Now that there's nothing more weighing on Pearl's mind, she's able to fully put herself into the kiss, to get a proper feel for it. She can take in the heat of Garnet's mouth, but the surprising lukewarmness of her tongue in contrast; the smooth slickness of it that somehow feels nothing like her own tongue, and sends little tingles all across it from every point of contact.

Pearl doesn't know how she expected this to feel, but she's certain it was nothing like this.

"... It's a little bit strange, isn't it?" she asks once they've paused for breath, with a brief, thin giggle.