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[If Rey hadn't met Gonta before, she would think Konoha was already big enough. She's hardly tall, but size had rarely ever mattered in her lives.

[She scoffs.]

Hey, that wasn't an insult! It's just... cute.

[Okay, that might not have been the most dignified word to use, either. But Rey has called someone cute before and she didn't mind, so! It's fine, right? Right.

[Anyway!]

Kind of want to bench press you now, to be honest. [Rey brings her hands out of her pockets to crack her knuckles into her palm. She stronk, and Konoha is smoll but also stronk. So tempting.]

[Rey's lucky that Konoha is Konoha and not a certain other small jinba that she worked for, who had completely banned the word "short" and "small" in her stunted presence. All of her huff is nothing but bluster, even the fist she rests on her hip is hardly intimidating when the only reason she goes over five feet tall is her voluminous bun.]

I certainly don't know what a "bench press" is, but if it's anything like picking me up, I warn you... I'm still quite heavy, you know! Even Doumeki-san had a little trouble after awhile!

[A man over six feet tall who was quite musculature that Rey might know as a fellow occasional farm hire... who she admits to having let carry her, she's not above that, okay! She'd had more trouble at first!

And okay, sure, Rey is like... metal-y, but. She's still going to warn her!]

[Welp! That sounded enough like a challenge that Rey wasn't about to change her mind now.]

That right?

[One minute Rey is flexing her fingers...

[The next, she's right behind Konoha when she braces her hands on either sides of the other woman's waist. Without warning or even giving her the chance to set down her basket of laundry, Konoha's very human feet are lifted up off the ground effortlessly as Rey holds her. It might not be a bench press, but it's a good warmup!

[This is someone who can lift a tank. A jinba woman in a human body ain't shit. Rey even finds herself barking a laugh.]

That's it? You can't be heavier than, what... forty kilos?

[No, Rey absolutely knows that Konoha is not 40kgs.]

[Konoha would have it known that if she was more nimble on her new legs, she'd have totally dodged that sneaky attack on her grounded-ness! Instead, she freezes up in surprise, legs slightly akimbo as she tries to awkwardly brace for being put back down, one hand gripping her basket still (she's not going to drop freshly clean laundry, however tempting it was!) while the other flies to brace herself ineffectively on one of Rey's hands.]

I- I'm at least twice that!

[Help! Send help!]

I'm supposed to be like ten times that- !

[It's obvious that Rey is teasing, but Konoha's reaction is too fun. People aren't always used to being hoisted like they're a sack of flour, and Rey loves to flex, even though she'd never admit it.]

Really? Sounds fake.

[Although she could keep holding Konoha for much longer, Rey decides to set her down. Though she's mindful not stay alert in case Konoha loses balance again. She's fallen on her own face enough times due to her snake tail to know better.]

Could probably lift your jinba body, too. Though not like that.

[Of course, Rey was built to punch holes in thick layers of metal. There's a reason why she makes the perfect resident pack mule.]

S- sounds like teasing, more like!

[She sees you flexing, Rey!!!

But thankfully she is soon returned to the ground, her legs moving a bit comically in attempt to find the perfect landing position before she remembers how it’s supposed to go... heel, sole, ball, toe.

Okay. Safe on the ground. Even though she definitely put her arm out for balance a moment like a gymnast sticking a dismount.]

M- Maybe don’t pick me up as a jinba... I don’t want to pull a muscle...

[It was entirely possible to do, yes, but done without regard to the comparative delicacy of where her long spine curved between equine and human-seeming parts, a lift without support in certain areas could occasionally prove painful. Something she had some experience with, goodness, super-powered people...

Readjusting her laundry basket, she pushes some flyaway hairs from her face and tries to rebalance, smoothing her hand over her hips and now nonexistent (existent) rear to unwrinkle her kimono.]

[Oh, it's definitely teasing... but Rey sees that Konoha has more than parsed that out for herself already.]

No worries. They say just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. Deadlifting jinba women's probably one of them.

[She pauses, glancing down at the laundry basket as if noticing it for the first time. It doesn't help that Konoha looks very distracting in that kimono. Just as Rey is now very aware of Konoha's backside.

[Right. She came here to work, didn't she? Forgot about that for a hot minute.]

...

Told you your ass isn't gone.

[Priorities.]

[“Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should” sounds like a great saying if you ask Konoha. Very smart!

Unlike Rey, who has obviously gone dumb and maybe blind? Konoha blushes as she pauses with a palm on her backside, looking over her should incredulously.]

It’s basically gone!

[Her nice, well formed and muscular rump... is now a nice, well-formed and muscular ass, but. To her, the change is far too strange. They’re perfectly fine on human women, she’s sure, but she’s not one and she is Concerned!]

[And that's the part that has Rey confused:]

Well, you had to have known what you were signing up for when you drank that tea. [Pause.] Why did you buy the tea, anyway?

