Eve Sky
Chapter 15 - "Has the world ended?" (I feel fine though.)
by StarCross
It was morning, although it was only hours ago they had it. Jerri opened her eyes and saw that the walls around her had collapsed outward. There was a blue sky above her head, and the tide of water was prickling her feet.
Eva was breathing heavily, and the children were still wailing. They landed safely, though the terror of falling from the sky was still in their hearts. Where were they?
"You okay?" Jerri asked her wife.
Eva nodded. "Give me time to breath."
"I'm going to go have a look around."
After unbuckling her seatbelt, she climbed up the floor that was now at an incline. Large parts of the fortress were now all around them, and it was almost if only their room was left intact.
There was land westward, but it looked like they would not have to swim a bit using a raft of some sort. Then, she saw something jutting beside a rock formation. Realizing what it was, Jerri jumped into the water and swam after it.
"Danya!" Jerri cried. "Danya!"
She climbed up onto a massive angel's wing the MA Unit Danya had formed and approached closer. Danya had indeed become a tall and towering statue with missing arms like a Roman goddess, and her face frozen with sad determination.
"Are you in there?"
A single touch of the statue was enough to make it fall apart like dust. Even the wing Jerri stood on broke apart as well. Soon, many of the structures Danya had formed when she transmuted almost the entire Fortress disintegrated.
Jerri swam back to the ruins of the control room where Eva was comforting her children one by one. She headed over to walkway to move the shrouded bodies of Zoya and Tenaya out of the water, and placed them on a raft made out of a table.
"I'm going to find another raft to use," said Jerri.
"E-E-EMERGENCY R-RAFTS LOCATED IN THE S-SECOND CLOSE ON YOUR--zzsshh..."
"That's still working?"
"That could mean..." said Eva.
"System give me the status report of--"
The control room split apart cleanly in the middle. Eva held her children as she slid towards the middle while Jerri swam back towards her family. Suddenly, she was whipped by at the head by a silvery string, which was enough to cut her forehead.
Literally standing on water was the Silver Spinner Annette, but due to her core being damaged beyond repair, half her body, her left side, was falling apart into millions of silver strings.
"You fucking monkeys," said Annette. "Heathens of God. Descendants of Lilith."
"Annette stop!" said Jerri. "There's no point in fighting anymore!"
Annette advanced, and nearly each step caused her to sink a bit into the water. "Fighting? Oh no. I'm done fighting. I've decided to take a long vacation into the abyss, and you and your wretched family are coming with me. Don't you think that would be a lot of fun? Oh yes it will be."
Annette's body was pinching into itself like a regular heartbeat. Using the strings of the left side of her body like insect legs, she skipped the water towards Jerri and her family and lunged at them like a hungry wolf. Then a flag-winged pike skewered her at the right side of her chest, sending her flying towards the massive slab of concrete jutting from the water. Screaming, Annette attempted to pull the pike with her remaining hand and her silver strings.
"Goodbye," said the sad voice of Danya.
The pike and Annette imploded, taking the slab and some water into the disappearing miniature black hole.
"ALL M.A. UNITS H-HAVE NOW BEEN SILENCED."
The system finally shut down in fizzle and static.
It was a bit of trouble to transport her family to the beach without the use of life rafts. Then Jerri swam back to bring the bodies of her mother and Tenaya using the table slab before the currents became stronger. It was in the middle of her swimming that the life rafts finally floated up each side of her. She slapped the water in anger, but she continued on ignoring the floatation devices.
"We could use them as shelters!" Eva yelled from a shore. "And to fish."
"I know!" Jerri cried back. "Damn it."
After running the table slab ashore, Jerri swam back to retrieve the rafts, and came back dog tired.
But she still had to give her mother and Tenaya a proper burial. She almost wished there was a more solid ground than just sand gathering at the side of tall cliffs.
With a little help from Eva and Evie, two graves were dug and two bodies were laid in and covered. Jerri returned back to the twisted ruins of Fortress Eschaton to retrieve something that was a part of Danya, not counting the shredded red draperies that cushioned the fall of the family. She found the Pike Matador's sword, still intact possibly left behind for the family. Even a sheath was included as well.
Jerri cut apart as much draperies as she could, and dove in the water for any food that was left behind. All she could find were sealed containers of tea and biscuits, which she promptly wrapped in the red cloth. She swam back to the beach just in time as the Fortress collapsed unto itself. The tides were becoming stronger as the winds picked up. There wouldn't be any chance to recover anything else from now on.
After a light and rationed snack, a prayer service was held for the deceased both physical and destroyed. Danya's sword was laid on Tenaya's grave in addition to the rotten old wood planks found on the beach that served as markers.
