Redsand Canyon (M) The needle.

At least she got her laugh to appear again. Aquene chuckled with it knowing how silly she sounded. She didn’t know Towhee as well as she did others, but it just seemed unnatural for the woman to not be joking around. That was a great deal of the experience that Aquene had with her. “I might be a healer, and well versed in these things, but that doesn’t make it any less awkward for me to talk about. I feel so… embarrassed… sometimes when I talk about it.” She offered weakly in her defense through her own chuckles. It had been taboo, and in her birth pack they left most of the birds and the bees talk to the married women who had bore children.
 
Aquene just went out and had fun, and even in that moment, Kallik was really the only one she’d had fun with so in terms of a fun encounter as she would say… there was only one… and it had only happened the previous day. The laughter faded out of her and Aquene did not pry. Prying usually yielded prying in return and if the woman did not want to share her thoughts, Aquene would not push it. “I imagine Ruenna would at least.” At least she had gotten to the point of dropping the title when discussing the matriarch. “Germanicus is always so hard to read… though the other day I did manage to get…” She leaned in conspiratorially. “An actual smile out of him.” It was like their little secret, because she was still so shocked. “I imagine with how important you are to her, he would not deny her if she were to allow it.” She offered to try and help, even though she still knew very little over the nature of the women’s relationship.