[Rey has seen what selection the shop had when she purchased her own Bird Box and Revivify capsules, and had visited it from time to time as well. So she's familiar with what the upsell on those items were. She can't deny the appeal of some of them, including being able to temporarily change your appearance.

[For the sake of the conversation, she's just. Going to at least try to not stare at Konoha's... assets for too long.

[~~Ha. Haha. Assets.~~]

I didn't... !

[She's insistent on that, at least, even as she still doesn't realize she's rubbing her backside- Why would she want to be human shaped? She was perfectly happy being a jinba, thanks?]

I just stopped by a cafe near that weird shop and had a drink when I was running my errands, but after I changed in to this they said it was a "collaboration"! I just thought it was made with leaves grown in the Lystellus mountains, not- those leaves!

[This... is one of the downsides of not being fully literate. ]

[Why.

[Rey sighs, pinching the bridge of her nose (and totally not noticing that Konoha is still touching her own rump. Nope, not at all). Though Rey's pretty sure she read that that there's supposed to be some level of desire when drinking that tea, she can at least parse that Konoha didn't consciously intend to be bipedal today.]

So you didn't actually want to ever have two legs, even for a day? At all?

[While Konoha seems comfortable in her jinba skin, Rey's curious if there was some kind of hidden purpose. There are a few changes she could think of that'd make for an... interesting evening with a drink of that nature. She just tends to avoid purchasing items of status changing effects here.]

I mean, I don't want them... I'm a jinba...

[Even though in her world, it could be argued that it was easier to be a human, to be the species with the power and the numbers to dominate society and not be the one that had been enslaved not a generation past... Konoha had never really wished she'd had a different life. It seemed too ungrateful.]

I mean, of course I've been curious sometimes... I can't say I've never ever been...

[Not having been able to actually read the collaboration menu properly, Konoha had only caught words like "think" and "beautiful" and "feature"... and when it came to beautiful people that she knew and could envision (which she'd still obediently done despite not getting how that could be tea-related)...

Most all the beautiful women she knew were bipedal.]

[Interesting. Rey doesn't have the impression that Konoha actually wishes she wasn't a member of her own species, but she can relate to having a sense of curiosity about other experiences. Hell, she's still discovering new things almost every day.]

Doesn't have to be a permanent thing. It's just, you could've had a different hair color with that drink, but instead you got two legs.

[Her hand slips from between her eyes to slide down her mouth, eyeing Konoha for a moment.

[Fuck. Kimonos are really cute. Rey never thought of that before, mostly because she'd never seen them before coming here. Or most of the fashion tastes people have in this world. But it's definitely one reason she could imagine wanting to have a whole other appearance from the ones she's used to.]

Would be lying to say if I wasn't... curious about what it's like on other bodies. Well, ones that are different from my own.

[Rey's only ever been imprinted in synthetic constructs like the vessel she has now. Each of them are different in their own way, but none of them really compare to horse legs or a snake tail. Or the other crazy changes she's seen happen in this world.]

Who would want a different hair color...

[Occasionally... Konoha's 1620isms show, and her utter confusion over the point of changing your hair or eye color (fashion, honey, fashion) is just one of those moments. Without realizing her garment is being appreciated, she shifts her weight from one leg to the next, half stepping and flexing her knees to remind herself they were... there, and being bent weird. Well, weird to her.]

I mean, I grew up with more humans than jinba so I always thought I had them all figured out, but everything is totally different when it's you and not... you just watching other people... and everything feels different, too...

[Absently, she smooths down her apron a bit fussily, a bit of a blush growing on her face because of what she... may have noticed was different. Not that. It was hard to notice.]

[Shrug.] Sometimes people just want to see themselves different.

[Rey's own mid-22nd Centuryism has seen a lot of people doing crazy things to alter their appearances. Even genetic grafting to adopt new permanent eye colors and traits. Not much unlike the Prismals, really -- just that the modifications Rey has seen are usually a choice expression than a born feature.

[Hands falling to her sides, her fingers fidget against the hem of her pockets with nothing else to do at the moment. She did claim to come for work, but now she's preoccupied. How the hell did she end up this way? She's supposed to be focused and mission-driven, but she hasn't had a goal like that in a long time. Now she's just mulling over the implications of what Konoha says and her thoughts are wandering elsewhere.]

Mn, yeah, shit feels different being... half-snake, too. Can feel a lot more. [She shudders at the memory of her occasional sensory overloads.] Still, there's got to be some perks you're taking advantage of.

[Like the obvious one that's probably responsible for Konoha's blush as she messed with her kimono like that.]

