Diving in...

Tricia noticed an alarm regarding her heartbeat, she was on the edge of a panic attack... How could she have been so distracted and forgotten that this lab didn't even have a door and offered no privacy.

"Ohh, Anna... Listen, it is not what it looks like..." she tried to explain, wondering why John was acting so calm and relaxed. He had not tried to cover himself and just stood on the scanner like it was no big deal.

"What? You mean that you are not scanning my boyfriend to study the effects of his powers on his body? That means that the only possible solution would be that you made him strip to stare lecherously at his sweet ass!" replied the Arcadian queen, getting closer to swat said ass as a way to illustrate her point.

"Oh, don't tease her like that. We did nothing wrong, it's for science! Just a part of our agreement. There's no harm in taking pleasure in what you do," replied John, kissing his girlfriend's neck. Anna's dress suddenly disappeared, just like John's clothes before, and she didn't seem alarmed by it at all either.

"I'm glad that we can get au naturel here once again, since I wouldn't have wanted to cover myself each time she's visiting. You don't mind, Tricia? You could use a bit of sun yourself. John, why not have large windows and a balcony on the above ground levels? These lights are a bit cold; some sunlight would liven up the place, don't you think?" she proposed. Tricia was flabbergasted, as this was outside of everything that she had planned for. The long flowcharts of possible events and most acceptable reactions or choices that she had prepared didn't include anything like that.

"But, you... Don't you... I mean... Why?" she mumbled, throwing away any prepared arguments, none relevant in this situation.

"Anna, be nice. She isn't used to things like that!" offered John, trying to appease the situation. "You see, Tricia, Anna and I have had a life that has been very sexually repressed up to this point. Because of my social status, born from the animosity of some influential people, and the complexes that she had about her body, triggered mostly by jealousy and spurn from some of the same people, we had no chance to experience anything like that. So when we finally found each other and a way to get away from the social shackles of our life, we became very relaxed about such things. Sylvia never wears clothes, and the sisters come from a society where nudity and sex are considered trivial matters. I have had a lot of work convincing this one that she is truly beautiful, but now that she saw what was evident, she finally got out of her shell. Don't you agree, Tricia, isn't she beautiful?" Tricia didn't know what to say and simply nodded. Anna was heavier than the contemporary standards of beauty advised, but everything in her screamed 'Woman'; her curves, hips, ass and breasts were large but without any defects. She saw something that startled her...

Her reflection in the screen of one of the devices. She had forgotten to reactivate the camera field of the suit, so Anna had seen her real face too, and it was beet red.

"You shouldn't be ashamed of yourself, Tricia. I understood that recently, and I want to pass this advice on to you. This place is a new place, a place of freedom. We offered to make you a resident of the kingdom, and you accepted. This means that even if you have an house outside, this is your home too. Here, you can be yourself, and no one will judge you. We will all love you and do everything we can to help you, just like you do your best to help us. We are in this together, building something better for all of us. Now, it is a bit rude to be fully clothed like that in such a setting, and you wouldn't want to get your school uniform dirty. How about underwear? That's no less than what you would wear at the beach." Tricia had a lot of trouble reconciling the passionate speech of this effervescent, naked girl with the withdrawn, moody girl that she had gathered data on. The proposal was scandalous and went against any sort of social norms that she had studied. Yet, the possibility to improve her real appearance, maybe to the point where she would no longer need to alter it, keeping the suit only as a defense and limiter... In some crazy ways, doing so would even go along with some advice she had found, sharing activities and adopting similar clothing styles was often noted as a way to join groups or make friends; of course it was a radical change in clothing style.

Tricia took a deep breath and grabbed a nearby chair. She had left her school jacket in the dining area, and after some hesitation she began unbuttoning her blouse. As she went through it, she tried to consider the implications of what she was doing, and she couldn't hide her smile when she understood that her total acceptance in the kingdom and the prevalence of nudity would drastically increase the probability of an intimate relationship developing.

Under the attentive gaze of the couple, a neatly folded blouse was laid down on the chair, quickly followed by a skirt. Tricia was wearing really plain underwear, and she was far from equaling Anna or any of the kingdom's girl in bust size. Suddenly, she began reaching behind her to undo her bra...

