"Well if you can beat him please do, but. Yes!"

"That's not very nice."

"It's not! I never said I was very nice, who told you that."

He gives her puppy dog eyes.

She notices the puppy dog eyes. They are distracting, and she is briefly distracted. He has such pretty eyes now, gold is so much nicer on him. Then she remembers herself and looks away bashfully, smiling and inspecting the road.

"Hey now, careful where you point that. The gold eyes make that expression weapons-grade."

"Not sorry," he says, grinning.

“That,” she teases, “is not very nice.”

"I never said I was very nice, who told you that."

She giggles, then stops walking to turn and hug him. Because he has a personality and is bantering with her and it's great.

"No one, I suppose! Silly me for presuming."

Oh no he's being hugged he must NOT blur right now and must instead try to... hug back....... EXTREMELY GENTLY she is so breakable.

Hug!!

"You're very cute," she informs him, reaching up to boop his very cute nose with a finger.

"You're very cute," he accuses, blurring only for a tenth of a second before he can stop himself.

Yvette gives a little giggle.

"Why thank you." She tightens the hug just a little, then releases him. From the hug. She finds his hand again, for holding. "I need to make dinner, but after we can cuddle?"

"Yes!"

He sounds like he just won the lottery.

"Then it's a plan."

She leads him home, holding his hand all the while, content with companionable silence and smiling to herself.

Alexei is, also, content with companionable silence, and he is definitely grinning like a goof.

Eeeeee he is holding his mate's hand!!!!!