A woman with purple skin sitting amid a stall of instricate glass sculptures, along with a not-insignificant selection of glass plugs and dildoes. 

The woman is staring right back at her, and she makes a small flurry of signs with both hands before she blinks and realizes —

"— Hey, do you speak english?" 

(Phee would be quite flustered and blushing if she noticed the selection of glass sex toys, but luckily she's too hyperfocused on her ?fellow worldhopper?)

After slightly startling at being addressed, she responds.

"H-hi! I do! Are you also from Earth?"

"Yeah, I am! — okay, I gotta make my local taxes in four days but this is important enough that I should close shop." 

Eva gestures to a deep rose pink half-sphere of smoky glass behind her. "Come into my stockroom and we can talk privately?"

Pretty! Phee will follow her into the stockroom. "Sure! Erm and if there's anything i could do later to make up for the lost tax progress from me prompting you to close up early I'd be happy to try and help?"

Eva comes into the stockroom and sits on a cardboad box full of trashy paperback romance novels.

"Ahhhh, that's a little hard because taxes here are in art or sex. But if you have a creative talent of some kind maybe."

Eva manages an uncertain smile. "I've been here for about a year, one third of my time here, one third of my time on earth, one third of my time in my stone cavern. I have a — problem with how I connect to other worlds, they want me to balance my time among them. And I still need medications from Earth. I just recently had to spend a bunch of time on earth apartment hunting which is not exactly easy when you are purple. It... didn't work out. On earth these days I mostly hang out in public parks and retreat to my cavern to sleep. Technically on paper I'm homeless. And because of that whole debacle I'm behind on my taxes here, which means I might get kicked out of the city and that's a whole other kettle of fish."

She shakes her head. "Sorry, I just... It's been almost a year and having someone I can finally talk to about my problems is really, really freeing. I didn't mean to dump that all on you." 

Eva takes a breath. "I still have a decent stack of romance novels, so if I can trade for artwork I won't have to pay in sex, which is... good. I'm still not really used to how oversexed this world is. But you probably have a lot of questions, yeah? Ask away."

Phee's brain : you should hug her.

Phee's social anxiety : I shouldn't hug a girl i just met without even asking!

Phee's mouth : "Would you like a hug?"

Phee's social anxiety : wait did you just say that out loud?

Phee's mouth : yes.

Phee's social anxiety : aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Trying to distract herself from how awkward she almost certainly just made things, Phee tries focusing on the rest of what was said :

"Ahhhh, that's a little hard because taxes here are in art or sex. But if you have a creative talent of some kind maybe."

Phee's horny : I've got no artistic talent to speak of, but I do have a rape kink at least, so if needs must you should feel free to sacrifice me to the Sex Collectors 

... That probably wouldn't be productive to say either.

I've been here for about a year, one third of my time here, one third of my time on earth, one third of my time in my stone cavern. I have a — problem with how I connect to other worlds, they want me to balance my time among them.

Phee is really glad she doesn't have that issue, it'd would've sucked so much to have to spend a sixth of her time in flesh world been moderately inconvenient to only be able to spend 4 hours a day on earth, needing to spend another 4 swimming in an eldritch ocean, and moderately inconveint to be stuck in a forest and empty cavern for similar amounts of time.

Eva gives Phee a small smile. 

"Yeah, I would like a hug. I mean, if you don't mind."

... She didn't completely alienate her by saying that?

Yay!

Phee returns smile and gives hug! (And tries her best to ignore that's she hugging cute girl, the way her tits (were they always so sensitive?) are being squished against the aforementioned cute girl because of hug, and the physiological reactions that will inevitably result if she thinks about them.)

"I'd be happy to! If I minded I wouldn't have offered!"

Eve hugs Phee gently and then slowly pulls away. "Thank you so much. I... really needed that."

She sighs. "Sorry, we're doing this all out of order. Uh — what's your name? I'm Eva. It's spelt with an E but said with an A — I might not have picked it if I'd known that'd happen, but..." 

She shakes her head.

Phee returns gentle hugs and lets Eva when she pulls away no matter tempting it'd be hug her closer. "You're w-welcome! I'm glad to have provided some comfort!"

"And it's nice to meet you Eva! I'm Phee. It's spelt with a Ph!"

"It's nice to meet you, Phee. Is that short for something?"

Small blush. "Y-yeah-ish? I got it from a shortening" and enfemmining "of Phoenix?"

"Awww! Mine's a short form of Evangeline. I really like those old fancy-style names."

"So, I'm sure you have a ton of questions. Please, ask away."

Blushy smile. "T-thanks! And neat and Evangeline is pretty too!" Just like you.

"And the first question that comes to mind was what was the most important thing you would've wanted to know before visiting here?

Is there anything about your powers you'd wanna share?

Are there any questions you wanna ask me?

This world is oversexed?

You could use romance novels to pay? Would it help if i bought more romance novels Earthside and brought them here? Wait they probably don't speak English here so that most likely wouldn't work, sorry for asking.

Is there anything that'd help make your cavern more comfortable I could smuggle in Earthside for you? Blankets? Pillows? Tolietries? sources of electricity? I don't actually know if there's any cheapish portable sources of it but I could at least check."

Phee's Cynicism : You shouldn't be willing to throw a bunch of resources at every girl in an unfortunate situation you come across, it'll quickly eat up all your slack and leave you penniless.

Phee's ??? : Counterpoint The first fellow inter dimensional traveler I come across is a valid single digit schelling point that won't leave me bankrupt!

Phee's Cynicism : Counter-counterpoint you don't actually care about her.

Phee's ??? : Counter-counter-counterpoint I'm gonna try and help her anyway.

Phee's Cynicism : ....

"Gosh, that's a lot of questions. Uh, let me see if I can get them all done more or less."

She takes a breath. 

