"Oh! Yes, of course."

Yeah, he totally couldn't figure out the door. Adorable. Here it is, unlocked for him.

She is not having any opinions on Tae-gun in a towel. None. There is also no looking. ... At least not while he's looking at her, anyway. She can look when he's going through the door.

This time he uses his legs rather than float. His door unlocks using a hand scanner, because he is very security-conscious. Unfortunately, all of his security-consciousness right now is focused on opening the door at all; he leaves it open once he walks through it.

Fortunately she doesn't have a very good view of his silo from her place in the chair! Since it's right next to the wall.

But she does have a good view of. The person opening it. Mmm...

The person opening it does not seem to notice. He doesn't turn the lights on, either, and just finds his way to his bathroom to grab his toothbrush by touch/memory. Then it occurs to him he could just brush his teeth right there, so he starts doing that.

...

She'll stay put for now so she doesn't accidentally see any of his silo. And instead stay perched here and read. And try not to think about how he's just wearing a towel and is VERY PRETTY and, and, they're compatible and it would be SO NICE to touch him and...

Brushing of teeth takes three minutes. Then he steps out of the bathroom, squints at the open door, remembers that he is meant to Be Watched tonight, and walks back out to her half of the silo. This time he remembers to close his door behind him.

Here she is, right where he left her. Reading. Trying not to think certain thoughts. Why does alcohol make her horny...

Cool. He walks over to sit on the sofa where he'll be sleeping—he is too tall for it, but so it goes—then opens up his commscreen and starts tapping at it.

Cool, then she'll go forth and get ready for bed. She... doesn't really have all of her stuff here, but she does have a toothbrush and change of clothes, so. That'll do.

When she walks back out of the bathroom Tae-gun is still awake, lying on the sofa with his commscreen open above his face, reading something with one hand behind the pillow under his head. The towel is hanging somewhere where it won't be all damp and get in his way. He has not pulled his blankets on.

The towel being hung up means that Tae-gun is absolutely not wearing anything.

....

(Distantly, she notes she can give her cousin an answer. Not that she ever will, but. She can.)

.........

"Tae-gun-sunbae, could you. Please pull the blanket up," she requests, shutting her eyes.

?

"Why, are you cold?"

...wait.

Blanket on him. Wrong subject. Or object. One of those.

He pulls it all the way over his head and hides under it.

Yeah. That's. Yeah. Extremely valid.

She keeps in her nervous giggle, because he might interpret that poorly, and instead just heads to her chair of coziness.

"... I'll ask to get a longer couch," she observes, eyeing how it's a bit too short for them. "In case you need to sleep on it again."

Uh huh uh huh uh huh sure yep there are sure words being said.

(She saw him naked. She. He. Caught that look. Before she closed her eyes. She definitely did not look unappreciative.)

(He's, like, distantly aware that he's physically attractive, but that was Hye-jin looking at him with, with that face.)

(He's not in acute backlash right this second. He is still being remotely guided due to the mountain of backlash he has accumulated over the years, and being in her presence feels really nice.)

(He wishes he were too drunk to realise that the amount of horny he's getting right this moment is probably the strictly normal non-backlash-mediated kind of horny.)

Okay well she's just. Going to read. Yep. Reading.

He's butt naked. The only thing protecting his dignity is a flimsy blanket. And she's right there. And his dignity definitely has opinions about her being there.

HE'D RATHER BE DRUNKER AGAIN PLEASE

(Go down boy. Down.)

Being drunk kind of got him into this situation!!

"... Let me know when you want the lights off," she says, glancing up and then - um. Looking away immediately.

Nope, he cannot do that, see, because that would involve producing words with his facemouth, and words are currently offline.

He bets if he said please NO

Would he even need to say words, what would she do if he just walked up to her and NO

He's so pent up he hasn't had sex in literal years NO NO NO NO NO

Partners do this all the time WE HAVE HAD THIS CONVERSATION BEFORE AND THE ANSWER HAS NOT CHANGED

Well. Then she'll just. Keep reading. ... Keep trying to read, anyway.