They just so happened to be walking into one such clearing, Olivia turned and looked over her shoulder, she could see the faint glow of the tower, like a sparkling thread dangling down from heaven. “You haven’t seen it up close yet, have you, the tower I mean?” She asked her friend. Maithri shook her head, feeling a strange mix of emotions at the question. She didn’t understand why Olivia always seemed to be so happy about the changes the AI was making to their world. While she herself wasn’t particularly worried about the direction things were going, she didn’t feel excited by them like her girlfriend clearly did.
Maybe it was the subtle influence of the unedited versions of the daily briefings wearing down her curiosity and replacing it with a nagging sense of growing existential dread. In her mind, a pattern was forming, just like the distinctly geodesic pattern that the metal men were stamping into the Favela’s soil. Or perhaps it was the residual trauma of having to flee her home due to catastrophic changes beyond her control. This whole thing felt oddly reminiscent of that horrific experience. Although in this instance the state of the world seemed to be improving rather than the opposite.
“You read those announcements every day, but aren’t you at least a little curious? The tower is so close.” Olivia had stopped moving, she held onto Maithri’s hand and craned her neck towards the slender sparkling monolith, once again feeling its strange magnetic pull. Her olive-skinned friend grunted and stopped trying to drag Olivia along their original route.
“Fine.” She said sulkily, her apprehension increasing, but also feeling a twinge of excitement as she stared at Olivia’s face, the girl was staring at the tower and had a blissful expression on her face. “You don’t think it’s dangerous?” Maithri pressed. Olivia took out her phone and scanned the latest AoA.
“It doesn’t look like any of the stick-men are around the tower. There were solders there awhile back but I think they gave up after their barricade got destroyed.” The latest reports had also suggested as much, Calico had canceled all military activity surrounding the AI and the towers after their humiliating defeat at the bunker.
Maithri finally turned around and started walking down the new, broad, street-like thoroughfare the droids had smashed into the forest floor. Olivia laughed in glee as her girlfriend actually started pulling her along. “Let’s get this over with.” Maithri said gruffly. The path was so straight and smooth, in less than ten minutes they arrived at the large clearing where the landfill used to be.
“It’s hard to believe there was ever a dump here.” Olivia commented distractedly as she headed straight for the south side where the embankment used to be. Maithri followed reluctantly behind, she’d fallen back a bit as they’d gotten closer to the tower’s base. “Look, right over here was where the robots were collecting the grass that they used to make the thread like my bracelet!” They were both surprised to see that the field wasn’t empty or bare like the rest of the surrounding terrain. As soon as they reached the edge of the place where the landfill had originally began they discovered that the grass was still there.
In fact it was over a meter high. “It must still be feeding on whatever is left of the trash underneath.” Olivia said excitedly as she crouched down and made a small space with her hand at the base of the nearest outcropping. The ghostly blue-white grass swayed softly in the gentle breeze. Overcome with curiosity Maithri crouched down too, reaching out and trying to pluck one of the slender stems from the soil. It wouldn’t budge. “The robots were cutting it somehow…” Olivia murmured, noticing her friend struggling. Maithri grunted in frustration and gave up. “Then they braided it, try weaving a few strands together.” She suggested.
Maithri took three of the closest stalks and pulled them together, rapidly forming them into a tight braid. There was an almost inaudible crackling sound, the folds between each individual blade glowed bright white and then all three stems merged into a single opalescent filament. “F-Fascinating.” Maithri said breathlessly, gently running her fingers up and down the glittering cord-like composite. The texture was perfectly smooth, it felt nothing like the grass which was so coarse it was almost abrasive.
“So cool.” Olivia remarked, standing up and striding boldly into the softly swaying field. She squealed loudly and started running through the grass, enjoying the pleasant dry rustling sound it made and the oddly stimulating sensation of it brushing against her legs.
