Bijou likes to tie scarves around her wrists and her ankles, to decorate herself this way when she is going out. The sensation of something soft, bound round these places, like a warm hand holding her, pleases her. she makes them wide, like cuffs. She has many scarves and sashes, prefers the light colored ones that blend in with her skin, so that they are disguised. She waits for people to recognize the subtle message, know what it means, people who will wrap their hands around these bonds, making her catch her breath.
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Sometimes it is primarily her mouth that is hungry for sex, and the rest of her body echoes that desire faintly. Those times, she sucks on pens, or on her fingers. Her tongue longs for something thicker, something hot and alive.
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She walks round a corner in the hallway of the opium den. At the end of the long stretch of hallway a table is pressed into the corner, with two chairs. She sees an unclear figure in one of the chairs. She paces forward and it becomes clear that there are two figures in the chair. A man sits, his woman on his lap facing away from him. They are fully clothed, except that her skirt, layers of wine-colored gauze, is pushed high up her legs, which straddle his. She rocks slightly, her eyes closed, lips parted. They are in their own world, almost unconscious even of each other, lost in the slow, almost still sensations throbbing where they are joined, deep in the recesses of her rumpled skirt. He leans back in the chair, moving only slightly, one hand on her hip, the other deep under her blouse, cupping her breast.
Bijou sees this as she moves closer. They are half-sleeping, half-ecstatic, nearly motionless except for the occasional throb of the hips. They might have been there for hours, might be there for hours more, just like this. They have moved completely into the parts which are joined, the woman's consciousness deeply into her pussy, energizing every inch of her skin.
Bijou is breathless. she moves quietly, drawn despite herself, despite her need to not be noticed, to not stare, open-mouthed, at this scene, she moves forward, drawn down the hall by her watering mouth, by the soundless sound they make, the hum of their ecstasy, their dream in the haze of the purple flesh. So much hunger, to taste the heat they raise there underneath those layers of deep red gauze. She stands there at the table, despite herself, terrified that they will notice her, that they will stop, that she will lose this vision.