[Hey Brilliance!] says Jane. [Amariah is fixing Alethia's afterlife! It's a big job. She wants ten-pointed coins.]
[...Wow,] says Brilliance. [Are ten-pointed coins even a thing? I guess it's up to me to find out, huh?]
[Apparently the alethiometer thinks they could be! And nobody's gonna hold you down for science, or anything, you were just the first Joker Kas thought of who might be up for it.]
And he brainphones same.
[Hey, so Jane says the latest on Amariah's afterlife project is she wants ten-pointed coins, and they're asking me first for the obvious reason. Wanna snuggle about it some?]
[I could totally go for snuggling about it.] She teleports to where he's at and snuggles up.
Snuggle.
"So Jane said nobody's going to hold me down for science and now of course all I'm thinking about is people holding me down for science," he sighs.
"Sometimes you can really tell which Bell her mom is," she comments.
Mmmmmm telepathic love. Aurora sighs comfortably and nuzzles the side of his neck.
"You do, it's awesome, it's like - like the three minutes between waking up and getting out of bed," she beams.
"That's adorable. You're adorable. I feel better now," he says, snuggling contentedly.
Pause.
"If you get unsure - at that point - nobody's tried it, are you going to be able to tell me when to stop?"
She pets whatever part of him is nearest the hand that isn't trapped under them. This part happens to be some ribs. "What d'you want to do about that?"
"Maybe just... go really slow with it?" he suggests. "And, I dunno, if they need their thing in ten minutes or something they might have to ask somebody else. But I wanna try it, anyway."
She resettles herself into a longer-term snuggle position.
"Say when."
She paints heat onto his nerves slowly, one layer everywhere, second layer added slowly, each one about a hundred triangles' worth.