Rogue Huntsman

Eggs

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Arex didn't get back into the dorm room until late that night, spending most of her time asking GHOST as many questions as she could think of.

So it wasn't surprising to see her still asleep next to Kitsuki when the fox woke up from her own long night of rest.

Her first actions were to check her own bruises, golden-orange eyes scanning down over her body as she lifted her shirt up to peek around her torso. Lithe, bare legs folded beneath her as she sat up, tails brushing softly back and forth against the bedsheets.

Creamy pale skin was still bruised, but the discolorations were significantly less swollen now and weren't quite as dark as they were last night.

Which was a good thing.

Two white fox ears flicked up in relief and elation to the mending sight before the girl's marigold gaze flicked over to her partner beside her, Arex still fast asleep.

The phoenix had her scroll clutched loosely against her chest, most of the device having slipped out against the bed by now as she rested on her side. Kit's eyes flicked down over Arex's curled legs for a moment before crawling over, resting herself back down to lie in front of Arex's sleeping face to wait for a little while.

She looked tired, so she didn't want to nudge her awake or anything. But she hadn't really woken up to Arex still being asleep before, so… it was almost too much of a novel sight to see Arex as peaceful and relaxed as this.

A few minutes passed before Kit's sleepy eyes flicked down for a moment to focus her attention on Arex's breathing chest, wondering just how much longer the girl was going to stay asleep into the morning.

Their classes weren't until nine, thankfully, so the two girls still had time to do away with.

Kit was happy to spend that time doing this.

She couldn't help but let her mind happily admit to being in agreement with what Anoel told her the first time she met Arex.

She looked cute when she slept.

The kitsune found herself inching forward as the minutes were ticking by, her gaze of interest slowly draining of its dreariness and growing more attentive to every small thing Arex did in her sleep.

She was tempted to nuzzle her nose with her own, but she didn't want to risk waking Arex up before actually waking up on her own.

So she settled with just lightly resting her hands against the sheets between them to wait around for the inevitable moment Arex opened her eyes.

She always liked seeing them change color.

But a small bleeping sound suddenly emanated from Arex's scroll, Kit's eyes going wide for a moment as her ears flicked to the new noise.

Bright eyes paid careful attention to the short vibration and small, concealed light flashing from behind Arex's lightly clasped hand, tails twisting a bit behind her in worry that she'd caused that.

Was it an alarm?

The bleeping and soft vibrations didn't stop, and Kit was starting to get worried that it'd wake Arex up. The phoenix was already shifting a bit in her sleep as the kitsune reached a careful hand forward to slip the closed black scroll out of her partner's lax fingers.

With a quick glance back to the girl to make sure she was still asleep, she quickly rolled over a bit to create a little distance, staring down at the device for just a short second before taking her pillow and muffling it, hoping that'd shut it up.

Kit's ears were only getting more and more folded against her head as everything only seemed to get worse. The sound only grew louder beneath the pillow, the vibrations intensifying even further as well while the kitsune tried her best to stifle it.

The pillow method didn't work… so she tried the next best thing and quickly swiped it out and stuffed it into the blanket they had on the bed.

She quickly wrapped it up as best as she could to stop all noises from getting out and lessen how far the vibrations carried, but her ears only flattened further as the levels still only rose.

A new vibration suddenly startled Kit from Arex's side of the bed, marigold eyes quickly flicking past Arex to the blue scroll on the nightstand.

The device over there started vibrating and flashing too, her ears and face visibly wincing from how loud it was on the hard wooden surface.

A small growl of annoyance silently slipped out of Kit's lips as she left the bundled up scroll on the bed and quickly reached over Arex to snag the other scroll from the wooden nightstand. With a quick thought and no regard for whose scroll it was in her hand, the simple thought of it not being Arex's led her to doing the next best thing with this one.

Tossing it across the room.

Panicked eyes watched it bounce and slide across the carpet, coming to a vibrating halt to continue its annoying ministrations from the other side of the quiet dorm room.

