. First kiss coming up."It was soft and warm but nothing more. She laid her cheek against his and her arms wriggled round him. Robin's arms went aroun... her. Neither moved until Lottë pulled the duvet over them. They slept.Lottë woke first some two hours later. Neither had moved. Lottë did not now but just lay there blissfully. She could still not quite get over the fact that Uncle Robin loved her as he did but there was no doubt about it and she could not have been happier. The physical. Unfortunately he was alsoordering her back so she could resume her proper studies. After she signedoff, she almost broke down in tears.The anthropologist asked her what was wrong. "I have to leave him," she said."Certainly you realized that was an inevitability. For you, that body is atool. Something that you'll discard when you're finished with it. Forhim, that body is a necessity. You're immortal and you know it. He's...mortal, limited." What happens to them after they die? The being. Supposedly a quantum machine exists in all possible universes. Yet even the AI's that we're borrowing from the Confederacy aren't willing to admit more than hyperspace. That they tell us is something that we can't understand. Well now that I'm slowly digging through the highest theoretical mathematics that humans had imagined and learning where the Confederacy says we were off track, I suppose that without the knowledge base that I'm beginning to learn it might well be impossible to understand. They stood there like a couple of zombies, just listening to Kim go on about Theo's performance."Yeah, he fucked me last night and made me cum two or three times. But what's more, he actually cared about me having a good time over his own enjoyment!"He made me cum once and then as we cuddled–yes, he actually wanted to cuddle and hold me afterward–I noticed he hadn't cum."He had told me going in that he was a virgin, and after that performance... well I felt kinda obligated, I guess, to help him.