She grins and nods. 
"The mapping scene isn't one I've indulged in too much but..."

She shudders excitedly. "I love to overwhelm my partners, twist there subjective history 'til they've been teased for so so so long and watch them pathetically mewl for me, or just reweave space and reach through time to touch them in a thousand thousand places. I love to have them feel like every moment of there lives have been leading to this moment that I can just drag out for. as. long. as. I. Like."
She shivers happily. 
"And it's always delicious to be able to call forth a timeline where they develop a fetish they never thought they could have, always fun to push them to be there most sexual beautiful slutty selves." 
"But I suppose that a lot of that's just a matter of what my own capabilities offer~"

Thorn halfsmiles. "I see. Once again, you are our equals." 

She grins softly and reaches her hand out, gently brushing her hand across her face. She lets out a little contented sigh, and rests there for a moment.

Thorn laughs. "Trying my own move back at me, huh?~"

"Something like that~"
She smiles and sighs, and suddenly she's resting her head on her shoulder. 
"But the thing is... Both of us realistically have magic that could make this more of a contest but we aren't using it because that isn't the point, and I just... wanted to touch you."

"Awwwwww. Alright, you can pet my hair."

She smiles softly and runs her hand affectionately through it, little warps of space emenating from her fingers to casually untangle her hair as she goes, fingertips gliding gently across her scalp, humming quietly as she enjoys her.

She smiles and blushes and leans in to the petting.

She leans in and kisses her nose gently as she keeps on petting and stroking her hair.

She smiles, and nuzzles in softly. 

"Look at us two. A multiversal connection."

"Yeah...~"
She lets out a little pleased sigh, and rests beside her, keeping up the little intimate touches. 
"It's really nice to know that... we can be so similar, even with being from pretty different worlds, and click like this."

"Yeah. It kind of gives you hope for humanity."

She laughs quietly. 
"Gosh, 'humanity'..." 
"It's odd to even think of it in those terms - You're aug'd enough that I doubt that the traditional notion of 'species' is especially relevant, and after a certain point..."
She trails off. 
"I think of myself as more a 'metahuman' or 'mage' then a human, or maybe just... a 'person'." 
"But... yeah." 
"It does."

"I say humanity deliberately. I don't think of myself as posthuman or metahuman or in any way special. This is just the way humans ought to be allowed to be."

"...Yeah. I don't..." 
She sighs tiredly and nuzzles. 
"I want it to be that way but what little of things we can mass produce always seem to turn into a vector for stupid supervillain attacks and we still don't have the sort of consistent expertise where we can really scale up and get working on our technology properly, even if it's a lot better then say, an artifactual tech base."
"So it's hard not to just... talk about it the way that it feels like it is. I'm networked and I have power and control in a way that others just don't and... it can be hard to relate, sometimes, without messing too much with my timeline." 

"I'm basically an avatar for a thousands-of-paralell-years-old metabeing that only really manifests in smaller pieces at any one time. I can relate."

She laughs softly. 
"Yeah, I knew your timeline was weird from the moment I saw you. And that gem..."
She shivers and smiles. 
"It's amazing." 
"There's not really a great way describe what I am but... I guess what I'd say is I'm a 'variable timeline mage'. I've lived hundreds of version of my own life, with different parents, worlds, or just different choices. Sometimes I can branch, though that's something that I've only fairly recently learned to properly sustain, and I've travelled a good bit across the local multiverse. It probably isn't as good as proper instancing but... there's still a lot you can do with it."

"Yeah, this jewel is most of my wage as a member of OTC. A true immortality, custom-designed by me. Or at least by my selftree. There's about twenty or so of us at any one time."

She nods slowly. 
"It's a lovely bit of kit. I never thought a... 'phylactery' of all things could be so complex and amazing and... 'warm'?"

"Technically the pendant is me and the body is just a transport mechanism for the pendant, but given that there's a brain in this head it's more accurate to say it's both. And it's as warm as we wanted it; OTC does lovely work with memories."

She smiles softly. 
"Yeah. The ability to scry back in time and read your own thoughts is..." 
She laughs heartily.
"Not exactly the best solution to the problem of degrading memories, though it works somewhat better then one might think."
"I suppose that's the way that a lot of people here feel about the soul - there's nothing wrong with having two things that are going around encoding your identity. What's wrong with having one more?"

"And therein was the selftree created. Banyan lifestyle is still a sound model."

"Banyan Lifestyle?"

"The living of many lives in paralell, like banyan roots, and merging them occasionally into one "trunk" self."

She hums softly, and lets a little excited grin form on her face slowly.
"Goddess, that sounds nice. I bet I could even do something like that, with some work..." 
Her fingers idly play with Thorn's as she ponders how she could do something like that, eyes closed and a contemplative smile resting on her face.