10-03-2024, 04:42 PM
The closeness made it difficult to think beyond the want. Roza’s lips, and Roza’s touch, and Roza’s desires. Yet beneath it Esper felt a shiver of her own surprise, for it was not the decision she expected. At the very least she had anticipated negotiation to ensue. While she’d pledged to follow the other girl’s decision (and meant it truthfully), she had been very careful with the wording. She would follow Roza anywhere, but would never promise not to sabotage the path to their benefit. Roza needed nothing that Esper could not provide, including the baby that might placate her family. She thought of the singing man, and wondered if Roza made a child like that, if even Esper might be able to love it. But the thoughts did not linger when Roza closed the distance, and Esper’s surprise at the path chosen was swept away instead into the passion between them.