He breaks it off eventually, feeling slightly shaken by the intensity with which that just happened, but also knowing that this is the way he must follow to not be helplessly mentally stuck in dath ilan for the rest of his second life.

"I," says Keltham in something of a growl, "need to actually go do my work.  My brain apparently is not willing to believe, not in the way of doubting your honesty, but in the way of being unable to visualize it, that you could actually stay up here masturbating for five hours and not get bored.  So what you're actually going to do is masturbate for ten minutes out of every hour, and you are allowed to do it other places than here.  I will come and take you when my work is done."

"I'm paying you two gold pieces for a day's sex work, that I elect to use so, and I might pay you that again in the future if I ask you to do anything that takes up a day, not because I want to have no bond of friendship otherwise between us, but to see if I can successfully make that part of my brain shut up."

"If you're worried about that slow start to things, go ask Carissa how fast I can escalate."

He breaks it off eventually, feeling slightly shaken by the intensity with which that just happened, but also knowing that this is the way he must follow to not be helplessly mentally stuck in dath ilan for the rest of his second life.

"I," says Keltham in something of a growl, "need to actually go do my work.  My brain apparently is not willing to believe, not in the way of doubting your honesty, but in the way of being unable to visualize it, that you could actually stay up here masturbating for hours and not get bored.  So what you're actually going to do is masturbate for ten minutes out of every hour, and you are allowed to do it other places than here.  I will come and take you when my work is done."

"I'm paying you two gold pieces for a day's sex work, that I elect to use so, and I might pay you that again in the future if I ask you to do anything that takes up a day, not because I want to have no bond of friendship otherwise between us, but to see if I can successfully make that part of my brain shut up."

"If you're worried about that slow start to things, go ask Carissa how fast I can escalate."

He breaks it off eventually, feeling shaken by the intensity with which that just happened, but also knowing that this is the way he must follow to not be helplessly mentally stuck in dath ilan for the rest of his second life.

"I," says Keltham in something of a growl, "need to actually go do my work.  My brain apparently is not willing to believe, not in the way of doubting your honesty, but in the way of being unable to visualize it, that you could actually stay up here masturbating for hours and not get bored.  So what you're actually going to do is masturbate for ten minutes out of every hour, and you are allowed to do it other places than here.  I will come and take you when my work is done."

"I'm paying you two gold pieces for a day's sex work, that I elect to use so, and I might pay you that again in the future if I ask you to do anything that takes up a day, not because I want to have no bond of friendship otherwise between us, but to see if I can successfully make that part of my brain shut up."

"If you're worried about that slow start to things, go ask Carissa how fast I can escalate."