Snuggle.

"...I think most people don't think they can do that," she says thoughtfully.

So much snuggle.

"Well, yes, but you suggested fixing everything before even figuring out whether you could, in fact, fix everything."

"Oh, I just assumed I'd figure the details out somehow."

"That's incredibly hot."

She giggles and kisses him on the cheek.

Eeeeeeeeeee~

He runs a finger through her hair, looking at her like—well, like he's got a crush the size of the moon on her. And then he freezes. "Er. It occurs me to ask, and maybe the answer is obvious, but is your—other one—okay with this?"

"Yeah. She's - it's complicated but she's happy for us and she doesn't mind?"

"Should I be worried about the complicated part?"

"No. It's not bad complicated."

"Okay, good." Snuggle.

Snuggle snuggle snuggle.

If they keep just snuggling like that he might fall asleep snuggling her.

Excellent! Cozy sleepy snuggles.

Very excellent, yes.

Kaede wakes up with sunrise the next morning.

...Kaede has a question to ask of Ruava. Kaede will wait until Ruava wakes up herself to ask it.

Cozy and sleepy, cozy and sleepy, cozy and sleepy...

...cozy and awake!

"Morning."

"Morning."

"So er... I may or may not have gotten too carried away to make some things I implied more explicit but I happen to not typically be a single gender all the time and magic is very handy about that and I was wondering whether you had opinions about this fact."

"I figured there was a reason you wanted to know about shapeshifting."

Kiss.

Kiss!

"So I take it your opinions about it are not negative?"

"I'm two people, why can't you be two genders?" she says, shrugging.

"—I was mostly asking about, er. The, you know. Part where we kiss."

"I will still kiss you as a girl."

"Well that's about the best answer I could have possibly gotten," she says, grinning, and kisses her—

—then stops. "Okay I should. Do the spell first."

She giggles.