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[nemuri]

WOULD YOU RATHER-

1. Post with your character. 2. In your comment, have your character ask a question. Would you rather ________ or _________, where the blanks are anything your character would like to know from anyone who might respond. Maybe they're asking out of curiosity. Maybe they have a dilemma of their own. Who knows. 3. Respond to other characters, whatever catches your own character's interest or whatever they'd like to talk about. Maybe they can't decide between the two. Maybe it's an easy answer. Maybe they think the question sucks. Discuss. Chat. Take turns. 4. ???????? 5. Profit.

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[moderatoassai]

Before I met you, it was all that I lived for. Dancing.

[allegroassai]

And after... ?

[moderatoassai]

I live for you alone.

[allegroassai]

My sweet Nikiya! I will have no one as dedicated as you, not ever.

[moderatoassai]

But will you have others? Truly, will you marry Solor?

[allegroassai]

Will I? [She turns away, chin raised but gaze averted.] Ask Solor. Ask my father.

[moderatoassai]

They decide on your behalf. In your name, they choose for you.

[She walks up to Gamzatti from behind, putting her hands on her shoulders. A gentle touch. Non-invasive.]

I, at least, chose my own fate when I became a devadasi.

[allegroassai]

[She allows it, the touch - of course she does. Gamzatti allows herself everything and then, more.]

I choose my own fate as well. [She turns only slightly, looking up at Nikiya through long eyelashes.] I will have what the gods are having. One step at a time.

[With that, she leans in and presses her lips against Nikiya's, a soft but lingering touch. And a contrast, too.]

[moderatoassai]

[The kiss... The kiss, it erases everything. The danger in which they find themselves. The blasphemy of Gamzatti's claim. The uncertainty brewing in Nikiya's mind. The kiss makes it all disappear in a vapour, water emerging with the air, although fire is their shared element.

So she returns the kiss. With a passion. The passion only Gamzatti can awaken in her. Putting her arms around the other woman's waist, she pulls her closer, their bodies perfectly aligned.]