He was greeted by a stark-naked Emily, waiting for him on the bed. She was leaning on her right arm, displaying the stump of her left leg prominently.
“Wow!” Ben came over.
“I was shooting for ‘wow’, so bingo!” Emily stuck out her tongue at him. “Go ahead. Free me from my aching leg.”
“With pleasure!” Ben pulled Emily in position and started working her leg with the Atomizer. Five minutes later, her right side sported a stump the same length as the left one. Ben switched off the Atomizer. Emily fell onto her back and raised her stumps in turns.
Left-right-left-right-left…
Ben watched her.
“What?” She looked up.
“Oh, nothing! You’re beautiful.”
“Aww, come here!” She shuffled to the side and seductively wriggled her stumps, inviting him to join her. He stripped of his clothes and slid under the sheets with her.
“What the…you are so short. This is insanely cute”, he whispered, while kneading her leg stumps.
“Hhm, don’t stop. This feels amazing”, Emily muttered with closed eyes. He turned her around into a spooning position, continued to massage her abbreviated legs and began kissing her neck.
“There’s nothing better than skin on skin contact with you. Especially after you let me…do some work on you. This is the world’s greatest turn on.”
The corners of her mouth pulled upwards into a smile and she turned around.
“Grab a condom , then lie back! Let’s get me on top of you.”
He did as he was told and Emily climbed onto Ben’s crotch. There they ran into a problem.
“Uh, Ben, I can’t really use my legs to kneel over you, my stumps are simply too short, and I have nowhere to put my hands to lower myself that way. Can you hold me up, so I can slid you in?”
“Yeah, hang on. Does that work?” Ben put his hands on her sides and lifted her up a little. It was enough so that Emily could grab his erect member and guide it into her waiting pussy.
“Yep, that worked. Okay, lie back!” Emily pushed against Ben’s chest until I fell back and then began moving her pelvis to ride him. Her stumps were so short they didn’t even reach a quarter of the way to the bed. So instead, she just brought them up in front of her, which seemed to turn Ben on even more. So she worked his erect penis inside her, and he used his hands to steady her and play with her clitoris. It didn’t take long and both of them came simultaneously.
“Babe, that was amazing”, Ben whispered.
“Fuck yes”, Emily said! “It seems a bit like I have a particularly easy time coming when I am missing a limb. As if I needed any more reasons to love being like that.”
She grinned and moved her stumps to the side and fell forwards while Ben was still inside her. They remained like that for a while. Occasionally she contracted the muscles of her vaginal tract, which made Ben grin. He in turn tensed and released the muscles at the base of the shaft of his semi-erect penis, and they both giggled.
After a short break, she rolled down from Ben and he slid out of her. He carefully removed the condom and grabbed his old underpants to clean up the mess around his privates. Then he got up, threw the underpants into the dirty-clothes basket, and turned around to Emily.
“Can you get to the bathroom on your own like that?”
“I was about to suggest that. I want to find out what I can and can’t do.” Emily rolled over, grabbed her panty, cleaned up around her privates, and threw that panty into the same clothes-basket Ben had already deposited his underpants into. Then she shuffled to the side of the bed and paused for a second.
“Let me figure that out. Maybe if I turn around?” She turned around and let herself fall onto her belly. She shuffled backwards until she was hanging from the side of the bed, providing Ben with a perfect view of her back side and her very short stumps hanging over the edge of the bed. He could feel his penis getting hard already again. She grabbed onto the bedsheets and slowly lowered herself to the ground, where she turned to face Ben.
“Easy”, she announced with a proud grin.
“Nicely done, Em! Come on, then.” Ben stood aside and waited for Emily to shuffle through the door first. She used her hands to lift herself up and pull her legless torso forwards. She had to be careful not to rub her exposed vagina on the floor or get skin burns through friction, but she quickly figured it out and had a pretty acceptable speed.
“This is fun”, she commented, breathing just a little heavier than normal.
She led the way towards the bathroom and Ben followed her, watching, and studying her movements. They arrived at the shower. Emily pulled the door open and lifted herself up the little step.
“Um, Ben? I can’t reach the water.”
“I can see that.”
Emily tried to lift herself up with one arm and reach with the other, but she couldn’t reach far enough. Then she switched tactics, trying to stand on her stumps. She was pleasantly surprised to find that she could stand on her stumps without too much pain, but she still couldn’t reach far enough.
Ben finally offered to help her, and she begrudgingly accepted. He turned on the water and Emily squealed when a stream of cold water splashed onto her.
