Nok bent in several directions, stretching his skin coveringand the cartilage structure. Those weren't the names of his body parts. Likemany terms, he had learned them from the new people. They had come many circlesago.
He was a neub then. As more and more arrived, they all hadto adapt. Nok had learned that was their way to go to new places and push asidethe beings that were there before them. But the longer cells had trans morphedand soon all his beings had integrated into the lives of the new people.
Some worked with them to construct enclosures and machines.Others had absorbed the habits, knowledge and even viewpoints of the newpeople.
The new people arrived in a different shaped dwelling thenthe things that Nok and fellow beings encountered on the surface. There weremore and more arriving. The new people seemed to change those dwelling intoother dwellings in which they remained.
Nok's ancient beings moved across the familiar surfaceapproaching the new presence. They absorbed the new people's intent, a kind oflanguage they expelled.
They observed the people. Nok had become aware of thosetimes when ancients of his beings first encountered the new people. It had beenstrange for both species at first. But his beings seemed to aborb and changeshape to the kind the new people found acceptable.
Nok had been startled the first time he saw his own image inthe devices the new people used. He watched as his shape and form realigned toappearing nearly the same as the new people.
It was strange. Not all his beings could do transform soeasily.
Nok met the new person and nodded as he felt his own beingchanging almost immediately. Sometimes he needed to be touched to affect thechange. But Zamuel Miller, as he was called by other new people, just stoodnearby.
"Here" Zam offered his appendage and Nok wrapped his aroundit to complete the change. Zam's facial movements showed approval.
Nok moved with Zam into the back room. He maneuvered Zam'suniform until it lay on the floor of the new people's entertainment center.
"Nice" Nok said as he surveyed Zam's bare body.
At first he and others thought the new people had layers ofskins until they learned the outer skins were called uniforms or clothing. Oncethe new people didn't have those outer skins on, their structures seemeddifferent.
Zam's was pink like many other new people. He had verylittle fur and little spots the new people called freckles. His head fur wasbright like the sun.
Nok liked that. It made him smile. He could feel his cellsmoving in excitement when his kind would manufacture others.
"You too" Zam reached forward and touched the newly formedpart of Nok's being. It excited Nok further being touched like that.
"You want?" Nok asked.
Zam closed his eyes and nodded.
Part of Nok's transformed being changed back to his earlierform. The new persons often wanted to be stimulated by their extendedstructure.
Nok absorbed Zam's desires. They all had learned to absorbthe new people's indications or as they called it, thoughts, emotions, pain,pleasures and even anger.
Initially this frightened many of Nok's fellow beings. Butthey were used to adapting. It was part of their own structure to adjust totheir plant's undersurface, the strong force of the winds, the heat of the sunbaked days and the cold of the night darkness.
Nok absorbed his fellow beings as they did all the time. Butthe new people offered different absorptions.
Zam liked being touched. Nok complied. Zam sighed andmuttered words. Nok absorbed the words. The new people seemed to make wordsusing their eating receptacles. Nok and his fellow beings absorbedcommunications from each other and the new people.
That seemed alarming to the new people, but eventually theygot used to the beings and visa versa.
Nok extended his structure to form digits that pulled on thetwo pink patches of Zam's skin. He sighed again. His pointed part seemed to bobup and down. Nok had learned that meant the new person was experiencingpleasure. Nok increased the pressure on Zam's body.
Zam nodded his head, keeping his eyes closed. Nok absorbedthe images from Zam. They were other new people, Zam had been with. Nok sawtheir faces, body structure, hands doing the same as his extensions were doing.
Another extension moved without Nok's conscious effort. Itwas easier when his own being absorbed so much of the new person that his ownstructure seemed to adapt to whatever the new person wanted..Much like Nok'soriginal shaping to fit the image of a new person.
Nok's new extension moved over the Zam's roundness thatallowed his movement. They were round, firm and sliding over them seemed toexcite Zam more.
Nok couldn't feel like the new people did. They seemed toreact to touching each other or his beings touching them. He could aborb theirsensations and knew when they were pleased.
