STARLET
"So," Mai asks at the campfire, "why did you give up on your dreams of stardom?"
Ty Lee stares into the flames and enjoys the way they sting her eyes even from a distance. She shrugs at first, because words don't come easy to her.
"I was in the circus doing circus stuff, right?" Ty Lee replies and Mai nods. "Well, when I was up there doing a routine that they called me the gem of the circus, the star of our show, that pretty starlet there for, I could only look at her."
"Because she was probably going to kill you?" Mai suggests.
"No," Ty Lee says, gently shaking her head. "Because she was really the star in that room. She was blinding but, like, impossible to stop looking at."
Mai contemplates it for a moment before offering her most lackadaisical shrug.
"And you want a piece of that?" Mai doesn't realize how sexual that sounded until it is too late. But Ty Lee offers a seductive smirk.
"In more ways than oneā¦"
