Kisses!

She has already been as daring as reaching under his clothes so she might as well ACTUALLY reach under his clothes right?

Yes, great idea!!

"This has been the very best thing ever." She likes her princess dress but doesn't need to wear it right now.

"It was so hard not to grab you right away - so the Amentans would have been sad, fuck them all anyway -" Less clothes means more possible places to kiss!

Oooooooh. Appreciative squirming and happy noises ensue.

"Didn't because -" kiss - "when we met I wanted it to make everything make sense instead of making everything confusing -"

"This was mysterious and fun and exciting and awesome."

"Good. I love you."

"I love you." Kiss.

"If they get their minds set on surpassing one another soon the major outlay of this organization will be courtship presents."

"They don't even seem to require the extravagance."

"It's the principle, apparently. I did not dare ask what principle."

"I bet you guessed, though."

"It's about the - aesthetic experience of thinking of something he'd like her to have and then never ever having to think 'is this actually worth the effort that would go into it' because he has taken that off the table and is just giving her all the things he'd like her to have. It's cute and all, I'm just alarmed at the prospects of a courtship arms race."

"As described it's not necessarily a competition-based aesthetic..."

"Maybe I will just suggest they don't tell each other about their plans until they're done, so it doesn't turn into one." He shakes his head. "I'm glad rainbow planet's handled all the same, we should probably have things like 'have extremely unusual unfulfilled preferences' in the charts somehow."

"Probably. Anything else that floats up if we prioritize that -"

"Don't know yet, can put some people on it. Their colony planets should all be in Revelation, if there are gonna be a hundred billion of them soon enough and they continue to have the sentimental attachment to the death penalty that other people have to ice cream trucks and puppies."

"We desperately need a way to handle demons learning about worldleapers and egg-laying species."

"Uh huh. That's actually what I wanted to talk about, the Macalaurës just being a tangentially related sideshow. People who non-malevolently want to hatch a kid will probably be perfectly happy to do that under loose bindings somewhere in Revelation - protects their kid from accidents or deliberate action by other daeva, means their kid can be fetched out of Limbo or summoned out of the daeva realms if they die some other way - it'll stress the Solar governments in Revelation out but I bet we can come up with a way of checking that no underbound daeva are leaping over to visit which they'd be satisfied with -

- worldleapers are the hard problem."

"I don't suppose the think tank of your dad et al have come up with a way to make them not work in a certain world."

"Sure, soon as 'change the laws of physics in arbitrary dimensions' is in our portfolio."

"Get my rocks to work farther away and you're covered." Sigh. "Or the wish machine. Hell is adjacent to literally five other worlds, I suppose we could just have someone ready to intercept at all times..."

"We could have someone checking often enough to tell a precog in time but then we have told a demon what they're checking for and that makes it likelier to get out. And I don't get the sense that that's Cam's favorite job and one he wishes we'd up the frequency on."