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[longwillows]

reach out?

the smell of fresh water in dry desert air. the feeling of cautious curiosity. a place as dangerous as it is resplendent.

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april, week 3 ... sorry

[snaggletooth]

[ Along the Murmur, a shadow this way comes, harbingered by a sound as soft as a tiny bug's tarsi skittering across a sleek, manmade surface. Patiently, he waits for her to become aware of him before speaking up. ]

Kalmiya, would you be willing to lend your expertise in answering some questions we have regarding, haha...

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There is a moment here, now, during which he makes no sound, yet it seems very much like he's trying to hold in his own amusement. ]

Sex.

[ Till just couldn't ask her himself, you see... ]

uproarious applause

[longwillows]

[She's immediately alert once she realizes the encroaching presence is Ivan, though she merely directs the warmth of her attention to him instead of interrupting his request. Since it...

Takes a moment...

...

To...



Kalmiya does not hold in her amusement. Their connection rings with her laughter, tickled but good-natured.] Aha, ha—! Goodness— sorry, I don't mean to laugh, just—

[Well, Ivan was amused too. He clearly sees the humor in this.] —aha, pardon me. [AHEM.] I'm happy to help. What is it you were wondering about?

[snaggletooth]

[ Oh, my, and there's her reaction—truly, Till wouldn't have been able to go on a single second longer had he attempted this himself. No, he'd be dead on the floor from all of his blood flocking to his face. Ivan, graciously, keeps his own laughter to the inside of his head, less Till still lose his life from wondering what's so, so funny.

They are, after all, in the same room right as this conversation is occurring. He's a very direct person, Ivan, and the type to do something immediately when asked.

He presses fingers to the side of his mouth to cover half of the smile creeping insidiously up it. ]

We've found some interesting illustrations.

[ Residual laughter. ]

We were wondering if the... configurations depicted in them are really safe to try in real life. [ Of course, he's not just going to bombard her with them outright. ] Let me know if I have your permission to show you? Aha, admittedly, you were the only person we could think to ask.

[ The only one who speaks of such things so openly, without embarrassment, judgment, revile. ]

[longwillows]

[Kalmiya, living alone, has no such consideration for remaining quiet; there is a sense that her laughter is distant, like she's holding it at arm's length from the Murmur for the sake of continuing the conversation, but it's not hidden.

Certainly not at illustrations. Her projection visibly brightens, her trio of tails swaying with joyous interest and her grin unflappable.] I do seem to be the resident expert of our little community, don't I? But you know I'm always happy to help with this sort of thing!

Permission granted. [With a twinkle of playful excitement:] Go on and show me those configurations!

cringes

[snaggletooth]

[ The world as seen through Ivan's eyes stutters into focus, gleaming black fingers holding a splayed open paperback, each page a piece of art that tells a linear story. And the subject is men lying together in meticulously-rendered coitus.

He flips through them for her, and it may not be apparent what he thinks is unsafe about anything depicted at first. The "configurations" as he'd put it are run-of-the-mill, the artist more focused on the winding musculature of the figures portrayed, and the pleasure in their intoxicated expressions. ]

He wants to try it, but... what about his insides?

[ The one thing that could be considered even the least bit risky about the sex on display is that it's penetrative. ]

ivan u just posted cringe......

[longwillows]

[???]

His...insides?

[She's really and truly cataloguing the positions Ivan has shown her (very lovingly illustrated—this artist must have been a talented pornographer,) but she's having trouble connecting the dots between these particular configurations. Whatever they have in common doesn't immediately jump out to her, and none of them seem particularly dangerous to one's organs, or any other body parts.

Except maybe...]

Oh! Do you mean the rectum? [While not exactly dangerous, that can be quite painful if not approached correctly.] Don't worry, unless you're shoving something truly enormous up there, you shouldn't be bothering anything vital. It's just a sort of...squeezy tube in there, for the most part.

Anal sex requires some preparation, though. It's not dangerous, but your body typically wants things going out of the anus, not in. There's not enough natural lubricant to insert most things, so you'll need...usually some kind of oil, or salve. There are plenty that are specially made for that!

[snaggletooth]

[ How thorough! He knew he could count on her for some kind of explanation, and that certainly was one. Drawings can be of anything, including things that don't actually exist. The clouds Till used to draw that were much fluffier than the fakes ones in the fake sky above their school come to mind.

He was worried that might be the case here, that it was someone's dream of intimacy that wasn't actually possible in the way it was for a proper breeding pair.

He's giddy to have been wrong. ]

To-the-point, as expected. I appreciate that, Kalmiya.

[ Nerves behind the black wall of the Murmur twinge sharply, braced to do something exciting, but maybe a little scary, too. ]

Haha, now I just have to hope you don't think of us as complete fools, after such an ask. We were taught some basic anatomy, but only so we wouldn't engage in any behavior that would result in reproducing.

[longwillows]

[The anticipation is answered with a glowing ring of excitement, not unlike the first time she saw Ivan and Till together.

Though she seems aghast at the suggestion.] No, not at all! I didn't know about any of this stuff until I left my crappy home, either. Sex was only supposed to be for the purpose of procreation where I came from, so that's about all I knew for a long time.

[snaggletooth]

[ She did mention something like to that effect before, that she spent some part of her lifetime in one place, like them, wondering about a world of unknowns.

But she makes that easy to forget. ]

I doubt anyone would guess that about you, Kalmiya. Someday, I hope I can become half as knowledgeable.