"Mm-hm. - uh, guiding 101, I don't want to make it weird, you're being extremely helpful just like this, but in case there is ever an emergency, the efficiency usually scales with amount of skin contact and fluid exchange - skin contact may or may not itself work by exchanging, like, skin oil and sweat, tests are inconclusive."

"Would you like to have sex?"

"I am at all concerned about your ability to give uncoerced consent here considering!"

"I ... probably I should also be worried about the other end of this? You could read my mind about my end if you'd like. But I am almost always happy about having sex. It is possible to be terrible enough that that stops being completely true but that requires trying really hard at that."

"I still think reading your mind would be kind of fucked up for the record," but then she's going to kiss her.

Kiss! Kissing is great.

[I am going to assume you are making reasonable decisions for yourself about this! And I think you reading my mind would be fun but you do not have to if you don't want to.]

[If you think it would be ACTIVELY FUN then maybe.] Lianelle is wearing a shirt and should stop that.

Lianelle doesn't feel all that much guiding but May's body on her own feels really good for entirely mundane reasons! Which she is wiggling about!

[Yes I do! Well - if you don't want to hear me occasionally thinking of the time where someone managed to be terrible than maybe the thing to do would be for you to let me send you my thoughts from my head, rather than doing a full read. Though I would find both actively fun.]

[It sounds like sort of a moodkiller! How do I let you do that?]

[Intend it?]

[Done.]

Makeouts really 80/20 the fluid exchange and skin contact benefits of guiding and will probably be enough to zero May out but as long as she has a free pass she's going to investigate the boob situation.

Lianelle has firm breasts on her overall toned and athletic body. Investigating them will also cause her to start wrapping her legs around Mays legs and making sounds into the kisses.

Lianelle's thoughts, meanwhile... Lianelle thinks May is extremely hot and also, importantly to Lianelle right now, good. She would have been interested in sex with May before that became clear - she wants to have sex with lots of people and also champions and monsters and this is almost never a good idea. Outside of the precious days she spends with a real body she can't have sex at all, can't even feel horny, and she hates that so much. Lianelle learned from personal experience that people mind if you just ask them to have sex casually when you first meet, and sometimes they will say yes even though they don't actually want to, so she doesn't do that anymore.

In this moment she is very much enjoying May exploring her boobs which should be explored that's great and feels great, and also she is hoping May enjoys her body in general since she's quite proud of it. She's also jealous of whatever May is feeling from the guiding and is planning on asking her to try projecting the feeling at Lianelle sometime.

And lastly, as she sends all this, she feels... free, to just be able to share her thoughts in this form. It's one of the best parts of the bond.

Oh, can she project guiding - it's awesome and it's so sad that most people never get to try it - it's like this -

... What if Lianelle has an orgasm about this like right now.

Mood. (Also, hot.) May is habituated to non-sexual guiding, thanks June, but if that were not the case she'd probably have been in the same boat. She is kind of grinding on Lianelle's leg and will be along any moment now.

If Lianelle moves her leg like this will it help? She can also help with her hands if May wants, that sounds fun.

The leg's got her covered. She needs to be kissing Lianelle a lot right now actually.

She can be kissing Lianelle so much! Lianelle loves kissing May, it's so good.

It is! Who knew! Not Sparkler, he's kind of lousy in bed and until this exact hour in her life May was kind of feeling ripped off about self-modifying to be able to enjoy casual guiding nookie only to find a) June and b) Sparkler. As of right now though SUPER WORTH IT.

It's true, Lianelle is great at sex.

She is very pretty and kissable and soft and warm and C O M P A T I B L E.

And she has a corporeal body and can feel horny and be touched and be sent positive bursts of emotion that are entirely new to her and it's all thanks to May!

The compatibility is such that May zeroes out before she gets around to removing anyone's pants. "Well," she says, "I no longer strictly need to be holding you to take a nap, but I could anyway."

"Hm, I would like to keep cuddling you so if you want to nap with me I would be happy about that."

"Mmmmgood." It has been a stressful and emotionally rollercoastery and exhausting timzeone-straddling period of several hours. She finds a good static cuddle position and settles in and goes to sleep. And mumbles random nouns.