Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

caressed her and she made the rest of her clothing disappearand replaced it with a short dress made of as open a mesh asthe hammock so his fingers went thru to her skin everywhere."I imagine you want some loving.""Answering the question of whether they are devices ornatural evolution of some kind will have to wait til we have asample."They were still hurtling by these bodies at almost twothousand miles per second giving them millions of miles ofberth so there was no way they could pick up a sample. "If wecould even tell if we had one," Alan said, while starting to runhis fingers over the smooth, soft curves of her skin."It's dark enough that no one can see us," she said, andmade his clothing disappear, a thin, sleeveless, legless worker.As easy as it was to put his fingers thru her mesh slipover,it was easier still to push it aside.Afterwards, she made him dinner. They talked about whatthe menu would have in the best restaurant he could imagineon his planet. They were still wrapped around each other anddry again, but she was still dressed only in that open net. Hewas so distracted by that he couldn't think of anything betterthan a little bread-crock of crossed stew and some rolls offresh lon and braised red-tail. She had it hot from thecauldron and on the table on fine dinnerware by the time theymounted the three steps to the kitchen. He gave her a look."I'm not under sentence," she said, and sat down at her plate.85