“No, no! I didn’t mean it like tha…”, but he saw her laughing. “I suppose we are still married, aren’t we? Do people, er… does that sort of thing go on here?”
“Yes, it still ‘goes on’, but we don’t have any bodies and don’t need to procreate. The thing is that not everyone realises that, so they carry on like they would have on the Surface. It’s the same as drinking and eating. If you want to feel close to someone, there are other ways of doing it, which would have happened if you were making love to someone you loved on the Surface.
“We can talk about it again, if you like, but basically, it’s more a melding or touching of souls rather than bodies… It’s akin to the feeling you get when you meet someone and you like them immediately, or not, as the case may be. That feeling is produced b
