I’m just jumping right into the snippet, no preamble picking up from last week. CW – discussions of sexual abuse. Picking up from Kaleo telling Aneirin he expects Aneirin to hurt him

Shyroth spun the chair out of his grasp so he could look Kaleo square in the face. “Not every master hurts their Toys.”

Kaleo curled his lip at him. “Are you sure of that? I can tell you in detail what they trained me to expect.”

Aneirin narrowed his eyes into cool, blue slits. “I am sure, as I’m sure there are those exactly as you expected. And you will tell me those details, just not today.”

“I’m sorry. You’re busy trying to save the world.” Kaleo winced. He had meant it jokingly but it sounded bitchy. “I didn’t mean…”

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I am struggling to find time in my weekends. Hell I don’t even know how we’re more than halfway through this hellscape of a year.

Ah well back into the SF story. Aneirin and Kaleo are getting to know each other. Aneirin has just explained part of his job as a geneticist and his charity work, surprising Kaleo.

Content Warning: references to sexual abuse

“Wow…I don’t know what to say to that. I guess I didn’t think that my master would be like this but you didn’t exactly buy me.” Kaleo wasn’t sure he could mesh his preconceived ideas with this reality. If any of this was true, Shyroth was a better man than any Kaleo had ever known. He hadn’t been prepared for that. Hell, he didn’t know how to handle that.

“I’m not sure I want to know what you were expecting.”

Kaleo gripped the top of Shyroth’s chair until his knuckles went white. “They trained us to take more humiliations than I imagined could have existed. I never considered myself naïve, not being a slum mutt but I didn’t know there were that many sexual fetishes. I was expecting a cruel man. I didn’t know what else my master would be, but I knew he’d enjoy hurting me.”

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Took another unexpected two week absence from the snippets. Well one I could have predicted as I was at a work conference two weeks ago. It went well (but I’ve yet to write any of the people I wanted to. Sigh. Need to get on that) My presentation at the con went well.

But I also got rampagingly ill with bronchitis and that took me out for the next week but I’m back with more of Aneirin and Kaleo’s story. Kaleo is in Aneirin’s home lab, trying to get to know them.

“What are you doing?” He leaned against the back of Shyroth’s chair to see what his reaction would be. Nothing as it turned out. It made Kaleo nervous. What if he couldn’t interest Shyroth at all? He wasn’t convinced that he could stay without providing something and his body was the only thing he had to provide. What if it wasn’t enough? He should sneak a knife away from the dinner table if he could. Kaleo was excellent with knives, not that much skill was needed to end his own life.

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