"I mean, I will definitely still look younger, but - all right." Leareth is willing to let her do some nudging around. 

She works in small increments so he can be awake, nudging bones and cartilage and rendering his eyes brown.

This takes him through some even weirder-looking intermediate points, and she doesn't have a reference so it's hard to tell how close she is, but she can nudge his facial features a bit so he looks older than almost-fifteen, it helps that he's growing anyway, and get his eyes to brown, and he looks a lot more like his previous self and also, just, like an adult. 

"Much better. Not exact, but at this point I'm not confident that any more changes wouldn't make you look less rather than more like you did."

Leareth is examining himself in his mirror. "I think I like this face quite well. I am also not confident I know what changes would help versus just look stranger." 

She leans on him. "I have been doing so much crazy Healing stuff, I'm going to have a job turning my notes into proper publications once I can concentrate on writing again, that still seems hard."

"You have done so much impressive work here! If you send it to your old university at some point, I am sure they will be in awe." 

"They'll probably try to get me to come back again."

Nod. "You will have to tell them no, but maybe you could agree to give a guest lecture or something, that does not seem unduly risky if we do a visit carefully." 

"It'd combine well with a visit to Rana."

"And I am sure she would very much like to see you again at some point!" Leareth is feeling very fond and proud of Belrun, and - this is feeding into some newly-returned desire to kiss her, that kind of feeling has been showing up in flickers recently. 

She blinks. She looks at him and tilts her head.

"...I want to kiss you." 

Well, that's easily accomplished. Smooch.

It's familiar and strange at the same time - he remembers kissing her before, in one of the memories he carried across, but it was with a different body and the habits only half-transfer and also his lips are a somewhat different shape, which is just a very weird thing. 

It's nice, though. Also Mindspeech is great, because it means he can tell her he loves her without it getting in the way of kissing. 

:I love you too. And probably any minute now the lifebond will be aware you're alive, won't that be nice:

:It will be!: He can keep kissing her for a while, then, just in case that helps give the lifebond a clue.

She has missed kissing, it has been way too long since there has been kissing.

Leareth hadn't really noticed missing kissing in particular before now, though he did miss the general state of he and Belrun both being adults and enjoying adult activities together. 

He's not sure, because he's quite distracted, but after a while he thinks he can feel something shifting in his mind, where the semi-functional lifebond lives. Normally it's a lot harder than this for anything to distract him completely from the background emotional-phantom-pain. 

The shifty feeling is itself not her favorite thing so what if she just pays a LOT of attention to kissing him instead how about that.

Leareth wants to pull her down onto the bed and snuggle while they kiss and distract her more thoroughly, which he ask about in Mindspeech because he's not sure his instincts for what Belrun does and doesn't like will have all transferred. 

She likes this plan!

Here in the north, in his secure building, Leareth feels comfortable being entirely engrossed with Belrun, enough that he would probably miss a mage-duel happening right outside his door, and they can stay occupied with that for a while. 

This, too, has been missed.

Eventually, a pretty long time later, they're cuddling while Leareth nuzzles her hair. :Missed this. ...Also I probably had plans this afternoon. Oh well: