Well it's not like Lenora's going to stop her. Especially if caressing tails are involved.

Caressing tails are definitely involved. One tail twines around Lenora's, one strokes along her waist and back, and one teases along her neck. Meanwhile her hands are slipping under Lenora's swimsuit now, cupping and caressing her breasts.

That gets Lenora kind of melty! "Mmmgh. Fuck. At this rate I'm going to get naked right here."

She works her way up again to give a properly appreciative kiss on the mouth to Sable, their bodies rubbing together. She scratches Sable's ears, too. "I want a bed for that, though. Quickies are lame compared to taking your time."

Sable kisses back, moaning into the kiss, and shivers at the ear-scritching. "Nnnn, yeah, you have a point there. Maybe we should get dressed again. Bys'll be done with her spar and pinging me in the brain about it any minute now. Nnnot letting you out of my lap though."

"We'll have something to look forward to~ Oh man, so lucky I met you, you know?"

She doesn't move to re-dress yet, though. The snuggle/hug they've wound up in is niiice.

"You, I thought I was the lucky one!"

Yeah, moving is for losers, she's staying in this snuggle until Bys pokes her in the brain.

"Huh, are we dating or something now? Usually when you spend several minutes making out with your crush it means you're probably dating? We can call us what we want though."

"I wasn't dating any of my coworkers, exactly, but I also didn't really feel this way about them? It was more just, hey I'm horny and so are you. Fun but not - bubbly excitement? Feeling like they're cool and amazing? Wanting to bliss you out and then smirk? Yyyyyyeah I think that's a crush actually."

She will actually start gently pushing away now. The tails are an impediment to this. She grabs at one of her swimsuit straps to start fixing it.

Sable will loosen her tails enough to make it easier to get dressed again, and lean away long enough to straighten out her bikini top.

"Yeah, I feel pretty similar. Bright and sparkly sense that you're delightful and ought to experience every delightful thing I can find? Heady satisfaction at every happy noise you make? Insistent feeling that the world is righter if you're getting all your goals? Yeah, s'definitely a crush."

"Some of it's probably the magic. And some of it's how much you like me and - cheerful getting stuff done I guess?"

"Yeah, that's all probably a factor too."

She tilts her head for a moment, thoughtful.

done with spar where are you Sending is weird am I doing it right hello

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Hello

-Both of them receive suddenly

Heh. Maybe she'll have to help Bys practice that at some point. For now, she sends a group message.

Hey. We found a secluded little hot spring in a park. Sending you directions.

And then she bundles a mental map of the area with a pink pushpin on the hot spring into a packet and shoves that whole thing into a Sending just to Bys.

Park-HotSpring.map

How

On my way

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"Time to get dressed again for real, I guess."

"Oh bother. I suppose it's considerate, though."

She gives Lenora another kiss and then helps her out of the spring.

She uses waterworking to dry them both off. Focusing on her nice robe outfit again takes a bit longer.

"Thanks for the quick-dry, Lenora," Sable says with a fond smile.

Sable then spends a minute reshaping her outfit too, bikini reshaping into bra, panties, skirt, and cute blouse.

After about two or three minutes, Bys shows up and nods at them where they're sitting on the bench.

"Hey. The spar was... Informative. They have ways to fake the damage and combat. I need to figure out my familiar and maybe some sort of elemental once I manage some 'quests'. Probably water?"

"That does sound informative," she says with a smile. "I looked up how to find your familiar before I got my silly ass arrested, so I could explain that if we'd like, but first I kinda wanna tell y'all both about something."

"I'm listening."

"Yeah, go ahead if you think it's important."

"So I explained a little more about Inkborn to Lenora while you were sparring, Bys. We're basically as much tropes as we are people, and we each awaken into some fictional archetype, and I realized I want to tell y'all mine."

She switches to a Sending for the next bit.

This is kinda personal, and a little bit of a dangerous secret to let get around, and archetypes are supposed to only affect the Inkborn themselves, but mine is related to the ideas of friendships and relationships so I feel like y'all deserve to know. My archetype is Manic Trickster Dream Girl.

She gives her friends a sheepish, lopsided smile.

Bys looks kind of confused.