"I was wondering if you were going to come over," Inxs said.
"I was wondering that myself. I am surprised I have. How are you?" Goron asked.
"Same as always, trying to save the Kindred from itself. And you?"
"Same as always, trying to teach others that the Kindred should be left alone to shape their own destiny. "
They gave each other rueful smiles; enough time had gone by for each to know that his race was too complex to shape or to trust.
"I like it here on the clear, calm water. It feels like the water is taking on most of the pressure off me. " She said.
"Hmm, I did not realize you ever listened to me. "
"I always listened to you, I just did not agree with what you said very often. "
"I am surprised you are here at all. "
"I come here nearly everyday. I usually get on the water right after you do. I have heard you scream, I have heard you cry, I have heard you sing. You have been singing often lately so I decided to find out if you still hate me. "
"I have never hated you. I have been angry and disappointed with you but have never hated you. "
"I apologize for deceiving you. I was afraid you would not be willing to accept me as I am. You are a conservative politician as everyone knows. There is a lot of prejudice against us but the history of our failure on Earth has given us pause and we have learned. We make sure all know we mean no harm.
I somehow thought I already had shown you my true form. I did tell you what I was when we were introduced but that was several years before.
The last time you brought me here I was so at peace I reverted without thinking. I did not know I had until I saw your reaction. I will never get used to being seen as revolting. "
"You are not revolting, you are still fighting the images others have created of you. I did not see someone that was revolting, I saw someone that had deceived me.
You were and are beautiful. I have seen many shape shifters but none has ever been revolting to me, well except for Karel but he is revolting in Kindred form too. "
Her laugh sounded like delicate wind chimes, he loved that sound. Karel was her boss. He had called Goron an idiot. Diplomat and non-confrontational Karel had also called him a moron.
He had told him he was still in love with her and she was still in love with him and both were imbeciles then left him to stew for a month.
That was a month and a day ago.
Goron paddled his kayak around her until they were face to face.
She said, "You have made progress personally and as a rising political star. You have accepted that we are trying to help. How?"
"I did not always agree with you but I always listened. "
She smiled and had to fight off the desire to revert to the form he had fallen in love with. She did not need to, he kissed her anyway. It was a soft lovers kiss.
When the kiss ended she had a tear in her eye. He still loved her even in her true form
. He began to paddle away slowly as he began to sing a love song. She stayed where she was until she saw he was headed for their place, the place where they made love. She followed.
Her mind whirled into the myriad of possibilities and stopped at the one in which she was being lured to be murdered. Her race had many powerful defense mechanisms but all could be overcome if she shifted. That took a lot of energy to maintain. She wondered if she could deny his request to shift.
He beached in their cove and removed his clothing. She could see his erection from five meters away. She wanted it.
Goron now understood that in her true form she was as gorgeous, smart, funny and desirable as she had been in Kindred form. True her tail was distracting but her pink-red skin had disappeared in the melee of Kindred skin colors. She was beautiful.
For the last week or so he knew she was watching him. He began to pretend to leave and watched her. Her sad songs got to him, she was truly sorry she had deceived him. His resentment vanished and he immediately realized he was still in love with her. Karel had been right, he was a moron.
She beached her kayak and straddled his body; she sank over his manhood and sighed. "Do you want me to shift?" she asked with trepidation.
"No, make love to me please. "
Her skin glowed brilliant red and she kissed him over and over. She made love to him to orgasms and both filled the air with their song as he filled her with fluids. They cuddled, they kissed. He caressed her smallish breasts as she caressed his neck. His manhood stayed in her at the ready.
She said, "I am in love with you. I have been relieved of assignment perhaps because of that. I am scheduled to return home on the next solar gate cycle. I want us to make love everyday until then. "
He smiled at her and said, "Don't pack yet. "
He reached into his shorts pocket and brought out a necklace with a pendant and slipped it around her neck. The pendant had the symbol of promise, it was an engagement pendant.
"We still have many archaic laws here including one that states if you marry a citizen you become a citizen. You are about to become a citizen of this planet. You may leave when you want but I hope it's never. "
"It will ruin you career. "
"Maybe, it does not matter. I prefer you as my wife over my career anyway. "
"You have not asked me to marry you. "
"I love you, Marry me please. "
"Yes. "
They kissed and made love for a long time before getting in their crafts and returning to the dock. She had resumed Kindred form and dressed.
As they approached the clubhouse he asked, "Baby, could you please hide the tail but revert to normal? I want the world to see who I'm in love with. "
She pulled her pendant out of her shirt for all to see and just held her tail inside her shorts but everyone saw the leading candidate for World Leader walking hand in hand with his fiancee, a Devl.
Except for the waters surrounding the nature park there were cameras everywhere and more so in the clubhouse. That was where the entertainment media had dozens of cameras.