[Once upon a time, Konoha had been friends with very few women, just as a consequence of being the only female jinba in her village, of working long days on a lumber yard comprised solely of men. Since coming to Lunatia she's made a few more lady friends, much to her delight... and even though lines sometimes blurred, (sometimes really blurred, like, sex toy and blood-draining and vibrators-stuck-places blurred), lady friends... it was alright to talk to them about... lady things, right?

Because the one thing Konoha was a bit worried about... is that Iris is rising and she's not. In her actual body. She's lucky enough that her body had never changed much for Iris beyond the color of her coat turning doe-y or her hooves splitting, but this? Could she do Iris as a human???]

Everything does feel a lot more... I can feel every blade of grass I step on...

[She shifts her weight again, swaying back and forth on the soles of her feet even though now she's found herself some simple sandals.]

B- But I don't know about... perks...

[She's still fussing with her apron a little, even though it definitely didn't need it, working up the courage to mutter-]

I don't think I should be around Gonta like this for Iris...

[Before, Rey never had what one would consider "lady friends" to consult with about personal matters. Always keeping to herself didn't improve her chances in having "girl talk" with anyone, other than what she eavesdropped on from time to time.

[And she was a curious little sneak.

[Usually wearing her boots almost all the time, Rey doesn't often feel the earth under her feet, either. But she could see the appeal. It isn't until Konoha mentions Iris, however, that Rey's other thoughts throw themselves out the proverbial window.]

Wait. You think you'll be stuck like this for Iris...?

[Rey doesn't know how long the tea's effects last, but knows what the moon cycle entails. She also knows that, based on what... minute details Konoha had previously shared about her husband -- more specifically, his size -- then her current form would undoubtedly restrict her from certain Iris activities.

[Now Rey is the one turning red, her eyes darting away as her other thoughts go fuzzy from just imagining the ways someone with a human body and a male jinba would go. Not very good.]

You... You know how to, um. Take care of yourself, though. Right? If you have to worry about Iris shit, that is.

I- I don't know, that's why I'm worried... !

[The moon was already rising, and it would be full in two nights... how long did this last? A day? Two days? If it was just a day maybe she'd be fine, but...]

I don't really want... Gonta to see me like this... i- in a bedroom way, I mean...

[So she's... actually not at all worried about tending to her wifely duties physically. She had a mouth, didn't she? And two hands! And... thighs! If she straddled his belly, if she rubbed up against- Okay, she's actually given it a lot of thought, but it's more to do with... what humans had done to her husband and his family that makes her reluctant to pursue their usual relations like this, even if she knew he'd probably try to ignore reluctance for her sake. But she didn't want him to have to feel it in the first place, but she got so awfully lonely down there then the purple moon was up...

And as she thinks she just blushes and stares at her new feet for a too-long moment before-]

I did um. Try to touch it.

[It.]

[So that confirms Konoha hasn't attempted to be with her husband while like this. Not yet, anyway, if she decides to change her mind. Possible.

[Rey's eyes return to Konoha as she puzzles over what she just said. Obviously, it's not as if she's never seen what a female human (or humanoid) body looks and feels like. Rey is all too conscious of her throat going dry, remembering that as a fact all too well. Gonta should be even more familiar with his own wife's bedroom manners, regardless of what current form she takes.

[That's probably not the problem here, though.

[Scratching the back of her neck, Rey's mouth tightens into a thin line after a huff of understanding escapes her lungs.]

Ah, well. Had issues doing even that, um. Stuff, too. Wasn't exactly... meant for it.

[Maybe some solidarity is helpful, even if their situations aren't quite the same? Yeah, that's how some people do it.]

Have anyone else that could help you with it? If... you think you need it?

[Rey isn't volunteering. She's not. It's just a question, that's all.]

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[The question... well, it’s a question, for sure. Was there? Over time, she’s said goodbye to quite a few people she’d been close to in Lunatia, including some human men that moon phases, strange aphrodisiacs, and chroma drain had led to crossing lines. They’d all been decent men, all (well, mostly all) treated her kindly and seen diligently to the extra effort it likely took to fuck a woman built so different than they, but... now most of them are gone. She’s never actually thought of it that way, “if I can’t be with Gonta then who” sort of way, because her answer would normally be their friend Mikuni...

And he was. Also a jinba in possession of a temperament that could be very easily riled by breeding pheromones and yet possessed equipment definitely no longer compatible with hers. Not in this form, noooooooo thank you.

So finally, Konoha kind of just lets out an awkward laugh, shifting her laundry to both hands and beginning to walk again towards the clothesline, inviting Rey to follow.]

I guess I should have kept that v- vibrating thing for myself, huh... ?

[But she’d given it to Rey... and kept the large dildo. Which is. Now also definitely too large. She’d checked! Everything was so small now...]

[Most people seemed to have a kind of "support" chain when it came to fulfilling the needs this planet put upon them. With Sanguis, it's easy enough to ignore the frustration and urges because it's a thing she's nearly dealt with already, anyway. Iris people... have other problems than the ones Rey is used to, that's for sure.

