As the evening wore on, Kim became more accustomed to physical contact with Jeff. Without intending to, she slid back against him so that they were pr...ssed together from knee to shoulder. With his arm around her, she was almost sitting in his lap. The urge to cuddle is deeply ingrained into the human brain. Kim's body remembered doing it with her father when she was little and it had no trouble adapting to her brother now. When he gently rolled his arm and laid his hand on her forearm, she did. I stay there for what could be seconds or minutes, desperate for something to push me up and over.I have an epiphany. I tuck the little vibe between my lips trying to keep the tip against my clit, and reach again for the riding crop. I rain blows down on Jimmy, his yelps melding together into a howl of pain that resonates through me, bouncing off the headboard and back down. I frantically continue beating him, back, arms, ass, feet, nothing escapes as I drive myself off the cliff, my own orgasm. I was pushing its boundaries. And now it was time to bring Claire in onit.We stood before the machine."Honey, I have been doing some extra experiments on myself using themachine. Turns out, it's even more incredible than I first thought. Itis capable of physically changing the body as well." Wait...so you've been changing your body these last three weeks? Whatdid you do?! I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary." Well I started slow. I programmed a new function in the avatar. Over on the mainland, Lowell and Lawrence and thereabouts, we heard stories of all the factories and the many jobs they had. Modern efficiency and all that. But we also heard about the very long hours and the low pay and people losing hands in the machines and worse, and most of all we heard about the pollution. Poisoning the rivers, dirtying the air, soot and filth everywhere you turned. Even for a couple of filthy street urchins like Wendy and me, that had the power to scare us straight — for.