"I don't think I need to know this right now. Maybe when I'm done awakening."

"Why?"

"Well, it's not going to change the fact that we're awakening and compatible and I'm pretty sure if Transit had information to the effect that actually you were Hitler he wouldn't have dropped me off here."

"I -yeah that sounds. Right. I guess."

"I'm about to say something I kind of don't think is a great idea to say but I'm gonna anyway if we can't think of anything else to talk about and also don't go back to kissing."

"I'm really sorry I can't think of anything to say I'm sorry."

"Okay, fine, my dumb idea for a thing to say is that you probably have a refractory period and might be more reliably stoppable for the next while if you got off in some way."

"That. Um. While you watched???"

"I can close my eyes if you want."

"I. I. I don't think that would help. Even if I could. Maybe um. If it were more than once. It could last a while. But that would take. Time."

"Well maybe it's a terrible idea and it won't work I just can't be - not talking or anything."

"... I really liked kissing you."

"Yeah it was really good."

"Skitter said I should go on this boat with you and Tattletale said I wasn't going to hurt you? So. I... I feel like I am arguing myself into not worrying because of how much I want to kiss you." 

"You haven't hurt me but I don't know exactly what's going on with - how Tattletale decides to say things, like, I don't know how likely it is that she was wrong or oversimplifying or what."

"I think she is sometimes wrong and can oversimplify. ...I think it is not unreasonable for me to defer to her and you given that you know everything that is happening with me and are not insane in the way I am?"

"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 -"