She only pouted at that.

Nothing seemed to be working.

And the bundle of blanket she'd wrapped around the first one suddenly came undone somehow and Arex's scroll started playing music.

A 'REALLY?!' look furrowed Kit's brow as her eyes glared down at the stupid devices, her pout only getting stronger as they kept getting louder.

It wasn't until she started to hear and feel Arex shifting on the bed that her attention diverted.

Tails suddenly went rigid as Kit's back went stiff, ears folding in an almost guilty and ashamed way as she glanced back to see her partner yawning quietly against her pillow.

Kit's gaze immediately softened at the cute sight, but just as quickly grew confused as the alarms blaring in the room suddenly grew quieter.

The kitsune turned herself around to sit back on her heels and face Arex as the phoenix slowly pushed herself up with her arms, eyes slowly fluttering open after blinking a few bleary times.

Disheveled ebony locks fell over Arex's shoulder, her sweater's wide neck hole shifting as she pushed herself up to fall loosely over her opposite shoulder as well, Kit's eyes tracing all of the pale skin it revealed.

"W-what's with the alarms?" Arex asked quietly, rubbing her eyes a few times to try to get the sleep out of them.

Something that led into Arex stretching her arms over her head to pull at her arching back, sighing in contentment at the relaxing feeling to follow as she dropped her hands back to her sides and gazed tiredly at Kitsuki.

Kit couldn't help but give a meek little guilty smile as she shrunk a little on her bed, tails curling around her waist to hide her partially away.

The scroll Kitsuki had thrown suddenly opened of its own accord before the four corners flipped outward, glass lenses springing to life to emit a sky blue light. A young woman suddenly appeared above the surface of the device's screen, immediately confusing Kit even more.

Why was there a small person in that scroll?

"Your partner set the alarms in anticipation of the classes you both have yet to attend. Weather is currently sunny with a slight chance of clouds. Overall, a nice day awaits you."

Despite Kit's confusion, a look of offense quickly made its way to her face as she quickly signed in retaliation to it.

"I didn't do it! They all just started making noise and I was trying to stop them…" Her shoulders shrunk even more as her pout got stronger.

The small woman was lying.

"Your partner lies, she was excited to see you awake once more and ready for the day," the woman responded evenly, flashing a small smile.

Arex's own eyes watched as Kit shrunk even further and threw her pillow at GHOST's hologram, the fluffy object just passing through as the AI happily built a bunker around herself to 'defend' against the attack.

"You missed me."

Kit silently growled as she looked around for more ammunition, her tails uncoiling to sift around aggressively behind her as she crawled over to Arex's pillow instead.

The phoenix could only stare tiredly for a few long moments, watching the two interact before most of the sleep in her eyes vanished in a single moment.

"Wait…" She quietly muttered to herself, part of her recognizing the fact that Kit had just lobbed her pillow across the room too to pass through GHOST's defenses once again.

Arex's own gaze grew both concerned and confused as she flicked her eyes to GHOST's teasing form and stared at her.

"W-what are you doing?" Arex asked. What was the point of swearing secrecy if she was just going to pop up on her own?

"Winding her up, finding entertainment in her attempts to throw inanimate objects at a hologram, why?" GHOST replied, tilting her head as the scroll she was standing on still rested on the floor across the room.

Now next to two toppled pillows.

Arex's included.

"I-I thought she wasn't supposed to know about you…" Arex muttered, catching Kit's attention for the moment as the kitsune glanced back to her.

"Actually, I said you couldn't tell anyone," GHOST clarified, "because I wanted to do it."

Arex's eyes widened for a moment in disbelief as Kit's own flicked back and forth between the two, her irritation still there but quietly simmering away in favor of building confusion.

She then pointed to GHOST for a moment, silently asking Arex who that was… but she was also stating one very firm message with her eyes.

"Yes, yes, I know she started it," Arex replied calmly to her partner, the phoenix still getting over what GHOST did as she quietly shook her head in her hands, "That's… GHOST. An AI that's… going to be helping me for a while."

