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Jake woke to the wonderful sensation of his long, thick cock being sucked down almost to the root, accompanied by the incredibly masculine scent of Srythryn's intoxicating musk. He opened his eyes and saw to his pleasure that Srythryn's thick cock and large smooth balls were hanging in the air just above his face while the croc's head was down at Jake's crotch working his tool with abandon.

Jake moaned at the sensation of his cock being sucked so hard and his hand went up to rub at Srythryn's butt and the other went up to caress his big balls.

Srythryn briefly took his mouth off of Jake's cock and breathed, "Good morning, my beautiful lover. I woke to find you fully erect and ready for me even while you still slept and I could not resist your wonderful manhood."

"Good morning, you sexy beast. Please, don't stop. It feels so good. Let me have yours too."

Srythryn moved back slightly and moved his knees apart a bit further to lower his crotch right to the level of Jake's mouth. Jake tilted his head back and touched his lips to the oozing tip of Srythryn's amazingly thick and throbbing penis. The croc moaned and pushed forward while Jake parted his lips and sucked the magnificent tool into his mouth.

"Give me a sign when I get too far in. I do not wish to suffocate you," Srythryn said and then he proceeded to gently but firmly push more of his thick cock into Jake's mouth.

Jake remembered what Xelzix had told him about the modifications to his windpipe and jaw to allow for just this sort of activity. He wanted to see how well it would work. He relaxed his jaw and throat and waited while Srythryn continued to press forward.

The thick blunt end of Srythryn's cock reached the back of Jake's mouth and bumped up against his throat but it was only half way in. Jake was surprised to find he had no urge to gag whatsoever. He relaxed more and allowed his throat to open. He did not move so that Srythryn knew he could still press further. The croc moaned and he felt his thick cock get squeezed by Jake's throat as he pushed it in. Much to Jake's delight he found that Xelzix was right. Srythryn's cock was over nine inches long and very thick yet he continued to push it into Jake's throat until the large croc's pubic bone bumped up against Jake's chin and his massive balls bumped against Jake's nose. Jake was still breathing through his nose with no trouble at all. He could smell the musk off of Srythryn's big balls and it raised the level of his lust.

Srythryn moaned again and pulled back until his cock emerged from Jake's throat and nearly out of his mouth and then paused to let Jake breath. He must not know of Jake's modifications. Srythryn then pushed firmly and smoothly back in. He slowly built up a rhythm pulling back, pausing and plunging in to Jake's tight throat and Jake could already sense Srythryn losing control and approaching his climax.

The croc moved his mouth back onto Jake's cock and slurped it down as far as he could. Jake moaned again at the pleasurable sensation and instinctively raised his hips to try to push more of himself into Srythryn's mouth.

The two of them began to fall into a rhythm that got faster and faster and showed a little less care for the well being of their partner as their lust began to carry them away. Jake was so turned on by the sight and smell of the large croc's balls banging against his face and the thought that Srythryn was hornily rutting against his face with complete abandon that he quickly began to feel his orgasm begin to lift him up as it carried him over the edge like a waterfall and his pelvic muscle clenched powerfully and pumped a massive surge of semen up into Srythryn's mouth. Srythryn moaned and began to gulp down the treat and increased his suction on Jake's cock as if to try to draw out even more of his seed. Jake's body obliged by pulsing spurt after spurt of cum into the croc's hungry mouth.

It took a minute of constant spurting before Jake's pelvic muscle started to settle down and the intense orgasm began to subside, but by then Srythryn had become so aroused by all of the semen that his own hips had started to buck hard against Jake's face with abandon. He moaned loudly around Jake's thick cock while still sucking at the seed spurting from it and tensed briefly and then slammed his own cock hard down into Jake and held the position and shot a thick hot jet of semen right down Jake's throat.

Jake moaned around the beautifully thick member and that only raised Srythryn's heat further and he moaned again and pulled his hips back and slammed into Jake again. Jake was in heaven as the croc fed him every ounce of cum he could produce. Srythryn humped several more times at Jake's face until finally he had nothing left to feed him and he pulled his mouth off of Jake's softening member and collapsed onto Jake with his still stiff cock just part way into Jake's mouth to allow him to breathe..

