The Drow Queen of Glaley [Very NSFW]

[Coquette Blacquin]

"I... don't recall lunch," she admits. "Good to know we ate."

[Zevran]

"Picked at food, if we're being honest." He offers a lopsided smile. "The-- that is, you were in a rather peculiar mood at the time. One I'd not encountered until then."

[Coquette Blacquin]

"A... mood?"

[Zevran]

Eyes opening, Zevran scans the room carefully. Not seeing anyone but them, he nevertheless replies cautiously, "yes, a mood. One might say you were almost in an altered state of mind, mmh?"

[Coquette Blacquin]

Her eyes widen. "Oh! A new one? Really? I knew things had been shaken up a little, but I thought they were all accounted for."

[Zevran]

That gets a return look of surprise. "You did not-- You don't always know?"

[Coquette Blacquin]

She shakes her head. "I don't know what the others are thinking or where they are at any given point. I wouldn't know if I was sleeping because of Cedric or because of someone new."

[Zevran]

"I had assumed that..." Zevran shakes his head. "I will keep that in mind. But yes, I had thought perhaps it was Little B, but it sounds like you would have noticed her being, ah, out?"

[Coquette Blacquin]

Coquette winces. "She's not exactly... she's not exactly company, usually. She is... damaged. Horribly so."

[Zevran]

"So you've mentioned," Zevran replies thoughtfully. "She-- the person I spoke to just prior to you-- was very much damaged but functional enough. Extremely submissive and desperate to please. Quiet, watchful, meek. Froze up when asked for her opinion and choices. Very affectionate, though I'm unsure how much of that was due just to her wariness and submissiveness."

[Coquette Blacquin]

Cindy grimaces. "When I say nonfunctional, I mean... usually when she rises, I hear only screaming. Cedric's said much the same. In our house, she has been known to cuddle, but it's a whimpering, sobbing sort of cuddle. She's.... broken."

[Zevran]

"Oh," Zevran says quietly. "Does-- Did you-- Have you seen her recently? You mentioned thinking things were changing... perhaps..?"

[Coquette Blacquin]

"Perhaps. I will see what I can find out when I am at home again." She sighs, taking his hand gently. "Thank you for putting up with all this."

[Zevran]

"You are entirely worth it," Zevran says with warm sincerity. "Besides, it is not as if you were not 'putting up with' plenty for my sake. Neither your Glalian upbringing nor your decades in Alessia would make you inclined to accept me having Isabela in my life as she has become and yet you have been accepting and even quietly supportive." He kisses her hand, adding, "I should have said this clear well before now, but thank you for that."

[Coquette Blacquin]

Coquette nods. "She is... strange, to me. She is a very different sort of woman than myself, and it still is odd to me how you can prefer us both. But, if I can love Shisou and you and Nox and Lux and Bull all, surely it's no stranger?"