hormonal imbalance

[warpfairy]

They study Klingon. They work out a sleep schedule. They approach Betazed.

They are two days away from the system when Isabella notices something - troubling.

She takes longer than usual to compose herself that morning, and emerges from the living quarters with carefully measured steps, and avoids eye contact.

"Do you," she asks Lalita quietly, "have the ability to fly this class of ship?"

Comments

[warpfairy]

It's good if it is sooner than that. Isabella is impatient. She found a mate and now she wants to make use of this exciting finding.

[dream_me_up]

It is sooner than that.

[warpfairy]

Oh good. Oh very good.

[dream_me_up]

Mm. Metaphorical warp travel.

[warpfairy]

Mmmmmmmmmmm.

[dream_me_up]

And snuggles. Those too. He's still a little sleepy; it makes him slow and cuddly and affectionate.

[warpfairy]

Hmmm. Slow. Well, that is okay now that the most urgent portions of the week are taken care of.

[dream_me_up]

And slow can be fun too.

[warpfairy]

Isabella is willing to be convinced of this.

[dream_me_up]

Lalita is willing to be convincing!

[warpfairy]

He is so convincing. Mmmm.

[dream_me_up]

Good!

And after they've been at it for a while maybe they can go back to being - not slow.

[warpfairy]

That is absolutely welcome and appreciated and encouraged.

[dream_me_up]

Lalita has not even begun to run out of fun new things to try.

[warpfairy]

He has a willing experimental partner!

[dream_me_up]

He's not exactly taking detailed lab notes on their successes, but he does have a very good memory. And of course successful experiments should be repeated. For science. The science of fun.

[warpfairy]

They have all the time in the - well, not all the time in the world, but all the time in a week!

[dream_me_up]

They do have all the time in the week. Except for the parts they might spend sleeping, or eating, or grooming themselves.

Lalita does not plan to spend very much time doing those things.

[warpfairy]

Neither does Isabella. Insofar as "plan" is even the word. Her father's species evolved in a desert; she can do without much intake of anything over the course of a week, whether "anything" is a stand-in for "sleep" or "water" or "food". Over this amount of time those needs just aren't going to be competitive with the main one.

[dream_me_up]

Well, at some point during this wake phase - maybe in a few hours - Lalita is going to suggest food. He can go for a week without it, but he'd rather not.

[warpfairy]

She'll let him eat. If he really must. She'll just be half in his lap eyeing him while he does it.

[dream_me_up]

She can be all in his lap if she'd rather!

[warpfairy]

Okay!

[dream_me_up]

Mmm, snuggly lapful. Mmm, food.

Does snuggly lapful want any food?

[warpfairy]

She'll have nibbles. Of food, even. Some fraction of nibbles will be of food.