...It was time.
Frankly, she wasn't sure that it wasn't well past time - cultivators had a different perspective on things, and she knew that they clicked, and that there were any number of people who would be happy to hook up with a beauty like her. Topaz's tales of her skills were exhalirating and embarrasing both, but most of all they were...
Relatable.
They were young, still, and even the fact that she was at the peak of the second minor realm as a Beyond Mortal cultivator didn't change that. But enjoying the despoiling of one's virginity was supposed to be one of the joys of that, anyways.
...And the gifts really helped with that, too.
She really appreciated the nine-yin flower Romana had braided in her hair, the prismatic display of the petals shining through each of the colors of the rainbow alongside a virginal white that went excellently with her dress and the silver of just... her.
The shivery tingle of... that technique ran through her chest, adding a bright flush to the image of her fawning nervously over herself as she remembered the feeling. It'd have a chance to release too, and part of the fantasy of it was that she'd even get to jump forward in rank but...
She laughs, the soft silk brushing against her hardening nipples as it sank in.
She'd never do this if she didn't know that it was wanted, if she didn't know that she'd spent so much of her new life preparing and yearning for this moment, if it wasn't so real to her that she had learned that little mental defense technique because she knew that it would be the ride of her life and even bothered doing this over the top correspondence game to show just how real her intentions were.
She brushed her hair back, just a little, letting it glint against the overdone lighting of the bathroom, and let her conviction lock into place.
I'm doing this.
Her heart pitter-pattered in her chest, and she knew that she loved her, even if it was too early for words.
That wasn't at issue for now, though, so she simply walked to her room, and knocked on Ruby's door lightly, smiling with a hearth-warmth she knew nothing of just a month before.