Jake put his hands on the croc's muscular buttocks and pulled them hard against his face to force Srythryn's cock all the way down his throat to get the last of the big croc's load into him and Srythryn moaned one last time and lay there completely still as the last of his cum oozed out into Jake. Jake wrapped his arms around Srythryn's back and held him tightly to him with the croc's cock down his throat and his big beautiful balls resting on his face.

After several minutes Srythryn gently pulled out of Jake's mouth and rolled onto the blanket.

"By the Granth's hindmost blowhole, that was incredible! How could you possibly breathe while I was buried so deep inside your throat?" Srythryn asked breathlessly.

"Xelzix told me they had to make a few modifications to allow my match to enjoy me properly without injuring me. That was one of them," Jake said.

"I am the lucky one in this then. I can fuck your face with abandon, and I must say I enjoyed doing it. I have had no such modification made to me since I am not part of a match. Perhaps if I beg hard enough Xelzix might consider doing it for me the next time I am reinstalled. I would love nothing more than to feel the entirety of your impressive manhood pushed all the way down my throat. For now, I think whenever we do that particular move I will need to be on top or you might choke me to death."

"That suits me fine, Srythryn. I love the idea of you rutting that big, beautiful, masculine green body of yours against my face without having to concern yourself with being careful or gentle. I'm beginning to be aroused again just thinking of it."

Srythryn chuckled and said, "I will have trouble keeping up with you I think. You are always ready to go again so quickly. We will need to include other lovers if you are to be fully satisfied. You will wear me out otherwise."

"Other lovers? That wouldn't bother you?"

"No, of course not. I certainly hope that it would not bother you either. It would serve to heighten the pleasure sometimes. I will want to have you to myself during our more intimate and private moments but when we're simply in the mood to fuck it can be immense fun to include others, and I know we will have no shortage of people lining up to join us should we wish it Jake."

"That sounds like it would suit me fine too."

"Excellent! We'll get right on it as soon as we can, but for now we should eat. You fed me quite a bit of your wonderful seed but perhaps we should go inside and I will prepare us some breakfast. We'll need sustenance to keep up these activities."

Jake smiled and sat up and looked around for his shorts and when he found them he slipped them on. He got Srythryn's as well and handed them to him and Srythryn stepped into them and pulled them up. Jake saw that they were split at the back near the top where there was a hole for the croc's tail. Srythryn pulled them all the way up and then attached the two ends over the top of his tail and they held together by a Velcro-like attachment.

Srythryn asked Jake to gather up the blanket and return it to the bin while the croc went up into the house to begin the preparation of their food.

Jake got the blanket and shook it out then rolled it up and put it back inside the storage bin under the house.

Jake looked around at the incredible view. The sun was a little ways up so it must have risen at least an hour ago. It was already feeling sweltering hot so he imagined it must get nearly unbearable by early afternoon. Perhaps that's why they love the ocean so much, so they can go in and cool off in it whenever they wish.

The waves out on the ocean were getting bigger. Occasionally he saw a large wave come up and start to curl before breaking against the shore. The beach was very long and the sand was white and clean. Off to the sides where the land jutted out into the ocean the jungle grew all along the top and hung out over the water on short cliffs. It made the little cove completely private.

Jake wondered where exactly the place Srythryn had set up for him was. He really didn't see any need for it. He should just tell Srythryn to let it go to someone else. Jake wanted nothing more than to stay right here with the big, beautiful croc. He had no need for privacy beyond this.

He walked over to the house and up the stairs and went in.

The house was very clean and simple. There were big and comfortable looking chairs here and there arranged around tables in the main living room. Jake saw nothing that looked like a television or sound system or anything like that. He wondered what Srythryn did for entertainment when he was relaxing alone in here.

