"You say that with such a straight, aloof face."
"That is my face."
"Your face just said 'we get on top of each other and you enter your thing.'"
"I will kill you."
"No, you won't."
"I will injure you artistically."
"Better."
She looked away, but the embarrassment remained, wrapped around her coldness like pink light beneath ice but with a soft smile dancing on her lips.
"There is no point pretending I know a lot," she said. "Certainly not with you."
"With me?"
She glanced back at him. "You know everything there is about sex."
Phei stared at her.
Then his smile changed.
Not mocking now, rather gentler.
Sienna shook her head faintly. "I did not know, in all my existence, that I would ever admire someone for shameless knowledge and experience, but…"
"You wish you knew as much as I know? Is that I am hearing right?" he asked.
She hesitated then nodded reluctantly but honest.
Phei's chest tightened.