"I'm hungry mommy," said Evie.
"We have to put up a shelter just for today," said Eva. "Evie, you can go out with amam to find some food."
"Okay."
Eva stayed behind to create some kind of encampment using the rafts and damp cloths. Jerri took Danya's sword as she and her daughter treaded the beach exploring as far they could. They found an old Asian fishing village that was long deserted. Evidence of the MA Units onslaught was evident, and already the victim's bodies, however few they were, had turned into skeletons.
"Evie," said Jerri. "Go back to your mother."
"I can take it amam," said Evie.
"Okay."
But Evie clasped her amam's hand tighter, as they walked through the scene of death and destruction. Who was it that attacked it? Hina? Reese? Cherise? Kaguya?
The little food they found was already rotten, but they at least found pots, pans, matches, blankets, and duffle bags to hold their loot. There were many items of interest, but it was left alone since it would be there when they would come back.
The supplies were a welcome sight for Eva, but the state of the village would not be appropriate to move to until they found a lone house away from everything.
"I could always move the bodies," said Jerri.
"Let's not risk it," said Eva. "You could contract a disease."
"I suppose you're right."
Jerri did see a few rats though.
They spent one night in their makeshift tent before deciding to move on. They left the rafts, and took what they could carry as they headed towards the village. Eva stayed at the outskirts with the children, while Jerri searched harder for canned food, which she discovered was thieved away a long time ago.
"Jerri!" Eva yelled. "Jerri! Come here!"
Jerri poked her head out of a random house and saw Eva waving to her on a road leading up to hill. She caught up to her, and the wife pointed to a road sign.
"Vinh should be down this highway," said Eva.
"Vinh?" Jerri asked. "So you're saying that we're not in the Philippines?"
"We landed in the Vietnam coast apparently."
"That wouldn't mean that that city has been inhabited."
"It wouldn't hurt to look."
"Hrmm..."
Jerri did not feel hopeful. The street had not paved, let alone cleared of weeds and vines. Still remembered the population transfers of city to city even in North America, and she felt that Hanoi Megalopolis would be a better place to go. Yet she also agreed that it wouldn't hurt to look.
It was almost a two-hour walk when they arrived. Vinh had been abandoned way before the attacks of the MA Units, yet there was sure evidence of refugees camping there. And there was also evidence of the MA Units attacks, although it was not as destructive as the megalopolises.
Avoiding the sight of skeletons, Jerri and Eva searched the trucks and the encampments for food to no avail. They settled their children in an abandoned hotel suite and continued their search. They found two canned beans, which was better than nothing.
They fought hunger until they had their meager dinner at night. As they all slept in one bed, mosquitoes flew in the room, forcing Jerri to put a net surrounding the bed. There was the sound of a stray dog, but its howl was undeniably sad. The parents woke the next morning at daybreak to sound of the infant twins wailing in hunger.
Food seemed to be scarcer, even though none was found. Evie accompanied Jerri, and with the few candies Jerri found, she gave to Evie to eat.
"I'm saving it for Nikhila and Odilia," said Evie.
"They don't have teeth yet," said Jerri. "So it's all yours."
"Maybe mommy can have it."
"She'll be fine."
Thus, Evie ate her candy with guilt.
They went with little or no food for two more days. On the third night of their stay, Eva discovered Evie eating the last of the rations, and she scolded her with a hard blow to the head. Evie threw herself on the ground wailing that she wanted food.
Jerri got up, put on her clothes she found in a warehouse, and grabbed the sword off the dresser along with a flashlight.
"I'll be back with some food," said Jerri.
"At this hour?" Eva said. "Can't you wait until morning?"
"I can't stand to see my children suffer like this. Maybe I'll get that dog that keeps howling."
"That dog stopped a long time ago."
"I'll find something. I have to."
Jerri left. The city of Vinh was now foreboding due to a lack of electricity, but her worries disappeared when Eva lit a gas lamp by the window as a beacon. It was both reassuring and reckless, as there might be unknown enemies, both beast and human lurking out there.
Jerri went right into the forest cutting away the branches and vines with ease, and the thickest of them were no match for Danya's sword. She scoured the floor looking for any creature, reptilian and mammalian, she didn't care. She too was very hungry, and that hunger caused her a migraine. She thought there would be monkeys in the trees, but there was no sign. It was too quiet. Then the batteries in the flashlight died.
"Damn it," said Jerri.
She heard a twig snap, but she didn't cause it. Jerri gripped both hands on the sword trying to focus her eyes in the darkness, with only stars and moon serving as the only source of light. She stopped moving, and focused her ears and the light footsteps.