His extension moved between Zam's roundness now and insertedinto him. Zam mouth opened. His eyes remained closed.
Nok had learned long ago that if the new people opened theireyes during these sessions, they would often stop and remove themselves. Nok'speople had realized their own forms weren't always understood by the newpeople. Fortunately absorbing and shifting their forms enabled the new people tobe near them.
There had been stories of Nok's fellow beings beingassaulted and disseminated when the new people began to arrive. But Nok wasamong those beings that seemed to absorb and adapt to be accepted by the newpeople easier than others.
Zam was shaking now. Nok slowed his extension's movementsand that pleased Zam. Another extension had formed and encircled the new person'sown extension.
Zam shivered and smiled. Nok had already absorbed Zam'sreaction but seeing the face change confirmed the correctness of the absorbtion.
Nok's first time encountering a new person was easy. He hadchanged his structure to that of a female new person which made the variousmales react. Nok felt the acceptance.
Two of them seemed more accepting then others and Nokexperienced what female new people apparently experienced.
He was sought after by other new people for more and moresimilar encounters.
During one of those, Nok's changed shape was underneath anew person whose extension was inside his being. Then suddenly his beingstarted to change again. Nok was concerned that his being wouldn't be accepted.Where the new person's extension had been grew a similar one on Nok.
He realized the new person's desires caused the change andhe was becoming similar shaped being. The New person seemed surprised at firstbut then moved to life Nok's leg like extensions and inserted himself in adifferent place.
Nok absorbed what the new person was doing wasn't known byothers. There was a desire that new person didn't want known.
After that, Nok sensed similar mental activity among othernew people. His various shapes would reflect that more than other shapes.
Zam was shaking again. Nok's extension had changed shape andwas swallowing Zam's extension while other parts of Nok's being were movingtoo. One was sliding in and out of Zam while another was swallowing hisextension and others were still stimulating the two pink places.
Zam was nearly at the point; Nok had learned was called an orgasm.It was when the new people's form would excrete fluids similar to Nok's ownbeings. After the excretion, the new persons would be without strength.
Nok had shared coupling with others of his beings. Ithappened without the type of thoughts the new people seemed to have. Sometimesit occurred when one or more of Nok's fellow beings were just close enough tomeld. Other times it seemed to occur when a being moved close for that purpose.It was part of their species habits. Nok never considered it anything differentuntil he saw the new people.
Zam yelled something. Nok couldn't quite understand thewords but he did absorb Zam's body action and soon his extensions surroundedthe being as Zam seemed to collapse, lowering him to the surface.
Nok's shape began to change. Usually Nok would leave the newperson knowing his shape might return to his own being shape which might upsetthe person. But he had shared with Zam before and knew his new shape wouldeither change only slightly or change to yet another.
If it was another, they might share again or Zam might justperform new person like affection and leave. This time Zam awoke and smiled. Hewrapped his extended appendages around Zam and used the word Nathan. Nok's simulatedappendages did the same to Zam.
Zam departed the area and Nok resumed his own shape feeling thesurface and mobilized to a part of it to remain until he absorbed the presenceof another being or new person.
It was strange as the light became darkness that Nok felt overwhelmingthoughts from Zam.
He had seen Zam and other new people together. He had onceseen Zam in his pink skin with another male also wearing his pink skin thoughit had much fur. As the two new people moved close, Nok saw them do what helater did with Zam. At first he thought it might be violent but Zam seemed toenjoy the experience and Nok absorbed more and more of him.
He was shorter in one such abortion, his hair bright as thesun still. Another being of much darker skin moved into the strange lookingarea. Zam seemed alarmed but his extension stuck out as if signaling the otherbeing.
Zam was pushed backwards onto some surface and hisappendages were grabbed and held high as the darker skinned person's extensionmoved close and inserted itself into Zam.
Nok knew Zam felt pain then pleasure as the dark skinnedperson kept inserted the thing. He knew what was occurring but hadn't absorbedthis before.
Another pink skin person was there too and moving to thesurface. It touched Zam's extension which seemed to be soft now. Then ithardened as the new pink person swallowed it into his food hole.
