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Bella goes to bed, happily exhausted. She can make stuff! Not a lot of stuff, not yet, but still. She will be able to solve Brilliance's food problem and if she can figure out how to scale up she will be able to solve the world's food problem.
The next day is, alas, also a school day. She bids Brilliance good morning while she brushes out her hair. +Hey you.+
incanted
incanted
Shivers! Bella suspects that's a good sign. She slides her face past his and nibbles at his neck.
cardistry
He shivers lots more, and also makes some very expressive sounds.
Bella is correct about what kind of a sign it is!
Bella is correct about what kind of a sign it is!
cardistry
Kisses and hugs and some gasping and random movements and assorted noises -
- and, finally, a lengthy extended shudder, and he goes mostly still and tries with mixed success to catch his breath.
- and, finally, a lengthy extended shudder, and he goes mostly still and tries with mixed success to catch his breath.
cardistry
+I am!+ he agrees cheerfully.
It's cuddle time, right? Brilliance strongly believes that it is cuddle time.
It's cuddle time, right? Brilliance strongly believes that it is cuddle time.
cardistry
"Okay," says Brilliance. He gathers up his clothes, shifts to deck form clothes and all, then shifts back into human form looking as reasonably tidy and not-like-he-just-had-great-sex as he usually does.
incanted
Bella laughs and takes a little longer to get into hers - although after she's got her bra on she says, "I don't suppose I can pull the same trick via some clever application of the Barrier Jacket?"
cardistry
"You know, I don't actually know," he says. "I feel like it would only work that way if it was the Barrier Jacket outfit that you took off and threw all over the ground." He grins. "Maybe you should do that next time."
incanted
This is the first implication that there might be more than one time. "Maybe. You're seeing this happening regularly?" Bella asks, shaking sand out of her T-shirt.
cardistry
"Well, yeah," he says. "I mean, if you want. I definitely plan on having sex again, but it doesn't have to be with you."
incanted
"Hmmm." Bella pulls her shirt over her head. Her jeans wound up on the corner of the picnic blanket and didn't wind up sandy, so that's more straightforward. "- I dunno. One time to see what it's like for fun, I can do that, I just did, I feel like if it's gonna be a recurring deal I'd want, like, labels, context, that sort of thing."
