Love For A Price - Episode 8

Love For A Price - Episode 8 is the eighth episode of the Love For A Price animation series in SapphireFoxx. It was released on August 27, 2021.
Leanna tries soul melding with Glenn for the first time. They dreamed about Aydin's family, and Glenn arguing with his alcoholic father. Meanwhile, Kira visits Anya to talk about her experiences with her owner who also transforms into a woman, and shares this information with Aydin as a warning to him if he keeps doing this job.
== Synopsis ==
“Leanna/Aydin tries mind melding with a man for the first time. How will it go, and how will he feel after spending an extended period of time with a woman’s body?”
== Production ==
* Director, Producer, Writer: Sam Mokler
* Animators: Hector Amavizca, Mimi Alves
* Artists: Jeremy Pursell, Gabriel Carroll, Fil Romero
* Lead Animator: Mimi Alves
=== Cast ===
* Aydin – Brandon Winckler
* Glenn – Brendan Hunter
* Kira – Sarah Wiedenheft
* Leanna – SilkyMilkVoices
* Anya – Meli Grant
== Plot ==
Leanna and Glenn continue their Soul Meld and while Leanna is a bit confused as to why she appears in her female form yet still sees her male self in the memories she feels a sense of safety and care with Glenn by her side. Glenn thanks her for trusting him enough to Soul Meld and they view the memories they're sharing. At first they view a memory of Ayden when he was younger talking with his parents on the family farm. He sees his father and older sister Sabrina and gets emotional. She explains how a few years after this memory took place her father and sister were killed by a magic beast and her mother was so devastated her Alzheimer's began soon after. They both then had to sell the farm and move to Olympus. Glenn offers comfort to Leanna but just as she turns around, he's disappeared before the Soul Meld shifts to one of his memories. Leanna appears in a new memory scene where she sees an older drunk man verbally abusing a teenage Glenn. The real Glenn appears behind Leanna and explains this is a memory from back when he was a Non-Blood and how his Alcoholic father was always so abusive and useless. Always taking out his frustrations on him. Teenage Glenn says how he's pawned off his guitar so they could have money for food but as he argues with his drunk father, who just accuses him of using the money for drugs, Glenn then says he plans to take the money and run away to start a new life. Glenn apologizes to Leanna for showing such an unpleasant memory, but Leanna offers a bit of support but just as the scene ends Glenn disappears again before the scene shifts.
A few hours later the couple wake up cuddling and while Leanna is still a bit shocked and out of it from Soul Melding with a man Glenn thanks her and promises she'll have her bonus by the end of the day. While Leanna tries to tell herself she only Soul Melded with him for the money she can't help but think it was enjoyable and she may be open to doing it again.
Ayden returns home to his small apartment to find Kira buried in bras and women's clothes on the bed. He tells her he can now afford a down payment on a nice new condo, so they won't have to deal with so much clutter anymore. Kira questions how he can afford that after just one day of work after she already paid off his mom's bills for him as well as his personal dept. Ayden simply says he made dinner for Glenn and is getting bonuses for cooking for him too embarrassed to tell her he went as far as to Soul Meld with him. Kira still worries he may be taking things too fast and too far and tells him she met with another Arcane animal friend of hers who has experience with gender swapping.
In a flashback scene Kira visits her friend, an Arcane Dog named Anya (Godmother) whom she knows from the animal shelter in New York where they both lived before they were adopted. Anya says how her owner is with a Non-Blood and they need to keep it down. Kira looks over and sees Anya's new owner Oliver Thompson who is gender swapped as Caroline and "her" date for the evening Lorenzo Ferrara. Kira questions Anya if there are any odd behavioral side effects from gender swapping she should look out for with Ayden. Anya explains how a side effect of gender swapping is sexuality shift because of hormones and emotions and how the longer someone stays gender swapped the longer it takes for those feelings and urges to fade away even after they swap back.
Back in the present Kira tells Ayden all this and warns him if he keeps up gender swapping so much he may experience the same side effects. Ayden thinks how he did feel unusually attracted to Glenn last night and was rather eager to Soul Meld with him despite feeling hesitant and embarrassed about it now. Ayden worries a bit but reassures Kira he's still in control of himself and isn't switching sexualities. Ayden pets her on the bed but still worries if he keeps this job up he may end up exactly how Kira fears.
== Trivia ==
* Although Episode 1 has indicated that this series took place in April 2016, Anya was not adopted to be Oliver's pet dog until 2018, during the events of Godmother.