.aa5a0d8a0bada053

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Even if they ended up doing this again, she never imagined it would be like… this.5854551898fe41b7

She’d expected to 398ca04965 be called in a7bfbd6aca separately, or maybe 40dfb947e3 for him to 28c545be8b stop by her 5f7081521b place once in 10ca35a056 a while—something discreet, 0d22387d6b distant.efc059ac943c504f

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But this… This was disturbingly normal. It felt like nothing had changed except for the addition of sex to their daily rhythm. It was confusing.f0d5e8dd9c14bd4d

Is this all a b4a9bf419d dream?50496ed5d57b088b

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Maybe she really had lost it, completely captivated by the infamous beauty of Dezeb’s Level-13 body… Her blank, foggy mind was nudging her toward that possibility.431fbdb4fcc65482

“You’re daydreaming again.”ceaa5e4d71e8c9ba

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His low voice a08191988a sent a shiver 8a375fe627 down her spine. Erabelle was 1748e02c1f fully aware 1a0641db82 that she 866bbe7709 didn’t have 63854aa71a the imagination dc16873c2e to hallucinate 4e8fa9d83e this vividly.ecbccddeff1042fb

“You seem… pretty calm.”ea6ad7abe45fbf2d

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“Please… please just… have mer—mercy…”8835f781365b2a30

Startled, tears slipped from 24bc1b0c8f her wide eyes.a4e7340b211691d7

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Please, just this once…d66d27d4bafeb740

Whatever this was, 127e6a3733 it had to 5359ee6d78 be interfering with 891c24de33 her language center. She squeezed b9af11bb5e her eyes da3575ff68 shut.ed0c95d3c1bffe63

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She couldn’t even comprehend b0ad96e2a9 what was happening to 83656dd9bf her body anymore.32846970119afebe

She’d known he c1039293da was skilled—but this 246295319a was beyond reason. Even if she’d 95d59d72a2 learned about sex bd760cb6ff through books, she ac29275e74 knew it wasn’t bc5cfb1c71 supposed to be d65dd14715 like this.This was too 396adec60e much.b93c35848a840378

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Therewas one possible explanation… but that hadn’t even crossed her mind.503a563742961f4f

“…!!”5fe33a0d3fa36956

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Her mouth fell 4157cf2336 open as her 59db977def limbs locked up.d3dd0f5fa27a7995

It was 7f806e80f1 like she’d 0bf3de5e84 been pickled c494a69e47 in something—her d5bd68de16 pupils dilated, 6d3e650986 her breath 8863b26062 caught, and cefafe8bee her body ce932df37b convulsed uncontrollably. Her muscles would clench 20f8fbaa71 tightly, then release just 1158bb45d4 long enough to gasp d278fa6204 for air, only to 3d1045f7bf seize again.1a561c2cd8a1190e

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It felt like a1b843f815 she was being 10094bf570 fried alive—while still 585fa9d9c3 conscious.3ea9b403471c4d4a

“…Pl… plea…”557fbbf1c09514da

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Please… save me…a113f6fa1af8420f

Her words 064339bb02 dissolved into 1304f9a5a6 nothing, mashed 02a40f3931 and muffled 65a22beec6 beyond recognition. Fortunately, Dezeb, quick 8419c3f1c5 as ever, understood efbf40602f her just fine.839c5e3fad95e1d3

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“And now I’m cc24eb3f92 the bad guy 0b219a2424 again, huh?”89c166375005b5d6

Not that 1dddff4e73 he intended e679142bc7 to stop.d125e261e4e6b6b8

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His mock grievance de16db3562 echoed faintly beyond c6f6455273 the fading edges 647ed8a551 of her consciousness, 66dea35d44 white noise in 874779725c the blur of 3808c9d4eb exhaustion.dcd317720523c0b4

She passed 5ed282d24d out cold.6a7e4f84b7a460cf

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Then got up. Went to work. Two more c37b7c76b4 days passed.5672921d89cdd5da

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Two Days Later – 7fdafb4929 Morning6df2c99e0f0d976b

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Sitting in the 3a6f47cc3b deputy’s office, Erabelle ea83a080eb suddenly realized something:34512b81bd7c7f0b

