“Sounds good!”

"...Cara, are you an enthusiastic recipient of the... boob doodles there."

"y-yeah. This is fun." Maybe also somewhat embarrassing, but. That's never stopped her before.

“Hey! These aren’t doodles, I’ve got a whole motif going, look!”

"I'm not an art critic, don't mind me."

“Which is…not to say…that the motif didn’t originate in the margins of my math notes.”

Oh no that's so cute. She nuzzles Lucy. "It did? Lore..."

“Only when I didn’t immediately have more notes to write down! I wasn’t shirking!”

She giggles and sticks out her tongue. "I dunno, Lucy, I seem to remember you ignoring a class I was TAing to play games on your phone..."

“That wasn’t shirking, that was a medical emergency.”

Petpets.

"I hear the TA was also having a medical emergency, so I don't think you missed much."

She examines drawings on her skin happily. "You did a delightful job! Thaaaaank youuuuu."

Forehead kiss for Lucy.

“I aim to provide high-quality snuggles regardless of how coherent I am at the time.”

Happily blue girl wiggles. "Well. Snuggles from you are amazing, so. Your aim is pretty good." 

“I mean, no offense, but you’re biased by the guiding.”

She adopts a look of mock outrage at this accusation. "My honor, besmirched... Maybe I'm judging your cuddles on objective metrics, and factoring out the guiding! You don't know!"

“Are you unbacklashed enough to do that? I’m not.”

She thinks about it. "Uh. I'm not sure I could do that on zero backlash, honestly. The guiding is kind of a lot."

Happy wriggles.

“The guiding would be less if we were at zero backlash!”

"Well, then, I guess you can ask me again when we're at zero backlash, but..." Happy nuzzle. "I predict I won't really have a different answer. You're really really nice to snuggle."

“I have been told this! Mostly by people who were biased.”

Oh no why is she so cute  "I don't feel like it's easy to get unbiased data on this, honestly? I'm very much a cuddleslut but I still don't, like, cuddle with strangers basically ever."

“Huh. I do. Well, maybe not strangers. People I don’t know very well. Look, sometimes people will shove together the two incredibly comfy couches in our dorm lounge and a spontaneous cuddlepile will form.”

"Oh, I do miss that about dorm life... Spontaneous cuddlepiles were good. I guess I never really got much feedback on my participation in those?" And also as an undergrad she felt weirder about participating because she was earlier on in her transition and more [aaa] about taking up space. But that's something to talk about later, she thinks.

She boops Lucy's nose. "Boop!"

“I got feedback on my participation in those exactly once. From a guy who wanted to get into my pants.”

Aww. "Sooo, the biased kind, then?"