"Sometime around noon?"

Zev laughs.

"By which time we will actually be seeing aye-ayes. I should educate people before we get to them."

"Getting to see something that isn't a cat, dog or rat is honestly a treat."

"Oh boy. You're gonna love this."

"I think Nova and I have proven ourselves easy to please." 

He tucks his face into Nova's neck, hugging him tightly. 

Nova leans further into him.

"That's not necessarily a bad thing," Aaren points out with a smile. "Being easy to please."

"Oh, we'll form preferences. Eventually." Zev's voice is somewhat muffled by Nova's shoulder.

"Ah, whatever shall we do then?"

"Learn to please us."

"Such a hardship," 'Chelle teases as the doorbell goes. "I think that's our cue to leave."

"Ready?" Zev murmurs into Nova's ear. 

They haven't been out since Aaren found them.

He shrugs a little - he doesn't know, but it"s fine, right?

"I'm with you, no matter what, all right?"

He smiles, nods a little.

Aaren's moved their picnic to the hall and returns with the jackets that had been hung in hallway along with gloves and hats and scarves. "Wrap up warm."

Zev kisses Nova's temple, and then helps Nova into his coat, giggling a little as he buttons it the whole way up to his chin.

Nova giggles as well, and returns the favour.

Ant sticks eir head into the kitchen. "C'mon," ey encourages. "Cuteness awaits!"

"It's already here," Zev crows, cuddling around Nova again.

"Okay. Fair. But more cute!" Ey bounces in place. "Also, Ira's boss heard 'family day out' and banned Ira from working."

"Then I suppose we had better move." 

Zev simply changes his position from entirely-wrapped-around-Nova, to just holding his hand. 

Ant grins and leads the way outside at a skip. Sure enough, Ira is leaning against what is clearly Steve's car, parked in the street in front of Aaren's driveway.

"We're splitting into two cars, four people in each. Your choice where you go?"

"Oh." Three people already in both. He clings a little tighter to Nova. "We...I don't want to disrupt anyone."