Siuan rolled over in satisfaction.
'You could write this encounter in your next book.'
'And you want to be in the next book?' Teased Moiraine.
'Only if I get five chapters of great sex. Otherwise forget it.'
'You drive a hard bargain.'
'If we do some more research in my bed, it should be easy to write me in. Which character from this book would be me?'
Siuan traced her finger round Moiraine's navel while she considered it.
'It would have to be the cruise ship nurse. That's the only character I could use that could work.'
'I always fancied being a naughty nurse. I don't have the temperament for it though.'
'If I write you into the next book, you'd have to do something for me.'
Siuan smiled lasciviously. She liked Moiraine's confidence in the bedroom. She knew what she'd start with…
'You'll take a riding lesson with me.'
Siuan's smile vanished.
'Fuck no, if you make me go near a horse you aren't getting one single screw out of me.'
She looked so offended that Moiraine started laughing. She hadn't done that in a while. She felt light-hearted. Siuan seemed to have that effect on her.
'I had to ask just in case.'
'No. I cannot share your affection for those buggers.'
'Horses are wonderful. I love that they are strong and majestic but a little bit childlike. It's good to soothe them. I like looking after them. When I ride a horse, I feel free. Light as air, soaring into the sky. When I'm riding in the sun, I feel like I photosynthesize.'
She stopped talking, knowing how stupid it sounded. Siuan didn't laugh at her, just carried on tracing her fingertips around the birthmark on her thigh. Moiraine would like to think that it was shaped like an actual object or animal but it just looked like a splodge.
'Well seeing as you barely eat, I could well believe that you feed off the sun's rays.'
Siuan got a gentle shove for that. She didn't tell Moiraine that she was already planning on a simple menu for the next time she knocked on her door. Something to appeal to Moiraine's frugal nature. Challenge accepted.
'Perhaps the next chapter?'
Moiraine stole a look at the time.
'Oh, I've got to go!'
She rolled over and sat up. She stayed there uncertainly. She didn't want to go, her mind was too full of Siuan.
'Message me when you're next coming over. With your strap-on.'
Moiraine looked at her.
'How did you know I had one?'
Siuan snorted.
'After reading your books, of course you have one. I'm dying to try one. In every way possible. I have everything else we need in a box under the bed. I'll show you my toy box next time.'
'I'll be busy with lessons until evenings' worried Moiraine.
'Maybe I'll come and pick you up. Watch you and your legs and your bum in those tight jodhpurs. A little light entertainment until I drive you back to mine and we can save water, take a bath together.'
Siuan had indeed noticed Moiraine's figure. She thought she might, maybe go back to the farm to observe it a bit more. She propped her chin on her hand and whispered 'if you can wait until bank holiday weekend, we can spend three days in bed.'
Moiraine smiled ever so slowly.
'What was that you said last time, about a washing machine?'