"Firstly, literally everything in this world except for sand and stuff made directly out of sand is alive, smart, and horny. Even the plants. Even the fruit. Even the water you drink. Most things like water and fruit kink on being eaten and drunk and are parts of larger spirits, so it's possible to eat and drink ethically, but sex is so common here it's practically impossible to get anything done without fucking half-a-dozen random objects. I have to fuck people casually just as a matter of bartering my goods in the market." 

The corner of her mouth quirks up. "Fortunately all the food and water here is aphrodisiac, too, so as long as you're still physically able to keep going and emotionally in a decent headspace it's not too hard to muster up the energy, but, like, some days I just do not want to fuck six different people and or objects, some days I'm tired or sad or out of sorts or... you get the idea. I keep a supply of Earth food on hand for those days."

"As for my powers, my best one is the ability to borrow a little of the nature of erokami's — the local sentients — nature and bind it into objects. If I defeat them at sex. It comes up a lot more often then you'd think, they try a lot." 

She gestures to a small cluster of bracelets on her arm. "I'm trying to get together a cluster of particularly calm and clear-thinking Erokami bound to bracelets to help with replacing some of my Earth medications, but that's hard. Most of them are pretty lusty and emotionally sharp and that's not really what I need. It seems like water spirits are best for me, but they're separated by really long distances and even though I can teleport there's only so much exploration I've been able to do."

She crosses her arms. "I think I also mentioned the stone cave — I have an extradimensional apartment, basically. It's a bit low-tech but it's better than sleeping rough by a long shot."

"As for the romance novels, I'm working on translating a bunch of erotic novels to the local language but it's a bit of a hassle because the paper keeps having an orgasm in the middle of things, which means it wriggles and messes up my handwriting..."

"Uh, what was next... thanks for offering to bring me things. I'm managing alright in the cavern, it's really the other worlds that cause me trouble. I charge my phone using a solar charger here in the pink desert, or at cafés on earth. There's no network here to connect to, so... A lot of the utility is gone." She shrugs. 

"I think that's all?"

"Firstly, literally everything in this world except for sand and stuff made directly out of sand is alive, smart, and horny. Even the plants. Even the fruit. Even the water you drink. 

[extremely horrified not yet bird noises]

but, like, some days I just do not want to fuck six different people and or objects, some days I'm tired or sad or out of sorts or... you get the idea. I keep a supply of Earth food on hand for those days."

Phee is going to hug the Eva again unless she seems to object to that.

It seems like water spirits are best for me, but they're separated by really long distances and even though I can teleport there's only so much exploration I've been able to do."

Phee's powers are now giving her intrusive thoughts of unreasonable erotic visions of Eva claiming and drinking her water, which is leaving her very very blushy.

"As for the romance novels, I'm working on translating a bunch of erotic novels to the local language but it's a bit of a hassle because the paper keeps having an orgasm in the middle of things, which means it wriggles and messes up my handwriting..."

"Would smuggling non orgasmic paper in from earth help at all with your translation efforts, or is there a constant risk of objects gaining sentience here?"

"Also um if you'd like to hear about my own powers I could I share too? Though I only actually realized I have powers earlier today and so most of what i know about mine is just imperfect conjecture based off trying to introspect and get the powers to tell me what they are, but with that disclaimer out of the way I've got a connection with si-five worlds which lets me sense where the nearest places they intersect with the world i'm in are.

I'm able to, with a few minutes effort cross over between the points where they intersect. Alternatively I can sorta just send my vision without my body across to see what's on the other side?

I've also got an extradimensional space but it's more like a small cave that's no tech aside from being smooth and dust free then a low-tech apartment.

I'm probably able to breathe water now and probably have improved swimming ability, but I haven't tested either yet.

I'm probably better at learning languages now.

I'm now a plant, um wait I mean I'm now like a plant, in that i can survive off of sunlight, I think.

Probably one of my powers is making me prettier? I initially thought that was just the estrogen but after ?looking? at my powers it feels like one of them is responsible.

I have some kind of shapeshifty power but I couldn't figure out what it is beyond that it required visiting this world, but now that I'm here it feels like it might be of a similar kind of thing as the drawing power from erokami ability you mentioned?

I've also got the amazing power of infertility now!

And for the last two powers i know about one feels like i need to d-drink some of the water from this world to use? And the other err um uh..."

Phee is blushing intensely, also incidentally Eva might have noticed by now that there's a puddle of water forming by Phee's feet.

Eva smiles and hugs Phee back.

"Infertility is such a great power. I wouldn't have been able to survive here without some serious issues without it. My cave is better than yours I think — mine can make liquids, minerals and grow plants, which has been a huge help with my diet. It's basically a three room apartment with a garden area. Kitchen, bathroom, bedroom. I think I'm faster at bridging than you, too." 

She rubs the back of her head. "So you're trans too? I had to get my femininity from a bunch of local Erokami, but I got there eventually." 

And she nods. "Yeah, I've run out of paper from Earth to write on. I, uh... Someone got... fluids... on my stock and I haven't been able to replace it yet." She rubs the back of her head awkwardly.

Hugging intensifies!

"It really is! I haven't actually gotten to use it yet, but I'm certain that not needing to worry about accidentally kids is gonna be great!"

"And it's cool that your cave can do all that! And now I'm curious how quickly you can bridge? And whether you were originally slower at it or if you were always able to do it at roughly the same speed once you figured out how to bridge at all?"

Blushnod, then uncertain shrug at being asked bout tranness. "Yeah! Or well at least like if you modeled me that way you wouldn't make incorrect predictions if that makes any sense?"

Phee is completely oblivious to Eva letting slip that she was the one who got fluids on her stock and responds. "Oh no, that sucks" and not even in a fun way "I could get you some new stock of paper the next time I'm earthside?"

