He curls up a little more. 

"Oh. 

Okay." 

"It's fine, actually. It's a good thing."

His shoulders don't uncurl. "Okay." 

"Do you want a hug?"

He pauses and then hugs Lev. 

Okay. They can hug. 

"Lots of people in the place where my Sasha grew up think it's bad or gross or wrong but-- it's not really. It's fine."

He buries his face in Lev's shoulder and clings to him. If he hears Lev at all it's not obvious. 

Lev holds him and rubs circles on his back and makes soothing noises.

He melts into Lev like he hasn't been touched affectionately in months. 

Technically, it is Smolsha's decision which world he wants to go to, but Lev immediately wants to adopt him.

That's sweet of him. Sasha makes happy noises at Lev's hands on his back. 

Smolsha is a very good small person and Lev likes him.

"Were we going to watch movies?" he says after a couple minutes of hug. 

"Yeah! Let's collect the other people who are interested."

Levva and Xenolev both want to watch Disney movies.

Smolsha and VK Sasha and Noonlight want to watch Disney movies; Spidersha is still out looking for more Levs. 

Levva is weirded out by many aspects of Disney movies, such as everyone only having one or two children and the protagonist of every movie being a blue. 

Cascadilev is VERY CONFUSED by the fact that the plot of Frozen isn't "Elsa goes evil and then is redeemed by the power of familial love."

American 3D animation is really weird and he isn't sure he likes it. 

VKsha has a handful of half-remembered anecdotes from Kaleva about how apparently Queen Elsa helps kids build snow forts and yells at the screen whenever the Duke of Weselton is on it. 

VKsha is adorable.

(They should cuddle while they watch.)

"I want to watch more movies VKsha recognizes but I also want to find out what other things the Gileadites fucked up."

"So far there's been plenty of overlap. — I don't know if all these movies are real in my world or just some of them or what." 

Xenolev opens up his phone and shows Sasha a list of movies in the Disney Animated Canon.

(He side-eyes the cuddling a little bit.)

He pulls Xenolev closer. 

"We have Cinderella and Snow White and Sleeping Beauty and Aladdin and mermaids and Mulan, we don't have a Pocahontas, we have a Pinnochio, I don't think we have a Lion King, we have a Tiana, we don't have a Robin Hood —" 

This was not actually his objection to the cuddling but being cuddled by VKsha is nice.

Then they can watch Mulan and Princess and the Frog and Aladdin and Snow White.