"Is she really as new as her file says?" I asked. "Nice to see you too, Khell," Astraeya quipped, glancing back at the cottage over her shoulder with a puzzled smile. "And…yes, she is." I nodded, bracing myself. "I'll tread lightly." I was more patient and less inclined to follow mating urges than most of my kind and almost always assigned to the new ones. They spooked easily, and not all of them wanted to go through with their full requests. And those were the ones who booked me for a night, not nearly a week. "Good. I like her, though," Astraeya said, her eyes narrowing at me, sizing me up.
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