Giggle.

"Why did you never tell me you were gorgeous."

"I don't usually think about it? I just go 'oh, yep, that's my face.'"

"It is a very good face, definitely meant for kissing." And he should show her that.

Kisses!

"You're fine, you're recuperating, I administered the various things you ate, people know that."

Lorica is inexpert and a little tentative, but not, like, bad, or anything.

Well, there is a very easy way to solve inexpertise, namely: continued kisses.

No objections here.

He's very glad her reluctance is gone, then.

"A needle pulling thread."

He sporfles. "Don't get me started on musicals or we'll be here all night!"

"If I had my helmet on the bot would feed me something topical for that but I don't actually know that many musicals. So, what?"

"So," he repeats, "now what?"

"Uh, the Nazis all got away or I would have been engaging them instead of kissing you cute faces or no cute faces, the robot's running all necessary coordinative interference for aftermath and if it needs help my helmet will bleep... you should probably eat something again soon and drink more water, I guess... what do you mean now what?"

"Um. Not vocabulary; expectation. Is this a one time thing, is it a many times thing, how public is it, um?"

"Oh. The don't cozy up to me at school thing still stands; shouldn't be hard, I don't think you ever actually looked at me twice. I imagine I will probably want to kiss you again in the future. Fraternization is not in fact forbidden even when one party is captain but I don't want to give any annoying people cause to be concerned that it's impacting our professionalism."

"Well, I don't actually pay attention to people in public, much, and I was actually trying not to wonder too much so I just, you know, tried to not notice. I'm not sure what the 'not give annoying people concern' part entails."

"Like, if Piggot thinks we're being distracted in the field or overprioritizing each other instead of distributing concern more equitably amongst teammates she might get it into her head that it was her business, and I'd sooner not have to go through anything to do with that."