[ at first, back when they'd only started becoming close, she would have rejected being touched that way-- it's taken her time, to get accustomed, not just to the way a human-like body experiences things like touch, but to him. in her mind, she catalogs all the little details, learning his habits, his quirks. what he looks like when he's waking up. or what his voice sounds like when he's teasing her.

her touch is somewhere between vaguely affectionate and exploratory when her fingertips trail from where his hand rests on her hip over the round bone in his wrist to his elbow. she answers in her straight-forward way. ]

I concluded that borrowing it was a more appropriate alternative to going without one. [ in a pointed tone, like it's very quaint to her that clothing is an issue of any kind with organics: ] According to human social norms.