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Sha'Ria bounced her way into the cave, quite the extra spring in her step (a comical but charming look given her size), and held one hand up to her mouth.

"Oh Raaaaaaj!" she said in a sing-song voice.

The rat, clad in a pair of loose fitting pants (rather than nude as he usually was), stood over in his section of the cave, fiddling with some leather he was learning to work with. Part of the deal WAS that he had to learn a trade, after all. He wasn't quite up to the point of really crafting anything substantial, but he was getting the hang of working with the material and was starting to enjoy the zen of it. Plus, well, it gave him something to focus on when his balls were aching. Since that was most of the time, it meant he was getting a whole lot of practice at his craft.

"Be there in a second!" he called back, setting his needles and other tools down.

The rat made his way over toward his worryingly cheery housemate, wiping his hands off with a rag, only to stop at the realization that Sha'Ria hadn't come back alone.

This was unusual. Sha'Ria had a reputation for several things, and one of the few that wasn't relates to testicular trauma was that she very much valued her privacy. Their cave was well off the beaten path compared to the more populous village most red dragons lived in, and for as long as he's been there they'd never had any guests. As far as Raj knew, Sha'Ria had no friends, and he'd never been brave enough to ask about family. So who was this?

The red dragoness practically bounced on her bare heels as she spoke. She looked like she was about to burst with excitement.

"Raj, this is Kaessa!" she said, introducing the hare to her right butting a hand on the smaller female's back and nudging her forward.

Raj smiled awkwardly, holding a furless hand out towards the doe. "Um... hi!" he said, doing his best to be polite.

Kaessa's age was hard to determine at a glance, not uncommon with her species. She was either a younger girl with a mature demeanor or an older lass who had aged well. She wore a simple outfit on her trim form, a top that kept her modest but left her arms free and a skirt that went to about mid-knee and hung attractively without being form fitting, along with a satchel slung over her shoulder. Her oversized feet were bare.

The hare took his paw in her smaller, softer two and gave it a light squeeze. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Raj!" she said back, her velvety voice instantly putting her age a bit higher up on the spectrum. It was comforting, almost maternal. "Sha'Ria here has told me a, ahem... quite a lot about you," she said, her eyes immediately moving downward towards the rat's crotch, giving a hint as to what those conversations had centered around.

The rat's ears instantly reddened, and his glance flicked over to Sha'Ria, who was smiling ear to ear, just oh so pleased with herself. Okay, now it was less comforting. Inside his leather breeches, those plump rodent eggs shifted around like they could hear themselves being talked about.

"Mm-hm!" Sha'Ria said, nodding eagerly. "I met her down at the market! She's from the Southeast plains, looking for anything exotic that isn't normally available in her region, so we were talking, one thing led to another..." the tall dragon said, waving a hand to gloss over some middle parts, "She said she wanted to see how that amulet worked, and I realized you could help her out with your research! Kaessa's kind of a scientist, you know!"

Raj swallowed once. This wasn't going anywhere particularly good, he could feel it. His big old ratty danglers were practically trying to crawl up and hide in his belly already. They had developed kind of a sense for when danger was incoming.

"Oh? Is... is that right?" he said back, trying to play it cool, like he had no idea where this was heading.

The hare nodded in reply, though far more businesslike than Sha'Ria. "It is! See, back home, we always had this tradition where if you wanted to have sex, but didn't want to risk getting pregnant, the answer was to bust the guy's balls a little and he'd stop making any sperm temporarily," she explained. "But, well, it was hard to prove it actually worked. If a girl got pregnant, everyone just said they didn't pound his nuggets enough. Sometimes the couple wanted to be extra special sure there was NO chance of getting knocked up and... we'd end up with some... um, accidents," Kaessa said, coughing into her fist.

Raj's mouth tightened. This was DEFINITELY not going anywhere good. The rat looked from hare to dragoness and back again, from the curious but clinical Kaessa to Sha'Ria looking like it was her birthday and she was about to start unwrapping presents.

Kaessa continued. "Plus, for a lot of guys, if you pound on their plums too much they can't get it up! But since you've got that medallion thingy, I think we can finally test things out! We don't do much magic down south, and

Raj's ears flattened down to his head. "What do you mean, test?" he inquired with a flat voice. He had a feeling he knew exactly what they meant, or at least that he knew what one of the central parts of the test would be.

