Another fourteen hundred words of shopping. Which means twenty-four hundred words of serious pacing problem. Even if Claire and Emma have had several important conversations. And at fifty-four hundred words in to what was planned to be ten thousand words, none of those important conversations involve sexuality, except for the aside that Emma's family isn't from Lesbos (she doesn't think her orientation is any of Claire's business at this stage of their relationship) and the exchange that apparently this 'verse is Dean/Castiel, not that either Dean or Castiel knows this. Nor have the girls discussed gender identity, which I'm beginning to think is Claire's plotline, or would be if Clairestiel were a little more self-aware about that aspect of herself. Zirself. I'll figure it out when Claire does. On the other hand, 'angels are agender/genderqueer/don't grok gender' has rather been done to death, even if it does seem to be a perspective canon is positively inviting, and I like calling Castiel 'she' all the time when writing from inside Claire's head.

'Asexual girl has much sex to figure out whether she's actually asexual' is looking more and more like what's going to be Emma's plotline. It ties in with the action plot, even, given that Emma's an Amazon. Just because they do reproduce once every two years doesn't mean they have to reproduce once every two years, and it wouldn't hurt Emma and Claire any to have a small army. Though then I'd have to either send the wee ones out on their own once their four days of zygote-to-teenager is done or else characterize them, and it might complicate things to characterize them.