Yay~

Is he done after that? She is vaguely aware that Elves aren't and Maiar definitely aren't either, but orcs usually are and she is not sure which one he is more like.

Well wanting anything else would require him to have thoughts, and he doesn't have those right now, so.

Wow that's very quiet. Did she break him.

He is comfy is what he is. This is the state known as nirvana.

...He was trying for something. And partway through he got distracted... what was it...

Does it help him remember if she nudges her head against his hand?

...You're right, that's what it was. He idly runs his fingers through her hair.

"I should go in with a plan next time," he says thoughtfully.

"Hmmmmmmmmmmmm if you say so," she croons, snuggling up.

"I usually have a goal I'm trying to achieve when I walk in, and then I pay attention to... to metrics, and responses, and... you know, if you had been my patient this would have been highly unprofessional, I didn't write anything down and then I stopped paying attention entirely and forgot it all. This is why you're supposed to wait to have sex until after there's nothing left to chart." There is nobody else in the world with this model of professional conduct and it's a faintly ridiculous one but if you don't hold yourself to some kind of standard then what good are you. (He doesn't actually seem distressed about any of this. Closer to amused. She isn't actually his patient, even if he does want to experiment with her.)

(Speaking of experimenting. What if he just keeps petting her hair.)

If he keeps petting her hair she will continue to be snuggly and giggly and pleased and squirmy! "I've never tried being a patient... mmmmmmm..."

"Do you have something like that where you're from?" Lovely girl. Pet pet pet.

He mentally wanders through what he means here. It's nonstandard usage, usually a patient is someone who's sick or injured or so on (vague concept of medical treatment). What he does is more elective. In another industry he'd instead say client but in this one a client is a separate person in the process, the people he treats aren't the ones who make decisions about that treatment.

When he meets them they're generally somewhere on the scale from confused or stressed to loudly struggling. Usually he can fix that pretty quickly, but it's unpleasant and inefficient and he's been thinking about how to speed that up. Once they're cooperative he can start testing things (this is where the electrodes come in) and making more significant changes, which is the fun part. He's relatively new so he mostly gets the standard wireheading cases: no higher thought, no fear, no stress, submissive and suggestible and eager to please, few to no memories of their prior life. (Sex isn't standard procedure but it usually happens deep into that last part.) He's had two more complicated ones so far and he liked them, he's hoping to get more. They also make him nervous, though, they're so easy to get wrong and it's possible nobody would notice and any problems he introduced would never get fixed.

He's excited to get more practice with customization in a lower stakes environment. And with people who want to be there, even.

"Oh, I guess a little bit. I know a couple of magic songs? But they don't really last, or, not the ones that poke people's minds instead of doing healing or something... I guess the people back home do all that kind of thing with oaths."

"Oaths?" His main association is the Hippocratic, which doesn't make much sense here. 

"Huh! You don't have them, I guess."

"We don't have anything magic that I know of. I don't have very high clearance, though." She can do magic, then? Cool.

"Yeah I can do magic. I might sing the baby to sleep sometimes and if you don't cover your ears you will go to sleep too."

"If it's a reasonable sleep hour I might even appreciate it!"

He has things to unpack and he'd like some food and they probably have places to be but he doesn't want to get up and pursue his goals, he wants to give his roommate headscritches.

They're goooooood headscritches.

He's going to try a more methodical approach this time, since he is for the time being distraction-free.

...Not necessarily a slower one.

Her haircut is... "eclectic" would be polite, it's got some very short parts and some bits that are past her shoulders. The latter get pleaseder noises, but she will still definitely react to the former being scritched, breath catching and some involuntary twitching.

(An undercut or a fade would be a nicer-looking way to achieve that effect, if she wants to keep it at all. You can go through a decent number of hairstyles in a year.) He tries out different ways of playing with the longer bits, twirling and yanking and running his fingers through.

Fingers run through is definitely her favorite; twirling is also pretty good; yanking gets a response more like handling the short parts.

She can have several more variations on gentle ways to play with her hair. In general he's going to keep picking the nicer option until he finds a local maximum.

Yaaaaay what a nice boy snuggly naked orf squirms for the nice boy.

Someday he'll be the kind of person who immediately gets pulled back into a sex haze by squirmy naked girls and he'll enjoy being that person quite a lot but it is in many ways convenient that he currently has a hard-to-circumvent cooldown. It gives him the upper hand.

If he keeps her at that maximum long enough will it push her over the edge?