"That was exactly what I wanted.  Come here."  Aeryn pulls the elf closer and kisses her again. Soft, slow, lingering and sensual.  She blinks past more than a few strands of now-loose hair and snuggles even closer to nuzzle the stronger woman's throat, her slowing gasps of breath pulsing against her partner's throat.  "I know you came, I could feel it, but was that what you wanted?"  The healer had one arm wrapped around Xen's shoulders, the other swept across her body with slow broad palm strokes. She gets an odd look in her eyes, then laughs out loud.<br/><br/>"I'm a free woman now.  This is the first time In years that I've held in my arms somebody whom I wasn't in some way compelled to hold."  She kisses the elf again, a light brush of lips against lips as the human turns a bit and hugs one of Xen's legs between her own.  "And I find myself....No.  I don't want to go down that path just yet."  Aeryn grins at the barbarian.  "So, now that my body has said thank you for pulling me off the beach, thank you for not giving me to that red bas- that red man and your body just said very convincingly you're welcome, where does that leave us?"  It was said in a very light tone, but the look in the healer's eyes is very intent on the answer.