<I was beginning to think you'd never notice.>

The other her's mindvoice is faint, but she can pick it out now. It's clear enough to be heard. 

<Who are you?>

<Do you mind if I stop and relay to Hailey.>

Hyacinth floats up out of her trance, and takes a deep breath. 

"She's there. She's really there. I — had a short conversation with her. She told me not to worry. Called herself my twin."

Hailey grabs Hyacinth tightly in a hug and squeezes her. "Awesome! Congrats! Go tell her hi from me."

Hyacinth exhales a little laugh, and hugs Hailey back for a moment. Then she turns her focus inward again. 

<Hailey says hi.>

"She says hi back."

Her grin widens. "Hey twinsie, you got a name? Or want one?"

There's a moment of confusion, and then —

"You can call me Hibiscus."

"Well hello, Hibiscus. Good to meet ya. Welcome to the brave new world of acknowledged plurality."

"I know, right? It's like having one person in one head is going out of style or something." Hibiscus grins and rolls her shoulders. "Great to meet you, Hailey."

"So, tell me about yourself. What makes this pretty flower different from the other pretty flower?"

"Hmmm, let me see. Thing number one, I'm a domme. We didn't lie that you took our virginity, but there's... a certain amount of wiggle room in that statement depending on how you count sexting. Always as a girl, naturally. We just were never confident enough to actually take the plunge and incarnate in a girl body. What if it was terrible. What if our friends found out. This kind of bullshit. Having seen it and done it, god were we ever missing out."

"I have a sex education manga collection that would make a member of the patriot church faint, or better yet, get a clue. I've practiced giving blowjobs on toys. I've got a whole collection of lingerie my parents don't know I own. My favorite piece is a light blue corset that's starting to fall apart now. I used to wear it to university under a t-shirt." 

Hibiscus raises her eyebrows. "Like, when Hyacinth says we're a sex freak, she means it. We've worn toys beneath our clothes in public once or twice. For a virgin we are off the fucking charts when it comes to kinkiness. You've already seen how strong our libido is what with Sable going two rounds with us in two days, and we plan to make that a habit. You're worth holding on to, and worth having fun with — and Hyacinth would make sure to add, "worth being intimate with", but that's less of a priority to me to be honest. I've considered on occasion that I might be legitimately hypersexual before, so, like. It's a whole fun time." 

She coughs. "That is to say, I'm still in love with you. But it's been two days. It's going to take more than good sex and a listening ear to catch me for good, even if you are a wonderful partner. We're inexperienced, and we know how first relationships tend to go, so if y'all aren't here in a year we'll pick ourselves up and keep going. The fact you're open to polyamory and also plural are huge pluses to me, to be honest. I can't really see myself in a single relationship, I'm a little too sexually omnivorous for that. Any single partner is unlikely to have the range and variety in preferred kinks to give me a well-balanced diet, you know?" 

"I could be Sable's well-balanced diet if she wants, though." 

Hailey cackles. "Sable is blushing up a storm right now. Direct fucking hit."

She grins and nods. "So we're not just poly, Sable is obligate poly. If someone tries to tie her down and be her only, it will end in tears when she inevitably catches feelings for another person. Also, we seem to be incapable of romantic jealousy entirely, so if our eventual tank winds up being a sweetheart and you fall for her, we'll just be delighted and flirt with her as well — assuming Sable hadn't fallen for her already. So I think that aspect will go fine, on top of the benefits of our being plural and having a variety of different kinks."

Drumming her fingers for a moment, she smiles and continues. "The only kinks that are a hard no for all of us are scat and watersports. If you find a craving for literally anything else, ask.

"Oh, and speaking of hypersexuality, that's actually another reason why we live in VR as much as we do — the more time we spend outside, the worse our libido functions, and that just pisses us off."

"Sounds like the two of us are in for a fun time then. Well, I'll let Hyacinth say some things too. Eventually. I've always wanted to participate in a threesome or moresome or even an orgy, so if we can find a cool kink community here in CORA we've got a golden ticket." 

Hibiscus sighs out. "That said, I would like to go over the plan with you more generally. Hyacinth's too shy to say it directly... Well, she was trying to get around to it. I'll give her some points on that front. She's head over heels for you but also anxious you'll turn out to be Secretly Bad somehow. At the exact same time, she wants you to be the first to kill her in CORA. As a kink scene, obviously. I'll be along for the ride of that too, which sounds like a fun time." She taps her fingers against her arm. "So, like, the actual agenda, give me a second here..."

"I think our first priority has to be securing long-term housing if we really do intend to stay in CORA. I don't want to be dependent on an innkeeper, even one as cool as Jorem, to keep a roof over my head when things get dicey. Been there with the family, don't want to go through that again. Ideally we get a house we actually own. That's a long term goal though. In the intermediate stages probably the smart thing is to find a cool Blessed guild that's up on our situations and lodge with them in a guild hall or similar. That still has issues with people being cool, but I would rather depend on Blessed if I can."

"In the nearer term, I would so love to hypnotize you, or any other member of your system. That's what got me into dommeing, the allure of having someone under my sway. That guided meditation is burning a hole in my pocket and I want to see what you girls are like when you're on the other end of the power balance."

Hailey blushes a bit and wriggles. "For me, we'll have to work up to hypnosis. I have a lot of trust problems, but y'all are sure tempting me to speedrun them. Sable, on the other hand, is a blushy mess and entirely here for that. So's Maya, though more dignified about it."