"Eva, is that you?" Jerri asked.
"Who's there?" said an Asian-accented voice. "You speak English?"
"Quyen, of course she speaks American English," said an Australian voice. "Terribly sorry there. We thought you were a wolf."
"We haven't heard a wolf ever since we ate the last one."
"That was no wolf."
"I hope you don't mean any harm," said Jerri.
"Same goes to you," said Quyen.
"In any case, is there any place where I can find food for my family?"
"I hope you're not pulling our leg just so you can have more."
"Quyen, let's give her our share," said the Australian. "They'd get rotten anyway."
"I'll find someway to pay you guys back," said Jerri.
"You don't have to really."
"I insist."
"Very well," said Quyen. "We show ourselves."
Gas lamps were lit, and two women appeared from the sides. One was undeniably Vietnamese, who was indeed Quyen, but the other was a half-white and half-aborigine Australian who was the same height as Jerri. Both, however, had their pistols aimed at Jerri. Jerri could not risk attacking them even if the guns were loaded, as they knew where the food was. There was a slight temptation of killing them and using their bodies as meat.
"This is Quyen," said the Australian. "And I'm Agatha."
"I don't have much," said Jerri. "But I can offer this fine sword and many fine fabrics."
"We don't need those," said Quyen. "We have guns."
"This sword does cut good. Watch."
In one slice, Jerri toppled a tree, thus surprising and even scaring both Quyen and Agatha. The crash was loud, but little birds flew from their roosts.
"Cool," said Quyen. "We can cut down a lot of trees with that."
"And some bulls," added Agatha.
"If we had bulls."
"Please," said Jerri. "Give me some of your food and I'll give you this sword."
"Dunno. I don't exactly believe her."
"How about we do this," said Agatha. "I'll return to our house and get what I can carry. Quyen, you guard Jerri until I come back."
"Roger."
Jerri willingly allowed herself to be guarded. Agatha disappeared into the depths of the forest, while Jerri and Quyen sat on the recently fallen tree trunk.
"I hope I didn't worry Eva and the others," said Jerri.
"I'm still not convinced with that," said Quyen.
"It's all right. You'd have to be suspicious of other people's motives since transportation of all things has been halted."
"When you had my life, it's only natural."
"Oh."
They waited for a few more minutes.
"Your name is Quyen," said Jerri. "You're definitely Vietnamese."
"You're expecting a Filipino? Or a Chinawoman?"
"I'm expecting to see another survivor."
"You're obviously not from around here. Where did you come from?"
Jerri pointed to the sky.
"Did the machinations shoot your airship down? Are you from the Congregational Corporation?"
"No, they have been taken over by Nataraja."
"Nataraja Agriculture? Now that you think about it, they have retreated their troops from the border. I was overjoyed that the Indians and Arabs were now gone, although I wasn't a fan of the Chinese Democratic Imperium. When those machines toppled them down, I was very happy until the decided targeting Hanoi. I just happened to be hitchhiking when it happened."
"I'm sorry."
"Hell no am I sad! I was glad that happened as well. Although I eventually realized that I'd have to adjust my lifestyle since I can't really sell myself to the poor and starving."
"You're a prostitute?"
"I'm a city gal. And yes I am one."
Jerri smiled. It brought back fond and painful memories of herself being a servicer.
"What are you smiling about? You want me to suck your pussy? It doesn't look like you have anything of further value besides that sword."
"It's not that," said Jerri. "It reminds of the time when I used to be in your shoes."
"No way! You were one too?"
"Technically I was a servicer in North America."
"Servicer huh? I'm not surprised because you look a little boyish. We really must talk more. But what are you doing here in the first place?"
"Me and my wife decided to touch down here."
"Hell of a place you chose. I haven't seen a soul in weeks besides Agatha. When I met her... oh the sex we had since then. I didn't even see myself as a lesbian until I met her."
"What's Agatha's story?"
"Apparently, she and her girlfriend was vacationing near Perth when it all started. So they decided to take a boat to Thailand when tidal waves separated the lovers. I found Agatha wandering naked and alone when I was looting Ho Chi Minh Megalopolis. After I fed her, we then proceeded to have sex on the spot. She was really horny and lonely."
"That's... an interesting and detailed account. Was she really naked?"
"Quyen doesn't lie! Hey, you're not thinking about seducing her are you? She's mine, unless you want a threesome, and that's going to cost you. A lot."
"I'm curious. How much?"
"Four hundred liters of gasoline to keep the generator running."
"I don't have a four hundred liters."
"Exactly. You're not cunt-bumping my woman, nor am I doing any other girl. I'm tired of the kinky shit."
