...Sometimes it was so agonizing that he was sure he would....And sometimes...Only sometimes...There was no pain at all.And he called those days "Good... - and the others he called "Bad." Forhe dwelt in a world of opposites and it came naturally to him to divide things into categories like black and white, positive and negative,long and short, male and female; and to express a preference for oneaspect over another. And to the things that gave him pleasurablesensations he gave the designation. ”“By like ten minutes,” he grumbled.Which put them both smack in the middle of puberty. His brain was enough of a mess of hormones and lust, and she was hot enough, that she could lead him by the balls. The same as she did everyone else. He hated that it worked, but it did.Still muttering, he climbed out of the pool. “Alright, what do you want?”“Good boy.” Blindly, she lifted a bottle towards him. “Tanning oil, on my back. I’d do it myself, but I can’t reach.”Well, that wasn’t so bad. He drew. A big one. ASAP and at whatever cost.I toss the foodstuff – dried meat, some alien fruits, and the Vurn X’lora 15 equivalent of prawn crackers – into the reaching tentacle’s general direction and dance out of the way in an evasive maneuver that carries me across the room and towards the door to the bath.“Food. Then clean. Must be clean by taking bath,” I singsong like everything is perfectly wonderful in the city of Ba Sing Se, but my cheeks are straining with my fake smile and my upper lip is. (Except that their whole bodies were covered in fur, feathers, or scales as appropriate to their animal side, and everyone has binocular vision like a human and all their parts are sized for a human frame.) Legs, feet, and genitals were a crapshoot, there was no predicting if a person's lower body would remain largely human, except growing a tail and animal type skin coverings, or would change to match their animal side in whole or in part. People always still had legs and genitals if they had.