“Damn it, I forgot about that part!” She laughed. “It’s better now, though, come on in!”
He moved in to join her and followed her instructions on which shampoo, lotion, and shower gel to hand her and which time. He watched her clean herself. Then he turned off the water to let her out and closed the door behind her to clean himself.
Emily shuffled over to the towels and dried herself off. Then she stood back on her stumps and was able to just reach her hair lotions, brush, and the hair dryer. She took those things into her hands and slowly made her way to the body length mirror in the bedroom. She plugged the hair dryer and turned towards the mirror. She paused and marvelled at her current form. She lifted her legs up one after the other and inspected them. Her leg stumps gave no indication that she had ever had legs. She turned to the side and realised just how short her stumps were. Her c-cup breasts protruded about as much as her stumps did. It gave her a satisfyingly symmetrical form from the side, she found.
She turned her body towards the mirror again and began blow-drying and grooming her hair. Once she was done, she took her things and shuffled back to the bathroom, where Ben had just exited the shower. She put everything back into its place smiled at Ben and then shuffled back to the bedroom. She moved over to her closet, picked out a new pair of panties and hotpants. While it was January, she didn’t have any legs that could protrude from her hotpants far enough for her to get cold. She got dressed again, keeping her top the same as before. Once she was fully dressed, she returned to the mirror. The hotpants were the perfect choice of clothing, she decided with some satisfaction. The leg holes showed just two big patches of skin in place of her legs.
She switched off the light and made her way to the living room. She met Ben in the hallway as he was coming out of the bathroom and heading to the bedroom himself.
“Woah, nice choice of clothes. I love it!”
“Thanks! I thought you might”, said Emily and gave him a twirl, which, in her current predicament, meant that she lifted herself up on her hands and slowly shuffled around until she was back in her starting position. Then she headed to the living room, while Ben headed to the bedroom to get dressed.
In the living room, she headed straight for the couch, but was confronted with her next obstacle. How would she get up there? She positioned herself in front of the sofa, grabbed onto the cushions and began to pull herself up. The cushions came a little loose, and Emily was worried that they might just come out, but before that could happen, she had pulled herself belly first onto the cushions. Her leg stumps were still suspended freely in the air, so she wriggled until she could get them onto the cushion as well. She was mildly out of breath, but content with what she had just achieved. She turned around, leaned towards the side table, where they had left the remote for the TV and switched it on. She leaned back happily and zapped through the channels. The sitcoms she found were all rubbish. She wasn’t really in the mood for documentaries either, so she kept looking. In the end, she settled on ‘Storage Wars’, which was good enough.
Ben entered the living room, now fully dressed in comfortable jogging pants. He grabbed his laptop and plunged himself down next to her.
“Let’s have a look if we can find anything to help you get around in an abbreviated state.” He opened the laptop and booted it up.
“Good idea. Maybe some crutches and a wheelchair?” Emily cuddled up to him and they watched the TV while the laptop loaded up.
“Okay, let’s have a look. We should check eBay and Craigslist first. Chances are some folks are willing to get rid of their old stuff for next to nothing.” Ben opened two tabs, one for each website. He went on Craigslist, typed “wheelchair”, and hit search. They were flooded with search results instantly.
“Woah, this is a lot cheaper than I expected it to be”, said Emily.
“Yeah, and look at just how many offers there are. Take your pick, Em!”
“Well, I don’t need anything too fancy”, Emily said. “Let’s have a closer look at this one, this one and that one.” She pointed out three offers that were a bit fancier than the most basic offers, but not the top of the line offers. Ben opened each one in a new tab and they had a closer look.
“These two seem to be the same model, both are in very good condition, but this one is closer to us and cheaper.”
“Yeah, but let’s look at the third as well. It’s even cheaper than other one, it can be folded up and it looks the comfiest by far. It’s just a few miles further away than the others, but should be more than fine. I’m voting for this one.”
“Alright then”, Ben said. “Let me see if I can contact the sellers and schedule an appointment.” He clicked a few times and typed a quick message to the seller. He also left his phone number, then he pressed “send”.
“Should we do crutches next?”, Emily asked.
Ben went back to craigslist, typed “crutches” and hit search. Once again they were flooded with offers for crutches.
“Hm, these are even cheaper”, Emily said. “Look at these ones, and those here.” She pointed at two offers. They looked at both offers and contacted one of the sellers again. Afterwards Emily cuddled up to Ben and watched the TV again, while Ben looked around on the internet some more.
