Alice stared at Inyme from across her bed, the Rikti girl not looking in her direction as she ate her late night snack while typing out something on the
computer sitting on Alice's desk. This, in and of itself, was not unusual. To Inyme, eating was something she relished, given that, before her change, all
food had been seasoned via telepathic "flavor transmission" along the Rikti mindnet. The concept of tasting her food via her own taste buds was still
alien to her, and since her secret had been outed, Inyme no longer had to hide her unusually intense enjoyment of eating. In that sense, all was normal.
No, what was unusual was the distinct aroma that Alice's unusually acute sense of smell was detecting coming from her, a sharp contrast to the sandwich she
was digging into. A smell that wasn't food, but still decorative...following her nose, Alice moved up closer to Inyme, curious, before confirming where it
was coming from.
"....someone kissed you," she said, causing Inyme to almost choke on her sandwich before she managed to force the food down the right tube, her dark
skin blushing slightly in places that Alice had long (and intimate) enough experience with the girl to recognize despite the comparatively harder to notice
change in tint when compared to a person of lighter complexion.
"I....it was...." she stammered slightly, as Alice watched, somewhere between curiousity and amusement.
"I was working a Vanguard job with some other operatives...."
***
"We had a brief run-in before. I didn't find her very pleasant," Inyme muttered, blinking at the still rather strong sense of approval that
admission got from the tall silver haired ninja that was assisting them as QB Kitsune smiled faintly and nodded. "Afterwards, she went out the door and
never came back. I expected some kind of ninja vendetta about making a point of breaking me for my defiance or something..." she admitted, toppling over
another group of Rikti.
QB nodded, twitching slightly. "Sh-she can be awfully inscrutable."
"Hn," Sachie noted, after putting a Rikti comm. officer through the wall. "You didn't want her, and you didn't care if she killed you.
The only thing she had left to get at you would be your Alice, and Vanguard wouldn't have let her do that."
Inyme's eyes darkened for a brief moment. "If she'd tried, I would've snapped her neck.....non-lethally," she added at the
"sound" of several of the heroes on the team giving her worried looks.
"Then she would've had a new host, given your magic sensitivity," QB noted, shivering.
Sachie, meanwhile, snorted in derisive amusement. "I'd wager 50 on the Rikti in that fight," she noted
with grim amusement.
"Can't say I'd not like to run into her again....I could make up for my lousy aim from before," Inyme said after a while, QB glancing over at
her.
"Aim?"
"I hit her shoes because the psi-buffers wouldn't let me telekinetically alter the trajectory. I was aiming for her face," Inyme answered simply,
drawing several stares as Sachie laughed out loud. Inyme glanced over in slight surprise as the large ninja walked over, shaking her head in slight wonder.
"You....you tried to spit in Lady Nogitsune's......" she said, before bending over and laying one on Inyme's lips, the Rikti's eyes going
as wide as QB's beside her before Sachie broke the split second contact and grinned at her. "Good show," she grinned fiercely, before diving back
into the horde of Rikti, leaving Inyme blinking as QB patted her on the back awkwardly.
"Um....yeah. Go you...yay."
***
"Wasn't quite expecting that after her girlfriend ever so subtly suggested I take a long deep whiff of a Yarnball crate we confiscated," Inyme
admitted. "Nogi's her mother."
"So, Sachie kissed you because you tried to spit in the face of her girlfriend's mother?"
"I think so. You're not mad?"
"That you ran into some crazy ninja threesome thing? Nah," she smiled. "Just need to get that scent off," she noted, leaning in to kiss
her, Inyme putting the sandwich back on its plate as Alice leaned her up against the bed's headboard.
"Sammy's going to be irritable if we keep her up all night again...."
"Mum got me some acoustic dampers," Alice noted. "It was either that or Sammy started sharpening her claws on my stuff."
Inyme blinked. "I didn't know they made those. Huh."
"Just another neat invention from Posi...tron's lab...." Alice noted, mentally kicking herself as Inyme failed to hide a wince entirely.
Sorry, she said mentally, radiating apology.
It's okay...it's not your fault. Old prejudices...old hate....I have to deal with it sooner or later, Inyme
returned.
And I'll be here to help, Alice nodded firmly.
You always have been, even when you didn't know there was anything to help
with, Inyme smiled softly as Alice leaned up against her.
And you helped me out with my problems too. It evens out nicely, she noted with a giggle, kissing Inyme again as they
leaned against the wall, Inyme's breath quickening even as Alice started purring.
"That's it, I'm going to find Derrick," a familiar muffled voice was audible saying from the other side of the wall, which set Inyme to
giggling uncontrollably, followed by Alice shortly thereafter.
"I know you two!" the voice indignantly squeaked through the wall. "It'll be loud and sweaty and you'll be grinning all of tomorrow
and...."
"Are you trying to talk us out of it or not?" Inyme managed through her giggles, setting Alice off even more, the catgirl laughing helplessly into
her girlfriend's chest.
