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[godsandbats]

It helps I’ve been trying to careful. Have you ever allowed yourself to be bitten like that before? Not just nipping.

[Kirk is curious and has noticed how much biting seems to be a turn-on for Vander, even when it’s a harder bite]

[cantilevers]

You would be the first one I willingly allowed to take my blood, if that's what you mean.

[He knew that Kirk was probing towards his kinks, and he decided to make the other make a little bit for it.]

I suppose I've been bitten by razorfins, rats and other little critters before too. That counts, I guess?

[godsandbats]

Somewhat. Those sound like hazards to living in your hometown.

[Kirk’s eyes glance at his neck]

I mean erotically.

[cantilevers]

There are hazards in everyone's hometown. I've actually been bitten more in fights now that I think about it.

[He glanced at Kirk, corner of his lips twitching up.]

Oh. Yeah, I like it. I had a partner where that was their go-to form of affection.

[godsandbats]

[Kirk looks mildly amused]

Ah, I see.

[Kirk hasn’t work out yet what his definitive go-to affectionate move is yet]

Another reason to like me then.

[Joking of course. He knows their friendship is deeper than that]

[cantilevers]

There are plenty of reasons to like you, Lamprey. Your little razor teeth are just one of many of them, promise.

[Despite that they seemed the have literally opposite interests, they did manage to get along very well. Perhaps he simply gravitated to people who thought of themselves as monsters. Who knew.]

You'll find your own hot buttons with practice. Observation helps too, though I don't think this place has a brothel.

[godsandbats]

Mm. I doubt it too. If there was one, it would be busiest place in Etraya.

[No mystery why it would be]

I wouldn’t want to go to one anyway.

[cantilevers]

I doubt that actually. People seem more than keen to find each other without having to pay for it.

[There were plenty of flirts in this place from what he had seen. People filled the time one way or another here.]

It's good for observation, but they aren't anywhere I felt the need to spend money on.

[godsandbats]

[In a nonjudgmental tone]

Is that part of how you learned then?

[cantilevers]

Yeah. Observing people has always been something I've done. Besides, sex can be when people let the walls down.

[He shrugged his big shoulders because he wasn't ashamed.]

Sex was pretty free and open. It's not like there's a lot of sex talks; you just learn through experience one way or another.

[godsandbats]

Probably the best way to learn. Sex has a way of making people feel vulnerable.

[His own limited experience has shown him that]

[cantilevers]

Maybe, I don't know. How were you taught about sex?

[It hadn't seemed important, but he expected that even Piltover educated differently than Zaun did.]

As long as everyone feels good, that's the point, but I don't disagree about the vulnerability.

[Except he had learned when and with whom to be vulnerable with.]

[godsandbats]

[Kirk shrugs]

In school, they just told us about STIs, pregnancies, and to make sure to use protection if we were going to do it.

The rest we just had to work out on our own if we were interested.

[cantilevers]

[Vander had read up about it, since education was vastly different. They had alchemists that helped with certain aspects of it.]

You don't sound like it was particularly interesting lectures.

[godsandbats]

Because they weren't. Attitudes about sex were somewhat conservative in my town so if you were a teenager interested in sex, you largely learned on your own and be willing to experiment.

In college there was more freedom but still plenty of experimenting.

[cantilevers]

Sounds like most experiences I know. At least there were brothels and reading materials and learning doing.

[He smiled and nudged Kirk with his elbow again.]

How much experimenting have you done?

[godsandbats]

[Kirk's lip twitches in shy amusement]

Nowhere as much as you have. Francie and I were each other's first but it was far from romantic. Not like what all those romance novels or movies like to say. I only did a little more when I was in college.

[cantilevers]

[He huffed in amusement right back, shaking his head.]

Novels are never accurate and believe me, no one's muscles pulsate as much as described in those. Don't know what a movie is though, but I assume something with pictures?

[He smirked at Kirk.]

You have some experience. As long as you felt good, that's what matters. This is place is a new opportunity to learn more about yourself and your tastes.

[godsandbats]

[Finally there's a small smile at Vander's direction as Kirk thinks about the last time Vander was here in the tower]

So I've been noticing.

[cantilevers]

[He nudged Kirk a little harder as if to push the other man out of his shell more now that it seemed the somber topics of conversations had fallen back for the time being.]

If you have someone you like or have your eye on, I happen to make a good wingman. Just say the word.

[godsandbats]

I doubt I'll ever meet someone like that but thank you.

[Kirk tentatively reaches for Vander's hand with one of his gloved hands]

I like what we do as friends.

[cantilevers]

You mean, you doubt you'll find someone attractive and want to make a move to get to know them? Don't sell yourself short, Lamprey.

[His fingers twitch at the contact and then he pressed his hand into Kirk's. He made a point of leaning his shoulder more on Kirk's as he rubbed his thumb over the other man's clothed knuckles.]

Oh, you like it when I show up to harass you out of a reclusive mood and make you smile, huh? Yeah, I like that too.

[godsandbats]

[Kirk softly huffs]

You're used to walking into dark gloomy places.

[cantilevers]

I do live underground, so that's a given, yeah.

[And besides, he couldn't just let Kirk be lonely in here. Hernan was only good for certain social situations.]

And where I live is not exciting to see, so I come here.

[godsandbats]

[Deadpan]

It's not the first place most people would think of when they think "exciting."