She will unhug shortly after so as not to overwhelm the smol tiny Andrea too much. Right in the open in the middle of a bar is...

"I think... Uh... Well, it's resisting being put into words, but I guess the sentiment is 'everything's gonna be okay'? The people who'd object to you dressing how you want are self-righteous bastards and I'll give 'em the finger for you if everyone else here doesn't beat me to it."

"Amen!" calls out another woman who happened to be walking by at that moment.

Andrea wants to cry, but happy tears. Wow people are so nice. But crying would be embarrassing so she rubs her eyes. “You’re so nice, everyone is so nice.”

Andrea squirms on her seat. “I uhhh… it’s the first time anyone has like… you know, in this context… the gay bar… and you called me cutie… and made sure I knew your sexuality was compatible… I…am reading this correctly right?” Because she was oblivious enough about these things that she had to make sure. “I don’t really know what to do now… or how any of this works….” WHY IS THERE NO RULES FOR MEETING PEOPLE LIKE THIS THAT SHE COULD FOLLOW.

"I meant that as... I mean, I don't think things through all the time but it was like 'hey, liking girls is fine, so do I! Boobs are great!'. And I don't think through my words so 'cutie' was... Oh god I'm embarrassed now."

She shakes her head.

"...I do think you are cute. The nervousness but trying anyway, and imagining how you'd react if- Uh- But I don't wanna do things that make you uncomfortable? That would be bad."

“You can just… ask? If there are things you wanna do. And then I can just say if it’d be uncomfortable.” Wow that sounded kinda lewd in retrospect. “I’m a very blunt person. I’d prefer that to like… bad guessing where nobody knows whats okay.”

This is the second time Lenora called her cute… she should reciprocate. “And uhhh… I think you are incredibly pretty and being called cute by someone as pretty as you is the opposite of uncomfortable.”

She attempted clear communication but whatever is going in is in fact less clear to her now. Is she being flirted with? She is trying to flirt back if so. Aaahhhhh! This is why talking to women is scary! She is too gay for this!

"Aww, thanks! It's always nice to be complimented. Mm... Okay. Totally clear, huh...? I would like to chat some more and get to know you a little bit. More than just what we do for work. I would kind of like to kiss you and watch you go red and babble-y, but I think it'd be better if that waited a bit. I bet I'll have more to kiss you about later, and you can anticipate it. Cutie. Hehe."

“Eeeeeep” Help, a pretty girl wants to kiss her. What do? Welp, Lenora wanted red and she got red. Andrea is rather pale like a lot of station born are, so the blushes show up very strongly on her skin.

“I uhmm… yep I consent to that in advance.” Andrea is both is ecstatic and also wants to die at the same time. She is way too gay to deal with this! It’s not fair!

"Cuuute. What do you do for fun? Hobbies? I do sports when I can, and video games when I can't."

“Reading a looooootttt of webfic, videogames. VR sims mostly.” Less VR games and more getting immersively ASMR pampered by tall monster girls, but obviously she’s not going to admit that part. “Or rythm games, I like being able to zen out and let muscle memory take over and just be objectively consistently getting better at something.”

"Ooh, I tried a couple of those, rhythm games I mean, but they didn't really keep my attention. I get antsy easy. I've never been great at reading. I mean, I can read fine, but it's not fun. Kind of a dumb jock here..." 

“Reading gets me out of my head and into someone elses. Also I wasn’t great at making friends as a kid so I had nothing better to do. I also wasn't even allowed AR goggles until I was 16, which is insane, I had to do schoolwork on a handheld. My parents were weird about immersive media in general in a vaguely religious way. Books and reading were seen as safe and wholesome hobbies, hah, morons.” So much gay romance, mountains of shitty girls love stories, continents of fanfiction smut. Andrea consumed way more filth BEFORE she got access to AR goggles, not after.

”Books are actually the real vehicle for the gay agenda.” She jokes.

"Aww, that stinks. Growing up is hard. Parents can be... A whole tangle of feelings. Huh. I mean no disparagement against book enjoyers. AR is better. I am just a very..." She deliberately leans close and purses her lips, tapping them with a finger and smirking to draw the eye there, and winks. "A very physical person. Hands on, you could say."

