"Saying 'you're right.' I love being right."

"Woooh. Yeah this is not proper flying is it? Making me feel a little sick honestly. Thanks for trying guys, please set me down now."

They do.

Sadde laughs. "You," he accuses, "are ridiculously adorable. And you were surprised someone wanted to kiss you?"

"Well, yes." He thinks about it for a moment. "I think I fit the category of 'nerd' pretty well and when you watch TV and cartoons the nerds do not typically get kissed. Of course it could just be bog standard teenager insecurity, I hear that happens a lot too."

"I have no idea why TV and cartoons say that, nerds are great and kissing them is great. And you're a particularly good kind of nerd."

"I'm so flattered. Cerberus, if I write my name on a card can it be undone later? Can Sadde still use it as a loaner?"

"Yes. You can tell the card you wish to forfeit your claim over it and your name will disappear, and he can use even your cards, but they won't be as good for him as they will for you. He must have some natural aptitude, though, to be able to use Change to change that much."

"What happens if someone steals one? Can I summon it back? No offense Sadde, better safe than sorry is all."

"None taken, a healthy dose of paranoia about the incredibly powerful and dangerous magical artefacts can only make me find you hotter."

"If you meditate and reach your cards, you can call them back to you, and they'll return," Cerberus explains.

He glances at Sadde. He doesn't seem to notice that he glanced at more than Sadde's face.

"But that could take a long while if whoever stole it decided to fly to China, right?"

"Right."

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.