Rita tosses the empty bottle back and forth between each hand, eyeing Estelle and Yuri with a speculative stare. "Let's play spin-the-bottle," she says decisively and the room falls silent with shock, horror, and no small amount of interest. A few yards away, Karol starts choking on his chips. Rita ignores him. "Live a little, pussywillows."

Some things begin and end with love but all things begin and end with Hubert's abject mortification. The thing is, though, the cat's got to come out of the bag sometime. M for porn.

In which Hubert and Pascal are big, dumb idiots, someone gets tackled, and both of them discover that everything's best with feelings. M for sexual content.

The thing is, Estelle doesn't want to talk about it. Not with Yuri, not with Rita, she doesn't even want to think about it. Unfortunately, everything has its price and it's become so obvious that everyone, including herself, always underestimates the aftermath of trauma. GEN, set post-kidnapping but pre-Zaude.