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The season was not very busy, he had a whole carriage to himself, 
and was  
   passing the time reading some novels, and looking out over the dry landscape.
  
   Although not beautiful, it represented freedom to Jiri: huge 
   expanses of space, from which you could carve a tiny corner, and live
without  having 
   to answer to anyone. It would be a far cry from modern city life, with 
the  endless 
   compromises and concessions forced upon you simply by being so close to
 three  
   million other human beings, all trying to get by. 
The door to his carriage opened. "OK if I join you?" a pleasant voiced
  asked. 
   Jiri was slightly vexed at having his solitude broken so soon, but did 
not  want 
   to appear impolite. 
"Of course, be my guest," he replied, indicating the free seat opposite
  himself. 
   She appeared younger than his impression of her voice; Jiri put her in 
her  early 
   twenties. She was dressed very plainly, in shorts, tee-shirt and sandles.
  She 
   looked like a tourist, travelling light and comfortable. 
"I'm sorry if I'm disturbing your solitude, but I'm new in this country
  and wanted 
   to see as much as I could. This carriage has the best view." she said. 
   "I love Australia, I love its age. By the way, my name is Karen." 
"Jiri," said Jiri, and they shook hands, a little awkwardly. Jiri 
could  not place 
   her accent; it could have been European, but was not a strong one. She 
   was certainly not an Australian or a Kiwi. 
With that, she sat down in the seat opposite Jiri and gazed with rapt
attention  
   at the unchanging landscape. Silence returned to the carriage, and Jiri
 returned  
   to his book. 
Jiri did not notice immediately, but Karen's posture always seemed 
a little  awkward, 
   and she kept fidgeting. One rearrangement left one of the legs of her
shorts   
   gaping somewhat, and Jiri could not help but look when a wisp of hair
caught   
   his eye, and perhaps some other movement that did not seem quite right.
 
Trying to be discreet, he was surprised by the amount that he could 
see.  Karen 
   was obviously not wearing any panties, and he could see her pink lips. 
Surprisingly,  
   they seemed a little moist, glinting in the sun from the window. Jiri's
 mind raced to 
   imagine what sort of a girl Karen was, and resolved to drag his eyes away.
  
Then, that strange movement caught his attention again, and he saw 
it;  it was a tongue! 
   Its tip glinted wetly as it emerged from her pussy, and it began to lick 
 her. 
Slowly, it worked around her pinkness, leaving her sex glistening. 
Jiri's  heart began 
   to pound, and he blushed for the first time in many years. Try as he might, 
 he could 
   not remove his attention from her mystery, and he did the best he could
 to stay an 
   unobserved observer. 
Having covered Karen's labia with moist lubrication, the tongue began
 to extend further 
   from Karen's opening, and Jiri could see that behind its pointy tip it 
thickened  quite substantially. 
   Like a thick worm, it slowly crawled from beneath her shorts, trailing 
mucous  down Karen's white, 
   soft, inner thigh. 
Up until now, Karen had been facing out the window and had seemed 
oblivious  to 
   the movement in her shorts. Now, however, she turned from the window and 
 stared 
   straight into Jiri's eyes with an enigmatic expression; it was almost
an  accusation, 
   but there was also an element of taking Jiri into a confidence of hers.
 
As Jiri stared, the tongue began to ooze around Karen's legs, caressing
  and teasing. 
   She opened her legs wide to give it unrestricted freedom, and pulled up
 one leg 
   of her shorts to show Jiri what it was doing. Her other hand dropped languidly 
 into 
   her lap, slid under the waist of her shorts, and begain to stroke herself
  softly with 
   her clever fingers. A hypnotic rhythm began to form between the tongue's
 movement  
   and that of her hand. 
Soon she began to sing, some kind of enchanted lullaby. Jiri was captivated;
 
   he moved forward in his seat, and watched all in spellbound fascination.
 Her voice 
   was clear and unaffected, and was in pure counterpoint to the images of
 lust  
   developing. His penis was straining, but forgotten in the heat of his
mind  and 
   heart's passion. 
At first, Karen's movements were those of a voluptuary, pleasing only
herself. As 
   she sang, her hand's motions began to entice, to encourage, to feed Jiri's 
 own 
   lusts. The tongue moved on from pleasuring Karen, and began to reach out 
 to 
   Jiri, its obscene ripples and undulations seducing him, and he wanted
nothing  but 
   to be entangled in her horror. 
Sliding down from his seat, Jiri knelt in front of her. Karen's musk 
completed  
   the assault on Jiri's senses, and he was lost. The perfume was of her
body  only, but 
   older than history. The scent excited Jiri's imagination, and he could 
see  mighty kings 
   lost forever in her Harem, spending their days worshipping her scent,
worshipping  her 
   body, their responsibilities broken and forgotten. Karen crooned 
   and encouraged as her essence surrounded him, he kissed her secretions 
and  revelled in 
   the miracle of her mysteries. 
The tongue retreated, as if to give Jiri full access to Karen's quim,
 and Jiri's tongue 
   replaced Karen's own in ministering to her stimulation. She reached behind 
 Jiri's head and 
   held him fast against her, and she talked again. The words dripped from
 her mouth like 
   honey, sticky, and sweet, but also black, like sin. 
"Jiri, I am losing myself in my love for you, and soon, soon you will
love me also." 
   "Love is sweet, so very sweet. It is life, it is the essence of life"
   "I eat souls, my Jiri, I eat sweet, sweet souls, and soon I will eat yours"
  