"Heh. Amazing how settling down changes us."
"Look, I'm only trying to protect Agatha. Contrary to her appearance, she is a fragile girl. And I still don't believe you have a family."
"You'll believe when you find out."
Agatha finally came back with a small bale of rice wrapped with palm tree leaves, as well as a small assortment of fruit.
"Let's go," said Agatha.
The three trekked back into Vinh. The light to the room was still on, and Eva stepped over there.
"Don't worry!" Jerri told her. "They're friends."
"A nice catch," grinned Quyen.
They went upstairs to the suite in the hotel where upon the sight of the sleeping children Agatha and Quyen put their suspicions of Jerri aside. Evie, who was sleeping on the floor, woke up immediately to receive some fruits from Agatha, while Quyen beamed her smiles on the cute twins.
"I can pick them up, can I?" Quyen asked.
"If they allow you to," said Eva.
"It's a good thing you didn't come after me," said Jerri.
"I wasn't worried. The felling of the tree gave me a bit of a shock, but not hearing screams was reassuring. That and the fact I can listen in to your conservations."
"Is it that quiet?"
"Surprisingly, it is."
"Wait, you're Indian?" asked Quyen who was holding either Nikhila or Odilia.
"I am."
"Sorry I talked ill of you. And of your country."
"It's no problem. I never liked the way they ran things in the world."
A small feast was held downstairs in the small restaurant. Evie and the twins ate until they were full, and afterwards they dozed off to sleep. The adults starved it out the entire feast, and finished what the children could not eat.
"Still hungry though," said Jerri.
"I can go back to the farm for some more," said Agatha.
"You shouldn't," said Eva. "It's dark out."
"Besides that wolf we ate," said Quyen, "you won't run into any animals or humans."
"That was a dog," said Agatha.
"It did look like a wolf."
"Still, this is perplexing. There are hardly any animals left, let alone strays dogs or cats. Even the rats and insects are dwindling."
"At least we can still grow food."
"That is fortunate. But we need to have some kind of biodiversity in order to survive in the long term. Our rice won't hold out."
"Who cares? None of us won't meet a man in our lifetime to have babies."
"You are correct in that one."
"If I may ask," started Eva, "Agatha, are you a biologist by any chance?"
"Why yes," replied Agatha. "Actually, I am a assistant to my professor in Melbourne trying to get my master's degree."
"I have heard good things from the University of Melbourne."
"We did supply regular input of scientists to the Congregational Corporation and Nataraja Agriculture."
"Speaking of those corporatist confederations, I still don't know how you guys got here," said Quyen.
Jerri sighed. "It's a long story."
Jerri told them about how they were kidnapped by Zoya Adamantite and taken into the Fortress Eschaton, the home of the MA Units. After the last battle of the Unified Forces, the Fortress fell, taking out the MA Units data-energy generator, thereby putting an end to them permanently.
However, Jerri didn't reveal to them that she was able to impregnate other women, nor there were artificial women able still sleeping in their capsules.
"Yes, I have heard of that madwoman," said Agatha. "Now I know where those ICBM missiles went."
"And the fire in the sky," said Quyen. "A lot of things fell in the oceans."
"Not to mention a lot of earthquakes caused by those Geomancer Cannons you were talking about."
"Since the enemy is now gone, I now hereby proclaim myself as Queen of Vietnam! All of you are now my loyal royal subjects!"
"One thing at a time Quyen-baby."
"Oh, you can rule as my queen. Or king. I don't know how this shit works. Maybe you'll be my vizier."
"That's a Muslim official my love."
"Who cares? Let's go back to the farm and begin forming our new nation! Maybe we'll incorporate Thailand as well."
"Let's rest here until morning. We have to let the children sleep."
"Oh yes. Children are our future."
The farm home of Agatha and Quyen was beside the Song Ca river. It was originally a straw-roofed hut now reinforced by the wood planks gathered from all over. There was a generator, but no gasoline was inside its tanks. It had one room, one kitchen, and one bathroom. It could have been homely if not for the junky souvenirs Quyen had gathered in her looting around the country and abroad.
Eva and the children quickly settled, but only on the condition that Jerri had to help with the rice field.
"Thank you so much!" Jerri said. "You two have been a great help!"
"Think of it this way," said Agatha. "We're volunteering our hands to raise your children."
"But what about me?" Quyen asked.
"You have to help too."
"I'm fragile!"
"No you're not. Now grab a hoe and start sifting."
"I wish I was pregnant."
Of course, Quyen had always helped, and she thought with Jerri present she wouldn't have to and resort to home duties. However, she was lacking in that, and Eva and Evie more than made up for it.
