"I love you. I'm gonna take care of you. Sometimes you might need lots of taking care of and so I will take care of you lots."

Snuggle.

"That sounds - very very good."

Forehead kiss.

Eee. Snuggle.

"Although I do feel terribly self-centered right now."

"I don't - actually think I want anything that'd be a good idea right now. I like kissing you and making you happy, it's not a chore."

"Mmkay. I'm glad of that. I guess it's easier to think how I'd be good to you if we were married."

He leans against her and makes a vaguely curious sound because words are suddenly hard.

Snuggle.

"I would kiss you, just about whenever I thought of it. And I would be very certain that I loved you, and I would tell you so, all the time, because you deserve to have that. And at some point we would make a baby, and I would be so, so good to all of your babies."

"You would. You're very good to Verita."

"Mhmm. I like kids. And babies."

"I guess we can decide how many we want, with all this stuff from other worlds."

"I guess we can. 

"Other stuff about the future's kind of hazy right now. Sort of depends on where we'd end up living and what we'd end up doing. I - kind of feel like I have a duty to help rebuild Cheliax, if Elizabeth does succeed, but I'm not entirely sure what that'll look like. Or what'd be fair to ask of you."

"That makes sense to me. I could live in Cheliax once Asmodeus is dead, I'd think. What would you want me to do -"

"Dunno, kind of depends on the situation. I assume I'd be directly helping with the extreme cleric shortage. I don't know how the military stuff will shake out, but I imagine whatever group I end up attached to will need some security. If that's not too terribly boring."

"I wouldn't mind."

Snuggle.

"It's not adventuring. I guess adventuring isn't perfectly ideal if you have a family. What would you want to do, if you could do anything - "

"Wasn't planning to adventure if I ever got a family. Uh - hmm. Maybe - help people set up a new civilization on a new planet. Learn about the local animals and convince them not to eat our livestock or our crops. Build stuff. Maybe occasionally divert slave ships to our shores but nothing more adventure-y than that."

Snuggle.

"I guess there might be some of that eventually. 

"If we had forever then we could hang out in Cheliax until it wasn't in a state of acute crisis, and then I could follow you to your new planet. Which I assume someone around here will have the means and motive to set up at some point."

"I'm really not sure Pharasma will put up with people all becoming immortal but that sounds nice."

"It does seem like she might object to it the same way she objects to undead. Maybe we can wait for someone else to try it first."

"Yeah. I'm really okay with spending our lives in Cheliax, though. Elysium's pretty much what I want except with less ability to help people, and if I spent my whole life helping I'll probably not mind."

"All right." Snuggle. "I am trying not to commit to this hypothetical at all right now but - it's a pretty good hypothetical. Much better than anything I figured on a month or three ago."

" - really wanna hear about what you were thinking a month ago but I think this is mostly because I - enjoy hearing about how you first thought about me and this seems kind of weird, given that it must've been pretty negative."

Snuggle. "I think exactly a month ago we had just been kidnapped here and I didn't really have much in the way of visions of the future. But I think there was a week in there somewhere where - I sort of figured Verita and I might be stuck with you three for a long time, if you didn't have another safe place to stash her? And - for a while I was pretty upset about this but I think there was at least a little bit of time where it seemed probably bearable."

"It was - if I say 'it was really scary kidnapping you' I'll sound awful because it was much much worse for you, but - the first night we all just looked at each other like - what have we done - how scared you must be -"