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  Her scent emitted mixed messages to his wayward biological clock. She had to be in some kind of heat phase, too. Males of his world could smell a woman's time for mating, even before the female was aware. He glanced back at the screen and programmed in for more on the human female reproductive cycles. Was it possible that human females went through what the Seamarrins, male or female, went through? He'd read about them more and then discuss it with her when they met up again. Greyce, also, would ask his fellow scientists if they had taken the other plunge.

  He knew that the environment for raising children wasn't the only experiment that the males of his team had on their minds. Some men and women of his world wanted to learn more about how to enjoy pure sexual pleasure while procreating. Seamarrin females had a hard time releasing emotions during their matings, and scientists had yet to figure out why.

  They knew that some of the reason lay in their environment back on Seamarrin. When the Earth scientists offered their help, it seemed like a dream come true to help solve his world's dwindling population problem. Some suggested that new sperm be used from male or female humans to help in the process. The thought intrigued his people and plans were made.

  Now he had to find out just how compatible Seamarrin males were with Earth human females, before he or one of the men on his team got out of line, or became too frantic in their needs for a mating partner. He'd noticed a female colleague already somewhat close to a male human since arriving here, and there seemed to be a change in her. Perhaps the males of his world that were aboard the Goldfysh were already starting to mingle with some Earth women.

  The few Seamarrin women here on the vessel, those without interests other places, had picked their partners already, and they were distant enough emotionally to go through the mating-genetic experiments under controlled environmental conditions. Perhaps if they really could control the environment the babies were raised in there might be hope for more emotional compatibility for those of his world, and even others ... like that delicious sea nymph Kellah.

  His groins ached with need. It had to be more than just the breeding cycle coming too early for him. Though he found women of his world lovely, the Earth woman's physical charisma hit him so distinctively and rapidly, it threw his ordered life upside down and then some. He had to know if it was just a temporary transition of need he was going through or the real thing.

  Tomorrow he would find out. He turned his thoughts back to the screen, determined to know more about Earth human physiology and the way they had sex. What he found out only heated his body more, making him leave the library to go take a cool dip in the sea pools in the labs.

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  Chapter Three

  Kellah watched from the observation post as the young Seamarrin couple entered the mating pool. They were lovely to look upon; both had long green-gold hair and skin but were shorter and more slender than Greyce. What puzzled her the most, though, was that the two seemed more detached than lovers normally would.

  Out of their wetsuits, she noticed that their slight seaweed hirsuteness looked more visible than she'd noted before. They were not extremely hairy like an ape or a cat, but wisps of sea leaves seemed to attach themselves around the couple as they started their mating ritual. The woman moved around in the pool in small circles, as if dancing and tempting the male to come to her. Then the male did the same, and she noticed that his arms moved eloquently in mesmerizing motions. Then a soft silvery mist came from him, and the woman moved closer as if hypnotized.

  The man's movements became more frantic as he made to encompass the woman in his arms. She stood with her arms slightly open as the male approached her more intimately, and their bodies swayed close together. The strands of sea leaves in the square deep aquamarine pool floated around them like an accompaniment to their love dance.

  She remembered reading from the library console that the male injects the female with his sperm, spraying inside her vagina until she ovulates. She then coats the eggs or cells during their first fertilization union. Within twenty-four hours, the couple comes together again for the second part of their sex act, during which the male sort of vacuums the coated cells from the female so that he can nurture the eggs to hatchlings.

  Much like sea dragons on Earth, the sexual roles are reversed in the Seamarrin male and female. Seeing that the male did have a shaft for procreation, Kellah had to dig deeper to understand how the females deposited their sperm back into the male. A few minutes ago, before the frenzied act took place, Greyce had told her that after the couple has intercourse to mutual satisfaction, the genders somewhat change on the male and female.

  Seamarrin males prepare a pregnancy sac to accept the cells from the women. Then the female, during the second encounter, develops a strong tube that she injects with precision into the male's opening crevice of the birthing sac. They complete the unification again after the sexual act finishes; the male draws lubrication from the female during intercourse that allows the sperm cells to have the necessary nutrients that mothers supply to their babies. Only the males are able to heighten the nutrients in order for the babies to survive.

  After the females have deposited the fertilized eggs into the males, the men are then impregnated, and the sac is the womb that will nurture the forthcoming children. Over a period of two months, the males will slowly release the eggs a few at a time into the birthing/mating pools. The eggs enlarge to the size of a small rock on their own. The big eggs are then placed in a more heated environment, like an incubator pool, while they begin the hatching process to become small Seamarrins. Beings much like their parents emerge, but they are tots that will then need further nurturing until they reach maturity.

  She watched intently, fascinated by the strange sounds emanating from both of them, as the leaves from each swirled around their frenzied bodies. It was as if a song played just for the couple while they bucked against each other frantically, oblivious to all around them. She almost envied the two. She wasn't sure if she could allow herself to be watched by others, but, she had to admit, it made her wet between her thighs. What would it be like to have sexual pleasure with a Seamarrin male?

