When I was interviewing Zerzinski this afternoon, I was once again thinking about the vastly different reactions people can have to the whole Donor X phenomenon. As well as to Zerzinski's specific kind of sexual orientation, and how people respond to that.
The evening's readings were a fascinating exercise in contrast.
Rie never came over that night. Presumably, Zerzinski was keeping her occupied. Though I didn't know, and kept trying not to care. It was a different, though equally beautiful young woman who knocked on my door.
She wasn't wearing the loose dresses so many of the others there wore. She had tight jeans on, and an equally tight top. All of which served to emphasize each perfect curve of her lean little body.
I glanced between her legs. Trying to be subtle about it, in a brief moment when she was looking somewhere else.
If you didn't know, I'd imagine you wouldn't notice anything amiss. But with those jeans on, it was easy to see the slight bump around where her clit would be.
Either a very unusually large clit, or the most convincing trans woman on the planet. Or a Device. My guess was the latter.
"Dinner, Danu-san," she said, as she entered the cabin, putting a tray of delicious-smelling food on the table.
"
Arigato
."
She made no pretense of sticking around to keep me company. I don't think she spoke much English, anyway. As soon as she put the tray down, she said two things. Which I believe were something along the lines of "itedakimas" and "oyasumi."
Have a good dinner
and
good night.
Alone, I swung my laptop around next to the tray of food, and began eating and reading.
Before reading the document attached to Cy's most recent email, I wanted to finish reading the Choto girl's diary entries that I had begun earlier.
Day 21
Sleeping last night was difficult. And then my pussy hurt all day today.
For the most part, it was a good kind of pain. Like the way your muscles hurt after going for a run. Or maybe more like the way they hurt after a boxing match. Not that I would know about that from direct experience.
Trying to distinguish that pain from the pain in my clitoris is difficult. My clit seems to have achieved a new level of hardness. Like the blood that keeps flowing into it is just going to stay there. Maybe it will harden further. Then shrivel up and fall off.
I'm glad to have had the opportunity to do what I have done over the past three weeks, though. Now I have to decide what to do next.
Most Choto girls leave at this point. Of course they have lives to go back to. Jobs, rent, boyfriends. I still stay at my parents' place, and don't have any of those encumbrances to consider.
Of course, as well, and probably more to the point, most Choto girls might be happy to serve the Temple for a few weeks. Knowing they will be inoculated at the end of it. It's only some that want more. Or perhaps less.
To which group do I belong?
Day 22
The tradition here is the Choto girls leave at this point for three days. And then either come back, or stay gone, depending. We may remove our Device. But if we remove it for more than 24 hours before putting it back on, we're done with the Temple.
I don't want to go home now. So I made plans to visit a friend who lives not far away, in Fukuoka. Sitting on the train again this morning, feeling it vibrating gently beneath my seat, my hand wandered between my legs. And to the familiar object that was still keeping my clitoris in a state of sensory deprivation.
Having the ability to remove it is new, and strange. Knowing that at any moment, I could take it off. And then it will send a signal into the ether. And if I don't put it back on soon enough, I'd be out of the Temple.
I'm really not so concerned about being in or out of the Temple, though, really. More just paralyzed with indecision about what to do with this thing between my legs. Now that I have more of a choice.
Of course I always had a choice. To walk away. To get some wire cutters. But now it is more of a choice.
It is a choice given to me. With the express purpose of me making a decision.
Day 23
It's been good to visit Keiko. She knows where I've been, and she also knows I can't talk about the details. She seems curious but not resentful that I have to withhold things.
Even if I didn't have to stay quiet, would I want to talk about this with her? She's a close friend, and we know each other well. But I don't know if she would relate to me on this one. Not sure how many people would. They'd think I'm crazy. A masochist, for sure. Which is automatically assumed to be a bad thing, of course, in the world of normative behavior.
Day 24
My clit woke me up several times last night. It felt like blood was rushing in and then rushing out, and it was tingling. I almost removed the Device. I wanted to touch it so much. But the wanting made me feel so alive, too.
Each time I almost removed it, I thought about the consequences. What would it feel like? It would be good to have an orgasm. I'd probably have several in a row at least, once I got going. And afterwards, would I feel fulfilled? Or empty and drained?
Is a moment of pleasure, or even many moments of pleasure, better than the continual rush of desire, combined with the knowledge that I am serving a purpose? It feels good to serve a purpose. The feeling isn't like the rush of an orgasm. It's much more subtle.
I do want to go back to the Temple, I've decided. But I think I should test myself further, and see if I really want this. It's been very hard to keep the Device on when I've constantly known I could now remove it at any time.
But then, it occurred to me, what would be harder still would be to remove it, while maintaining the same discipline.
I'm now going to take it off for the night.
Day 25
Last night I questioned everything. My sexuality. My sanity. My idea of what gives life purpose. Probably other things, too.
I took off the Device before I went to bed last night. As soon as I did, it was as if all I could feel was the air rushing to meet my clitoris.