It's not just that his nervous system is, pun intended, melting down, or that he's turned on and a little dizzy from carefully controlled oxygen intake. It's that he's being pushed and Wash is using controlled affection and ...checking in and on Crais.
All of those things are an enormous, enormous turn on.
He's flushed, pupils dilated and a little glassy eyed, both from arousal and some fairly minor (comparatively) affects of the (relatively mild, really) neurological impacts from the heat.
And also, you know, an altered mental state commonly referred to as subspace.
He blinks twice to make his eyes focus but his voice is maybe a little soft edged, but confident and sure.]
Mango. I'm good.
[ He wouldn't be interested, or willing, to fake that just to push something further, but he is being aided here - he's got enough experience to recognize a checkin and to respond to it clearly and honestly.]
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It's not just that his nervous system is, pun intended, melting down, or that he's turned on and a little dizzy from carefully controlled oxygen intake. It's that he's being pushed and Wash is using controlled affection and ...checking in and on Crais.
All of those things are an enormous, enormous turn on.
He's flushed, pupils dilated and a little glassy eyed, both from arousal and some fairly minor (comparatively) affects of the (relatively mild, really) neurological impacts from the heat.
And also, you know, an altered mental state commonly referred to as subspace.
He blinks twice to make his eyes focus but his voice is maybe a little soft edged, but confident and sure.]
Mango. I'm good.
[ He wouldn't be interested, or willing, to fake that just to push something further, but he is being aided here - he's got enough experience to recognize a checkin and to respond to it clearly and honestly.]