Lev is a little bit staring at him.

"...I forgot what I was going to say."

"...you're cute." 

He's too thin, even more so than everyone else at Eros, but if Lev wants to stare at visible ribs he can do that. Sasha curls up against him and kisses him. 

"You're so pretty."

"I have been reliably informed by a whole bunch of parenting books that before the Bliss people really liked visible ribcages but I have never seen the appeal myself." Kiss. "Thank you."

"Really? That's kind of horrifying." Kiss. "I look forward to you getting to eat more so I can't see your ribs but you're beautiful because you're you."

"You're so," kiss, "cute," kiss, and then Lev has a very cuddly mostly-naked Sasha in his lap with his arms around Lev's neck making out with him. 

This is a state of affairs that's going to make him all moany and gaspy very quickly.

That's good! Sasha takes one of Lev's hands and puts it on his thigh, takes the other and puts it on one of his breasts, and then goes right back to curling his fingers in Lev's hair. 

Lev doesn't move his hand from Sasha's thigh, touches his breast uncertainly with his other hand, and keeps kissing him. 

— right. Yes. They were going to go slow. 

"Sorry," he says between kisses, and "Are you okay?" 

"This is very hot but I have no idea what I'm doing."

"That's okay," he whispers, and takes Lev's hand and moves it for him. "Here, let me show you." 

"You're so good," he says. "Your skin's so soft-- Sasha--"

"Lev —"

Two and a half months is objectively speaking not very long but it feels like it's been a long time since anyone touched him like this. It feels a little bit like coming home. 

"You have, ah — good hands." 

"Thank you"-- gasp-- "we should get you"-- moan-- "so you can have sex."

"...is there some reason I can't have sex? — I mean, birth control, but there's things you can't get pregnant from —" 

"You don't have a dick?"

"...do I... need one?" 

"Well, you're a guy, so..."

"...I mean, yeah, but, like — I didn't have a dick before and that didn't stop me with Damian or Moss or Ember or Gwen or —" 

"Uh-- I've never actually slept with Chris but he's been part of our crew for long enough that I know this-- he has a strapon and you just... don't interact with his vulva at all when you have sex? Because it makes him feel awful? I don't want to make you feel awful."

"If having people touch my clit made me feel awful I would have done a lot less of it." 

"That's good-- can I-- also we should probably talk about birth control at some point--"

"I don't know what you're asking permission to do but I'm pretty sure the answer's yes. — the way we handled it at Nova was by just not having the kind of sex you get pregnant from —" 

"That's one option. Pulling out is pretty effective, you get one pregnancy every 25 years if you're good at doing it which I'm pretty sure I would be, but I get it if you don't trust me that much. Rhythm method's not great but if you combine it with pulling out you can get to one pregnancy per hundred years. And-- can I trust you not to spread something around--"