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physicist, I don't know what it is, or even if such a thing exists as magnetic impedance, but it works.
They are the original magic rings. So to them, a purely physical living form, with soft flesh and
moving parts and leveraged limbs and liquid in flows and sacs-a Solarian is an assemblage of
repulsively odd anatomy. They react much as we would to a maggot-ridden barrel of rotten eggs
poured into our bathwater."
Helen let out a peep of stifled laughter. "An egg shampoo-a real live shampoo!"
"But if you don't mind dropping the subject-"
"Rotten eggs," she repeated. "Eyeballs made of rotten eggs, with yolk-pupils and-" She stifled some
more mirth. "I look like that?"
"Of course not! You're-" But he could not think of a suitable refutation, because her eyes did
somewhat resemble-ridiculous!
"Let's put it to the test," she decided. "If I can't turn you on, then I must be a monster." She inhaled
deeply, making her breasts accentuate, and recrossed her legs to show more flesh.
"Why does everything have to turn sexual with you?" he demanded. "I don't want this. I just want to
relax and think, to work things out in my own mind before I make a worse fool of myself."
"Because this had been my only real hold on you," she answered seriously. "I'm not really a sexual
creature, you are. I can take sex or leave it, but you've always needed it, so I have perfected it for you.
We never saw eye to eye-liquid-filled or not-on any really important thing except this. Sex is the one
thing that always pleases you. I am willing to bet that your Band female caught on to that early
enough, too! So if it ever fails to move you, then I've lost you. The hook will have slipped."
She took another deep breath and leaned forward, and her torso-mounted flesh masses shifted form in
a manner that ordinarily would have had a profound effect on him. "I thought you were a good man
despite your flaws, which is why I married you," she continued. "I had about given up hope, after four
years, that your worst flaw would ameliorate. But I think my original estimate has abruptly been
confirmed. I am a creature of causes, as you know, and the redemption of you has been a prime
cause."
"I was one of your causes? Along with the cornstalks and downtrodden aliens?"
"Of course. I felt you had the capacity to understand all the rest, and I was right. Only now you have
turned entirely over, and not only sympathize with the plight of an alien species, but identify with that
species. You think you may love an alien female. That's somewhat farther than I would have had you
go, but not a disaster. If you really love her, I can't compete. But if I can compete, then it's not true.
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That is, what you think is love for her is merely newfound empathy. I know you have never separated
love and sex; if you don't love, you can't-"
"I mated with her."
"Yes, I thought that was the case. Any worthwhile female of any species finds out how to hold her
male. So I want to find out now, while you think you love elsewhere, whether you really do, or
whether you're fooling yourself. It's important for me to know, for one thing, because-"
She was amazing! And despite his intensifying alien perspective, she remained desirable to him. True,
her flesh was ponderously puffed by liquid and gel, eyeballs and all-but that was the mode of
Monsters. And her reaction impressed him. He had insulted her in more than one way, and she had
risen immediately to the challenge. He called her undesirable, so she proposed to make proof of that
by seducing him. It was probably a valid test.
Yet there was something missing. She really should not be that interested in him. There were other
men in the Station, and she was an attractive Monster, and some of the other men had indicated, in the
approved manner of such things, that they would be interested in Helen if she were ever free. For that
matter, there were other women who had indicated similar interest in Ronald. In a Station like this the
regular personnel got to know each other pretty well, and there was a standard system of private
communication that everyone understood perfectly. Only within marriage itself did the
communication seem to break down; whether that was nature or irony he wasn't sure. Maybe emotion
got in the way of objectivity. Or perhaps the culprit was commitment, since plenty of emotion could
precede the formal alliance. "Why is this important to you?" he asked, becoming aware that she had
broken off as though expecting his challenge.
"Because I want your baby."
She had hit him hard that time! He had wanted a baby at first, and she had not. Since it was necessary
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