Scout shoves him again, no harder than before, and brings her tail back around to behind her. The hardest thing to get used to after asking the Ringmaster to change it was the sudden awkwardness of trying to work out what to do with it most of the time. She's so much more aware of it than she was before it became so dexterous.

"I don't know if anyone's that pretty, either! I'm only really attracted to people who're good athletes and balanced and kind, and then they have to be people who won't want it to be a whole relationship." Scout really doesn't see the point in being embarrassed about sex. She's also raised to not see any point in romance, and for her it's taken pretty well. "Better if they're also my friend, too. It's been a while but I'm not going to have my head turned that easily."