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Ewa Forest Reserve.
Clay wouldn't mind a bell harness...
Nithya blushes at the thought, but can't bring herself to deny a desire...
Clay: "The thought of wearing bells? Or of me wearing them? Cause they both sound pretty nice~"
Nithya hums, trying to appear considering: "I... I don't know. Bells are whatever, but wearing a tight harness... I want to try..."
Clay blinks. "Oh. Huh... yeah... well, we can probably make that happen long before Christmas..."
Nithya nods: "...I have never really browsed those kind of shops online, but..." She blinks and looks at Clay: "Don't look at me like that, I haven't!"
Clay giggles, "I wasn't giving you any look at all! No judgement here!"
Nithya blushes, realizing just how well she implicated herself. "Er... yeah, no. Of course not. Silly me."
Clay blushes as well, inexperienced at both those kinds of shops and the activities related to them, "Well... I'm certainly not, so we can explore together."
Nithya nods slowly: "Well, as said... I am not against some exploration..."
Clay leans in closer and nuzzle against Nithya, "Me either."
Nithya continues, whispering: "Just maybe once we're home first, if we can contain our tails til then~."
Clay kisses her snout and pulls back, "Hmmm, I'll try. Your tail is very cute."
Nithya smirks: "So is yours, and arguably cuter since it's smaller."
Clay blushes, "I'll accept that. I... I'm going to try to do what I can to cultivate my cuteness."
Nithya nods: "Harness will definitely go more towards 'sexy' than 'cute', though. Just so you know."
Clay blushes brighter, "Th-then I'll just have to get some cute ribbons to wear instead. Or some lacey stockings and gloves?" It's clear she's been thinking about this.
Nithya blinks. "...you have put thought into this. I uh..." She imagines Clay with those sort of objects and blushes a bit, then latches to the one thing her logic still can: "...gotta get pretty special gloves with our doe hands..."
Clay nods, "There's the fingerless ones, with pink satin, with lace around the cuff..." She smiles softly, a little embarrassed, "I've maybe been thinking about it, yeah..."
Nithya gives Clay a small devious smile: "I have a feeling this is the sort of experience speaking that happened also before Kamchatka..."
Clay: "N-not... well, uh... I mean... only a little... idle curiosity... never... I never actually went through with any of it." She thinks back to some nights spent staring at an online shopping cart, never committing to the purchases.
Nithya hums, touching Clay on the arm: "And well, now... now you could."
Clay smiles, laughing softly, "Yeah... I definitely plan to buy a few things."
Nithya nods: "I might want to do some myself. Even human... human form, if you will, I have more curve than I used to."
Clay chuckles, "Guess you do. We both do. In both our forms. A bit of experimenting will be fun, not just with each other but... with who I am now. I spent a little time on the plane looking at names... but if you search for 'cute female deer names' all you get is references to Santa's reindeer. And even I'm not going to stoop to the pun of naming myself Jane Doe."
Nithya giggles: "I think you can come up with a more highbrow pun if you want to. But you know that it's not really necessary to reference your... 'new origin', if you want to call it that."
Clay laughs, trailing off into a sigh, "I know! I just thought it would be funny. But I will probably expand the scope of my search to find a better name... something that feels right." She hums turning to look up at the forest around them. "Something the feels deeper than some pun... I think... I was trying to play it off as a joke because it is still really scary to think about..."
Nithya touches her palm on Clay's wrist: "I can see that. And I'm certainly not trying to hurry you up, I mean... til we are home you gotta be 'Clay' for a bit longer anyway. But it's worth thinking about..."
Clay nods, her other hand moving to hold Nithya's between hers, gently rubbing the fur there. "I can do that. There's nothing wrong with Clay. I'm still him, as near as I can tell. I liked being Clay."
"But... I don't know if I asked for this, or if that Deer Goddess just thought it would be funny. But if this is me now, then I'm going to embrace it. Even if I didn't have the most wonderful motivation in wanting to be with you, I think, in time I would come around to this."
Nithya considers for a moment. "The Deer Goddess did see something in us, I'm kind of convinced. I always felt good outdoors, but now I thrive in the forest. I couldn't grow longer hair..." She touches her free hand on her long black locks, smiling. "...I wished I had better figure. You get the idea."
Clay nods, thinking back. Those moments in the temple are still so fuzzy in her memory, "I do. It's... if you had asked me what kind of woman I wanted to be, and I had been perfectly candid... a redhead, with boobs and thighs... I... I had an image... Plus... there's us."
Nithya nods: "That... might be part of the package. You were always perfect for me, but it's hard to will one's attraction to just 'do it'. But now..." She trails off, then shrugs and leans to hold Clay closer.
Clay hums, hugging Nithya as she leans close. "You make any doubts in my mind about this change vanish. Yes, part of me... part of me wanted this. But it's hard for me to imagine just taking the steps in my life to bring this about. But doing it for you makes it seem obvious. This is who I want to be. The rest of it I can explore and experience and enjoy on it's own now."
Nithya hums: "Sounds like a plan to me. And... yeah, it's not exactly like we can say 'desire to be a deer-woman' was on the wishlist, but..." She smirks: "I'll take it."
Clay chuckles, "That certainly wasn't on any list I'd made, no... but it's not so bad, when we can have moments like this. I feel really good right now."
Nithya nuzzles at Clay's neck: "Yeah." Nothing more needs to be said, when the physical affection is obvious by now.
Clay tenderly nuzzles back, stroking a hand through Nithya's hair, just letting their embrace linger, and her touch express her love for her partner, only whispering out a quiet "Yeah..." in response.
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