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NAME: JONES HANDLE: @ALIAS PICTURE: Middle finger, face out of frame.

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[sunmon]

I messaged someone from the Birds of Paradise.
Seems like I made a good impression, last time.

[grunge]

As long as they know what they're in for.

You don't have to record this shit or anything do you?

[sunmon]

It didn't say anything like that in the paperwork.

[ she surveys the conversation with a frown. she's still doing it. weak little Alina. ]

You should have been the Dominant. It suits you better.

[grunge]

[ Jess is more concerned about the submissive in this situation but she's 100% fine to not have that scan. so far. ]

No shit.

Get some pointers from your partner before you go in. The way submissives are treated, I wouldn't trust any city-sanctioned instructors to care how they feel one way or the other as long as the job gets done.

[sunmon]

I'm not going to hurt anyone.

[grunge]

So you know what a safe word is?

[sunmon]

No.

[grunge]

It's code. When you're dominating someone, saying "stop" or "no" can just be part of the scene. So you pick a word before you start, one that wouldn't come up naturally, that you know 100% means stop.

[sunmon]

I'm not planning to do anything that would involve saying 'stop' without meaning it.

[grunge]

And how have your plans worked out for you so far?

[sunmon]

A safe word is just another plan.
It wouldn't have made a difference at the car wash, having one.

[grunge]

[ but it's a Jessica plan, AKA planning for the worst. putting a pin in that. ]

What happened at the car wash?

[sunmon]

I already told you that you don't want details.
It's how I got my citation. We were in public. People saw.

[grunge]

[ what she wants to ask most is "which people" but Alina would be taking shots in the dark, if she remembered at all, and the bullet would be Jess. whatever she did with that information would land her worse than a citation.

after chewing on it for a couple of minutes, ]

Look, a safe word isn't about pain.
It's an understanding.
That no matter what it looks like, both of you have control.
The two of you, not them.

[sunmon]

I don't want him to have control.
If that ever happens again, I want control of him.

[ the reply comes before she means it to. she can't stop herself. it's all heat and indignation. there's no understanding between her and the darkling. no peace, no compromise.

sooner or later, they are going to kill one another. everything else is foreplay. ]

I'm sorry.
I'll keep in mind what you said.
I'll make sure the Submissive I bring to the Realignment center knows all about safe words and that we talk about it.

[grunge]

[ Jess was trying to focus on the present and future, where they may still have an effect on events. nothing she knows about what happened at the car was can change it. it took a great deal of self-control not to ask anyway.

bully for her.

heat and indignation spreads across the network. Alina's appeasement falls on deaf ears. ]

It was that pretentious Drozdov dick, wasn't it

[sunmon]

That's not his name.
In Ravka, we call him the Darkling.

[ as much a confirmation as anything. there's something seething and resentful about how she denies him the false identity of eryk drozdov, even. ]

[grunge]

[ bleuuuUUGH. yep that sounds like the name of someone who starts a conversation off with "of late." ugh. ]

Where's his citation?

[sunmon]

I haven't asked.

[ now she's wondering, though. did he get one? did he know she had? he hadn't reached out at all. somehow it feels like an additional indignity instead of a relief that he hadn't goaded her about it. ]