My curiosity finally overcame my shame. “Will I see them? The energy beings?”
“With my help, you will see their manifestation in our space time.” His hand touched my cheek gently. “And after, you’ll receive the rest of your punishment. The naval cat, as I promised.”
My stomach dropped. I’d almost forgotten in the intensity of everything else. I suddenly became conscious again of the humiliating red panties, which I’d managed to forget when we had made our way into the hangar and out of view of other Magisterians’ inquiring eyes. I felt my brow furrow as I sensed that I had thoroughly dampened the thickened seat of the briefs with my headmaster’s semen as it had leaked from my well-fucked anus.
A shiver of mingled shame and need traveled through my limbs as I saw in my imagination an impossibly lewd fantasy image: the Victorian schoolgirl made to wear the red panties in the classroom, where all her fellow pupils knew those underthingsmeant the headmaster had caned her and then used her little bottom for his masculine enjoyment.
The ship lifted smoothly, and thankfully my real sight diverted all my attention from the hot darkness in my mind. I watched through the view screen as Magisteria’s icy surface fell away. We rose through the atmosphere, into the black of space. Stars surrounded us, impossibly bright without atmosphere to dim them.
Then Beta engaged the gravitium drive, and reality seemed to twist. The sensation was indescribable—like being pulled in every direction at once while simultaneously standing completely still. When it ended, the stars looked different and completely unfamiliar.
Something that could only be a nebula, perhaps the Horsehead Nebula I had read about, loomed in the background, though from this angle it only looked like a beautiful, colored cloud. I guessed that the distinctive shape only looked just that way from Earth, and I felt my mind seem to expand even at that tiny lesson of this journey with my master that I realized I had just begun.
“Look,” Beta said softly, pointing to the right of the nebula.
At first I saw only the stars. Then I felt something move in my mind, though of course the ‘movement’ was only a very weak metaphor for something I had never experienced before. It seemed to me to have something to do with the way the quantum bond with Omega had affected my thoughts. But I had never been sure whether the communications with Omega originated outside me or inside me. This new sensation, though… it definitely came from outside, and it felt much… I struggled to find a way to describe it, and had to settle for a terribly vague,but absolutely true, word that pressed itself urgently on my brain. It felt much, much, much better.
Whatever it was, it seemed to change the way I saw the space outside Beta’s ship. I saw a flicker of…
Energy.Not light, though my mind kept trying to call it that. My jaw slackened and my eyes went wide as I understood that I had just acquired a completely new sense.
Then I…feltmy master’s voice, or his mind, or maybe his mind-voice.
Jendra.
I looked over at Beta, and found his eyes fixed on mine.
“Master?” I asked.
In here,he replied, but his lips didn’t move.
My lips parted, and I mouthed my words but didn’t speak them aloud, as I replied.
Here?
Beta smiled so warmly my heart ached. He nodded.
My gift to you, if you want it.
Tears welled in my eyes. The same depth of intimacy Omega had forced on me, but with a man who really understood me—from the outside, rather than simply sowing more confusion on the inside.
Oh, yes, Master. Please… I mean… thank you.
His smile grew even wider.
Now look,he sent, and I knew he meant me to gaze at his fellow energy beings, in the formless form I knew Beta and his brothers had possessed before they had decided to become flesh.
I turned back toward the view screen, and I saw them, thanks to this new bond with Beta. Beings of pure energy, their forms shifting and flowing in patterns I couldn’t comprehend. They moved in what looked like a dance, or perhaps a game, weaving between each other with grace that defied physics. Colors I had no names for rippled through their forms.
“They’re beautiful,” I breathed.
They’re playing, Beta explained.Exploring mathematical relationships, testing quantum possibilities. This is what they do when they’re not interacting with physical beings.
I watched them dance, mesmerized, trying to understand the patterns they wove through space. My mind struggled to comprehend what I was seeing—these beings who existed beyond the physical, playing games with the fabric of reality itself.
Then I heard a mechanical sound below and behind me. I turned my head, startled, and saw a whipping frame rising from the floor of the ship. My breath caught in my throat as I understood what was about to happen.
“Master?” I whispered, though of course he could hear my thoughts now.
