Strip and leave all your clothes in a neat pile on the bench I commanded ? hopingthat as usual one of them would refuse giving me the chance at an ear...y stageto let Karl and Ivan show their worth. Never again will I repeat myself I saidas they digested my instruction with none of them taking off her clothes. Ipointed to one particularly attractive blonde who I decided would be the mostresistant to training. She had not moved and looked defiantly at me as shesaid I had no right to subject her to. It was another lesson for me that one shouldn’t be focused on the face only. Personality and what’s under the hood is just as important.Her nametag said “Elaine” and I have to admit I loved that retro name. My very first girlfriend had been a little vixen called Elaine Lynch and she had dumped my ass after a year of dating to the tune of “You’re too sexually immature for me.” I guess that was a turning point in my life because after that I made certain I never let a female go more than two. She had always found him to be… intriguing, and in so many ways, but now she had this intense and unmitigated desire towards him. Granted, Cortana knew all about sex. Even as an AI, she had still been essentially human, and sex was a necessary process for the race's reproduction. It was only in her later years as an AI that she truly began to understand the other aspects attached to it: love, desire, pleasure, and the like. But she had been just a hologram back then. Such things were not. The skin that covered her swollen womb was taut and smooth, silky to the touch, giving off a soft sheen, as though the energy of life was contained within her belly and sought to shine forth onto the world. Like the forest around her, the supine beauty was full of life. She was also a powerful magic user, and the forest was her domain. She was ever aware of what occurred throughout its confines, and no one could enter without her being aware of it. Those who came with dark intent soon learned.