[quote=@Tatterdemalion][b]Adila![/b]

Thankfully, you have one Princess Dandy to distract you. She wraps her arms around your neck again and squeezes. "I knew you'd come back for me, sugarcube," she says. "But you know what I realized down there?" Her hands still shake where they touch your fur. "I reckon that I haven't spent half as much time with you as I'd like. When all this hurlyburly is over and done with, well, I reckon that... if it ain't too much to be asking, we sit down with Iron Star and see if we can't talk things over about you being inclined to have a heart for a whole packle of princesses at once."

It's a lovely moment only spoiled by Hornet yelling from the front, "Hey, official friend! Want to come pull this go backwards lever? It makes us go backwards!"[/quote]

There's so much to process there. She's been shocked and mortified to have her secret fantasy dragged out of her and now - h-how does she even translate that into reality? Will she really be able to say - or do - or [i]be[/i] the person she imagined being? It's overwhelming to be told that it is [i]okay[/i] to be into what she's into - 

[i](Like, is it okay if she thinks of it as her harem? She'd like that - but she'll accept kind of like a relationship of equals if that's better, she already understands she's asking for a lot already. Everyone has kingdoms to look after, after all, but you know she pursued a princess through the Jedadi Queen's harem when she was younger and that left a [/i]really[i] big impression and, you know, she had a while to think about that after she got tangled in some of the chains that had been lying on the ground - and she'd understand if they don't want to wear the veil but maybe they could -)[/i]

There's one fortunate out that saves her from the sound of her brain suddenly starting to process... everything. It's that the most important part of all of this is that she gets to be confident, decisive and aggressive. The underlying impulse cuts right through all the complex swirls of thoughts and she leans in to affectionately nuzzle Princess Dandy - a lingering motion that promises one thing: [i]later[/i]. And then she smoothly breaks away, leaving the tension crackling in the air.

With that same electric confidence she walked up to the side of Princess Hornet, took the lever in her mouth, and pulled it back. She needed to deal with this too.

And then her brain reminded her that they were on a vertical axis, suspended in mid-air, in a device built by Princess Hornet, she had just done something that would make it [i]stop[/i] being in the sky, she lacked her wings/a seat belt, and also she was now legally complicit in anything that subsequently occurred.