"Please," she says very softly, without even meaning to. Immediately bites her lip, looks down - embarrassed, really, to have been pleading or demanding. She can feel her skin burning with it, blush heavy on her cheeks, her neck, tell-tale across the top of her chest, just below her collarbones.

It makes her abdomen tighten, some fearsome wanting curled hot in her belly, in her chest, seemed to grow with each beat of her heart. It's like she can feel her pulse right through her, and the kisses are so gentle and so wonderful and nowhere near enough. She isn't, truthfully, very aware of what enough would be, just that she wants Lakshmi to touch her, to be close to her and inside her.

Even so, they are taking steps, and the steps involve Lakshmi washing her, and she shakes her head at herself, sheepish. "Sorry." Even softer than before, seems as though she is trying to seem smaller than she is.