He was surprised to see that there did not appear to be even one picture of anyone anywhere. The only things hanging on the walls or sitting on tables or shelves were small pieces of art or simple sculptures. It seemed odd to him that Srythryn would have no photos, or whatever passed for them in their technology. A person with such a long life should have a home crowded with mementos and memories. The place almost looked like a very comfortable but impersonal hotel room or something.

Jake followed the inviting aroma of what smelled to him like fried ham into another room at the back of the house. It was a fairly standard looking kitchen with a stove and what looked like a refrigerator and some counters and a table. There were pieces of equipment that looked like mixers and blenders and toasters and all of the things you might see in a regular kitchen back on Earth. It felt homey and normal yet somehow just seemed wrong in a high tech intergalactic space ship.

Where was the small door in the wall that you spoke to and it slid up to reveal your order already piping hot and waiting for you to carry it off and eat it?

Come to think of it, their advanced tech was missing a lot of other things too. They couldn't just warp over to any another planet anywhere and be parked in orbit in just hours. They couldn't just beam him up from Earth but had to come down and get him. Where were the holodecks and tractor beams and that magical gravity that exists everywhere that doesn't require a spinning ship? They probably couldn't even slingshot their asses around the sun at high speed to magically travel backward through time to shoot down the asteroid that had destroyed the Earth.

They really needed to get William Shatner up here to give them some of his better technology.

Srythryn stood at the stove and was flipping thick slices of meat that did in fact look and smell just like ham in one large skillet while several exceedingly large eggs fried in another.

Jake walked up beside the big croc and kissed him on the cheek.

"Smells great, I'm so glad your people don't eat some sort of green sludge or brown seaweed or live baby rodents or bowls of squirmy insect larvae or something."

Srythryn chuckled, "Those do sound tempting, but we are not savages. We eat meat and we cook our food like any civilized people. I think you'll find that most warm blooded sentient races eat things that appeal to you a great deal. It takes large brains a lot of energy to operate so all sentient species tend to evolve to eat protein and energy rich foods such as the ova of other species and their meat. It takes too long to derive sufficient energy from plant matter and you need it in too great a quantity. There are no known herbivorous species who rose to sentience in the universe so far, though some did start as grass eaters and then evolved to become omnivores and then evolved intelligence. Those of us who've arrived at sentience are all meat eaters."

"Good. I love meat and according to Xelzix I get to eat like a pig from now on. I love these nanos they gave me. When I woke this morning my breath felt as fresh as a daisy and even now my teeth feel smooth and clean as though I'd just brushed them. My nails are perfect, my face is smooth with no unwanted beard growth so no need to shave. It's wonderful!"

"Yes, the favors truly remove the drudgery from our lives. We can focus on what matters and let them take care of the other things. The bin out back where you placed the blanket has some, for example. They will clean the blanket thoroughly and within less than an hour or so it will be as fresh and clean as when it was first made and will be ready for use again. The favors work constantly in several ways to help us with mundane tasks."

"My translator has been working wonders but I think it might have just glitched out on me. I heard the word 'favors' which means something you do for someone, instead of the word 'nanos' which are the microscopic machines we're talking about," Jake said.

"It was not a glitch. I generally use the technical word for the machines, which the translator converts to 'nanos' because it makes sense to you. Xelzix and the other First Ones also use only the technical word so you've only ever heard them called 'nanos'. This time I used the more common word for them that refers to a gift bestowed upon you out of good will or benevolence. That must translate to the word 'favor' in your language. Most races call the nanos 'the favors of the First Ones' because, as I said before, many see the race of the First Ones almost like gods. They think of the nanos as gifts bestowed upon us by the gods to ease our burdens. Most people just call them 'favors'. It has become the common term for them."

"I see. Xelzix told me about all the 'favors' that are in my new body now. He never mentioned any that do cleaning around us."

"Yes, there are favors nearly everywhere you might imagine throughout the universe. Some of them are dedicated to cleaning our clothes and the surfaces around us. Any cleaning job amounts to nothing more than removing the particles of dirt or food or bacteria or whatever may be on a surface and taking it away. There are many billions of the microscopic machines on the floors under our feet and on the counters and walls and any surface or area that we want to keep clean. Each one will pick up a microscopic particle of dirt and carry it away. When there are billions at the task in any one area working around the clock you can imagine that nothing stays dirty for very long.

