Aiden, Kyute and Luz stood before the door leading into Room 49.
"Okay," Kyute said. "The girl beyond's name is Thirsha. Her kinks are-"
"Shh," Aiden said.
"Huh?" Kyute blinked. Her little fairie wings fluttered. "But-"
"Shhhhhh," Aiden said, putting his finger on her lips.
"...ohhh!" Kyute said, drawing back slightly, grinning impishly. "I getcha. You dicked me, so you already got my superpowers. Which means you already know everything I'd know with my love fairie senses." She pointed her fingers at her temples.
"No," Aiden said, shaking his head. "No, Kyute." He pinched the bridge of his nose. "I don't get people's powers by
dicking
them."
"Yeah!" Luz said. Then her cheeks darkened. "T-The dicking does help a little, sometimes. It depends."
"It's all about treating people with humanity. Compassion. Treating them like they're people - not just puppets and simulacra made for my own entertainment," Aiden said, gesturing between himself and his girlfriend. "By going against the assumptions of the dipshits who made this pocket universe, we're all getting ahead. So, do you know what's a
really
dehumanizing, shitty thing to do to some stranger you haven't even met yet?" He pointed at the door, and the girl beyond it. "Stalking her, and using magical powers to determine her
kinks
and her
likes
and
dislikes
before you even say hello, then using those to
manipulate her
into
fucking you
."
Kyute looked at him in pure incomprehension. Her brow furrowed. She opened her mouth. Closed it.
"I don't get it," she said, shaking her head, her wings drooping.
Luz snapped her fingers. "He's doing a challenge run to poon!" she exclaimed. "For bonus points."
"Oooooooooh!" Kyute said, nodding slowly. "The challenge run is actually falling in love and shit, I getcha. And the extra points are powers." She made finger guns. "Bam bam, got it. Have fun running a solo train down to aussy town!"
"Aussy? Luz whispered.
"Don't-" Aiden started.
"Autistic pussy, duh!" Kyute said.
"All right, that's enough of Kyute for the rest of this chapter, possibly, the rest of this entire narrative," Luz said, grabbing onto the lithe fairie's arm. "Come on. Come on. We're going."
"But-"
"We're
going
!" Luz shot one last smile back over her shoulder, then yanked Kyute around the corner.
Aiden took hold of the door's knob, breathed in to settle himself, then stepped inside. The room itself was one of the many set aside for...ostensibly studying, but considering the deeply pornographic nature of this "high school" (populated entirely by fuckable and just barely legal eighteen year olds), it was entirely possible that these rooms existed purely to provide private, quiet places for students to get their fuck on. Considering the last time Aiden set foot in one, he had found Romeo plowing Juliette and Rosaline at the same time, he was pretty confident in this assumption.
Fortunately, this room had only two people in it. The first was a white haired, ethereally beautiful woman with a fine boned face and a kind of complex, technologically anachronistic headset on her head. Her fingers twitched as she cocked her head to the side, operating and manipulating things that no one else but she could see. The other girl was hunched over in the corner, thumbing through a large book. She had raven black hair that tumbled down her narrow shoulders and two pointed, elfin ears peeked out from the glossy lines. She was dressed in a kind of ribbed leather jacket, with a complex, bone-capped latching around her throat, like a rather outre piece of gothy paraphernalia.
"Uh, Thirsha?" Aiden asked.
The white haired girl lifted her hand - then pointed at the black haired girl. "That's her," she said, dryly.
"Oh, uh, hello!" Aiden said, stepping over. The black haired girl lifted her eyes up to him. They were bright blue and slitted like a cat's. She had shockingly pale skin and, up close, Aiden could see that her ears weren't
pointed
like an elf's. They were curved and ribbed with the same structure and shape as a
bat's
ears, save without fur or fluff. The tips twitched and the whole ear swiveled slightly to listen more closely to him as the girl cocked her head. Her eyes flicked to look into his eyes, then back to the book.
Thirsha's voice was husky, deeper than he expected. "What do you want?"
"Uh, to talk?"
"Okay," she said, then closed the book. Then she stood up.
And up.
And
up
.
Aiden took a step back - not quite out of fear, but more simply so he could keep his eyes on her face. Thirsha was
tall
, easily topping seven feet, maybe more. She was thin and long limbed, and as she turned to face him, her leathery jacket slid from her shoulders and unfurled outwards into a pair of bat-wings that looked like they could reach either side of the room. She crossed her arms over her chest and frowned. "What do you want to talk about?" she asked, a bracelet glinting around her wrist - the only sign of adornment that Aiden had seen on her.
"...whoa," Aiden whispered.
"I'm tall," Thirsha said, dryly.
Aiden smiled at her. "I can see that!" he said, chuckling. "Uh, do you know which, um, fictive world you're from?"
"Do you?" Thirsha asked.
"I'm from Earth Prime, I'm...Aiden," Aiden said, his ears perking up.
"Oh," Thirsha said, blinking. Her eyes swept along him slowly. "I thought Aiden was human. You don't smell human. Or look human."
Aiden grinned, weakly. "I kinda got transmogrified by unexpected exposure to alternate universes energies. I saw a giant koala, it was a whole thing."