"Only if you want to, I'm interested because I love the way your mind works but I don't need it or anything -"

"I don't usually let anybody read them but it's you."

"I love you and I think I'd like that a lot."

So Annie gets some notes and boops Rirosseth with the language thing so she can read the Noregrsk in the old notes.

I can read I didn't know if I'd be able to read I can read I can read I can read

I would have thought of something but I have no idea what and I don't have to I can read the only other thing it matters if I can see is her and at least I can think properly about not being able to do that -

And on about what the artifact did and how she's thinking around it (step 1: identify what she would advise someone who was not her and was in love with someone who was not Rirosseth to do, step 2: find as gerrymandered a justification as necessary for why that advice would, if Annie herself followed it, lead to something arguably artifact-friendly, step 3: use results of step 2 to beat the shit out of competing artifact effect components) and what kind of mess she has landed in and many incoherent digressions about how she is so! in! love! and! can't! handle! it! at! all! and! can't! say! anything! and the poor kids and at least she got something in the vague neighborhood of a cuddle and she will coast on that for as long as she needs to -

"Oh, darling, my amazing astonishing - you know, if I thought this was real, I'd have fallen in love with you off reading these, I'm very sure of it - the way you think -"

"You think so?"

"I really do."

That's lovely. "I love you."

"I love you too."

Well this has been a rewarding experience and Rirosseth can read more notes if she likes there are lots.

She really really would they're so brilliant and self-aware and so Annie and she would absolutely love to understand everything about Annie.

...does she maybe want them redacted for feedback-loop-y content?

"...I trust your judgment but I know I hurt you back then and I know it'll just hurt you more if I'm sad now over it."

"Does that actually mean you won't be sad now over it, though."

"I bet I can avoid being feedback-loopy levels of sad. Maybe I will experience an intense desire to make it up to you, that seems better for you than being sad."

"...okay. I'll start redacting if it's a problem."

More notes. Here for instance is the part where Annie finds out about the flashbacks-when-touched and metaphorical ice water is dumped on Annie's previously very frustrating libido because oh no poor Rirosseth nooooo.

This will go better if they snuggle while she reads and she can squeal aloud at how brilliant Annie is. 

That is such a good idea on all levels.

She knows. The way Annie thinks is amazing and so impressive and so clever. 

Eeeeeee~

"I actually thought a long time about asking you to send me - what it's like - but I got the sense you'd never ever agree if you weren't magically in love with me and you probably wouldn't refuse me anything if I said it would help me and so it didn't - seem okay to ask -"

"You mean before you knew what it was like -?"

"Yeah." Squeeze.

"What would you've done if I had?"

"Uh, probably depends how much of you came across. I'd have been more relaxed, because it's - friendlier - mind-altering magic than I was imagining it could be, and I would have relaxed a lot over you not wanting to force me into anything..."