"Listen, I don't need you to believe me. I can walk around Vancouver naked in February and start public orgies and apparently share my orgasms with everyone in a fifteen-foot radius, that's enough for me."

"—wait, that was you?"

"That was me! I had three orgasms at once for complicated game reasons and whited out and psychically made everybody cum at the same time. It was wild."

"...so, magic sex powers. You have magic sex powers, like, for real. Isn't that a little bit unethical?"

"Mm. It doesn't seem like mind control, if that's what you're thinking. The way it talks about itself, and from what I've seen, it's more... probability manipulation. Making the world I find around me sexier. I mean, you saw the guys at the bar, right? Mesh jockstraps are not typical eveningwear anywhere except the Folsom Street Fair."

"So, what, you just will never happen to run into someone who would be scarred for life by seeing you naked? Or cops, for that matter?"

He grins. "I might run into cops. There's a lot of good material there."

"Spare me, Mr. Kaltmann," he says, rolling his eyes. His cock begs to differ. "What about the psychic orgasm? Is that probability manipulation, too?"

"Man, I don't know what that was. The Erogame helpfully informed me that the boundaries between human souls are a falsehood which we maintain out of fear, or something like that. So there's that."

"...uh, I would prefer to keep them, yes, please do not turn the whole world into a mind melded superbeing."

"Yeah, that'd suck, I don't plan to. For one thing it'd be boring, for another thing where would we get all that orange soda?"

Eric looks at Ari with a curious expression. "Say, Mr. Kaltmann, are you more than meets the eye?"

"Yes," he says immediately. "How so?"

"You don't completely fit the stereotype, do you? I caught the reference."

"Which stereotype is that? I thought I was an obvious nerd. Did my muscles give you the wrong impression about me?"

"Tall, handsome, hot jocks with big penises who have orgies in gay pubs and publish naked videos online are not what come to my mind when I think of nerds."

"Aw, you know about the videos!" Ari grins. "Have you watched any?"

"One or two."

He nudges Eric with his hip. "Did you secretly jerk off to me before I finally forced the issue, Jones?"

"I plead the fifth."

"You're great. I love you."

"Yes, yes, Mr. Kaltmann. But magic powers or no magic powers I'm still not fucking you over my desk."

"Why not, at this point? I'm pretty sure at my level of reality-warping nobody would even object. And if anybody did, I could fuck our way out of it."

"That's still only your word, and while I have seen and experienced some rather extreme things today I'm still not quite sure I would want to bet my livelihood on it."

"What do you need to see before you'll trust it, then? I can probably arrange for it. Do you want me to fuck your boss? I can and I will."