Dead Girls Like Me

Victor freezes as she kisses him hard, his brain blanking at the suddenness of the action. He remains frozen for a moment after she releases him, then blinks and gets his bearings back. "Oh," he says stupidly. "I -- t-that's good." He pauses, then makes himself continue. "I v-visited the Nexus to ask for some advice about the p-problem, and a young woman named Adia suggested that you m-might be -- thinking of me in a -- rather l-less disgusted manner, shall we put it?" He turns pink. "Alice, d-do you. . . ?" He half-expects her to laugh, but that kiss has definitely tipped the scales toward Adia's hypothesis being right.