You're right there. Okay, we should probably make up little batches of dye and test 'em on really small pieces of wax to figure out what works.

This'll take till Mingling, is your sister going to get worried or bored?

If we actually leave her alone 'till then she will probably assume we're doing things she's grateful not to have to witness but I think she'd want to help with the dye thing.

Okay. We can ride back. Do people in your world in fact marry strangers they meet in the woods because that's the thought that just accompanied those words and I'm a bit startled you're so nonchalant about it, he does not say. 

Should finish off the honey first, she says, licking some off her fingers in a way that probably ought to be illegal.

Well okay fine he will grab her again and they can kiss some more. 

Oh, good. She heroically restrains herself from trying to escalate it any farther than that.

He notices. 

She is so great and it kind of is tempting to get married in the woods if only because he could avoid all the comments back home. No one could try to talk him out of it. Too late. But it wouldn't be fair to her, people thinking he'd unluckily and recklessly trapped himself in a marriage he wouldn't have undertaken with more consideration...

Back on the horse. 

Back on the horse, okay, now how do we finagle carrying this wax he does not have saddlebags...

He has lots of strategies for carrying things on horseback, though!

Excellent. Then they will get the wax back to where they left her sister without incident.

Hi! Tyelcormo says when they get back. We acquired wax and are going to experiment with dyes; want to help?

Ooh, yes!

So dying experiments it is. The silver light goes paler and Laurelin awakens and the sky goes white-streaked-with-ultraviolet. It's a particularly pretty Mingling, or at least he thinks so. 

Tragically, the sisters cannot see ultraviolet.

Then they're not going to appreciate the Mingling very well, are they? Dye experiments continue. 

It's a real shame, that. (Not appreciating the Mingling. Dye experiments are not a shame.)

Dye experiments will occupy them all night, if the otherworldly strangers don't require sleep. 

Well, they'll have to sleep at some point.

He won't have to. He will, though, if they're going to. 

Sleep is very important for people who have dream-based magic!

Oh right. Cool. Then he might just watch them and if it's alright with them listen in on their dreams, do they do magic in their sleep?

Imliss is fine with it as long as he backs out if he sees anything obviously private.

Idaia...is just fine with it.

Imliss does in fact do some magic in her sleep. She dreams about the funeral, and the scent of damp gravedirt fills the air.