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For an Anto almost their entire tailbody's mass is muscle and womb/stomach with some hearts, lungs, and other small organs distributed along the dorsal ridge on either side of the spinal cord. This is why Nao talks about 'touching' hir 'mind' when stroking hir belly.", "description_bbcode_parsed": "Nao Nakamura takes the first step in her new translation job, meeting her translation partner. This is not a sex story but does involve adult situations.

A note on pronouns: Each species of Xamesh uses particular pronoun sets. There is some overlap between them. Shozi have four sexes but only use three pronouns, Ey/Em/Eir, Shi/Hir, and Hy/Hym

This story (particularly this and the next two sections) references events from an RP with Otsen who played Dr. David Sendrik as he helped me flesh out the Shozi species and their culture. As the anthropologist on the Away Team that made First Contact his reports are fundamental to almost all future teams becoming familiarized with the Shozi. This story does not describe it in further detail, but the Shozi are capable of mentally linking with any occupant of their womb/stomach chamber(s). This portion of their body is where all short term memory is stored before being transferred to long term storage in brain matter stored in the skull. For an Anto almost their entire tailbody's mass is muscle and womb/stomach with some hearts, lungs, and other small organs distributed along the dorsal ridge on either side of the spinal cord. This is why Nao talks about 'touching' hir 'mind' when stroking hir belly.", "writing": "Another month. But now I'm going somewhere. Well, not right this moment. Now I'm floating through the void of my mind as my body sits moist and motionless in a cold steel room, a thin robe barely keeping out the chill. \nShuzo 1 they call it. A military research base on the south west coast of the planet's largest continent. I swim among my thoughts as I remember everything I've learned about the local species, these Shozi. Their customs and ways still so strange, and their bodies stranger still. Like a mad scientist had thrown together a bunch of animals and made sure cats were the most dominant. Or like the paintings of Hindu gods sprang to life from the pages of a Feline Fancy Magazine parody. \nMy spirit animal had always been a white tiger, but until I saw footage of Dr. Sendrik riding the back of a 4m tall white tiger centaur I'd never really believed that could mean anything. \n\nI was jolted back to my body when the door opened with a loud clanking, the bolts sliding back like I was some dangerous animal. \nThe Base Commander stepped in, her ID transmitting her rank and title. She gave a slight bow, \"Konbanwa, Nakamura Nao.\" The Japanese sounded especially odd with her russian accent, but the least I could do was acknowledge her effort. As crimson and gold shimmered into the room I stood and bowed, \"Konbanwa, Commander Kornivos.\" But as I rose I was stunned by the creature next to her. \nBright red fur across most of hir body with glistening gold belly and highlights. Four powerful arms, four small exposed breasts, several meters of slithering tail rippling into the chamber as I stared at hir. Our eyes locked and we stared into each other's souls as those marvelous gems twisted, rotating through the rainbow. The orbs never matched in shape or color, constantly shifting independently. All fear faded, embarrassment equally elusive. If this goddess was to be my host I didn't care what anyone would say about it. I wasn't even listening as the Commander introduced hir and explained our mission, I just knew I had to get behind those eyes.\n\"Yes, Commander.\" I found myself replying. Almost like a prayer, a divine promise, I went on. \"I have read through Doctor Sendrik's work. I understand what I must do. I gladly work to help the Commonwell and the people of the Aeternia in gaining a mutual understanding of our new neighbors and will push aside embarrassments for this cause.\" \nWith hesitation I broke eye contact with the feline serpent and looked to the Commander. \" However, if?\" \"If you don't mind Commander, I would... prefer to do this with hir alone.\" I couldn't tell. Perhaps something to meditate\nupon.\n\"Of course Citizen Nakamura.\" She saluted and turned, black pleats waving as she stepped past my host. Sendrik's reports said Anto was this type of Shozi, as opposed to their other three sexes, Toan, Kuna, and Naku. \nI reached out to touch hir and watched as shi reached back. It took a moment to recognize what shi was doing, but shi shook my hand with two of hirs. Somehow, it didn't seem natural for hir. Shaking hands wasn't part of the Shozi culture. \nI opened both arms wide and shi swooped down to embrace me, my arms between hir pairs. The gold fur along hir neck and chest was the softest thing I'd ever felt, like a pillow made of chinchilla fur. The lack of a distinct heartbeat in hir chest reminded me of just how alien hir insides were, so many hearts and lungs, and other organs I couldn't even imagine. \nAs I pulled back from hir body some of hir long sensing hairs stuck to the protective gel on my face and arms. I'd entirely forgotten about it, but it would keep me safe for at least three days of work, maybe longer. \nI stepped around hir upper body to stroke hir massive snake-like tail and there I could feel hir hearts beating. I couldn't stand the anticipation anymore.\nNo sense in hir eating the robe, so I took a deep breath and removed the garment, folded and placed it on the floor several feet from the Shozi'Anto. I turned back to hir, bare as the day of my birth, and ready to take the actions in reverse today.