"Also I don't know that I've ever actually seen a person squint at someone's collar."

"Exactly!"

"But anyone who recognizes you probably recognizes you from the dining hall, where you have already knelt at me, so it'd be weird if you had someone else's collar..."

"Thaaat's true, but people in town don't know, and people in other states. The Japanese don't know either! This is unacceptable."

"The Japanese? Do you speak Japanese?"

"No but that's beyond the point!"

"And they can't read my name usefully either, so how are you planning to tell them?"

"I'm sure we can manage something. I could memorize a sentence or something, but I'd probably butcher the pronunciation."

"It seems like it might take up a lot of your time, notifying the whole world."

"Well, it doesn't need to be all at once. Like, whatever method I come up with to scale immortality, maybe it could come with a message attached, 'by the way, you are becoming immortal thanks to Isabella's pet.'"

"I like it."

"Eeeee!" And he hugs her.

Snuggle.

Naked hugglesnuggle! Happy Sadde!

"Do you want to attempt to spend the night in this twin bed with a dom who talks in her sleep, or do you want to shapeshift and get dressed and go home for the night? It's late."

"You talk in your sleep? What do you say?"

"Random words," she shrugs. "Drives Alex nuts when I'm home, we share a room - and I think I mentioned he's a light sleeper?"

"You did, and that sounds super cute. Um, how heavy a sleeper are you?"

"I sleep just fine, but I have never actually tried to do it literally cuddled up to somebody before so it's possible I'd have to kick you out at two a.m. or something."

He chews on his lip a little then says, "Maybe better not, not because of cuddles but. Because of. Um. Nightmares."

"...Oh." Pet pet. "Okay. ...I think Student Health has a psion who can handle that kind of thing in on Saturdays if they're really bad."

Sadde leans into the petting and sighs. "I have... complicated feelings about them," he confesses.

"Mm?" Pet pet pet.

He sighs. "They're... about my eclipse."

Pet, pet, pet.