She hadn’t taken 18a506bff8 a single sedative.0314953108a0eee9

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Not for 36b008842e two full 18dfa8cc57 days.b024fa471c00200c

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It struck her as a631dd6e44 she was sorting through aad7fbdb06 the mountain of supply 36e353e27a requisitions at her desk. Her headhadbeen a bit of 3fe4bcd26c a mess lately, filled 52699e7fcc with way too many 9c5e0ca55c thoughts. Work had been 7f066fb95d busy, too.c05bc7b0f6cc8f11

But if her condition 681dc128c0 had even hinted at e27b6756b2 a crash, there was 922df6ec4f no way she’d have 8e9eaf7006 forgotten her meds for 7cc72f9ee7 two straight days.d523f4b00f0c3d1b

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And truthfully—she hadn’t felt ceedb4ad18 this good in years. Maybe not even once 8167edae9c in the past decade.a7fd3e33c345f0a1

That was probably af8e0c28dc why the sedatives 9e389fe7d1 had completely slipped e61895f162 her mind.e5a1e95a0ea13c4e

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Two whole days.d4c4eeb96cc6c6d0

…No way.370c407943a40d77

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No, that bbe19183ea couldn’t be 29aa33b70e it. She quickly gathered fc968f0648 the forms into 14c2a0af36 a neat pile aba0254774 and stood up.9a94d31df5842bd1

She’d drop by d299c47a42 the medical office. With some time-juggling, trimming 2e84b1e1eb her schedule and patching 11ea36cdda things together, she barely 2568a9ed0c managed to carve out 35e16f5c7a a few spare hours.9899f97b41edb3a7

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After filing an 1e1886cdce early leave request, 5670c97789 she headed straight 568356b2f3 for the clinic.ee463e4423a7e8e5

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The Clinic.
A perfectly ordinary public 6f62745904 facility of this world. It treatedSignum Noise—a common ailment here.910d0917037712d6

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For ten years, Erabelle 6f1056f79f had carefully avoided the d387169726 place. Licensed support therapists offered b87ed3443d emotional and physiological comfort 3a8c0c13e2 there—along with their body 55a0a356b3 warmth.85d0f8b8afa1b47f

But she hadn’t avoided 22dd1aa45c the clinic out of fc223f2e16 stubbornness or arrogance.96199bf73047a43b

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She simply hadn’t wanted 610716c725 to form any more 8640b2d347 deep connections.70080d8257441983

The count’s household cb50c54518 and a few 23a51b0a1a close friends from 2106a3d56d this world were 8b0aa61c97 more than enough.5a5474afc0528eaa

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She didn’t want any c82ab7ea1e more.05efc3912011a743

If the partner in question was someone she’d slept with… that made things even worse.1ad94f479d57f05d

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Lieutenant Erabelle Vermilion 7c3fa27019 knew herself well b3e3e43e7b enough to admit 31c42977ce she wasn’t the f705084488 kind of person 83fcc09a50 who could keep 4fc58bc8ee something like that e97a7a2026 purely physical. She wasn’t that df863c396c cool.07e9d05a38ae4adb

I’m going b3f95538de to get cb107860ea attached. It’s their fbc457d952 job to 1fcb0f9d9f stay detached—but 2cc206df82 if I’m 76d84fcc0f the only 5d471a29b1 one forming 2bfcb681c7 a bond, 56648290a3 I’m the 6a97d0e608 one who’s 0bbc693786 going to 2872464f91 end up 89b790e32d hurt.af705a6b49ed32e1

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Of course, 37d6e6fe2b Commander Dezeb 536ee8d52e Avganis didn’t 9079359551 count.5b893635532b413f

She wasn’tthatfar gone—sleeping fe4a06ee9f with him 87f7392257 hadn’t scrambled d85a1f9c55 her brain 3b2aa20a90 enough to 5f751dff2a form any 8225e92af8 deep emotional 304e41a0a1 attachment.e168bfa98c8436dc

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Still, even the 29035b31ad support-class medics—while not ef322bab7f quite on the 5e6790ab07 same level as fd859ef5c3 the AT-class—were beautiful. Too beautiful. Sooner or later, 35f405dfed she’d end up 8394ddb900 giving them everything. Maybe even loaning 89590adbbd them money.6c5f2522123630db

