I can do the highland fling | Glowfic Constellation

A hand is pushed through the little curtained gap.

And he, very carefully, touches her. First with just a fingertip. Then, clasping her whole hand.

The guiding feels so good. At the same time, it feels like way too much touch. Too hot, too cold, too pleasurable, all at once.

He grunts in concentration. "That is... A lot for me. It's very intense. I think- I think guiding does beat my backlash in terms of - being a positive experience, but it's very intense and distracting."

"Oh it's, uh, it's intense and distracting for me too."

"...Do you want to, uh..."

"Yes? Both in the 'please elaborate' and 'most likely answer to your question' senses."

"Heh. Right. I would like to kiss you. And then quite probably more than kiss you."

"Heee. Um. Yes. So would I. Even not knowing you very well yet the compatibility is just- Mwah!"

Can she worm her arm up to touch more of his forearm? She can, and Nick doesn't pull away.

"Uhh... If we're going to do more than kissing let's keep it to the metaphorical kissing-in-places level today while I figure out birth control."

"Oh, ten thousand percent agreed. I don't want kids. And you don't have to do anything you don't want to."

"I do want to! Guiding makes me really turned on, it's incredibly common to be horny about it and I am in that group, and my last two partners are both less compatible and - one, gay, and two, super shy."

"...I'm naked behind this privacy screen. I feel like I should - admit that- It feels like I'm doing something wrong. I try to be cool, you know, the smooth talking cool guy, but I don't actually know what I'm doing. Does anyone? -Sorry."

"It's because of your backlash, right? I think that's... Reasonable. People are naked sometimes. And uh, I'm nervous too. Would you actually mind if I, say, t-took all my clothes off and came around the privacy screen and we snuggled, naked?"

"...No. I don't think I would."

"Yeah. So. We can just do that. When I work up the will to let go of your arm."

"Hah... Okay, right. Gives me a minute to tamp down the anxiety too. You're an active dungeon-diver, you said?"

"Mm-hm. Be the hero, save the day. I also do construction stuff but not that often. I want to be a satellite launcher some day."

"Satellites, nice! You can push without recoil, right? Cheat the rocket equation?"

"Exactly, yeah!" She tugs on his arm a bit in excitement. "Space travel is so cool- I'm a writer, technically, it's not very popular but I'm doing a hard sci-fi thing about the different clans on a generation ship..."

"What a clever prospective partner I have found. I used to be a truck driver, not so much now? I'm going to have a number of hobbies to poke around with if I can get a little of that esper money. Still pretty darn afraid of dungeons, though. Not apologizing for it either."

"What kinda hobbies you gonna buy into?"

"Oh, lots of candidates. Maybe model trains, or woodworking, or 3D printing, pottery or glassblowing... I like working with my hands, just, truckers move around a lot and there's not that much pay in it."