<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/f/f7/Sample-67c865198e2f7ce9333ef53c111aec9c_%281%29.jpg)</div><strong>Now</strong><br/><br/>The tea was good, savory and hot.  Upon first reclining on these comfortable cushions, Mai had spent several long moments letting the warmth of the tea sink into her bones.  It slipped into her through the hands that rasped the mug, through the lugs that inhaled the savory steam.<br/><br/>After a few sips Mai realized that her kimono had come a little loose, showing a bit of the inner curve of her breasts.  It was a fashionable and alluring look—one she'd favored before the temple burned.  What surprised Mai was that finding herself like this in public did not result in a swift chill of fear and overwhelming feeling of vulnerability.<br/><br/>Slowly, the purple haired girl smiled and relaxed.<br/><br/>She looked up into the newcomers' eyes and blushed a little.  Her eyes wandered politely down the generously displayed body—fit and curvaceous—then back up to the other girl's eyes.  She only hesitated for a moment.  “Please dine with me?  There's nothing lonlier than pouring your own sake.”<br/><br/>She poured one of the saucers from a bottle of hot and offered it to the geisha with a gesture for the curvaceous girl to sit next to her.<br/><br/>On a pillow beneath the table, a small white cat seemed to snooze, but for a moment it opened an emerald eye, smiled a felid smile, and then dozed again.