Sha'Ria was practically quivering with excitement. "We're gonna b-no wait, Kaessa. You tell him!" she said, pushing lightly at the hare and nearly bowling her over in the process. The muscular dragoness's excitement was somehow more worrisome than anything else. That was far too much lady to be that bouncy.

The lapine laughed and regained her balance, then shook her head at her new friend in amusement before explaining further. "Well! Since you'll have no problem getting it up and keeping it up... no matter WHAT's happening... what I'd like to do is take a sperm sample from you, then beat on your nads for the next few hours and take more samples at various stages along the way. That way I can test each one and see if your sperm count drops down gradually, if it just stops entirely, or if it turns out to just be an old myth! And if it DOES work, we can get an idea about just how close to popped they need to be for it to be safe to have sex!"

The rat whimpered, reflexively clamping both of his hands over his nuts. "No wa-OW!!!" he squeaked, pulling his right hand away and looking at it. Oh yeah, still had a sewing needle in that one. "...no way!"

Sha'Ria sulked, crossing her arms and looking like the rat was the one being all unreasonable. "Oh come oooooon," she complained. "Just think about it! You have two gorgeous girls," she put as much emphasis on 'gorgeous' as she could, "Who want to help get you off over and over, and all you have to put up with is having your eggs scrambled a little! It's not like that's anything new!"

Kaessa nodded. "That's the other thing! You're a perfect control subject because, uh, I guess when you get, you know..." she waved a hand vaguely. "When you get nutted, that spell means you have a fresh pair! So there's no worry that you've already been pre-sterilized from how much abuse those things have been though. And from what Sha'Ria has told me, WOW your nutsack has been through hell and back."

Raj flinched, several months of memories washing over him. He wondered how long they'd been talking, and just how many stories about his gonads getting pulverized Sha'Ria had shared.

Kaessa chuckled, shrugging. "Besides, if we accidentally DO go overboard, a few magic words and you'll be good as new, from what I understand. We'd have to start all over again, but at least nothing would be permanently lost, right?

Seeing the incredibly worried look on Raj's adorably rodent face, Sha'Ria nudged her new friend.

Kaessa went a shade red in her big ears. "I mean... not that we plan on popping your grapes, Raj. Honest. It's just, you know, nice to have that safety net. But we'll make sure to get you off a whole bunch!"

The rat shifted awkwardly from foot to foot. There was no denying that Kaessa was pretty hot, he sure wouldn't complain about a chance to hit that, and Sha'Ria knew all of his little buttons and could get him going off like a fire hose. But still...

Kaessa noticed the rat's hesitation and pivoted a bit. "And just think, if we find out that it's all bunk, you'll be saving all the guys back at my village a ton of unnecessary nut busting! Imagine how many happy hares there will be, knowing they aren't losing any balls because of some silly old myth."

After some more hesitation, Raj finally nodded. If it meant sparing other testicles some unneeded beatings, and he got to blow his wad a dozen times, he could put up with getting smacked around. Raj, the rodent with the regenerating ratmakers. Sometimes he couldn't tell if it was a blessing or a curse.

"Deal," he said.

Sha'Ria just plain squealed in delight, and ushered Raj over toward the bed. Meanwhile, Kaessa began to pull a sequence of small beakers out of her satchel, each with a fitted cork lid. As she set things up on a small table nearby, the dragoness pulled out a jar of the oil they occasionally used to lubricate, and tugged her rat cavemate over toward herself.

"Here, just a quick one to get things started," she said, oiling up her hand. "Pants off, Raj, come on!"

The rat squeaked, like he'd forgotten he'd need to strip down. He quickly pulled his trousers off, exposing his plump yambag and his already half-hard dick for the two ladies to see. Kaessa's eyes went wide and her grin went doubly so.

"Oh this is going to be FUN..." she mused, ogling her new test subject.

Sha'Ria peered over at their professor of a houseguest, a grin spreading on her face. She seemed proud of Raj, her lovely little rat boytoy.

"Oh, Kaessa, don't tell me the guys back home aren't properly hung?" she said, with a sympathetic click of her tongue.

Kaessa laughed a bit, shaking her head, still locking gaze with Raj's naked genitals. "The hares? Oh my no. All the bunnyboys have balls that are like walnuts," she said, holding her cupped paw up to illustrate. "And they're way tighter in the sac, like they're held super snug up there, you know?"