As she spoke, the lower tongue re-emerged. Her words seeped into his
consciousness,  as 
   they were meant to do, and he stiffened. Her hands held fast, and Jiri 
could  not tear himself away 
   as that tongue forced its way into his mouth. His nostrils mashed against
  her pubic hair, he could 
   barely breathe. 
For the first time, Karen voiced her obvious pleasure. Thrusting her
hips,  the tongue 
   was forced deeper into Jiri's mouth, and it commenced sporting with his
 own tongue, 
   in a horrible parady of a French kiss. 
Karen squealed as the thrusting continued, and when the tongue had 
commenced  worming 
   its way into his throat, things took a more ominous turn. Jiri first lost 
 all muscle control, 
   and went limp. 
She lowered him to the floor, and positioned herself above him. The 
tongue,  having 
   paralyzed any resistance, filled Jiri's mouth. Jiri felt a drawing then, 
 and an icy chill ran up and down 
   his spine as he realized what Karen was doing. She began to coo and pet
 him as her tongue 
   commenced its true work. 
The tongue wriggled and thrust deep into his body, searching for sensation.
 
   He felt it strike through his membranes, his muscle, his bones, licking
 a tasty morsel, then 
   drawing it into itself with a soft caress. Karen gave a sigh of pleasure
 as the drawing 
   commenced, and her thighs squeezed him. After each drawing, the tongue 
would  strike out 
   again, until it found more, which it drew with another caress, or with 
a  gentle surrounding, 
   or sometimes with a deep and violent penetration. For Jiri soon realized
 that his soul was 
   tied to his physical self, and this tongue seemed able to transcend the
 physical, able to draw 
   out his soul from all his secret places. Just as a good fucking could
bring  the soul of a 
   man and a woman to the surface, for them to touch, this tongue would touch 
 his soul, then 
   seduce it from him. 
Karen derived obvious pleasure from thrusting into his mouth, and 
looked  into his panicking 
   eyes with passion, but also a little sympathy. 
As she continued her assault, a new feeling, one of exultation, swept
 through  
   Jiri's mind. He did not know why, but he began to welcome Karen's thrusts,
  
   and welcome the pleasure of feeling himself slowly absorbed by this thing 
 between her 
   legs, absorbed into this succubus of a woman. He began to gaze upon her
 face with 
   open adoration, and the control of his body returned as he opened his
jaw  to accomodate 
   her tongue and its ceaseless caresses. 
Karen returned his gaze with a heavy lidded kindness. "Freedom, Jiri,"
  she 
   said softly. "No more struggles. Just give your all to a beautiful creature,
  
   she will take all of your strength, all of your cares, all that you have 
 accomplished. 
   She will cherish them all, and even love you, as you love her. For a moment, 
 you 
   will know the pinnacle of desire, the ultimate ecstasy, have the most
desirable  woman 
   on this earth" 
As he understood, her assault ceased. She stroked his hair as her 
tongue  
   slowly withdrew. 
"Your sweet love, my Jiri, is what I desire, and your sweet, sweet 
soul.  
   I will come to you when you are ready, when you are ripe, when you give
 
   yourself to me." 
Pulling herself off his face, she brought a towel to wipe herself 
   and his face. 
She soon passed out of the carriage. Her silhouette 
   was the same as that of the tee-shirted tourist in baggy shorts who had
 entered  
   the carriage, but this time he saw her as a woman with a terrible power,
 fearsome  
   strength, but also the woman he loved, loved above all else, loved more
 than  
   his soul. 
It was dark, and the train was in a siding. The station was nowhere 
to  be seen. 
   A long time had passed while he had been laid bare, but the outside world 
 had 
   completely passed them by; he marvelled at how she had cocooned them both.
  
   With some sense of himself returning, he grabbed his bags and climbed
   from the carriage up to a road, lost in Adelaide, legs wobbly, unsure
of  his future.