“Eeep!” The blush is maintained.

“I uhmm want to give permission for that but also part of my brain is going ahhhhhhhh so uhm… Casual touching should precede anything so I can get used to it without flinching?” God she sounds like such a fucking loser dork. But just going to get haircuts is incredibly uncomfortable because strangers touching you is scary even when you want them to. “Sorry. I’m not used to like…. Everything.”

"Heeee. Sorry-not-sorry. I will be clear and specific about touching."

She leans back and considers her drink and orders something fruity and non-alcoholic next. One is enough, today.

"Hmm... Have you experienced zero-gee much?"

“Low G near the center of the station and not like, actual weightlessness, but it’s pretty close. Is your ship tiny enough it doesn't spin at all? Or are you doing vacuum trips? Vacuum is terrifying you’ll never catch me outside of a pressurised area.” Actual space is scary, thank you big ass rock that she lives on for protecting her from space. Agoraphobia is common and understandable for people not born on a planet.

"Oh yeah, I do a lot of exo work. Construction, salvage, maintenance. I have a maneuver unit and double tethers. It's not much worse than being on a small ship. And yeah, rock hoppers aren't like the big liners with gravity decks. It's all zero-gee."

“Wow, no way could I do that. Even just in VR space walks make me feel exposed. So you probably work out alot huh? If you are in Zero-gee alot, you look too fit to have the usual tone loss.” Mhhmmm yes fit lady who could definitely lift her, Andrea has specific tastes and Lenora is matching them.

"Ahehe... Yeah, it's uh... Meditative? And there's not a lot to do on trips, they don't like burning more fuel than they need to or transiting at high relative velocities. Safety issue. Still, I might go for a gene treatment about it some day. I already have a muscle and bone lace treatment. If I'm gonna invest in stuff, it's me I invest in!"

“Well uhm… it works for you. Well from what I can tell under the suit. Muscles hot. Wish I had them, but exercise that isn't a rythm game is not effort I can manage.” Honestly the rythm games probably are the only reason she isn’t either fat or a skeletal twig, that and walking to work.

"Aheh..." She's feeling a little - bashful, actually. Yeah, some people like strong women but it's not universal. "Yeah, thank you... Uh... Do you want to feel my arm?"

The gloves are off right now, and she can pull up a sleeve with some effort.

“If thats not weird?” Mmm yes squeeze strong arm, hot, that arm could totally lift her by the hair, shut up internal pervert, you don’t even know if you are even a real masochist, you just like reading about it. 

“Maybe it’s bad gender tropes influencing me, but being the weaker one appeals to me. Brains are weird.” Over sharing again…

"Brains are weird! And arm touching is fine by me." Especially since Andrea seems like she needs to get used to touch.

She pulls up the vac-suit sleeve. And flexes a bit. It's not a bodybuilder's arm but that's definitely muscle.

Hnnhh hot. Feeling it flex is very hot. Andrea squeezes her thighs together. “Hot….” Aw damn she said it out loud. Now she’s blushing again.

Nice. She is smug about this reaction.

"What kind of VR games are you into? I have a pretty high bar for ones that include spacewalks, seeing as I do real ones, so not those preferably. Also I'm going to kiss you on the forehead now."

She waits a few moments for an objection before doing this (and also ruffling Andrea's hair a little bit with one hand).

Hair touching will make Andrea freeze up because oh gosh wow usually having someone (the hairdresser) touch her hair was awful, but this is weirdly dumping dopamine directly into her brain. What the fuck, how is it this nice. She absolutely does not tell Lenora not to smooch forehead and Andrea has to bite her lip when it happens, to hide any embarrassing sounds she might make. 

“I might actually die. I’m too gay for this. Aaahhhhh.” She has completely forgotten the question was about VR games because pretty girl kissed her, even if its on the forehead thats still! Things! Stuff! Shiny! Excite! Panic? A little bit of panic but mostly Yes! Good!

"Hehe. I'm glad you're having fun."