Why go searching? (Pink Trigger)

On second thought, Eva… let’s stay here. It’s probably best if we keep this to the two of us. I'm certain that in that chest of yours, the heart of an exotic dancer beats to a club rhythm, waiting to be drawn out!

“Didn’t I already tell you it’s a waste of time?!” the mother barked back at me, upset at both the unwanted flattery and my sudden backtracking. “That isn’t the sort of thing you can do just by taking general fitness classes and keeping your body in shape… Aren’t there classes for that sort of thing?”

Yes, Eva, there are. I want you to think back carefully. Are you sure you never learned anything about it? Never gave it any kind of shot?

“Well…” The would-be witch cupped one of her gloved hands over her mouth, looking to the side as if searching for it… or, perhaps, as if deciding if she should admit she had. “My aerobics class did bring in an instructor for that kind of new-age exercise once. Of course, I refused! There are all kinds of different exercises a woman can do to keep in shape without debasing herself, especially a woman of my age! And ‘pleasing your husband?’ A mature woman who needs that sort of juvenile crutch to keep her husband happy must be doing quite a lousy job with her marital life, don’t you think…? Isn’t that a little bit naive…?”

Eva was smiling and talking as though she had a leg up on all of those other bubble-headed young women she must have been exercising alongside. I love this confident aspect of her character, but surely she can understand that kind of confidence is the opposite of helpful at this moment…? All right, but Eva, I’m sure you at least stayed and watched the others try it, right? If that’s so, you at least know the basics of what it should look like.

“… I suppose so. I know enough to know it’s impossible to imagine me doing it.” She put her hands on her hips, her eyes still urging me to give up on the idea.

I wouldn’t have taken you as a quitter with so much on the line, Eva… Don’t you think you should give it a try before you give up and fail?

Something about that phrase made her eyebrow twitch… “Look, Player, are you expecting a demonstration right now? But haven’t you forgotten something important?”

Of course, I knew what she was thinking of. Had I come prepared with something like that? If so, it could be just the thing to draw the results I wanted out of her.