Spanking's good, face is still on the table if you want to be slapped. I'm not exactly a concussion-inducing powerhouse. [The pattern will eventually evolve that his concern is very much Vax's safety. Kira takes the trust it puts on him very seriously, and even if it's something Vax really wants, there are edges Kira doesn't want to push.]

You mean like, riding crops and shit? I can get into it. It feels more like a sex thing with a prop.

[The subject of receiving is the harder part, requiring more honesty than he's used to laying out for people.] For me, the thing is--nobody ever did it for fun. Or asked. I can't tell you right now if I enjoy it. [Or if he'd just enjoyed it vicariously from whatever sadistic shithead he'd gone home with that night.]