\nI stroked a hand down hir humanoid chest and belly, holding as I felt the lip of hir pouch. There were three ways we could do this, one terrified me, one took a while to take effect, and the third I had decided was too embarrassing. \nI stroked further down the gold until my hand rested on a large solid scale the same color as hir under belly fur. Even reading the reports I'd still expected scales under the fur and along hir spinal ridge, but this was one of the few scales on hir body, a guard scale. And what a precious treasure it guarded. \nSeeing the decision I'd made the scale split in two, pulling apart to reveal moist black flesh, a narrow door into a whole new world. I touched the flesh as it quivered from all the muscle activity underneath. \nI reached in with both arms, followed by my head before I could lose my nerve. Within I could feel hir\ninsides gripping me all about, pulling me deeper. Despite my fears when I signed up shi had no problem taking my hips. As my legs were pulled in I felt a tendril slither into my nose, another down my throat. Soon I was breathing easily through hir many lungs.\nFloating within hir body in the dark I started my meditation techniques and soon found myself blinking. The lights in the room were so bright and wouldn't stay the same. I covered them with the crimson side of my right arms as I tried to adjust. I coiled my tail onto itself to escape the chilly floor and felt as 'I' was shaken inside by 'my' movements.\n \n\nShuzo1 Containment 3 - Nao: Stage two neural interlink integration complete. \n\n\"Hello?\" \nI could feel hir happiness at my successful integration, and then I almost 'heard' hir mind in my own. Shi shared hir love of knowledge, of traveling and teaching. Shi was glad we would be working together to help our peoples learn and cooperate. I could feel as shi reached into my mind for the words shi wanted to use and then spoke aloud for us both to hear with hir ears; hir marvelous flicking ears that could hear, and filter out every little sound, even conversations in other rooms of the base. \n\"Greetings from FireBomb, head of the Monastery city of Tree'Tu, heart and stone of the Shozi people. I am 'The Honor of God, The Crimson Light, The Serpent of Low Valleys.' Together, we will help your people speak with the Kardani, whom address me as Teacher ChakaShadraBirial'Anto.\"\nI could feel that the name and the honorifics were one in the same. Reaching back I searched for the words, if you could call them that, to state in hir language of snarls, growls, twitches, chirs, and huffs beyond human hearing, that I am Nakamura Nao, 'the esteemed honest village binding others together all about me like a network of guiding cords for the blind,' and that I looked forward to our work together, that I was thankful shi had accepted me into hir body and purpose\n. \nShuzo1 Dispatch - Venser: Come out wherever you're ready. Your team is waiting and your flight has nearly arrived at its destination.\n\nChaka and I looked around the room. While shi couldn't see the text in my eye display shi became aware of it as I did. No doubt Venser had cameras recording everything, and sure enough, Chaka's wondrous eyes spotted them with ease once shi discovered their potential existence from my memories. Inside of hir I sighed around the airtube knowing that someone else had seen me enter into hir body, and I was a little surprised to find hir body mimicking the motion despite not needing to breath through hir mouth.\n Thinking it over with Chaka I responded and slowly slithered to the door.\n\nShuzo1 Containment 3 - Nao: ChakaNao ready for duty.\n\nChaka's amazing ears heard the\nintricacies of the doors many locking pylons shifting within the mechanism, the buzz of electricity driving the motors. Through hir ears I started to find the sound of electricity rather annoying. Oh, and hir eyes, those marvelous shimmering orbs I had but moments ago marveled at from outside. Through them I saw the heat building as metal and rubber slid across each other within the door to set us loose. Ultimately the door opened and shi understood. The design of the base, its hard corners and metal structure, using my mind shi finally understood why we built this way. But neither of us could figure out why the base was kept so cold.\nWith Chaka's exquisite sense of smell we followed the Commander's scent trail to the exit. This was a difficult task with the circulating air system. Emerging to the blinding light of the suns above we blinked and hir eyes shifted spectra. I came to realize that the way hir people saw the world couldn't be described in the colors we know, but rather they have a rich history of talking about sights and visions I couldn't even imagine. \nAhead of us I saw Kornivos's ID broadcasting alongside three others, two military and one civilian. ", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "Another month. But now I'm going somewhere. Well, not right this moment. Now I'm floating through the void of my mind as my body sits moist and motionless in a cold steel room, a thin robe barely keeping out the chill.
Shuzo 1 they call it. A military research base on the south west coast of the planet's largest continent. I swim among my thoughts as I remember everything I've learned about the local species, these Shozi. Their customs and ways still so strange, and their bodies stranger still. Like a mad scientist had thrown together a bunch of animals and made sure cats were the most dominant. Or like the paintings of Hindu gods sprang to life from the pages of a Feline Fancy Magazine parody.
