Jenna's hostess, for her very first visit to the establishment, was a Telarian who introduced herself as 'Pixa'. Telarians are a humanoid species, generally quite small in stature, but this particular female was almost as tall as Jenna herself. Completely bald, as with the rest of her race, her large eyes, with their characteristic bronze rings around the iris, were soft and kindly. She ushered Jenna into her little office and motioned her into one of the two chairs before a large viewing console.
"There are, of course, many species from which to choose," she began. "Perhaps we can review a few and narrow down your particular needs and wishes..."
Her voice modulator gave Pixa's words a soft, sibilant quality that helped to calm Jenna's inward nervousness. It was clear, however, that she was launching into a 'sales pitch' that had been delivered many times but Jenna, having done some preliminary research, was ready to jump ahead.
"Can you tell me a little about the Chiraba?" she asked.
Telarians, of course, do not smile, but Pixa emitted the short purring sound that passes as the equivalent and she nodded with approval. Her hands moved to the input sensor on her control desk and hovered there for a second.
"You are aware that the Chibara are semi-sentient injectors, are you not?"
"Uh ... I'm not sure," Jenna replied. "I have read some of the information, but I'm not quite familiar with all the ... well, all the terminology yet."
"Ah," said Pixa, clearly pleased to be able to provide some helpful information. "The name 'Chibara' actually refers to a class of related organisms, but all are described as 'semi-sentient' in that they operate at an instinctual, rather than an intellectual level. They are, in a sense, virtually mindless and perform all biological functions as an automatic response to specific stimuli. Primarily, and for our immediate purposes, we exploit a sexual response to certain olfactory input..."
"To... to smell, you mean?" Jenna asked. "Would that be...my... um..."
"Yes... your specific scent," cut in Pixa. "Of course, this requires that each individual organism be trained by conditioning to respond to the specific olfactory chemicals of species alien to themselves... but the precise conditioned response can be designed to produce such specific behaviors as you, or indeed any of our patrons, may require. I will elaborate in a moment or so, but perhaps I should first explain the 'injector' part of the term..."
Jenna shifted in her chair, her nervousness suddenly reasserting itself like a cloud of butterflies in the pit of her stomach. She had mentally steeled herself in advance before embarking upon this personal adventure, but the imminence of the actual experience was as intimidating as it was exciting. She knew, in very vague terms, what Pixa was about to explain but a fascination, tinged with a very real nervous apprehension, compelled her to nod.
"Yes... please continue," she said, her voice nearly a whisper.
"Well, as mentioned, the Chiraba, when stimulated, responds purely sexually," Pixa continued. "Accordingly, as a very simple, indeed primitive species, their sexual functions are, naturally, just reproductive in nature. When penetration of a receptive orifice occurs, even with an alien species, the normal sexual function causes injection of the genetic medium... an ejaculation, if you will. With the Chibara especially, the ejaculate is not merely copious, but delivered in an intense, and very powerful stream."
Jenna could not suppress an involuntary shiver of ... well, of something she couldn't express. There was something deeply disturbing about the very idea of copulating at such an animalistic level, with something so alien, but she already knew that it was the repulsion that produced the exciting allure. It was, after all, the reason she was there.
Pixa used her long fingers to make a series of gestures over the input sensor on her desk and the viewing screen did a quick dissolve, reforming to present an obviously computer generated image of a Chibara. Jenna had seen several such pictures on her own personal communicator before but this was much larger and the visual impact was more immediate and intense.
The basic body shape of a Chibara looked much like that of the Terran flatworm known as a Planarian, that is to say, rather like a thick, but flattened arrow. It was much, much larger of course, and more elongated, but, beyond that, the morphology of the Chibara departed radically from the planarian form with the addition of certain appendages; A pair of jointed, almost amphibian like legs just below the mid-point, and a three long, thin, finger-like 'graspers' on each side of the body a little below the arrow-like head. There were no eyes, nor mouth apparent, but, instead, the frontal edge of the 'head' part featured two worm-like feelers on either side of a stubby, wrinkled tube-like structure. The color of this particular Chibara was a mottled greenish-gray and Jenna regarded it with another shiver of horrified, but deeply exciting revulsion.
"Shall we examine the genital organ?" Pixa asked.
Jenna nodded dumbly and Jenna made a few more gestures over her sensor. At once the image of the Chibara was rotated in space so that the nether regions were now visible. Beneath the two legs, a bulbous structure protruded from the lighter flesh of the underside. It was wrinkled, as though capable of expansion, and there was a circular aperture in the front of it. Inside, glistening wetly, Jenna could just make out the rounded, mottled, purplish tip of something firm and fleshy.
"There's no scale," said Jenna after a few moments of awed silence. "Can you show how... you know... how big it is."