"The cuteness is so overpowering people will keep trying to reach it even if they can't."

"But they could be thwarted and obliged to take regular snack breaks."

"Obliged by whom, though, everyone else is also trying to reach the cute."

"Robots!"

"Aha, yes, good plan. So the cutepocalypse can only happen until robots that can do that are invented, and then I don't need to resist it so much anymore."

"Well, anyone who happened to be near you when you tried too hard would be in trouble anyway."

"Hmm, yes, then I must be sure to never relax while accompanied."

"Wouldn't want me to spend too much time gazing enraptured at you and starve."

"Oh no, definitely not, who else would work with me to make everyone immortal and bring back the dead?"

"Surely your cuteness could attract your pick of options."

"Pfff, no option could be better than you."

"Good answer."

She grins and lowers her eyes. "Not to mention that if anyone here's going to be gazing enraptured at anyone else it'd be me at you."

Smooch.

Smooooch!

"I love you."

"I love you, too! Very much."

And later they go back to the dorm and Isabella takes her pants off. ...So Sadde can heal her.

Of course, whyever else?

Sadde looks at the affected areas and frowns a bit in concentration and it starts slowly healing. Or, well, not actually slowly, compared to how long it would normally have taken. The sensation is interesting, something between air and water sliding on Isabella's skin, and then it's gone.

"That was weird," Bella says. "Feels better now, thank you, pet."

"You're welcome, ma'am. Incidentally, I think I know now why I didn't think I needed to look."

"Why's that?"

"There was this... sensation. Before. When I was trying to target... um... You remember my metaphor about doing the splits?"

"Yeah?"

"So, that wouldn't really work as a subjective experience on someone else's body, except it kinda does. Like, just before I do the thing, I can kinda... feel? It? Like, it felt like your legs were, uh, my legs, too, it was really weird having four legs."