[But Konoha seemed to be friendly with a lot of people, if her help staff roster and the responses to her post have been any indication. So Rey just assumed it's a thing already taken care of.

[Judging by that response, though... Maybe not? She turns to follow Konoha towards the clothes line, keen on having at least something to do with her now restless hands, her face reddening at the mention of the vibrator.]

Um, y-yeah...

[Since The Incident, Rey wasn't sure Konoha would want to keep it, though she had considered it when they had enjoyed it together. But Rey hadn't thought of that as more than a one-time thing between them. Konoha had a lot of people to help. She doesn't need Rey.]

Actually, went in one of those shops recently, after we'd, er... [YOU KNOW.] They sell all kinds of crazy shit for... that. Not just for... stuff you can do by yourself.

[But there were quite a few "partner" options that had interested her as well, since it had been so good with Konoha.]

[Maybe not.

Konoha did try to think of it as a good thing. Despite the fact that she’d once been promised a return home by a strange power in a strange world only to end up here instead, she wanted to believe Lunar Scientia when they said that people who disappeared from Lunatia returned to their worlds. So Majima, Shino, Matthias... all the others who hadn’t been lovers, too- She hoped they were home and safe, even if she did miss them. (And being able to rely on them for. Things. Occasionally. Gosh, Doumeki was built perfectly but he definitely didn’t like women...)

Rey’s words are... of interest, though. Konoha can’t lie and say she wasn’t... way more curious about the toy things now that she’s had firsthand and very rewarding, relieving experience with them. She might be blushing, actually looks around a second like an idiot as if to make sure no one would overhear them before,]

What... kind of stuff?

[Just for. You know. Her education...]

[It always seemed like people were more eager to return to their worlds, but Rey wasn't. Not ever. She'd arrived with a nasty wound that went from her chest and out her back that she's fortunate she didn't bleed out when she first woke up in the crystal forests on an alien moon. Self-cauterization and an unrelenting will was all it took to survive, even if she had spent days evading the Moon Knights out there that had no intention of doing her harm. She'd went from one situation where she had been hunted to another and wasn't so quick to trust authorities at the time.

[Even now, she isn't sure she'd consider it trust so much as a mutual understanding. Long as she's here, she makes the most out of a shitty situation, but it also comes at the cost of not really belonging anywhere. But that's hardly anything new to her -- she'd always been alone that she got used to that, too. So much so that she surprised herself with the particular selection she'd taken interest in during her aforementioned visit to a "novelty" store.]

Well, ah...

[Rey pauses, rubbing the back of her neck at first before holding her arms out, offering to take the basket from Konoha. If they're talking about this now, then she wants to stay busy. Help!]

Th-there's a lot more stuff, for... for couples. That... That both women can... enjoy, at the same time. [Because she can't say that she didn't feel something when she had felt good while making Konoha feel good, but the harness didn't seem equipped for mutual pleasure. Rey hadn't expected that there would be kinds that are.

[Lunatia is a weird place. Everyone is so open about these things, and Rey is still getting accustomed to it all despite having been here for a year now.]

[They can both be members of the "been in Lunatia for over a year but still definitely don't get how people can be so public and open about sexual things" club.

For a moment, Konoha hesitates to hand over the laundry basket, because... then what's she going to do? But well, the clothesline is just in sight, she can pin when they get there... and also she needs her hands suddenly. So Rey gets the laundry basket and Konoha gets to give her thoughts away again fussing with her apron.]

At the same time...

[She had felt a bit guilty about needing to take turns... or, not guilty, because she'd been good and made sure to keep things even, but... things like that were just better when you did them together, weren't they? Konoha hasn't ever been inside one of those shops, though, and the image this conjures up for her is...

Awkwardly, she holds up both of her index fingers and sort of... holds them close together in a vague "v" shape, looking at Rey quizzically for confirmation.

Like that???]

[Considering it's Rey, there probably isn't enough time in the worlds for her to finally get comfortable with the idea. At best she's been adapting, if only out of necessity because she doesn't like the feeling of turning to crystal very much. She still remembers how close she's come to it a few times, and... Nope.

[Grateful to at least have something to hold, she takes the basket from Konoha with ease, carrying on like there hasn't been an exchange of weight or bulk whatsoever. It's clear Rey could do a lot more than just that and she's eager to do something with herself again.

[Squinting at the gesture Konoha makes with her fingers, it takes a beat before Rey interprets the unspoken meaning.]

Oh! It's... Kind of? More like...

[Okay, how would she describe this to herself if she were more technologically illiterate.]

They've got d... dildos, that go both ways. And, ah... harnesses, like the one you had, but with an... extra thing on the strap, for the wearer to... feel things, too. You know, during...

[You know.]

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