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[just_hormones]

One of the things Aphrodite likes to do best is take a nice, luxurious bubble bath. It's totally bitchin', having her own tub and everything, bath soaps and such she's carefully conserving, trying to stretch out the use of them for as long as possible. She gets some strong, handsome guy to fill it with hot water, it's usually not hard to find a

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[mdidiusfalco]

I've always been one for a challenge, but I was finding that this was a bit beyond me. When I was seeing the sort of women normally attracted to an informer -cheap serving maids, dancing girls, a few actresses, committed whores, etc- Helena had seemed an almost insurmountable challenge. But compared to an actual goddess the daughter of a senator seemed rather easier to woo. Such was my luck.

All I could really do was hope that she liked a bit of rough enough to lower herself to my level.

Ever hopeful, I had arrived at the island residence of the goddess in question complete with a bouquet. If anyone asked I would have been hard pressed to name any of the flowers, but I was mostly certain they weren't poisonous. Flowers in hand, and fairly confident I would not be giving the lady hives, I knocked on the door.

[just_hormones]

She's just gotten her hair unpinned when there's a knock at the door, and Aphrodite shakes her head a bit to get it to fall more nicely over her shoulders before going to answer it. It could be any number of people - Gabby nagging her to eat, Perce or Sis or maybe even Luke stopping by to say hi, someone looking for her totally awesome expert advice - but she opens the door on a pleasant surprise.

"Dido!" Aphrodite smiles, a dazzling one that lights her up even more. "Hi, handsome, come on in," she says, stepping aside to let him in and plucking the bouquet from his hands as he passes by. "Oooh, are these for me? They're beautiful."

[mdidiusfalco]

"Not as beautiful as the lady herself," I replied as I stepped inside. In all honesty, it was not one of Didius Falco's better lines, but I was glad I'd got anything out at all. I was from Rome, I was used to seeing the human body in every state and every stage of nudity, but this scantily clad woman was enough to send me over the edge. In hindsight, it was probably the being scantily clad that did it. Though generally any woman is good, I still preferred them in at least a few wisps of fabric so I might live in hope of my taking the wisps off.

[just_hormones]

Aphrodite just giggles at the compliment, as always managing to make it charming instead of annoying, her pleased expression managing to express both gratitude and an air of well yeah, of course. She shuts the door behind him, then turns to set the bouquet carefully aside - she'll find water and a vase later - before turning back to Falco.

"So, to what do I owe this total pleasure? Just stopped by to say hi?" she asks, her eyebrows lifting expectantly. She might be hoping for...something, but she's so not gonna even hint at what. She is the expert, after all, and she knows when she needs to let the man make the first move.