Knock knock? Annie can't hear it but assumes knocking on things still makes noise.

Knocking on things makes noise! "Come in!"

"Hi. I realized I forgot to warn you that one of my known drawbacks is incapacitating pain if I hear music - possibly only music with lyrics, that being the only kind I'd actually hear, but I'm not sure."

"Oh, dear. Thank you for warning me."

"Yeah. Sorry about that, I hope you aren't the leave-the-radio-on-all-the-time sort."

"No, no," she says, waving a hand. "I do listen to music sometimes, though, and it's very good that you warned me before that could happen."

Nod nod.

Back downstairs to the Hobbit and ~Edie~.

Edie: has been brainstorming how to more effectively cuddle whilst employing their respective reading methods!

Ooh, what are her results?

It will require sitting differently than they were but it's totally doable!

Yay. "You're great."

"Thanks."

Snuggles and reading.

Eventually Edie glances at the time. "Oh, hey, we should probably leave soon if we want to hit the stores today."

"Oh - yeah, it would be nice to have other clothes. Warm-weather ones, I'm still really hot all the time."

"It's only going to get hotter," she sighs. "It's spring."

"...and maybe while we are out we should get ice packs."

"I wonder where we could get one of those vests you stick ice packs in for wearing under mascot costumes," she muses.

"Mascot costumes?"

"Sometimes people dress up in these--wearable statues, almost, sometimes, or just really thick, really shaped-like-the-thing-it's-a-costume-of-instead-of-the-person-wearing-it costumes, and when that happens in the summer you basically need cooling solutions or risk someone passing out from the heat."

"Huh. I don't know if we have those somewhere on my planet but I think they're not a thing in Noregr."

"Mascots--the things the costumes're of--are generally symbols of some kind, and the people in them paid to run around in 'em being walking huggable representatives of the company or team or what have you impressing small children."

"...we should have this conversation on our way to a store," Annie observes.

"Right," she nods, and scoops up the keys and debit card. "...Ooh, I just had a thought, just a sec," she says, and dashes upstairs, and comes down with an alphabet stencil. "I don't know if you care about what colors you wear or anything when you can't see them but if something has writing on it in the holes then the letters should the be the color of whatever's on the other side of the hole and you should be able to see things through them!"

"...you're brilliant," Annie says, stopping short of kissing her or expressing the urge to do it. She holds the alphabet stencil between her face and Edie's and blushes and beams.