Nona hugs herself some more.

"I love you," Etty murmurs.

"I love you too," she says. "I'm sorry. Is it - will we be okay?"

"I need to think."

Bella has a notebook on her. She flips it to a clean page, hands it over with a pen.

Etty takes a moment to figure out the unfamiliar writing utensils, but eventually she's scratching away.

Nona curls up on the ground and doesn't say anything.

"You going to be okay, Nona?"

"I don't know," she mumbles.

"You didn't know it would hurt me," murmurs Etty, reaching out to touch Nona's hand.

"Well, now I don't know if you're going to love me anymore," she says, sniffling.

Remind me not to even think about ever being a sex therapist.

Don't even think about being a sex therapist, Celo says obligingly. Sucks for Nona, though. I'd want to give her a hug, but her girlfriend might knife me.

Etty isn't going to knife you. For one thing, she doesn't have a knife. At what point during the proceedings did you find out that Nona had a girlfriend?

It didn't really happen like that, he says.

?

I mean it's not like we were going along and she was like, 'By the way, I have a girlfriend'. I just kind of... gradually picked up on stuff. I obviously didn't pick up on the fact that Etty was going to be upset that we'd had sex, or I would've, you know, told Nona.

When did you figure out that Etty was like me?

I had half a suspicion, and then I got a look at her and it was just obvious.

I'm not sure what to expect her to conclude from the thinking she's doing.

No? Nothing like it on your end?

I haven't been motivated to consider it.

So you don't secretly wanna date me? he says whimsically.

Is dating even a thing nymphs do?