[Nexus Standalone Plot] Triangulation

[Lix Lorn]

Arianna, following them up the stairs, blinks. "Huh? Oh, well... um, you may have noticed that I... I transmit a bit of what I'm thinking when anyone touches me. It's basically impossible to turn that off, so touching doesn't happen much in Unity society, except in people who are already close, but... well... we're meant to be close. And it's... I think I like it." blush.

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My first IC infodump. Arianna. Now you can say this you are a grown up character. I am so so proud of you.

[Beans]

Nike giggles and kisses her cheek before going into a bathroom to change, respecting that her girls may not want to all change in the same room yet.

[Lady Serpentine]

Dessa nods as well, smiling, and going to squeeze her hand again.

"Alright. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't making you uncomfortable.

And I think I like feeling what you are too. Like I said before, you have a nice mind..."

With that, she goes to go into another bathroom to change, for much the same reasons as Nike; growing up in a culture where spacewalks were common, helping her friends into their suits was pretty much standard, as was everyone changing in the airlock, so she doesn't really have much in the way of a nudity taboo, but she recognizes that the others might.

[Lix Lorn]

While touching is important, the Unity place little importance on nudity, but Arianna is sensible enough to surmise that perhaps the other two do. Since the others have gone, she stays in the first place to change.

[Beans]

Nike eventually returns in a maroon bikini, one which leaves fairly little to the imagination.
She grins at Ari, waving.

[Lady Serpentine]

Dessa slips out of the room she was changing in shortly after Nike, in an ice-white bikini, which leaves fairly little to the imagination as well, especially as the silver pattern swirling through it is very slightly translucent, and smiles at the others, looking as though she looks forward to trying out swimming.

[Lix Lorn]

Arianna's outfit is less skimpy, and she smiles as they come back in, not really being subtle about her stares. Her own outfit is a one piece, white in colour, edged in blue and gold.

Nudity?

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As mentioned, isn't a thing to them. She's not staring because seeing is forbidden, but just from the aesthetic joy of looking. This is also why her outfit isn't skimpy. If she wanted to show off her body, she wouldn't be wearing anything.

[Beans]

Nike goes to put an arm around her girls and walk down to the pool with them, smiling brightly.
She giggles at Ari's unashamed stares.
Thank you for being so attentive, sweets.

[Lady Serpentine]

Dessa doesn't seem to mind Arianna's staring, looking the others over appreciatively as well.

For now, she stays quiet, slipping an arm around Nike as well, and is easily led to the pool.

[Lix Lorn]

Arianna giggles. "You're welcome!"

She puts her arm around Nike, a wave of unformed happy emanating from her mind.

[Beans]

The pool is decently-sized, with a shallow end, a deep end, and a diving board!
Nike will help Dessa into the shallow end carefully.

[Lady Serpentine]

Dessa smiles gratefully, simply standing there blissfully for a few moments, clearly glad to get some of the weight off her fragile bones and joints.

[Beans]

Nike frowns a little, noticing how fragile her spacer wife seems to be.
Well, I know one girlie who's going to be getting a lot more calcium and iron in her diet...
She keeps an arm around her.

[Lix Lorn]

Arianna slips carefully into the water. While she knows how to swim, she's not a expert.

[Lady Serpentine]

Dessa slips an arm around Nike as well, shrugging.

"Sure, but I don't know how much good it'll do... My bones never had to adapt to gravity when I was growing up, so they're pretty thin in their normal growth patterns, not necessarily because of any deficiencies; trying to build them up now might not do that much."

[Beans]

She shrugs back, holding her carefully while slowly advancing into deeper water.
Sure can't hurt to try, can it?
She goes to gently kiss her on the lips.

[Lady Serpentine]

Dessa nods, smiling a bit, and hesitantly returns the kiss, seeming fairly inexperienced; either she's simply not had much practice, or what she learned on the station doesn't apply very well in gravity.

[Lix Lorn]

Arianna watches them kissing curiously.

[Beans]

Nike is gentle and as helpful as she can be, rubbing her wife's back.
She looks over at Ari, raising an eyebrow.
You wanna help? She giggles.

[Lix Lorn]

...ALL of the blushing.

[Lady Serpentine]

Dessa giggles as well, smiling happily, and nods in agreement, motioning for Arianna to come join them.

[Beans]

Nike holds an arm out to Ari, making kissyfaces at her.

[Lix Lorn]

Arianna, VERY tentatively, takes a slow step towards them.

[Lady Serpentine]

Dessa smiles reassuringly at Arianna, doing her best to make clear with her body language that she doesn't plan to do anything the psion isn't comfortable with.

[Beans]

Nike goes to put an arm around her, pull her close gently, and kiss her cheek.
Don't worry, sweets, I don't bite.

[Lix Lorn]

She blushes, and the contact gives a veritable wave of pink blushing in her mind, along with unsurety and desire

[Lady Serpentine]

Dessa goes to take Arianna's hand, and give it a gentle squeeze, going in for a soft kiss as she does, though she leaves the augmented woman plenty of time to avoid it if she wants to.

[Beans]

Nike giggles and cuddles them close.

[Lix Lorn]

She doesn't stop her, and so shyly kisses back, red-hot blushes running through her.

[Lady Serpentine]

Dessa is unskilled, though improving reasonably fast as she figures out what works here and what doesn't, but gentle and considerate, taking things slowly for now.

Arianna might feel a few thin threads of pale green reassurance and dark blue tenderness coming from the spacer, Dessa's latent empathic abilities starting to awaken in response to all of the emotions the psion has been pouring into her, though for the moment the elongated girl is still unaware of them, and couldn't actually control them even if she were.