[ As her broodmate, his approval and excitement is especially potent, it fizzles in her mind like a drug, filling her flush with an unexpected pleasure. Confused by the sensation, she looks away in a flutter, smoothing out her hair. ]
It was an interesting opportunity to push myself.
[ A completely novel experience to try with little chance of negative recourse, especially with Sam there to keep an eye on things. An interesting realization, that she had trusted him to protect her. When has she... ever done that in her life. She knows she had agreed to reach out to her broodmates when they had discussed it aboard the Station, but she had agreed to it because what other choice was there? She had not entirely expected to enact it. Yet here they are. ]
It helped, that you were there.
[ Because she was not afraid of being embarrassed or booed, she was afraid of being attacked. Irrational, something that the vast majority in this pretty world wouldn't understand. They had a world with social contracts, with order. Even here in the subspace. ]
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It was an interesting opportunity to push myself.
[ A completely novel experience to try with little chance of negative recourse, especially with Sam there to keep an eye on things. An interesting realization, that she had trusted him to protect her. When has she... ever done that in her life. She knows she had agreed to reach out to her broodmates when they had discussed it aboard the Station, but she had agreed to it because what other choice was there? She had not entirely expected to enact it. Yet here they are. ]
It helped, that you were there.
[ Because she was not afraid of being embarrassed or booed, she was afraid of being attacked. Irrational, something that the vast majority in this pretty world wouldn't understand. They had a world with social contracts, with order. Even here in the subspace. ]