”Danni sipped her coffee and smiled when some cream ended up on her nose.Leaning closer, Josh licked the cream away and gave her a soft kiss.“I fe...l close and safe with you as well Danni” he said, sitting back.“Safe” she repeated softly “yes I suppose so, I feel safe with you, free to be myself.”She was silent for a while, sipping her coffee and looking out to the sea.Josh sat in silence with her, just enjoying her company.“This is wonderful, you’re wonderful” Danni said after almost half an. Protruding from the ceramic walls and floor were a large number of unusually shaped pipes and cables all meeting at a six and a half foot long, three foot thick oval shaped, semi-transparent capsule. The cables and pipes simmered with a mercury like surface, as if alive, in the light from the domed ceiling above.There was nothing else in the room, apart from the four small sensor globes embedded ten feet up in each of the lab's four corners.The lab once had been filled with equipment and. The wine spilled down her chin, and the stream from above missed completely, staining her bosom."Ugh!" I'm sorry. You're a mess, darling. Let me."Sister licked the glossy film from her lover's chin, sucked it from her tongue. She raised the cruet to Kristen's lips, then to her own. They went back and forth, sipping from the glass spout, licking it, kissing and squirting the tart wine from one mouth to the other. In this way they drained the vessel."My, that is good," Sister said."My head is. But she'd rise again, gasping, spluttering, filled with the certainty that one day she might be over there again, feeling at home, being accepted by her neighbors and friends — hugging the dull but so very safe life she'd been used to. It was what her sanity urged her to go for. But did she really want that life? If so, why did even the thought of it make her lose confidence? Where did this feeling of incompleteness come from? Why this fear of being lonely — so very lonely?While struggling she.