Nok felt Zam's shock emotion when a taller person wearing alayer of skin other than the pink one appeared. He seemed angry and the othertwo persons moved away from Zam.
Zam's thoughts confused Nok. They were confusing mixture ofsome kind of pain and still some of the pleasurable kind.
Zam moved from the surface and knelt in front of the personwith non-pink skin. He swallowed the new person's extension and it spilled outall over Zam. Again mixed absorptions were felt.
Nok felt something, it wasn't just an abortion. Perhaps hehad been sharing with new people so much and so often something had stayed apart of his being.
He moved through the space over the rocks that usuallyaltered his shape but didn't. It was as if something was attracting him, muchlike when another being was near for their melding.
Nok passed the dwellings his kind had helped the new peopleconstruct. He occasionally encountered a surface item that caused him to changedirection or even stop moving.
He found his being at an entranced. And as new people did,he signaled his presence as an extension transformed into an appendage.
Nok moved inside the first entrance. It seemed new peopleneeded two such doorways unless they wore their white skins. Now the secondentranced opened and Zam stood there in his pink skin.
Nok moved inside and felt his being change. Zam's abortionsmade his being change.
Zam watched as Nok's being returned to the form most newpeople didn't seem to prefer. His appendages returned to the grey shape.
Zam nodded. Nok realized Zam would not leave the area.
Zam reached with one of his appendages and touched him. Nok'sbeing started to change but stopped when Zam took his appendage away.
Zam wanted him to remain there. Nok absorbed the pleasureZam felt. He remained.
Other new people seemed to accept Nok's presence with Zam.His being changed to fit Zam's images. Sometimes he was dark skinned and othertimes the image he had seen of a person with colorful skins.
Other new people seemed to react to each shape, oftenexpressing themselves to Zam. Sometimes Nok absorbed Zam's pain and other timesacceptance.
When they were alone in Zam's space, Nok would shape andmeld with the new person. Zam was the only one he melded with now. Each timewas different and as many times passed, Nok realized that somehow his being hadcreated, perhaps recreated, shapes and meldings instead of only absorbing Zam'sdesires and memories.
It occurred often. Zam seemed pleased. Nok began to learn hetoo was enjoying the sensations he absorbed.
Nok was used to being among the new people. Everywhere Zamwent he was there as well. Moving among them, Nok learned more and more aboutthe new people. Occasionally he would absorb thoughts and memories.
His own beings would absorb what he had absorbed as well,often moving to him for that purpose. The new people seemed to be happier attheir presence.
New dwellings were created with their help. The new peoplefound surface shapes they used for their own purposes. Nok's beings replicatedand more of his own beings are among the new people. When more new peoplearrived his beings were there to help them get used to their new dwellings.
Their companionship began to be imitated by other newpeople. Nok's fellow beings appeared with new people much like he and Zam did.
Occasionally the new people seemed to be damaged. Nok'sfellow beings remained with them and parts of their being seemed to repair some'sdamage.
Zam like his fellow beings helped Zam repair over time aswell.
Though not aware of time, as the new people called it, Noksaw Zam's shape change. His bright as the sun fur seemed to change. He didn'tmeld as often. But Nok remained. He had not only absorbed Zam's desire to do sobut realized he wanted to as well.
When Zam's being no longer offered abortions. Nok somehowknew the new being had transformed. Other new people seemed to be sad as theyput white skins around Zam's body and carried him to a place outside thedwellings.
Other of Nok's beings were there, many New People were theretoo. Nok couldn't absorb Zam at all. He didn't quite understand but absorbedsome of the new people nearby.
He had learned to control which he desired aborb. SomehowZam's absorptions had ceased though his being remained. A fire consumed it asnew people stood and watched.
Nok felt something new. A lack of absorption. He didn't wantto aborb others. His shape had returned to its natural form. Nok didn't reactas his form moved across the surface away from Zam's being away from the othernew people and away from his own beings.
The darkness surrounded him and Nok felt his being dissipating. There was nothing to aborb, nothing he wantedto aborb now that Zam's being had vanished.