Tales of Midbar: Secret Priest

I took the bus to school as normal. I’d had a dreadful night’s sleep, dreaming about getting raped and girls refusing to have sex with me. I hadn’t slept much. I was just feeling completely humiliated and a complete failure a bit dissociated, as if I was in a dream. I was determined to fornicate a girl and I had a plan but I doubted that it would get me sex quickly.

As normal Gerdni sat next to me. He seemed to be friendlier to me than most people but he was a Nuhara and I never really felt comfortable with him. I was a bit ashamed of this as I didn’t like to think of myself as religionist.

“How’s the bus pass?” asked Gerdni, smirking.

He always asked that, at least he had all that school year and I had no idea why.

“Fine,” I said.

I arrived at school, Yoho Temple Academy. It had a reputation for being a very good school but there were things about it I had serious problems with. This was a large, old building built of local stone with some rather odd pre-Cataclysm lighting that just shone from the ceiling for no apparent reason.

Mard and Rofarma were having sex against the wall in the corridor. I pointed the camera at them, I had it hidden in my bag so the lens pointed out the top. Although my hands were shaking, this was easy as I was holding my bag to my chest. They were both nibeyim. Rofarma had been a rather straight laced girl who I’d rather liked but she’d gone weird when I thought I was getting somewhere with her. Then she’d become rather crazy. I thought Mard was an OK guy. Rofarma looked away as I approached.

“Excuse me,” I asked.

Rofarma buried her head in Mard’s chest.

“Go away Clindar!” said Mard, grimacing.

“I’d just like to know why Rofarma’s fornicating you but has never forn ...”

“None of the girls fornicating like you Clindar!” snapped Rofarma. “Get fornicating used to it!”

“Why?”

“They just fornicating don’t!” screamed Mard.

I knocked on Narblo’s door but couldn’t help noticing Rofarma’s bear breast and her large, dark nipple as her and Mard tried rearranging themselves after my interruption.

The door opened and Velden, who I was pretty sure was a katcheyah, came out, walking straight with her head held high and giving me a dirty look.

“Come in!” said Narblo.

I thought about asking Velden why she’d never fornicated me but instead squeezed the top of my bag and heard a faint beep as the camera turned off. I went in and faced Narblo. He was a small faharni katachey with untidy red hair and a scruffy beard, sitting smiling on a chair. I closed the door behind me. He motioned for me to take one of the other chairs.

“Am I an anav?” I asked, slumping into the chair.

“Yes you are. I wondered how long it would take you to work it out.”

“You’re a katchey and my father’s a nibey?”

“Yes, you’ve really figured out how to identify korbarim but you know you shouldn’t go round telling people what korbar other people are. Even telling somebody what korbar they are can be problematic, that’s why nobody told you that you were an anav.”

“That’s why girls won’t have sex with me?” I snarled.

“Probably but most psychics can find hipsick partners.”

“Most psychics aren’t anavim. How do anavim get people to have sex with them?”

He stared at me for several seconds with a stupid grin and then said, “Why are you so intent on having sex?”

“Because I’m totally fornicating sick of being the only boy in the school who hasn’t!”

“What about the first years?”

“The older girls made a special point of having sex with all of them at the beginning of the year!”

He stared at me with his eyebrows raised and his mouth open and he wasn’t an easy person to shock. “I see. What exactly do you expect me to do about it?”

“You’ve had some sort of training haven’t you? Didn’t they teach you how to deal with this sort of thing?”

“No. There are probably less than a hundred anavim on the planet. I’ve only actually seen four in my life, including you. Only a few of those are teenagers. Nobody’s ever been able to study this, it hardly ever comes up. You’re the only anav I’ve ever really known but you seem to think like a nibey, you believe everything works by laws and formulas. This doesn’t! You’ve just got to look within and find...”

“The problem isn’t within! Somebody’s going round telling the girls I’m the rapist! Which isn’t true! That isn’t within! Part of the problem is I don’t know any other anavim! That isn’t within!”

“It’s supposed to be dangerous for young anavim to have strong emotions so you should try not to get worked up!”

“I’m a teenager and sub-human fornicating diarrhea are constantly fornicating decent girls in front of me and nobody will fornicate me! How am I supposed not to have fornicating strong emotions?”

“What can I do? I don’t know any other anavim.”

“You said you’ve seen four.”

“The other three were a long time ago. Two of them I only saw once, didn’t even speak to them. The other I haven’t seen for years and I don’t know where she is now. Anyway psychics aren’t allowed to have sex with each other.”

“There are two doing it outside right now!”

“Religious laws don’t apply in school but anywhere else and it’s one of few things that can get you fined or imprisoned by the Temple court.”

“Anyway another anav may be able to tell me how to get somebody to have sex with me even if they won’t themselves.”

“I really don’t think it’s a matter of instructions!”

“Well I’m completely failing as it is! Anyway telling the girls I’m the rapist is slander and the girls having sex with all the boys except me is bullying by exclusion! It’s been scientifically proven that not having consensual sex in your teens sets you epigenetics for life long low self esteem and poor social skills and sex causes your brain to make more cells and increases your ability to learn so not having sex likely to lead to poor career success in later life. Epigentics can be passed to your children, so they may have the same problems, if I ever have any! This is going to fornicating ruin my whole fornicating life and possibly the lives of my descendants!”

“I think the research on effects of consensual sex in your teens is questionable.”

“Do you honestly believe something that hurts this much and goes on this long doesn’t do serious damage?”

“This school has a zero tolerance of bullying policy!”

“So, they shouldn’t let the girls have sex with all the boys except me!”

He stared at me trying to process this. Logic wasn’t supposed to be katcheyim’s strong point. “What’s the alternative? Force girls to have sex with you?”

“Or find one who will and move her to this school. Or just let us meet outside of school, I don’t have to do her here!”

“I can’t see how you’d do that!”

“Aren’t there any teenage anavot?”

“Probably only a couple on Midbar but I don’t know how to find them and I’m not at all sure they’d agree to that.”

“Well I think I’ve nearly had sex with nibeyot or at least nearly persuaded them to go out with me but then they went all strange.”

“I really don’t see how the school can be expected to do anything about this. Slander’s a difficult thing to prove and I don’t know how the school can do anything about that. You’ve just got to work this out yourself. I’m sure you can figure something out.”

The terminology relating to korbarim (including the word “korbar”) comes from the ancient Semic language and therefore follows different grammatical rules from Faharni words (which are translated with normal English grammar). Adding “ah” to the end makes a word feminine. Adding “im” makes it a masculine or mixed gender plural. Adding “ot” makes it feminine plural. All the korbarim related words are masculine by default but some other Semic words (e.g. “sephir”) are feminine by default.