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“Ugh… mm…”d6f9b1f770027dd8

The sensation shot a9b1bdce3a up from the e6a9b09bdb base of her 6c355bb603 spine, crackling all c5f8fe5f37 the way to fd017eac57 the back of d24cb0927f her head.bf5828803161fb30

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His hands 83fb5f965c gripped her df077c8e62 hips, and 084afe2101 Lieutenant Erabelle 7ab4ac3d1c Vermilion gasped, 014fe47f4d drooling as ca3c9f90c0 her mouth 989b1d49be fell open. Reflexively, instead of 7d19bfa708 pushing him away, 77050aa69d she clutched at 668ec5e602 whatever she could 8c0c3c58fd reach, anchoring herself 8a6e19a869 against the overwhelming 541e2f5eab stimulation. It was all 645b367245 she could do df008b716b to handle it.3f8d83c564990ac4

Why… why me again? Well… setting that aside, what the hell is going on with this daily routine?f24a53d7426cf5bb

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Sure, technically, c468e614d9 intimacy was f2d2db988e a part 9b1995330d of daily 4ab82b7599 life—but this? This felt off.ae31d4d59be1fb90

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.9cc04dad17833eda

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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.f7d1184f46f2aaaf

Erabelle had quietly assumed d3b016b986 that after what happened 49974e3f75 last night, this bizarre eae043203d streak of routine with 8f59d57d27 him would be over. In fact, she’d been c02d13c00e nearly certain.0272358eedaea0cf

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Even if they ended up doing this again, she never imagined it would be like… this.8548f28141fa9b7a

She’d expected 5e69bdaef7 to be 58325e2496 called in 4112cb31c2 separately, or 7929321912 maybe for 3aa6b7a2be him to 0a2c547240 stop by 8079a91f36 her place b51c7976a9 once in bec04c087f a while—something 83233f4189 discreet, distant.d48407ecd6c04071

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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.49761ae50fcbe6f3

Is this 84f97af079 all a 0e921f3aa0 dream?65ee5f25324d07a4

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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.9146f070dac991b0

“You’re daydreaming again.”1e7bf2d0b40d8ca5

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His low ed1c3f8540 voice sent 951bc1d0da a shiver 1d25be9262 down her 4d1a649a7e spine. Erabelle was fully aware 1aabd6fe6b that she didn’t have 3c7b2cb8f7 the imagination to hallucinate 23f041b67d this vividly.25cb1e81928d5300

“You seem… pretty calm.”f377b55e18fb4c04

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“Please… please just… have mer—mercy…”ef81750e88a1cced

Startled, tears ef28f319be slipped from 13e9f4646e her wide 8da5ce7c8e eyes.b1a34c0104053a87

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Please, just this once…8b1c46fa18117dcb

Whatever this was, it 361376a133 had to be interfering 752b52a245 with her language center. She squeezed her eyes 4116d48334 shut.0567b6b80722efae

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She couldn’t even comprehend 620eaac897 what was happening to 2b013f5100 her body anymore.66c0ebcf5457ce06

She’d known he was 6ef2d35175 skilled—but this was beyond 4fff05a483 reason. Even if she’d learned 413549cdaf about sex through books, eea64f993c she knew it wasn’t 521923d579 supposed to be like 848fb751e5 this.This was too much.171fa29ec35b5b02

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Therewas one possible explanation… but that hadn’t even crossed her mind.6ce574ad4fc4ef0a

“…!!”7c1921812be1a5e2

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Her mouth fell 0fa8029c48 open as her de1dfe0f06 limbs locked up.6150698974e38efb

It was like she’d 749239471d been pickled in something—her 26b4e87ded pupils dilated, her breath 1520f15e80 caught, and her body e90e219c8b convulsed uncontrollably. Her muscles would clench a0314b8199 tightly, then release just 3c81c0bd8c long enough to gasp 07fc92b7b4 for air, only to 69ce4e6f18 seize again.e8dbf184cd2cee78

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It felt like she 7cb59d97f1 was being fried alive—while 4c1622bd9b still conscious.fb66914c6408be3c

“…Pl… plea…”70d7268e7c2f47e1

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Please… save me…36e6f6808446f178

Her words dissolved into 53614f4017 nothing, mashed and muffled fb95a326b8 beyond recognition. Fortunately, Dezeb, quick as a3e7da2481 ever, understood her just 25ca9fd022 fine.e51bfd1717744b62