"Hello."

The simple greeting caused one of Kit's ears to flick again in annoyance, the kitsune crawling slightly closer to Arex as she sent a cautious gaze to GHOST.

Though… it was easy to mistake it for a protective glare.

"Define "help"." Kit signed, sitting back onto her heels once she was close to her partner.

"Just with tech stuff… among other things," Arex admitted, reaching a stray hand up to pet between Kit's ears for a moment as she slid her folded legs out from beneath the blanket.

"Arex, you have a delivery, it's sat by the door," GHOST stated, pointing toward the entrance to their dorm.

"I do?" Arex questioned in return, turning her gaze toward their dorm's entrance while her off-hand subconsciously started scratching the bases of Kit's ears with a practiced ease.

Something that only slightly got the kitsune to relax, if her purring was anything to go by.

Arex eventually slipped herself from the warmth of the bed to pad across the room, Kit's ears drooping in sudden jealous abandonment as the phoenix opened their door and gazed down at the hallway floor.

"You're welcome," GHOST spoke almost proudly as she smiled from her position on the carpet.

Staring down, Arex crouched for a moment to pick up a small, felt box, standing up to step back into the room.

It almost looked like a hinged container for jewelry, like something for a wedding ring.

Before Kit could get any more jealous than she already was, Arex lifted the lid and opened the box, eyes widening at what rested comfortably inside.

"Y-you ordered one of these that quickly?!" she asked, pulling out a small, black, disc-like holographic projector.*

"You said you didn't have one, and since you can't keep that scroll, it made sense to get one as soon as possible," GHOST replied, her avatar immediately jumping to the black disc in the phoenix's hands.

The sudden switch caused Arex to flinch her head back for a moment, her fingers having been lightly tracing the disc's clean edges.

She did say that, but she wasn't expecting GHOST to order one for her…

"Thanks, I guess…" Arex's eyes glanced down for a moment before quickly turning back to GHOST, "How much did it cost?"

"Oh, you don't need to worry about that. It's on the house," the AI responded dismissively.

Arex's gaze only narrowed a bit, unsure about even accepting that.

She'd never liked being given anything so freely.

"N-not even a little repayment?"

"Nope," the AI answered, shaking her head, "I made the purchase myself. It's more convenient for both of us."

Arex blew a small breath of air at her stray strands of hair to give the AI another unsure gaze, "Still, it was probably expensive…"

"You act as if it's an issue, I assure you it isn't. Not everyone owns a purpose-built scroll with holographic projectors, after all."

Not everyone did because of how much lien it costed to buy… But Arex forced herself to let out a resigned sigh, glancing to GHOST one more time before carefully holding the disc in her hand and making her way back over to the bed.

She gently rested the projector down onto her nightstand for the time being, setting the box down next to it before glancing to Kit, who'd been staying quiet for the time being.

"You're awfully quiet this morning," Arex spoke lightly, the irony in her words not apparent to her in the slightest, "Scroll?"

Kit's ears folded again before reaching to where Arex's black scroll rested on the bed, plucking it up from where it lay on the sheets to crawl it over to Arex and hand it to her.

With a quick glance, Arex checked the time and sighed again, glancing between the two for a few short moments, "We have class in an hour, and I was in the forge room for most of the night, so I'm going to grab a shower."

She snapped her scroll closed before letting her gaze fall on GHOST.

"Was that why you were setting off alarms?"

"Being late would be bad etiquette, Miss Arex."

"Yeah… but Professor Caza's class never starts on time anyway," Arex sighed, holding her closed scroll down at her side as she glanced to her dresser, "I won't be long, Kit. If you need a shower too."

"I am well aware of Miss Miralla's "irritating" tendencies to show up late to class under the influence of alcohol. Ray's diagnostics always spike when she does, but it is still good conduct to arrive on time to the class's scheduled meeting time," GHOST spoke up, turning her small head to see Arex walk off to her dresser.

