Camping

For several hours, all of you party together, the extra Mauvian females taking turns absorbing heat from you, Blackfire and Flashfire.

Nuh gets up to get more food, and you see a male with blue-purple colored skin approach her.

You can tell they are talking, although you can't hear them over the din of conversation between all the females sitting with you and the others. Since they have no lips to read, you watch their eyes. The male seems to be expressing deep feelings, and a little bit of nervousness, while Nuh expresses awe and gratitude.

Nuh moves close to the male, and touches her cheek to his. That is probably one of the many "intimate touches" Mauvians share in place of a kiss. Blushing, the male and Nuh join you and the dozen or more Mauvians, Nuh sitting next to Blackfire on your left.

You watch the two girls talk, and can just hear Nuh introduce Blackfire to the male, Han. The two shake hands, and Blackfire leans in close to you.

"Looks like Nuh found her nice guy after all," she says.

"That's great!" you exclaim.

You lean forward to look at Nuh.

"Nuh!" you call her attention, inadvertantly getting many others'. She turns her head to look at you.

"I knew you'd find what you were looking for," you say, giving a thumbs up. Nuh decodes your cryptic message, and smiles.

"You did!" she giggles, hugging Han, a big smile in her eyes.

The party continues all evening, and into the night.

"Tonight's going to be cold," Tek says. "We all planned on camping out."

"And we've got plenty of tents if you want to stay," Yoh says to you and the girls.

"Well, we don't want to impose," you say, seeing Nuh and Han setting up one with Fay and one of those girls that was clinging to you earlier.

"You wouldn't be imposing at all," Yoh says. "We're all friends, we can sleep in the same tents without it getting awkward."

"Are you sure?" Flashfire asks. "Because if stuff like what my broher and Blackfire always do ends up happening, I'd definitely feel uncomfortable."

You glare at your sister.

"We don't ALWAYS--"

"Don't worry," Tek interrupts, "we don't do that while camping. We all promise that those who are coupled up don't do anything more than snuggle."

"C'mon, Saffire," Flashfire says. "Let's camp out!"

"Alright, alright," you give in. "Let's set up the tent."

It takes a few minutes for you, Flashfire, and Blackfire to figure out how to put the tent rods together and get them to stand up.

By the time you get it together so that it stays standing, Nuh and Han have crawled into the tent they're sharing with Fay and some others.

"Good night, Nuh," Blackfire calls.

"Night, everyone," she calls back.

Flashfire crawls in first, and takes a spot on the right. Blackfire lies down next to her, and you next to Blackfire. As promised, you only snuggle with Blackfire as you drift off to sleep, nothing more.