"We'll see how much magic covers first, I think. And then if we need more people I am sure I can find some way to pay them."

Nod.

"Normally this section would probably include questions about where we're going to live and who we're going to live with but I don't, like, super know? I guess I assume we'll be living in some house in the demiplane, maybe this one or maybe I'll make one I've put more thought into and leave this one for someone else, and... maybe eventually we can have a big house and Azalea and little Connor and Zana and Azalea's husband can all live in the same building with us. But with enough bedrooms for that, this time."

"Sounds good to me."

"Cools." Scribble scribble.

"...I feel like it is probably important for a cross-cultural marriage questionnaire to have a section about sex but I'm not entirely sure I'm competent to write it."

"Who decides when the two of you have sex? Who decides when your partner has sex with other people? Are there people you don't want them having sex with? What counts, are they allowed to kiss those people? Touch them? Fantasize about them? Are they allowed to masturbate? Will you share a bed? Are there sex acts either of you especially hate and will be upset about being required to do frequently? Are there sex acts that are very important to either of you? If your partner does something they weren't supposed to do, what's an acceptable set of punishments?"

She buries her face in her pillow.

"That's - a better list than I was going to come up with although some of those were kind of concerning."

"I can probably come up with some more if I think about it."

"Well it's good that one of us is on this. Um, I think it's also important to have specific questions about whether married couples are required to have sex with each other or can refuse generally or refuse at specific times, I don't want anyone to end up in a situation where one partner has a concept of marital rape and the other doesn't and this causes problems, that would be really bad for humans."

"That makes sense."

She unburies her face and starts scribbling things in her notebook, still blushing.

"Okay. Who decides when the two of you have sex. I... guess I would assume that either of us can ask for it and either of us can refuse, even though I am under the impression that always being able to refuse is somewhat less important for fairies than for humans."

"I - tell you no to things if I have a really good reason? Like...if I knew something you didn't or something, or maybe if I was worried you were hurting yourself. Not just - because I'm not really in the mood to help you. That'd be wrong."

"I think for humans it's really important to be able to tell people no to having sex even if they don't have a reason besides not wanting to? But I'm not actually sure if this is true of fairies."

"I don't think this is true of fairies."

"Okay. Um. You can still say no but you don't have to use it if you don't feel like you should. I guess.

"Who decides when your partner has sex with other people. I think we are... not going to have sex with other people."

"Well, there you go, then."

"Okay. Um. I think you should also not kiss other people, probably. And - if I say nonsexual touching is fine and sexual touching is not is that going to be, like, a confusing distinction - "

"...kinda?"

Blushing. "Um. Sorry. I'm - not gonna be, like, mad if you get confused, I don't think? I'm - not actually clear on all of the things that people do."

"You could divide by whether anyone gets off on it? But we've done lots of things that - I might expect you to care if I was doing them with other people - and usually neither of us get off on them."

"I guess so? Maybe just, like... if you do something with someone and you tell me and I'm sad about it then you'll know not to do it again. And you can... try to not do things that you think will probably make me sad. I guess this is not a very elegant system but I don't want to, like... having a bunch of specific rules beforehand about where specifically you can touch other people sounds kind of exhausting."

"Okay. I will try really hard not to make you sad."

Snuggle. "I know. Anything you haven't said that would make you sad if I did it with other people?"

"...if you told them they were better slaves than me? I guess mostly because you thought so not because you said it. If you had their kids instead because they were smarter or prettier and you wanted smarter prettier kids."

"It sounds really easy not to do that second thing! I... guess I cannot guarantee anything about what I will feel about other people for the rest of time but I'm not really worried about the first thing either."