Chapter 5 - Electricity

A week later and everyone has been working tirelessly. Jacob’s work was less difficult because he only had to give encouragement in any way that he could, like some sort of jester if you still remember what those are, but It’s difficult to maintain your own morale as well as the morale of the rest of the group. Jack was entertained easily by his brother because they were so much alike but Zack, on the other hand, was stiff and slow to laugh even with the most enguaging of entertainment and he didn’t seem to show how much he really enjoyed the entertainment which made it much more difficult to know what to say or do. Without his clothes he seemed more at peace, but the fact that he was unclothed was also an embarassment. The morale was somewhat drained, and everyone was exhausted but this week marked a milestone and it showed the electronics completed both in design and in creation. Although the contraption was made entirely from mana you wouldn’t know it, the entirety of the device was made solidly and soundly, almost perfect in design and in working and nearly to a molecular level. It was an amazing sight, but I can only explain it as a metal oval attatched to a box which doesn’t emulate the same feelings that it rightly deserves.

Once the device was made the morale came flooding back, although their exhaustion remained as it was and they all seemed ready to sleep, comfortably. Since only a few days of work, they had begun to sleep there and their area of work was a second home to them. In fact, the working hours for Zack had become as much as 85% of the day, while Jacob liked to sleep for up to 40% of it instead and Jack was in between although on a wednesday he didn’t sleep, which is when he obsessed about his newly found ways to accelerate the work. The day that they celebrated this milestone was a Friday, and they celebrated this at 63% simply by lying together in all comfort (Not that Zack ever seemed to relax himself). They’d make the occasional joke, often about the similarity of their names or a mistake encountered during the work.

“I don’t think I can move another muscle...” kaos emn 
“I don’t think you’ll need to for a little while, Jack. If you do though, my tail still has plenty of strength in it”
“I’ll bet it has, you haven’t used it at all” Jacob butted in. “Do you ever use that tail of yours? It’s certainly long enough.”
It was a long tail, the same olive green that spread all over his body, and it was a strong, powerful limb that was capable of nearly as much as his claws were. He found himself subconciously sliding his tail up his leg, and realising this he came to an alarmed state. “Right, I think it’s best that I sleep in my own bed this night.
“I’ll take it you’re not straight”, Jack mocked
“No, no I’m not. I don’t know how the two of you can surpress your hormones so well with it nearly being the season of Love.”
“Well, not talking and thinking about it is the main thing. Now that you’ve mentioned it I’ll bet we have like 5% till we can’t control ourselves”, Jacob said
“You seem to know what you’re talking about, do the pair of you research this or something?”
“You could say that... 3%”
“I’d give myself 1%. Unless you two want a threesome I’m going home right now”
“We can do that...”
“...Here?”
“Here.”

Hormones are a major difference between your world and ours, because where you do have to suffer from some various hormone difficulties sometimes, we only suffer from arousal which still can be devastatingly powerful. Some interact with eachother (frequently), some interact with themselves (frequently), some hibernate, some carry out various hormone therapies to sedate themselves, and some just endure what becomes agony without doing anything about it if they are strong enough. The way that people go about solving this problem varies mostly by species with some needing to mate to survive but with some being strong enough to ignore the problem completely. Jack and Jacob were easily able to forget their problems despite how they enjoyed submitting to them, but Zack was in the opposite position and hardly able to withstand any arousal. It’s a difficult problem to overcome for Zack, and a private matter that requires disgression. After the acts, they fell asleep, but the next morning it was still in their minds.

“Morning” They all said, in no particular order around 9%.
“Do you think that what we did last night was okay?”
“It worked for me!” Jacob laughed
“I could go again if you two want to” Jack said, obviously sharing Jacob’s enthusiasm
“Well... Only if it’s okay with Zack here...” And he looked as seductively as he could to the less eager looking lizard “Want to use that tail again?”
“Go on then...”

Ahem... After another few percent, when they had finally gotten their fix, they began to talk at last about whether what they had been doing was appropriate and whether the human (should they be able to bring one into the world) would find it appropriate as well

