Advice for the Sensual Experience

Writers: Aaron, Halyonix
Date Posted: 4th September 2025

Characters: K'don, M'trel
Description: K'don excitedly asks his bestest friend M'trel for advice.
Location: Dolphin Cove Weyr
Date: month 4, day 18 of Turn 12
Notes: Mentioned: I'mrei, K'sedel (not by name)
Contains discussion of a vaguely sexual nature but nothing explicit.

K'don

"Oh! Hi! Sir!" K'don slid into the baths beside M'trel having noticed he was there, as it seemed was his custom. "I had a thing that I wanted to ask you about." He submerged himself and then started lathering his hair.

"How have you been? How is everything going for you?"

M'trel suppressed an inward groan. He had done his best to make K'don feel empowered to make his own decisions but the young rider _still_ kept coming to him for seemingly day-to-day things. Usually with some sort of importance or urgency in his voice that was in direct contrast to the inane topic being brought. "Fine. A little busy, but fine," M'trel answered, managing to keep the clipped tone out of his voice. "How are you doing?"

"I'm... really good, actually." K'don was even smilier than usual. "I think maybe I kind of have a boyfriend? I've never really, you know... felt this way about anyone. Not a boy or a girl, even." He dunked himself to rinse his hair.

"We're probably going to... you know, do bedroom stuff soon, and I've still never done it. Don't tell my grandpa. I know you don't have time to give a whole lecture on it, but you must know everything about it. What's the single most important thing for me to know to make it a good time for him?"

This was absolutely not the conversation that M'trel saw coming.

The Wingthird fumbled for a response. "Uh...."

K'don stared at M'trel, all smiles, waiting for what was surely going to be the best sex advice he had ever received, on account of it would be the only sex advice he had ever received.

"I bet it's hard to boil it down to one thing, isn't it? Shells, there's probably so much to consider... I haven't the foggiest what it all could be, but don't worry, I'll do exactly what you tell me, and I know it'll all work out."

}: Which part would you like to address first? :{ Noruith asked with a humored rumble.

The fact that his dragon found this situation amusing knocked M'trel out of his dazed state. "Well, first off, uh, you should, uh, talk about what you both like. Sexually. Before you get in bed." Is this what it was like to give the flight talk as a Weyrlingmaster? Or the pre-wedding jitters talk to a new Hold bride?

This was going to get really awkward, really fast.

"Hm. Is there anything everyone likes? I don't want to have nothing to tell him if he asks me..." K'don stroked his chin. Did anyone know what they liked before they had even done anything? Maybe normal people did. "What's your favorite thing?"

}: Good luck with that, :{ Noruith answered with uncharacteristic humor at his rider's expense.

"Uh...lube? Lube is good. Oil, I mean. Oils. Helps with um...everything."

K'don tilted his head, quite perplexed for a moment or two as he tried to piece together how lube would be M'trel's favorite sexy thing. K'don had assumed it was just sort of... part of the experience. A prerequisite.

}:Maybe he means he likes a sunderly kind of slick. Maybe with a chosen smell,:{ Maciath suggested.

**Ohhh, yeah, good point.** Special scents were often part of the sexy experience. At least, K'don thought they were.

"Like... with lavender or... citron scent? Or something?"

M'trel made an awkwardly weird face as he thought about citron scents during sex. "No, um...some people are sensitive to scents. Keep it plain. I mean, plain on the oil. You can get creative with other things."

"Hm..." K'don pondered for a moment. "Well, I think he liked my new dress shirt the first time we kissed? There are sexy clothes, too, right? What kind of stuff do you wear?"

Wear? What to wear? M'trel answered with, "Well, the goal is to be naked so...uh..." He tried to think of all of the pretty women he had taken out on dates. Low cut tunics. High slit dresses. "Something that shows skin in a good way?" he suggested. "Maybe something enticing."

For some reason, the only image that popped into his head was a man parading around shameless in a thong, and M'trel was _not_ into that at all!

K'don had never been enticed before. He had very little idea what was supposed to be enticing. Was there a bad way to show skin? His confusion showed clearly on his face, as always.

"Like what?"

Breasts. Breasts were good. For M'trel anyway. "Uh...well, what do you uh, find enticing about your boyfriend's body?"

Please don't say anything about thongs.

"Well, that's just the thing, I..." K'don was suddenly worried that maybe M'trel would think something was wrong with him. But they were friends, right? He would be understanding.

"I've never been enticed before. Not by bodies, anyway. I really like kissing I'mrei, but it's because of the way being with him makes me feel, not because there's something special about his body. N-not that his body isn't special! I'm sure it is. I just... don't understand what other people are seeing that does it. But I know that _he_ likes bodies. So. I wanted to do something for him that he would like, and I didn't know what to do."

M'trel briefly wondered if he was ever going to get out of this conversation. Rubbing his forehead, he tried to apply logical problem solving to it. "Do you know what he likes about you?" Maybe he would find something there.

"He hasn't really said-- not anything specific..." K'don sighed. Maybe this was an unsolvable problem.

There! An opening! That wasn't awkward! Well, mostly. "Maybe you should ask," M'trel suggested sincerely.

"Oh. Huh." K'don had genuinely never considered that. "I guess I just thought... this was one of those things everybody else but me just knew. I didn't want him to find out I'm... you know... broken or whatever. In case he doesn't want to be with me anymore."

The older brownrider's brow furrowed. "Why would you think you're broken?" he asked.

K'don side-eyed M'trel for half a second. Had he not been listening this whole time? Sometimes adultier adults did not.

"Because I don't know all of these things I'm asking you about. Because I don't have the same kinds of... you know, sexy feelings normal people do."

"That doesn't make you broken," M'trel answered with conviction. "Ignorance doesn't make you broken. Different...feelings...doesn't either. It's what makes you yourself."

K'don was not entirely sure whether M'trel was just saying that to make him feel better about himself. But M'trel had not been in the habit of lying to him to spare his feelings so far. Maybe it was true. Maybe he really was just different and not broken.

"So... if I tell him, he won't... you know, stop wanting to be with me?"

"If he does, then he isn't worth it," the older brownrider said with that same certainty.

"Hm..." K'don was not sure he liked that possibility. But he trusted M'trel's advice. So he would just have to be brave and tell Im'rei everything.

"Thanks for talking with me, sir," said K'don. "I think it's about time to get dried off."

"You're welcome," M'trel answered with heartfelt relief. Thank Faranth this weird conversation was coming to an end!

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