<blockquote>Wang Ningmei has had a fair amount of sex, in her day. Most of it she’d even call good, some of it with people she'd really liked, even loved, some of it both of those things at the same time. But there was something about the simultaneous ease and tension in the room right now, familiarity and newness combining into a heady cocktail that meant every touch and laugh and motion was unexpected but never truly a surprise. She knows these women. She's talked with them, laughed with them, built a thousand stories with them for years. They're hers, in a way she's never conceived of til now, and she's theirs. But she doesn't know them here, like this, slick laughing lips and cracking laughs and the glorious slide of flesh on flesh, and every little thing she learns is like a light turning on inside her, filling her with warmth and want.</blockquote>
➤ epilogue to the forums au