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“Hello, Harper,” she said.
“Hi, Junic,” I said.
She was the only member of the science team I’d ever spoken to. She was kind, with slimy orange skin and red patches that looked like liver spots but weren’t.
She had no hair and instead, where her hair should have been, had writhing masses of skin shaped like tubes. They never stopped moving as if there was an invisible wind affected her and no one else.
“Hop on,” Junic said, motioning to the chair between us. “So, how was it this time?”
She referred to my recent sexual experience. I spoke with the other Prizes and we all agreed Junic’s questions about how we mated with our partners the previous night were a little creepy to say the least. We weren’t friends with her, didn’t know her, and had never seen her before. And yet, she asked the most personal and probing questions, things I would never even consider discussing with a stranger.
She seemed quite content with her work and proceeded as if she were conducting some kind of experiment rather than speaking with a real person.
“It was fine,” I said noncommittally, not wishing to speak about Trayem or else end up as a puddle on the floor.
“Was it painful?” Junic said, not even bothering to look at me and choosing to consult her clipboard instead.
“Not physically,” I said.
Junic ticked a box and nodded. If she had any interest in getting to know me or inquiring into the other type of pain I might have been referring to, she showed no sign of it.
“That’s good,” she said, clicking the end of her pen as she spoke.
“Was there enough lubrication? Any chafing or soreness?”
“No.”
“Out of ten, what would you give the sexual experience?”
How about an eleven? And then minus ten for this morning.
“About an eight,” I said without thought or feeling.
“Two eights in a row, huh?” Junic said absently. “You’re going to have to give me his cell number.”
She gave me a wink before turning to the second page and continued with her embarrassing questions. I answered them without hesitation in case she thought there were extra notes she needed to jot down. It was definitely not something I wanted to discuss more with her.
“All right,” Junic said, picking up the little device from a small table and passing it over my stomach.
It only took a moment and I stared at the ceiling, wondering what I was going to do when I arrived back at the Prize Pool. Shower, wash, and try not to think about that asshole ever again.
“Hm,” Junic said with a pinched frown.
“What is it? Problem with the machine?”
“No. Let me run the test again.”
She did and the frown grew even deeper as she peered at that device’s screen.
“What is it?” I said.
For the first time since I’d met her, Junic had the look of someone who didn’t know what they were doing. She was nothing if not professional. Seeing her in her current befuddled state made me feel a little concerned.
“Excuse me a moment,” she said, putting the device down on the side table and taking off to speak with an older man who had to be her boss.
She pointed in my direction, getting the attention of not only her boss but the other workers too.
This was a first.
