|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- HONEYSUCKLE ROVER--CUP 11--"NAKED" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  Honeysuckle Rover  ||  -------> (Cup SRhr011, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Quile woke up in the hotel room that Liss had taken her to the day before. The train was stopped. Liss was asleep next to her, and they were both naked. Liss had transformed Quile. Made love to her, taught her many of the secrets of the universe, fed her incredible foods and drinks and drugs. It was like Liss was scrubbing the filthiness of her mundane life off of her. Quile knew that without Liss, she would never have escaped her crummy little life. But now, with Liss, things were suddenly so different... Still, there was that terrible sense that such a new feeling of hope is fragile, and putting too much faith in that hope would risk the pain of losing it as quickly as it came. Yes, that fear was there, but so much had happened already that she could never go back to the way she was before. "We have to travel to other worlds today." Liss said, without opening her eyes or stirring at all. "I would love to do that." Quile responded, then cleared her throat. Ahem! "We're in virgin territory here." Liss said. "The universe is in pretty bad shape, and it's never been like this before. Sleap could blow it all to kingdom come, if you see what I mean. I don't wanna try to stop her. Fuck, it wouldn't do much good anyway. Time is not linear, I don't think, so if she's gonna do it, I think that maybe she already did it, just we haven't gotten there yet." "But we can still do something." Quile said, turning onto her side, propping her head on her hand, elbow on the bed, and staring at Liss's face, whose eyes were still closed, hard to tell cuz her hair was so over 'em. "I had this idea that everyone is God. That's why we're all so similar, we're all the same person--God." Liss said, and then opened her eyes and swept her hair away from her face. She stared at the ceiling and didn't even glance at Quile. But their legs were touching and Quile stroked her leg against Liss's. "Do you know that one time I pulled this stunt?" Liss said, "I was publishing this fanzine on this world, and they arrested me and took me to court to censor me. Well I took it for about an hour then I stood up and started yelling at the judge. He fucking tried to ream me out, telling me he was gonna find me in contempt of court and all this garbage, and then I smahed the table and started smashing the whole place up, see? I went INSANE." -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----