The phoenix pulled out a quick change of clothes before glancing to Kit on the bed, finding her staring at GHOST for a long few moments before turning her way.

"I'll grab one after you. Take your time."

"Would it not be more efficient to just take one together and conserve both water and prep time?" GHOST asked.

The casual tone GHOST used when asking that brought a startled look to Arex's face, the girl wanting to respond quickly to it but only sputtering out a meek jumble of words.

"It would, but Arex would turn into a tomato." Kit signed instead, glancing her gaze back to GHOST for a moment before turning to see Arex's reddening cheeks. "See?"

"I see," GHOST simply replied, her avatar briefly flashing.

"It's really cute, but I don't know if she would faint or not." Kit's signs were only making it worse for Arex as the kitsune blatantly avoided saying anything about her own thoughts of showering with the girl.

She wouldn't mind it.

Not at all.

With an almost urgent step, Arex quickly hid her lower face into the bunch of clothes resting in her hands, cheeks a bright red as she swiftly crossed the room and headed for the bathroom.

D-did Kit really have to say that?!

"I guess it's a matter of personal preference, though as an AI, the taboo surrounding nudity doesn't really apply to me."

That brought a small quirk to Kit's delicate brow as the bathroom door slammed shut across the room, the kitsune glancing back to GHOST after hearing a quiet squeal emanate from behind the closed door.

"Then why do you still generate yourself clothes?"

"Because I like this avatar."

"It is… nice, I guess." Kit replied, somehow putting emphasis on one of her words with a slight added facial expression. She couldn't help but move to poke at GHOST's small cheek, though.

"I hope you understand how a hologram works soon…" GHOST said in response, glancing toward Kit's finger as it passed through her face.

"I've never really seen a hologram before." Kit signed simply, the sounds of the shower starting up coming from the bathroom now as she withdrew her hand back to her side.

"I can tell," GHOST replied, "your curiosity is noticeable."

Kit gave a silent affirmative hum as she nodded, flicking one of her ears, "Why are you helping Arex?"

"I was told to by my superiors, however, through extended direct exposure, it appears that she needs it more than they realized," GHOST replied, looking Kitsuki in the eyes.

"How come?"

"Her mannerisms and behavior exhibit that of someone who is consistently paranoid and fearful of something happening," GHOST replied curtly, "so it would seem that for the time being, securing her valuable files may or may not improve her mental health."

Kit lightly smiled at that, hoping it would help Arex too, but she wasn't sure if GHOST was picking up what else was startlingly noticeable about the girl, "Are you helping with her social anxiety too?"

"I was assigned to protect her from cyber attacks, but if doing so assists in her anxiety, I'll consider it a bonus."

"You make your own decisions though. You don't seem like you always follow assignments to the letter."

"You're right, I don't. But as for helping her anxiety, further experimentation is required to determine whether I am capable of helping her in that regard," GHOST smiled as she spoke, "I was not designed with that purpose in mind."

Kit seemed to hum for a few moments before smiling again in return, "Can I help? I've already been trying to do it myself since I met her."

"You want my advice?" GHOST asked, dropping her smile as she pointed toward her chest, "Keep going."

Kit's smile only grew as she happily nodded to that, "Will do."

With soft music beginning to play from the bathroom and the sound of the water pelting the shower floor, Kit turned her gaze back to the bathroom door for a moment before looking down and wondering if she should grab her clothes ahead of time.

"You don't seem artificial…" Kit signed, sliding off the bed to move her own short form over to the dresser she shared with Arex, "I like that."

"I appreciate your honesty, Miss Aeolus," GHOST nodded with a smile.

The kitsune soon returned with her own change of clothes, letting her tails brush back and forth behind her pale legs before she climbed back onto the bed and settled down again.

"Are you why Arex left the room in such a hurry last night?" Kit asked.

GHOST shook her head, "No, that was because someone was hacking her, but from what I understand, you were supposed to be asleep."

