"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 -"

Snuggle. "That makes sense. I wasn't - I didn't really figure you cared back then? But it makes sense that if you did it'd be scary."

"I mean, I didn't love you. I didn't know you. But I could - imagine how scared you'd be."

"Yeah. I just mean - I mostly didn't figure people cared about people they didn't know."

"Guess that makes sense. Given - Cheliax."

"Yeah."

Snuggle.

"I think my cultural education may have also overstated how hard it was to be alone with a woman and not abuse her, which didn't help."

"Yeah. That makes sense."

Forehead kiss. "Won't be offended if you tell me you've had enough of that."

"Might be a while. But thanks."

"So what was the first thing you thought of me."

"The first first thing? I'm pretty sure that was 'aaa someone is invading my house'."

"Okay, the second first thing. - you don't have to answer this. I just think about it a lot for no good reason."