"The Joker says it's fun!" says Brilliance. "I bet he's right. Maybe I can get him to teach me sometime."
"I think - that your idea will close the gap, like I said, if you're going to predictably get there at some point, and boy does that ever feel like a weird thing to be predicating a potential relationship on..."
"So yeah, if we have a plausible substitute Thing With Capital Letters - I could deal. If you want."
Bella smiles shyly, and polishes off her slice of pie, and she kisses him.
Brilliance conjures a nice big picnic blanket. To stop them from getting all sandy while they cuddle.
Cuddlesssssssssss cuddles are the best. Well, no, but they are one of many best-things. They are really great, is the point here.
"I love you, I love cuddling you, I am really happy right now," says Brilliance.
"All good thoughts," murmurs Bella, smiling and snuggling up.
He beams and cuddles her and kisses the end of her nose, because it is there and it is part of Bella and he loves all the parts of Bella and wants to kiss them forever.
Bella giggles. The end of her nose is a silly place to kiss and giggling is called for.
Brilliance kisses her chin next, to see if she'll do it again.
She will! She will do it as long as he keeps kissing her in unconventional places.
How about if he kisses her in a conventional place? Like her mouth. Her mouth is extremely kissable.
If he goes and does that she might have to stop giggling and start kissing him back. He's quite kissable himself, after all.
You know, if either of those latter facts seems relevant.