"Hm, well let's see if I can pull it off again."

This time he uses two carriers and a mere four destroyers. The fast fighter/bombers will be a big pain to properly defend against...

Sounds like the straightforward thing to do is just keep several large boats, yes?

And more importantly, keep them in positions such that Terel's ships can't slip through gaps or get behind them to the running-like-hell freighters. Sadde will get continual reinforcements as time passes, too. Delaying equals winning.

Looks like Terel's going to try an overwhelming first strike against the weakest point in his defensive line...

Hmm... he can spread his defences equally everywhere, or perhaps he could shift from one defensive formation to the other all the time. He'll try the latter.

He times his attack to hit during one of the shifts, suddenly rolling sideways to slip between the shifting defenders.

When Sadde closes the formation next turn they carve up the fighters inside... But those that remain are through, and faster than any of Sadde's pursuing ships.

Well duck.

Yup.

Terel wins, phyrric losses but victory none the less since his mission statement was just 'destroy the freighters'.

"This was fun. Sorry-not-sorry about clobbering you so badly."

"Nnnngh."

Terel starts putting game pieces away, incidentally glances at Sadde and licks his lips.

"—you're teasing me."

"What makes you say that?"

He totally is.

"Nnnnngh!"

He laughs. "Okay, I'll stop as soon as the game's not in danger, I'll have you know I take good care of my board games."

"You know, even when jumping you I am very coordinated and wouldn't actually destroy your game. In fact, I could probably put away your game and get you undressed in fifteen seconds."

"...Okay, prove it."

Putting away the game: three seconds.

Now Terel is quickly (but carefully) deposited on his bed and his shoes are off and now his socks and now Sadde's on top of him planting a kiss on his lips. Six seconds.

He kisses back and didn't actually mean that literally and he's forgotten to actually time it entirely.

And honestly in nine seconds even a human could get undressed so—

He pulls away. "I think I recall a desire for a strip tease," he says before undressing Terel all the way.

"Oh? Oh, I was mostly joking when I said that. Not that I'm going to say no thanks."

"We could use some music," he says, slipping his hands under Terel's shirt to remove it.

"Hm," (kiss), "Why?"

"Well, to help with the stripping, of course. I could strip without the music but it'd help with the mood."

"I don't know what kind of music you're talking about, would it burn sensitive virgin ears?"

His left eyebrow raises veeeery slowly. "Sensitive virgin ears?" And just to punctuate that, he reaches a hand inside Terel's pants.

"I didn't mean mine. More like, what kind of music are you even talking about, bawdy lyrics?"