“So, Retvik, random question, when did you get into BDSM?”
Ret suddenly looked up from his ice cream, definitely caught off guard by what Kayel had just said. He, Kayel, Nyssi and Tanos had gone to the local space mall to get some sweet treats to celebrate Kayel’s birthday and they were currently just sitting on a balcony at the mall, looking into the darkness and chilling out.
“What?”
“How did you get into BDSM?” Kayel repeated himself.
Ret blinked again. “What?”
Kayel adjusted his position and faced Ret directly. “Before you met us, you never had sex. You didn’t have any porn in the house and I’m pretty sure you never masturbated either. But you got with Kuta and suddenly you’re into kinks. You even have a selection of cute BDSM sub collars. Like the one with “kitty” written on it… Which, admittedly, is adorable… But how did you end up into that sort of thing?”
“Why… why are you asking Ret that question?” Tanos asked.
“It’s an interesting question from someone who lost his female virginity at the age of 51?” Nyssi shrugged. “And, honestly, I’m curious too. Partly because I kinda want to try BDSM from the dominant side of things… Assuming I can find myself someone willing to try it…” Nyssi paused and turned to Tanos, having picked up some of his thoughts. “No, before you ask, Thassalin and Fragiir are not interested, and Thassalin is actually incredibly bisexual and is trying to get me into a threesome with him and Saahro, but Saahro is huge and would absolutely crush me.”
Ret frowned, not really liking that he was being questioned. But he knew, if he remained silent, they’d get an answer out of him anyway.
“It was not Kuta that made me curious. Kuta just allowed me to try things.”
“How so?” Kayel pushed on. “Because, mate, you had no sex life at all.”
Ret leaned forward. “I was honour-held, I was not allowed to even consider dating other Rethans.”
“Would that honour-held stuff have stopped you from sleeping with someone who wasn’t a Rethan?” Nyssi interrupted again. “Like, we caught you a few times thinking Arkay was cute whenever he’d pop by in the form of a Rethan. He wasn’t a Rethan though, would sleeping with him have counted against the bloodline crap?”
Ret growled slightly. “I was an exiled Rethan who should have been a dead Rethan. I was trying to live as clean and pure and good a life as possible so no one would come along and decide that I needed to be a dead Rethan. I did not intend to become a famous gladiator, I mostly just assumed the lifestyle would keep me on a particularly pure path, and it did. I only ever had one unwanted visit from the 100th Legion and that was because of Isaar! And… if I am being honest, I did like Isaar, but I mostly just wanted to help look after their poor kids. Sleeping with someone who was not a Rethan would have gotten me imprisoned at best.”
“Even if that person was a god?”
“If Rethais or Relkir had not had positions of power, me sleeping with a deity would have gotten me death by firing squad.”
Kayel paused briefly. “I thought Rethans didn’t have capital punishment, same way us Skyans didn’t?”
“Also, aren’t most Rethans traditionally somewhat bulletproof?” Nyssi added.
“Rethais removed all forms of capital punishment from law as soon as they got into power. Which I am very glad for because none of you have had to look at a row of heavy duty machine guns ready to fire streams of high calibre bullets while waiting to be executed, only to have that execution stopped last second!”
All of a sudden, Tanos put his ice cream down and turned into a cat. This instantly calmed Ret down, because Tanos could tell he was getting very upset.
“You… you did not need to do that…” Ret sighed.
“I did. We’re unintentionally upsetting you.”
“These questions are upsetting me, yes…” Ret sighed some more. “But, ironically… the thing that… made me curious about kinks was when we woke up in the Allbirther’s stupid meat lab. I came round and I was tied up and horny and in the middle of being saved by Arkay, who was in a very attractive Rethan form. That… did something to me.”
Tanos, Kayel and Nyssi all glanced at each other, then shrugged.
“Yeah, I can definitely see that…” Nyssi smiled. “I mean, that whole meat lab thing gave me ideas too. That’s why I secretly want to try pegging someone. Because I was drugged up, locked in a large glass cage with a bunch of men with big dicks who were willing to do whatever I demanded and I… I wanted to do to them what I asked them to do to me.”
Tanos eyed Nyssi briefly. “That is more messed up than what Retvik just said.”
“And also somewhat unobtainable. Fragiir is too male to accept anal, and Thassalin and Saahro, I’d need a really large strap-on. Mostly because I don’t like Thassalin shapeshifting into things, he seems happier when he is Thraki-shaped.”
“Why is… Alright, normally I don’t want to talk about sex stuff, but why is you getting laid unobtainable, Nyssi?” Tanos asked.
“There’s no one really out here.”
“But… what about those… Thrastarii guys? The ones from the Alsyr place up north, that we sometimes see at Sini’s place or at the mechanical Lanex pit-stop place?” Kayel suggested.
“They’re… not Temthans.”
Kayel shrugged. “So? I sleep with Veekay, he’s genetically more closely related to Retvik than he is to me. Those Thrastarii are basically winged Temthans. I’m sure they work the same way.”
Nyssi thought for a moment. “Huh… I suppose… They are kinda cool… But it’s kinda pure luck for me to meet one.”
“Not really!” Kayel grinned. “We just speak to Psiksi and old Retvik and see if he can get us some jobs up north alongside those Alsyr guys. Pretty sure old Retvik wants better relations with those guys anyway.”
Nyssi thought for a moment, licked her ice cream, then smiled back. “You know what? You’re completely fucking right.”