"Tricia, you don't have to be naked if you're not comfortable with it, you know?" said John.

"No, it's alright, John. I... I often do it at my lab when I'm alone. It's just... You know... People watching is different... I want to be able to do that and be comfortable with it... It's important to me."

The bra landed on the pile of clothes; her shoes were off and under the chair. She bent down to remove her socks and put them in her shoes. Finally, she stood there, and putting a finger on each side of her panties, she pushed them down, putting them on the back of the chair rather than on the rest of the clothes.

"You're really brave! I would have fainted at the thought of doing that two weeks ago!" said Anna, truly impressed.

Anna hugged Tricia, their two naked bodies pressed together. Despite having just removed her clothes, Tricia was feeling pretty warm now. She was amazed at how smooth and soft Anna's skin was, and she wondered for a second if it was a natural characteristic or a gift from John's powers.

The next event could have been catastrophic if she hadn't had such quick reflexes and a good ability to multi-task. As soon as Anna had let go of her, John approached to hug her too.

Emergency activation limiters 9 and 10: initiate on reception

The alarms from her suit were everywhere, but she closed her eyes to enjoy this moment as much as she could with only 2 of her 12 limiters offline. Not passive this time, she was actually returning the hug, holding him closer to her. Her fingers were running on the finely toned muscles of his lean body while she was held safely in his strong arms, her heart resting on his chest due to the size difference. Between her legs, she could feel the quickly hardening length of his massive member pressing against her most private parts.

She was warm, her head was foggy, her heart beating at an alarming rate, her muscles abandoning her, she only wanted to stay there, to give up everything else.

A few seconds later this blissful eternity came to an end, when John broke the hug, uncomfortably aware of the effect it had had on him. He was still holding firmly to one of her arms though.

"Are you alright? I thought that you were going to fall for a second," he asked her, gently brushing her hair away from her face with his free hand.

"Ohh... Ahh... I... I might not have recovered totally from earlier... Yes... It's that. It was really taxing, and I..." she started to explain, stopping in her tracks when she realized that she was very obviously lying, which was easily confirmed by the fact that she had not been able to take her eyes away from John's hard cock while giving her explanation. It was rock hard, and it moved sideways each time John shifted his balance on his legs; she was almost hypnotized by it...

She had seen some, while healing people, but never so big, never hard, never because of her... She almost wanted to touch it, to grab it... And then she realized that she was only feeling a sixth of what her body would like her to feel. It was a good explanation of why Gorbachev puberty was such a dangerous phase, if delicious food (even if slightly psychotropic one) could do this to her... What would this thing do?

"You know what? What everyone needs is some fresh air and a dip in the fountain. John, you really need windows in this place; it's not healthy as it is. Come on, sweetheart, let's go for it. We have some time left, and it feels very good.

It felt very weird to Tricia, following two people that she barely knew but who seemed to like (love?) her more than anyone else in her life. Getting out, naked, without her usual camouflage, leaving behind her clothes and all of her possessions to walk barefoot in the fat grass of the endless green plains. Two of her drones, having left the casing of some lab equipment, were following them, scanning every plant, flower or animal that they encountered.

Feeling the warmth of the sunlight on her skin like she could barely remember ever doing, she enjoyed the brush of the breeze against her naked body. These people were insane! Just the right kind of insane! Who would invite someone and give her access to such a trove of knowledge for the price of so little help? Who would, after discovering her freakish nature, accept her as if there wasn't anything wrong? Who would get naked around her like that? And look so happy doing it that she was drawn to join them?

Her mind was filling with data. The place was a mess, a mix of earth species of plants and animals but also of abyssal ones and of things she didn't understood. More amazing was that this place was stable, very stable... What was created in simple barriers shouldn't be able to leave them. Some places had more substance, and what left them would survive for a time. This was the real deal, a true kingdom! As stable and real as earth. What was grown and harvested here would be as real as anything else on earth; this opened infinite possibilities. The way that John and Anna had been talking about it, they didn't intend to stop at a few people, instead they were looking to settle the place, grow a large population and create a nation in this place...

