So I can solve most of his problems by resurrecting your father, which I was going to do anyway. Convenient.

And most of Pityo's problems you can solve by reembodying Telvo. The two of them complement each other very well and together you can just kind of set them a project and expect it'll happen in some ridiculous and surprising way. Alone they - don't do much. He's a great help on any task you set him to but he hasn't taken the initiative on any.

Yeah if someone's twin is gone by default getting them back seems like the best possible way to help them.

Yup.

Yeah, that got predictably depressing. Let's think about something else. Like kissing. Hm. If all elf hair is sensitive, will she get any particular reaction from kissing his eyebrows or would that just be silly?

Silly, but not, like, in an objectionable way. Kissing experiments that are a little absurd are still quite all right.

Well, it's not really the same kind of hair, so that makes sense. She'll just have to tug on his regular hair some more.

Well if she finds getting reactions from him to be that satisfying they can do it all day.

She finds lots of things about the kind of thing that results from playing with his hair satisfying but getting reactions is definitely up there.

And none of this even rightly qualifies as a waste of time that is owed to their people!

It really doesn't! Milliways is so convenient like that.

It'll probably be a few more days of guiltless experimentation before they are inclined to seriously get to work on magic.

Mm, experimentation.

But. Eventually!

"I wonder if Bar minds if I remodel the backyard."

"Let's go ask her."

"Mmhm," she says, stretching and sliding out of bed to tug her dress back on.

He heroically avoids getting distracted by this and dragging her back into bed.

Even though she's wearing one of the Genoshan-cut dresses that leave her highly-nibbled shoulders and collarbone bare?

Okay, he can heroically hold out for like a few seconds but if she's going to continue standing there in that then he'll definitely grab her sooner or later.

Wellll for definitions of "standing there" that involve turning around and smiling at him while her still-unbraided hair falls over one shoulder but that probably doesn't help with the heroism thing.

Yeah nevermind they will ask the bar about redecorating later.

Yeah, it can totally wait.

(Between the refractory period thing and the lack-of-soul-thing their particular species configuration is super convenient)

I love you.

I love you too.

"Were you really thinking you'd just stay here alone for decades."

"I admit nothing."