Gelitech Poll Adventure - Part 9 (Patreon)

Rai is just a bit taken aback by her companion's suggestion that she sit on the bench and play bait for the tree-bound biogel tentacle orbs. It wasn't so much that the mitanni expected her to actually user her own fey'li body to toy with fate at some point, but doing it right away? Right now? And without getting a chance to watch someone else give it a go?

That was assuming that someone else actually wanted to try it themselves, of course. All things considered, there was a good chance that she might well be the only one in the whole Gelarium with even half an inclination to stick her toes over the edge and tempt fate at the hands, or rather tentacles, of the biogel beasts within the tree. But was it really fair that she'd be the one putting on the show for her companion when the whole idea of them perusing the Gelarium together had been entirely her idea?

Rai shrugs her shoulders as she makes up her mind. "Well, okay. I'll do it. But... only if you're sitting right there beside me!"

D'tash immediately chuckles. "Oh! Is that how you want to play the game?"

"I think it's only fair," Rai replies.

"Alright," D'tash responds with a broad smile. "We'll both do it together, then!"

Rai still isn't all that enthused with the idea of tempting fate before she's had much of a chance to see the Gelarium's other offerings, let alone see other visitors interacting with said offerings. "Right now, though?" she asks, wondering if, perhaps, the mitanni might be just as interested in seeing the other sights.

"Why not?" D'tash answers with a step toward the bench.

"You don't want to see more before we, uh... you know," Rai says with a look around the Menagerie's upper floor. "Like... take that kind of risk. Because..."

"Oh, don't be so shy about it!" D'tash laughs. "Life is full of perils, isn't it? Why should we step back when we can embrace them and, if fate so decides, explore their intimate consequences? Intimately pleasurable consequences, in a place like this. Come! Let's see what fate has in store of us here. If it decides that our future is being absorbed into the blackness, then so be it! And if not, then perhaps it has something else in store for us. But there is only one way to find out, isn't there?"

"Well... I guess," Rai responds with another shrug.

"Then let's do it," D'tash says, taking another tentative step toward the bench.

"How long are we going to sit there?" Rai asks as she too takes a step toward the waiting purple biogel cushions. "I mean, we're not just going to sit there until it tries to snatch us, right?"

"Well, of course not!" D'tash replies with a broad smile. "But... well. Why don't you decide? How long shall we sit before we decide that we've given fate its proper chance?"

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How long should Rai and D'tash sit and tempt fate with their dangling feet?