"I'm a light sleeper." Kit signed simply, but her ears immediately folded for a moment as she looked worried, "She got hacked again?"

"On a completely unrelated note, an anonymous cybercriminal was arrested this morning for possessing sensitive government secrets," GHOST replied lightly, smiling at the kitsune.

"Completely unrelated?" Kit asked, finding it a little skeptical to hear, "Did they somehow break a leg too?"

"Potentially."

Kit couldn't help but smile at that, "Good."

With the first batch of eggs suspiciously nowhere to be seen anymore, the satisfying sound of eggs cooking on Anoel's self-heated frying pan began to finally sizzle out into the room as the info-broker paid careful attention to everything she was doing.

Every minute little detail.

For a task her sister made look startlingly simple, this was a complicated series of maneuvers, steps, and techniques that Anoel, quite simply…

Sucked at.

But she digressed, the first omelet actually looking delectable for once as she turned a quick glance back to Ly, whose eyes were amusedly staring somewhere far lower than the stovetop itself.

"Eyes up here, Ly. I'm making you breakfast," Ano spoke out lightly, shifting her weight to her other bare leg as her only article of clothing swayed just a little bit.

Her shirt.

"Well, if you're putting yourself in plain view like that, I'm only going to take it as an open invitation," the blonde replied, her eyes finally meeting Ano's.

"Well, as much as I love it when you stare at where I keep my eggs, I need your input on what you want in your omelet," Anoel replied cheekily, considering throwing on her panties still lying on the floor in the bathroom.

"Ham and onions would be nice, though I'm pretty sure you can just throw whatever in there and it'll still taste decent," she replied, tilting her hair slightly.

"Love, there is a very minuscule chance that these eggs will be the best eggs you have ever eaten," Anoel replied curtly, filling the omelet with the two options Ly picked out with a light spring in her bare step, "But there's also a very high chance that I'll mess this up… like always…"

Ly rested her arms against the breakfast bar, eyeing Ano carefully, "Have you ever considered not manually heating the pan yourself? I have a stove for a reason, you know, it'll control the heat for you."

"I have, but I don't want to waste your Dust," the phoenix replied, sticking her pink tongue out of the corner of her mouth as she looked down at the omelet, prodding it with a spatula, "It's taking a while…"

Ly laughed a little, "One: I wouldn't have bought a 47.5 mil apartment if I couldn't afford to run it, and two: don't you dare rush my omelet, you have to be patient."

Anoel pouted with a little whine, "But all it would take is just a little more heat. And I'm already wasting your eggs, the first batch anyway, Dust on top of that would only make me feel worse."

"That little more heat would mean a trip to the store and a walk of shame for you, sweetheart," Ly countered, "you're so impatient."

"I'm patient," Anoel returned with a whine, leaning away from the pan and just letting it cook, "Just… this feels so slooow."

"The time you become patient will coincide with the day I grow a second head, would you like me to take over?"

"N-no," the info-broker responded with a frown, "I can do this. I didn't practice for a quarter of a year for nothing."

The thief before her curled her gentle fingers over her mouth, partially concealing her smirk, "Then I'll just sit here and watch as your concentration amuses me."

Anoel distractedly hummed in reply to that as she swayed her hips back and forth, the woman impatiently shifting her weight between her legs before she finally deemed it ready to fold the omelet.

And with an admittedly satisfied and completely unconcealed squeal of delight, the fluffy omelet actually had that golden texture her sister always told her to aim for.

"First try!"

"Liar."

"Okay, second try."

Ly hummed bemusedly as she rested her cheek back into her palm, "Still lying."

"T-thousandth try?"

"I didn't have that many eggs, but getting better," Ly's eyes watched Anoel's prideful expression with a soft gaze, "Now Little-Ano can teach you how to make a bacon sandwich."

"Hey, Arex is a good teacher. I just suck at this," Anoel replied curtly, smiling in delight as she took the pan up into her grasp and slid the first omelet onto the nearest plate.

