"Your partner has your brief. He knows everything you're interested in and everything you're not willing to do. He'll start slow, take cues from you, ask questions, that sort of thing. It's totally up to you where you'd like to be when you meet him. It can be upstairs at the door, in the bed, or down here," Astraeya said, her voice so deceivingly simple, as if there weren't an enormous world of options, scenarios, mysteries in what she was saying.