A room at the very top of Kaies Metsaf's inn near the Gate to the Other Side. The ceiling is a false mirror... it can see out from the room, but nobody could see inside. The bed is bowl-shaped, lined with a soft, silk pillow in soft pink, and there is a cylindrical shower room with a sealing door to the left of it. The walls are lined with books of various kinds, as well as a timepiece and a service bell.

The Wretching Dragon

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Felina feels awkward...of course she does. This is one of the many things she's choosen to not think about much, since lust is just one more powerful emotion she's learned to shut down and control. It hadn't seemed like a big deal in the past. Now...she just considers.

What does she want?

Softness. Slowness. Gentleness. Nothing like before. Someone who understands her hangups and works with them. Kaies. Mostly...just...Kaies. Whatever he wants.

Oh, blah. Not what Mara was asking for. She lays back on the soft bed Kaies had made for her, that lovely pink pillow, and just considers.

A quiet knock sounds at her door after a few minutes.  Couture, cloak aside but still armored, waits nervously on the other side. If this really is Felina, then he can't afford to miss this chance.

Hm? Felina looks up, then slips out of the comfy bowl bed and heads over to the door. Smiles at Couture when she opens it. "Hello again...settling in all right?"

"Very much so. I..." he tilts his head. "Are you all right, lady Ono? If this is a bad time, I can certainly call again."

"Oh, no, this is fine. I was just doing some thinking. So what brings you up to see me?"

"To get right to the point... I have come to teach you." Smiles a soft, handsome, smile. "How to use a sword."

Felina can't help it. Her head tilts a fair bit over at that. For the confusing day she's had, for the loops she's been running, it's just too unexpected. Thus...blink. Isn't even sure if she heard right. Far too startled to be offended. "Ehm...excuse me?"

Courture blinks as well, looking as if he's terrified to have violated some custom. "For... what, now?"

Felina shakes her head. "Oh, no, excuse me...it's been a long day, and I have to admit you surprised me." She laughs quietly. "Well...in which style do you mean?" She certainly doesn't pretend to know them all.

"Oh, the only style. All of them." Couture bows his head just a bit. "Would you feel up to a bit of fencing? I know you should be wary, but trust me, I am no match for your power. You probably already know that."

"Well...the prospect of something interesting involving swords would make it worth it, anyway." She smiles. Well...Mara did say that Kaies wouldn't be back awhile, and maybe it will help her relax and get her mind off things to be fresher for tonight. "There's a lot outback we toss brawlers into to have it out; we can use that. I just need to grab a rapier, if you're up for doing it now."

"Of course! Thank you, I promise you will not regret what I have to show you." Couture bows a low bow and heads out, smiling brightly. This will be fun, and maybe he really can help her. Or be schooled.

She can fence...of course she can, and well. But slashing techniques are really at the core of her expertise, so it will be interesting. STill, she loves combat of all sorts. It actually relaxes her, which might be good under the circumstances. She doesn't have a rapier at the moment, actually...considers her options. She finally ducks in her ether plane home for just a moment and, after assuring her brother that the rapier is just for fun, heads back out behind The Wretching Dragon.

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A little while later, a fairly serious-faced Felina falls into the room from the top, landing beside the bed.

Mara appears next to her, box in hand. She sets it aside, not even looking at it. "Did you think?" she asks, getting straight to the point.

"Did I think which?" Felina returns.

Mara smiles some. "About what you want lover boy to do to you."

Felina smiles a bit. "Some." Raises a finger. "Not tellin'."

The redhead tilts her head over. "I got ten gold coins that say you didn't think of him doing anything to you. Specifically." 

Feh. "...no bet."

"Gotcha!" Mara smiles a little... tilts her head over. "Did you think of anything to do to him?"

Felina's cheeks color a bit. "Maybe. So what's in the box?"

"An outfit I think you'll be okay with," Mara nods. Smiles some. "Here." She holds it out to Felina, disappointed that her nether double won't come clean.

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Felina's slightly worried expression clears into a smile. "Oh...Mara, I'm so relieved." She laughs, and hugs her double. "Thank you!"

Mara blushes a little. "I know you wouldn't want to be aggressive with him. But don't sell Mara too short. This baby only has a few buttons holding it on. He could tear it open in a blink." Smiles again. "He hurt himself, didn't he."

Felina's expression fades immediately. "Repeatedly."

The Sendiran closes her eyes. "I should kick his smackable ass. But that wouldn't help." Shivers, a little... she feels so bad for this situation. "But... this will help! Felina, you gotta have the best time ever. Then he'll stop blaming himself!

"Yes." Felina smiles a bit, and nods. "Yes...it's time to make Kaies happy again. I haven't figured out the specifics of the evening yet...there are few things I need to do to get ready, though, myself. So I'll see you a bit later, Mara?"

"Yup! And you can ask me anytime, even during your evening with him, if you need advice. I won't be watching, though, so you'll hafta be proactive!" The Sendiran smiles a little more brightly, pats her double's shoulder. "Don't worry, my love. You've got the hard part down, with the love."

Felina smiles a bit as she adds Culheru to her belt, simply becuse she feels naked without it, and nods. "Do have that down, too, I think."

Mara would twitter. Can't. "Good luck... I'm prayin' to somebody for you." And she vanishes, hoping against hope that this goes right.

Felina lets out a slow breath. Yeah...she hopes so, too. Smiles faintly. But, she thinks so. Gathers up the skirt suit, still wearing her armoured sparring outfit, and vanishes for seven suns inn, right around where she senses a certain effeminate seraphic degenerate.

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When Felina reappears a couple of hours later, she's looking more...coiffed, than is usual. Glances in the mirror, and has to smile...yeah, Yue's bloody good at this. Thus, it's most carefully that she slips out of her clothes--cuts the shirt off, actually, since it would have pulled over her head--and situates herself into the nice blue suit that Mara had picked out. Considers what She had suggested about eye makeup. Ponders, and reaches into a barbershop waiting room just enough to retrieve a magazine. On the nether plane, this kind of thing is entirely too mundane to freak people out over.

A few minutes of study, a couple tries and fails, and finally magicking on some light, natural-esque eye makeup and lip definition, she puts the magazine back where it was to be poked by a confused little goblin waiting on his mother's perm. Finally some perfume, and...she has to smile at her reflection. Yeah...she looks...well...pretty. Feels for Kaies.

Kaies's signature is over at Mara's place, actually. And quite awake - since the moment Felina left, Mara-kuru has been giving Kaies pointers and advice on the subject. Which begged the question:

"Screaming monkey hugging a tree? Pardon?"

They're on the roof now, waiting for Felina to return.

Felina lets out her breath. She is...really, really on the verge of chickening out. Not because of...well, anything except how she looks. Not her, not her and...hell, such an excuse that is. Thus, she paces a bit, nervously. Spends entirely too much time enchanting a nice, decorative sword belt to match her outfit perfectly. Pace, fuss...she finally can't stand herself anymore and, on a complete whim that tries to blindside herself, vanishes for the roof of Mara-Kuru's Estate.