With a satisfied grin, the phoenix took the serving up into her light grasp as she placed the pan back onto the stove, moving to slide the meal in front of Ly.

"Sorry for the wait, but hopefully it's good?"

Ly slowly pinched a fork between her thumb and index finger, keeping her eyes on Anoel as she cut a piece of the omelet and stabbed it, "Time to find out."

She placed the fork in her mouth and with a thoughtful hum, her lips curled into a small smile as she delicately chewed.

Anoel just rested her head in her arms with her weight shifted to just one of her legs, the other bent and crossed behind her ankle as she waited for the final verdict.

Observant eyes eventually watched the corners of Ly's lips quirk up slightly as the thief finished her bite, "It's… tolerable. Seems your sister is a good teacher."

"YUS!" Anoel all but squealed and jumped, "Better than I expected! And yes, yes she is."

"Soon you'll be able to feed yourself."

"E-erm, I wouldn't go that far," Anoel replied, but her smile remained.

With a quick pivot and a fan of her hair, she cracked the next batch of eggs into the frying pan to start her own omelet up.

A noticeable bounce rested in the phoenix's step as she moved about, which was something Ly's eyes happily glued to as she ate her meal.

"Breakfast and a show? Must be Christmas morning and no one told me."

"Oh you can count on me making our Christmas morning something to remember," Anoel spoke with a light flutter in her voice, if not a heavy lace of a silkily seductive tone.

"Considering my decision to remain here might be permanent, that'll be certainly something to look forward to," Ly responded evenly, "I'm cooking the dinner though."

Anoel gasped as she threw a glance over her shoulder and stared at Ly for a long few moments, "You're planning to stay in Vale?"

She wasn't at all bothered by the secondary comment…

"Been thinking about it…" she replied as her eyes scanned the apartment, "I like this place, and if I've taken the effort to decorate it, I might as well make it home too."

"I think you'll like it," Anoel stated happily, "There's a lot to like, even people like me who dance around the city's underground."

"Of course, I'd need a real job… you and I both know that this city would run out of valuable items if I stayed the course," the thief's smile widened, "that said, I've had something in mind for a little while now..."

"Ly? Getting a real job?" Anoel gasped again in mock disbelief, stealing a quick glance to her omelet before letting her ears hone in on Ly behind her, "What did you have in mind?"

"Look around you, I have gold bars and gems to fill an entire bank vault. So, I asked myself a question..." Ly paused for a moment, "why would I sell them for what they are when I can make something else out of them instead? So… I decided that I wanted to learn how to make jewelry."

"Awe, setting your sights on something reliable," Anoel hummed in endearment, "That's adorable. But I think you can make some gorgeous jewelry, you already have a keen eye for it."

"I hope so, but I'm not good with technical stuff, that's Ray's domain…" the thief admitted, continuing to eat her omelet.

"But you are extraordinarily good with the delicate stuff, especially with gems," Anoel countered, giving a light hum as she folded her own omelet, her collection of diced onions, tomatoes, and cheddar heatedly nestled just inside.

"True, I'll have to buy some kind of furnace or something, to be able to melt the gold and silver littering my floor and shelves," Ly replied thoughtfully.

"Furnaces don't run cheap, but I doubt that's a problem for you. If you're in need of someone who's already done extensive research into that…" Anoel looked up with a thoughtful smile before glancing back to Ly, "Arex might be of some help."

Ly's eyes suddenly had a shine to them as she looked back up toward Ano, "Is that you giving me permission to meet her?"

"Nothing I can do to stop your cousin from doing just that, so you might as well pop in and say hi. Don't tease her too much, she already gets a lot of that from me," Anoel replied with an earnest smile, slipping her hot omelet onto her own plate, "I think you'll like her."

"My cousin does whatever he wants when he wants, so that's hardly surprising, but if you think for a minute that I'm about to step foot on Beacon grounds, then you're sorely mistaken, Ano," Ly replied with a small grin, "she's got to come to me."

