Descend- Seeing Stars by Sean Oswald (the ebook reader .TXT) 📕

looking at the pod list to find out what her abilities were, Jay erected a tempus fugit field around them and then asked, “So what skills do you have? Knowing will help me with refining your body.”

      She grinned and said back, “Skills hmm. I’ve always been told I’m good with my hands. And body refining? That sounds kinda naughty. Not sure anyone has ever done that to me before.”

      Jay smiled, he could play along. “Oh baby, no one has ever done to you the things that I’m about to do.” Once upon a time Jay would have been too bashful to tease like that but now, he could give as good as he got, except maybe with some of his wives. They just seemed to know how to push his buttons.

      “Oh, now this sounds like more fun than what they told me. Here I was warned that it hurts a bit at first and any time you have to make major changes,” Trudi cooed.

      “Well that is true if we are talking about body refining. The first time is I think the roughest, but it is also pretty hard when you reach some of the later stages.” He paused for a second before adding, “I can’t help but notice that you and for that matter everyone was in a rather good mood for having to stand around all morning waiting for me to do some unknown process to them. Why’s that?”

      “Nothing bad. It was just that Mia and another couple of your fuses set up broadcast stations last night,” Trudi said with a grin.

      “Broadcast stations?”

      “Yeah, they were broadcasting your sensual projections. I think that is what they called it. But pretty much everyone got to experience what you were doing last night.” For a moment Trudi’s face actually turned a pretty rose color as she got flush and seemed to be breathing shallower and more quickly. “I have to admit I wasn’t prepared for how intense it felt.”

      It was Jay’s turn to chuckle. “Oh, they never tell me when they are gonna do that. But I guess it was only fair. Share and share alike, right.”

      “Huong told us all that as the unspoken motto of Team Jay. I just didn’t know that it would be so literal, but yeah, none of us are complaining. It's been a long while since there were any guys around us.” Trudi reached out and put her hand on his knee where he sat cross legged in front of her. “Although, I have it on good authority that the real thing with you is much better.”

“Well, maybe if you work really hard and we make enough progress on your refining there will be time for you to find out before our bubble ends,” Jay said.

      “Then what are you waiting for? Do it to me,” Trudi said.

      He didn’t even need to touch that one but instead just sent his mind into her. His Evolved Assessment had improved dramatically during his training yesterday as he had been running it as much as he could to parse out details in all the maneuvers he was attempting.

      Now he found just what an improvement it made. He saw the details of her body, from skin to circulatory system, down to bone marrow in exquisite detail. It wasn’t even a strain and yet he remembered that the expression “no pain no gain” had real application here. If he didn’t push hard enough then his skills would not grow past a certain point.

      He pushed harder and began to break down her body’s functioning at a cellular level. He saw her PSI and Stamina cores and channels. He watched the way that they fed her body and realized just how different she was from the other girls he had already refined. She might be past the 4th threshold, but she didn’t hold a candle to any of his girls and that wasn’t even trying to compare her to any of the fuses.

      Then again, technically she was one of his girls now. He owed it to her to make her better, stronger, more durable than she was before. He reached out to her telepathically. Afterall, he needed to practice that skill too and hadn’t been able to do so during his private practice. He had an idea on a whim and wanted to test it out.

      “I would like to bond with you if you don’t mind. It isn’t the same thing as a fusion, but it will make us have a connection. You will be able to sense many things from me. My emotional state for example will be pretty open to you. It will connect us emotionally and even to an extent on a physical level.

      “This is not necessary for the refinement process, but it just occurred to me that the more connected we are the easier I think it will be to effect changes in your body. So, what do you think? Would that be okay with you?” Jay asked.

      “I’m sure you must have looked at the pod list they created. I am on the list of girls who have already decided I want fusion. So, why would I say no to this?”

      “Fair enough, but it seemed like the sort of thing that I should get your consent for first. With your permission, I’d like to forge a permanent bond between us. Are you okay with that?”

      “Go for it,” Trudi replied.

      This was another skill that he had obviously been unable to work on while doing solo training. He also realized that he only would get a limited number of opportunities to practice improving it, so he meant to make the most of it. Jay reached out and felt her body again through his awareness. He delved into her systems and then began