[ It took Ursula a moment to find a way to work it... and try to not let the conversation make herself feel anymore anxious than it did already. Cheese helped. ]

... Time. Time and careful affection. I had... basically no experience before arriving here. I'd never had a significant other, never dated, or... even had sex with another person. [ Her voice cracked on that last bit. ]

But now I have three beautiful, amazing people in my life who fill me with the kind of love I didn't even dare dream about before. And it took time and it took gentleness. And all of them have been so endlessly patient with me.