"Uh, it only takes me a few seconds at most. And I can do it from basically wherever I am in the world, though I didn't figure that out for a few months. It's more a matter of letting go and going for me than a matter of doing it deliberately - it's like I'm strained between Earth, the cavern and here. Here is Pink Desert by the way, the locals just call it that in their language, which is sign." 

She smiles. "As for paper, I'd really appreciate that. Right now my balance is naturally towards Pink Desert so I have to stay for a while to catch up. I won't be able to go back to earth for another ten days or so." 

Here's a very impressed Phee at how quickly Eva can bridge and her ability to do it anywhere.

"That's really cool that you're that good at it! And It makes sense that they'd call it that!"

Smile back! "I'll make sure to get some then! Any preferences on type or dimensions, and how much I should try get you?"

"Just, like, regular A4 paper is fine. That would be a huge help, thank you."

"You're welcome! Want me to head back to Earth to grab those for you now, or would there be anything else we should or you'd wanna do first?"

"I definitely want to hear more about your powers, but that can wait until the end of the sales day. For now I've got bartering to do. See you in, uh, like an hour or two? I'll still be here."

"I'll try telling you more bout them later then! And sure that time works!"

And then she heads back to where she first arrived in this world and starts to navigate her way back to Earth.

and starts to navigate her way back to Earth.

navigate her way back to Earth.

back to Earth.

BACK TO EARTH.

So the thing about needing to concentrate on a complicated mental task for several minutes without losing focus once or else you'll need to start over again is that it's actually pretty difficult to pull off in the middle of a crowded market, even if you're not also separately someone who does not cope well with background noise when trying to work on stuff.

So half an hour after she last saw her, Eva will find a Phee who's definitely not a nervous wreck, or on the verge of tears (One of the nice things about barely having emotions is that you're never at risk of breaking down crying!) returning back to her.

"D-do you know of somewhere quiet n-nearby? I need to be close to where I arrived to access the bridge, but i need to focus to cross it and that's difficulty when it's so markety...?"

The feeling of Phee in her senses — the aura of another person who can travel worlds, like her — doesn't go away. 

So when Phee comes back looking distinctly droopier the first thing she wants to do is hug her. 

She hugs her. 

It's silly to get emotionally entangled with the first human she sees on this world but come on they both have magic it's clear they're going to be important to each other going forward. No sense in not establishing friendly relations.

"It'll get easier in a couple hours when the market closes. You can read a bad romance novel and hang out in the back of my shop?"

Needy glomphug!

It's silly to get emotionally entangled with the first human she sees on this world

It really is! Which is why she's not definitely getting emotional at all and merely building connections with the other Earth originating magic user. She's not coping, you're coping.

"It'll get easier in a couple hours when the market closes. You can read a bad romance novel and hang out in the back of my shop?"

"H-hopefully and t-thanks, if it wouldn't be too much trouble I'll try that?"

"Not at all! Just, uh, if you hear... noises... out the front door don't come out please. I'm coping kind of hard about the enforced exhibitionism of this world by telling myself that nobody I know from earth will ever know."

Crygiggle. "I'll try my best to resist the urge to cum over if I hear that! even if it would be very tempting..."

Eva blushes, looks away, and darts back out to the bazaar.

D-did she say that last part out loud?

The Phee is going to go hide in the stockroom and die of embarrassment distract herself with trashy romance novels now!

There are, in fact, eventually Noises from outside.

You should go look!

But I promised not to!

And it'd probably be really embarrassing to walk in on!

That would just make it hotter!

While she doesn't manage to definitely decide against going out and looking at what's happening to Eva, her internal conflict at least lasts long enough that whatever was happening ends before she decides what to do.

Eva comes back into the stockroom a few minutes later with her hair messed up and a wide smile on her face. She is clothed, fortunately. "Summer just dropped by! — she's one of my favorite customers. She didn't buy much but she promised to advertise for me. Market's closing in another ten minutes so I'm going to start moving my things into the stockroom."

She is clothed, fortunately.

Ah yeah, F-fortunately definitely. It's not like Phee wanted to see Eva naked.

She totally wants to see her naked.

"It's good that she promised to do that! Hopefully the marketing helps. And could I help you with moving stuff in here?"

Awww, she's cute. 

"For sure. Just don't drop anything, okay? These things are fragile."

And with that, Eva heads back outside to start packing things in cardboard boxes.

"I'll do my best!" And then Phee will help her with packing things (albeit slowly because she's trying to be careful) and then help carry the boxes in.

Or at least try, as she's actually pretty weak.

She is still a huge help. Eva ends up focusing on the larger pieces, which are the statues and sculptures, while Phee is left with the smaller pieces — mostly dildoes and plugs.

You should ask her if you can sample her products!

Phee does not ask if she can sample Eva's products. Even if she does look like she wants to (And also like she'd die of embarrassment if she did).

(Because she definitely would.)

And continues to carefully carry them inside for Eva.

You should carry them inside E-

No!

Eva comes back into the storeroom with the last glass sculpture, carefully sets it atop her box of romance novels, and nods to Phee. 

"Good work," she says. And her hand darts out and ruffles Phee's hair.

Phee shyly nuzzles into the hair ruffling.

"T-thanks!"

Eva flushes after a second and pulls her hand away. "S-sorry, touch is more casual here, I didn't really think. You don't hate it?"

"it was really nice actually..."

The hand returns to Phee's head straightaway in that case!

"Aww, cuuuuute. Earth has a lot to answer for where it comes to touch starvation."

Phee blushes harder at the return of Eva's hand, and then shyhappily resumes nuzzling into it.

"C-cute?! A-and t-thanks!"

"And I wouldn't say I was touch starved, more just..."

"You're just the kind of person who likes getting her hair petted?"

