"I could leave if I wanted to. 

I'll tell my brother we'll need - a lot more food."

"Thank you.

"When it's night, is it too dark to wander even a little ways away? Even for a few hours?"

"No. But it's - unfriendlier - to be in other peoples' territory unannounced, so we'd need to make arrangements in advance or stick to ours."

Nod.

"I think I would like that. ...the day we met you was the first time I'd been to a forest in twelve years."

Shiver. "We can go out every day. If we can evade my father on the way out, at least."

She smiles weakly. "I like your father. I don't know whether he'll still like me, twenty days from now, but I like him. Though I might want to go out again before the sun sets."

"Well, if he doesn't like you in twenty days he'll still be enormously in your debt, that's not a bad spot to be in. We can go out. Now, if you'd like."

Nodnod. "Yes, please."

So they head back out. 

Objectively considered it's a very small territory. A human farmer might work more land. It's very densely pathed, though, and the plants are flourishing. They could climb a tree and watch the sunset from the top.

That sounds good.

It is, it turns out, much easier to hug him when they're not in a bedroom.

Oh good. 

"I could make them get rid of the bed and bring some leaves in there."

" - that might honestly be better. Seems like a ridiculous thing to upset by, but - "

"But you are upset by it, so."

Nod.

Hug. "Fancy things won't make me your human king. Promise."

Hug. "Yeah. I think - most of me knows that."

"And if some of you doesn't, I kind of figure I signed up for that when I decided to take you. Not very reasonable to steal people who have had an awful time of being stolen and then figure that this definitely won't mean they're sad about being stolen sometimes.

But - it's still good when you're not sad."

Snuggle. "I am so very glad I met you."

"I should tell you, if I think of anything else to make the night easier?"

"Yeah. Dunno if I'll do it but I'd definitely rather know."

Nodnod. "Okay."

They can stay out until they get tired. He's not in a hurry to talk with his family about how to feed her all winter anyway.

She's not in a hurry to go back either. But yeah, eventually she'll get tired.

Then he can escort her back to the room, which regrettably still has a bed, and go off to talk with people.