Yvette nuzzles the shadow-blanket affectionately. It's so snuggly.

"Thank you," she says, softly.

"You're welcome."

It is the snuggliest blanket. Or possibly hand or wing. Whatever it is, it is the snuggliest one of it.

Snuggle.

She's just going to snuggle beneath his blanket/hand/wing/limb and smile at him, then. Delightedly.

This is good. This is a good thing.

Snuggle, snuggle.

"So I am kind of terrifying and uncanny, then?" she confirms, after a while of this. "Anything that's really obviously - not right about me? I don't particularly like looking uncanny."

"...???"

Blanket/hand/wing/limb snuggle. She can nuzzle it again, even.

"I um. Accidentally let my original body get destroyed a ways back. I did the best I could to recreate it, but." Shrug. "I was kind of hoping that having literally any outside perspective would help me figure out the problem and fix it."

"...I don't know how to say... I'm not exactly the best authority on what looks human," he says, gesturing at himself with one hand. The glowing green eyes, the way he doesn't always look quite solid at the edges, the threads of mist connecting him to the shadow-blanket wrapped around her.

Shadow-blanket nuzzle.

"Fair enough. I think you look fine. I just - if I look inhuman I want it to be deliberately, not because I messed up years ago and died. If there are other humans in this dimension, I might go sneakily stare at them to see if I can fix it."

"There probably still are. Up there." A vague wave at the ceiling, accented by a sweep of shadow.

"Okay," she agrees.

She shifts under the shadow-blanket to pick a mote of starscape out of her jacket. She could just make one, but this is slightly less effort; it's why she bothers with the freaky star jacket at all. Casually, she releases it, and it floats up towards the ceiling, fading from impossible-dark to transparent, to finally completely invisible just before it reaches the ceiling. This task done, she snuggles the shadow-blanket some more, humming happily.

Shadow snuggles: they're the coziest.

(The literal surface of the ocean overhead is not inhabited, but there's some preindustrial human settlements on nearby landmasses. Also, this underwater ruin is big. The city is only part of it; the actual extent of the air bubble is closer to the size of a small continent.)

She can move her little invisible mote pretty quickly. After spotting how large the ruin is, she splits her mote and sends one to go awkwardly stare at human settlements, and lets the other wander around the ruins looking at pretty things. That one can be visible, she doesn't think she wants to hide what she's doing from Saikirei.

"Do you mind if I stay here a while?" (Snuggle, snuggle.)

Snuggle. "You can stay."

"Oh, good," she says, beaming. She considers her current arrangement of shadow-blanket snuggles, then gently repositions herself so that she can be lying down for Maximum Shadow-Blanket Snuggles. She's comfortable in just about any configuration, but this seems much more snuggly. More of her is free to snuggle, now. Snuggle, snuggle.

Aww.

...The shadow-blanket scoops her up and carries her closer to his throne; he reaches out tentatively to pet her hair with his actual mostly-solid mostly-human hand.

She giggles delightedly when scooped, and snuggles the shadow-blanket happily while being carried. When he reaches out to pet her, she leans into his hand, smiling brilliantly at him.

Her hair is very soft. It's smooth like silk, and entirely free of tangles or frizz.

Aww!! She's pettable!! So soft!!

More shadow-limbs emerge from his aura to snuggle her, and somehow she ends up in his lap, cradled against his chest, being thoroughly cuddled.

Maybe someone else would find a bunch of shadow-limbs emerging from an ominous aura of shadow to touch them more than a little bit unsettling, but she's had a shitty couple of years. This is great, and she's delighted with it. Eeeeeeeeeeeee!

She wraps her arms around his chest and snuggles as close as she can. She's snuggly and soft and warm, though warm like sunlight is warm, not like a typical flesh and blood thing is warm. It's a little like cuddling a snuggly, person-shaped star that has toned down the heat and fire as much as possible for maximized snuggling potential.

He hugs her with one arm and pets her hair with the other and wraps her up in cozy shadow-limbs. Yes good.

"Eeee," she giggles, nuzzling him. "I am so snuggled."

"Turns out," he says, laughing a little, "I want to hug you!"

Well now she's giggling and gleefully attempting to aggressively snuggle him even more. It is impossible, she is snuggling him the maximum amount that her human-shaped form will allow. Maybe at some point she will get adventurous and delve into other Best Snuggle configurations, but not right now. Right now she just wants to be very snuggled.

"I'm so glad!" Snuggle snuggle aggressive snuggle.

"You're so happy," he says delightedly.

Nuzzle-snuggle.

"I'm being extremely snuggled! You're - giving me a thing I've been desperately wanting for years. I am the happiest."