The oceans were boiling.
Her seafoam hair tossed by the hot crosswinds, Atom waited at the edge of the cliff. Debris whipped around her naked body as she swayed in time to the silent song of her planet’s destruction. She was the last experiment, the last adaptive life form to be introduced onto the dying world, and her bloodline had failed. Taurus was a miscarriage of an experiment. So they burned the evidence.
Her slender fingers danced across her bare clitoris. She leaned into herself, gasping.
A telltale whisper of bare feet made Atom turn her head slightly to catch the approaching figure in her peripheral. "Rino,“ she said softly, dropping her hand.
Neutrino, his haphazard face obscured by his customary hood, bowed slightly. "So they cast us aside at last,” he said, a sweeping gesture taking in the dying water below them.
“There are worse ways to die than seeing the end of the world.” Atom had always longed to find a neuro-dump of poetics, but she had been denied this one pleasure by her creators and did her best to compensate. "Rino, hold me.“
He came beside her and wrapped her in his corded arms, and she closed her eyes to forget that he was a conglomeration of all of the dead scientists who had built their careers on Taurus.
She slipped her hands beneath his robe to find his growing erection and pressed it to her hairless mound. "One last time,” she said when his dark red eyes met her pale yellow ones.
Something not quite human dug her nails into the bare back of something over-human. Perfect breasts brushed patchwork skin. Fire rained into the sea, turning the water into a fine hot mist that pinkened them both.
Their final coming was together, roaring, howling, as the cliff beneath them surrendered to the beams of flame and collapsed into the sea.
