[D1 - C3] Skipping Class pt I (Ask)

Chiyo was already standing, so she went ahead and gave the monk a bow. “A pleasure to meet you, Hiroko-san.”

She’s seen many monks in her time, so this one really came as no surprise to her. Sometimes it was hard to tell until a name was dropped if she was in the presence of a man or a woman, but it often didn’t matter. Chiyo hardly spoke to them. Not because they weren’t worth speaking to, but mostly because they would likely have nothing to talk about. Like Shugenja, she found them rather odd, in their own niche as it were. It’s something that seems to have stuck throughout history. There’s a respect, but the cliques are not one in the same.

“I must admit, I’ve never had the opportunity to do this before.” Her mother had a few times, but she was too young to be included then.

Chiyo glanced over to the mat with a small hint of apprehension, but only because she wasn’t familiar enough with this process to be more aware of what would come next. She follows his orders without fuss, though the fuss in her mind was fairly intense. Even with a third person in the room this all felt a little too intimate for her. She knew how to play it up well, and she had a fondness for toying with men as long as she felt like she was in control. At this moment however, she did not quite feel this way. If it became too unbearable, she would likely begin to act out.

But for now she was...oddly docile.

He probably should. While the monk may be under a vow of silence, the Bayushi still felt the heavy weight of scandal upon her if she chose to expose so much of herself to a peer, and a gaijin of all things. It's a shame that is what it is, but even silence can speak volumes if this monk encounters anybody she knows.

"I would appreciate that," Chiyo responds. She sounds slightly stressed.

The experience was overall a pleasant one, especially once Tarik saw his way out. It gave her some time to really reflect while she was being kneaded like dough. Or time to think when she wasn't being reduced to a hole in the floor from how transcendental this felt.

Why was Tarik keeping her around, exactly? She didn't twist around him like she did around others. She wasn't trying to seduce him, nor was she putting herself out as somebody who could be potentially seduced. In fact, Chiyo was quite certain she would have to begin trying soon to stay in his graces. While he might be a gaijin, she's the one looking to gain more from this relationship than he must be. The other Scorpions would be easier for him to get along with or connect to, even someone like Yoruga or Nomen would be easier models for him to impress upon--if that's his angle.

Chiyo had the angle she made up for him, but not the real deal. While she was more in the business of making contacts rather than codebreaking them, she needed to understand Tarik better, perhaps even forge more of a bond with him, in order to keep getting invited to gatherings and eventually more gossip. Not to mention, he is by age and proxy, a potential duckling. Getting this one to follow her rather than wander off in some other direction, however, would take a little more than animal magnetism.

When the session was over, a polite dismissal later she informed the house as she was told to do--with a bit of assistance, probably. The whole house AI thing was sort of alien to her.