My spirit animal had always been a white tiger, but until I saw footage of Dr. Sendrik riding the back of a 4m tall white tiger centaur I'd never really believed that could mean anything. <He called eir Teacher Briluksha'Toan. Maybe ey will be my partner?>
<Partner? No, Companion. Or mate, oh that's worse. There's gotta be a non-sexual word. Host? Uh, better, but I'm not buying any drinks.>
I was jolted back to my body when the door opened with a loud clanking, the bolts sliding back like I was some dangerous animal. <Well, soon, I might be.>
The Base Commander stepped in, her ID transmitting her rank and title. She gave a slight bow, "Konbanwa, Nakamura Nao." The Japanese sounded especially odd with her russian accent, but the least I could do was acknowledge her effort. As crimson and gold shimmered into the room I stood and bowed, "Konbanwa, Commander Kornivos." But as I rose I was stunned by the creature next to her.
Bright red fur across most of hir body with glistening gold belly and highlights. Four powerful arms, four small exposed breasts, several meters of slithering tail rippling into the chamber as I stared at hir. Our eyes locked and we stared into each other's souls as those marvelous gems twisted, rotating through the rainbow. The orbs never matched in shape or color, constantly shifting independently. All fear faded, embarrassment equally elusive. If this goddess was to be my host I didn't care what anyone would say about it. I wasn't even listening as the Commander introduced hir and explained our mission, I just knew I had to get behind those eyes.
"Yes, Commander." I found myself replying. Almost like a prayer, a divine promise, I went on. "I have read through Doctor Sendrik's work. I understand what I must do. I gladly work to help the Commonwell and the people of the Aeternia in gaining a mutual understanding of our new neighbors and will push aside embarrassments for this cause."
With hesitation I broke eye contact with the feline serpent and looked to the Commander. " However, if?" <If what? What am I saying?> "If you don't mind Commander, I would... prefer to do this with hir alone." <Was that embarrassment speaking? Or reverence?> I couldn't tell. Perhaps something to meditate
upon.
"Of course Citizen Nakamura." She saluted and turned, black pleats waving as she stepped past my host. <What had she called hir? Teacher ChakaShadraBirial'Anto. Yes.> Sendrik's reports said Anto was this type of Shozi, as opposed to their other three sexes, Toan, Kuna, and Naku.
I reached out to touch hir and watched as shi reached back. It took a moment to recognize what shi was doing, but shi shook my hand with two of hirs. Somehow, it didn't seem natural for hir. Shaking hands wasn't part of the Shozi culture. <Perhaps shi's been studying us as much as I've been studying them.>
I opened both arms wide and shi swooped down to embrace me, my arms between hir pairs. The gold fur along hir neck and chest was the softest thing I'd ever felt, like a pillow made of chinchilla fur. The lack of a distinct heartbeat in hir chest reminded me of just how alien hir insides were, so many hearts and lungs, and other organs I couldn't even imagine.
As I pulled back from hir body some of hir long sensing hairs stuck to the protective gel on my face and arms. I'd entirely forgotten about it, but it would keep me safe for at least three days of work, maybe longer.
I stepped around hir upper body to stroke hir massive snake-like tail and there I could feel hir hearts beating. <Didn't Sendrick say they called their deity Chaka'Toan? Then I'm
touching the mind of a god. And soon I would be in there.> I couldn't stand the anticipation anymore.
No sense in hir eating the robe, so I took a deep breath and removed the garment, folded and placed it on the floor several feet from the Shozi'Anto. I turned back to hir, bare as the day of my birth, and ready to take the actions in reverse today.
I stroked a hand down hir humanoid chest and belly, holding as I felt the lip of hir pouch. There were three ways we could do this, one terrified me, one took a while to take effect, and the third I had decided was too embarrassing. <Not now, I need to be behind those eyes as soon as possible.>
I stroked further down the gold until my hand rested on a large solid scale the same color as hir under belly fur. Even reading the reports I'd still expected scales under the fur and along hir spinal ridge, but this was one of the few scales on hir body, a guard scale. And what a precious treasure it guarded.
Seeing the decision I'd made the scale split in two, pulling apart to reveal moist black flesh, a narrow door into a whole new world. I touched the flesh as it quivered from all the muscle activity underneath. <This is normal to hir, this is normal to hir, just do it. This is why shi's here.>
I reached in with both arms, followed by my head before I could lose my nerve. Within I could feel hir
insides gripping me all about, pulling me deeper. Despite my fears when I signed up shi had no problem taking my hips. As my legs were pulled in I felt a tendril slither into my nose, another down my throat. Soon I was breathing easily through hir many lungs.
Floating within hir body in the dark I started my meditation techniques and soon found myself blinking. The lights in the room were so bright and wouldn't stay the same. I covered them with the crimson side of my right arms as I tried to adjust. <Why do these aliens keep their habitats so cold?> I coiled my tail onto itself to escape the chilly floor and felt as 'I' was shaken inside by 'my' movements.
<Wait, I don't have a tail, or four arms. I don't have an occupant. This is Chaka's body. And now I'm aware of it.>