"It will certainly take them longer to clean these pans when I'm done cooking with them than it would for me to run them under water and scrub at them, but they will get the job done within an hour or two and they will do a far better job cleaning them down to the microscopic pores in the metal than I could possibly hope to do. When I'm done preparing our meal I will simply place the dirty pans back in the cupboard where I got them. The next time I go to use them they will be completely clean and free of bacteria. The blanket you threw in the bin is mostly clean of the small mess we made of it with our lovemaking and the annoying grains of sand it picked up by now. It will be completely clean shortly should we need to use it again."

Srythryn went over to the fridge and pulled out a large egg and came back and held it up over the counter and dropped it. The egg smashed and splattered all over the counter.

"Keep an eye on that mess. Check on it every few minutes and you'll notice that each time you look at it the puddle will seem slightly smaller as though it were evaporating away. Even the hard shells will appear to be slowly dissolving into the puddle. Within an hour or two the counter will be pristine and there will be no sign of the egg," Srythryn said.

"Fantastic! What else do they do besides cleaning?"

"Any job that is mundane and repetitive and does not require complex decision making or strength or size. Take our jungle for example. Unlike a normal jungle on a massive world this really is a delicate microcosm. As such it is easily influenced by small changes in soil chemistry or moisture and such. It would be difficult to sustain the jungle under these artificial conditions without it being constantly monitored and appropriate chemicals added to fertilize, or removed to balance the chemistry of the soil, or targeted pesticides or fungicides to deal with invasions of pests or fungus that might kill off the plants. That would take a great deal of heavy machinery and monitoring equipment and large crews of workers that would also serve to destroy the illusion of a real jungle and would stress the life within it. There are favors designed to do all of those things constantly throughout the jungle. They monitor and carry in fertilizers to areas that need them or initiate localized rain or carry out molecules of any chemical that is in excess. The jungle thrives even on this fragile, small scale because of the favors. With the jungle thriving the animals will naturally follow suit with no special attention required.

"Our waste is another example. I'm sure you will soon be needing to relieve yourself. The room is just down that hall. You will find that we do not use water in the process of removing our waste. It simply falls into a very small pit within the floor. There are favors designed to quickly break the wastes down and carry them away particle by particle to become fertilizers for the jungle and chemicals used in other processes. Nothing is wasted and no complex plumbing is necessary. Even the paper you use to wipe yourself that you throw down the hole will be broken down and recycled by them as is all of our trash throughout the ship. We still require people to do the 'heavy lifting' as it were, like butchers and cooks and doctors and teachers and pilots and engineers and so on but for any job you can imagine that can be done at a microscopic scale, there are favors designed to remove the burden from us. We use the favors everywhere, not just on this ship but all ships. They are also in our cities and our homes on all worlds that are part of the cosmic collective."

"Wow! With the machines spread all over the universe don't you get nervous of what might happen if they went berserk and turned on you or something?"

"No, I don't worry about that at all. As I told you before there are safety mechanisms built into the devices that prevent it. They are self-replicating but they are designed not to increase their numbers in most cases. There are only as many nanos in the jungle as were originally placed there for example. Damaged or aging ones are destroyed and recycled by their counterparts to replicate new ones, but the population does not increase. Also, the groups of nanos for a particular function do not communicate in any way with any other group. The one's cleaning your teeth can't communicate with the ones grooming your face and nails and the ones cleaning that egg on the counter can't communicate directly with the ones that work the jungle. That means that even if by chance something were to happen, it could only affect one group and none of the others.