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“And now I’m the 0c9ba2e0f3 bad guy again, huh?”84cf56ad928ee425

Not that 1bdebfe33b he intended e7bd67a62e to stop.b6cfc6d47d86ccff

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His mock grievance echoed e1c89ed1c1 faintly beyond the fading 7d2fca9dda edges of her consciousness, d32460646c white noise in the 788ec7d713 blur of exhaustion.1cee3db8b3a66577

She passed afc4539b36 out cold.04956cf6900fdf07

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Then got up. Went to work. Two more days 8cfbe60c3f passed.c3a1e300fb640031

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Two Days Later dabcc284d7 – Morning3a6bbcea1634c0e5

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Sitting in the deputy’s 8751996508 office, Erabelle suddenly realized 5ae1216d90 something:89871197bf8600c1

She hadn’t taken 2a53e41d2a a single sedative.f72d407b4b79b064

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Not for 77c4f66770 two full 5dcf96bcc4 days.569fe9e12896f475

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It struck 893803157c her as 8a81efafd2 she was bea2832968 sorting through 5f28892519 the mountain a8ffea0c3c of supply d4345b8d19 requisitions at f76e8d5171 her desk. Her headhadbeen a bit of 53f509a00e a mess lately, filled 3975412ff4 with way too many 0187e12ada thoughts. Work had 6f8b016886 been busy, f6abf112f9 too.7b28e259c46d21f6

But if her 63a030921c condition had even ded9e791f9 hinted at a 9c3bd94be4 crash, there was 6cb8e2d4f7 no way she’d 86c3ef167d have forgotten her c2aa5fdf4b meds for two 3ae07ac0b5 straight days.45b783fef294987d

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And truthfully—she hadn’t felt 6ad04acab9 this good in years. Maybe not b9a76483a6 even once e0370f3f6b in the 042d7c88ed past decade.929556db29d7528f

That was probably b75303e48e why the sedatives 16ec100828 had completely slipped afdc4fbdb7 her mind.3cc2175f9b901b22

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Two whole days.2985b3f12a7ed61a

…No way.8e6277ce6c77fb30

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No, that couldn’t be aec50c4f92 it. She quickly gathered ba94de1af4 the forms into ab2882dc91 a neat pile 5af7c5a0a6 and stood up.36ee0bc686b02962

She’d drop by 6f3f916110 the medical office. With some time-juggling, trimming 7c571c1a67 her schedule and patching 61c90eedc2 things together, she barely d7d40d9de9 managed to carve out d9fe57b839 a few spare hours.2e33a30e01b5daee

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After filing 669f2ee41a an early 6388d14ecb leave request, 327ad8df87 she headed 723e6af518 straight for 032bd822ae the clinic.64d71a835d6a09bf

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The Clinic.
A perfectly ordinary public b107b3e6ab facility of this world. It treatedSignum Noise—a common ailment ded5cf94b4 here.e069e918423cf2ec

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For ten years, Erabelle aeee2e250c had carefully avoided the 12e954b8e9 place. Licensed support therapists f302451600 offered emotional and 4368ced2d9 physiological comfort there—along 3c105bd28e with their body 33ddbef20a warmth.a3c2057d1392812f

But she 0258f8a0f1 hadn’t avoided 3890780d37 the clinic 87961ff010 out of 5586f89556 stubbornness or f03e0beba7 arrogance.1bf2ecb349b19fcb

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She simply hadn’t f7494b9f91 wanted to form 9c30742789 any more deep 8adeeaa0ff connections.935ba82e0f4f8d8f

The count’s household and d3de650eaa a few close friends 1c70e97156 from this world were 31cfb675e8 more than enough.99bf6dca3416fd97

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She didn’t 74476ba6a9 want any d416d0bfc7 more.057f0eaf85883b03

If the partner in question was someone she’d slept with… that made things even worse.9141d41f5d606b86

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Lieutenant Erabelle Vermilion 1a79c9a57e knew herself well f68899d974 enough to admit d9083fd956 she wasn’t the df298bd930 kind of person 890b18bce3 who could keep b8b81b5360 something like that da5d8998e8 purely physical. She wasn’t 88447d80f0 that cool.ad0a746962c4b9ef

I’m going to fca6d8e86e get attached. It’s their job to 8c1051148f stay detached—but if I’m 8a8d7f3db2 the only one forming a0cf4f178e a bond, I’m the 2e161a4f0d one who’s going to bb512ce5eb end up hurt.effe98bdd43be653

