It was a Friday night and a quiet time inside Sadie's college dorm room.

She'd opted for a singles room, so she didn't have a roommate... officially. But she had an illegal permanent guest. A winged sphinx and supposed Oracle that had wandered off her high mountain. Sadie had found her gazing longingly at a restaurant and had lured her to her dorm with pizza.

And then she'd just kept her.

Felicity was a big fluffy dear and it was entertaining for Sadie to introduce her to new experiences. There was so much she'd missed up on her mountain.

Plus, she made a great pillow. Due to the aforementioned fluffiness.

So on this quiet Friday, Sadie was using Felicity's lap as a pillow and playing a handheld video game. She'd put a nature documentary on the television to amuse Felicity. Potentially. It was hard to tell what she was thinking with her eyes covered with her fluffy hair.

Sadie paused the game to check the time. "Where the heck is Sables?"

"Are you asking me?" asked Felicity. "My Oracular powers do not work so well off my mountain."

"Just thinking aloud," Sadie said. Sable had a study session with that blue-haired cougar but she said she'd be right over after. "Sables is supposed to bring over a new outfit for you tonight."

"Miss Sadie, you are far too kind! You've given me shelter and companionship! Provided me food and clothes! You and your friends have shown me so many amazing things in this city! I worry that I have taken too much of your generosity without providing much in return..."

"Good deeds are their own reward," Sadie claimed. "Plus, it's fun getting to be the one to show you new stuff. Which is what the new outfit is for! It's win-win!"

"Oh?" Felicity asked but it was then that Sable burst through the door waving a paper bag.

"I got it!" the other mouse crowed.

"You got it!" Sadie repeated, gleefully. She jumped up from the bed and high-fived Sable.

Sable looked around. "Hey, where's Lee?"

"Aly said she had an origami marathon tonight," Sadie explained.

"A... what?"

"I dunno. I understand those words just not paired together."

Sable shrugged and dumped the paper bag out on the bed.

Felicity picked up a mesh top. "What... kind of outfit is this?"

"Sadie asked me to get you an outfit for the club... So I stole one from the Bat!"

"... A club? For hitting?"

"You'll definitely get hit on, pretty lady like you," predicted Sadie.

"I don't understand."

"Sables, explain clubbing while I get her naked."

Sadie grabbed Felicity's tank top and yanked it up, exposing the sphinx's breasts.

"Geez, give a girl some warning!" Sable objected, covering her eyes. Sadie noticed her peeking through her fingers.

"Yes, give a girl some warning," Felicity repeated. She tugged the garment away from Sadie. "I can undress myself."

And she started pulling off her clothes, while Sable faced away and explained clubbing culture.

"Ok, so, clubbing," Sable started. "You get dressed up, go to a club location, dance frantically to loud music, drink age appropriate beverage, and look for potential sexual partners. Often, they'll come right up and grind on you."

Felicity pondered on this a while. She'd finished undressing so Sadie started helping her put on the new outfit.

"Is this a courtship ritual?" she finally asked.

"Kinda!" Sadie agreed. "Why, what do sphinx oracles do?"

"There is no courtship for an Oracle," Felicity said. "To ensure my prophetic talent passes down to the next generation, my clan will someday select an ideal mate and send them to the mountain to breed with me."

"Well, geez, that sucks!" said Sable.

Felicity did not respond to this.

"Just going after her culture with both barrels, huh?" asked Sadie, smirking.

"I'm sorry but it's like an arranged marriage that's also a plot twist!"

Felicity shrugged, as she'd taken to doing when people were horrified by her life. She couldn't get all defensive about it, not when she had snuck away from the mountain to see what life was like closer to sea level.

Sadie finished wrestling the sphinx into the clubbing outfit: striped stirrup stockings, a mini-skirt that might be more accurately called a mini-mini-skirt, and a mesh top over a tight tank top.

"Stand up and give us a twirl!" Sadie said.

Felicity did stand up but she did not twirl. The skirt could not be said to cover much of all. Even though she was comfortable with Sadie and her friends, she hesitated to flaunt her buttocks at them.

"Okay, no twirl. Hmm... this probably fit better on the Bat. She's not as tall as you. But, what do you think?"

"This doesn't cover much," Felicity said nervously. She tugged the front of the skirt, trying to get it to cover more. "And you want me to... go to a loud music and dancing courtship ritual wearing this? What if someone sees me dressed like this and assumes I want to breed?"

"Well, first off, you don't gotta breed if you don't want to," Sadie said. "If your mountain family didn't tell you that, I'm telling you now. I personally like a fun bout of non-procreative interaction but that's me. Second, if you don't want to go out in that, you don't have to. I'd feel prettyyyyyy hypocritical if I followed point one by pressuring you to do something. But I didn't arrange this just because dressing you up like a giant doll is fun. (It is though.) You wanted to go where the people are and see what life is like? This is what we silly college students do on a Friday night. And I wanted to share that with you!"

Felicity pondered again. "I don't know if I will like this. But I may never have another opportunity to find out. I will hit with the club!"

"Hit the club," Sadie corrected.

Sable looked behind Felicity and noticed something. "Oh, I can see her butt. She should probably put on underwear."

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I imagine that overall Felicity found the experience too overwhelming. Too much noise, too many people. But she was thankful to Sadie and Sable for giving her the opportunity to not like a thing. And also for being with her to ward off some club creeps. Because they weren't going to throw her into the deep end alone. It's good to have friends.

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Felicity the Oracle owned by me
Art by  Yawg