It is interesting, he thinks, that their roles in some ways have reversed. Where he was her teacher when it came to sex, now she has been teaching him about sex in other ways - the connection, the pleasure, the freedom that comes with allowing yourself to feel and enjoy without hesitation or guilt attached.

(That is the dragon's influence. Not necessarily greed, but just the uninhibited sense of 'want' that can be applied to not only treasures, but pleasure itself, desire for more than just physical things.)

"You are very well-versed," he praises her. His tongue finds those fading lines of henna, his fingers seeking out her clit.