Finally one of the mollusks took me. She drew me into her ancient, fecund gravity, through ripples of sweltering sexual Heat, to her surface, where the gravity reached nearly ten times that of the Earth's, where the Heat reached a pressure like the surface of Venus, where I could only lie there and gasp like a man with fever, turned on, turned on, beyond all belief. "This is unbearable," I said. "Where's my lover?"