Chapter 17

Linda was waiting when Alec stepped out of his study room in the creche. The procedure had become so routine that he showed no surprise. Something was bothering her, and he knew that, but she either could not or would not tell him what it was. And she had called him Ed once, last night. He had asked her immediately, but she couldn't—or wouldn't—tell him who Ed was.

Now she blended naturally into Alec's embrace and their hps met in a deep kiss. With their arms around each other, they walked to the elevator, oblivious of the others they passed. The elevator took them swiftly up to the surface. Hand in hand, they stepped toward the outer door.

Alec stopped and glanced at the sky, then held a hand outside.

"Raining," he said. He looked down at Linda, smiling. "Shall we go underground or walk in the rain?"

She caressed the black hand on her naked waist "The rain can't hurt us, Alec. We don't have any clothes to get wet."

He grasped her hand with a grin and led her outside.

Drops of rain pelted their naked bodies and streamed down. Their steps quickened, exhilarated by the cool rainfall on their bare bodies. It increased, pouring in rivulets from them, and they laughed and began to run along the path.

Alec stopped suddenly. He pulled Linda close, looking down into her rain-wet face. "I know a secret place," he told her in a conspiratorial voice, "where nobody goes. It isn't far, Iinda, and there's lots of grass, trees and... privacy. Want to see it?"

Looking up into his eyes, she nodded. "Oh, yes!"

Then they were running again, barefoot over the wet grass. It seemed to Linda that they were moving away from the world, that civilization was far behind them as Alec led her off the path. The lawn gave way to weeds as they climbed a little knoll, their bodies brushed by wet sagging bushes. The skies had opened and the rain was pouring, now. Linda gasped, giggling, as cool water streamed over her nudity and soaked her hair until it was plastered to her skull, hanging down in strings.

Water dripped sexily from the tips of her bare breasts, the nipples firmed by the coolness.

She followed him dehghtedly, her hand tightly grasped in his so that wet it would not slip free. They were moving swiftly through trees that appeared never to have been tended. Her bare feet slipped on wet grass

and muddy ground as they descended into a litde hollow presided over by a huge white-barked tree.

Alec stopped. He drew a great breath of air into his lungs, grinning broadly. His black nakedness glistened with its coating of running rain water. He pulled her to him.

The fronts of their bodies pressed tightly together and she felt his hands sliding possessively over her wet back. Her firm little nipples prodded stiffly at his chest His words made her shiver with anticipation.

"Maybe I'm an atavist, but this is where I want you. Here under the trees, right on the bare earth where everything began."

Then her arms were around his neck, holding tightly. Her hps opened for his kiss. His arms were firm and strong around her, and she felt his penis harden against her. Parting her knees, she encouraged it to slip between her thighs.

Tongues twisting together in complete understanding, they moved their hips, writhing closer, trying to be part of each other. Her feet shpped suddenly on the wet grass, and she fell with a little squeal. Her weight pulled him off balance. Her naked back splashed into the dark mud and his dark body came down atop her, driving the breath from her.

Her legs sprawled wide apart as she thrilled to the feeling of her man atop her, between her thighs. She wrapped her arms around him, running her hands over his muscular back, squirming her round rear cheeks into the soft, strangely caressing mud, she cried out "Now, darling, now\"

Rain beat down on her upturned face, splashing into her smiling mouth. She pulled as he pushed, and his virile cock shpped its black head between the delicate

pink lips of her vulva. In a moment it was filling her, filling her with the fullness she desired more than anything. Ed, she thought without knowing why. Ed, Edl

A power was building inside her as she watched the distant Ughtning in the sky. Dimly, she heard the accompanying thunder, like a great spaceship hurtling through the dark sky. But there was no ship; there was nothing but the wild woods and two lovers alone in this secluded place, artistic contrast of black and white bodies twining in the act of love.

Edl

Her white young form, so diminutive in its regression from the big woman she had been, stood out starkly against the black earth. His body, as dark as the soil beneath their squirming bodies, covered her whiteness here and there in a constantly shifting pattern of stark basics: black and white. He lay atop her, breathing heavily, the mighty piston of his sex pounding rhythmically in and out of the vagina that chambered its power.

Her legs rose to enwrap his waist. She kissed his streaming cheek avidly, again and again. Her hands moved over his back, even paler by contrast with his flesh. Their wet bodies slapped repeatedly together until an inferno of desire built in her belly and she felt the throbbing of his cock as its climax approached.

She cried out to the thundering sky and her body became a part of his, a titanic blend of towering passions. Her arms clung tighter to him as an ecstatic tingling spread through her system.

"Harder! Harder! It's so big ... so good ... I love it so much!"

Her voice was small and lost on the rushing wind. She

seemed to grow with the rapture that pounded within her, so that it was the Earth Mother, herself, who called out in her voice. She felt it: an explosion of magnificent ecstasy that spread outward from her abdomen in waves of transcendent rapture.

Sudden blazing streams of the liquid of love seethed into her as his driving cock jerked violently and sent its offering into her willing body. Flames of desire blended them into one, a single unit of merging white and black as they were engulfed by the storm and the conflagration of sexual fulfillment

And all the while, somewhere deep inside her mind, within a little mental room whose door was closed but not locked, she was crying out Edl Oh Ed, Ed!

They lay exhausted in the rivulets of rain water that streamed over them, around them, and it seemed the only natural place to be. Her small hands washed dreamily over his back as she watched the sky in a fever of content. Her legs tightened possessively about him.

"Linda, Linda," he said, rising a little to squeeze her breasts.

She was staring past him, staring at the sky, and her eyes seemed glassy, as though she were drugged. "Ed," she said softly, and Alec sighed.