[ She smiles brightly when he agrees, and moves with him, content to let him lead her to whichever place he deems best. After all, of the two of them, it's clear he has more experience in this placeβor at the very least, that he remembers more of his experience in this place. Unlike him, though, she's forward in her approach, slipping a hand through the space between his arm and his torso in order to link their arms together.
No doubt they make for quite the strange pair, arm in arm and her with an embarrassingly flashy sex toy in the other hand.
She still needs to ask him about that.
Soon, she figures.
To his question, Aerith nods, and smiles. ]
That's right. They said something about the system being... overloaded or something. Too busy? Apparently a bunch of new arrivals came at the same time and suddenly they don't know what to do with us. [ She laughs. ] So they said it will take a few days. So I don't know yet. But honestly, I don't think I'll mind it wherever I end up, you know? It might sound weird, but even now, I have more money in this... account thing than I've ever had before. And even if my room turns out to not be that great, I doubt it'll be the worst place I've slept...
[ Her smile turns playful and she tilts her head toward him, eyes twinkling with mischief. ]
Of course, if it really is that bad, I'll just have to spend my nights in other people's rooms. Right?
[ Really, she doesn't mean that to sound quite the way it does... ]
[ From the time that he briefly knew her, she'd been a forthcoming girl. The first time they met, he was a rabbit on the run during the first Diamond game. Aerith, despite being a "wolf", had helped him procure some snacks and drinks for himself while he was on the run. It was for the sake of helping him first before sinking her proverbial fangs into him...and it's something that he hasn't forgotten after all this time. And yet she still catches him by surprise when her hand slips between the space of his arm and torso.
If someone back home made an attempt to try and hug him or get this cozy with him, even someone he would have considered his friend, he'd have gently nudged them away or warned them not to be so close. Not unless they wanted to have their life literally sapped away from accidentally touching or staying too close to the Azure Grimoire. No matter how much control he had over it, it was still a risk. A danger. Something that the House nullified somehow when he arrived here. There was barely a day that passed him by where he didn't fret or worry about losing control, or the tampering the House did would come undone and he'd hurt someone else he cared about.
But when Aerith loops her arm through his, without so much as a care in the world, getting his breath to catch in his throat for a moment as he blinks with a more innocent surprise...
It's gestures like this, and being touched like this, that make it easy to forget for a little while. So he settles with her, letting her stay linked at his side as he flexes a little. Makes sure that she knows he's okay with her doing this. Even if he's got to contend with a dust of red in his cheeks again. He'll get over it. It's cool. ]
Oh you might be surprised.
[ No Ragna. You might be surprised. You have no idea what she's been through. Then she flips it right back on him again, and he can't help but knit his brow at her over it. Not because what she said was wrong, but, like... ]
Riiight. It doesn't take a lot to ask someone for a cozier bed. Kind of like a "you scratch my back, I scratch yours" deal.
[ You might be surprised, he says, and Aerith just smiles. Of course it's true that she might be, if they were to talk about it, but somehow she doubts it. Then again, she can't blame him for assuming. She's sure that he doesn't meet many people who have been forced to sleep in an actual honest-to-gods cage. Realistically, there probably aren't many others at all.
But nor is there any point in explaining that to him. All it would do would be to make him feel bad over her circumstances, and that's not the point. Her past is her past, nothing more and nothing less. Right?
So instead she focuses on his response, nodding when he elaborates on her idea. And, she thinks, he's exactly right. Not all favors have to be sexual, do they? It could be possible to strike a deal with someone without needing to sleep with them. But one thing is true, and that's that most people will want something in return, sexual favors or otherwise.
She's learned a lot from Cloud's mercenary ways.
She offers Ragna a small, nonchalant shrug. ]
Maybe in a place like this, that's just the best way to look at it, you know? I may not remember being here for that long, but it seems to me like the kinda things we're expected to do here, they might make people uncomfortable. I mean, at least to my knowledge, I'd never had sex before I arrived here. So being confronted with it so abruptly was kinda a lot. I made mistakes that I'll have to learn from, too.
[ She holds up the fleshlight in her hand, waving it around a little. ]
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No doubt they make for quite the strange pair, arm in arm and her with an embarrassingly flashy sex toy in the other hand.
She still needs to ask him about that.
Soon, she figures.
To his question, Aerith nods, and smiles. ]
That's right. They said something about the system being... overloaded or something. Too busy? Apparently a bunch of new arrivals came at the same time and suddenly they don't know what to do with us. [ She laughs. ] So they said it will take a few days. So I don't know yet. But honestly, I don't think I'll mind it wherever I end up, you know? It might sound weird, but even now, I have more money in this... account thing than I've ever had before. And even if my room turns out to not be that great, I doubt it'll be the worst place I've slept...
[ Her smile turns playful and she tilts her head toward him, eyes twinkling with mischief. ]
Of course, if it really is that bad, I'll just have to spend my nights in other people's rooms. Right?
[ Really, she doesn't mean that to sound quite the way it does... ]
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If someone back home made an attempt to try and hug him or get this cozy with him, even someone he would have considered his friend, he'd have gently nudged them away or warned them not to be so close. Not unless they wanted to have their life literally sapped away from accidentally touching or staying too close to the Azure Grimoire. No matter how much control he had over it, it was still a risk. A danger. Something that the House nullified somehow when he arrived here. There was barely a day that passed him by where he didn't fret or worry about losing control, or the tampering the House did would come undone and he'd hurt someone else he cared about.
But when Aerith loops her arm through his, without so much as a care in the world, getting his breath to catch in his throat for a moment as he blinks with a more innocent surprise...
It's gestures like this, and being touched like this, that make it easy to forget for a little while. So he settles with her, letting her stay linked at his side as he flexes a little. Makes sure that she knows he's okay with her doing this. Even if he's got to contend with a dust of red in his cheeks again. He'll get over it. It's cool. ]
Oh you might be surprised.
[ No Ragna. You might be surprised. You have no idea what she's been through. Then she flips it right back on him again, and he can't help but knit his brow at her over it. Not because what she said was wrong, but, like... ]
Riiight. It doesn't take a lot to ask someone for a cozier bed. Kind of like a "you scratch my back, I scratch yours" deal.
That's how I wound up looking at it, anyway...
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But nor is there any point in explaining that to him. All it would do would be to make him feel bad over her circumstances, and that's not the point. Her past is her past, nothing more and nothing less. Right?
So instead she focuses on his response, nodding when he elaborates on her idea. And, she thinks, he's exactly right. Not all favors have to be sexual, do they? It could be possible to strike a deal with someone without needing to sleep with them. But one thing is true, and that's that most people will want something in return, sexual favors or otherwise.
She's learned a lot from Cloud's mercenary ways.
She offers Ragna a small, nonchalant shrug. ]
Maybe in a place like this, that's just the best way to look at it, you know? I may not remember being here for that long, but it seems to me like the kinda things we're expected to do here, they might make people uncomfortable. I mean, at least to my knowledge, I'd never had sex before I arrived here. So being confronted with it so abruptly was kinda a lot. I made mistakes that I'll have to learn from, too.
[ She holds up the fleshlight in her hand, waving it around a little. ]
Would you answer a question for me, Ragna?