  Absently, she turned her head and looked right into Greyce's sparkling gold-flecked amethyst eyes. Eyes that mesmerized her very soul. She'd had a few good lovers, but nothing prepared her for the sensual heat radiating from the alien hunk beside her. It didn't take an empath to know that he wanted her also. He licked his full lips, and she thought her head would spin from the simple act. The idea of him kissing her and suckling her breasts with those luscious lips nearly sent her over the edge.

  "They are done.” His voice broke into her insane thoughts. “We must leave them now to have privacy while they finish their coming down. The frenzy they show at first is not as intimate to them as the basking they do when the act is finished."

  She could understand that. “Uhm, why don't we go to my cabin? Perhaps you could explain more of the process to me that I didn't understand in the research library."

  "I should like that. I have a few questions to ask you, too, on human mating practices."

  She nodded, hoping that he really did feel the surge of sexual heat she felt. She had to be careful so as not to insult or ravage the man. She reined in her needs long enough to find the strength to make it to her quarters with him in tow.

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  With the searching glance he saw in her lovely gray-green eyes, he hoped that his empathic hunch wasn't wrong and that she desired him. He still wasn't sure what it was about her that made him want to ravish her from the moment he saw her, but he knew that he hoped deeper than the oceans of his world that she desired him as much as he did her.

  He knew her to be a highly qualified scientist, but at present, more than her mind, he wanted to feel that lusciously soft body of hers next to his. He'd read all he could on human mating practices and had learned that their intercourse was highly, emotionally charged during the sex act. Lovemaking, he corrected hims
elf. Many of the Earth references said they liked to call it lovemaking.

  He followed her quickly to her quarters, all the while coming to terms with what had been bugging him emotionally. He'd read humans had sex just for fun, but there were those who made a lifetime commitment to each other. He'd had a partner or two, but not a mating partner for life, as the couple they'd watched would, at least until the children were old enough to manage on their own.

  Young Seamarrins grew quickly and matured at a fast rate until they reached adulthood then the process slowed for a while. Humans grew differently and lived differently than those of his world. It would be interesting, and definitely worthwhile, to get her opinion on things concerning life and lovemaking.

  They entered her quarters quickly. He saw it was sparsely furnished but inviting. She bade him to sit down on what they called a couch. He liked the comfort beneath his buttocks. He bounced a second and grinned, delighted with the feel. Were couches where they made love?

  "Can I get you any refreshments before we proceed?” she asked.

  He shook his head. “No, I am fine. I wanted you to know that after they are done with comforting each other, the females of our world become distant from the males until the second mating ritual where the male receives her eggs. She is around for just a few hours, and then she leaves it to the male to raise the children to hatchling status."

  "I have noticed that the women are very calm, except, I'm assuming, during the mating ritual like I saw tonight. Is it true the males do the raising of the children, then?"

  He nodded. “Alas, yes. Many centuries ago, the women used to help more and were even more emotionally involved, but we believe something in our environment may have changed that."

  "Then you are conducting experiments for that purpose, too, I see. Whatever I can do to help, I will. So will the other Earth scientists."

  "Perhaps it is that your women have more maternal instincts than Seamarrin women. That is an aspect I'd like to go into in further detail with you but at another time. Tonight seemed a successful first mating since the couple completed a beautiful union."

  "It was mesmerizing to watch your people come together. Like a dance in the ocean, enchanting and rhythmic. Do your species mate only in the water since you are mostly aquatic?"

  He turned sideways to look at her, her eyes fully intent upon his face. “We can be out of water for a few hours at a time without these wetsuits, which we wear to sustain us while we move about your ship. If you are asking if we can make love without being in the water, the answer is yes. Have you ever coupled in the water, Kellah?"

  She nodded, and he noted she swallowed hard then. “Once, years ago, back on Earth. Uhm, have you ever done it out of the water, Greyce? Like on a couch such as we sit on now?"

  Greyce felt his eyes widen at her innuendo. Was she suggesting they have sex, er, make love right here and now? His groins ached with longing, and his shaft hardened. She nervously nibbled on her lovely bottom lip. She had to make the first move; it was just how he'd been raised. Women made the initial step if they were interested in coupling with a man.

  "No,” he finally said, feeling he had to give her some kind of answer at least, “but I would like to."

  With you. He hoped she saw the desire in his eyes. Then she leaned towards him.

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  Chapter Four

  Kellah felt a sudden relief at his answer. It meant he wanted her just as badly as she did him. And if she'd studied enough from the library archives and having watched the lab observation earlier tonight, she knew the woman made the first move in their society. So she did.

  She leaned closer into him, never taking her eyes off him. “I'd like very much to do our own personal experiment, Greyce. But it would be much more than a lab test. I prefer the intimacy of being alone with you. I do not think I'm wrong in seeing in your eyes that you want the same. Am I?"

  "No.” He leaned towards her then.

  "We are fairly compatible, and I do have a shower if you need water."

  "Uhm, what's a shower?"

  "A man-made waterfall of sorts.” Her head tilted towards his. “Do you spread those leafy strands when you are sexually aroused? Will you mesmerize me as the male did the female earlier?"