"I'll swing her by your apartment at some time soon then," Anoel said, resting the hot pan back onto the warm stove before snagging her plate and making her way over to Ly, "Might be fun if I have you babysit her for a bit."

"How long is 'soon' and what do you mean by a 'bit'? You understand that you can literally go and snatch her today and I wouldn't care," Ly spared a moment to glance down to her lack of clothing, "I think I'd have to get dressed first though…"

"Don't know, maybe not today… How does tomorrow sound?" Anoel asked, keeping her voice light but holding back a momentary tension in her words.

She couldn't do tonight…

"It'll be hard to separate her from her adorable partner, so I might just have to drop the kitsune off too once I can kitnap the both of them."

Ly glanced to Anoel with a questioning expression, "Kitnap?"

"What? One's a cute kitsune and the other's my little adorable kitten-like falcon that I just love to nuzzle and cuddle," Anoel replied with a shrug of her slender shoulder, looking as innocent as always.

"You and your puns…" Ly jokingly replied with a roll of her eyes.

"I do like indulging in my purely logical and theoretical science of probable unified neuronamation systems."

"I… have no idea what any of that means…" Ly muttered in reply.

"P…" Anoel whispered, leaning across the counter to graze her lips against Ly's ear, "u…"

With a quick nip, she couldn't help but tug lightly at the edge of the sensitive flesh she found there before breathing out hotly.

"n…" she was really hammering it in now, "s."

"I'm not sure if that was supposed to be seductive or patronizing," Ly whispered to herself with furrowed brows.

Anoel gave an amused hum as she pecked Ly's cheek and moved back, stealing the thief's fork along the way to take her own first bite of her second omelet, "A little of both. Hard to imagine I'd actually turn you on with my puns."

"Not that I know of, but knowing you, I'm 90% sure you'd find a way," Ly replied with a smirk.

"Mmm… probably," Anoel returned, smiling through her own finished bite before her gaze turned earnest, "I don't really like doing too many though. I'd hate to ruin the mood."

"One of the many things you excel at is the art of taking a person's most sexual desires and abusing them to high heaven with ease," Ly stated, "I would know, as I'm one of your victims."

Anoel smirked proudly at that as she gave another happy hum, "That's me. You make it too easy, and so does Arex."

"Are you calling me easy, Anoel?" Ly asked with a quirked eyebrow.

"I'm only saying that I can play your body like a fiddle and make all the noises I want out of you," Anoel replied with a teasing grin, "Noises I adore."

"Uh huh… of course you do," Ly responded, taking her fork back.

"You know I do," Anoel returned, swaying back and forth for a few moments as she waited to steal the fork back. No use in getting out a second one if they could just share.`

Ly sighed as she resigned to Anoel's words, "Yeah… you're right."

"Mhmm," Ano hummed, smirking even more.

So far… it seemed she was able to keep Ly's mind off of Quinn for the time being.

But that couldn't last.

Especially since Ano had to leave a few hours from now, and she had no idea how soon she'd be coming back after that.

If she could come back at all...

Figured a little calm before the storm would be nice. Anoel's got a plan that she's going to be seeing through as soon as she leaves Ly's apartment, so right now, she's enjoying as much as she can.

Arex and Kit are going to have an interesting time soon, won't spoil what though. Just that it'll be interesting.

GHOST is fun.

She's actually giving me a nice reason to show more and more of Arex's character and her interactions with Kit.

You know, to shamelessly fuel the fiery ship I have for them. Speaking of which, I have two possible placeholder names for those two now.

I have no idea if either of them will actually work though.

"White Flame" and "White Sparrow". Thoughts?

On a side note, does anyone know what "Perm Press Warm" means on a washing machine? A cute girl asked me about that in the laundry room (because college). It's abbreviated to fit on the button, so I thought I'd ask.

On another side note, is there anything you want to see from the story? I'm curious.

For now, Favorite and Follow.

I look forward to seeing REVIEWS for this. You'll be introduced to a LOT of concepts of mine. Feel free to give me your thoughts.

Cya XP