The forest was full of life, with small creatures running around and an even greater variety of plants and fruits growing there. Everything looked so big and healthy, Tricia could feel the surrounding energy even without her equipment warning her. Her drones returned very strange readings from some of the trees, like if some humanoid creatures were trapped inside... But not of the right density... Would she be able to observe the reproductive cycle of dryads?

The fountain, a simple pool under a flying orb of a golden material dripping water, was at the center of the Glade, surrounded by a second pool full of large colorful carp, which were probably what she ate at lunch.

And there was the Tree... Of no essence known to Tricia's database, radiating from life energy. It was massive! It towered over everything else in the forest. Sitting on a large root, Sylvia was shaping some piece of wood, the material bending under the slightest touch of her fingers. Following the root explained how this tree could be so big in a realm so young... This root and a few others, were directly dipping in the magical water of the fountain. John had explained that this water, while very pure, lost its magical properties soon after leaving the pool. Keeping continuous contact with it was overcharging the tree, and it was then projecting energy around it to make the forest grow bigger, faster...

Tricia followed John and Anna on the stone path to cross the carp pond. The couple entered the pool, it was circular and surrounded by a stone ledge, not of grey stone like the castle but of a washed, beige sandstone. It functionally looked like a hot tub, the center deep enough to stand in and have water reaching to the chest, steps on the sides where one could sit. The main difference was that her drones indicated the water to be cold rather than bubbling hot.

John and Anna both dipped themselves totally in the water before sitting down on the opposite side of the pool, facing Tricia who hadn't set a toe in the water yet.

"Don't worry, it is cool, but the magic is so invigorating that you will feel awesome," said John, inviting her to enter the pool.

The readings from the pool were off the charts, massive amounts of energy, but nothing threatening. Sadly, to feel any of the effects she would have to lower the defenses of her suit and let the water permeate it.

It didn't escape her attention that Anna was sitting on John's lap rather than next to him...

Taking a deep breath, Tricia stepped in the pool, setting her suit up to allow the magic of the pool to fully affect her. The steps inside were deeper underwater than she had expected; her size difference with the lovers was something that she had forgotten about. After a few steps she no longer could feel the bottom of the pool under her feet. She pinched her nose and dived in, submerging herself in the magical water. She could no longer feel the chill of the cold water, her entire body was tingling, warming up with a fire deep in her belly. Her face too was feeling strange, especially her eyes. She went back to the surface, very quickly, it seemed. Despite not being salt water, the buoyancy seemed higher than that of fresh water, like if the fountain actively didn't want someone to sink in it.

Tricia's light body broke the surface, and she ended up floating on the surface of the pool, barely fazed by the fact that resting on her back her breasts and privates were on full view.

"It's good right?" asked Anna, still sitting on John's lap. Tricia couldn't tell if anything was happening underwater between these two and realized that had she not joined for lunch they would probably be having sex at this point.

"Tricia... There was no need to reactivate your camouflage... Didn't you say you were going to trying a bit of sunbathing?" John pointed out. Tricia wondered what he was talking about, as her camouflage was still offline, the lowered protections would even let more sunlight reach her sickly pale skin.

"It's not."

"Are you sure?" he asked her.

Tricia abandoned her comfy position, floating in the pool. She stood on one of the steps and looked at her reflection once the water had calmed down.

She knew this look, she was seeing it every morning in the mirror before going to school... It looked as if she had her camouflage active. Her skin was of a healthy pink, the dark under her eyes was gone, the veins visible on her arms and hands were gone too, the nipples of her perky tits were dark pink and erect... (That was new!)

"This... It's miraculous! I haven't done anything! Just entered the pool... And..." She was crying, her tears mixing with the water dripping from her hair. She had not tanned, but she no longer needed to hide herself. People looking at her would see the same, but it would no longer be a mask, and for Tricia that made all the difference.

She fell backwards in the water and just let herself float, bathing half in this water, half in sunrays. Her eyes were closed, and if anyone that knew her had seen her, they would be shocked to see the large smile on her face (as well as her bathing naked with two other people).

Some ripples in the water were moving her, indicating that someone was approaching, but soon they moved away. Whoever had checked on her didn't want to interrupt this blissful moment.

Friendship? Trust? Love?

Tricia decided to trust them and to abandon herself, dozing off, letting the small moves in the water put her to sleep for a short nap.