What we said earlier to him is still accurate. It's only the ones who desire dominance that view her as something of a threat.

*shakes her head, pawing at her nose* She still smells wrong.

What an expressive way to phrase it. Posturing aside, I'll agree with that. Something about her rubs us all the wrong way.

It's mostly a lot of mixed signals; she does something and we, used to D/s byplay, interpret it as a challenge or a threat or simply as a dominant motion toward something that we consider Ours.

That's just it. Some of us, although I'm only speaking for myself here, think it's NOT just mixed signals. She moves like a Domme.

Predatory. Stalking.

Exactly. Little things that we only catch, that I only catch, because I'm so very used to looking for it in others and in myself. We can play the part of a submissive because for some of us, it's not second nature, it's first nature (for lack of a better way to phrase it)... dammit, Raven, keep your cluttered tongue to itself.

Sorry. Keep forgetting that right now I'm not the one dancing across the keys.

Gods... I swear, we need to get a bunch of mental ball gags. As I was saying, we've the essence of submission in here along with everything else. She doesn't. Not yet, at any rate, and not at all if she's anything to say about it. She is intelligent, clever, well-read, well-spoken... she chooses each word carefully in her writing, why would we think she chooses them with any less care when she speaks?

She's inexperienced, yes. If someone was to... guide, I suppose is the best word. If someone was to guide her as she loses that air of innocence, she could end up sub, sure. However, she could just as easily end up Domme, easier perhaps.

She really does... move, smell, act, sound, all of it... just slightly off. It's hard to find specific useful examples. We can't prove she's going to be trouble later on. We can't say why we feel this way, it's difficult to pull up the pawfuls of tiny gestures, carefully-chosen words... but we want to go on record as having said there might be, will be, trouble.

And having said that, will you let the rest of us speak?

Go ahead.

We like her. She's fun to be around, pretty to look at... she helps the Tiger balance himself out a bit, keeps him company, keeps him interested in life.

She... she's not so much competition as she is company. Having her around does feel about as natural as having anyone else around could.

She's so quiet, though. You can tell she's thinking but she never says what she thinks about.

Not to us, anyway.

Thus our desire to have a conversation with her. Actually asking her the little things that we don't bother to mention when he's around. Finding out just how serious she is. Maybe how dangerous she is.

We don't want to hurt her or scare her off if she's going to make him happy...

...but we have to have some faith in her, some trust in her, and that's a pretty big jump for us right now. It... gods, where are the words when I need them? We're in the middle of burying what's left of our trust in one woman; of course we're going to be wary when a woman we don't know is suddenly in our life, doing things we remember doing, acting the way we remember acting.

There really isn't much else to say, here. Just... I'd kind of thought that if this situation came up, it would be the subs who found problems with it and we, the ones who are in control, who would be unworried.

Goes to show how much some of us know, apparently. My vote is still where it's always been. If we can't negotiate with her, we get rid of her. I'll be damned if we let anyone trample over our hearts, or the hearts of anyone we've laid claim to.

Feeling a bit territorial, are you?

Just a bit, maybe.

Have you noticed yet that it's not any of your business what she does, and what he chooses?

If it's our hide and our happiness at stake, it damned well IS our business. You can go hide behind your obedience, not that it's doing you much good of late, and when the world tumbles down maybe your obedience will comfort you. The rest of us prefer to DO something when things feel wrong.