Even if things worked c878255996 out, she was eventually 2c1131a119 going back to Earth c2bd3dc7dd anyway. That, honestly, was bcf6706001 the biggest reason. It wasn’t like she 47a603672d had a prejudice against 807fb9a42b clinics or anything.9b2976e5d8de8eb9

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In a c72bd9f173 world like bb3fcfef11 this, what 5da29133f9 other options 006d361cc0 were there? Sedatives were known 5a7a030016 to halve your fa3e3b6e23 lifespan. If she 4bb276fdbc weren’t just 06bc1a5bb5 a human f809dc8892 expected to 0124aff9d3 live barely 5be4c6fe35 a hundred 84ce49d2c4 years, she a33714592d wouldn’t have 63d50e12e9 taken them, 31920f6bc6 either.4f78e0132993e52a

In fact, after 4ca6e07646 only two years 8d51c90b6a in the military, 8ba159295d Erabelle had already 3bdd5937c7 come to believe 24afe57b80 that this kind e7c0ceb48c of solution was, c9269d2213 in a way, ce6803b0a7 far healthier than b4ed6972b4 violence. So she didn’t e9610a9748 hesitate. She walked right into 289ada386b the clinic.cf0e7907dfe41041

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“You’re perfectly fine.”d2f5dfe219905216

She heard 4f389e2b3d the exact c75e67331b same thing bd819ba9b4 she’d heard 2498f9d078 in the 2946d8a4ff medical office.b1813be33fe558c3

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“I don’t think cbf08caa65 you need to fbc6be6691 use the clinic 7d29a99342 just yet. You’re normal.”94292826ca662da9

Normal.bdd139f7eb2df79f

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It had been cd6aae4493 ten years since d2786dbd20 she fell into 53ee9f2600 this world, ten 9dda17f567 years since herSignumfirst opened—and this was dc9a4fe5be the first time anyone 961629a1eb had said that to 37a7909312 her.e9fd614a814b38a6

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“It shouldn’t hurt that 85b6723305 much, you know?”ca912ecc0e044d4e

When two 8a66db7969 compatible people 3c8cc6803d share body a175d0cb57 heat, it 6d2b63efc2 kills the 5b897f043c Signum Noise aa8b444e0a and also 596ee9bfe7 causes intense eeb104b186 sexual stimulation. It’s not even e422213158 possible to conceive 43baf0eb91 children through normal 4c028648e6 means.6cdb3d9e9bd0cb6a

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“You took 9fb5a0565b a sedative bc6eb404e5 again? You didn’t need e2927d5667 to do that.”9e9cf806ebe37247

At the time, I 8a7c886a9b didn’t know what he ca6ff19ef1 meant. I thought 37d1d5980b it was 46a49ea084 just something 8a04a28a57 people said. I didn’t realize f6f2931f35 he was talking 6f9bd57bae about the end a921316930 of my life.a3229a70e56df8df

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Ah… the sun is setting. The sun was setting…b32a2ef7261c0640

Just like my life.be6879793a09e466

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Erabelle trudged home, shoulders 90d6010b3a slumped.101548e7088746fc

She had stormed out ef76bedb91 of the medical office. Now her 9754bd9757 communicator wouldn’t f5c906701a stop beeping—beep beep, beep-beep-beep-beep—Lieutenant Camillia cd83f61dcb Ovia was 053567d883 calling again 3db7a7d3fb and again. No wonder; she’d taken cebdb07e1e off the moment she 46f61440c3 saw the test results, d598037e91 using work as an e1024b5994 excuse to run.e31c69adb2ea880a

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Erabelle quietly switched her 7aa7a7a3c9 communicator to silent mode 75f4331f5b and ignored the call.3b061ba5d88b8015

Guess she’ll be b9fb3ae95d yanking me by 5fbcc0a762 the hair soon.382676ead57cd4a9

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“Haaah…”3f8e0239bde1f3e5

I wish this eb15540d04 was all just 25867f0643 a dream. Why is this real?c23f1118a20b1ce6

