<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/WBtVnX1.jpg)</div><br/>Ylene listened very intently to Miyuki's words, and the bard could sense great wisdom from the drow.  She could sense that as she spoke the priestess was listening to not only the words, but the emotion, the hidden things between the words.  The way a story was told was as much that was unsaid as was, any good storyteller, any good bard knew this.  While Ylene may not have actively known it, she was putting such things into action, her body language betraying her interests and displeasure.  But as Miyuki watched the drow watching her, she realized that there was a sense of a kindred spirit in the priestess.  Ylene was one who would freely share her body, but not for simple coin alone.  She got the sense just by watching the drow's reactions that Ylene used her body as a weapon, and not just the way the monks of her temples did.  The priestess might be able to use fists, feet, and elbows, but so too did she understand the power in a kiss, a suck, or the caressing embrace of wet sex.  Miyuki didn't know exactly how she knew this, but she did, as certain as she knew that the sun would rise in the east and set in the west.<br/><br/>When Miyuki's tale was done Ylene sighed,<strong>"I wish I had more time for you tonight, for I could spend a week in your company.  But I have many irons in the fire and my time grows short.  So I shall put it to you plainly.  While you spoke I wove a spell of truth seeing, and found you to be honest and forthrightness.  These are qualities that... he... would appreciate."</strong>Now why did Ylene stumble over the pronoun when referring to Etron?<strong>"But if you wish my blessing, I must test your skills and your willingness.  Would you allow me to take you, sample your sexual skills, right here and now on this roof top where any of the higher buildings might watch?  I assure you, I have my fair share of watchers every night when I pray in the nude, and no doubt there are still eyes upon us even now.  Would you bare your flesh to me and let me sample your charms, just for the favor of my approval?"</strong><br/><br/>Miyuki sensed that this was not a simple exchange of pleasure, this was a test.  A test of her sexual skills for certain, but also of her response to so bold a question.  Would she be willing to fuck someone who was essentially a stranger at a moment's notice to get what she wanted?