---ZO'OR: FINAL CONFLICT---

a story on several instalments

the usual disclaimers apply

all non-EFC characters (c)2001 IAO

this instalment is very difficult to rate

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Conscious lifeforms make love while conversing.

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'SUKATOROJI'

Ahh, Ishikawa-San.

''Go-Ichiban-Sama.''

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Taeron-tachi ya mushi-tachi wa?

''Masaka-na. Demo, Zouru no ki to 'o-mantisu' ga... omoshiroi desu.''

Mochiron da-yo. Futari wa, boku no mono da... ... ...

...mou, etchi-na o-hanashi wo kikitai... hi hi hi. ...'o-manko-suru' no mono... 'Supiku'.

''Taeron ways of reproducing themselves are widely known among Companions, unlike most courting rituals related to praying mantises. Yet, both can be extremly dangerous to perform.''

Do they need to submit by pairs, as in humans or praying mantises?

''They also need two Companions, at least one of them must be on his 'Ka'atham'--a kind of timely 'period' on which they act erratic, have shivers, thunder blushings, disturbing daydreams, and leave energy spills around just like female dogs on heat.''

Yes, I can recall all your stories on bitches and dogs in the open.

''The Taeron on its 'period' gets to be the baby's host. They are hermafrodite at the same time as asexual: non-ka'athamic Taerons could act like males on ka'athamic ones since this period prepares their body for the hosting of new life. When a Taeron is not on ka'atham there will be no sexual activities among them.''

How long between ka'athams?

''Between so-and-so years. I wonder what do they do while waiting for so long...''

I can take a guess... In the beginning, those people were really raunchy, they used to call themselves 'The Atavus'. They were sexually dimorphic and, in and out of heat, they wandered around messing with other species. Until the day came they got to mess with these 'professionals' called the 'Kimera'... and boom, their species splited in two: male atavii taken by kimera females became 'Jaridians'; female atavii taken by Kimera males became 'Taelons'. And of course there were gay Kimera: those taken by them became extinct. The Jaridians have evolved to be always in heat: they even die on fire. But Taelons, while not on heat, can wonder around messing with everything but themselves: how do you think they got all their freaks growing around on the Moon Base?

''It makes sense even without the explanation, Go-Ichiban-Sama, as the Taeron are dying. As for lately, they had been experiencing fruitless ka'athams. Not because they have lost the capacity to awake Perfect-Desire, but the fear they have to loose the restrains they believe to have enlighten their race. Those restrains imposed by their old ruling body have made them evolve on an path to physical extintion. Their 'spiritual path' is culprit to their core-energy disgrace.''

I'll be the judge to that, Ishikawa-san. Now, tell me about the mechanics in question, you know, 'etchi-na mono'...

''To create new life, both Companions meet and join two hand palms together...''

...that already exists in my awareness...

''...while new life is being created by the exchanging of energy, both companions share memory images between themselves, this opens up a direct link between mates at a psychic level. This act is known as 'Joining'. The exchanging of memories between companions at this level of intimacy produces pleasure responces. Both mates at a joining will review the others most private memories...''

Really? Mmmm...

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'Gomen'. ...hummm... Do Praying Mantises exchange memories as well?

''No. Praying mantises are all that you know of humans, only worst.''

Worst...?

''Praying Mantises mating rituals are truly disturbing for us; I suspect, seldomly both mates know what's going on when mating. The female--larger in size than the male--leaves around some kind of pherormonic traces. The male is atracted to the female--which tries to attact its potential mate with its oversize thorny limbs--...''

...beautiful...

''...it follows the female around, and patienly waits for an opportunity to mount her. If it succeed, the mating will take minutes to hours depending on the species. But once done, the male should run for its life, for the female is going to KILL IT as the first high protein meal it will need for the healty development of the eggs it will bear later.''

...hmmmm...

''Sometimes, the female manage to start eating its male during its ritual, head first; no matter, the male will continue with its impregnation headless.''

Headless...

''The male can even manage to end the mating, get off the female and start a fight without its head, but the spirit of fate has declared female praying mantises as the winners: they will eat up the entire male before getting ready to build foamy egg nests.''

Do male praying mantises experience pleasure while being killed on their life-making?

''I believe they do not: pain is a basic sensation of everything living on Earth. And in their cases pain, although slow to acknowledge as real, will drown wathever memory of plesure.''

Ohh, off! ...ahhhhh... aahhhhhh... ahhhhhhhhh... 'Gomennasai.' ...ahhhhhhh... But you do not experience pain... 'honto ni anata ga shoujo manga dakara!'

''I live as a representation: 'yaoi no manga-jin desu'. For some, cartoon characters were conceived as non-suffering representations, unless we were created to suffer as it would be the desire of the artist. I don't acknowledge suffering, until the one who created me finds it to be necessary. Yet, I appeal to others as an instrument for pleasure.''

Yes, I have known.

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It is dangerous... for Taelons to engage in life-making because it is too much pleasure or too much pain?

''Some of the images shared in the act of joining could be very disturbing making the process somehow dangerous. Happy, beautiful, orderly, respectful... memories and thoughts give them the highest pleasure; all antonyms represent extreme pain. Taeron mates have to be very strong to experience the worst images and feelings since any attemp to break a 'joining' could result in passage express to the Void... for both. Since Taeron society is psychicly open, yet tight around how companions must behave, privacy turned to be a kind of luxury--most private issues are well kept--; no Taeron knows what will find upon a sharing of this kind, somehow making many Companions mentally disturbed after a joining; so most of them had shyed away from joining substituting this activity for the search for spiritual perfection.''

I see...

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I will consider your earlier opinion.

''Go-Synodo had to obligue Companions to engage in the joining act, even if their new born arrive so weak they could hardly survive a few centuries, or decades, or years, or months, or days, hours... even at the present certaintly that a child will be born dead it is a duty to bring it forth... against their will.''

So you think they would not enjoy extreme closeness?

''My opinion is based on my lurking around Taeron databanks... interesting Taeron Zouru could endure whatever... but Go-Synodo.''

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Wakarimashita, Ishikawa-san; arigato.

''Oyasuminasai... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...anata.''

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Good? Bad? Fair?

...mae no ga 'so-ku' da-yo!

Next: Da'an and T'than in love. More Taelon weirdness.