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It's the Saturday before classes start. Ellie has been driving all day, but it's worth it for an entire three months out of the house. And she even drew a single in the dorm lottery, so there's that. It's tiny, but she doesn't have to share.
Suitcases on the bed, she starts unpacking into the dresser that lives underneath. Tops here, pants there, hanging things in the closet. Computer can go on the desk, and then notebooks into the drawers.
"Obviously."
"What kinds of safewords would be- easy, for you? And then I can work around them."
"Hm. 'Hold something you can drop' is a - nonverbal classic? But electrocution causes muscle locking, and that's not very fine grained... Magic just requires intent, but might need either focus or a lot of practice for specific things - I can tiger reflexively but would have to work on, like, creating noises or lights even when overwhelmed. But I know the red-yellow-green-blue system well enough I might be able to make lights following that really easily? Especially if prompted?"
"I think I should." Quick grin and kiss. "No reason not to practice, though."
"System's red for stop, yellow for ramp down, green for good, blue for more intense. If I'm unresponsive, probably treat that as a yellow until I am. And if I call red, figuring that should be a slow wind down - if I need a sudden stop, I'll just en-tiger."
"I think we should give me a chance and a reason to test all the signals. For science reasons."
!!! Wriggle!!!
She's making lots of really delicious noises, now, mostly pain at the burns, some pleasure.
Then the burns will continue.
Ellie starts laying a line of static kisses across Ruby's neck.
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