Eva's blushing now, and petting firmer. 

Blushnuzzle.

"Y-yeah!"

Eva pats her head a little more, then lightly nudges her away. "I need to stay with my stock for now, but go ahead and try your transfer again and if you have trouble come back and we'll talk about it."

Nooo, the petting has ended!

After recovering the ending of pets, Phee responds with "I-I'll go try it again then! If it works this time, I'll be back in an hour then with paper?"

"Alright! Try to be back within three hours, I've got to move to my cavern after that to keep the worlds balanced so I'll be gone after that till tomorrow morning."

"Got it! I'll be sure to be back before then!" And then she leaves the stockroom.

And immediately reenters after thinking of something. "I was probably get myself some food while I'm on Earth, would you like me to get you something too?"

"I would love that. Nothing with leafy greens on it, I have a sensitivity, but anything from a tuna sandwich without lettuce to a burger would be great right now. I don't get enough meat in my diet these days."

We’ve got a piece of thick long hard meat we’d love to share with you!

We’re not saying that.

Plus it’s too small for that line to work.

That’s what she’ll say!

“Got it! And uh, are there any things that’d be particularly meat dense that’d be good to get you then? I’ve never had meat-“

Well technically-

Even if continuity of identity wasn't a total spook, it's still not that much of a stretch to consider the entity we have a few decade old memories of being a different person.

"At not within the past like decade, so I wouldn't know about foods containing if that makes sense?"

Eva's eyebrows jump.

"Oh, you're a vegetarian? Sorry, then I shouldn't really ask you to get meat for me, that feels like I'm going against your ethics. I do miss it but I do feel like it's probably better ethically to not. Could you maybe try and get me a falafel burrito then? I haven't had falafel in a long while." 

Ethics? Pfftt, as if we have any of those.

Hey! you shouldn't laugh at her for being nice and expressing concern!

I wasn't laughing at her being nice, I was laughing at the idea of us being in anyway ethical.

Doesn't matter, you still shouldn't be laughing.

Fine, I won't do it again.

Good.

"I am, but don't be sorry! It's not really like an ethics thing for me, nowadays it's just because my brain is very picky about what food it's okay with eating and meat grosses me out, but that's not like a legitimate to not get a friend food she's looking for, really?"

Wait did we just call her a friend?

"SorryifitwaspresumptuousofmetocallyouafriendImeanIwouldlikeustobefriendsbutIwouldn'twanttopressureyouoranything!"

[author's note : she said ""Sorry if it was presumptuous of me to call you a friend I mean I would like us to be friends but I wouldn't want to pressure you or anything!"]

Oh, this girl is a mess. 

A really cute mess.

It makes her want to mess her up a little. 

Down, girl. 

You can see it, can't you? The poor thing has the most obvious crush on you in existence. Just kiss her already. 

Fine, fine, but she'll ask like a gentleman lady. 

"Actually I was wondering if it would be okay to kiss you."

"I would like it very much if you did!"

Well, then. She'll lean in gently and press her lips to Phee's. 

And Phee will happily lean into the kiss and return it.

Eva steps back and smiles, a soft blush on her face. "That was nice..."

She rubs the back of her head. "Most fast food hamburgers are fine for me, so feel free to pick up one of those. Just don't get one with lettuce. A Big Mac is fine."

Phee smiles back. "It was! And sure thing, I'll be back with it and the paper in an hour!" And unless Eva has anything else she'd like to say, she'll head off now?

Or well she'll take out her notebook and write down what to get Eva and underline the part about no lettuce first, but then she'll be off!

Eva smiles and waves goodbye, and goes back to her transcription efforts on the uncooperative paper.

Phee returns the wave and then heads off! 

While being totally jealous of the orgasmically inclined paper being worked on by Eva.

And arrives back where she first arrived, feeling relieved when she notices how much less crowded things are.

And gets to work on crossing the bridge.

And doesn't make it cross on her first attempt despite getting so close.

Her second attempt succeeds however!

And after a short little victory dance.

And messaging a few people that might otherwise be worried by dropping off the face of the Earth to effect that she's A: still alive, B: completely fine, and C: She was somewhere without internet access, D: She'll be there again soon.

And E: No she's not gonna explain where, it's private!

Then she heads off to get a bunch of A4 paper for Eva, and food for the both of them, repeatedly checking her earlier notes while doing so to make sure that she doesn't mess it up. 

And then she'll return to the bridge!

Do another lil victory dance when she crosses on her first try this time.

And head off in search of Eva!

Eva's efforts haven't gone much better than last time, and she ended up playing Simon Tatham's Puzzle Pack from her phone for a while to kill time...

... Which was when Summer dropped by to pick up her order... 

... and her timesense has never been good, as has her sense of object permanence... 

And so this is how Phee ends up coming back to see Eva on a drift of pillows in front of her stockroom, lying on her side, her cock buried to the hilt in a wriggly, pink-skinned woman with horns as she spoons her from behind and squeezes at her breasts.

Phee casually strolls back to where she superpower senses say Eva is. (Couldn't she have just remembered the way back instead of needing to resort to superpowers, someone who started reading her for just that moment might ask? And the answer is No. No she could not.)

And then she notices what Eva is doing.

This is the hardest

And most embarrassed-

she's ever been in her entire life. (or at least it certainly feels like it.)

And most jealous too!

(Or well the constructive and not destructively motivating version of the emotion, she's poly after all and certainly wouldn't want to deny anyone something as wonderful as being railed by Eva must be!)

"I-um-I-i I'll didn't mean to walk in on you while you're you're y-you're f-fu- having s-se- engaging in c-co... things.. i'll just leave you be for n-now and cum- I mean come I mean return later!"

And then she'll run away.

And then she'll run away?

She does not appear to be running away. Apparently her legs are on strike now.

