The Cosmos, The Arrivals, Book 1, Chapter 3, Babs Anticipates Tiffany, Robyn & Steph: Roommates, Day 1, Section 5, Babs Reviews Seven Cosmos Pledge Manifest: Full House. ¶ Enough daydreaming. Boss Babe stands, takes a deep breath, and refocuses her mind. She inventories potential challengers. ¶ {The three other Mudwrestling Contestants: Janet? Penny and Coco?} Babs mulls, {Janet could challenge me, but as long as Penny and Coco stay at the Nugget they aren’t dangerous. And besides, neither Janet nor the Strippers are Cosmos.} ¶ BB rubs her nostrils and recalls that Robyn supervised the four Mudwrestling Contestants at the end of last Term, after Steph had vanished. {Maybe Robyn will be my Pledge this Term or maybe not, but Steph shall be my Pledge for sure, whether I want her or not.} ¶ Boss Babe addresses both residual spirits out loud, “You two incoming Pledge might know what secrets reside in the morgue from my Pledge days. You come with one Garment each. You had better behave yourselves and keep secrets or you will Mudwrestle and see who ends up with two pieces and who ends up naked.” ¶ Boss Babe smiles at this thought and finds her spirits buoyed for a moment. ¶ She escalates, “And no water to hose down with afterwards.” ¶ BB smiles, relaxes against the back of the chair, allows air to penetrate in between thighs, and shudders Steph out of her thoughts. Lingers a moment too long at Robyn’s last bunk alcove and transfers to its incoming occupant. {Tiffany, as per the Manifest. And no coincidence with the Tiffany Porn Star Calendar on the Kitchen wall. Impossible. That’s just some fearless spunked Whore turning all holes out. And grabbing whatever she can get her hands on. Somewhere far beyond vulgar.} ¶ Babs scratches the skin of her back against the back of the chair. She reaches behind and verifies that her three bra hooks are all tidy. They are. ¶ {Tiffany, Steph, Robyn, and I account for half of the Cosmos,} Boss Babe crunches. The Manifest does include the four other names. {One pair of them each brings two Garments and are newbies. Beka and Elle. The one pair of them each with one Garment, they’re Strippers. Kimju and Molly.} ¶ Pledge are the only Caste by which newbies may enter School. {And I don’t worry so much about the newbies,} BB circumspects silently as she drums on the Desktop. {I worry about Strippers on the uptick who might challenge me somehow. Like arriving topless. I get tits in my face and Pledge who’ve got more Terms of School than I do. Even discarding Tiffany, dealing with veterans—Cosmos alumni—isn’t something I anticipated I would be dealing with. Although I should have figured it out a long time ago.} BB tallies, {Four Cosmos, me included, will arrive wearing two pieces, and four Cosmos will arrive wearing only a single Garment. Total eight Cosmos, twelve Garments. Full Cosmos House.} ¶ And BB knows the outcomes: the Garments can move between Cosmos, but Cosmos’ navels must always stay exposed. Navelage 24x7. As a Cosmos, Babs isn’t really required to show off her whole belly, but the bra and nombril Bikini she wears don’t provide her any choice in the matter. Babs looks down at her expanse of belly skin and sees the low-rise elastic waistline squeeze out the smallest concave of belly flesh. {But it has no chance of rising up and accidentally covering my button, even sitting down and hunched forward!} ¶ BB knows that bellage can be far more modest, if not more expansive, that her current Game position. It is not even necessary that a Cosmos expose belly all the way around her waist. Navelage 24x7 defines the commitment. {So if a Pledge isn’t totally bellage, like me, they’d better arrive with their button displayed somehow, like coy Robyn in her maillot cutout last Term. Just her belly button, but not the rest of her belly.} ¶ Boss Babe also knows that as long as the costume reveals a bare belly button 24x7, these Cosmos stay legal. {This all applies to Steph too.} Boss Babe scowls. {Steph especially better arrive with a hole cutout in her stomach.} ¶ Because Cosmos who cover their button find their Caste broken.