Not granite. Just me, right here.

Just you. Love you so much. So glad you're real.

So glad you're alive.

I'm sorry I wasn't. I hate that I hurt you.

Whatever. You are. 

Yeah.

I love you so much.

And hours of holding without speaking.

She dozes off again for a bit., since this is so very cozy, and when she wakes again her stomach reminds her that breakfast is a thing that exists.

And even that they can have brought to them!

True. Although she'll want to eat sitting up, so that spilling is less likely. And she should change into clean clothes. ...And unbraid, brush and rebraid her hair, is that going to introduce problems?

Not problems of the 'he wants to jump her' kind, he will still mostly cling.

Clinging makes changing clothes a little tricky, but not impossible, and then she has performed Hygiene and they can go back to properly snuggling in a bed.

...At some point she's going to have to shower. She doesn't think this is going to cause the kind of problem where he wants to jump her, not if hairbrushing didn't, but she suspects it is going to cause--well, exacerbate--the problem where she wants to jump him.

They can shower without him having to let go of her. It's a big shower.

Yes? The problem is not that he will supposedly have to let go, the problem is naked, remember when she discovered Elves swim naked?

They're going to straighten out the legalities. 

That is good but she also does not want to pressure him into sleeping with her before he actually wants to.

Well, I strongly don't want to let go of you in the shower. - I could stay clothed?

...Well, I'm pretty sure you'd at least have to change into dry clothes after, but I guess that would reduce the amount of time you spent distractingly naked.

That works.

I want you--very badly, I think, if I let myself--but pressuring someone into sex before they're ready--before they want it--it's completely unconscionable and the idea of doing it to you makes my soul shriek in horror.

I love you, dear, you're not going to hurt me. 

I'm not sure you'd be capable of perceiving it as such if I did, right now.

As long as you stay and are happy there's nothing you can do to hurt me.

Oh, darling. Definitely not gonna leave.

...I think I'm just going to wait for you to initiate, at least the first time, you know how I feel about it and can just--do that or not, as you see fit, once the legal troubles are cleared up.

Mmmmkay - Idaia, Idaia, Idaia -