The group was routinely fed with the rice that was in storage and with the fruit they picked from the forest. Yet even with the help, they still had to ration. Eva did her best to perform housework, but her developing child within her made her take frequent breaks. Evie then took over, and often helped the clumsy Quyen.
Jerri continued to use Danya's sword, although it was technically "borrowed" from Quyen. She along with Agatha routinely kept up a supply of firewood, but the sword's technological enhancements made the cutting easier. It even cut through metal Agatha used to create tools and other things with her basic understanding of blacksmithing.
"I read books," said Agatha, "but they were in Chinese or Vietnamese. I had Quyen translate some of them."
She had also mentioned that she wished she could make bullets. As it turned out, their pistols had none, while their rifle and shotgun had but a few.
Sometimes, Agatha and Jerri ventured out looking for supplies and more importantly food. Jerri took Agatha to the crash site, which further collaborates the story regarding Zoya and the MA Units. Though the places they went in Vietnam had been visited before by Quyen and Agatha, Jerri's sword and helping eyes helped them find new things, however few they may be. They finally found bullets for the pistols, yet at the same time they found more skeletons of the deceased. They even took the life rafts back.
"I often wonder if Gail is still alive," Agatha had said when she looked out to the sea.
Back at home at some nights, the sky lit up with the bright red streaks that looked like comets moving slowly.
"They're actually ancient satellites," said Eva. "In the olden times, people used launch many besides Geomancer Cannons. It looks like they have ceased their operation."
"I do hear that some of them were in operation fairly recently," said Agatha.
"It wouldn't be surprising."
Slowly but surely, Agatha and Eva were respecting each other's intelligence, and Agatha even asked Eva advice on proper farming on wet marshes.
As the months passed, Nikhila and Odilia were now walking, and Evie was more grown up than the parents had expected. Eva, was in her sixth month of pregnancy, and she could not do much to move around. Unfortunately, the food sources were still dwindling.
"Where are all the food?" moaned Quyen. "Where are all the animals? I could even a eat a cockroach if they are still here."
"As I expected," said Agatha. "The toying with nature during the Eugenesis Period eventually caused the atrophy of biomass."
"The trees are still up," said Eva.
"Some life forms can survive without a certain class of organisms, but in the end everything is dependant on one another."
"In other words?"
Agatha got up. "We gotta go hunting."
"Eh?" Quyen asked. "We're not going to cannibalize?"
"Not in front of the children, please."
"They don't know that word, right? Evie, do you know what cannibalize means?"
"It means that you eat another person," said Evie. "I don't wanna cannibalize my sisters."
The adults made an uncomfortable wince, but things needed to be done.
So with their food stock packed, Agatha and Jerri set out to hunt just about anything to feed a family of eight. But they did not get far when a fierce storm blew through the lands. They hurried against the winds to the farm where it was being flooded. Already Eva and the children were loaded on the raft, and Quyen was swimming them to high grand. Jerri and Agatha swam up to them and together they reached safety.
The spent a night in a hut. On the next morning the water did not recede. Sighing, Agatha suggested:
"Want to go to Laos?"
Everyone agreed.
Packing what they could bring, they headed south in order to walk on the highway leading into the country that was technically part of the Thailand Administrative District created by the Chinese Democratic Imperium. It was a few days that they crossed the border station that they used to camp. As usual, they ate the fruits they found and the scavenged rice bales and canned foods. Sill no signs of human life.
The land of Laos and Thailand from their high vantage point was green and lush, but flooded because of the storms. It was an astounding sight, because standing like frozen giants were the terrace-making farming mechs of the Imperium, all of whom were rusted from years of disuse, or perhaps due to the onslaught of the MA Units. The land they decided to settle in was a lot more stable and high up from the ground, but still vulnerable from mudslides. They took a house next to a towering mech whose arms was spiked deep into the earth.
The rice was once again planted, and the silt sifted. The women settled into their homes, which was christened duplex when it was really a large house with a wall hastily built in the middle. Food was still barely abundant, but they did need some meat, or at least fish. Thus, Jerri and Agatha were sent off to gather fish from the river, along with supplies and amenities from the town.
They always ate together, and even bathed together being that they were of a single gender. Evie and the twins, who were now starting to talk, referred to Agatha and Quyen as their aunts. Months later, Eva finally gave birth to Suzette.
"To bad it's a girl," said Quyen.
"Yeah," muttered Jerri. She and Eva still had not told the couple of their secret.
But Agatha was suspicious. It all started when she went fishing with Evie that they had a long conversation about where babies come from.
"Are you allowed to ask that?" Agatha asked. "At your age?"
"I'm only three or four?"
