[Soooo, you're not busy, are you?] asks Ripper. He sounds very amused about something.

[Just email. What's up?]

[My minting's gone, and I'd like it back if that's all right.]

[Did you torch? What happened, are you okay?]

[You can stick properties onto torching with evils, and take them off the same way, but those are also what I need to resurrect people if I don't want to wait for a batch, so even when I add new tweaks to my own powers I wait until I have a bunch of them lined up and get them all with one evil instead of doing it piecemeal, since I have hexes coming in more regularly.]

[All right. I'll stick to hexes, then. I don't plan on torching that often.]

[You want me to swing by and re-mint you now?]

[That'd be nice.]

Knock knock.

Door open. Hug! Kiss!

"Brilliant," he says, and kisses her some more.

[Maaaaybe.]

[Aianon has sharp parts,] he says merrily, still kissing her. [He likes to menace me with them. I like to be menaced. It's a good arrangement.]

[So basically the photo shoot but with less giggling, more blood.]

[More or less. And not that much less giggling. But a lot more blood,] he recalls.

[Evisceration is hilarious, of course.]

He giggles! This interrupts nibbling. But it does not interrupt hugs.

[Yeah. What do you think, will Queenie make me a pretty Renfest dress?]

[That's not even a question. The question is, can I have sex with you in your pretty Renfest dress?]