"Aw," she says, and she flits over to kiss his cheek before going back to the bookshelf to resume picking out books. "I'm glad I prioritized it so highly, then, that sounds awful."

...he smiles.

"Yeah, I was, uh, pretty relieved when it turned out I could get my soul back using only skills I still had."

.... Yvette cracks up.

"And here I thought it was my charm, wit, and stunning good looks!" she snorts.

"You certainly had all those, but you also definitely asked me to sleep with you in return for my soul and that was a bargain I was delighted to make."

"I um. Yeah, I, I definitely did ask you to sleep with me in return for your soul, when you put it that way it sounds horrifying," she observes, embarrassed.

Briefly, she distracts herself with picking out the best books to bring, and then realizes what she's doing and focuses on the less pleasant topic again.

"Uh, Sorry? About that?"

"It's honestly completely fine," he says. "Do you want any help with the packing?"

"Yes please, I have some luggage bags in that closet over there, can you bring them over and pack my clothes while I get all of the magic stuff handled? I'm not super picky on what I bring to wear." Accordingly, she gets to handling the magic stuff.

"Granted, if you didn't seem up for it I also would have accepted money, but. Uh. You're very attractive and I'm a terrible person without my soul."

He fetches the luggage and starts packing clothes.

"I really truly do not mind a bit. I can see how it could've been... sort of unfortunate, but it's fine."

"Okay! I'll take your word for it and stop apologizing. And it was pretty good motivation for soulless-me."

"It was a pretty good way to spend my few days of soullessness."

Packing!

Giggle.

"I'm flattered, and pleased I could make the few days of soullessness as pleasant as possible."

"You did, you really did."

"Excellent. The evil plan, that I decided upon around the time I went off to get the books, was to incentivize you to come to me for all of your magic needs. I am declaring you a happy customer and feeling summarily proud of myself."

He laughs.

She grins.

Packing occurs!

"Okay," she says, when everything's ready for transport. "So. Time to figure out our touching romance and how to make it as convincing as possible in note form."

"Well. Imagine you are your soulless self, and you've just met, uh, me, and I'm delighted by everything about you and I want to take you on a globe-trotting sex-filled honeymoon."

She snickers, then composes her expression to something more imperious.

"I am of course delighted by everything about you, and amused and delighted with your enthusiasm, especially towards a sex-filled honeymoon, but sort of leery of dropping everything to just go sightseeing."

"You don't have anything that important going on, and we could find sights to see that appealed to your interests, and of course I'm so very exceptionally delightful and enthusiastic and, what was it I said, high-energy and restless and attractive?"

Oh, this is surprisingly fun.

"You are definitely all of those things, and they are all very appealing, and I am leaning in favor of you being more attractive when we're having a globe-trotting sex-filled honeymoon, which is an incentive to go looking for other reasons to go. Are there places you have your heart set on going, or do you just find the idea of sleeping with me in interesting places fun?"

"The idea of sleeping with you in interesting places is certainly fun, and I'm also just genuinely very interested in seeing interesting new geography, particularly if it has mountains on it."

"There are a number of mountainous places we can go to that are likely to have interesting magical things to look at, and a few things in Tibet in particular I'd been planning to try to look up but haven't actually bothered to act upon."

"Perfect! Our globe-trotting sex-filled honeymoon will be both entertaining and useful!"

"Cue celebratory sex for coming to this conclusion," she says, deadpan. "Yeah, this is plausible."

He giggles.

"I would be, hm." She considers. "A bit embarrassed to relate to my sister the globe-trotting sex-filled honeymoon plans, but not want her to come to the wrong conclusions and ultimately not be particularly ashamed of my feelings for you or how I choose to act upon them. I do have a concern about the hormones wearing off, and if I introduce you to her it'll be after I'm very sure that I want to, um." Blush. "Spend the rest of eternity with you and I think a globe-trotting adventure is a good way to help get a feel for how we'd work out long term in a number of situations. I am probably going to gush about you a bit and maybe add some speculation about the eternity thing but ultimately keep it to a minimum because I have confidence I'll find out and too much speculation will drive me mad."