Oh, his mouth is free now-- he should-- say things-- it is really hard to concentrate on forming words but Raine made such nice sounds before and if there are sounds and hands it will be even better--

"Pretty," he says, and "good girl," and "good hands," and "make me feel so-- oh-- so nice niiiiiice," and "my Raine," except sometimes he gets distracted part of the way through and winds up saying "pret-- ungh" or having his "good" turn into a moan halfway through.

"God, please, fuck, Lee," and she doesn't stop, doesn't take her head away from his shoulder, moans at 'my Raine'. 

"My Raine," he says again, "my Raine, my--" and then he can't speak at all and the wave breaks and it's too much, it's too intense, he can't think, he's so conscious of Raine's body against him and her hands moving, and then he feels very happy and very sleepy and Raine's hands seem to be covered in some white liquid.

Raine kisses him and -- takes care of herself -- and then flops down on the bed next to Lee. 

"You're very good." 

"Nooooo you're good." He bites her shoulder again. "I have questions."

"Ahhh -- we can both be good. And I might have answers?" 

"What was that? Why is it a thing? What happened?"

"The thing we just did is called having sex. It evolved so that people would be more likely to do things that could lead to having babies -- which to be clear the thing we just did cannot. I... am unsure how to summarize what just happened except by saying that you were there." 

".......babies come from the stork. Does this summon the stork somehow?"

".............okay, in my world, babies do not come from a stork. In my world, babies coming from a stork is a lie that parents tell their children, commonplace to the point of being a joke, so as not to have to explain sex to them." 

(She has not ruled out that this is also the case in Pleasantville but you never know, Pleasantville is weird.) 

"In your world, babies come from... touching each other until your penis stands up and produces white liquid?"

(If Raine looks down, she'll notice that the bed is colored.)

That is bizarre but she will deal with it later.

"No, babies come from -- so there are special cells that women produce, which are called eggs, and there are cells that men produce, which are called sperm, and when an egg and a sperm meet they grow into a baby, and sperm comes out of men's penises and eggs are inside of a woman's ovaries which can be accessed via the vagina. The thing we just did cannot produce a baby. Also for complicated reasons I have a penis instead of having ovaries or a vagina."

This is a TERRIBLE EXPLANATION OF HOW HUMAN REPRODUCTION AND ALSO GENDER WORK, but it will have to do. 

"Okay, but sex is really nice? So probably people would want to have it all the time? And then they would get babies when they aren't ready for them? --I want lots of kids and I still want to have sex more than seven times. Possibly I want to have it seven times this week."

"Yes, and that can be really bad, except that there are lots of sex things like the one we just did that can't produce babies, and also there are a bunch of different kinds of birth control that makes sure you won't have a baby from the sex you are having, and also women are only fertile at certain times of the month so sex doesn't guarantee a baby even if you have the kind of sex that produces babies and aren't using birth control. -- the stork system, if I believe you that that's actually the truth here which I guess I'm apparently doing, seems much better." 

"When you want to have a baby and can give it a good life, the stork brings you one in the morning in a basket. It can be startling because of course you don't know the baby is coming until it arrives, but the stork doesn't bring you a baby unless you have baby supplies and your wife doesn't have a job and you're generally ready for one. And the stork makes sure that there are two babies for every two adults so that we don't end up with more people than houses."

"Huh. -- in my world the baby has to grow from a single cell, so a woman is pregnant for nine months before the baby is born, so you definitely know it's coming and have plenty of time to prepare. That definitely seems like a better system, though." 

"...what does pregnant mean."

"That the baby is still growing inside of her and hasn't been born yet. My understanding is that the experience sucks." 

"There's a whole person growing inside another person? That's awful. And then the baby has to come out somehow and-- I can't think of any holes through which that wouldn't really really hurt--"

"It does. Medical technology's gotten a lot better, we have really good anesthetics, but the stork system is so much better." 

"How do I make sure I don't get you pregnant."

"Oh, you couldn't if you tried, I don't have a vagina or ovaries or a womb and I don't produce eggs. For complicated reasons, I was born with the set of parts that men have instead of the set of parts that women have." 

This is probably good in general but thinking about putting his penis inside Raine's vagina and moving around is very very interesting and Lee is somewhat disappointed that he cannot try it. 

"That's also why you don't have breasts?"

"Yeah, that's also why I don't have breasts." 

Lee runs his hand down Raine's side. "You're really pretty. I am worried that if we are naked together I will start, um, the part before you have sex where touching you is the most interesting thing and I can't stop thinking about how beautiful you are."