The following day, Sadde goes to town at a reasonable time to buy a tiny cactus with some of the proceeds from his terribly tedious job, and sneaks it into the bag with his clothing he brings to Isabella's room. It is inside a cute little box, which he offers Isabella the following morning when she wakes up, saying, "Happy three-month anniversary!"
"Overall I think the fact that you're a psion and I'm a mage is pretty great."
"Fund it? I was envisioning a queen-and-consort-and-happy-subjects setup."
"What would my crown look like, though. An organic aesthetic I think..."
"You'll have to be able to do neat things with plants to terraform a planet, you could make something out of plants."
"I was thinking something with vines and optionally thorns," she says. "Ivy."
"Really? I mean, not that I much mind the idea of being a single piece of fabric away from being naked in your presence, but why?"
"I'm just being silly. I actually have few opinions on clothes in general except 'crowns are cool'. I'll probably go around in a circlet and jeans and a t-shirt."
"I could go with a toga and the thorny vines, that way there's the advantage of the cool crown and being easy to strip when you feel like taking me."
"Although if we're queen-and-consort of the world I could just walk around actually naked."
"You're the queen, obviously you can have whatever you want, especially where I'm concerned."