Their games have fallen into a sort of rhythm. Some variation exists, but a combination of working on Aerith's house, bringing clean food to be cooked, bathing, and passing out together surrounds a consistent centerpiece of Balthier collared and both of them naked. Since that blur of days after the thanksgiving party, though, he's been careful to only sleep with her when the rules are in place. He's always eager to see her, always lingering longer than he should, and something about opening that back up to a place of no bounds is...uneasy.
That doesn't mean exploration and teasing are off the table, though, and at some point the idea of bathing together and others watching comes up, and there's another strange sideways dance that leads to them going to the baths and saunas together, a proposed game of touching themselves until one of them caves. Not their usual game, but a game with rules all the same.
It doesn't take long for Aerith to get that maddening twinkle in her eye and suggest a way to make their game a step wilder. He hesitates, not sure how he feels about watching someone else touch her. He knows she sleeps with others, isn't really bothered by it honestly, but seeing it feels entirely different. And yet --
There's desire, a coil of want, a curiosity that he only ever really chases with her, so he agrees, and next thing he knows she's pulling him by the hand -- stark naked -- to the sauna and he can't help the heat at his cheeks at being so publicly dragged to clearly nefarious ends. At least he thinks that's what the heat at his cheeks is, and by now he's getting old hat at keeping those thoughts in check without glancing to either side of the narrow safe path he's carved.
"Do you think you'll like this more or less than getting to touch me from afar with your toys?" he purrs in her ear as they slip aside, knowing part of the game is going to be not touching her for awhile, so he takes this opportunity to pull her close, squeezing her ass as he plants a kiss on her cheek. "Also, I'm placing bets you beg for me first."
Aerith --
That doesn't mean exploration and teasing are off the table, though, and at some point the idea of bathing together and others watching comes up, and there's another strange sideways dance that leads to them going to the baths and saunas together, a proposed game of touching themselves until one of them caves. Not their usual game, but a game with rules all the same.
It doesn't take long for Aerith to get that maddening twinkle in her eye and suggest a way to make their game a step wilder. He hesitates, not sure how he feels about watching someone else touch her. He knows she sleeps with others, isn't really bothered by it honestly, but seeing it feels entirely different. And yet --
There's desire, a coil of want, a curiosity that he only ever really chases with her, so he agrees, and next thing he knows she's pulling him by the hand -- stark naked -- to the sauna and he can't help the heat at his cheeks at being so publicly dragged to clearly nefarious ends. At least he thinks that's what the heat at his cheeks is, and by now he's getting old hat at keeping those thoughts in check without glancing to either side of the narrow safe path he's carved.
"Do you think you'll like this more or less than getting to touch me from afar with your toys?" he purrs in her ear as they slip aside, knowing part of the game is going to be not touching her for awhile, so he takes this opportunity to pull her close, squeezing her ass as he plants a kiss on her cheek. "Also, I'm placing bets you beg for me first."