It wasn't bedtime yet, and the whole group was sitting around the fire, most contemplating the task ahead of them the next day and lost in their own thoughts.
Rincewind brooded, stirring the fuel a bit with a stick, half-listening to the muted conversations around her. On one side Diana sat, talking to Sindy:
"So you want to try JigSaw, do you?" the Amazon was asking. "I thought you just had eyes for Dabbler, girl."
"Yeah, but Dabbler's -- different now," Sindy said.
Diana laughed. "That's for sure! Been getting antsy since you haven't been getting any, have you?"
"Um, actually I have played around a bit," Sindy replied. "Rincewind, even JigSaw before he turned. But Rincewind wasn't very good--"
I wasn't? Rincewind thought. Then she remembered. That had been back in her wimp male phase. She had actually been rather surprised with herself, too, it had been her first time ever, and she wasn't even really sure why she'd done it, unless it was this place influencing her, somehow. Still, it had been good for her. Something of a revelation, actually....
Meanwhile, Sindy had continued to speak. "--and it was just a quickie with JigSaw, no time to really get into it. But since he was the only man left by that time--"
"What about Mort?" the Amazon asked.
Sindy giggled. "Oh please! Even if by some wild stretch of the imagination he managed to turn me on, the ghost has dibs on him."
"Yes, odd she doesn't appear to mind his appearance," Diana noted. "But you know," she continued in a murmur, edging closer to Sindy, "there are other options...."
"Thanks," Sindy replied, squirming uncomfortably, "but I'm not sure I'm ready for that yet, sex to me has always meant a guy-girl thing."
"Really? From what you've mentioned of your former life, I gathered you were a bit ... kinky."
"Yes, that's true, I admit," Sindy confessed. "I always got off on cross-dressing, and through a strange set of circumstances I even ended up making my living at it, posing as a female exotic dancer. It was strange how much I enjoyed getting up and dancing in front of all those guys, teasing them, making them want me, knowing what they'd think if they ever caught on to just what they were lusting after...." She smiled at the memory. "It was so ... so exciting, I used to get so turned on! But I was never turned on by them, just the idea of what I was doing, I was always attracted to girls, not guys."
"Girls who dug cross-dressers, eh?"
"That's right. Didn't find too many, though. But then I came here. And I changed, did a total flip-flop. It took me a while to accept it, but now I was into guys. And I still am. Guys. Not girls."
"I see your problem. If we don't count Mort, we're kind of fresh out of guys, aren't we? So you figured on testing the waters with JigSaw because she's still part guy, is that it?"
Sindy hesitated. "Sort of," she said. "Actually, it was more -- I was thinking if I let her -- you know, that she'd um, let me borrow his thing? Because I um, still really like Dabbler, and I was thinking that maybe if I could make it with her like a guy, maybe it -- it wouldn't feel so weird?"
Diana looked at her for a minute and then started laughing. "Sindy, do you have any idea just how weird that just sounded?"
Sindy colored. "Yeah," she said. "But all the same...."
Rincewind shook her head and stopped listening. People sure could get mixed up. Though I'm a fine one to talk, she thought.
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