>>1643505For the first time in years, Tomoko found herself at the beach. She settled down on her towel and reached for Newton’s Principia before remembering that she decided to leave her reading materials at home. She looked out at the scene before her, enjoying the feel of the sun and the sea breeze, while she watched people all around enjoy themselves. Instinctively, her eyes drew to the tanned and sculpted bodies of a group of college kids who had set up a volleyball game in the surf.
Tomoko’s vacation was a long time in coming, but she never had the drive to follow through on what essentially seemed like a good idea. As a librarian, money was tight, and she had no one with whom to make the journey or share the experience. But then, barely a week earlier, she noticed something inside herself begin to stir. Alone in her room, she was beset by two childlike apparitions claiming to be her own Passion and Desire, and it was then that they unleashed a torrent of feeling that overwhelmed her self-control. Her thoughts, though initially lucid, were almost disembodied. She could do nothing to stop herself, and soon, even her conscious mind fogged to the point of uselessness, as she was unable to concentrate on anything for all the stimulation she involuntarily induced.
Later, and very gradually, Tomoko’s consciousness returned. She became aware of her state of undress, and the fluid that leaked from between her legs and soaked much of her bed. Her slick hands idly teased her loins without her conscious intention to do so, and she began to recall her encounter. Though she thought the experience had been of her imagination or even a spirited dream, she was changed thereafter. Feelings she had long suppressed, which she thought vanquished along with her puberty, arose from depths of her psyche.