Sha'Ria looked aghast. "Why, that just sounds terrible!" she said, unable to imagine such horrors as a poorly-hung male.

The hare rolled her eyes. "It's not THAT bad," she replied. "Yeah it'd be nice to have one of those big dragon dicks, but it's nice dealing with a set of balls you can't miss! They're basically pinned to the guy's pelvis, so it's just this perfect button you can run up and punt whenever you want. Just... yeesh. It's like this one's custom built for nut beatings."

Sha'Ria cooed happily, nodding and slinking her way over to Raj. "He really is! Those big things just... stick out like they're begging for attention from a girl's foot or knee, aren't they?" She suddenly bent down and wrapped her hand around his sack, making a loose fist behind his nuts to help them stick out further. She gage them a shake and spoke in an exaggerated squeaky voice, using his scrotum like a puppet. "C'mon girls! Step up and kick us! That's why we're here!" she teased.

Kaessa laughed, and even Raj couldn't stop from doing the same. He was sheepish about the whole topic, but a little pleased at getting that reaction, so he didn't put up much resistance as Sha'Ria tugged him over so his back was against her, and then she began to stroke him off with her slickened hand.

"Wh... a handjob??" he said, faintly disappointed at such a mundane start to events.

Sha'Ria rolled her eyes and stopped the jerking just long enough to give his dangly pouch a swat that made him squeak. "Oh hush, this is just the first one. We need a control sample so we know how much you start with. We have the whole rest of the day to try fun stuff."

Raj couldn't exactly argue, after all he was still gonna get off who knew how many times! He bit on his lower lip and panted, making sure not to move his hips and throw off Sha'Ria's rhythm while she stroked along his rock-hard shaft, coaxing that first load out of his nuts. As dirt simple as a handjob was, Sha'Ria knew every single bit of Raj's cock by now, and she knew how to work it just right.

"Kaessa, get one of those jars over here! And hold it really close and over his dick, he can make a hell of a mess if you're not careful."

The hare snickered and did as she was told, and before too long Raj was moaning and shivering and firing off the first load of sticky, potent rat jizz, splattering all over the inside of that container (and a little on the outside of it). Sha'Ria actually stopped right then and there, teasing that she wanted to leave a little in the tank for the rest of the evening's festivities.

"All right, perfect. Raj, lie down on the floor, face up. I'll go get the amulet," the dragoness instructed.

Still hazy from getting his rocks off, Raj had no problem doing as told, letting out a big sigh and getting situated on the floor, looking up at the ceiling. Sha'Ria was back a moment later, and just plain straddled the rat's chest as she slipped the amulet over his neck. He craned his head up for it, not coincidentally giving him just a perfect view of that red dragon pussy.

"Does he actually have to wear it?" Kaessa asked, curious.

Sha'Ria nodded. "Yep! I dunno how it works, but it seems like if he's just holding it or whatever its powers aren't there. I don't understand warlocks and magic, myself."

Raj chuckled at amulet chatter... and only noticed a moment later that Sha'Ria had tied his hands above his head to the legs of the bed!

"Hey!"

The dragoness playfully tweaked Raj's ear, earning a boyish little squeak from him. "We can't have you trying to cover up, silly! It's important. You know, for the science."

Raj grumbled but acquiesced. He was getting better at keeping his hands off of his parts while she kicked him around, but if this was gonna be a long session, it probably was smart. It wasn't especially reassuring, but it made sense. What really concerned him was the table that Sha'Ria was currently dragging over from the far corner of the room.

"Wh... what the heck is that??" he yelped out, his Rat Senses tingling again. Which, of course, meant his balls were starting to feel in even more danger than before.

Sha'Ria beamed, sitting the small table on the floor next to Raj where he could get a good look at it, propping one foot atop the flat surface. "I've been working on this for a little while, today seemed like the perfect day to break it in! I call it my dance floor!"

The 'dance floor' was a short, heavy wooden table with legs that were less than a foot tall, and a top that was more like the size of a chair seat. In its center was a small hole, with a set of what looked like double doors.

Sha'Ria slid the thing over Raj, letting it come to rest at his hips, just over his tender rat meats. "Here's how it works! I open these up..." she said, opening the two little doors upwards, giving her perfect access to everything that was gathered beneath.

