Sadde, of course, does notice it—and smirks.

Terry nods confidently and writes his full name on the back of all three cards.

"You want Change much more than I do, and since I have a safety in case you suddenly go bonkers, no harm in letting you use it if you can still get good use out of it when I've claimed it." He hands Change over. "In a week or two or if it isn't strong enough like so I'll probably forfeit my claim so you can use Change more efficiently. Meanwhile, wanna have a vaguely-defined friendship, kiss a lot, and catch more magic cards and learn about them together?"

He beams. "That sounds like a very good idea."

"Go on, try to change into a girl, see if it's still enough?" Curiosity! And he kiiiind of wants to try out the other flavor of Sadde.

He takes the card, calls its name, and—

—is girl-shaped!

Terry claps politely. "Cool."

...He is not yet self-confident enough to start a kiss while feeling vaguely guilty about asking Sadde to change shape!

Well, Sadde can read enough body language to guess and oblige.

Yay, more kisses. Sadde is still just as tasty, though the exact blend of feelings is interestingly different. He explores the differences eagerly.

Ooh, exploration, she likes that! She will let him explore at his leisure, and her hands might wander a bit, in very well-behaved above-the-belt places of course.

Kero's probably hidden again, hasn't he? ...Terry doesn't actually stop to check. His hands wander too. But more hesitantly and to fewer places, what with fewer well-behaved places being available on Sadde.

Sadde is naturally only being well-behaved for his sake. The, shall we say, passion of the kiss might make this obvious.

Nnnnot really that obvious, Terry's mostly still in half-disbelief that kissing is happening at all.

This could go on for a while.

She's not going to try to make it more obvious than that, not knowing how comfortable he is with—several things.

And it could indeed go on for a while.

And Cerberus has decided that patience is the better part of valor and is now meditating and talking in silence to the cards.

It can go on... Until Terry's stomach growls in protest of his mediocre breakfast. Then he pulls away reluctantly. "I should probably eat something. And meditate relatively near Change, and get to know the cards more, and. So many things to do, it's great."

"It is! I—" Pause. "Apparently ate?" she half-asks, eyeing Cerberus—

Who wakes up from his meditation about then. "Your mother gave me food."

"Was it cookies, ice cream, or chocolate?"

"It was pancakes with maple syrup!"

He snickers. "Well, I need to do my homework today too. Sadde, I'll give you my address and we can meet again in a few hours?"

"Sure," he says, turning into a boy again and offering Terry the card. "Should I just show up at your place?"

"Yeah. My folks aren't super strict about much other than grades and the phone. You probably don't want to switch in front of them but for magic-is-secret reasons not, like, intolerance reasons."

"Alright. Any particular reason why you don't want them to know?"

He grimaces. "They'd try to tell me to ignore magic because I'll spend too much time on it and stop getting As in school and then I won't get scholarships for college."