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[sunmon]

in the spirit of mystery
who exactly is it you think you're talking to, kate?

[brandingissues]

Gwen, right?

[sunmon]

unfortunately not

[brandingissues]

oh no.
ooooh no.
noooo.

okay one (1) this city is bullshit because do you know how often I try to send a stupid message on this stupid thing and it actually goes to the right person? I'm going to guess at this point like a solid 50% of the time - that's a terrible ratio when it comes to a communication device.

also two.

sorry. that was.
kind of not the best way to introduce myself.

also sorry if you've ever tried to get a quota partner by asking them how often they like to be choked. You do you, that's what I say.

[that is literally not what she just said, but they're going to roll with it, here]

[sunmon]

quota partner?

[ somehow, alina has never used that term in all her time here. admittedly, her engagement with the concept is unusual. her first attempt at a quota partner quickly became her crush and then boyfriend. everything else, the darkling aside, has been too casual to call 'partner.' ]

[brandingissues]

yeah.
Like, you know.
Someone you don't really have romantic designs on, but we've got to get to our certain amount of bumping and grinding so it's like a friend that you

you know

quota with.

[sunmon]

if you like them enough to be friends with them and to quota with them consistently, why isn't it romantic?

[brandingissues]

well.
I mean.
there's different types of attachment right? or maybe they're tangled up in somebody else. Or they've got a whole complicated thing with someone they actually are trying to make a partnership with but they're not ready to get to the romance stage.

but the city says we have to do some stuff, so it loses some of the whole--connection piece.
Well okay.
not connection, I guess, but the like 'i'm saving this activity for the person I love' kind of thing that comes with sex, right?

[sunmon]

yeah
that last part was really hard for me when i first got here.
i have a boyfriend back home.
had?
it was complicated even before i got here but i think for a while i still wanted to protect that somehow.

[brandingissues]

yeah. exactly.
I didn't have a boyfriend.
Or a girlfriend.
but like.
it used to mean something, right? Like--if you chose to do it with someone. But here it's like a handshake or a hug. Hey, I just met you, let me put my tongue in your mouth. Hey, you're new, I'm new, let's talk about fisting.

It's a lot.

[sunmon]

is fisting what it sounds like

[brandingissues]

Uh.
If what it sounds like is a whole fist
in
I mean
inside of someone else
then
yes.

[sunmon]

i get the feeling you've had a worse introduction to the city than i did.

[brandingissues]

What??
Oh.
No.
I haven't.
Nobody's--
not to me, at least, I think people have somewhere at some time. I mean it happens, I guess, but it hasn't happened to me.

[sunmon]

but you found out about it somehow

[brandingissues]

[andddd is this the time to bring up to a stranger you accidentally texted about fisting that like maybe sometimes you've seen porn?]
Yeah, I mean like you don't have to have personal experience to know things.
There are books.

[sunmon]

you read books about fisting?

[brandingissues]

What? No!

[sunmon]

then the question remains

[brandingissues]

okay, okay.
okay.
maybe.
(hypothetically)
I potentially watched some porn about it.

[sunmon]

and?

[brandingissues]

It--

seemed compelling.

[sunmon]

really?

[brandingissues]

Yeah, I mean.
There's a whole
Endurance
part
Right?
And I mean, the lady I saw definitely seemed like she was, ah, enjoying herself.

But you know it's something you have to kind of
work for.

[this is a weird conversation, right? This should be considered a weird conversation. Dystopia sex hellscape has broken her. Kate hasn't even met this person properly and here she is just casually talking about how maybe she finds fisting an interesting goal sometime.

How is this her life?]

[sunmon]

wouldn't the work part be
i don't know
permanently unsexy