"As half-fairies I guess they'll sense debt and we'll have to raise them like fairies and stuff."

"Mhmm. We can raise them out in the woods until they know how to talk to people safely."

"Yeah. And for a while after that, if they're like me and don't want to live among people anyway."

"Yeah."

Snuggle. "I'm excited."

"I'm glad. I think it'll be wonderful."

"It will!"

Eee.

And at some point she can help him look for sources of bone or wood that might be suitable for turning into rings? She does not in fact have any idea how to make rings, so he'll probably have to make both of them himself.

Once he finds some bone he can grind it and polish it and make them two beautiful rings. It takes a couple dozen sleeps, all told. He seems very cheerful about it.

"They're lovely."

"Thank you! Does it make the marriage work better if they're lovely -"

"I don't think so. But I'm going to be wearing it every day, for as long as it lasts, so - it's good that it's very pretty."

Kiss. "Well, you're very pretty. And it feels like it'd be all symbolically wrong if the ring made you less pretty on average."

"It does. I think we're prettiest together."

"Ah huh." Kiss.

Kiss. 

"Give me one more sleep?"

" - of course. Do you want - more than that -"

"No, no. It's just, you're supposed to dress up when you get married. And I'm not sure how well I can do that here, but - I might as well try."

"Oh! Okay. Yes, go do that."

She laughs and kisses him and then goes off to see what she can do.

She can't do anything very impressive. She only has the one black dress. But she takes a dew bath and a nap, and she does her hair up with flowers in it, and she makes a little woven belt of daisies, and then she comes back to find him.

He has changed into a different set of shimmery fairy clothes. These ones look like there are dust motes trapped in them. He has also braided his hair, and he is diligently laying flower petals on the ground.

" - oh wow."

"Is it wrong?"

"No. It's lovely."

"Oh good. It's - important, right -"