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"...see, I was hoping to be able to pull you over in the corner and then you could tell me and we would not be sexually harassing the evangelical."

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"It'd probably be really boring, anyway, I don't have any of those."

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"...right, somehow I had managed to forget standing up was an option, I can do that," and what does that skill tell him. 

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Service submission, praise kink, obedience, masochism, bondage, orgasm denial, cuckoldry. 

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...'I don't have any of those,' he says. 

Sasha will stand up and move to a corner and quietly tell his own Lev the (extremely cute) results. 

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"So that doesn't match up. At least for us. --Do you match up with Raine, I wonder."

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"...mostly? She has more of a forced fem kink than I do, obviously, and she imprinted less on Interview and more on Lee Pace and David Bowie, and her vulnerability kink is differently shaped but it's recognizable." 

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"...huh. And you're both trans, but different directions. --I want to give all of us psychological quizzes."

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Meanwhile--

Lev closes his eyes and smooshes his face into Raine's shoulder, which is probably not the best thing for thinking, but has the virtue of involving Raine's shoulder.

Hey, Jesus, he thinks. So a lot of things have happened in the past like thirty minutes. 

Christians exist in both Raine's and the Erogame Sasha's worlds, and in principle that's evidence in favor of Your existence. You didn't make a fallen world without knowledge of Your saving grace. But I notice that there are several mes and several Sashas, and it wouldn't be that weird if there were several Yous even if You were nothing but a carpenter from Galilee. So it's not as big as I thought it was.

And there's Milliways, and the Erogame. Two seemingly all-powerful beings with inscrutable, probably-benevolent motives. It really makes me think You're a third. 

Raine's world is compatible with You being who the Gileadites say You are. Erogame Sasha's really really isn't. Magic sex games are not the sort of thing demons do really. If a demon had that much power, from the theology I'm taught, they'd have some sort of magic game that would get people en masse to stop worshiping you, not cure malaria. Either You lost to the Erogame somehow for control of Sasha's world, or You exist in my world but not in theirs, or You don't exist at all, or Your plan is much more inscrutable than I would have thought. 

It's not really making me inclined to worship you either way.

I don't know whether leaving my world will make Your rules stop applying to me. The Erogame still governs Sasha's behavior when he's in Milliways, and naively I'd think Your rules apply to me wherever I go. But I'm going to get tortured no matter what so I think I should probably commit the amount of sins I feel naturally inclined to commit and at least get the enjoyment out of it. 

I followed Your commandments about sex because the Gileadites told me I would get practical benefits. My wife would feel more loved, my sex life would be better, and my marriage would be happier. But I observe that I am not really at all loved and the me that has two husbands and a wife seems to be loved, at least by Raine. And this could just be that we're both outliers but-- I have questions, Jesus. Maybe I am unusual, maybe Raine is unusual, maybe Raine's relationships are bad in a way I can't see. Maybe You made me to be married the way that the Erogame made the other Lev to be promiscuous. 

But if I have questions I want to answer them, Jesus. I guess Raine doesn't want to have sex with me because she has her own better Lev at home, and probably the same thing is true of Erogame Sasha. But if I have the opportunity I am going to see what it's like and see how I feel and-- if it's bad the damage won't be much from one time, I think, when I've been so good for so long. And if it's good that's important to know. 

There are still STIs and pregnancy but I bet the Erogame has a solution to that.

So basically I want to give You a chance here. I know you should not put the Lord your God to the test but You made me the sort of person who wants to test everything, so here it is. Send me a sign. Show me some convincing evidence that You are the omnipotent creator of all the worlds, or I am going to make the decisions I want to make, which go very much against Your will. I know You don't really give in to blackmail but... I guess this is the sort of person I am. 

That's all.

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Raine quietly pets his hair. 

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This is not really any sort of sign, except for the fact that he feels warm and safe and relaxed and happy, which is probably a sign pointing the opposite way.

He can't stop himself from looking at the door.

No one comes through.

He waits.

He stands up and says to Raine, "I'm going to go talk to the Erogame people."

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....this is almost certainly a bad decision, but trying to stop people from making their bad decisions doesn't tend to end well. 

"Okay." 

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Whatever Sasha was talking about, he stops when Gilead Lev is close enough to hear. 

"Hi!" 

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He mumbles something while blushing. 

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Erogame Lev thinks for a moment and then translates "...he wants to have sex with you."

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"Are you sure? That's not a no," he says to Gilead Lev. 

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"Obviously he's sure, it just turned out that his God is maybe just a local absurdly powerful being and one of the other ones is obsessed with sex and also you're really pretty."

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"...having someone to translate for me is really weird."

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"Fair but I still wanted to check. โ€” we should probably ask for a room or something first, can we do that โ€”" 

It transpires that in fact they can; Sasha reaches out for Lev's hand but doesnt start walking upstairs. 

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Handholding is. Nice.

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"I'm going to go fuck the other you," Erogame Lev says, "it'll be nostalgic. A reminder of those bygone days when you weren't supernaturally good at sex."

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"Cute. Have fun!" 

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And then he turns to Gilead Lev and smiles and starts walking. 

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"Um. He wasn't. Right about all the reasons."

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"...okay. Do you want to tell me which ones he got wrong or missed?" 

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