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wondered if he was going to like or be horrified by what he would see once the movie started. Intellectual curiosity. That's all it was.
       He opened the box, slid the disc out and popped it into the player, switching on the broadcast screen. He rubbed his palms against his bare knees, suddenly nervous as he waited for the movie to start. The title, Kozhi and Nhor in Yaalhi Pond , appeared in Human script against a black background.
       Eunnoian movies, he quickly saw, were similar but in many ways different from Human movies. For one, there was no background music— probably a blessing, considering the nature of the movie—and so far, it appeared the movie was one continuous take, with a single recording device following the action. In addition, he quickly noticed there was no dialogue, only voiceover narration, and he wondered if that was a convention of erotic movies or a rule of Eunnoian cinema.
       Gabriel watched for about ten minutes, following the subtitles as the rather mundane story was established—it was nice to see that thin plots were a universal constant of pornography. Kozhi, the green-skinned male from the cover, paced through calf-deep water and began a soliloquy about the deep emotional reasons behind his visit to Yaalhi Pond. Gabriel soon stopped paying attention to the subtitles and instead focused on Kozhi. He was tall, like all Eunnoian males, and wore a lightly-colored sarong around his waist. The supple ridges at his collarbone and ribs fluttered as he walked.
       Growing a little restless as he sat on his bed, Gabriel skipped ahead a few minutes, until Kozhi finished walking through the shallow water and entered a small construct that appeared to be made of sandstone, surrounded by thick trees that seemed rooted directly in the water. The level of lighting suggested it was dawn, or this may have been the usual Eunnoian sky. It was a rather beautiful setting, if Yaalhi Pond was a real place, and Gabriel wondered if Jhuun's home looked anything like this.
       The other Eunnoian, Nhor, also clad in a sarong, seemed to react positively to Kozhi's arrival, and the two shared a voiceover dialogue as Gabriel studied Nhor. He really did look like Jhuun, with the same indigo skin and green eyes that were maybe a bit darker, though just as large. Gabriel was about to skip ahead again to get to something more explicit, when the voiceover stopped, and after a moment of quiet, Kozhi reached over and—Gabriel held his breath— gently stroked Nhor's throat with his fingertips.
       The gesture, in this context, was unmistakably erotic and sent a hot bolt of arousal straight to Gabriel's groin. Nhor moaned, the first sound actually uttered by one of the actors on-screen, and his neck arched back to give his partner more access. Gabriel released the breath he'd been holding as Nhor reached over with shaking fingers and reciprocated the gesture.
       Kozhi then reached up to cover Nhor's fingers with his own, pulling the hand away from his throat, encouraging Nhor to follow him outside the sandstone construct. Once outside, Nhor was gently pushed against the striated trunk of one of the trees. Water lapped at their feet as Kozhi leaned over the other, running a long tongue over the clearly sensitive skin of his throat. Nhor was obviously enjoying it—or else the actor was doing a very good job at pretending he was—as he shuddered and scrabbled at the trunk with long tapered fingers.
       Gabriel shuddered as well. Sweat prickled on his brow as he reached down over the thin cloth of his shorts, pressing a hand to his already-hard cock. He couldn't help but imagine Jhuun, in place of the Nhor character, throwing his head around in pleasure as Gabriel licked and sucked at his throat.
       On-screen, Kozhi had ceased his caresses on Nhor's throat and was now kneeling, soaking the sarong as the water now covered his knees. He dragged his fingertips, tortuously slow, down the center of Nhor's