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She threw both arms around him with the wholehearted force of someone who had no practice in managing adult limbs and no intention of starting responsibly. Her body hit his chest. Her hair flew everywhere. The blankets became even less useful than before.
"Master," she announced with shocking triumph, "now Bat Bat is big. Let us do it."
Sekhmet actually froze.
"DO What?"
Bat Bat pulled back just enough to look at him with the full seriousness of a woman explaining simple mathematics to someone unexpectedly slow.
"What you did with Lily."
Sekhmet stared at her.
Bat Bat nodded vigorously. "The kissing. The warm smell. The closed room. The suspicious breathing. I observed all of it. Now Bat Bat is also big. So clearly it is my turn."
For one second, Sekhmet's mind simply stopped functioning.
Then she kissed him. Not well.