And her eyes won't stop staring at Eva and glancing at where her she's fu- connected to the other girl.

Summer makes a confused noise.

Eva looks up —

— sees Phee —

And immediately tries to shield her face with her hands. 

"Yeep!"

The erokami pauses, looks back and forth between Eva and Phee, then sighs and pulls herself off Eva's dick. 

She half-turns, holding Eva's hard cock in one hand and stroking it, and signs something with her other hand at her.

Eva signs back, obviously flustered.

Summer lets out a disgusted sigh and lets go of Eva's cock. 

She looks at Phee. 

"You speak English?" She calls to Phee. 

And immediately tries to shield her face with her hands. 

How cute, we should pull her hands away and gaze at her beautiful face~.

She half-turns, holding Eva's hard cock in one hand and stroking it, and signs something with her other hand at her.

Alternatively we could join the other girl in stroking Eva's cock!

Or better yet, we should run away!

Instead of giving into any of her competing impulses, Phee remains frozen in place, until the erokami questions.

"I-i um yes? I mean do! Speak English that is!"

She looks at Eva, then at Phee. 

"Don't just stand there! Either come over or go away. Eva..." She signs at Eva and gets a few more signs back."... can't speak English right now. She's scared for reasons I do not understand. Either come help or let me... negotiate with her."

Phee looks back.

Phee looks away.

She looks back.

She walks over.

And looking at Eva, trying her best to tell whether she'd want her to go away or to continue her current of action.

Eva squeezes her eyes closed and pulls Phee down by her arm. 

She signs at Summer again.

Oh no, she's so cute.

"She says she is very embarrassed and doesn't expect to be able to speak english for a while."

Summer signs back at Eva and they sign back and forth for a moment and then Summer huffs and hands Eva her one-piece dress, which she puts on.

Summer herself remains nude. 

"I am frustrated because I was close to coming and I think these rules from Eva's world are stupid. She says hug her."

Phee will hug Eva tight at the relayed request for hugs.

You should offer to fuck the other girl to make up for not being fucked by Eva!

But I'm hugging Eva!

So? I'm sure you can manage both if you just try your best and believe in yourself!

"I'm not sure how much it'd help, but you should feel free to use my d-dick if that'd be helpful at for cumming?"

Did...

Did you just say that out loud?

Brb, I'm gonna spontaneously combust from embarrassment despite not being a real phoenix.

Eva hugs Phee back for a moment, then pulls away and signs again at Summer. 

She opens her mouth, but no sound comes out; she closes it again.

Summer is not looking at Eva's signs; her focus has snapped to Phee. 

"I like you." She grins. "Sure, that works." Then she presses into Phee and starts blatantly feeling her up. 

Eva looks away refleively and turns around and goes back into her stockroom, her cheeks on fire with color. 

Oh no, Eva's walking away!

We should hug her!

But that'd require pulling away from the other girl, and that'd be really rude when we offered to help her cum!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

She's going to moan at the partially novel sensation of being groped by someone else, and she's going to tentatively press herself back against Summer.

Summer is more than happy to press back up against her and start working off Phee's loose pants as she kisses her. 

Phee will wiggle slightly as she does and puts her own hands to work (tentatively) groping Summer's tits, and returns the kiss.

Summer sighs gently, gets Phee's pants off, and straddles her, rolling her hips against her. 

Phee can feel her aura, a sense of dominant energy washing over her body and demanding that she submit. 

She'll lightly thrust up against Summer and happily sub-

Take that as challenge, in one smooth(ish) motion, hugging and holding Summer's back and moving to gently but firmly push her down.

Summer's aura is pushed back by Phee's, and she finds herself on her back in the pillow-drift, legs spread, a flushed grin on her face as she wriggles her hips invitingly.

"Good girl!" There was no doubt in her mind that she would cum out on top.

But

we're primarily

subs though?

And you misspelled "come" as "cum".

I know what I said. And there was

No

Doubt

I would cum out on top.

Now with those sluts put in their proper place, She'll be getting back to making Summer come.

How does she feel about Phee gently positioning and sliding her dick inside her pussy and then beginning to alternate between partially pulling out and then pushing back in?

It feels really good for her being inside another girl for the first time!

But her pleasure is irrelevant for today, she's focused on making Summer feel good.

Summer moans, and her whole aura ripples; she seems to really enjoy having her aura smothered and pushed down by a more powerful one, though she's rolling her hips already, trying to hasten the pace. 

She reaches up and starts stroking at Phee's breasts as well, playing with her body, doing her best to pleasure her back. She's good at the motions, and focuses in quickly on what Phee enjoys. Her slick sex is even hotter than seems reasonable, and she's clenching deliberately too. 

Though she seems to be playing the sub, she's clearly not out to make this easy for Phee. 

How convenient! Phee oh so loves a challenge!

While she'll allow Summer to touch and stroke her breasts briefly, after a short while she'll take hold of her wrists and move to pin them together above and behind Summer's head.

Followed by experimentally adjusting and changing how fast and where she thrusts in and against Summer's pussy, trying to find which actions get the best reactions from her.

All the while keeping her aura smothered down in it's proper place.

Fairly quickly it becomes apparent that Summer likes long, liquid, deep strokes over short pumping ones, and having her wrists pinned makes her noticeably tighter overall. 

She moans and writhes, putting on a show, making a display of her vulnerability for Phee with the arch of her back. She grins, and struggles... but not too hard.

Another horned man passes by, his gaze flicking over to Summer for a moment before he keeps on walking. 

Phee will switch to long deep strokes after she deduces Summer's preferences on the matter and grin harder when she notices her increasing tight.

And when Summer starts acting vulnerable, Phee will lean down and whisper huskily into her ear. 

"Unless you have any objections, I am going to bite your neck repeatedly now."

