The taxi paused, hovering outside the upscale apartment complex in one of the orbiting habitat's more exclusive districts and disgorged two occupants, before levitating back up and away. One of the two was Lia Kwan, a third-year student at Interplanetary University, back from a night of clubbing, with a side project of trying unsuccessfully to fix-up her fellow-student Hellea Svensen. Lia's companion for the evening was From-Achernar, a being of pure energy, from a dimension that impinged on normal space somewhere in the vicinity of the star ancient Earthlings had named Achernar and...well, she hadn't really been listening closely to that part. From-Achernar had been one of the potential partners Hellea had rejected over the course of the evening; Lia had sought the being out herself later and struck up a conversation, intrigued by...well, by *the possibilities*, she told herself, not really sure enough of what those possibilities were to do much specific thinking on the matter. Perhaps the club's three-drink minimum had had some effect on things...
As for From-Achernar's part, it was thrilled, and secretly a tiny bit ashamed, and all the more excited by that feeling. The fetish it had for corporeals, for the things it could do with, and teach them about, their beautifully primitive nervous systems was considered a perversion by most of its species....it was glad most of its species didn't know about this particular dimension.
As they entered Lia's apartment, she almost ordered the lights on, but noticed the soft glow her companion was emitting, and decided that would suit the mood of the evening...
From-Achernar gently took her hand, raised it to his...what should she call the meter-wide ball of varicolored light? Was it even really a 'he'?...and she felt a pleasant tingling, like pins-and-needles, only less intense and warmer, lightly brush the back of her hand, static electricity making tiny hairs stand on end. Lia suddenly looked down and away. She would've blushed, if her complexion had lent itself to it.
"Can I get you a...uh...anything?" she asked, a little embarrassed by her lack of knowledge. Did energy beings eat? drink? what?
"The pleasure of your companionship is all I desire this evening," piped the alien's high-pitched voice in reply.
"Aww, that's sweet, I--" Lia's voice cut off in a little gasp as the alien turned the hand it had "kissed" over and the tingling shifted to the sensitive inside of her wrist. Little flickering spots and streaks of the sensation migrated up her arm, then suddenly were along the side of her neck -- in one of her favorite spots! -- Lia closed her eyes and made just the tiniest little groan in the back of her throat as she tilted her head to one side, sort of pressed her neck towards the sensation. There was the oddest feeling then -- like being taken hold of, pulled close, held...only somehow without direct physical contact.
The tingling at the side of her neck moved down, along her shoulder...beneath the fabric of the top she was wearing, without moving it or any sensation of slipping under or into it....then, seemingly impossibly as the sensation of being embraced and held continued, the "kissing" -- or whatever it was -- moved around and down her back...even as it started up again on the other side of her neck. Lia purred and moved herself at the locations of the tingling.
The first spot slipped slowly further down her back, as the second began migrating in the same direction.
"Have you been informed that your gluteal protuberances are highly appealing in an aesthetic sense?" asked the alien.
"Huh?" asked Lia.
What descriptive would she be used to in that context? From-Achernar thought. Then it tried again:
"Has anyone ever told you what a nice ass you have?"
At that moment, the spots of tingling both completed their journeys, and, light and diffuse, settled as if cupping both cheeks of Lia's ass.
"Oh." she said. "Have you, uh, maybe I should show you the rest of the apartment," she continued after a moment, pulling away and leading the alien into the next room...the bedroom, as it happened. Lia stopped next to, and looking at, her bed. She felt the alien draw up behind her, the sensation of a phantom body pressing against hers from behind, and the tingling in her buttcheeks was there again, stronger now. It was suddenly joined by a mild pins-and-needles feeling in her breasts, at first so light and diffuse she barely noticed it, but swiftly drawing and focusing and concentrating, till her nipples suddenly became so hard they ached. Lia drew in her breath sharply again.
Then the moving spots of light tingling were seemingly everywhere, on bare skin or under clothes, it made no difference...on her breasts, her neck, her belly (especially her bellybutton), her hips, her ass again....
Lia closed her eyes and sortof swayed back-and-forth, her breathing deepening.
Suddenly the tingling stopped. Lia opened her eyes, opened her mouth then closed it again as she realized she wasn't sure what to ask or to say...*don't stop*, yes, she really should say--
*snap!*