"Three or four? You're mighty precocious for a child. Say, how old are the twin sisters?"
"They should be two I think."
"Two?"
Agatha thought deeply.
"We're you always with your parents when you were born?"
"Of course! Mama and amam gave birth to me."
"That's because your mother received sperm from a donor."
"I don't understand."
"You know a man can leave his, um, seeding sperm to help a woman have babies."
"What's a man?"
"It's a woman without breasts and a horn between her legs."
"Eww. That's a nasty creature."
"I guess it is."
The child is just ignorant, thought Agatha. Given the rarity, or perhaps extinction, she has never met a man in her life. Yet I can't help but wonder about the traits she shares with Eva and Jerri.
It was suspicious. Evie, the twins, and Suzette all had blue or hazel eyes, light brown skin, and curly hair. As Evie grew up, her resemblance to Jerri became even uncannier. It was still conjecture and guessing on Agatha's part.
"Agie, who come you and Quyen don't have children?" Evie asked. "You're both adults and women."
"Women can't mate with each other to make children."
"Mate?"
"It's sort of a dance that they have when they want to have children."
"You mean sex."
"Er, yeah."
"I've seen Amam do it with mama and Tenaya. But Tenaya's gone now."
"Tenaya?"
"Tenaya was our housekeeper. She died trying to protect Danya."
"I'm sorry."
After catching their fish, Evie then said to Agatha:
"I'm sure if you have sex with Auntie Quyen, she'll be able to have children."
It was such an innocent yet outlandish thought that Agatha almost laughed.
"Evie," she said. "There are women who can't make children and others who can't."
"How come?"
"Nature commands it."
"Is Nature a god?"
"Something like that."
At the same night, Quyen was dressed loosely in her red robe sewed by the combined efforts her and Eva. She became frisky and started groping Agatha's breasts.
"No TV and no radio make Quyen a horny gal."
"Okay," said Agatha. "I'll undress."
"Come on! Be a little resistant! It's kinkier that way."
"The children are at the other side of the wall."
"They're going to find out anyway. The only sex they'll get in the future now is from women."
Finally undressed, both Quyen and Agatha had their passionate lovemaking the dark, thus keeping Eva and Jerri awake.
"What they doing?" asked Nikhila.
"They're dancing to make children," replied Evie.
"Evie, go to sleep," said Eva.
The next morning, Eva scolded Quyen about the incident last night, and all Quyen could say was "why me?" This was not the first time, and the couple even had sex in their old one-room house back at the river near Vinh. Eva could never get a chance to scold Agatha since she was almost always away with Jerri.
The next day when Jerri was plowing for rice, Quyen, dressed in her robe, whistled at her from the porch-walkway of the house. The two were alone as Eva took the children for a bath in the river and Agatha went fishing.
"Hey sailor," said Quyen.
"You hitting on me?"
"I could be."
"Oh."
Jerri continued plowing.
"You know," said Quyen, "for some reason I want just to fuck your brains out."
"Oh," blushed Jerri. "I'm flattered by your honesty. But really, is there something wrong?"
"Agatha's getting rusty."
"You two have been going at it two days ago for one hour."
"One hour? Ha! Before we met you guys, we went for two hours, maybe even three. We mashed pussies like there's no tomorrow--and we really felt like there was no tomorrow. The cum we make would make you think there was an orgy of men around."
"How... descriptive."
"Here."
"Thanks."
Jerri sloshed over the rice paddies to receive a bottle of water from Quyen. Suddenly, Quyen snatched Jerri's arm and rubbed her face on it.
"You really smell good."
"Quyen."
"Jerri."
Jerri leaned over as Quyen pulled her face in.
"Ahem," said Eva.
Jerri jumped back. Eva was before them holding the "Sleepy Suzette" in her arm.
"I seem to have forgotten my bathing suit," said Eva angrily. "Don't mind me."
Eva disappeared into the house, and Jerri immediately followed her in. Suzette was now in bundled in blankets inside her basket that was used as her bed.
"It just sort of happened," said Jerri. "And you don't have a bathing suit in the first place. None of us do."
"Just sort of happened?" Eva retorted.
"Please not this again. You always get hysterical when you see me sexually attracted to another woman. Just because I want to have sex them don't mean I want to make children with them."
Eva sighed. "If you do that, you betray their notion of love, however short it may be."
"I know."
"Kiss me."
"Eva?"
"Kiss me now."
"All right."
They kissed. They stared into each other's eyes until they kissed again. The kisses that proceeded became more passionate, if not slobbery, and Jerri backed Eva into the wall while running her hands over her wife's breasts. The two slid to the floor as they began pulling their clothes off their bodies, and immediately Jerri scooted back to giver her wife oral love to her vagina.