“W-Wait for me!” Maithri yelped, chasing after her girlfriend who was racing at full speed across the field. As they got farther from the edge the grass started to rise. Olivia sensed that they were reaching the center of the dump, the grass had almost reached her shoulders now and it was tickling her armpits, she had to slow down, wading more than running. Maithri was still in hot pursuit so Olivia resorted to bounding wildly in an attempt to evade her friend’s desperate attempts to catch up to her. “No fair, I’m shorter than you!” Maithri yelled angrily as Olivia leapt like a gazelle towards the tallest part of the field.
Copying her fried Maithri started leaping as well, her marvelous flexibility allowing her to quickly catch up. Olivia only had one chance to look over her shoulder as she dashed headfirst into the wall of palest blue. Maithri was leaping on top of her, they both screamed loudly and tumbled head over heels into the cushioning bower created by their own sprawling bodies. The curtain of tall grass, now towering over their heads rasped closed behind them, trapping them both in a kind of sheltered cave of flattened stems as comfortable and springy as a synthetic mattress.
They both grunted and disentangled their bodies. “Come see the tower, you said.” Maithri snorted in annoyance, even though she was smiling, her voice echoed and boomed in the confined secluded space. She looked upward startled, the night sky was open above them, speckled with unfamiliar twinkling points of light, and yet the sounds around them had dropped off precipitously, nearly to the point of silence. “How strange…” She whispered, even her quietest voice loud and clearly audible to both of them. At the sound of a loud rustling she turned to face Olivia and squeaked in alarm. Her girlfriend was rapidly stripping off all her clothes and tossing them towards the edge of the large mottled clearing they had made on accident.
“W-What are you doing!” Maithri hissed as Olivia pulled off her panties and tossed them onto the growing pile.
“I… I want to feel it… Everywhere.” The girl murmured dreamily, stripping off the tight black sports bra, her tiny breasts jiggling slightly, her biobronze nipple ring glinting in the milky moonlight. “Don’t you?” Olivia asked quietly, her eyes sliding slowly up Maithri’s body towards her face. The Indian girl reached out and took hold of a defiant nearby frond that had somehow miraculously survived their frenzied flattening tussle. Its rough texture sent shivers down her spine, her flesh all the way up to her breasts tingled from their run through the grass. Olivia now stood before her completely naked. “Strip.” She mouthed, grinning mischievously.
Maithri flushed and reached up to her top wrap, her fingers trembling, uncertain if she had the courage to follow her girlfriend’s insane suggestion. And yet, her hands had already started moving on their own, twisting the heavy fabric around her neck, exposing her decadently large boobs to the cool night air, her large brown nipples were already hard. The unwrapping continued, her bare hips came into view next, and then all she was wearing was her surprisingly vivid and immature looking yellow sandals. “N-No underwear?” Olivia remarked a little breathlessly. Maithri shook her head and tossed her bottom wrap onto the pile of their clothing.
“I never wore underwear before I came here, I only started because you bought me some, but the truth is I prefer it like this.” She said somewhat aloofly, expecting Olivia to react poorly, or at least dramatically. But to her surprise her girlfriend did neither, she simply closed the distance between them and reached out gingerly, her hand hesitating for a moment before making contact with Maithri’s warm flesh.
“You’ve gained a little weight, haven’t you?” Olivia asked curiously as she stroked Maithri’s belly. Maithri blushed and looked away, under normal circumstances she might have taken offense at this seemingly callous question, but the truth was her body was changing and she had gained some weight, although for reasons that had nothing to do with her improved diet. “And your boobs… They look a lot bigger, if that’s even possible.” Olivia snorted, sliding both hands upward until she was cupping Maithri’s absurdly large breasts. She twisted her wrists, sliding her fingers around their sides, grabbing both of the girl’s nipples firmly between her fingers.
They were large and succulent, slightly moist with sweat and oil, an intoxicating aroma wafted from between them. Maithri kicked off her sandals, guiltily enjoying the feeling of having her nipples lightly pinched, she tried to imagine how her breasts would look in several months, even larger probably, swollen, aching. She imagined a tiny mouth latched on, perhaps a different mouth on each one, sucking, drinking. She whimpered and sank to her knees, pulling free of Olivia’s grasp, the rough matted grass beneath them scouring and invigorating. She flopped backwards, spreading her legs, luxuriating in the cool night air.
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