She hadn't even noticed amidst... everything else. Until it was almost too late.

...Oh.

Did - did she think about Anakin at all? 

Anakin - pulls back, almost. Her side of the bond grows quiet, and her expression goes distant and hard to read. 

'I'm sorry.'

'...Okay.'

'...I want to exist right now and want to keep trying to - want to exist but - I think I might need - a possibility of the option to. Just. Stop. If I - someday can't keep trying.'

'If that is what you need, I will support you.'

'I love you, Anakin.'

- She steps into Elesse's body suddenly, curls up at the back of her mind with their bond blossoming open. (She's sad and scared and she loves Elesse and doesn't understand how Elesse can love her back when Anakin's so - broken and imperfect.)

Elesse opens up to Anakin like a warm embrace.

It's never been about- wholeness, or perfection. It's about people.

Her mind wraps around Elesse's like she wants to cling and never let go (and she starts vaguely wishing she had a separate body so she could kiss Elesse. (She loves Elesse in every way she knows how and has had a lot of - desires, urges, somethings - that she's never really come to grips with.))

Many mental and emotional hugs for the Anakin.

(That's- flattering. And... intriguing. Elesse doesn't hate the idea.)

...It'd be complicated, now. Though Anakin could use Elesse's body to kiss someone or tell Elesse who to kiss which is in some ways extra intriguing.

It would be complicated. But now is when they are.

She - wants to figure it out, if Elesse wants to. 

Making Elesse Using Elesse's body to kiss someone else might be good for - other things, too. But it'd be less... Intimate. 

For the next little while, at least, it's just the two of them.

Are there - things they could do alone? (...Anakin knows basically nothing about this.)

Elesse knows a couple tricks, knowledge which she will make available to Anakin.

!!!

She's a little torn between telling Elesse things to try so Anakin can watch, versus taking over Elesse's body and experimenting directly (with Elesse watching). 

Elesse would be all right with either option.

Nnnn she wants to take over. 

Elesse takes a mental step back, inviting her to do so.

She takes over smoothly, then - do they have a mirror?

They can configure one in the cabin.

Then she wants to start with learning what Elesse looks like - and some physical explorations from there...

All while paying pretty rapt attention to Elesse's reactions in the back of her head. 

Mmmmm. Elesse basks in Anakin's attentions.

She has a couple hints if Anakin wants. Or they could play a game of hot and cold if she'd rather experiment...