The Drow Queen of Glaley [Very NSFW]

[Coquette Blacquin]

Coquette stares quietly, staying very, very still. "I see."

[Paerle Emerison]

"You can move normally. Talk, drink, what have you," Paerle explains quickly. "If you startle her, she'll just go hide, not attack. I just wanted to let you know before you noticed yourself and..." She coughs politely. "Well."

[Coquette Blacquin]

"She is... quite a lethal-looking animal," admits Coquette. "Very Drow."

[Paerle Emerison]

"More than you might be thinking; she's surprisingly cuddly with the right people," Paerle adds with a wink.

[Coquette Blacquin]

"Is she? I had not thought... cuddliness to be a Drow trait."

[Paerle Emerison]

"Only among and with the right people," Paerle makes clear. "We're very discriminating in our partners. Our real ones."

[Coquette Blacquin]

She looks a bit sad at that. "I see."

[Paerle Emerison]

"That saddens you?" Paerle asks curiously.

[Coquette Blacquin]

She gives a rueful smile. "Only in that I have never experienced it."

[Paerle Emerison]

"Truly? I had thought..." She grimaces. "My apologies."

[Coquette Blacquin]

"Claudia and I are becoming quite close," she says quickly. "But she is not Drow. All I have experienced of love from Drow is... well, Claudia doesn't think much of my ex-wife."

[Paerle Emerison]

No? I had thought she was still pining for Telly but... huh. "Not even your husband? Merikos is not pureblood, true, but I've come to think that it's more about one's, hmmm, one's approach to life rather than how you approached living, if you follow."

[Coquette Blacquin]

"My husband and I are also close, it is true, but cuddle?" She sighs. "Perhaps I am the problem."

[Paerle Emerison]

"Perhaps less problem and more..." Paerle hums softly, then settles on, "uncertain? If you have never done something..."

[Coquette Blacquin]

"I am not...." Belatedly, Noire remembers that the others can be quite affectionate at times. "I struggle with affection. I never received it as a child."