After a while, the telephone rang. Ben got up to answer it, and Emily grabbed Ben’s laptop. She typed random limb reduction related searches. Then she figured she should maybe check for how much prosthetic limbs might cost, but the prices were ridiculously high. Of course, health insurance at home might cover it, but then they’d have to answer questions about why her condition had never shown up on her medical records before. That wasn’t really an option. They’d have to pay for the whole thing and that was too expensive. Of course, she had enough money to pay for them, but since she didn’t really need any prosthetic limbs, she was not about to pay tens of thousands just to have a “nice to have” gadget. Just as she was about to give up her search, she though of another idea. What about other countries? She had the money to go anywhere she wanted with Ben. While she hadn’t cracked the jackpot of the EuroJackpot lottery, which had been the maximum at €90,000,000, she had almost cracked it. She had won enough to go wherever she wanted with Ben for an extended period of time. So she checked where prosthetic limbs were more affordable. Most countries with affordable prosthetics were countries she wasn’t really interested in visiting, but then she got into Southeast Asia. Vietnam and Thailand were both on her bucket list, as were the Philippines. She looked around some more and found shady, but promising offers in Mexico, the United States and Ireland. They didn’t look official, or particularly trustworthy, but worth pursuing. She made a mental note and closed her tabs. A few minutes later, Ben returned.
“We have an appointment to check out the wheelchair tomorrow afternoon and the crutches at noon. While I was talking to the wheelchair guy, the crutches bloke texted me.”
“That’s awesome! Um…I should probably have one leg back when we go to check out the crutches.”
“Good point, but we’ll deal with that in the morning. Let’s enjoy this for now.”
“Okay!” Emily smiled. “It’s almost time for dinner. Do you have any idea what we could do about that? I don’t think I’m in a state to go out right now.” She motioned towards her obvious lack of legs.
“Fair point. God, I can’t wait for us to get that wheelchair. We’ll have so much fun with that!”
“Yeah, it’s going to be awesome. I’m really looking forward to it.”
“Okay, how about we eat leftovers today?”, Ben suggested.
“That’s a great idea”, Emily agreed. “We have some risotto and some pasta left.”
“Awesome. You wait here while I get them warmed up. Do you want the risotto or the pasta?”
“I’d love some pasta right now, unless you want it..?”
“Nope, it’s all yours. Don’t leave, I’ll be right back.”
“Not like I could get very far.”
Ben grinned and left for the kitchen.
They enjoyed their dinner in front of the TV with some wine. Ben catered to Emily’s every need, and she enjoyed being incapacitated and having to rely on Ben. After dinner, they cuddled some more in front of the TV, then went on to have more sex before they went to bed.
The next morning, Ben served Emily breakfast in bed. Afterwards, she shuffled her way into the bathroom to relieve herself before she had to call Ben to turn on the water for her and hand her the shampoo and body lotions. She dealt with her hair and her teeth while Ben took his turn to shower. When he arrived in the bedroom, she was waiting for him on the bed, naked.
“Ooh, what I would give to have enough time for sexy times right now, but we need to get going.”
Emily giggled. “We’ll have enough time for that after we dealt with these problems today.”
“True enough. Okay, I should probably give you our leg back. Which one do you want?”
“The right one, please. I kind of got accustomed to missing my left leg over the course of yesterday and the evening before. Since we’re meeting people today, I should probably stick to what I know.”
“Right. Okay, let’s see how this works.” Ben grabbed the pen-shaped device and inspected it. It looked inconspicuous, but elegant. There was a tiny screen and three buttons. When Ben pressed the buttons, he found that he could choose between restoring part of a limb or the entire limb. The third button just said “activate”. He selected “restore entire limb” and turned towards Emily. “The manual says to just touch the pen to the stump of the limb you want to restore, and press activate.”
Ben touched the pen on Emily’s right stump, pressed “activate” and removed the pen again.
Emily’s stump began to tingle and suddenly grew. Within twenty seconds, her right leg was back. She got up and carefully tested her newly restored leg. Everything seemed to be working fine.
“Fantastic, thank you”, said Emily. “Though I miss being legless already.”
“We can go back to that as soon as we are done with the crutches. For now, we need the leg, though.”
“I know”, Emily said dejectedly. “I’m happy to see everything working, though. This device is amazing.”
“Thank you again for that. I still can’t believe you got me that.”
“I mean, I am enjoying myself way more than I expected. This is almost as much a gift for me as it is for you. But I’m really happy to know that you are having a good time.”
“Oh, I absolutely am. Do you need help getting dressed?”