It was then that Suzette finally woken up crying for some food.
"Suzette's awake," said Jerri.
"Ignore her!" moaned Eva. "She'll be fine!"
"Okay."
As Jerri continued performing oral sex, Quyen snuck in and watched a bit, but eventually she took Suzette out of her bed basket. She took her outside, and after a bit of an effort she began breastfeeding her.
Agatha and the children returned from bathing in the river, and when they were closer to the house, Quyen motioned and gestured to her lover that Jerri and Eva were having sex. It was becoming obvious due to Eva's loud and uninhibited moans.
"Say," Agatha smiled to the children. "Want to go play over at the village past the river?"
"Are mommy and amam dancing to make babies?" asked Odilia.
"Er, of course they are."
"Really?" said Nikhila. "Are we going to have another baby sister?"
"Of course. Quyen, are you coming?"
Quyen nodded.
A few months later, Eva began to feel her womb blowing up. She knew for sure what was happening, and she revealed it to Jerri in secret far off from the house.
"I'm pregnant again," said she.
"Oh," said Jerri. "That's nice."
"Am I just a baby factory?"
"You don't want to have any more children?"
"Of course I do! I don't mind really. After all, I have to do my part in preserving what's left of the human race."
"The female race as it should be."
"How long has it been since we ran into other people?"
"Not counting Agatha and Quyen?"
"This doesn't look too good. Evie may have to mate with her sisters to--"
"Let's not worry about that right now. The current worry we have Agatha and Quyen are going to find out about this. We'll just tell them it's parthenogenesis or something."
"Parthenogenesis produces clones of the original mother. Evie's growing up pretty fast, and they're going to put two and two together and realize she's our daughter."
"So eventually I'll have to mate with those two. Do you want me to do that? I hope you won't spaz out."
"Of course not! I just think it's about time for you to, um, share with all the women of the world."
"I suppose your right. However..."
"However what?"
"I love Agatha and Quyen, but not in love with them. The impregnation might not work."
"You'll have to try."
"Maybe this is a good time to finally tell that I wasn't exactly faithful when all this happened."
"What?"
"I did it with Tenaya."
Eva widened her eyes. "So you waited until this time to tell me?"
"I think I might have impregnated her, which might be the reason why the MA Units took her up to the Fortress so readily. They couldn't have told us being the liars they are--save for Danya."
Eva furiously paced until she sat on the ground.
"I'm sorry!" Jerri cried. "She and I got horny when you were pregnant with Suzette. I'm not sure if I came onto her and she came onto me. We were alone when we were letting the cows graze..."
"I'm not angry with you because you cheated on me. I'm angry because you didn't tell me when it was important!"
"Eva..."
"Tenaya... had to die like that. Two lives were lost on that day."
"I said I thought I impregnated her. Do you want to check the body at the beach?"
Eva rose. "No. I'd rather not know. Now let's head back to prepare dinner."
"All right."
Jerri guiltily followed her wife back down towards the house. Midway, Eva then said:
"Were you in love with Tenaya?" Eva asked.
"I was," said Jerri.
"Honestly?"
"From the bottom of my heart."
Eva breathed a deep sigh. "I'm glad."
As expected, Agatha and Quyen were becoming suspicious of Eva's strange development regarding her stomach. The question would almost always arise during dinner.
"Really, you are getting fat Eva," said Quyen. "You should eat less."
"I guess I should," said Eva.
"You don't have to hide it from us," said Agatha.
"What do you mean?"
"You have a swelling in the stomach due to parasites."
"Sorry."
It was now apparent that it was Agatha they should watch out for. Just recently when she and Jerri went fishing, they slipped into the mud, which compelled them to bathe in a creek. It was then Agatha decided to truly inspect Jerri's body to see if she was really what she claimed to be. Despite her tomboyishness, Jerri was undeniably a woman, but Agatha had to make sure she wasn't otherwise by finding an excuse to check her vagina.
"I think you should have your vagina inspected," Agatha said out of the blue.
Jerri blushed. "Are you coming on to me?"
"I don't mean that. I meant as a gynecology exam."
"Are you qualified?"
"Among the four of us, I'm the only one who could do it."
"Is it necessary?"
"Well... let's just do it in case some male shows up."
"Okay. Probe away."
She accepted too readily, thought Agatha.
The nude Jerri sat at the edge of the creek with her legs spread out, while Agatha almost had her entire body on the ground closely inspecting Jerri's vagina.
"Anything?" Jerri asked.
"Doesn't seem to be any problems. You mind if I insert my fingers?"
"Is that part of the procedure?"
