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Airy Miller: Dear phone, this is super lame but I have no where else private to write. ANYWAY, I met two guys today. We'll call them T and N. I know that's stupid but talking to myself via text isn't much better. Airy Miller: Dear phone, this is super lame but I have no where else private to write. ANYWAY, I met two guys today. We'll call them T and N. I know that's stupid but talking to myself via text isn't much better. Airy Miller: I don't know what I'm doing but I'm staying with them... Airy Miller: I don't know what I'm doing but I'm staying with them... Airy Miller: T is nice and he answers all my stupid questions but he's only awake at night. Airy Miller: T is nice and he answers all my stupid questions but he's only awake at night. Airy Miller: N... is really confusing me. It's a shame guys like that don't fall for girls like me. Airy Miller: N... is really confusing me. It's a shame guys like that don't fall for girls like me. Airy Miller: This is stupid I'm going to stop now. More so since T let me on his phone plan so I have the internet again. Airy Miller: This is stupid I'm going to stop now. More so since T let me on his phone plan so I have the internet again.

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[riotousjunkie]

[Cassidy's lips twitch at her kiss, like he's thinking about smiling.]

I'm maybe not up for much right now... [His arm curls a little further around her, while his other hand draws idle patterns on his knee under the water.] But I do like feelin' how warm y'are.

Maybe we take a glance outside before goin' anyplace for a while. If it's lookin' a bit misty, we head back in, build a fort, and get stoned.

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Mmmmm, [Airy hums happily as she leans against him, letting her head rest on his shoulder.] I like this too. Maybe tonight we just lay like this and tomorrow we can have crazy wild sex and get high and just enjoy it.

[She nods her head though the motion is short and restricted by the position.]

Yeah. I'd like that.

Actually, that sounds like my three top favorite things: you, pillow forts and getting stoned.

[riotousjunkie]

Those are all quality things.

[Did he just call himself a quality thing...? Yes, he did. It takes him half a second to realize she basically tricked him into complimenting himself. Now he does smile, a little.

For the first time, and out of the corner of his eye, he registers the sight of the whiskey bottle in her basket.]

Oh. I see ya brought the necessaries. [It's a touch awkward, but he twists until his free arm can pluck the bottle out of the basket. He pulls the cork out with his teeth, spits it onto the floor next to the bath, and takes the first swig before offering it to her.]

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[Airy laughs, her voice echoing through the baths as Cassidy reached for the basket. She'd brought it for both of them though she assumes that Cassidy needs it more than she does.]

Of course. It helps to have something take off the edge. [She takes a healthy swig of the bottle before shifting and leaning against him.]

Speaking of relaxing, do you think I could convince you to give me another massage?

[riotousjunkie]

Now? Sure. Just give us another taste of that, there, first.

[He reaches to take the bottle again. He's been keeping his right hand under the water for most of their conversation — she might notice, now, the damage that's been done to his knuckles. They're not actively bleeding, but the skin over them is red, scraped raw. Whatever caused this happened recently.]

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[A warm laugh escapes Airy's lips as she passes the liquor bottle over to Cassidy. She's kept her eyes on his face throughout the conversation but now she lets her gaze wander. He's pleasant to look at and handsome though Airy doesn't think that Cassidy realizes how attractive he is.

She pauses when she sees the scrape on his hand and reaches for his knuckles to take a closer look. She isn't used to seeing Cassidy injured.]

What happened?

[riotousjunkie]

[In the process of lifting the bottle to his lips, Cassidy pauses allows her to inspect his hand. Right. That. He follows through with taking that next drink before he answers.]

Must've happened out there. [In the mist, at the same time as... everything else. Cassidy sets the bottle down behind them, then examines his knuckles again.] There was this stone wall nearby where we were... thought I felt a scrape.

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[Airy lightly brushes her fingers over his knuckles. It doesn't look too bad but she can't help but worry.]

I guess it got rough?

[A hint of disappointed touched the edge of Airy's voice though she hadn't meant it too.]

[riotousjunkie]

[He assumes she's disappointed because she hadn't wanted to know the details. And he doesn't want to give them to her, so he tries to keep it vague.]

You know how she is. [He focuses on the gentle way she's holding his hand. It's a welcome contrast to the memory of his knuckles pressing and grinding against the stones.]

Should be fine in a coupla days. Not really worth goin' out of me way to heal.

