Well then! Kiss!

Do we have time though? he sends.

Well, I don't mind being interrupted. Beats the alternative of not having sex with you right now in the first place.

Well it'd be—half-sex, not an entire sex.

Well, if you want we can just stay here and snuggle, without sex too.

...nah let's do each other.

And thankfully they're already kissing in his "room" so he can start undressing this adorable tailed person.

And his tailed person can undress Sadde in return!

Sadde is continually fascinated by Isra's body. His kisses are... much less tentative than they were when the two of them first started this, exploring all of Isra's body with hunger.

Does he? In all this exploration is there a favorite part?

Yep. This one here, which he will use his mouth to appreciate.

Isra likes Sadde's appreciation, so much that he wants to reciprocate in kind.

He is welcome to do so!

Hmmmm, reciprocation.

They are, however, interrupted before getting very far into the reciprocation.

The team is getting ready to leave, which of you's going?

I am! Just give me a second to put my clothes on! Isra sends interrupting the reciprocation.

I'll stay, he says, blushing a little.

Do you two ever stop touching? she laughs. Team'll be waiting.

Isra kisses Sadde goodbye and meets up with the team.

Dr. Kei is there, as well as a smaller crew than before.

Well, the small crew still includes Temperance.

That it does! And when Isra arrives they are all ready to depart.

Cool, any incident during the journey downwards?

Nope. Everything goes just alright, and then they're through the Perception barrier.

...stuff is different.

Different how?

For one, there seems to be a flurry of activity the Navs can pick up on, and then everyone else once they're close enough: the mini-flayers are running this way and that through the structure, merging in pairs and trios before separating and taking whatever information they'd gotten to their destinations.

Has any of those got in contact with the submarine?