(ooc: I\'m a bit confused about how her hair can keep falling in her face when her character sheet has it listed as so short it spikes up all over her head? Also, she\'s sitting beside him on the back seat of a car, how is she able to put both her hands on his shoulders? I can understand one - though it would be awkward, considering his greater height and his thigh is a more likely place to touch - but not two, surely? It\'s just a luxurious car but a normal one, not a limousine where they\'d be facing each other, just to be clear - that could\'ve caused your confusion)
Tau nodded when she stated that he was warm, but didn\'t pursue that line of conversation - he was too confused about the rest of it. He could see that Alec was embarrased by this topic of conversation, for her blush was evident in body language as much as it was in her cheeks, but he didn\'t have the experience to be sensitive about it. All he knew was to talk about where his understanding was deficit and try to rectify it that way.
"Uh, well, I don\'t have a lot of experience. I have been living in this city for a year. When we arrived, we only had the money our mother had given us so I found a job at a petrol station. I worked the graveyard shift, so I learned a bit about human nature there; I was robbed three times but there were also a lot of strange people that came into the store in the early hours of the morning. I learned that there were many, many different types of supernatural scents to be found in this city," he told Alec with enthusiasm, his eyes widening to reinforce the wonder of those early discoveries, his voice bemused and almost reverant to match it.
Occasionally, he would glance at where her hand rested upon him, but it was only a passing thing and he didn\'t stare like it made him uncomfortable; it was just something else to look at in between her eyes, mouth and body. It brought something else she might be interested in knowing to mind, though.
"The owner of the station was a woman. She had a husband but she desired sex with me, so she showed me how humans do it. She was surprised I\'d never done it before because I looked so mature, but she did not know I was a shifter, so I did not worry about it. She liked having sex a lot," Tau guffawed, nodding this time and grinning rather goofily as he recalled the numerous times his boss had pressed him down upon her desk and mounted him, with the blinds drawn to hide their activities.
He certainly had no understanding of sexual harrassment, but had been curious enough about the process that he hadn\'t protested (though his feline sex drive was wired into a need to breed, so he felt unmatched with her human libido. His body had never let him down, thankfully).
His expression sobered as he recalled what happened at the conclusion of that period in his life - Jed had left. "My brother got into some trouble with the Oligarchy, however. He didn\'t adjust to city and human life very well, so he shifted a lot and prowled through the streets as a cougar, gaining media attention and the council\'s observation. He got some warnings but when Halen asked me to join the council and I accepted, it was too much for him so he went back to the wild. Said I had betrayed him," Tau explained, his expression ruminative and his tone sad. It was obvious that his brother being away from him was something very difficult for him to cope with - he blinked as he realised he\'d even talked about it now. He hadn\'t meant to.
"In the Oligarchy, I have met many sorts of shifters but also plenty of humans that I have had to question. I... have had a few conversations but dn\'t know everything there is to know about adult life. I don\'t think I ever will, because I don\'t have long enough left to learn it all. Is," he hesitated, his frown returning as he looked intently at Alacer, "is there something specific you think I should know that I would not have learned yet?" he queried, honestly wanting to know everything she thought he should.