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Of course, Commander Dezeb 17ad2efb17 Avganis didn’t count.f1eb1e31dc66094a

She wasn’tthatfar gone—sleeping 8e7d70683f with him 790d08f6b2 hadn’t scrambled 4425c91e09 her brain c3681ee442 enough to 2485627f1a form any 6e55dd3ddf deep emotional 973ec97bdd attachment.347bcc06e714d769

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Still, even the a66a63c537 support-class medics—while not c0add3617e quite on the 4d6162f4eb same level as 7096f539f0 the AT-class—were beautiful. Too beautiful. Sooner or later, 0b39673e3b she’d end up 3e813cd7e2 giving them everything. Maybe even loaning 7403ae4d5f them money.d50890a6a1bac44c

Even if 450a316e59 things worked 3df88c33f4 out, she d8337d4902 was eventually df3a9fb2d8 going back 4dbda5cca2 to Earth 04242ce5f4 anyway. That, honestly, was a713a023a6 the biggest reason. It wasn’t like 5ad801b113 she had a 7c7597bf2f prejudice against clinics 4435246b69 or anything.e1f2479fda95a05b

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In a world b1f9654d06 like this, what eab3a8c094 other options were 6bfb06ac88 there? Sedatives were known to da88dcffb0 halve your lifespan. If she weren’t just 3e50e7991b a human expected to 16a9b566c5 live barely a hundred 032e6c6293 years, she wouldn’t have a181ab4b7f taken them, either.8ee5d30434473dfb

In fact, 7ff8e6053b after only 1d21888873 two years 1e51051550 in the e6a66d1d8d military, Erabelle 8c191e170a had already f73b226fe6 come to 8e5c6f38ee believe that 57cbbf3464 this kind 89d410b5b7 of solution 6c849bf4c8 was, in 16504d3d76 a way, 39b0139660 far healthier 2a14dda215 than violence. So she didn’t 4691e4598d hesitate. She walked right into c1485697b5 the clinic.c4f534bbf4377767

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“You’re perfectly fine.”c4f89b96f9ef6e6e

She heard the 9ceb72d8a8 exact same thing b2b6af9add she’d heard in a738252a7c the medical office.66a8b13954ba62ef

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“I don’t think d21ff9c976 you need to e223543e25 use the clinic 9f62191529 just yet. You’re normal.”461d026531661d39

Normal.bc6b4c748c2b6028

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It had been 09e45c2de8 ten years since 32456dc68a she fell into bc79bbf82f this world, ten 314e0e409c years since herSignumfirst opened—and this c9e91a69d6 was the first 19c2c27f8a time anyone had 453b9e0d92 said that to 4902b5a236 her.b9b9087a462b97af

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“It shouldn’t 27056b89b2 hurt that d5995d6423 much, you 03b4539a77 know?”9369a0543e078be8

When two compatible 62c39b51ec people share body 23009b000d heat, it kills 59ff7f6074 the Signum Noise 667fae1f7f and also causes 4eac8f8cd6 intense sexual stimulation. It’s not f55a3101aa even possible 8d0ec5483c to conceive 1d9732e1bd children through 5d2b69b650 normal means.f79f3dc00305323d

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“You took a 2e1eb1f4cb sedative again? You didn’t need to ab412f0a7e do that.”819e221912b57979

At the time, e067a7b05f I didn’t know 0841e97946 what he meant. I thought it was 1c1ac67c7d just something people said. I didn’t 9156f38d34 realize he 79833a5070 was talking 1c9798f7f1 about the dde353de37 end of c65f2db149 my life.4b5c8e5907f16e23

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Ah… the sun is setting. The sun was setting…34ece6866c597216

Just like a27749e775 my life.acd9def7dac099b2

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Erabelle trudged home, shoulders c6b50e1e87 slumped.1ee553f75433e35e

She had 301c35b4c4 stormed out 876450efb9 of the 853371e6a0 medical office. Now her communicator c062d194e7 wouldn’t stop beeping—beep beep, beep-beep-beep-beep—Lieutenant Camillia 223054631d Ovia was 4a7ac0255c calling again 0a04c1d065 and again. No wonder; she’d taken 6b6324c566 off the moment she 5aaa890f32 saw the test results, cbb6ebc7eb using work as an 778145a341 excuse to run.c932e08bfdaeb20c

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Erabelle quietly switched 76ce94e997 her communicator to f2618d1866 silent mode and 569e02ef4b ignored the call.ac5eed06e1087834