“No, thanks. Since I have the leg back, I can actually reach everything, so I’m good.”
“Okay then.” Ben got dressed quickly, while Emily hopped over to her closet and opened it. “I’ll go fetch my car. It’s parked two streets down as I couldn’t find a parking spot.”
“No, wait. I liked hopping yesterday. Since I hopefully won’t need to after today, let me do it again on our way there.”
“If you say so… I’ll be in the living room then.”
“I’ll be out in a second.”
Five minutes later, Emily came hopping into the living room. She was wearing skiing underwear under a pretty blue and white dress that highlighted her single leg and a blouse of the same colour.
“Damn, Em, you look amazing!”
“Thank you”, Emily laughed. “Okay, are you ready to go?”
“Yeah, let’s roll!” They got into their coats and left the apartment. Ben helped Emily down the stairs again, before leading the way to the car. Her hops made the familiar tap-tap-tap he so adored. She was breathing heavily when they arrived at the car, but smiled happily.
“Thank you for letting me do this.”
“Of course! I enjoy seeing you like this just as much!”
“Glad to be of service”, Emily giggled, opened her door and got in.
After driving for about twenty minutes, they pulled up in front of a very generic looking house in a rural area. Ben got out and went around the car to open the door for Emily. Once they were out of the car, they approached the house. Emily hopped up to the door and rang the doorbell. They heard steps coming from the inside, and a few moments later, a little boy opened the door.
“Uh, hello, we’re here to see your dad, Marcus”, Ben said.
The little boy turned around and shouted: “Daaad, there are two people here to see you!”
The response came muffled from inside: “Coming!”
The boy turned back to the couple and sized them up. His eyes lingered on Emily’s single foot and his eyes went wide.
“And what’s your name?”, Emily asked him with a friendly smile.
“I’m Eric”, the boy replied.
“Well, it’s nice to meet you, Eric”, said Emily. “I’m Emily, and this is Ben.”
“What happened to your leg?” Eric looked at her with wide eyes.
“It got bitten off by a shark”, Emily said to him.
Eric’s eyes went even wider. “But doesn’t that hurt?”
“It did at first, but now…it’s just not there anymore.”
“Are you mad at the shark?”
“No, not really. It is an animal, it doesn’t know better. It thought I was food.”
Eric nodded. “But don’t you miss your leg?”
“Well, sure, but…I can’t really change it, so now I’m just trying to deal with it.”
At that moment, Eric’s father Marcus arrived. “Sorry for the delay. I hope Eric didn’t bother you too much?”
“Oh, not at all”, said Emily. “He was very welcoming.” She winked at Eric, who smiled and went inside.
“I brought the crutches. I assume they are for you?” He glanced at Emily’s single foot and then looked her in the eyes.
“Yep, those are for me.”
“Would you like to try them?”
“That would probably be best.”
Marcus handed Emily the crutches. They were a bit high, so Ben kneeled down in front of her, pressed a button on each crutch, and lowered them until they were the right size.
“Thanks, Babe”, said Emily, smiled and turned towards the road. She crutched to the car, around it and back to Ben and Marcus.
“These are very comfortable”, she said.
“Right? My wife tore her ACL last year and these crutches were a blessing.” Marcus smiled.
“Do you think we should take them?”, Ben asked her.
“Absolutely, they get my vote!”
Marcus smiled. “We purchased them new for €60. My wife used them for three months, so there are some marks from usage. I set the price at €45 on Craigslist, but that’s negotiable. They have been on offer for quite some time now…”
“No, €45 is fine”, said Emily. “It’s a fair price. We’ll take them.”
She took both crutches into one hand to free the other hand up, and pulled out her wallet. She struggled doing it one-handed, so Ben stepped in.
“Should I?”, he asked.
“Yeah, thanks”, said Emily. Ben took a €50 bill out of the wallet.
“Hang on, I’ll just get your change”, Marcus said.
“You know what, don’t worry! The €5 is pocket money for Eric, who was a perfect gentleman.” She grinned
“Wow, thank you, that is very kind. I’m sure he’ll be psyched.” He smiled. “You two are a lovely couple. I wish you all the best.”
“Thank you so much”, Emily replied. They said their goodbyes and returned to their car. Emily got in and stowed the crutches on the back bench. Ben got into the driver’s seat, and they drive off.
“That was by far the most normal encounter I have ever had through Craigslist”, Emily commented.
“True, they were a refreshing change from the nutjobs you find there normally.”