"Then I grab all this..."

She reached in, snagging a rather unceremonious handful of rodent parts, before roughly pulling them up and through the new opening.

"Now I close these..."

That was when it all became obvious. The doors shut around his cock and balls, the hole only barely big enough to give them space to reach through. Raj stared down at his pink-skinned prick and his vulnerable, exposed, tender ratmakers sitting naked on the wood. All by themselves. With nowhere to go.

"Voila!" Sha'Ria said with a flourish. "Dance floor!"

The dragoness turned towards Kaessa, gesturing towards her fancy little creation. "Would you like to do the honors?"

Having been staring at the rat getting trussed up and pinned in all the while, Kaessa could hardly hide her excitement. "Really? Oh, I couldn't! You went through all that trouble to make it, you should get the first crack at him," the hare said, pausing to snicker at her own accidental joke.

Sha'Ria shook her head. "No, really, I insist! You're my guest, and besides, I've busted his berries more times than I can count. Have a go at it!"

Kaessa, showing off her heritage by nearly hopping over to the table in one leap, stood on top of it with her large, fuzzy feet just on either side of Raj's nutsack. She looked down at them a moment, as if trying to plan out her next move.

"This is kind of exciting!" she said, turning to Sha'Ria and speaking as if Raj himself wasn't even there. "Back home we just, you know, give the guy a couple kicks and knees. I've never had one all held down like this!"

Sha'Ria grinned. She liked feeling like a tutor of sorts, helping this bunny gal have a whole new experience in the world of nutbusting, red dragon style. "Just wait until you try it!"

The hare hummed, her hesitation making the pinned down rat writhe and squirm awkwardly. Worst of all, because of how he was situated, absolutely none of his own body movements made any difference. Raj's testicles just sat still on the table, waiting.

The hare jabbed one toe against Raj's penis, gently twiddling with it, just watching how it twitched and reacted. When they were held away from the rest of his body, the rat's equipment didn't even look like it was actually attached to anything. Like it was just this little creature plopped down on the floor at her feet. That bit of teasing made him pant softly, and his cock quickly began plumping up. Sure, he'd just gotten off barely a few minutes earlier, but come on. That felt REALLY good.

Kaessa pressed a naked heel against Raj's left nut, and started to apply pressure. She didn't have nearly the weight Sha'Ria did, so it took a bit of effort before she got the rat whimpering and whining. After putting just a portion of her weight on that bare ball, she switched to the right and did the same, just carefully stepping on the trapped rat's nadsack like she was dipping her toes in a stream to test the temperature.

The lightly furred sole of Kaessa's foot almost felt nice against his bare skin, but Raj didn't have too much time to enjoy it. Getting a new pair every time his popped also meant his balls never really "toughened up," each set was brand new, and that meant it never got any easier. His cock twitched, but softened as that familiar ache began to settle in.

Raj took a breath, looking down at his set for a moment, the fuzzy paw jabbing and toying with it, and glanced upwards.

"Uh... Kaessa? Far be it from me to sit here and complain that you're NOT trampling my nuts, but you might wanna pick up the pace unless you're planning on staying here overnight."

"Ooooh, a slumber party," Sha'Ria teased. "We can take turns sitting on Raj's junk while we tell ghost stories!"

The hare laughed awkwardly. "Okay, okay. Sorry. This is all just kinda new to me. Hmm, all right, time to stop playing nice."

She shifted her weight back to her other foot, and then lifted her front leg up nice and high, almost like she was showing her bunny stomper off to Raj, silently saying "see this? This is gonna be giving you a bad day."

Boy howdy, did it ever.

Stomp!

"Gack!!"

Stamp!

"EEEK!"

Thump!

"HOLD ON A SECOND!"

WHAM!!

Kaessa might not have been nearly as heavy as Sha'Ria, but her lapine legs were DAMN strong, just like all hares. Not only that, but it was FAST. A series of stomp after stomp after stomp just rained down on Raj's heavy eggs in what felt like no time at all. She slammed her foot on the left, on the right, both at the same time, and there was nowhere for Raj's balls to hide. They just flattened and smooshed down on the brutally hard wood, the sounds only interrupted by his own SQUEAKS and wails.

