"It's a learning curve," Shannon said with a small shrug. "We're all special, unique snowflakes, right? With different triggers and reactions. So... yeah. I'd try it again long as you can think of some other way to make it happen."

Shannon exhaled, making a sound almost like a grunt at the unexpected motion, back arching automatically from the light scraping as Eli made his way down. "Oh," he said softly. It had lit a small fire underneath him, a moment of waking nerves in a very good away, and Shannon let the feeling linger while he thought that through. "Not lying to you," he replied with some amusement, "but I kinda get what you mean now. Whips do that, too?"

Eli's sigh was matched with a frown. "I went Dom on you? When? What'd I do?"