"Also, as I told you on the way out from your planet, they have been designed not to allow any form of mutation so they cannot evolve and as such can never learn or become sentient or even change their intended function in any way. There are so many protections in place that they simply can't 'go berserk' as you put it. The odds are zero. Even if the odds were infinitesimally small it would have happened already. If the nanos are replicating constantly to keep their numbers stable and there are untold trillions of trillions of trillions of them and they've been running constantly for billions of years throughout the explored universe on those planets that have emerged into the collective, if there was even the most vanishingly remote chance that they might have a problem, it would have happened more times than you could ever possibly count by now. In fact, there has never been a problem. Not once. Which means it simply can't happen."

"If you say so," Jake said, "but all the science fiction movies I've ever seen back on earth that involve machines pretty much say that it's not a matter of if something can go wrong, it's simply of matter of when and how. I certainly hope you're right but it seems to me that since they're everywhere and in everything, if the nanos so chose, or since they can't make a choice according to you, if they got a glitched command signal or someone figured out how to hack them and use them against everyone, they could slice up everything around us including our own bodies at a molecular scale and carry us away as recycle material and fertilizer. Hell, they could even start breaking down the homes and cities and planets they're riding on and turn the whole universe into a mass of sloppy goo."

"You've been watching too many of these 'movies' of yours. That is the sort of pessimistic view that makes fiction more interesting. The reality is simply not so."

"As I said, I hope you're right. Pessimism is a human trait and I think I'll just hang on to a healthy level of my own if you don't mind."

Srythryn chuckled, "Be my guest if it makes you feel better. I can only imagine it making you feel worse though, and for no reason. Perhaps you'll learn to give it up some day."

"It's a big part of who I am. Would you have me change so much?" Jake asked.

Srythryn turned from the stove to face Jake and wrapped his big, powerful arms around him in a hug.

"I would not have you change one iota. You are almost too wonderful as you are. I may not be able to handle you if you were even more amazing and you would make the rest of us look all the more wanting. Keep your pessimism so that at least when people ask me how great you are I can honestly say, 'well, he could be better.'"

Jake laughed, "Stop it. You'll give me a swelled head."

Srythryn chuckled and gave Jake a quick kiss and then patted his ass and said, "If you need to relieve yourself or wash up, do so now. Breakfast will be ready in just a few more minutes."

As Jake moved toward the hallway he said, "Good, I'm starved. You know, I've been alone my whole life. I've never experienced a wonderful morning like this talking with the one I just made love to. I could get used to it. It's nice to have a sweet little wife to cook for me."

Jake dodged the spatula that suddenly hurtled toward his head and then ran down the hallway toward the washroom as Srythryn roared and laughed behind him.

"We'll see who's more the wife the next time our clothes are off!" Srythryn yelled down the hall at him then he paused and said, "Wait, there won't be measuring involved will there? Forget I said anything, dear husband!"

Jake ducked into the bathroom and relieved himself and quickly washed his hands at the sink. He watched as the water washed down the drain and he wondered where it went. Srythryn said there was no complex plumbing and Jake supposed there wouldn't really need to be any. The water could simply come out of one container under the floor and move into another as it gets dirty from his hand washing. The 'favors' would then remove anything that isn't water down at the molecular level and then the water could go back to the original tank again completely clean and pristine and absolutely pure. Instant recycling. They could even take care of natural evaporation and keep the container full by going to the ocean and grabbing any molecule that is water while leaving behind any molecule that is salt or something else and carry the water molecule back to the house. With trillions of the microscopically invisible little machines almost any task like that would be possible. It was wonderful technology but it still made him feel a bit uneasy.

He went back into the kitchen to find that his loving 'wife' had plated the food and was sitting at the table waiting for him.

Jake kissed Srythryn on the cheek before he sat down and said, "It really does smell and look wonderful. Thank you. I hope you weren't bothered by my little joke. You are no wife, Srythryn. You're the most incredibly masculine, male, manly man I've ever had the pleasure of being fucked by."

Srythryn chuckled and said, "You do not need to worry about hurting my feelings. I can take a joke and have often been the victor at the ribbing. We will see at the next one who emerges victorious. Besides, if I so needed I could most certainly be a wife to someone, even to the point of losing my masculinity and producing eggs for them."

