How to approach? New human partners liked to chatter nervously, to fill the silence as I stared at them like the predator they wanted to pounce. But this one, Sonya, only watched, waited. "Take off your clothes. I have plans for you." There was a squeak of sound strangled from her throat, and the chain in her hand rattled softly as she startled. For a second, I prepared to backtrack, give her another option like joining me on the bench, go over the usual introductions. And then her hand released the chain, twisting behind her back and arching her chest forward as she hunted for the zipper on
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