"Oh my GOD!" Kaessa said, putting her hand over her mouth and snickering. "He squeaks like... like a little toy when you stomp on his nuts!"

Sha'Ria looked so proud. "He does! And it gets higher and louder the harder you do it!"

The hare's eyes went wide at the thought of it, and so did Raj's. A moment later, his already swelling nutsack got another rain of hare feet on them, crunching his gonads cruelly on the table. He squealed, he writhed, he tugged and yanked on the twine holding him to the bed, but all his balls could do was sit there and take it.

After what felt like a few thousand stamps, Kaessa stopped and went over to the table to grab another beaker, leaving the rat to pull on his bindings and lament a bruised nutpouch that still had a long evening ahead of it.

"Oooogh... my baaahaaalls..." he whimpered, hips writhing and shifting around under the 'dance floor' while his sequestered scrotum was held perfectly still.

Kaessa skipped right back over, plopping herself down on the floor and giving that ratty dick a playful shaking. "Okay, time for the next sample."

Despite the agony in his scrotum, Raj perked up. Hey, this was the reason he agreed to this, after all, right?

Sha'Ria grinned and stood over Raj's agonized face. She'd stripped down while he was getting his testicles tapdanced on, and it meant a lovely view of her ass and snatch. The dragoness turned around, kneeling, and then just sitting her big, muscled butt right on his face. It was her favorite position, wriggling that ass down on her boy's muzzle while he was yelling and moaning about the fire in his loins.

The rat let out a few muffled protests, but couldn't get much out. Sha'Ria laughed as she started to stroke him off yet again.

"Look, Raj, we can't have you fuck one of us or get a blowjob, because that would taint the sample."

Kaessa hummed, considering that. "Well... I mean, a blowjob would work, if you're all right with that. Just spit it in the jar, a little saliva shouldn't make a difference."

That was good news at least, for both of them! Sha'Ria always adored sucking her rat off while he cried and squirmed from getting his balls pounded, it was one of the perks! So she wrapped her lips around that fat ratty cock and bobbed her head back and forth, sucking and licking and taking that thing all the way down and back again. She was an expert on Raj's dick by this point, and it wasn't long before she was gesturing to get another beaker.

Raj moaned out, still held mostly silent by Sha'Ria's big sexy booty, while the dragoness's cheeks pooched out as her mouth got filled with his seed. She waved a frantic arm to Kaessa to hand the damn thing over before she started sputtering it all over the place and lost a sample. A quick spit later and she pulled out a rag to wipe things off.

"Okay, next time we do that, little faster on the handover, okay?" Sha'Ria said, panting. "All right, Round two, this one's my turn," the dragoness said, grinning ear to ear.

Raj looked up at the nude dragoness, her heavy tits and thick thighs. Sexy as hell... not to mention scary at a time like this.

Kaessa chuckled. "Okay, but remember, we need a LOT of samples from one, uh... intact set, so if you go and burst anything it means we gotta start all over again."

The dragoness waved her hand, like she'd heard it a thousand times before. "Yeah yeah, believe me, I know Raj's nuts. They can take a LOT more."

And so they did.

Sha'Ria slammed her broad foot down on Raj's sack, pinning his right nut to the wood and grinding on it like she was trying to kill a bug and getting a high pitched SQUEAL out of him, then she did it to the left. An expert on stamping rat nuts she sure was, alternating from one bruised ball to the other with perfect aim, her heel pounding down right in the middle of each testicle.

Mercifully, she stopped after "only" about a dozen, leaving the rat with a visibly swollen, not to mention bruised, ballsack and tears in his eyes.

"My turn to get him off!" Kaessa said cheerfully.

The hare tugged a chair over, pausing a moment to squint at Raj's parts. She squatted down and poked his soft cock a few times. They were able to get it up the first time without any magical assistance, but it looked like after two loads and two rounds of ball beating he was gonna need a bit of a boost.

"Hey, rat! Say the thing!" she commanded, flicking his dick a few times with one finger, looking a touch disappointed that it wasn't working right.

Raj almost forgot about that, and took a second to find his voice again before croaking out, "Phallum... rigorum..."

As if it had no idea what was happening around it, Raj's cock instantly sprang to life, hardening fully and plopping down on the table again. Kaessa clapped.

