Giggle. "Sorry, I'm aware, I meant like in general. But I guess I can just hold you until I get hungry enough to complain about it."

"Mmm. Sounds good."

Eee. 

She is at the moment pretty happy to stay in bed indefinitely. She'll eventually probably want to get dressed and order some food, but this can totally be a brief interruption followed by more snuggles, if that sounds good to him.

It does!

Then she will be perfectly content to spend most of the rest of the day here, snuggling him and kissing him and saying admiring things about him every now and then. Might read a book for a bit and then go back to focusing entirely on snuggles.

At some point he will get bored of that in favor of more experimenting in bed.

She is so very in favor of this. More than she was before, actually, now that there's much less question about whether she can trust that anything that ends up being terrible will immediately stop. Also she's kind of been really looking forward to this for several hours.

Oh good. Probably they can figure some stuff out, then!

Probably they can! She's still kiiiind of bad at asking for things, but some things are very nice, and make her whimper and squirm and ask him to please keep doing them.

She was maybe the tiniest bit worried, before, that once she got off she wouldn't be so excited about snuggling him anymore, but actually it turns out she wants to go right back to that and be happy and melty and very very glad that he's hers.

Well even if there are some details to be worked out he is feeling pretty optimistic about this marriage thing, on the whole.

Eee. So is she. As long as he's not, like, disappointed with her for not having all of this figured out right away. Eventually they'll figure it all out. 

Right now she's just gonna snuggle him and be extremely happy about everything.

"All good?"

"Mhmm. Very very good."

"Oh good."

Snuggle.

And for the next couple months they're happy. She sells spells and takes care of Verita. She cuddles her husband. She doesn't figure out how to make everything not hurt. She's not entirely sure whether they're making progress on that or not. But her husband is very good, and she thinks she's probably never been happier.

She's so happy. He was sure he wanted to marry her and kind of unclear on what exactly this would change and wrong, on one important front, though maybe someday they'll figure out how to change that. But she's so happy. He wasn't expecting that. It's great. 

They keep exploring the world. 

Exploring the world with him is good. She likes exploring, and she likes him.

And then one day they find a gate.

It's sitting in the middle of a wheat field, obviously not supposed to be there and obviously the same as the other, or at least carved the same way. 

"  - before it closes -" he says to Verita -

Serious nod.

She runs up to it. 

" - we don't think there're - still people on the other side, do we - "

"I don't know but I'm worried we'll lose it, if we wait for Mahdi and Fazil - if we have to we can close it again -"

Nod. She opens it. 

It opens up in the same place as it did before. There aren't any immediately visible people on the other side.

"Do we know if being open prevents it from moving - "

"Dunno. 

- three days to get them, moving fast - 

- I think we should go through. It doesn't vanish from the other side, right - we can see if it always opens to the same place -"

"I don't think we can survive on the other side indefinitely? But - yeah."

...she's not gonna be the first to step through, though.

He steps through.