"What? You mean like really become a female?"

"Yes, our race has the ability to switch sexes. It is a vestigial ability from our early evolution that still lingers in our bodies. If something went wrong and a population lost all of its females, some males would spontaneously begin to change sexes so that they could produce eggs and the population would not be lost."

"Wow, please don't let that happen. I absolutely love the equipment you have now and I've grown very attached to it already, and I very much look forward to attaching myself to it again. I'd miss it terribly if it fell off and got carried away by the favors."

Srythryn laughed, "I am far more attached to it than you and I would likely miss it more so you have nothing to worry about. I will not be making eggs for you any time soon."

"But you already have, I'm eating them now and they're delicious."

Srythryn groaned and rolled his eyes, "You need to work on your jokes. That one would knock you out of the ribbing contest before it even began."

"Whatever, I'll just keep tossing them at you and you let me know if there's ever one worth keeping," Jake suggested.

"I will indeed. Such a momentous and unexpected event should not go unremarked."

Jake reached over and slugged the big croc on the shoulder and laughed, "You really are good at that. I think I'll stay out of the next ribbing until you and I have practiced some more and I feel I have at least a remote chance."

"A wise decision, my love. You have much practice ahead of you to raise your chances to the level of 'remote'."

Jake laughed again and shook his head and grinned at the big crocodile. He loved Srythryn's sense of humor. It was going to be an absolutely fantastic two months if Jake could spend it all with him. Hopefully as captain of his own, personal, super-massive, intergalactic, space ship he wouldn't be off on his duties so much that Jake would hardly ever see him. He most certainly didn't need a place of his own either. He would rather stay here with the sexy croc if possible.

"I should tell you before I forget, you should let the place you set up for me go to whoever else might need it. I can't think of any place I'd rather be in the whole universe than right here with you if that's alright," Jake said.

Srythryn grinned from ear to ear and stood to go over to Jake and leaned down and gave him a hug and a kiss and said, "I'm so happy to hear you say that, my love! I would like nothing better than to have you here with me whenever you are aboard this ship from now on. You may think of this as your home."

He went back to sit down again while still grinning at Jake and said, "To be honest, this is precisely what I've been dreaming of since I first laid eyes on the image of you that Xelzix showed me even before I'd met and spoke with you on the shuttle. I should tell you the truth of things. I did not set up a place for you at all."

"You didn't? What would you have done if I had said I wanted my own place?"

"My plan was to install you in this one and I would go stay somewhere else. My hope was that you would want to be with me and to my immeasurable pleasure, that is just what happened."

Jake chuckled and asked, "Is that why there are no personal mementos around the house? You put them all away to make it look like a temporary home for me?"

"No, I have no mementos. The house looks just as it has for hundreds of years. If you are one to collect memories you might find your mind changing on that over time. Imagine how much space I would need to store mementos from hundreds of thousands of years of living! This entire ship would barely be large enough and I would never have the time to look at even the tiniest fraction of them. Besides, I learned long ago that mementos are a way of living in the past. I prefer to live in the present and spend my time looking at the people I love in the here and now and not photos of who they were. I prefer to spend my time with them and do things with them rather than look at photos of things we did before. I want you in our home, not a picture of you."

Jake smiled and said, "You're a wonderful guy, Srythryn. You've really got life figured out. I hope to learn a lot from you about how to live with immortality. Will you be very busy over the next two months as captain of this ship? Will I get to spend much time with you?"

"I can delegate a great deal of my work. I will be nearly completely free for the next couple of days, then somewhat busy while we prepare for and execute the jump to your match's system, then relatively free for the bulk of the time afterward. We will have a great deal of time together over the next two months and I am looking forward to it immensely."

"Good, I truly love this, Srythryn. I love being with you."

"I love it too," the croc said, "In case I haven't made it clear yet, I love you."

Jake smiled at the big croc and his heart swelled to hear the declaration. He felt the same way. He loved Srythryn. He wondered if that was even possible. It really was love at first sight. It just felt completely right to be here with him. He felt loved and wanted and cared for, and he felt all of those things right back for Srythryn. It felt like at long last he was home.