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Yeah. [Airy agrees, trying to force her lips into a smile.] I know how that is. I mean, it's rough. [She swallows and tries to shake the icy feeling away by wiggling her head back and forth.]

Ah. Right. Okay.

So um... whiskey. I think I need more of it.

[She doesn't even know if Cassidy had taken a sip yet but Airy takes the bottle and tips it back. She guzzles a little more than she means too before returning the bottle back to Cassidy's hand. Her head is spinning and her stomach is burning from the liquor but its better than the uncomfortable icy feeling from before.]

[riotousjunkie]

...or maybe I'll nip down to the brothel, get one of the girls to donate a coupla drops.

[Based on that reaction, that might be the best course. See, this is why he was concerned about seeing her so soon afterwards.]

Actually — know what, I will do just that, later today. Long as it's clear skies outside.

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[Airy shakes her head and nearly falls backwards into the water.]

No. It's fine. It's not... someone said something at the party at Hysterum. It's not... [She paused and rose his hand to her lips, gently kissing his knuckles.] It's not what you think Cassidy.

Don't worry about it. Just, stay here with me. I feel better when you're near. It's just me. There is something wrong with me.

[riotousjunkie]

Wha — [Cassidy's eyebrows drop low. He's missed a step here.] Hang on, there, who was sayin' what, now? There's nothin' wrong with ya.

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[Airy really should just tell him the whole story but she isn't sure if this is the right moment. After a pause, words spill from her lips, voicing her thoughts in no particular order.]

It was this guy I met in that really weird dream thing. Stuff... happened. Like with Orc Sword. It was weird and we met again and I told him about you like we agreed and he teased me a little bit and...

Well, he asked if my boyfriend knew some of the things I liked and... it was awkward. [Airy licks her lips and begins to feel the whiskey warming her limbs and torso. She has no idea why she thought drinking that much had been a good idea.]

Just that... things are.. sometimes they leave bruises. [She gently lifts his hand while trying and say but not say what she was trying to not say.] I shouldn't have said anything about it but it has nothing to do with the mist. It's just me... liking weird stuff.

[riotousjunkie]

[Cassidy lets his hand hang loose and easy in hers — despite his sudden impulse to pull it away.

Sometimes things leave bruises. Sometimes they leave black eyes. That can't be what she's talking about.]

Are you sayin' you — you like gettin' marked up? Is that it? [It's not totally surprising. She's alluded to it before, talking about him holding the whip... it's just that in this context, it has him a bit shaken. He's got to remind himself this isn't about him.] Hickeys and all that? That's nothin' strange. Loads of people like it.

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Sort of.

[She lightly brushes her thumb against the back of his hand as she continues to piece her thoughts together.]

I mean... just a little more than that. Like what we did in the dungeon. I think being tied up is fun or maybe try other things too. I've been introduced to a lot of stuff here and I wanted to do some of it with you.

[riotousjunkie]

[Cassidy sighs. It's part a release of tension, because yeah, this really isn't about him in the way he had been thinking. The other part is a sigh of acknowledgement that it's sort of about him in a different way.]

I know. I know ya want that.

[He's had plenty of time to consider why he's being resistant to it, too.]

It's hard for me to think of it as anythin' other than hurtin' ya, but — but that's me own problem to deal with. It don't mean it's bad or weird to want those things. Hell, the bloody Fifty Shades lady proved as much. Look at those books. Bloody top sellers. Suddenly we find out every housewife in the Midwest wants a man with a dungeon.

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I never read those books.

[Airy admits with a slightly awkward smile.]

After everything that I've been through though... It's not strange that I find stuff like that... I don't know, interesting, like... it kind of gets me going thinking about it. [She isn't sure how to explain it.] And I don't know about a dungeon but maybe we start small with just rope and blindfolds or something.

Only if you want.

/almost end?

[riotousjunkie]

Rope and blindfolds; I could get behind them.

[It's easy to make that sort of bondage playful. Cassidy may not indulge in it much by default, but since she's asked... he can try it out, for her.]

Y'still want that shoulder rub? [He lowers his gaze to her neck, as if he'd be able to see the tension she's carrying three.]

/YES! END

[imaginationswoes]

Yeah. I really do.

[Airy presses a light kiss to his forehead, clearly pleased, and turns so that her back is to him. She pulls her hair over her shoulders and waits for Cassidy to drink more before pressing hsi thumbs against Airy's shoulders.]