2302, UNPC universal calendar.

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Anton thumped on D8's door. The whole frame shaking. He smiled dumbly at Kate, who shook her head at the brutish behavior. She wore the swimming garment they had chosen together, a pair of tight fitting Jammer bottoms, with silicone grippers about the hems of the thigh to keep it from riding up.

She was barefoot against the cool glue down carpet, the hallways kept at a goosebumpy 66 degrees. Some floors of their barracks got renovations, while others did not, and as such, the multicolored carpet varied from floor to floor.

The door opened, and D8 stuck their head out. "Yes?" They asked.

"You're due for a swim test. I'll need you to meet me at the pool, we will be waiting." Anton told them. He gestured to Kate and now Sarah, who stood next to Kate, with an equally nude wolf joining them.

D8 nodded, and closed the door, and Anton turned to walk away.

"I still can't get enough of the way those fit you, they hug your hips and bring out the definition of your quads nicely." Sarah told Kate, eyeing her up and down.

"Thank you, they're very comfortable." She said, grinning. "And they're sooo soft." She said, rubbing the outside of her hips with the palms of her hands, and making Sarah giggle.

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The three sat on the edge of the pool, talking as they waited for D8.

"I don't 'go about' and swim naked because mine is out there and hanging around." Anton said.

"You act like most of my vulva doesn't stick out and dangle too." Sarah said, standing and spreading her legs slightly, proving her point. Anton shrugged, and Kate covered her mouth in laughter.

Her pubic area and vulva was quite pleasing to look at, Kate thought. Prominent inner and outer labia, with a clitoral hood to match. The skin of her vulva and surrounding area was a slightly darker tone relative to the rest of her body. She looked away before her face got too hot.

"Whatever." Anton said, waiving her off while Kate kept giggling behind him.

"Such confidence." Kate said after a moment. "I love it."

"What are you guys talking about?" D8 asked, a blushing smile on their face as they came around the corner and into the pool area.

"It's healthy to talk about genitals, everyone has them." Sarah shrugged as D8 adjusted their one piece rubber swim suit with "D8" over the left breast, having been given the suit during training.

"You know the routine?" Anton asked, holding the stopwatch in his left hand, both hands in his lap. D8 nodded, popping their spine.

"I'm gonna do some laps, then stretch after my warmup." D8 said.

Stolen novel; please report.

"That's fine, take as long as you need." Anton said, flicking his eyes to Varg, who was at the other side of the room, checking it out and sniffing around. Occasionally the wolf would look up and at the three sitting on the edge, but was mainly focused on D8, when they started swimming back and forth.

Kate sat with Sarah laying across her lap, Anton kicking his feet in the water. He listened to their conversation, not having much to offer given it's content.

"I'm just saying I think yours looks nice." Sarah said, looking up at Kate's face, shrugging with her hands over her stomach, her fingers interlocked.

"I get that, and I appreciate it, but I just don't see how mine could be pretty or anything like that." Kate replied.

"I like how thin and defined your inner lips are compared to your outer ones." Sarah told her. "My whole thing is kind of puffy and sticks out. Your outer ones only do it when you squeeze your legs together or something, they're nicely flat, kinda cute." She told her, and it made Kate think. Odd to think that she's noticed something about me that I haven't ever noticed about myself.

"Get up." Kate said, standing with Sarah pulling her legs up under her, sitting criss cross. Unceremoniously, Kate pulled, or more rolled her jammer bottoms down, exposing herself, then bent over, looking at herself.

I guess they are flat to me. Kate thought. I don't have that 'padding' like her. Then she pressed her thighs together firmly, making the outer flesh puff up, just like Sarah had said.

Contented, she uprighted herself, and pulled her waistband back up. "I guess you're right." She said, and promptly sat back down.

D8 tread water in front of them. "You guys are weird. I like that." They said, coming up to the edge and hopping out to stretch.

Kate laughed. "Good to know." She smiled warmly.

"Monkey see." Sarah shrugged, making Kate snort.

"If I may." D8 said, starting their stretching routine.

"Go ahead." Sarah said, wondering where this conversation would head.

"I'm open to it, but I am somewhat uncomfortable with the lack of clothing you two share." D8 said. "Is there any advice you can offer that would change that?" Considering I'm going to be around you two for the foreseeable future." D8 said. They were not disrespectful or non understanding, just seeking an answer.

"You will get used to it in time." Kate said. "Do not think it is a bad thing to look." She added.

"I agree." Sarah said. "Stare all you like. It will quickly fade into the background."

"I take it you grew up not seeing much skin?" Kate asked.

"I'm Inupiaq," they shrugged. "Hard to be naked when you're trying not to freeze to death."

"You're about as exposed as most Americans then." Sarah said. "It's a shame that most have been..." She trailed off, pausing, "Indoctrinated into connecting nudity exclusively to intimacy and sex."

D8 stood upright, having finished with a butterfly stretch. "Are there areas of your body you wouldn't appreciate me looking?" They asked. Sarah shook her head.

"You can look at my breasts or vulva, or but or whatever. That's fine if that's what you mean." Sarah explained. "Some find sex characteristics harder to get over than others, and it's okay with me."

"Repeat prolonged exposure is the best course to desensitization." Kate said. "America got over the bikini, they can get over breasts and full nudity just fine."

"I can't help but have dirty thoughts sometimes when looking at you two." D8 said, probably not in the way the wanted to.

"Arousal is normal. It too will fade in time, but not entirely." Sarah explained. "That's just your natural human reaction to seeing genitals."

"It will feel really weird and hard to forget at times." Kate said, remembering all those years ago when Sarah first joined them, and how many times her mind ceased to function with the sight of her body.

Anton doesn't have that problem, the lucky SOB.

"So oogle and leer all you want." Sarah shrugged.

That seemed to answer all of D8's questions, and they hopped into the pool, going on to pass their speed and endurance test without a hitch.

"Let's bounce and rinse off." Kate said, wringing out her braid. She'd been required to tail D8 in the pool while they swam the required 100 meters underwater.

"Good job." Anton clapped a breathless D8 on the back.

Pat on the the back and a "good job" after all that? I feel like I'm going to puke.