Since the pandemic, Zea has had a successful career as a cam model online – it beat doing corporate graphic design every single day – until they get the opportunity to intern under a tattoo artist, a job they’ve dreamed of having since they were a teenager. The first person Zea wants to tell is their online mutual, an artist who they know nothing about, but talk to almost daily.

Milo lives on the other side of the world and is content with eir life – a mediocre flat that e can at least afford alone, a tattoo studio where most of the other artists respect eir gender identity, and friends e absolutely loves. But when the owner of the studio e works for suggests Milo apply for a guest spot at a queer-owned tattoo studio in South Africa, Milo decides to challenge emself to go for it.

Except e’s really not expecting to find the online friend e’s been talking to and developing feelings for to be apprenticing there. Can Milo work up the courage to tell Zea who e really is before Zea can figure it out on their own?

Content warnings: Covid-19 pandemic mention, online sex work, discussions of kink and BDSM (more for side characters and not the main characters), conversations about stalking (past, for a side character), explicit sex scenes, descriptions of tattoo and piercing processes, a few instances of transphobia and enbyphobia, and misgendering.