Mix things up more!

"Hilda, end the lap dance and take a seat, please." James was almost shivering at the thought of what he was considering.

When Hilda finally ceased her animation and put Ivy's body down onto the couch, she seemed to shiver as well. All three of the minds currently occupying two bodies in the room knew that this was probably not how they should be utilizing the Ascend tech. This is an expensive piece of hardware, not a toy! But still, the way these three could spend time with one another mattered. James clearly saw potential in Hilda's abilities mixed in with the minds currently in Ivy's body. Ivy immediately liked that she could hold James's interest in doing things she'd never been confident enough to attempt. Lucas, for his part, was already getting more comfortable in Ivy's body when it was partly Ivy in the mix, and he wanted his friend to go the distance with his girlfriend for sure, so if Hilda made it easier for everyone to do so...

Ivy just nodded. "We haven't even gone a full day like this... but you can undo it later, right?"

"Yeah, of course," James said. "Nothing about any of this is permanent, other than whatever memories you make during this time. The Ascend seems pretty good about blocking senses and stuff in real-time, but I don't think it can go and undo anything like that. So, whatever we do, you both have to live with that knowledge."

That gave Ivy pause again, as she crossed her arms. She hadn't even recalled that she was basically wearing nothing until that moment, but after what she'd just been doing, it didn't feel uncomfortable at all to give her body some time to cool off. She then pokes at James's shoulder. "You cannot tell anyone about any of this, then. If anyone finds out that you'd been fooling with your best friend Lucas because an AI made him do it, there is going to be a lot of questions that I don't want to answer. And the moment I want to stop it, it stops."

James nodded, eyeing his beautiful blonde girlfriend for a moment. "In that case, the passcode is 1903. You'll have to read up on the command sequence if you want to run those admin commands to shut things down, but I'm sure those are all in that headset's internal menu somewhere. Hilda, is that right?"

"Right!" she responded. Ivy smiled, knowing that James was looking forward to fun, but not at the expense of locking away the other people involved to play with a digital facsimile--even if said facsimile had access to a stellar body. She hugged James, wrapping her arms tightly, as the part of her that was Ivy was clearly dominating this exchange.

"Okay then," Ivy finally said. "Make me part Hilda, then. But... one rule. You can't use your phone when you're with me and we aren't in public! If you want to check your texts, you talk to me."

James blinked. He didn't realize the shrewdness of Ivy's condition until a few moments later. Ivy is going to quite literally know everything that James does online, and what he says to everyone else. She was going to be essentially omnipresent in his life, as his life was channeled through his phone, so all his awkward pre-teen texts to other girls would be accessible to her if she had account access, not to mention browser history, his image files, and so on. But ultimately, if James ever tried to cheat on Ivy--which would be the dumbest move on the planet--she would instantly know if a text was involved. He gulped. "Are you sure on that? I mean, I'll be honest, I've been to some pretty weird websites."

"Nothing you haven't shared with Lucas before, and I won't judge you on any of what's already there," Ivy said with a smirk. "Besides, why would you need websites when you're going to have the real deal? Even if you're away, put Hilda on your phone, then you can have me do a little cam show for you any time you want. All I'll need is a mirror and some prompts, yeah?" She winked, and James shuddered with the possibilities!

"Alright, well... first thing's first, in that case. Hilda, sync up with my phone."

"Understood!" the chipper AI said, taking James's phone and holding it to her forehead, doing some sort of NFC transfer to link up with all the data. "Copying email... texts... browser history... images... music... videos... documents... apps... done. Installing Hilda AI on phone... done. Establishing account links... done. You have four new mails, one marked as important from Seatown University. Sarah Hunter has sent you nine texts, seven with images that upon cross-reference appear to be your dog. You have a dentist appointment next Thursday, and the Seatown Bruins beat the Spiral City Sentinels three to one last night. Your subscribed video channel 'Lexi Hartlove' has uploaded a new video to her channel titled 'jiggling in my new bikini'."

James sighed, as Ivy giggled. "Any regrets, James? You seem like maybe you would want to back out now!"

James shook his head. "No, no regrets. I love you, Ivy, so I trust you with everything like how you're trusting me with control over your body. And I... well, I tolerate you, Lucas." Both James and Ivy snicker at that, that was the kind of ribbing they were used to. So if neither of you are saying no..."

"Both sides are a yes," Ivy confirmed.

"Hilda, add yourself to the mixed mode, even split with Lucas and Ivy."