"That is AMAZING! I've never seen anything like it! Sha'Ria, get another beaker, I'll need you to collect the sample this time.

Kaessa sat down on the chair and put her feet on either side of Raj's dick, her toes curling and spreading teasingly. "This one's an old hare trick," she said with a wink.

Raj had never been stroked off by a girl's feet before, but after a second or three he realized what he'd been missing! Kaessa was as good with her feet as most girls were with their hands, those wide soles stroking him off expertly while her toes held around his shaft. It only took another minute for him to shoot another sizable sample into the third beaker.

The hare whistled as she cleaned off with another rag, looking at the load in the glass container. "Jeez, by now most guys would be barely getting ANYTHING out, and that's not even counting the ball busting, just from getting jerked off three times in a row!"

Sha'Ria winked back at her. "I told you, Raj is a stud! We could do this all night as long as his nuts hold out."

The evening continued, with the ladies taking turns working over the trapped rat's trapped nuts. They stomped on them, knelt down and punched them, squeezed them, at one point Kaessa took out a wooden spoon and began to slap them, pretending his nads were a set of fleshy, meaty drums. The sounds of nuts getting smacked and whacked around joined up with his screeches and wails, paused only so one of the girls could get him off again.

By the time it was all over, Raj had been blown, jerked off, a titjobbed a dozen times, there were thirteen total beakers with his seed in them, and his nuts were so swollen his sack skin was stretched to the limit and shiny. It was a miracle he was still conscious.

As he laid there, moaning and whimpering and sobbing pathetically from the blinding agony in his nearly (but not quite!) mushed nuts, Kaessa leaned in to survey the damage.

She whistled. "Damn. Hey, Sha'Ria? You mind taking a look at your boyfriend's equipment? I feel like they might need to get, y'know. Rebuilt."

Sha'Ria pulled a worried face, stepping over and squatting down next to Raj. They did look pretty bad, she had to admit. The dragoness pressed one scaly finger against his left nut, pressing in and watching the softened flesh dimple down around it. In response, Raj the floor-rat let out a few pitiful mewls, arching his back and curling his toes.

"Oof, yeah, he's pretty beat up, but no they're not totally busted. He'll just need some rest before they're back to normal size. Normal-ish size."

Kaessa seemed skeptical, but shrugged. "Hey, you know his anatomy a hell of a lot better than I do. Either way, I think we got more than enough material for our tests. Raj, you've been an enormous help, I'm sure the hares back home will be forever grateful for the sacrifices you made today. They're gonna, like, build a statue to you. Or at least one to your balls. And every year the ladies of the town will all come out and give it a ceremonial kick."

The dragoness laughed and rather happily guided Kaessa to the cave entrance to bid her farewell, then returned to the mewling rat beneath the table.

"You did GREAT, Raj! A perfect gentleman, and just think how much good you did! Plus, those dozen orgasms weren't too bad, huh?" she said, all casually chipper while she sat on the floor next to him, crosslegged.

All Raj could do was whimper.

She laughed. "Okay, we gotta get you in bed. It's gonna be a while for you to heal up. Unless you want me to just finish 'em off and get you a new pair!"

The rat immediately started tugging his arms best as he could, shaking his head since his voicebox didn't feel like helping him out other than incoherent moans.

Sha'Ria laughed again, hands up. "I'm kidding, I'm kidding! C'mon, hold still."

It took more of a tug than the dragoness anticipated, thanks to all the swelling, but she got Raj out from under the table, untied his arms, and hauled him up into the bed. She even cuddled up next to him and stroked his trim little tummy, knowing how horrible the nausea and ache were there. She thought about offering to suck him off again, but that rat's parts had been through a lot already. They probably just needed some good ol' fashion rest and relaxation more than anything.

A wide smile on her face, Kaessa practically skipped along through the forest, pleased with herself and just riding high off of the excitement of the afternoon. She paused only to walk down to a nearby riverbank.

The hare pulled the thirteen beakers out of her bag, opened the lids, and dumped their contents into the water, plunging each one in to wash it out. Once she was satisfied that they were all clean, Kaessa loaded them back into the satchel, slung it over her shoulder, and continued on her way home.

"I cannot believe he bought that," she snickered, shaking her head. "Sha'Ria was right, that rat will believe anything if you tell him he gets to cum. I mean, honestly. Me, a scientist. Of all the things."