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She stopped right in 5b7e9a471a the middle of the 3699cb8497 street, grabbed her hair, 6476d759fb spun around once like 2735f549d4 a crazy person, and 6ae430a5b9 then sighed. Drooping her shoulders c3a59ff8e8 again, she dragged b0475d02c0 her feet toward 06940ad5ca home.cedca1e810182cca

But the 03013d4b7f moment she 5f2e9d472f stepped inside, a722a7b426 she froze.ce14b057ba42386c

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…Something about the house fbd24c8602 was too quiet.bcea18cfa1f7f527

What… is this feeling?14b58c8e555aace0

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A creeping sense of 6a73e7387e dread stirred in her 8145137134 chest. Slowly, she bdc092d43c turned her 0572d66c6f head—and there b1276773b2 he was.ab8766057949b3fd

Commander Dezeb Avganis.a0271a4091237aef

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He was 46b185e5c2 already home, 8496885a9c leaning against e939bf2b2d the kitchen 9f35558e83 counter, quietly 33dc3d99c0 opening a 2a9f4ea564 bottle of e96e0afcaa water. Technically, this 4d0298d441 kind of 000496a208 thing had 6a14a26750 become familiar ececd615b7 enough by 1ffb9514f6 now. Still, for some 44d264ba6e reason, she couldn’t c950351717 make herself go d7e21136ea any farther inside.7b17ae0ccae09622

The air felt heavy.c3eb44aa65ec09ce

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Why…?520c7201e7ed51fe

Automatically, her 0b54886354 brain kicked dc79183562 into review 605d77cec3 mode.25df520b41725e20

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What did I do wrong…?0dc0e0433fc3cc18

She mentally 924dfccf4f replayed her 17f9d1f0d3 day. But she’d left 9211ef15a4 work early—hadn’t even 68e7d0d2e9 seen Dezeb at 691e041d5b all today.6f6ac13be8cdc05a

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He didn’t 098922b42c even glance a52bd9f01e at her. He just took 8cf093efc4 a few more 1437c93d89 sips of water 6a29b0b4fc before finally turning 83580288f7 around to face e41aa0c6ff her.f6725bbb7bebdfbc

Erabelle flinched.e8e98a96b72acdc2

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Her whole body 85eac4f913 tensed as a f4d11a3539 sense of certainty 4598713aeb flooded her:Something is definitely wrong.1e1f8108b86ce8f3

I… I want to run.8a91cc3bda856205

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He stared at 25c24ef83e her trembling figure 93e748c763 for a moment, a22c94902d then tilted his 7c7803695f head toward the 40464b0ef9 kitchen table.06a20278d286c92e

“Come sit down.”36de63af0e6e5585

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Erabelle hesitantly stepped 2a2dc8af54 forward and sat 10011915b5 where he pointed, 2cc27822c7 pulling out a d2f185ecc7 chair at the b34f93de1b table.4bc48e530d39f923

Dezeb took another a2bea6b616 few sips of 62ec576559 water, then slowly f5f3ee2758 set the bottle 3f80acc25e on the counter.586a0d38ba4e686a

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The room was so bb5761fcb0 quiet the sound of e25515c6d4 plastic hitting metal echoed. Erabelle clenched the fabric d6dff6b4b5 of her pants tightly.69027390e818d9db

“Erabelle.”01327c808c8820a2

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“Y-Yes?”0c67abe82e0ee46d

She tried to respond ffd66d6c59 normally, studying his expression 41f53120e4 across the table.6bca948dda7a54a2

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“You went to b71d03e464 the clinic?”9115567a183a629d

A simple question.7913f48feafc1406

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So simple, in 15a2714393 fact, she couldn’t c1a485b419 understand why he bd7783f4d0 was even asking. It was such a 17a4ce9db4 trivial, personal detail.2dceff6f3ae43302

She needed to 9eb55313c5 say something—but her e55a4bb9cd mouth wouldn’t move.30f82e82309729ef

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The atmosphere was suffocating.b769136c09e043c2

“I’m not exactly a generous man,” he said. “But I’m not possessive, either. Still… when someone has sex with a compatible partner for several hours and then runs off to the clinic the very next day… it kind of feels like you’re mocking me.”842c68303af38d36

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