"I...you....ARGH!"
---
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
computer sitting on Alice's desk. This, in and of itself, was not unusual. To Inyme, eating was something she relished, given that, before her change, all
food had been seasoned via telepathic "flavor transmission" along the Rikti mindnet. The concept of tasting her food via her own taste buds was still
alien to her, and since her secret had been outed, Inyme no longer had to hide her unusually intense enjoyment of eating. In that sense, all was normal.
No, what was unusual was the distinct aroma that Alice's unusually acute sense of smell was detecting coming from her, a sharp contrast to the sandwich she
was digging into. A smell that wasn't food, but still decorative...following her nose, Alice moved up closer to Inyme, curious, before confirming where it
was coming from.
"....someone kissed you," she said, causing Inyme to almost choke on her sandwich before she managed to force the food down the right tube, her dark
skin blushing slightly in places that Alice had long (and intimate) enough experience with the girl to recognize despite the comparatively harder to notice
change in tint when compared to a person of lighter complexion.
"I....it was...." she stammered slightly, as Alice watched, somewhere between curiousity and amusement.
"I was working a Vanguard job with some other operatives...."
***
"We had a brief run-in before. I didn't find her very pleasant," Inyme muttered, blinking at the still rather strong sense of approval that
admission got from the tall silver haired ninja that was assisting them as QB Kitsune smiled faintly and nodded. "Afterwards, she went out the door and
never came back. I expected some kind of ninja vendetta about making a point of breaking me for my defiance or something..." she admitted, toppling over
another group of Rikti.
QB nodded, twitching slightly. "Sh-she can be awfully inscrutable."
"Hn," Sachie noted, after putting a Rikti comm. officer through the wall. "You didn't want her, and you didn't care if she killed you.
The only thing she had left to get at you would be your Alice, and Vanguard wouldn't have let her do that."
Inyme's eyes darkened for a brief moment. "If she'd tried, I would've snapped her neck.....non-lethally," she added at the
"sound" of several of the heroes on the team giving her worried looks.
"Then she would've had a new host, given your magic sensitivity," QB noted, shivering.
Sachie, meanwhile, snorted in derisive amusement. "I'd wager 50 on the Rikti in that fight," she noted
with grim amusement.
"Can't say I'd not like to run into her again....I could make up for my lousy aim from before," Inyme said after a while, QB glancing over at
her.
"Aim?"
"I hit her shoes because the psi-buffers wouldn't let me telekinetically alter the trajectory. I was aiming for her face," Inyme answered simply,
drawing several stares as Sachie laughed out loud. Inyme glanced over in slight surprise as the large ninja walked over, shaking her head in slight wonder.
"You....you tried to spit in Lady Nogitsune's......" she said, before bending over and laying one on Inyme's lips, the Rikti's eyes going
as wide as QB's beside her before Sachie broke the split second contact and grinned at her. "Good show," she grinned fiercely, before diving back
into the horde of Rikti, leaving Inyme blinking as QB patted her on the back awkwardly.
"Um....yeah. Go you...yay."
***
"Wasn't quite expecting that after her girlfriend ever so subtly suggested I take a long deep whiff of a Yarnball crate we confiscated," Inyme
admitted. "Nogi's her mother."
"So, Sachie kissed you because you tried to spit in the face of her girlfriend's mother?"
"I think so. You're not mad?"
"That you ran into some crazy ninja threesome thing? Nah," she smiled. "Just need to get that scent off," she noted, leaning in to kiss
her, Inyme putting the sandwich back on its plate as Alice leaned her up against the bed's headboard.
"Sammy's going to be irritable if we keep her up all night again...."
"Mum got me some acoustic dampers," Alice noted. "It was either that or Sammy started sharpening her claws on my stuff."
Inyme blinked. "I didn't know they made those. Huh."
"Just another neat invention from Posi...tron's lab...." Alice noted, mentally kicking herself as Inyme failed to hide a wince entirely.
Sorry, she said mentally, radiating apology.
It's okay...it's not your fault. Old prejudices...old hate....I have to deal with it sooner or later, Inyme
returned.
And I'll be here to help, Alice nodded firmly.
You always have been, even when you didn't know there was anything to help
with, Inyme smiled softly as Alice leaned up against her.
And you helped me out with my problems too. It evens out nicely, she noted with a giggle, kissing Inyme again as they
leaned against the wall, Inyme's breath quickening even as Alice started purring.
"That's it, I'm going to find Derrick," a familiar muffled voice was audible saying from the other side of the wall, which set Inyme to
giggling uncontrollably, followed by Alice shortly thereafter.
"I know you two!" the voice indignantly squeaked through the wall. "It'll be loud and sweaty and you'll be grinning all of tomorrow
and...."
"Are you trying to talk us out of it or not?" Inyme managed through her giggles, setting Alice off even more, the catgirl laughing helplessly into
her girlfriend's chest.
"I...you....ARGH!"
---
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."