Summer giggles hard, and leans away to expose her neck. 

"Be my, haaah, guest." Her voice is warm and rich and deeply amused. 

"Why thank you~"

And Phee bites her neck.

Repeatedly.

Summer's laughter fades away into sharp moans as Phee's teeth dig into her skin, and she shudders beneath Phee, her legs wrapping around Phee's back and pulling her in closer. 

"Haaah," Summer visibly blanks for a word for a moment, before proudly proclaiming: "Fuck!" 

Phee briefly stops biting to giggle and say. "Indeed!" and resumes, while also trying to keeping up with her slow deep thrusts inside Summer's pussy.

Summer wriggles beneath Phee's hold on her wrists, but she's completely pinned beneath her aura and even when she fights for real she ends up completely helpless. 

She giggles back, and closes her eyes, focusing on the sensations. The hot thickness of Phee's cock fills her quite satisfactorily, in fact. 

Slowly her relative composure starts to fall apart, her hot breath speeding and her body rolling against Phee's as little moans fall from her mouth.

Phee will smirk even more every time Summer tries to fight and only ends up giving her an opportunity to put back in her place, completely helpless beneath Phee.

And she'll happily continue fucking Summer and basking in the pleasure of her warm folds wrapped around her cock, the taste of her flesh beneath her teeth, the thrill of domination.

It doesn't take much more before Summer gasps out high and hard, clenches tight around Phee's cock, and falls back to the pillows with a satisfied gasp.

"Ah, fuck..." She giggles and looks up at Phee, her hands still pinned.

When she feels Summer clenching tight around her she's moderately tempted to speed up her thrusting and bring herself the rest of the way to orgasm, but she's not gonna fail at this juncture and instead just keeps her cock hilted in whichever way seems to pleasure Summer the most. 

Phee will smile down contentedly at Summer afterwards, glad to have made her cum, then lets go of her hands and reposition to lay down beside her and snuggles.

"That was fun, I hope you enjoyed yourself too?"

"That was fun," Summer parrots back at her. She smiles and kisses Phee's nose and cuddles up with a soft mmm, her eyes closing. 

After several moments, she makes another gentle noise. 

"Mmmm..."

Phee beams at having it confirmed it was fun for Summer too! And gentle snuggles.

"Mmm?"

"... probably you should talk to Eva."

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

"That... Is something I should do, yes."

Phee is going to pull out of Summer now and run off in search of Eva. (And at least retains enough of her apparently unitary and possibly even negative reasoning abilities to remember to put her pants back on first and to be gentle about pulling away.)

There's no sign of her in the stockroom.

Aaaaaaaaaaa

Wait, things aren't completely hopeless yet.

If she tries looking at her sensey powers, does she get any idea at all on where she might have gone?

There appears to be a bridge here. It goes to a stony place. 

M-maybe Eva went there?

Phee is going to try and enter the bridge.

She fails.

What did she expect when she's uninvited and trying to barge into someone else's home?

That's completely fair actually...

Go out and grab her bag that she dropped earlier.

Take out the box of A4 papers and takeout bag the food was in.

And leave them in the least obtrusive looking place to leave them she can find in the stockroom.

And writes out a note.

I'm sorry for fucking th

I'm sorry for screwing things u

I'm sorry for messing things up.

I left the stuff I promised you

the stuff I said I'd get

The a4 papers and a bag with a Big Mac in it should be beside this note.

I'm sorry if I shouldn't have left them here either. 

And then she'll leave and find the nearest bridge to work on crossing.

Summer gives Phee a sudden guilty look when she comes back out of the stockroom. 

"She is not there, yes? My fault. Should have paid more attention to stupid rules."

She sighs and rubs her forehead.

"Eva teached... taught. Eva taught me a lot. About consent. I checked if her teaching matched, and that was good, but I think I did not check if Eva wanted us to have sex. She has never had a problem with me having sex with someone else before but maybe this time is different because you are from her world."

Summer shakes her head. "You people have too much rules. Erokami way is much simpler. Want take have."

That would be much simpler-

but-

we're too sentimental to simply tear out the withered husk of the part that flinches when someone sufficiently nearby hurts.

"She isn't, yeah."

"It's really not your fault. I'm the one who'd actually be familiar with what's Earth like, and I would've been able to predict something like this happening if I thought for even a single second before acting upon the first idea that popped into my head."

"A-and it's really good that Eva taught you about consent>"

"Not thinking about whether Eva wanted us to have sex, or even if she'd be okay with it was definitely the first major mistake I made today."

And the zeroth was thinking you could actually make a friend.

"She'll be back. Right now I think she is sulking but I know she's going to want the Earth food. I can give it to her with an apology?" 

A flash of hope at the thought of Eva coming back.

"That's a r-really g-good idea!" She'll rummage through her bag and take out the takeout bag and gives it to Summer.

"This has the food I got for Eva!" (And also the food she got for herself, but Phee did not think of that.)

Then rummaging some more and handing a different box to Summer. "This has some papers I said I'd get her, you should hand them over too with the food!"

Summer smiles. "I'll get them to her. How should I find you if I meet her again?"

You don't.

"I could show you where I arrived from Earth and be sure be back there at some pre-decided time- " every day "tomorrow and if I don't see you again, show back up again in the same place in a week?"

"Okay. Let's try for noon? Eva should be back by then, her sulks don't last much more than a day usually."

“Sure that works!”

“Um at what time exactly is noon at?”

"... When the sun is highest in the sky? Eva has an off-world time-keeping device but I do not know what it says."

She probably should’ve expected the answer would be something like that.

She’ll make a perception check to locate the sun.

By which she means looking confusedly at the sky, trying to figure out whether it looks like the sun is already past it’s highest possible point, or some time before it.

It looks like the sun is starting to set. That direction's west, right?