  His tempting lips curved upwards. “Only if you'd like to experiment with both human and Seamarrin ways of personal enjoyment. Though our women are mostly indifferent when raising children, they can be invigorating in the non-procreation aspects the leisure coupling ones."

  She chuckled, raising her hand up to his face, caressing the smooth, golden green skin and appreciating the desire she saw in his eyes and felt in his nearness. “I would like to find out. Kiss me."

  "I read about kissing. It is something we Seamarrins know little about. Teach me."

  "With pleasure,” she said, cupping his face in her hands before bringing her lips to his. His lips did taste a little salty, yet crisp and tasty, almost a silky, creamy savoriness. He followed her lead.

  Greyce pulled her close and softly planted a kiss upon her trembling lips. Kellah stretched her arms around his wide neck. His kiss was sweet and gentle, and yet she could feel the deeper emotions he held in check. She knew it would not take much urging to bring them forth. Nor, she thought, would it take much for her to ravish him.

  Greyce groaned at her suggestive movements and the way she devilishly kissed him. He tried to pull his head back, but she kept her arms fiercely about him, deepening her kiss. He could feel the urges springing forth within himself to answer her feminine calls.

  With a loud oath, he entwined his long arms around her backside, pulling her up closer to his body. “Kellah, you are a sea siren for sure,” he mumbled between kisses. Greyce now knew what it was that had plagued him since meeting her. He'd instantly become emotionally attached to this alien beauty. He would do his damnest to see where it led them.

  He loved how she took control then and began exploring his body with her hands. This only made him desire her more.

  Kellah had the feeling that because the males usually mesmerized the females her hot Seamarrin held back a bit. She would pull him out of his sea shell soon enough. Yet, it turned her on even more that he considered her feelings more than his own. She would damn well give him her best efforts. Greedily, she caressed and touched him. Finally, she found the zipper to his wetsuit and unzipped it quickly.

  Tendrils of olive green hair escaped from the suit. They tickled her skin as she pressed her chest close to his. “Let's get you out of that tight thing, since you have a few hours you can stay out of water."

  "As long as you are getting out of yours,” he chuckled desirably. “I want to see your lovely body naked before me, Kellah."

  She helped him as quick as she could out of his wetsuit then pulled back to admire his body. “Let me just bask in your unusual beauty for a moment, dear sea hunk."

  He had tempting, inviting muscles like most human males. Yet, on his body there were tendrils of leaves like tiny clinging ivy plants so small they looked like thick strands of hair. They flowed with his movements, and because of what she saw in the mating pool earlier, she knew the hair strands would move with him in the water. She'd read while they mated the strands caressed the woman, heightening her sexual pleasure.

  Oh, she'd find out for sure later, she felt positive, but for now, she wanted him as humanly as possible. She licked her lips as her eyes roamed further down his body. He automatically preened a little when she raked him over. He had web feet and a slight hirsute body, but he was, for the most part, quite human. Then she looked at his long, hard cock.

  It had slight ridges on the middle of the big shaft, and near his sacs, more fine tendrils. Yet the head of his cock looked as mushroom-shaped as any Earthman's. From what she personally knew and read in Earth leisure magazines like Playgirl Futureshock, which had been in circulation for many centuries now, the slight difference lay in the cockhead. Where a human male might have a single slit
, Greyce's shaft tip had an x-shaped crevice. Technically she knew why, but right now, she didn't give a damn how odd it might seem. It still looked sexy and delectable.

  When she knelt between his legs, he stiffened and almost jerked back. “What are you doing?"

  "I'm going to eat you."

  His eyes widened, and then he started to jump away. She moved to lie on top of him quickly.

  "No, not feed on you for nutrition. It's an Earth slang meaning I'm going to lathe that tempting cock of yours. Earthmen and women caress the other's intimate parts with not only their hands but their mouths, too. Let me show you, you'll enjoy it."

  Still a bit wild-eyed, he nodded and lay back. She chuckled and then began to relax him again by stroking his long shaft with both her hands while giving him hard sweet kisses.

  Greyce found this most unusual but delightful. Yes, his people caressed each other and nuzzled mouths, but the whole tongue-against-tongue and lips locking were quite different. Feeling exhilarated, albeit strangely so, he lay back to let her enjoy his body and give him the enjoyment she seemed set on giving.

  She licked his shaft up and down while giving him deep kisses all over his cock. He tasted slightly salty there too, but deliciously so. She took as much of him as deep into her mouth as she could. Greyce cried out with shocked pleasure. His hands went automatically to her head as her mouth bobbed up and down over his thick rod.

  "Oh damn, you can eat me as much as you want, Kellah!"

  She slightly chuckled. “Mmm you taste damn good.” Then she pulled back to give her mouth a break. “Would you like to reciprocate now?"

  He looked intrigued. “I can ... um ... eat you now?"

  "If you'd like,” she answered and told him how women of her world liked it. Well, how she did anyway.

  He changed positions with her and helped her to quickly undress. Within moments, he was pushing her back into the sofa. He leaned his perspiring body flat against hers, but she knew it to be more than sweat from desire that made him so wet. Still, she felt glad that she caused most of his wet heat.