She was beautiful, tall, slim and refined with eyes akin to the green you see
in
only the most beautiful of shallow bays on a warm summers afternoon.
She had an aura about her, not of power or indeed of anything you
could truly put your finger on. If one was pushed on the subject she
looked like an angel, enveloped by an almost ethereal aura, yet she
was no angel. She was a dangerous concoction, the looks of an angel
blended with the spirit of a Norseman putting to sea, bent on causing
mayhem. She could and would take any man who took her fancy, love
him intensely and the toss empty shell back before moving on.
If you knew these facts; then you might be able to handle her. If
however she caught your gaze from across the room, caught you unaware,
then you were in trouble. It would be kinder, indeed it would almost
certainly be an act of great compassion, if your friends were to rip
out your heart there and then, because that was what was going to
happen to you anyway if you dared believe you could be the one to
tame Dakota.
Once your eyes had connected, the process had already began; men were
as helpless under her gaze as those sorry sailors were from days long
gone, who chanced across the sirens and were lured to oblivion by
their songs. But if you could guard yourself, tie you emotions to
the ship's mast, then maybe just maybe you could ride out the storm.
With the benefit of hindsight and with the passing of the years, you
might be able to look back and say it was worth the pain of knowing
her.
You would carry scars because of this encounter, like a man who has
plunged his hand into boiling oil, in the attempt to retrieve the
most exquisite of jewels, knowing that he can only briefly gaze upon
perfection before having to replace it from whence it came. Except
you have no physical scars. No, the only solace you have for your
endeavors, would be the certain knowledge that you have sampled absolute
physical perfection.
Year's later when your memories come flooding back, forcing you awake
in the wee small hours, savour them, allow them to wash over you,
enjoy them once again - you have earned those memories. Remember the
moment of penetrating her for the first time, the look in her eyes,
the feeling of home coming and total oneness with the universe you
experienced. The absolute assurance you felt that no one, anywhere
was getting a high that pure. Others have and others will, but at
that time, at that place, at that moment, you were the luckiest man
alive. She took you to a place that you never thought you could reach,
had heard of only in legend, put down to here-say and tall-talk, yet
as you fight for sleep reflect on the fact that it was real.
As I lie in bed, I hear her voice, her strangely soothing use of words,
teasing me like a cool breeze on a warm summer's day. " For you,
I am Dakota", she whispered as she took me gently by the hand,
coaxing me toward the stairs.
" Teach me what you know of love, where you lead, I will follow
".
How could I have resisted? Indeed who could have resisted such experienced
innocence? I often wonder if any teacher has so deftly maneuvered
a pupil to the gateway of learning? Of course not, only a consummate
salesperson could manufacture such an invitation.
I hold no grudge, indeed I still rejoice in the knowledge, that at
one time in my life, physical perfection lay under me, but of course
I was forewarned. Every move, every twitch, every tilt of her pelvis
was exquisite. Every cell in my body was yearning with desire, screaming
to me that it was alive, compelling me to learn more of what she had
to teach, assuring me that I was being driven toward the very far
edge of ecstasy and therein lies the power of the Dakota 3000, from
Carnival's - Epicurean range of pleasure drones. I defy anyone to
distinguish between this state of the art artificial intelligence
pleasure drone and the real thing.
I am told that several have made their way into the real world and
are living as
' normal ' women, unaware of their hardwired, love them and leave
them programme, breaking hearts wherever they go.
My only complaint about the whole experience was this, if the world
was a just and fair place at the moment of climax a massive cerebral
embolism would have befallen me, so that I'd never remember anything
but that moment of utter hedonism. That said and although they haunt
me from time to time, I still have my memories of the experience to
fall back on. Samuel Taylor Coleridge would undoubtedly express my
sentiments far more eloquently had he shared my experience, as he
wrote in Kubla Khan, ' it was a miracle of rare device'. When I shut
my eyes and recall the experience, I often find the last three lines
of his poem entwining my thoughts, " And close your eyes with
holy dread, for he on honey-dew hath fed, and drunk the milk of Paradise

© David Rutherford