...fingertips?

This is honestly surprisingly nice.

Uh - she can kiss his arm, that's kind of weird but it's not bad, probably?

It is not! It is nice!

" - we should stop," he says very sadly.

"Okay." Snuggle.

"Someday. Probably."

"I expect I'll win you over someday."

"You're making rather impressive progress."

"Maybe it's true what they say in Absalom and adventurers eventually get inexplicably good at seducing women even if they've never tried it before."

"Pff. Maybe. I think you strike me as much more honorable in your intentions than the average adventurer."

"Oh, yes, the fellow who told me that was loathsome."

"M'not surprised."

"I love you."

Snuggle.

"...I love you too. I think. If that's, uh, okay."

"Okay? Like, did I forget to mention that in Osirion we absolutely prohibit women loving men and it is not okay at all and I have to go bathe in mud to recover - that got away from me - It seems - okay if it's okay with you."

"Sorry. I just - I was going to wait until I could, like, write up a defense of the thesis, or whatever, but - then I kept almost saying it and catching myself. And maybe I just wanna say it."

"Love you. Want to take good care of you and kiss you and fix Cheliax and have lots of chaotic good babies."

"M'glad. That sounds really good."

She eats some lunch (the food here isn't as good as elf food but it's still much, much better than nutrient blocks, so she's a fan of that), and then she decides to take a walk in the forest they have here. She wanders for a while.

She finds a tiny little house. She crouches down to look at it.

A little person comes to look out of one of the little windows.

" - hello? Are you new here?"

"I think I arrived most recently. Are you a fairy?"

"No, I'm a human. There's a fairy living here, though. Do you know the rules?"

"Valentine told them to me. I'm - I'll try really really hard not to lie but I'm not sure I know how."

"Well, at least you're not overconfident. It's really very important, though."

Earnest nodding. " - I can also go, if that would be better."

She turns back to the inside of her house. "Someone new's wandered over."

"I appreciate you reminding them all to be careful. Maybe see how bad she really is at it? I will head too far away to listen."