[Cyril is surprised by that question and after a moment, he looks away. His expression gets more thoughtful. It takes him a moment to work up the courage to answer honestly and then when he speaks he can't look at Kolivan.]
It's not.
Easy for me, I mean.
Sex is easy, but anything more complex than that I utterly fall apart.
[He can sense the nervous energy coming from Cyril and reaches over to rest a hand on his knee so he can know that he can be open here. That he doesn't need to run from this.]
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Yes. We will.
And I can't think of anyone I'd rather keep at it with. [He adds, because he always needs to turn things into flirtation.]
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I can be rather persistent.
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[...He does agree with it though.]
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Now the question is, what will you do with me. [Which he says as suggestively as he can manage.]
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You know, I feel like I always ask so many questions of you. Is there anything you wanted to know about me?
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How is it that you are not involved with someone already? You have the nature that should make it easy for you.
[In his opinion anyway.]
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It's not.
Easy for me, I mean.
Sex is easy, but anything more complex than that I utterly fall apart.
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Why is that? Why would you fall apart when it goes beyond sex?
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I've no idea. It's been like that since I was young. The last time it happened was... a few months before you arrived on the Fleet.
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Yet you try to open yourself to this with me.
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Because you deserve that
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He opens and closes his mouth a couple of times.]
Kolivan... Answering that question feels like it will hurt me.
I'm trying but...
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