The other girls were dying to know why Christof took me outside. I lied and told them he had wanted to


    have sex.


    “He wanted sex out of doors?” Rose asked suspiciously. “They hate that. They all hate that, I thought.


    He really is strange,” she mused


    I hadn’t known that would be a mistake and asked her why they didn’t like sex outside, normally.


    “The way the women take them is notfortable for them. They like to use us privately in their ces


    for resting, where everything isfortable,” she answered.


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    I didn’t talk to her anymore about it. My gut instinct told me what Christof and I did at Lunch didn’t


    usually happen. It was best to keep it a secret.


    After lunch I had to pee, really bad. Fuji told me to go tell the Keepers. I wasn’t permitted to go by


    myself. Much Like at my new home I was watched and cleaned, it was weird.


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    I was distracted from the strangeness of it all by our after Lunch activity. The Keepers took us outside


    the back of thepound. We walked through sand and I was thrilled to see water in front of us. The


    sea, much like the sky was a shade of bluish purple. The Keeper’spound sat right on the shore.


    We were in a protected alcove with rock walls almost encircling a little bay. The beach was beautiful, it


    was a Light coral color. The sand felt Like sand at home. Little waves broke on the beach. I almost ran


    into the water with my outfit still on, Fuji stopped me.


    “You have to get permission from the Keepers to be in the water and they will take off your panels. Your


    owners will get mad if it gets dirty,” she said pulling me back.


    I went and asked the Keepers and they said I was allowed to swim. My owners had permitted it. They


    took my little outfit off of me and ced it to the side.


    When they undressed me I had tried to help them and they looked at me like I was strange. Despite my


    difort of sitting around nude with my new friends, I raged at the other women that I could take care


    of myself. Rose Laughed at me.


    “It takes some getting used to,” she said, “but this is the way they look at it. You can’t do anything for


    yourself. It stems from the experience with their earliest ves. They bought the ones that fought them,


    but broke them. They treated ves horribly and the ves Lost the will to live. If they didn’t do


    everything for them after they were broken they died faster.”


    I shuddered and she continued, “The Paterians gotpetitive about keeping ves alive. Eventually


    they figured out the ves that were given less pain and more pleasure did better. They also learned


    the better they cared for their ves the better they did. It became a sign of the men’s training and


    ability to keep a healthy ve. The end result is you get treated like a prized pet.”


    I listened with interest, but was dying to get in the water. Rose shooed me and I ran to the shore,


    dipping my toes in the ocean. The water was cool, but not bad. Wading out into waist deep water I


    swam around. The water got deeper toward where the inlet was. I dove down and inspected the rocky


    shelves.


    All of the sudden I came across a barrier. I reached out and touched it. It was arge metal grate that


    covered the opening to the inlet.


    It ended right at the water line. The grates weren’t small, but I couldn’t get through them. Little barnacle


    like creatures covered the metal from top to bottom.


    Swimming to the other side of the inlet under water I found a ce where the grate was open. It looked


    like it must have gotten broken by something. There was a holerge enough for me to fit through.


    Surfacing, I looked back at the shore. The Keepers were busy with the other girls, no one was watching


    me.


    Feeling wicked, I slipped through the grate and explored the ocean outside the inlet. I surfaced just


    long enough for air. Not wanting to get caught I slipped back through the grate. Making a note, I


    decided I’d have to do that again. I swam around until I was called in by the Keepers.


    Much like kindergarden we were picked up at a specified time. A little bell rang and we all went into the


    courtyard and kneeled on our pads waiting. The Warriors came in and picked up their ves,


    sometimes stopping and talking to the Keepers.


    No one came for me. I waited a long time after everyone else was gone, I thought I might have been


    left. Perhaps Christof had repeated what I had said and it had made them angry. I jumped when boots


    appeared before me


    “Get up, ve,” Master Evan said towering over my kneeling frame.


    I hadn’t heard his approach. Looking up all my owners were standing there ring at me, except


    Christof who Looked amused.