"...so if we start kissing, like, more than once, what does that... mean. You talked about not having crushes on anyone except your future wife, are you expecting to marry me, what's going on with that." 

"If I were expecting to marry you I wouldn't kiss you."

"...okay, you are going to have to back up and explain to the clueless pagan what the hell you're implying there." 

"I'm not implying-- if I were planning on marrying you in the sense in which I mean marriage, then I wouldn't kiss you because I wouldn't want to lust after you before we get married. I was kind of planning to save my first kiss for my wedding day? But really it depends on what she would want, I'd be happy to kiss once we were engaged if she felt that was right for us."

Weird and bizarre and bizarre and weird. "Okay, so what kind of commitment level are you thinking there's going to be here." 

"...nothing? Because you're a girl from another world who's already dating three people, including a me who seems much better than I am, and so there's no real reason for you to want to have a relationship with me at all?"

"— this is a terrible idea and I'm not going to do it and it's not because I don't want to kiss you it's because I don't  want to make you cry." 

"...oh. I guess that makes sense."

(She is probably telling the truth, because she's dating another him, and it seems pretty unlikely that the other him would be that much better-looking. Raine and Sasha are both equally beautiful aaaaand that's a thought he should probably not continue having.)

"Can we still hug or is that also a terrible idea?" 

"We can hug." Squeeze. 

"...can we cuddle on like a couch or something because that would probably be more comfortable or is that getting too close to..."

"That sounds fine." Raine can navigate them to a couch and then she and Lev will be cuddling on a couch. 

He attempts to arrange his head in hairpetting range.

"Are you sure this is a good idea?"

"...no, but my Lev was incredibly touch starved when I first met him so I'm pretty sure it's worth the risk." 

"Touch starved?"

He had a point but it's increasingly hard to remember what it was.

"People don't do very good if they don't have physical contact." Pet pet. "Babies can die from it but it's not good for teenagers or adults either." 

"Oh. Well. I don't really touch people."

Mmmmm hairpets why did he think this was a bad idea

"I can tell." 

More petting? More petting. 

"But it might end up-- mmm-- impairing my judgment--"

"I'm not going to decide to date you unless you're in your right mind about it. And probably not even then, I meant it when I said it would be a bad idea." Pet pet pet. 

"No, I mean, you start cuddling on the couch, and then you start kissing on the couch, and then you start touching on the couch, and then you wind up having sex on the couch-- which would maybe not be so bad for you because you've already had sex and you're probably on some kind of contraceptive-- but you said you didn't want to or at least-- mm-- implied it."

"I am not going to have sex with you even if you are in your right mind, not without a whole lot more talking about it than we are likely to do on this couch." 

"I didn't say you'd mean to, it might just happen."

"...sex doesn't work like that. At least one person needs to decide to have sex before sex happens and I am not going to decide that sex and if you decide to rape me we will have a completely different set of problems." 

"What! No! I'd never do that!"

"Right, so we aren't going to have sex unless I decide to, which I won't."