"I don't have any choice."
"As I said, probe away."
Agatha inserted two of her fingers into Jerri, who then quivered as Agatha spun around the lining looking for something. Jerri was squeezing her mouth shut she would not orgasm and ejaculate accidentally. After finding nothing that would appear upon stimulation, Agatha had to use her last resort and pretend to accidentally rub her thumb against engorged clitoris.
"Ah!"
Agatha jerked her hand away, and Jerri sprang up to her feet to gather her clothes.
"I'm sorry," said Agatha. "It slipped."
"It's all right," said Jerri. "Please don't tell Eva."
"I won't if you don't tell Quyen."
As Jerri dressed, Agatha inspected the silky and sparkling ejaculate as long as she could, and she almost wished she had her usual lab equipment. She sniffed, and she even licked a bit of it. The scent and taste was so erotically intoxicating and pleasurable that it raised her heart rate and nearly made her wet herself. She looked at Jerri and immediately had thoughts of having sex with her.
Despite the incident Quyen had suddenly lashed out against Agatha, accusing her of lusting after Jerri when it was really just an observation. The argument continued into the night, but all of a sudden everything was dropped and Agatha and Quyen were having sex again.
"Women are such strange creatures," Eva commented.
"Tell me about it," said Jerri.
On the day after in their shared duplex house, Agatha confronted Jerri and Eva, particularly during Eva's first trimester. Quyen was away babysitting the children and bathing them at the creek.
"You won't fool me with the parthenogenesis argument," Agatha started. "I am certain that Jerri has the ability to impregnate other women."
"I knew we couldn't escape your eyes," said Eva.
"I felt that you were pretty sketchy on the details of your capture by Zoya Admantite, and I assumed that traumatic things, which I will not deny its existence, had happened to prevent you two from revealing detailed information. Stories about Zoya was only whispered at my university of her mad ideals at the country of Bay-Haven, but I never thought she would create the perfect woman--no, the perfect human."
"I wouldn't say I'm perfect," said Jerri. "I'm getting more nearsighted by the day. These glasses aren't helping me a bunch."
"At the very least Zoya had fortunately passed on to you your seeding ability. That is more than perfect for me, as evolution would take care of the rest."
"I guess I'll have to have mate with you gals from now on."
"I wouldn't jump to that conclusion yet. I must know if there are any special requirements for the impregnation for it to work."
"Jerri has to be in love with the person for it to work," said Eva. "Again, she is, pardon my words, a prototype, so it is inconclusive."
"So Zoya thought she could quantify love."
"It could be done if one could exert the appropriate hormones, which I admit caused a bit of distress on my part."
"I'll admit that I was attracted to her, but what about the children?"
"It is likely they have inherited Jerri's ability, but we won't know of sure if Evie has become of age."
"And by then we'll be old ladies for them to mate with," said Jerri.
"But if possible, I don't want them to inbreed."
The three sat in deep thought about the situation.
"I'll go," said Agatha.
"Go where?" Jerri asked.
"Find other survivors."
"That's crazy!" Eva cried. "Who knows what lies out there?"
"That's right," said Jerri. "My mother tried to alter the biodiversity of the planet with her engineered creatures. She did leave the fish alone though."
"All the more reason for me to head out," said Agatha. "We need to combine our womanpower to protect the children and find potential mates of similar age for them."
"You don't have to do that," said Eva. "I may dislike inbreeding, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. Many mammalian species, including humans, had to go through that phase in order to reach the peak of population of the Eugenesis Period."
"At the very least, we should share Jerri's gift to the world. We shouldn't be as selfish as to reserve only to ourselves."
"Selfishness is sometimes necessary."
"But we can't delude ourselves thinking that we can stay here forever. Most certainly things will happen that will threaten our home to the point that we cannot return, and we need a larger population to guarantee our survival."
"Aren't you acting a little to chauvinistic?" Jerri asked.
"Perhaps, but someone has to see what is going out there."
"Please reconsider Agatha," said Eva.
"I have to go."
"What about Quyen?" Jerri asked.
"She is in your care now."
Quyen had burst into tears when she heard that Agatha would be departing to explore the world. Thus, the only ones who would be seeing them off were Jerri and her family at the overgrown highway.
"Wish me luck," said Agatha as she hauled her backpack to her back.
"You will come back, won't you Agie?" said Nikhila.
"Only for a six months."
Agatha petted each of the children's heads and started off. Then Quyen suddenly sprinted and wrapped her arms around her lover as she kissed her.
"I don't want you to go," said Quyen.
"I must," said Agatha.
They kissed one more time, and Agatha nudged her lover into Jerri's arms.
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