"Okay. Thank you for doing it."

Kiss. "Course. Like I said, if I knew how happy it'd make you I'd have done it days ago."

Snuggle. "S'just - you're gonna stay with me. And try to be good to me. Forever."

"Yeah."

Eee. Snuggle.

"You know you're allowed to sleep with me now, right?"

" - yeah, but you said you thought it'd still be bad, probably?"

"Well I don't know. It might be. But - you said before that it matters whether someone's trying to make it - tolerable - and if it's important to you I wouldn't want to just assume it's not worth trying - "

"It's important to me. But - you being so so so happy, that's important too, more important -"

Nodnod.

"I think it wouldn't be - harmful, to try, if you were being careful not to hurt me. But - yeah. I'm glad we didn't do it before, to settle the debt. I'm not sure exactly how to explain it, but - I was protecting this, I think. Getting to have this."

"The marriage wouldn't have worked, if we'd - had sex before?"

"Oh, I could've married you, could've said everything I said. But I don't know that I could've - felt this safe or this happy, if we'd done it before."

Nod. Snuggle.

Snuggle.

"Probably sounds very odd, if you don't have human intuitions. But I'm so glad we waited. Not - terrified, not anymore."

"That's good. Maybe we can try some things and you can tell me if they're awful."

"Okay."

What if he touches her like this, say.

Well that's not awful at all. 

Well with enough experimentation maybe there will be a variant that is actually nice.

That probably won't be very hard. Most of the time when he touches her it's nice. And it's much nicer without clothes, now that they're married and he's going to stay with her forever.

He's still a tiny bit confused about why that changes anything but he does not need to understand humans to kiss her and hold her and pet her and touch her and double down on anything that is disconcertingly nice.

All of that is very nice. So so so nice. She's really not used to things feeling this nice. And eventually she mostly forgets to be nervous about whatever's going to happen when he gets around to actually having sex with her, because everything else is so, so nice. 

Well if he can get her off a few times then he will stop for the night feeling so so accomplished and snuggly and pleased. 

"'m glad you can like it when it's not awful. Really glad."

Snuggles sound good. At least until she feels like moving again. Which could be a while.

"That was amazing," she murmurs.

"Bet if you had got a human he wouldn't know anything. Because humans don't practice."

"Some of them do. But I don't think they - I didn't think anything could be like that."