Bold of you to assume she knows the relationship between west/east and where the sun sets!

So assuming that the sun is setting because it feels like the day is ending, it should be rising in half a day and presumably would be halfway through the sky after another of a day, so evening would presumably be in 18 hours the?

After a definitely reasonable amount of time spent thinking, Phee responds with.

“Thanks for the answer, i’ll try to be back her- I mean at where I exited the bridge by that time tomorrow!”

"Alright. See you."

Summer gives Phee a small smile, waves, and ducks back into the stockroom. 

Phee will smile and wave back!

”See you!" And walks back to where the bridge was.

And worries.

But does eventually manage to cross it!

And then whiles away the day.

And worries.

And returns to the Pink Desert bridge and crosses it at what should hopefully be an hour before noon. (She's trying to arrive early so that if her estimate of when it is is off she hopefully won't miss Summer.)

She finds Eva waiting for her on the other side of it.

Eva looks annoyed.

"Hey," she calls out to Phee. Her tone is flat.

Eva!

And she's mad.

Phee is filled with the desire to run away.

Phee is filled with the urge to lay down and apologize.

For her mistakes.

For being a thought a thoughtless idiot.

For hurting Eva.

What she ends up doing instead is stuttering out a

"H-hi?"

"ShallIapologizeforeverythingnoworwouldyouratherIshutupanddisappearforeverorlistentowhatyouwanttosayfirstandthenstopbotheringannoyinghurtingyouvanishfromhereforever?"

[ " Shall I apologize for everything now or would you rather I shut up and disappear forever or listen to what you want to say first and then stop bothering annoying hurting you vanish from here forever?" ]

Eva sighs. 

"Slow down, I can't catch all that when you're going a mile a minute."

She crosses her arms. "To answer the question I think you're going to ask, I'm not going to just drop you, there's important survival info you need for this place if you're that... temptable. And I think we can still help each other. The person I'm really ticked at is Summer because she claimed to be my girlfriend and then completely ignored me when I was in the middle of some serious emotional shit to have sex with a girl she'd just met today. I know she's an Erokami and I can't hold her to the standards I'd hold a human but that really stung. We might break up over it, I haven't decided yet, I need to get some distance from the bullshit and think it through logically."

She rubs her forehead. "You I'm mostly disappointed in. I mean, I get it, free sex is really appealing and Summer was right there asking for it, but if you'd done that with a lot of other Erokami you'd be in a drugged haze right now being taken advantage of and maybe even in danger of dying of dehydration from fluid loss. Think, girl." 

She shakes her head. "Now come back to the stockroom, I've lost half a day's sales to my argument with Summer and I'm going to need you if we're going to make taxes."

just drop you, there's important survival info you need for this place if you're that... temptable.

Y-yay on Eva not dropping us, b-but

That does not at all seem like a sufficient reason to have to keep putting up with us for however long it takes to convey the info.

The person I'm really ticked at is Summer because she claimed to be my girlfriend and then completely ignored me when I was in the middle of some serious emotional shit to have sex with a girl she'd just met today.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Just add making her girlfriend ignore her while she was in emotional distress to go have sex to the long list of things we need to go apologize for.

She rubs her forehead. "but if you'd done that with a lot of other Erokami you'd be in a drugged haze right now being taken advantage of and maybe even in danger of dying of dehydration from fluid loss. Think, girl."

That really does not seem anywhere near as important as the risk of ruining what could've been friendship!!!

(Social Anxiety is too busy screaming in the background to notice and second what Conscience just said, well thought technically.)

We wouldn't have been at risk of dying from dehydration as I can literally create water.

well much risk at least, I'm less confident then i'd like to be that the rest of these idiots would listen if I told them to use the water power that makes water when they need water.

Technically the relevant ability doesn't create water, it just brings it up from deep beneath the sands.

She shakes her head. "Now come back to the stockroom, I've lost half a day's sales to my argument with Summer and I'm going to need you if we're going to make taxes."

That's at least something she can do without needing to figure out which of the dozen things she's sorry for to apologize for first.

Phee will follow her back in and do whatever Eva directs her to.

Once they get back to the shop, Eva hands Phee one of the trashy romance novels. 

"Dictate to me the fate of Mr. Richy Richboy and his coquettish fiancee. — That is, read me the novel and I'll write it down."

She would ask if there'd be a lesbian novel she could dictate instead, but well look at the state the rest of her is in.

And the HP of her relationship with Eva is well into the negatives, and she really does not want to do anything that might be the final fraction of a point that kills it.

Yeah.

Phee will monotonously recite the text of whatever Eva hands her.

And Eva writes, at least until Phee's voice starts getting tired.

Gradually, her sulk burns out. 

"I, uh..." Eva looks up at Phee. "You can stop now."

She sighs. "You seem pretty petrified that I'll hate you or something. You've barely been putting any inflection into the reading and I can tell you're scared out of your skin."

"I'm disappointed, yeah, but it seems pretty clear you know you fucked up. Can you breathe with me for a second and talk it over? I don't want to leave this unsettled between us long-term, and there's important things we need to learn about each other still and... just a lot of things."

Eva manages an uncertain smile. "Like, I'm not going to pretend I'm unaffected by you literally NTRing me in your first day here, but that was a lot more Summer's fault than yours and I'd like to see if we can still be friends. So let's discuss."

She stops at Eva's prompting.

You've barely been putting any inflection into the reading and I can tell you're scared out of your skin.

I'll add lack of inflection when reading and tricking you into thinking we're capable of feeling fear to the list of things we need to apologize for.

I'd like to see if we can still be friends.

Phee would really like that too.

So let's discuss.

"O-okay! s-sure of course!"

"S-should I start apologizing for everything now, or um?"

Eva laughs quietly. "Sure, that's as good a place as any to start."