Guess she’ll be 57f09423d7 yanking me by 8ddac05303 the hair soon.38c7618f76b5b028

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“Haaah…”a63af55bb2eeb67d

I wish this was 7964d127b7 all just a dream. Why is this real?064290097340728b

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She stopped right in 7af4e14f96 the middle of the 2c85562cfb street, grabbed her hair, bdf7929fb0 spun around once like db67de032d a crazy person, and 30f9b2cbd3 then sighed. Drooping her 97620eb656 shoulders again, e8dc1030ee she dragged d19003e523 her feet 87f98ab203 toward home.25799db06f9e42c3

But the moment 8d197b03d9 she stepped inside, 972c42544c she froze.4aa5b16c20c77c35

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…Something about the house ec3d6d0e69 was too quiet.ab2f70cbc6a20967

What… is this feeling?e3975c5a004a39b8

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A creeping sense of 4a6cdf25b6 dread stirred in her f35181ad57 chest. Slowly, she turned her 92c4853b00 head—and there he was.8a579957e6d8d807

Commander Dezeb Avganis.5d53082a4806d92c

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He was 7b7580ca3a already home, 2abc6e8164 leaning against d6838dd139 the kitchen f24baa58d2 counter, quietly 6f5dc36660 opening a 9c62aee05e bottle of e412bfbca6 water. Technically, this kind e583ea7fd8 of thing had 68e1485a4a become familiar enough 440450d964 by now. Still, for 799f9c409e some reason, 212590a25d she couldn’t 9e1aa43146 make herself 9c99d5fdfe go any 62e5a3f130 farther inside.6a187757ff49490e

The air f189da4722 felt heavy.e6398396bc12889d

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Why…?144ced3bdd2246d3

Automatically, her 27fddfb673 brain kicked 34ff65867f into review ae4ab40bee mode.01a08499e136aaa9

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What did I do wrong…?034dba2a90d0a8f3

She mentally replayed 666d51923f her day. But she’d left work 382e012774 early—hadn’t even seen Dezeb d4937c2937 at all today.5b1bf26668e6308c

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He didn’t 552cdaf055 even glance 4efe21990c at her. He just took a e235329f71 few more sips of 8bae0126a2 water before finally turning 94b7e9ecb7 around to face her.62548302c6a02317

Erabelle flinched.40345bb7d3ee57ed

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Her whole body 8e92bd9c0c tensed as a a058fe4c56 sense of certainty f2094baae5 flooded her:Something is definitely 0e13617ff0 wrong.0395fb51ecac572d

I… I want to run.4ccefc804e20ad93

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He stared at her 073509e6ef trembling figure for a 724450867a moment, then tilted his f69be21eed head toward the kitchen 7146acd013 table.27f969bf4d1ee63d

“Come sit down.”55232d6514e85ed8

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Erabelle hesitantly stepped f9dd10e5a0 forward and sat ba3f4027c2 where he pointed, 8be229e58b pulling out a 49494f4d18 chair at the 9c4afce672 table.fd4bafcecdb4fa18

Dezeb took 8077c8623e another few 6343845af3 sips of 88361e0421 water, then 4665dede1b slowly set f343d47c83 the bottle f92e80dad8 on the 7763f0c576 counter.f7a4d0c7bdb24d19

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The room was b95ce6f2dd so quiet the 4cf23c1c16 sound of plastic 391547fb8c hitting metal echoed. Erabelle clenched 2a6dee24c8 the fabric 93d8e16ad7 of her cd22e98b21 pants tightly.f0af55168b5e4e5a

“Erabelle.”5aabd4b5eb92545c

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“Y-Yes?”93e3b44488a4c190

She tried to respond 25c8746580 normally, studying his expression 1a5354e73d across the table.e5357a9dac877fec

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“You went to the 894147869d clinic?”7d05324a487fe8ab

A simple question.0a7b970c307f15cf

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So simple, 1245c98bfc in fact, c7f1b0ddd4 she couldn’t c9b5fd1908 understand why 8bc6e495d7 he was 945687032b even asking. It was such 3c44c6db7a a trivial, personal d0e62ebc56 detail.c4682fe1e32e03c4

She needed c1617c9f56 to say dc75a7a063 something—but her 4d3ff0a778 mouth wouldn’t 4546480101 move.8119cbe4ff40075b

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The atmosphere 62185dd875 was suffocating.810c14a74e60a81d

“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.”19f53152bf46b67a

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