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The Orbiting Princess

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Pelney and Rolnikov meet the Orbiting Princess in Quiet, the Tin Can Brains Are Hunting!

The orbiting princess was one of the most beautiful women in the universe, according to popular legend. Pelney didn’t know about that – after all, there were a lot of women in the universe, and who could say they had seen them all – but as far as he was concerned, there was no doubt she was definitely in the running.

For Rolnikov, there was no doubt whatsoever that the race was run and lost. Her raven hair shimmered in the light as if the stars themselves shone from within it. Even her own hair was in love with her, flowing down to brush the dark brown skin of her lovely neck with a thousand tender kisses each time she moved. As she led the way from the transporter room of her satellite to somewhere more comfortable, he found himself afraid that she would turn to speak to him – he, the most feared man on all Melrune, afraid to look a woman in the eye! He worried that looking into her deep brown eyes he would forget everything, forget how to talk, how to walk, how to breathe. If they reached the observation room before she turned those eyes upon him, he could sit down, forget about walking, leave the talking to Pelney, and just concentrate on breathing; on taking in every molecule of oxygen that might possibly have brushed across her lips.

He worried about that, but also that if she turned she would see how he had been hypnotised by the rolling of her bottom as she walked, the warring for supremacy of the two beautifully rounded hemispheres engaging his almost total attention in a way that made him somewhat ashamed to be male. But then, as she turned a corner ahead of him, he had a moment to reflect that even had he been female it would have been insanity not to appreciate these gentle tyrants of his lustful attention.