we travel far and wide

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It has been - a few days. There are long silent snuggles with Kas. There are tentative chats with Helen, which go encouragingly. There are difficult and uncomfortably revelatory conversations with her parents. There are heaps and heaps and heaps of things to catch up on, read, check, look into, so she can regroup, reappear, resume work.

She hasn't slept with Kas since coming home. She loves him, and she'll be feeling like it eventually, but not right away.

She's sort of restless after a few days of not having sex, though. Let's see. There's a couple new Jokers she hasn't tried, although one is not shaped in an Amariah-amenable way. And maybe that's a little too close to what she's waiting on, anyway.

Pattern's boyfriend isn't a Joker and is amenable to being loaned out, she has heard.

[Hey, Jane...]

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He's quite nice to look at! Amariah looks at him. And proceeds with the borrowing.

[tearingup]

He also hasn't lost the habit of rotating flavours. Today's is peach.

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[Ooh, you are yummy.]

[tearingup]

[I am! I do that.]

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[You do. It is a nice idea. And a delicious one.] Nibble nibble nibble.

[tearingup]

Ooh. Nibbles. Those are fun. This was a good idea.

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Amariah has those! She is a clever person.

[tearingup]

Apparently so.

Ripper has a pretty good idea of how one Bell works. He doesn't know how much of that is going to transfer, but he is very willing to experiment.

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It transfers pretty fucking well. They're all built the same, even if the superficial details differ.

[tearingup]

Oh. Awesome.

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Amariah doesn't have that kind of advantage with Ripper, but she is prepared to try to compensate!

[tearingup]

Her efforts are wholeheartedly appreciated.

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That is good.

Peachy, even.

[tearingup]

So, is she a snuggler? Because he is very much a snuggler.

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She snuggles. For some reason she doesn't seem to relax into it as much as Pattern does - even as much as Pattern did early on - but she snuggles.

[tearingup]

"...Are you uncomfortable or something?" he says after a few seconds of snuggling.

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"Hmm? No, not at all, quite cozy, I'm just not - all here. You haven't got anybody for Path to snuggle up to, so he's away."

[tearingup]

"Oh," he says. "Uh, okay."

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"It's not a problem, or I wouldn't have borrowed you, just, Path is literally my soul, and he isn't being at all snuggled right now. The rest of me is doing fine. You've had daemons explained, right?"

[tearingup]

"Sort of? Apparently I'd be a green kingfisher."

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"Ooh. Yeah, I can see that," chuckles Amariah. "And if you had a kingfisher she - he? - would be sitting over there with Path and then I'd be one hundred percent snuggled instead of like eighty percent. That's all. If you had the kingfisher I'd insist, actually, I would really not like to be having sex with someone who had a daemon that didn't want to hang out with Path."

[tearingup]

"I can... sort of see that?" he says. "But it's all abstract to me."

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"Since you don't have one it's incidental. Like - hmm - if you were blind - or even if the lights just weren't working so we couldn't see each other, then it wouldn't mean anything that less seeing was going on. If you had one and she didn't want to sit with Path that would be the approximate equivalent of wanting me to wear a bag on my head, by comparison."

[tearingup]

He snorts. "Got it."

[dark_light]

"Cam doesn't have this thing with his Grace, if that was likely to come up. It doesn't make a difference to him. I don't think Shell Bell does either, but she's way less likely to hit on you than Cam is."