Disguised as "Pip," Dr.Talbot has traveled to the city of Avalonde so she can observe Tyrian culture up close. Walking around in public naked is having a perverse effect on the young anthropologist. She's begun having sexual thoughts about Varsenne, her male escort. Since she's wearing a collar with his mark on it everyone assumes he's fucking her. On Tyr, it's expected that males will "service" their females when they go into "rut."
After Maturon left, Varsenne finished his breakfast and Jane had another drink of water. Then they set out again. At first, they seemed to be wandering aimlessly, but soon Jane discerned a pattern. Varsenne was taking her on a tour of the city, first the markets, then the government buildings, then the residential districts. Everywhere they went, there was something new to see, something new to learn.
By midmorning they had made a big loop and were back more or less where they started. Jane was starting to get tired. She had never walked so far without shoes before, and the cobblestones were taking their toll. But at the same time, she was finally getting used to being naked. The sun was warm on her bare skin, and a cool breeze stirred her hair. Considering Tyr's tropical climate, she was actually more comfortable like this than she would have been in her navy uniform, with its stiff black collar and heavy black boots. She felt a pang of concern for Varsenne in his jacket and long trousers.
They came to a bookstore. Varsenne tied Jane's leash to a post outside.
"Sorry, Pip, but fems aren't allowed inside." He gestured at a sign in the window. "Be a good girl and stay here. I won't be long."
Jane squatted down on her haunches to wait. There was another fem tied up. nearby. She was tall and lanky with close-cropped blonde hair and a pretty face. She looked a bit like Sarah, a friend of Jane's at the academy. She had the same lean, athletic build, the same long nose, the same intense expression. The two of them could have passed for sisters.
Jane noticed that the fem was staring at her. Jane stared back. She had never looked closely into a fem's eyes before. When she'd encountered them at the university, she'd treated them as test subjects. Curiosities. Dumb animals.
But this time was different. Maybe because now, she was collared and naked as well. When Jane looked at the fem, she didn't see a dumb animal. She saw someone not so different from herself. A sister. An equal. There was a real person behind those eyes. The girl's gaze was quick and clever, taking in everything around her. She was clearly intelligent, but it was a wild, feral sort of intelligence.
The fem's bare feet were planted wide on the dirty ground, and her knees were open, leaving her sex fully exposed. Jane couldn't help but look. The girl's sparse pubic hair barely hid the generous folds of her genitals. It was such an overtly sexual display. So crude and raw, but at the same time strangely compelling.
The girl smiled a lopsided smile, and let her hand fall carelessly between her legs. As Jane looked on, the girl slowly opened herself with her fingers, showing the wet pink inside. Her clitoris was hard, poking rudely out from under its hood.
Jane glanced around, mortified that someone might be watching. But the street was deserted; the two of them were alone.
The girl began playing with her pussy lips in front of Jane. No, not just in front of Jane.
For Jane.
It was clear from the girl's expression that she expected the anthropologist to watch. And, despite her embarrassment, Jane did watch. In fact, she found she couldn't look away.
Was this the "rut" that Varsenne's friend had been talking about? Was this what female sexuality looked like when it was unconstrained by considerations like modesty or shame? The girl wasn't even trying to hide what she was doing. Her lust was right out in the open for anyone to see.
Jane felt a familiar tingle between her legs, and realized to her horror that she was aroused as well. Although she mostly preferred men, it wasn't unusual for her to be attracted to another woman. She had had more than one female partner over the years. Jane had even done it with Sarah once ... a single drunken encounter after a banquet at the academy their junior year.
They'd both regretted it afterward, and never spoke of it again, but now the memories of that evening came back in a rush. The first desperate embrace on the balcony of their dormitory. The awkward fumbling with the buttons to their dress uniforms. Sarah on her knees, kissing Jane's naked torso. The two of them in bed together, their bodies intertwined.
The girl who looked like Sarah was openly masturbating now, rubbing her clit with her slim little fingers. The wet smack of her open pussy echoed off the cobblestones outside the bookstore. After glancing around again to make sure they were still alone, Jane opened her own thighs a little to show her pussy to the girl.
"There, that's what you wanted, wasn't it?" Jane said in a low voice.