"I think I love you too. I love the way you think and talk and act and look. You are so irresistibly sexy to me and I love your sense of humor and your kind and generous nature. You are a perfect male in every way. I even love the way you smell. Can two people really fall in love so easily though? Is that really possible? We've only just met," Jake said.

Srythryn's smile widened, "I'm so happy to hear you say it. Yes, I think it's possible. I think when two people are meant for each other, that is to say, when they are perfectly suited to love each other, they will fall in love immediately. For most, however, it takes them time to actually come to the realization of it. It may seem to them as though it takes a while for the love to blossom but in fact it simply took them time to allow themselves to believe it and come to terms with it. Some people, like us, are lucky enough to accept it immediately. I love you, Jake. I have lived for long enough to have learned to recognize it and I know it without doubt. My mind has been obsessed with you since we first met to the point where I only feel like myself right now, at this moment, with you at my side."

Jake said, "You've been stewing at it for a few months so it makes more sense for you. To me it still seems like we met yesterday. Somehow, though, I immediately felt comfortable and happy with you. Like you said, I feel more myself now with you right here. I would feel less myself with you gone. I don't want to analyze it too much. I just want to go with it."

"Good, go with it then," Srythryn said and grinned.

"I have and I will," Jake said and grinned back.

As they finished eating Jake thought he heard the faint sound of cheering coming from somewhere outside. There was silence, then louder cheering again.

"What do you suppose is going on out there?" he asked Srythryn.

"This time of the morning is the best for waves. Some of the men are likely out on the ocean surfing."

"Surfing? You surf?"

"Yes, of course. You don't think humans are the only ones clever enough to invent such an obvious sport? All coastal people of all races do it in some form."

"Could we go out and watch?"

"Yes, certainly."

They put away the dishes for the favors to deal with and they went outside.

Srythryn led Jake back on the path into the jungle to a fork and then followed another path that was parallel to the ocean for a distance and turned eventually back toward it and they emerged at a much longer and less private beach. There were several crocs young and old on the beach and some in the water on surf boards. Jake looked a long way out on the water and saw a wave building and three crocs were paddling along with it and as it began to crest they suddenly got up and stood on their boards. The massive wave began to rise up and curl and they started to build up speed.

It was obvious right from the start that the tripod like stance with the heavy tail and their massive leg muscles and low center of gravity made them naturally excel at the sport.

The three crocs rode back and forth along the curl and as the wave continued to rise higher they even began to move around each other in intricate patterns like a complex ballet. Then they began to add stunts like flips and hand stands and a move that involved briefly leaning back and balancing on their thick tails with their arms and legs splayed out. Jake watched it all in amazement. They were incredibly talented.

Suddenly the tip of one croc's board caught the water and he was tossed unceremoniously into the ocean as his board flipped through the air and knocked a second one off his board. The third croc ducked as the second one's board flew through the air and he deftly maneuvered to avoid getting taken out. He continued on to the cheering of those on the beach as the massive wave curled completely and the croc disappeared into the tube for a while, only to emerge out the end at incredible speed just before the massive wave finally crashed and died. The croc continued to zoom along at speed until he was nearly at the beach and he slowed and dropped onto his board to paddle the rest of the way in.

Jake recognized him as he got close to the beach as the incredibly drunk Thriststris from the night before.

As he rose out of the water carrying his board the crowd cheered and he pumped his arm while grinning at them. He was already quite impressive and attractive when he'd been drunk, but now he was really in good form. He looked young and was larger and more muscular than any of the other crocs Jake had encountered. The young croc suddenly noticed Jake standing there and his grin widened even more and he broke into a run towards them.

"Jake, what a surprise! Will you surf with us?" Thriststris asked as he reached them.

"Jake's race is not born of the water like ours. I would prefer he not undertake anything so dangerous if you don't mind," said Srythryn in a short and sharp manner.

