“William Showed Me a Picture of You”
hair was a different color- stressful enough without it becoming a spectator sport
- predicted it would be impossible
- with a stranger lying next to me
- Talk about awkward…
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“William showed me a picture of you,” said Yesterday. “In it your hair was a different color. Blond, I think you Americans call it.”
“That was a long time ago.” I murmured into her ear.
She gestured for me to continue as she slipped out of her fur cape.
I was still naked from earlier, so I had no undressing to do. “I used to sometimes bleach my hair. I have an identical twin, and when I was less easily mistaken for him, Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.”
“Then why don’t you bleach it now?” She tugged at the zipper of her silver lame jumpsuit, exposing a vee of dark brown skin.
“My twin started bleaching his, too. He likes to be mistaken for me.”
Yesterday’s jumpsuit pooled on the floor around her ankles like a puddle of mercury. With a smile she took hold of me and led me to the bed. As soon as she was sure she had my undivided attention, she called toward the corridor, “Send in the notary and the witnesses.”
“What?”
The door opened, and in came two men and two women wearing the uniforms of the mountain garrison under my command.
“What’s going on?” I asked.
“Well obviously everything needs to be done properly if the blood feud is to be annulled. The Warlord and your wife would hardly accept the gift of just any random babies. We must observe the proper rituals and file the proper paperwork for every step of the process.”
I looked in dismay at the quartet gathered around my bed. One stood at each corner, clear-eyed and attentive. Making love to my wife’s half-brother’s wife was going to be stressful enough without it becoming a spectator sport. Before today I would have predicted it would be impossible for my sex life to become more convoluted than it already was, but Yesterday’s arrival proved such predictions wrong. Here I was, in a remote mountain outpost, during a blizzard, with a stranger lying next to me, naked and waiting for me to impregnate her, while four uniformed soldiers waited to play their roles in a centuries old ceremony. Talk about awkward…
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