Exotica ((full)) — Eros

She donned her full environmental suit. Sealed. Filtered. Safe.

Back in Chicago, in the apartment that now looked like a diorama of someone else's life, she unfolded the scarf and eros exotica

Karim had looked at her across the table as though she were a landscape he was mapping. Not possessing. Mapping. There was a difference, and she had forgotten it existed. She donned her full environmental suit