“Let’s just hope the wheelchair folks are similar.”
They drove home and found a parking space one street closer to their apartment than the one they had had in the morning. Emily crutched to their apartment.
“I can’t believe how much easier this is with crutches.”
“I’m happy to hear that. I do miss the hopping though. That was sexy.”
“Cheer up”, Emily chuckled. “I will still hop when we’re at home.”
They arrived at their place and Emily slowly crutched upstairs, always hopping one step up and using the crutches as support. Once they were inside, Emily hopped straight to the bedroom and got out of her clothes.
“Legless tiiiime”, she shouted.
Ben laughed and came into the bedroom. He grabbed the Atomizer and a few moments later, Emily was legless again. She requested that Ben hand her the cosy jogging pants from her closet and a pink sweater. Then Ben left to make some tea while Emily got into her clothes. She tucked her pant legs into her pants and shuffled back to the living room, where Ben handed her a cup of tea. They sat together on the couch and sipped their tea.
“Oh, Em, by the way, remember how my parents have this place in Greece they go to for their holidays?”
“Yeah..”
“Well, I can use that place too. How about we ask some of our friends to come with us and we head down there shortly after easter? It should be warm enough by then. We would only have to pay for the flights and for household stuff while we are there, but the stay itself would be free.”
“That’s an amazing idea! It’s still January. We might actually still find cheap flights, especially if we fly after the easter holidays and some of our friends might still be free. Let’s do it!”
“Okay then.” Ben smiled. “I’m gonna tell my parents that the house is occupied two weeks after easter. Let’s continue this talk in the car, we need to go now.”
“Alright, let’s go then.”
Emily lowered herself from the couch and made her way the door, where Ben handed her her coat. She opened the door and shuffled to the stairs. She lowered herself one step at a time until she arrived at the bottom of the staircase. There she waited for Ben.
“I think you have to carry me from this point on. The floor is super wet down here.”
“Okay, hang on, I’ll be right there.”
A few moments later, Ben arrived at her location and picked her up.
“You’re so light like this”, he commented.
He placed her piggyback and she slung her arms around his neck. He supported her bottom with one hand, since her stumps were too short to hold onto him. He opened the door with his other hand and headed out. They caught some stares on their way to the car, but they ignored them. Five minutes later, Ben opened the car door and lowered Emily into the passenger seat.
“Thank you”, Emily smiled.
“You’re so welcome”, said Ben with a smirk. He closed her door, went around the car, and got into the driver’s seat. He typed an address into his satnav, and they were on their way.
“So, who did you think of?”
“Huh?” Ben looked at her with a confused expression.
“For the trip to Greece”, Emily said. “Who did you think we should invite?”
“Oh, erm, I was thinking Lena and James from my friends and maybe Chris and Lily from yours?”
“Great idea. Let’s ask them when we get back home.”
“That’s a plan!”
They drove another ten minutes and arrived at a big apartment block.
“How am I supposed to get over there?”
“I could carry you again?”
“Would you?”
“Sure.” Ben got out of the car again and picked up Emily again. They entered the foyer and were approached by a concierge.
“May I help you?” He scanned the couple with curious eyes.
“Yes, we have an appointment with Mr Schatzer”, Ben said.
“Ah yes, he told me he expected visitors. He’s on the 8th floor. There’s a lift over there if you prefer not using the staircase.” He pointed to the lift in the corner of the foyer.
“Thank you”, Emily said. Ben turned around and headed for the lift. It was already waiting. They got in and Ben pressed the 8. The doors closed and the lift accelerated quickly. The numbers of the floors shot up on the small display, and twenty seconds later, the lift decelerated, and the doors opened.
“Eight floor”, the automated voice announced. They exited the lift and found the door with the name “Schatzer”. Ben rang the doorbell.
The door opened almost immediately, and they were greeted by a friendly middle-aged face.
“Come on in, come on in, welcome. I’m Dirk Schatzer, though you can call me Dirk.”
“Thank you, Dirk”, said Ben. “I’m Ben and this is Emily.”
“Nice to meet you two.” He led them to the living room and Ben placed Emily into one of the armchairs Dirk offered them.
“I take it the wheelchair is for Emily?”
“That’s correct. I only got the basic model from my health insurance and that gets uncomfortable awfully quick.”
“Oh, I know. We had the same problem. I used to care for my mother, but sadly she passed a few weeks ago.”
“I’m so sorry to hear that”, said Emily, and Ben also gave his condolences.