Weak smile at her laughter.

"I'm sorry for" entering your life "not thinking about your feelings and what you'd want, for not putting more effort into trying to figure out and keep in mind your feelings preferences when you went non-verbal, for not leaving right away when I walked in on you having sex and instead staying in place staring, for propositioning your girlfriend right in front of you while you were non-verbal instead of just continuing to hug you like you asked for, for not thinking at all about whether you'd be okay with me having sex with her and in front of you at that, for not following after you when you ran away or just moving to stay somewhere I'd be available for emotional venting or confrontation if you decided you wanted that either of which would've been better of me to do then continuing to have sex, for trying to enter your pocket dimension when I went looking for you, for making your girlfriend have sex with me instead of tending to you, for not having more inflection when i was reading that book for you, for acting afraid, for not getting you more papers, and for everything else I should be sorry but am too much of an idiot to remember or think of in the first place."

"... I feel like you're apologizing for too many things but you hit the important things."

Eva takes a breath. 

"So basically I'm disappointed because you went for the sex when I was obviously distressed instead of checking in. That's a skill to develop, and Summer was asking, but still, next time be more careful. I don't know what kind of background on consent you have but I think you get that was bad."

She sighs. "Once you saw, well, you weren't going to un-see it. So I don't actually mind the staring, and I think it's more Summer's fault than yours that things went sideways with the sex. The rest of it — the reading, the acting afraid, the papers, trying to enter the pocket dimension, and so on — all that I think you shouldn't apologize for, you haven't wronged me by any of that. If I'd had the pocket dimension set to invite guests I would have wanted you to try, and you did bring me paper even when I didn't offer to pay for it, and acting scared or talking monotone is — I think you need better friends if you expect to actually need to apologize for those things." 

Eva manages an awkward smile. "So, firstly... I forgive you. I think you were pretty much hijacked by Summer being right there and asking, and while it was bad of you not to check in that's not, like. I don't consider you to have done that deliberately. Summer can be very persuasive when she wants something. And while it does make me feel a little jealous of you that you got Summer to lay you so easily when she was supposed to be my girlfriend, I... don't really endorse that feeling, because it's Summer's damn fault that she cared more about her next orgasm than about me, and you... just happened to be convenient."

Eva coughs into her hand. 

"So yeah. Obviously this whole thing is awkward as hell but fuck it, it's the pink desert, if you hung around here for long you were always going to catch me in flagrante delicto. So if you want to make it up to me you can give me a hug and help me make my taxes in three more days. Alright?" 

"... I feel like you're apologizing for too many things but you hit the important things."

too few actually!

I think you need better friends if you expect to actually need to apologize for those things."

Bold of you to assume she has any!

So, firstly... I forgive you.

"I'm really glad that you forgive me and that I didn't miss anything in the apology, and I'll do whatever you need to help make up the taxes!"

And then she glomps tentatively goes to hug the Eva.

Eva tentatively hugs back. 

"Gosh you're cuddly. Most Erokami aren't, they're more about the sex part than the closeness part."

She smiles and lets go after a few seconds' squeeze. 

"Okay, so let's work together on this. What powers do you have as a Conduit?"

Hugs!

And she lets go as soon as Eva ends the hug.

"Am I really that cuddly?"

"And as for my powers, I'm able to sense worlds intersect, can jump between worlds at the intersection points, I can send my vision across as well instead of my entire body, I've got a personel pocket dimension that's just a tiny cave, I can survive off sunlight instead of food, am infertile as well, i've a got a power that makes me prettier.

Also powers I haven't exactly tested but feel like I have would have were water breathing, improved swimming, improved language learning, something that feels like it'd provide some kind of enhancement but would require me to d-drink water sourced from this world, a power for generating or maybe just acquiring water that feels like it would only function in this world, and some kind of shapeshifty power that feels like it'd benefit from fucking erokami.

A-and I also have a minor one that means i don't need to use bathrooms now."

Eva nods along, refreshing her memory.

Then her jaw drops. "A power for acquiring water in this world? That's huge! How does it work? This whole city is built around the oasis at its center — having the ability to make water matters a lot, lot, lot, here, the whole place is a desert after all. How much water, how fast?" 

"Erm I don't know? I haven't actually tested it yet, though it does feel smallish insomuch as a power can feel like it has a size if that makes sense?"

"Let's go walk out to the edge of the city and try it, then. See how much water it makes. If it's any significant amount then it'll be a huge benefit to us."

"Sure thing!"

"I already packed up the storeroom because I wasn't planning on selling much today." A look of irritation flashes across Eva's face.

Then her smile comes back. "But that's actually good because it means I don't have to do anything but yeet my books into the cavern and then we can be off. Give me just a second!" 

And she picks up the box of books and vanishes. 

— only to reappear a moment later, dusting off her hands. 

"Alright, let's go. It's this way." She leads the way towards the edge of town.

A look of irritation flashes across Eva's face.

aaa

Phee weakly smiles and nods back at Eva and follows where she leads.

"Sure thing!"

It's not too long a trip to the edge of town, and Eva seems content not to talk too much, given the lingering awkwardness in the air. 

At the edge of town, Eva points at a spot not too far away from the tents surrounding the glass walls and points at the ground. 

"Try it there." 

"Will do!"

Phee attempts to generate water in that spot.

She fails because that's not how this power works.

Well how does it work then??

Oasis
Water wells up beneath you from the sands-

You need to be on top of sand and the water will come up beneath you.

After her first attempt fails, and after consulting her power on why it failed, she moves to stand on top of the spot Eva pointed out, and tries to bring her water closer.

And after a few seconds, a puddle begins to form and grow, at a rate comparable to what it'd be if she had an active garden hose left by her feet.

[specifically at rate of 12.5 gallons per minute, after consulting with the conduit discord chat]