"Yeah I'm just insane in a completely different way. It wasn't that hard to stop you but I am definitely insane in a way that would mean I would eventually fail at it if it came up twenty times."

"My probably very biased brain is suggesting that maybe this means we could revisit after it came up another time if it does?"

"That would probably work, but only probably."

"There... was a taser in the supplies? I think?"

"...the problem is not that I cannot make it physically inconvenient if I try, the problem is that I am insane."

"Oh."

"Yeah. I dunno what to do."

What Lucien is going to do is sit here - within reaching distance - and feel miserable. Apparently.

"So like - we're both in favor of kissing and both have mixed feelings about anything past that, is that about right? Plus the thing where if we are too absentminded I - well I probably won't actually wind up pregnant, people who are already pregnant when they awaken generally lose the baby, backlash is bad for you, but I don't love the word 'probably' there -"

"Aren't there um. Ways to stop being pregnant?"

"...yes but I'd really rather not have that problem??"

Lucien nods, having never seriously considered this subject potentially relevant to him until now when it is obviously relevant to him, just like everything else.

He was much better company with his brain working.

"I think I packed a book. Do you maybe wanna try reading to me again since you can still read. And we can snuggle and maybe something clever will occur to us."

"Yeah um. What book?"

"Great Expectations."

Lucien can try reading but after a few pages it is blindingly obvious what is going on and he is going to stop and ask May why she picked a book that is so clearly about him.

"It was just one that Lorica had lying around at home."

"... Huh, sorry. I wonder why Lorica had a book about me lying around."

"You were friends and stuff, right?"

"Yeah."

"I bet that explains everything that needs explaining."

"I guess."

He can go back to reading.

It's relaxing. She's read some Dickens but not this specific one before so most of her commentary is about comparing and contrasting and guessing that things might be foreshadowing.

At some point Lucien's body remembers they are cuddling naked and starts poking into May's back about this.

What if May were the big spoon.