"That's interesting. Whatever shall we do with all this free time?"

"I think it was your job to come up with the answer to that question, but if I were to guess, I'd say it's probably going to involve going back to your place!"

"Oh, I've been so busy I completely forgot to come up with something," she says, starting them back toward the city. "Perhaps your research has yielded something interesting?"

"My research has yielded all kinds of information," says Ashras.

"Has it. Would you like to share with the class?"

"What am I meant to be sharing? I thought you knew all this stuff already."

"Sure, but it was your homework, I can't tell you the answer!"

"What?"

"I think you lost me. What are we talking about?"

"Oh, you don't go to school, right. So uh, at school they give you stuff to do at home to make sure you learned the thing, and that's called homework, and if the teacher just gives the student the answer then they can't really know that the student actually did it and learned the thing."

"Aha. So, your actual purpose in wanting me to talk about my research is...? I'm assuming it's not to check whether I actually did it or not, because that would be silly."

"Part of it is wanting to see you blush. Another is to figure out which things you found most or least interesting based on body language. Another is that talking about sex is, I find, a good way to get in the mood. And the last is that I expect hearing you talk about it will be terribly, terribly sexy."

"If only I'd known, I would've been more organized about it. Well - my overall conclusion is that I'm not into particular things very much, but I like the concept of other people having particular things they're into, and being able to provide those things. ...One of my specific conclusions is that I am just fundamentally not submissive and shouldn't even try it."

"I can deal," she says, grinning.

"Oh, good."

"Of course, this is a two person dance, so I'd love to know what you specifically would like us to do."

"I did say I don't seem to like particular things very much for the particular things that they are. I think... it might be harder to see the appeal of some of this stuff in research format, and my preferences might become more obvious with some more concrete examples to go on. So isn't it convenient that you already have all sorts of specific interests? I like that you have specific interests. If you were as vague and confused as I am, this would be much more difficult."

"I would rather say I have all the interests. But I didn't necessarily mean research stuff. There are all sorts of interests or curiosities you could have not in that area."

"I don't know... nothing springs to mind, you know?"

"Oh well, we'll have to experiment and discover, then, won't we?"

"That sounds like fun."

She grins and flying-kisses him.

Flying kisses! Awesome!