Aphrodite changes up the game.

Rather than immediately assaulting Melody with the vibrator, Aphrodite stops short, leaving it switched off at her side, and tells her, “I have a proposal for you.”

“Really,” says Melody. Her voice is so skeptical that it barely sounds like a question.

Aphrodite nods. “I would hardly want to have an unfair advantage over you—this is already enough of a mismatch without arming me with a sex toy. But I think there may be a way to...level the playing field, so to speak. A simple contest of endurance: who can endure the vibrator the longest without an orgasm?”

Melody takes this in as she circles Aphrodite cautiously. Her face gives no indication that she’s considering it, or that she plans to run it down. “What are the stakes?”

“Well...” Aphrodite’s smile is dazzling. “It hardly seems fair that only one of us gets to finish, don’t you think? And an orgasm from a vibrator is so impersonal. The winner’s reward and the loser’s punishment are one and the same.”

Melody thinks it over for a moment, and glances to you for advice...