"True love in the sense that burns the Raiths is rare. It wouldn't develop in one day, even in the most perfectly matched couples."

"I guess that's fair. Holding out hope we can do it one day though." She puts a hand on Mara's. "God, I want to say I'm stupid for moving too fast, but what even is the correct pace at which to move with a woman who kidnapped you?"

"Fuck if I know!"

There's a knock at the door. Sushi has arrived.

"Fucking finally, I thought it was never gonna show up. I'm starving."

Mara lays out the sushi on the table in front of the couch. Katie's order is as she had requested, only with eight pieces of salmon nigiri, not six.

"Now, I can't take your cuffs off yet. I still gotta take precautions to protect myself from you using magic against me. So, dang, guess I'll have to feed you."

She smirks.

"Let me know what you want to start with."

"Did the soulgaze not show you the part where I hate making decisions?"

"Let's start with the nigiri, then. I got you a little extra, I figure if I overshoot what you think you want a little every time it'll help you fill out faster."

She deftly maneuvers a piece of salmon nigiri to Katie's mouth using chopsticks.

"God, that's hot. For someone who's new to this, you're taking to it pretty well. Can you dip it in the soy sauce though, please?"

"Of course!"

She dips it.

"Now eat up, darling."

Chomp. "I like it when you call me darling." God, she feels dumb for saying something this obvious out loud, but Mara is melting her fucking brain.

She pats Katie's head as she dips and serves her another piece of nigiri.

"Of course you do, cutie."

"That too." Chomp chomp.

Mara intersperses feeding Katie bites of the nigiri with eating bites of her own first roll, a mango shrimp roll with mango sauce.

"Do you want—sorry, I mean, is there anything on this roll you hate?"

"I'm not the biggest fan of shrimp but I don't hate it hate it. Also wow, look as miss big powerful domme here, forgetting to be sufficiently authoritative and then apologizing to her pet when she corrects herself. Are you gonna start speaking in keysmashes next?"

"Having to be dignified all the time is just another kind of restriction. In a way, I'm freer than the politicians on the Senior Council, because I don't have to spend my time managing anyone's opinion."

"Y'know what, true. Sorry for being mean, it's an honor to be dommed by someone who sees things so clearly."

Mara eats another piece of her roll as Katie talks, then puts a piece of salmon nigiri in Katie's mouth as she says "Mara wins again. Sunglasses emoji."

"Anyways, don't go giving me all your food. You've got a figure to maintain too." She pats Mara's belly for emphasis.

"Don't worry about me, I've got plenty more to go. How do you feel about spicy food?" she asks as she starts on her second roll, a spicy tuna roll.

"I'm pretty weak to it. Your choice if you think I'd be cute while in pain."

"Oh, I'll have to think about that. For now I just want to spoil you."

She pinches Katie's cheek.

"You're a sweetie. That soulgaze really awakened something in you, didn't it?"

"It did! It got me thinking about your body, about how you could be even more beautiful with more to grab and feel here," she runs a hand over Katie's tits, "and here," she says, letting the hand settle over her belly, while the other hand with the chopsticks raises the salmon maki to Katie's lips.

Shiver. Twitch. Om nom nom. "You have such impeccable taste in everything. It's like, very congruent for me how fatness simultaneously signifies, at least to me, strength and feralness and lack of inhibition and not giving a shit about society's rules, but also amplifies one's feminine curves. Would make me feel a lot less weird about being a woman if I had a gut and melons."

She raises a piece of the tempura lobster roll to Katie's lips.

"Gotta say, I don't think I appreciated the gut enough until I saw it through your eyes. Never had any doubt about the value of melons though."

While she hasn't finished the spicy tuna, she tries a piece of her third roll, an unagi roll with eel sauce, with an audible "mmmmmmmm".

"I fucking love eel sauce."