“Thanks. It’s been rough, but it had been a long time coming. Anyway, I bought this chair, because she always complained about the other one. Unfortunately, she passed just a week after it arrived. So this is practically new. Would you like to see it?”
“That would be wonderful, yes please”, said Emily. Dirk got up and left the room. Two minutes later, he returned with a folded-up wheelchair. He placed it in the middle of the room for both to see.
“It’s actually very simple”, he said. “You pull this lever and tada, it pops right up.” He demonstrated it while he was speaking. “In order to fold it back up, you pull the lever again and push the wheel inwards simultaneously.” Again he demonstrated what he meant.
“That seems easy enough”, said Ben. “Can I try?”
“Sure!” Dirk stepped back and allowed Ben to try it himself.
“That really is very easy.” Ben nodded to Emily.
“Emily, would you like to get into the wheelchair and try it out?”
“Yes please!”
Dirk pushed the wheelchair close to Emily, so that it stood right where Emily’s legs would have been – if she had had any.
Emily shuffled forwards and climbed into the wheelchair. She sat back and used her hands on the wheels to back off the chair and turn it around.
“Wow, it’s so comfy. I could sit here all day!”
“That’s how it’s supposed to be. Go on, see how it feels across the room and down the hallway. We’ll wait”, Dirk said.
Emily did as she was told and soon rolled out of the living room. She was back a minute later.
“I love it”, she announced excitedly.
“Wonderful”, Dirk said with a warm smile.
“That leaves the matter of payment”, Ben said.
“Ah yes. I think I wrote €85 on Craigslist. You two are such a lovely couple, though, so here’s my offer for you: €75 and you’ll also take the other wheelchair. It never hurts to have a spare, and I’ll be rid of it.”
“Wow, that’s awfully kind, Dirk”, said Emily. “We’ll gladly accept.”
“I’m happy to hear that.” Dirk smiled again.
Emily handed Dirk €75, they shook hands and Dirk led them back to his front door, where the other wheelchair was conveniently waiting.
“This one folds up too, it’s just not nearly as comfortable as the other one”, Dirk said.
“Perfect. It’s nice enough to have as a spare”, said Emily. “Ben if you get that one, I’ll drive my new seat downstairs.”
“You got it”, said Ben. He took hold of the empty wheelchair’s handles and pushed it out of the door behind Emily. They said their goodbyes to Dirk and got onto the lift.
“He was super nice”, said Ben.
“Yeah”, Emily agreed. “That’s it, that must’ve been all my Craigslist good fortune used up in one day.”
Ben chuckled. “Good thing we’re done for now.”
They arrived at the foyer and nodded to the concierge in passing. When they got to the car, Emily moved herself into the passenger seat, while Ben folded up both wheelchairs and stowed them away on the back bench.
Once the got home, Ben unfolded Emily’s new comfortable wheelchair and grabbed the other one himself. Emily rolled herself to the staircase and lowered herself down onto the first step again.
“What should we do with the wheelchair?”
“I think it’s actually smart to park it down here. You don’t need it in the apartment and that way we don’t always have to carry it up and down the stairs”, Ben said. “I can put it where the bikes are stowed.”
“Good idea.”
Ben set the wheelchair he was carrying down, folded the other one up and placed it next to the bikes, while Emily already made her way up the stairs, one at a time. Once he was done, he picked the other wheelchair back up and followed her upstairs. He overtook her on the stairs and unfolded the wheelchair, so that it was readily waiting for her when she arrived.
“Thank you”, she said as she pulled herself into the chair. “Huh, this one really isn’t nearly as comfortable as the other one. It’ll do for the apartment and as backup, though. It’s not like I was planning on using a wheelchair much while in the apartment.”
Ben opened the door and she rolled herself inside.
“This was a fun day”, she said smiling.
“I’m glad you enjoyed yourself. I liked it too”, Ben replied.
“Ben, do you think I could go to work like this tomorrow?”
“I don’t see why not.” He shrugged. “Everybody at your office already knows about the Atomizer, your job is a desk job, and your office building has wide doors and a lift. Should be fine.”
“Awesome. I want to stay legless for a while.”
He smiled. “Okay, then you stay legless.”
They ordered a kebab as takeout for the night and enjoyed that at the living room table, Ben in a normal chair and Emily in her wheelchair. After dinner, they changed into night gowns and Ben once again marvelled at Emily’s new shape. They texted their friends about Greece and then got into bed, where Ben explored every inch of Emily’s new body. The next week, Emily never took her legs back and enjoyed the experience of exploring the world from the perspective of a legless person.