Hug!

"I'm really sorry we were in the middle of that when you found us."

"...do you think you'd have been okay if I hadn't been there?"

"Probably. It didn't sound like I was going to die instantly or anything and Emily has healing too."

Nod.

"Would've taken her longer to dispatch that guy, though."

Nod.

"Anyway. You have your notebooks now, so that's good."

"Yeah. I... think that's all the obvious things I will need in the first, like, week."

"We should probably get you a computer but since you've got your notebooks and can borrow novels from us that's probably not urgent."

"I also don't know how to use even the kind my world has, they're not the sort of thing one just has around. It'll be fun figuring it out but it's not a void in my life."

"It would probably become inconvenient at some point for you not to have one and know how to use one but not in the next week, no." Annie probably cannot tell unless she is holding up the stencil but Edie is giving her a bit of a speculative look.

Annie is not holding up the stencil, but -

"...I've gotten about as far as distinguishing smiling and not-smiling with my weird sense," she says, "but that's it."

"Noted," she says, and kisses her.

!!!!!!!!

- is the approximate rendering of the inappropriately loud noise Annie is now making in the back of her throat. Also she kisses back and is discernibly restraining herself from going overboard doing anything else.

If she's making that kind of noise they're probably going to get kicked out of the store sooner rather than later but until it happens this is less important than kiss.

Eeeeeeee~

They do in fact get kicked out of the store at some point.

"...Oops."

"At least we bought the stuff first."

"Yeah. Uh, if kissing in a store is socially unacceptable what things are more socially acceptable, I don't know the local conventions."

"...It probably wasn't the kissing, it was probably the noises."

"...the noises?"

"Right. Deaf. You were making noises. Kind of loud ones."

"...oh. I can only hear myself if I'm actually saying things. Uh. I'm not sure what to do about that."