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Sadde knocks on Isabella's door at 7PM sharp.
Sadde and Isabella in Eclipse
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Can she tell how this makes Sadde feel all proud and warm inside? She probably can.
"Hopefully more than your attention, in time."
"Hopefully more than your attention, in time."
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Shiver. Happy shiver. Haaaaaaaappy Sadde. Sadde may be having fantasies of wearing Isabella's collar. Those are very happy fantasies.
"I may be having fantasies of wearing your collar. Those are very happy fantasies."
"I may be having fantasies of wearing your collar. Those are very happy fantasies."
eclipsi
"It's chainmail with a nameplate on the front and a padlock in the back."
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Sadde moves her head a bit, rubbing her cheek against Isabella's lap with a blissful smile on her face. Haaaaaaappy Sadde.
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"So, as long as we're close to the subject, I understand it's a bit weird but one of the items in my list is in fact wearing a leash. How do you feel about that?"
eclipsi
"I have no idea how having you on a leash would affect my balance. Entirely amenable in principle, though."
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Eeeeee petting!
"You said your balance was at a place where mages and psions alike prefer not touching it. How much of that is a matter of opinion or preference as opposed to some inherent limitation or it being entrenched in too much stuff?"
"You said your balance was at a place where mages and psions alike prefer not touching it. How much of that is a matter of opinion or preference as opposed to some inherent limitation or it being entrenched in too much stuff?"
eclipsi
"I'm not sure; it seems to be a case of 'neither can tell if it is in fact under their kind of magic or not'. I'll work on it myself, once I have precognition well under way, in case it can be healed psionically, but I might not get anywhere so I don't want to frontload the effort."
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"Mmhm."
And then there won't be any potential balance issues with the leash. Eeeeeee.
And then there won't be any potential balance issues with the leash. Eeeeeee.
eclipsi
"This is our stop."
Off the bus and walk two blocks to the cactus museum! It has a garden of assorted cacti out front.
Off the bus and walk two blocks to the cactus museum! It has a garden of assorted cacti out front.
eclipsi
There are also other succulents! Some of them are really weird looking. And some of the cacti have flowers or fruits on them.
They display their student IDs for admission and then wander around looking at more pretty cacti. Some of them are very small. Some of them are huge. A couple of them are marked "Friendly Cactus - Touch Carefully!"
They display their student IDs for admission and then wander around looking at more pretty cacti. Some of them are very small. Some of them are huge. A couple of them are marked "Friendly Cactus - Touch Carefully!"
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"...how does a friendly cactus differ from an unfriendly cactus?" she wonders.
eclipsi
"The friendly ones have spines but unless you actually squeeze it they're unlikely to stick you. You can pet them." Isabella pets a cactus.
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She giggles and pets one, too. "Okay this is kind of adorable. So the unfriendly cacti stick more easily, I see."
eclipsi
"Yeah, and some of them have little tiny barbs that stick in your skin and you can't even tweeze them out."
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"Yeah that sounds really unfriendly. How do you get them off you if you can't tweeze them out?"