Jake was somewhat surprised at Srythryn's response. Why was he so abrupt with Thriststris? Was there some rivalry here? Srythryn himself had said they should start to look for more lovers to share some fun once in a while and Thriststris was a very impressive male.

And why did Srythryn care if Jake took chances? Even if he died he'd just pop right back up in Xelzix's chair anyhow.

"He is our guest and I'm sure you would prefer that he do whatever makes him happy while he's here," Thriststris persisted, "Why don't you join us in the water and give it a try, Jake?"

"I don't know, Thriststris. I can swim well enough but I never did have the best balance. Xelzix told me it would take time for me to learn my new body's abilities fully. I don't think I'd stand a chance right now. Maybe in a month or so when I've had the time to learn my body more."

The other two crocs who had wiped out on their boards earlier had emerged from the ocean and were walking toward them. Jake saw that they were the two that had hauled the drunken Thriststris away the night before. They grinned and waved as they approached.

One of them said, "Hello, Jake! We did not meet properly last night. I am Striss and this is Trysslyn."

Jake waved and said hello to the two crocs.

"Have you come to surf with us?" asked Trysslyn.

"No, not today thank you. I came to watch. Though I have to say I'm not used to the heat here and it would sure be nice to go into the water for a while," Jake said.

"Srythryn does not want Jake doing anything dangerous," Thriststris said in a somewhat petulant voice.

Srythryn shot a look at him and Thriststris simply ignored it.

"Well, why don't we go to the water park then? Jake would enjoy it I'm sure," suggested Striss.

"Yes, that would be fun," said Srythryn, "What do you say, Jake?"

"You have a water park? Where is it?"

"Just at the back end of the ocean past the wave generators. It covers the entire back wall of this section of the cylinder," Srythryn said and he looked around the beach briefly and asked, "Does anyone have any vamps?"

One of the crocs went over to a storage cooler on the beach and opened it up and rummaged in it briefly and brought out what looked like a pair of binoculars and brought them over and handed them to Jake.

"Take a look through the vision amplifiers straight out that way," Srythryn said and pointed out over the ocean.

Jake held them up to his eyes and they appeared to begin zooming automatically until suddenly some sort of structure came into view and focused. It must be near the limit of the amplifiers' ability to zoom because he couldn't make out a lot of detail but it was clear what it was. The canopy that simulated the sky ended a short way before reaching the back wall of this section of the cylinder exposing the ocean all the way around and Jake could see beach all around at the edge of the back wall. There was a large, wide ring up in the air towards the middle axis of the cylinder and at the center of it was a shiny looking ball. Coming out from the ring in all directions were several snaking, winding, colorful looking tendrils that stretched right down to the ocean, making the whole thing look like some massive twisted flower or something.

The tendrils must be water slides covering the distance from edge of the ring down to the ocean. Some twisted and curved severely and would make for a long, slow but crazy ride and some had more subtle bends and dips that would result in a short, fast rush to the ocean. Jake could see small specks floating around in the middle around the big ball. They were moving slowly outward toward the middle ring and eventually falling onto it. The ring must be full of water like a pool and the specks were crocs diving into it in slow motion at near zero gravity. It must be a low gravity, ring-shaped swimming pool! The pool must dump into various water slides for a half mile winding and twisting ride down to the ocean. It looked like fun and he absolutely had to see it up close.

Jake handed the amplifiers back and excitedly said, "Can we go there right now?"

The other crocs all grinned and Srythryn nodded and said, "Let's go. Follow me."

The five of them went back to the path and followed it all the way back to the bank of elevators they had disembarked from last night. They got on one and the elevator sunk a long way down into the floor and accelerated to speed and whisked them under the ocean to the back side and then finally slowed to a stop and began to rise upward.

Jake was excited and anxious to see the water park. He'd never been to one back on Earth and he couldn't wait to experience it.

He couldn't believe how terrific his life had become in what to him still felt like just days after having resigned himself to a slow and excruciating death by cancer.

He wondered what other amazing entertainments this massive ship had to offer and he hoped that Srythryn would show him every single one.