Shuzo1 Containment 3 - Nao: Stage two neural interlink integration complete.

"Hello?" <No no, shi won't understand my words directly, shi needs idea.>
I could feel hir happiness at my successful integration, and then I almost 'heard' hir mind in my own. <Idea, yes, Ideas.> Shi shared hir love of knowledge, of traveling and teaching. Shi was glad we would be working together to help our peoples learn and cooperate. I could feel as shi reached into my mind for the words shi wanted to use and then spoke aloud for us both to hear with hir ears; hir marvelous flicking ears that could hear, and filter out every little sound, even conversations in other rooms of the base.
"Greetings from FireBomb, head of the Monastery city of Tree'Tu, heart and stone of the Shozi people. I am 'The Honor of God, The Crimson Light, The Serpent of Low Valleys.' Together, we will help your people speak with the Kardani, whom address me as Teacher ChakaShadraBirial'Anto."
I could feel that the name and the honorifics were one in the same. Reaching back I searched for the words, if you could call them that, to state in hir language of snarls, growls, twitches, chirs, and huffs beyond human hearing, that I am Nakamura Nao, 'the esteemed honest village binding others together all about me like a network of guiding cords for the blind,' and that I looked forward to our work together, that I was thankful shi had accepted me into hir body and purpose
.
Shuzo1 Dispatch - Venser: Come out wherever you're ready. Your team is waiting and your flight has nearly arrived at its destination.

Chaka and I looked around the room. While shi couldn't see the text in my eye display shi became aware of it as I did.  No doubt Venser had cameras recording everything, and sure enough, Chaka's wondrous eyes spotted them with ease once shi discovered their potential existence from my memories. Inside of hir I sighed around the airtube knowing that someone else had seen me enter into hir body, and I was a little surprised to find hir body mimicking the motion despite not needing to breath through hir mouth.
<What to call us? We are almost one.> Thinking it over with Chaka I responded and slowly slithered to the door.

Shuzo1 Containment 3 - Nao: ChakaNao ready for duty.

Chaka's amazing ears heard the
intricacies of the doors many locking pylons shifting within the mechanism, the buzz of electricity driving the motors. Through hir ears I started to find the sound of electricity rather annoying. Oh, and hir eyes, those marvelous shimmering orbs I had but moments ago marveled at from outside. Through them I saw the heat building as metal and rubber slid across each other within the door to set us loose. Ultimately the door opened and shi understood. The design of the base, its hard corners and metal structure, using my mind shi finally understood why we built this way. But neither of us could figure out why the base was kept so cold.
With Chaka's exquisite sense of smell we followed the Commander's scent trail to the exit. This was a difficult task with the circulating air system. Emerging to the blinding light of the suns above we blinked and hir eyes shifted spectra. I came to realize that the way hir people saw the world couldn't be described in the colors we know, but rather they have a rich history of talking about sights and visions I couldn't even imagine.
Ahead of us I saw Kornivos's ID broadcasting alongside three others, two military and one civilian. <My first Away Team, our first Away Mission.>", "pools_count": 1, "title": "Nao Nakamura - Behind the Eyes of a God", "deleted": "f", "public": "t", "mimetype": "image/png", "pagecount": "1", "rating_id": "1", "rating_name": "Mature", "ratings": [ { "content_tag_id": "2", "name": "Nudity", "description": "Nonsexual nudity exposing breasts or genitals (must not show arousal)", "rating_id": "1" } ], "submission_type_id": "12", "type_name": "Writing - Document", "guest_block": "t", "friends_only": "f", "comments_count": "0", "views": "104" }