“Ah... I can’t see any reason for them not to like it, I mean you really can’t beat it”, began Jack
“Even assuming that they are easily aroused and they can go without their species, I still doubt that they could honestly enguage fully. I mean, in general they hold their arousal to themselves and they can’t readily interact like this”. Zack didn’t sound very optimistic, he seemed sad that he believed this.
“Don’t worry, if we can find a gay furry then he’ll love love it and we can probably all go with him”
“Actually, that does raise another point. If he does like you at first then that’s enough to assume that he could like all three of us. I he truly is a furry then he should like to explore the diversity of our world”
“No horses though”
“Well, that depends on the size of that particular horse, and gender for that matter if they are bisexual”
“There’s one thing that you probably aren’t thinking about though, they like to stay with just one partner”
“Ah, yes. Monogomy... I’ve never fully grasped that concept but I’m sure that others in our world have and that he, or she, would be able to find someone that they can tie to”
“Oh, it’s going to have to be a guy”
“Why is that?”
“I’m gay, and Jacob likes guys more as well. It’s just easier that way”
“You’re gay? Why?”
“What do you mean by why? Not everyone likes girls. I can be with girls, but I just don’t want to. Humans, they’ve got the right idea in sticking with what they like most, even if they are a little stubborn to accept that they’re not all straight”
“It’s wierd”, Jacob butted in, “It’s like it’s not normal to be gay in either world”
“No, but we pretty much don’t have sexuality. We just do what we want, You know?”
“If he is gay though, what I mean is, he might not be comfortable with just... being gay...”
Zack offered comfort to the unpleasant idea, “If he isn’t, then being here could be exactly the situation he would need. If he feels uncomfortable with being gay, or bisexual, or just straight, then we can lend him a helping hand to ensure that he feels as at home as he possibly could be. After all, it-”
“Eureka!”. The resulting shout blasted both Jacob and Zack half a dozen inches away, their eyelids even further still. “It’s not as big as last time, but I’m getting good at this apiphany thing”
“What is it?” Jacob giddily prodded
“A home! I mean, we don’t know if he’s going to want to stay here or go back, but we can’t garuntee he even can go back so we’ll have to make sure that he can stay here regardless”
“And we can probably live with him in this home as well, as long as whatever he’s used to isn’t too wierd”
“Human homes aren’t that wierd, they’ve just got less magic and more TV”
“TV? I don’t know if we can do anything like that, there aren’t any people making the shows so it would be kind of pointless”
“Eureka again!”
“You can’t have two eureka moments in a percent”
“We can teach him about mana and instead of having TV he would be so occupied with learning how to use his abilities that he would never get bored just learning how to do things he would never have dreamt of”
“...Maybe you can...”
“And then if he really does take to it then we could invite more and more humans to live with him, make a little village”
“Maybe that’s a little too far though, they’ll all want in if we don’t limit their population” Said Zack
“One per season?”
“Done.”
“And when they’ve got a tiny village, they can start to leave it and come join the rest of the world”
“If we become immortals then we can govern them as we see fit, to ensure that they do not fall into chaos and anarchy”
“We’re anarchy...”
“Oh, point taken.”
“I don’t think they need any kind of ‘governing’, the minute they’re not living like us, they’re living below us. Not to say they should be above us either”
“So this means that they can be snuffed if they so choose, is that wise?”
“Of course it’s not perfect, but they should have the same right to be snuffed as we have”
“And if they go about butchering our kin?”
“We’ll punish them as if they were our own, simple!”
“Hmm... I have to say, your arguement does make an impressively moral point. If we’re not to govern them though, I still would recommend creating an immortal order of those dedicated to teaching them our ways. Immortality is cheap, and if we have a reason to use it then I’m sure many would jump at the chance. Don’t you agree?”
“I think we should take a vote, a public vote, for what we’re going to do”
“T-Take this matter to the public?! I don’t wish to offend them, but we’re in the minority as the well mentally equipped. You wish to degrade the average intelligence to include some of the least intelligent?!”
“Yes. If the public is not ready for a civilisation of humans, this would be vital. And you need to lose some ego, you may be a scholar but the average person isn’t as bad as you say, I’m still just an average person myself”
“You’re not an average person, and I won’t put you with the likes of them!”
“Is Jacob?”
“Y-... No, wait, what?”
“Is Jacob an average person?”
“I... I suppose he is”
“And am I stupid?” Jacob said with a deviously challenging smile
“I... Well I mean, you’re a jester of sorts, aren’t you?”
“So you’re saying yes?”
“No! No, no, no. You’re the splitting image of your brother, and you carry a mental resemblance as well!”
“So you’re saying we’re both dumb?” Jack smiled, refraining from laughing
“I... I...”
The two brothers couldn’t hold it any longer, they laughed aloud hugging eachother and shedding their tears of laughter on eachother’s shoulders. When they eventually stopped laughing, all three of them silently agreed that Zack had learnt his lesson.

“You two can continue working on this from tomorrow and I’m guessing you could still make the device for a fortnight”
“You’re leaving?”
“No, I’m going to create a magnificent manor for the human to live in, and I’m going to ensure that everything is perfect. A week should be enough assuming I can use my crystals properly”
“But we’ll probably need your help!”
“I’ll still be here, I’ll need your help as well considering your tendancy for apiphanies. Anything you could say to help me, I’m sure, would be of great value.
“Just make sure that there’s a ground floor for a kitchen, a dining room and a living room; a middle floor for the bedrooms and for a bathroom and anything else I’m missing, and then a third floor for all the training. You could add a basement and an attic as well”
“Would he enjoy having a slave as well?”
“Maybe, if the slave is there because they want to be and the human is alright with a slave”
“I’ll make the preperations just in case, but I won’t employ a slave”
“You’ve got a fortnight to make the mansion and found this order, make it count”