|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- PECULIAR LATHER--CUP 24--"BATHTUB" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  Peculiar Lather  ||  -------> (Cup SRpl024, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = As Tanner undressed he thought about the conversation he was having with Fluffy before her delightful proposal. He was telling her how he felt he was losing his affinity for Agoopish, how it had been getting harder and harder for him to bring himself to travel to Agoopish every time he went back to Earth. Fluffy listened, but seemed to be distant. (She is the Goddess of Distance, after all). She told him such feelings were common among a small portion of novice mortals, and that going back to Earth so often didn't help matters any. Ah, whatever. Who cares. Soon, Tanner would be taking a bath with Fluffy--being naked with Fluffy--doing things with Fluffy. He just knew it. When he was fully undressed, Tanner debated whether or not to take off his digital watch--it was waterproof after all--but he felt he'd look dorky with it on. So he took it off and tossed it on top of his pile of clothes. He looked down at his erection, which he couldn't help--the idea of having sex with Fluffy was just too exciting. She would understand, he hoped. Wading into the hot pool, Tanner felt a surge of energy--some sort of special water, he figured. And the water was hot--but not uncomfortably so. He meandered over to the teapot-like objects, picked one up, and smelled it. It had a lovely floral/spicy scent. He poured a little onto the palm of his hand, and smelled it again. Pretty good. He rubbed the oil into his chest and picked up another container. It had a different, but equally pleasing scent. He poured some into his hand and rubbed it up and down his arms. And he felt comfortable. Comfortable and good. He leaned against the side of the pool and closed his eyes. Yes, so peaceful. He let himself drift--he was reaching a different state of consciousness--mellow. Yeah, mellow. He let himself go, let go of his problems. His unrequited love for Fluffy, his faltering mortalhood, his disastrous life back on Earth. It felt good to let go. It felt good that nothing mattered. Then suddenly he heard an enormous clang and it felt like the whole room shook. He opened his eyes and caught something unbelievable in his peripheral vision. Quickly turning his head, Tanner saw a very unconventional sight--at the other side of the pool, the water took a 90 degree turn upward--like a wall of water. And as he looked and followed the water up, he saw that it was part of a much larger pool, in a much larger room. And at the other end of the enormous pool, way, way up from Tanner's perspective, was Fluffy, arms outstretched at the edge of the tub, hair up in a bun, naked, water lapping lazily against her perfect breasts. "Hey there buddy!" she said. Tanner's neck was craned all the way up at this point. He repositioned himself so that he was floating on his back--giving him a comfortable view of the 90-degree room and Fluffy. And he was happy to see that his hard-on had subsided--was that the purpose of the oils? He didn't want to think so. "Hi." he said. "Why don't ya come on, swim right over here?" "Um--okay. Can I just, um, is it easy to cross over?" "Oh, it's nothing. Just a gravity intersection. You might be dizzy for a second or two, but it's nothing." "Okay." Tanner said, as he straightened himself, and waded toward the point where the water turned upward to form what looked from his perspective indeed to be a wall. He reach his hand out, and into the water of the wall. Instantly, he felt the tug of gravity on his hand. "Cool." he said, and then he lunged forward into the wall. Disoriented for a moment, Tanner quickly shot back to the surface to find that he was now in the same gravity as Fluffy, and the room he had been in now appeared to be a wall--he could see his pile of clothes way up there. Then he turned to Fluffy and rubbed the water out of his eyes. "So THIS is your bathtub." Fluffy smiled. "Like it?" she said. Tanner looked up and around. He now saw a huge, arching, glass-covered roof, a forest of gigantic trees extending way up into the sky. "Yeah! This is definitely the coolest bathtub I've ever seen!" "Thanks. Now come on over here, lover--we have a bath to take!" Tanner said nothing, but dove forward and began swimming as fast as he could toward Fluffy. Yes, the wonderful hot water was giving him energy, he could feel it. He felt strong, robust. Soon he got near Fluffy and started to tread water--the tub was pretty deep at this point. "Come on." Fluffy said, and Tanner cursed himself as he stared dumbly at the goddess's breasts. So he moved forward to the edge of the pool right next to Fluffy. She turned, and her unbelievable eyes locked onto Tanners spirit and soul. He felt a love for her more intense than he had ever felt before. -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----