[Author's note:  Other than sending me their descriptions, Tattianna and
Rain had nothing to do with this, and should be held blameless.]

     Waterfall

	The sun glared down mercilessly upon the plain, baking the wild
grasses to a rich amber color.  Far out towards the horizon, a group of 
bison, their ancestors brought from Earth as embryos, grazed on the ripening
grasses.
	Nearer at hand, a small lizard basked on a reddish stone.  The 
sound of water flowing came from somewhere.
	"This is winter?"  The voice startled the lizard, and it scuttled
away.
	"Ja."  A hand apeared on the lizard's perch, a hand covered in 
fine white fur, each finger tipped with a sharp claw.  The hand pulled,
and Tatianna scrambled up onto the ledge.
	She was tall, nearly three meters, and strongly muscled.  Though
she stood on her back feet, her features were feline, her white fur striped
with charcoal.  "In a couple of months, the water will be gone - run off
or absorbed.  The plants will die, and the bison will move into the southern
hemisphere, following the grasses."
	She reached down, helping Rain up.  The second woman was also a
tiger, though of a very different sort.  Where Tatianna was hard and deadly,
bread for combat, her companion was softer, gentler looking.
	They paused for a moment, admiring the view over the plain, then 
Tati took her companion's hand and led her towards the sound of water.
	They passed between two standing stones, into a small canyon.  
Slabs of stone lay at odd angles to each other, as if toys left by some 
child god.  A stream ran along the bottom of the canyon.  Tati led her 
companion along a faint path, worn by decades of tigers passing here each
spring.  It was not an easy walk - Rain was panting by the time they turned
the last corner.  The stream widened into a pool here, fed by a twenty-foot
water fall.
	"Well?" Asked Tati, "Was it worth it?"
	Rain looked about, amazed.  "Yes.  It's as nice as you said."
	Tati grinned, ferraly, and pulled Rain to her.  They kissed,
passionatly, then Tati picked Rain up and tossed her into the pool.
	Rain, taken by surprise, floundered for a moment.  "Grr.  I'll
get you!"
	Tati grinned again.  "Gotta catch me, first!"  She bounded up the
rocks beside the waterfall, vanishing over the edge.
	Rain pulled herself out of the pool and dropped her wet clothes
on the stones to dry before giving chase.  Naked, Rain's inhumanity was
emphasized.  Her bright orange fur was thick and coarse over her back,
arms and legs, the black stripes muted and vague.  On her front, the 
fur thined and lightened in color, becoming almost white over her eight
breasts.  Golden rings in the top, largest, pair of nipples caught the 
sunlight.
	She bounded up the stones, following Tati.  Less than a minute had 
passed, but already the white tigress was out of sight.
	Rain looked about.  On the far side of the stream, wet paw prints
led into a group of standing stones.  Rain laughed, silently.  "How stupid
does she think I am?"
	She lept the stream and sniffed at the prints.  They were Tati's,
all right.  She crouched, lept to the top of one of the stones.  The paw
prints went to the right, but to the left there was a crevice, just about
large enough for a tiger to lay ambush in.
	Rain dropped from the top of the stone and lept foreward into the
crevice.  From behind, she heard a chuckle, then felt the impact of Tati
knocking her flat.
	"Never trust the obvious!"  Tati bit her shoulder, not quite hard
enough to break the skin.  Rain squirmed, turning to come face to face 
with her tormentor.  They kissed, fiercely.
	Tati pinned Rain's hands to the ground and kissed along the line of
her jaw, alternating soft strokes of her tongue with rough nips of her 
teeth.  Rain struggled briefly, then relaxed.
	Tati worked her way down Rains's throught to her collarbone, nibbling
roughly at the furred skin.
	"Wait," begged Rain.  "It's cold in here, and I'm still wet.  Let's
go back out into the sun."
	Tati nodded, let Rain up.  They walked back to the stream.  There, 
they kissed again.  Rain's hands slipped between them and she unbuttoned
Tati's light silk blouse, tugged it free of her shorts.  She broke the kiss
and leaned back, admiring Tati's full breasts, disguised only by a lace bra.  
She bent, kissing the bra strap where it went over the left shoulder, licked
slowly along the strap to the edge of the cup, followed the edge across to
the right breast, then back up to Tati's right shoulder.
	Tati closed her eyes.  "Umm, that feels good."
	Rain smiled, pushed Tati gently to the ground.  She used her tongue 
like a brush, tenderly painting the canvas of Tati's breasts, her saliva
filling the tiny holes in the lace.
	She stopped, kissed Tati again, and opened the clasp of the bra.  
Tati's breasts were finely furred, and the left nipple held a steel ring,
a small hematite bead held by the ring's ends.  Rain bent, taking the ring 
between her teeth, and pulled on it, gently at first, then more firmly.  
Tati moaned.
	Rain pulled back, hard, and Tati gasped.
	"You like that?"
	Tati nodded.
	Rain released the ring and quickly nipped the other nipple, causing 
another gasp.  She worked her way down Tati's flank, nipping and licking, until
she came to the waist of Tati's shorts.
	Tati reached to unbutton them, but Rain pushed her hands aside.  "No."
She licked along the waistline until she came to the button.  Deftly, she 
unbuttoned the shorts with her teeth, then took the zipper pull in her mouth 
and pulled it down.
	Tati lifted her hips, and Rain slid her shorts off, careful to leave
the panties where they were.  She tossed the shorts aside, then knelt 
between Tati's thighs, looking.  Her panties were red cotton, cut low on the
waist, a few charcoal black hairs escaping over the top.  Rain bent forward
again, kissing Tati's mons through the thin cotton.
	Tati moaned and pressed her hips upward, against Rain.
	Rain frowned, pressed her flat.
	"Do you like what I'm doing?"
	"Yes." The answer was more like a gasp than a word.
	"Then you have to stay on the ground.  If you raise off it again,
I'm stopping.  Understand?"
	Tati nodded.
	Rain stroked Tati's fur, her claws leaving furrows.  When she got to
the waistband, she turned her claw edge upward, and ripped through the thin
fabric, a straight line to the base of the clitoris.
	She ran her fingers through the hair on her lover's sex, tugging 
gently.  
	"Please." Gasped Tati.
	"Please what?"
	"Please touch me!"
	Rain grined, nastily, then leaned forward, her tongue barely touching
Tati's mons.
	"Please!"
	Rain moved downward, slowly, flicking at Tati's hair, coming at last
to the little dimple at the base of the clit.  She finished ripping the
panties, then, and ran her claws along Tati's labia.
	Tati shuddered, her eyes squeezed tightly closed.  Rain parted her
outer lips with her fingers, her tongue tracing the vulva, flicking along the
length of the inner labia.  Tati squirmed, but her hips stayed on the ground.
	Rain ran her tongue around the opening of Tati's vagina, then up,
flicking lightly across the urethra.  She peeled the clit hood back with 
her lips, took the clitoris into her mouth, her tongue flicking rapidly 
across it.
	Tati gasped, and Rain released her clit, turning her head slightly
to brush across the clit with rapid strokes of her tongue.  Suddenly, Tati
gasped, her back arched, and her chest flushed.  "Ah!"
	Rain smiled, slowing her strokes, and then kissed Tati's mons again.
	"Thank you."  Tati smiled at her lover.  "Wait a minute, and I'll
return the favor."
	Rain shook her head.  "There's something else I want."
	"What?"
	Rain reached tenderly under Tati, then heaved, throwing her into the 
stream.