"Thoroughly. The job title of 'sexy kidnap victim' comes with a pretty dramatically reduced range of responsibilities. Most things fundamentally can't be anyone's fault but mine here. With all the mind-reading, even communication failures are my fault."

"Hey, that's not fair. Communication failures could totally be my fault if I relied too hard on assuming you're reading my mind all the time and forgot to check that you were following what I meant."

"True!" It laughs cheerfully. "Which is why only most things are my fault. It's technically possible for things to be your fault. Just unlikely."

"I can live with that." Listen, it's very hot to be a sexy kidnap victim who doesn't have enough power to be responsible for anything. "Though I have to warn you, I'm going to be trying my best to be a useful sexy mind-controlled secretary." And the more useful she is, the more responsibility she will presumably accumulate. That's just the price she pays for being well-organized and eager to help.

"I look forward to it. What's the point of kidnapping a clever, capable, and organized cutie if I'm not going to make use of her talents, right? Well, in so far as you enjoy having your talents put to use, which it certainly seems you do."

"Once again we are in agreement." If her Sexy Abductor had been all about the horrors and had no interest at all in her organizational skills, that would've been, well, still hot but also kind of a waste.

And then Sable sweeps its tentacles forward and scoops Esme into a princess carry, snuggling her to its chest with its arms and tentacles both, plants a kiss on her forehead, and carries her over to the bed.

"I think it would be quite fun to start talking about fun things to do to your mind," it says as it settles her into its lap and sits on the bed.

"Oh, come on, I just used the line 'once again we are in agreement', now what am I supposed to say?" she jokingly complains, snuggling into Sable's lap.

She giggles and squeezes Esme. "Oops. We just agree too much. Clearly we need new agreement-flavored phrases. Some people would try to find things to argue about, but that's silly."

"I'm sure disagreements will arise naturally, but I'm definitely having a good time with the amount of agreement we're discovering to start with. Anyway! What fun things would you like to do to my mind?"

"Well," it explains with a grin, "to start with, there's the simple fact that spending enough time around me is going to slowly and steadily break your mind, while all the sex will put you back together."

"That is fun."

"Ah, the joy of finding a girl who's into my only-temporarily-suppressible madness aura. You'll just wind up seeing beyond the veil a bit, worshiping me, and a bit manic. And eventually delirious and overwhelmed from seeing past the veil altogether." She grins and winks. "Beyond that, there are a number of kinks you're not particularly into yet: being eaten, being cut to pieces, being cooked. I think most of this should settle in tidily if we build up from the mind control kink and ownership kink as a foundation, integrating it from a perspective of 'it's hot when your owner uses you roughly', and using how hot you find the process of altering your mind as additional glue to stick it better. Probably we'll tweak your sensorium on a more basic level too, while I'm in there, just because most humans don't have nearly enough masochism built-in."

...having this conversation in Sable's lap appears to be recontextualizing some things, such as: she seems to find the idea of being eaten romantic now, where previously it has been not centrally her thing but still pretty hot on general principle. And, hmm— "Not that I'm opposed to adding more masochism, you understand, but I'm wary of doing it too indiscriminately because I feel like I'd miss having easy access to the 'this is too much, but it should be too much' reaction? Do you know the one I'm talking about?"

"Okay watching you notice a kink is romantic in real time is kind of great?"

"But hm. I'm not personally familiar with it? But I think I've seen it in human minds ever? I can see why it would be worth keeping, though."

"So maybe hold off on installing more masochism just yet. You can play around with my sensorium after we get a sense for how the factory model performs under stress."

"You just keep being more and more of a delightful surprise. I did not expect interest in trying out the level of pain several of my kinks involve without a modded sensorium, but I'm absolutely open to trying that with you."

"And you should definitely get so much cozy aftercare after, with or without the modding."

... she's instinctively wary of the concept of aftercare but, hmm, managing your expectations goes both ways, right, she should be open to things going well and not just to them going poorly. It's just that there's a kind of trust you don't need to extend if all you're expecting is the sexy horrors, and very much do need to extend in order to expect to be taken care of afterward.

"Oh." She squeezes Esme tighter. "That makes sense. Okay, we're going to need to work up to the aftercare thing. Ease you into that, probably with gradually-increasing intensity of both scene and aftercare."

Now is the time of hugging her Esme about the trust issues.

"—I mean, you don't have to—like, it's not that I find aftercare aversive per se, it's just that I... need to adjust my expectations." She shakes her head slightly. "But if you want to be careful and escalate slowly, I'm not going to complain." She definitely has an impulse to complain but it is not a sane impulse and she will not be humouring it.

"It's not like I'm not getting anything out of the gradual escalation, either. We get to go easier on my worries about breaking my fragile mortal girl in a lasting way. Sure, maybe you bounce back implausibly well, my powers sure seem to think you will, but I've literally never seen a human that durable before, so it's probably wise to do this gradually, and soothes my anxiety."