"Okay, can do. Let's find a place with that."

Terel walks quietly for a while.

"Maybe it's just the anxiety, and getting past it together. But... There's no other word for it. I can truthfully say I love you now, Sadde."

Well she might be unable to contain herself now and spin him in the air and kiss him right then and there.

He giggles and kisses back. "It went quicker than I thought it would! Now I know why everyone says falling in love is mostly indescribable - but there it is." Kiiiiiiiss.

They're attracting some attention from passersby, who are mostly looking amused at the public display of affection.

Yes yes she really could not care less about the passersby if she tried. "I love you so much—yes, indescribable—" Another kiss because she can't communicate using words right now.

Very many kisses, yes.

"...Should probably go to the nearest hotel before we end up getting arrested again."

She pulls away, giggling. "Right, right. Before or after food?"

"Hotels have room service. And I kind of want to ignore craving food until I'm really hungry just to prove the point - that I want to be with you for hours and hours right now."

"Then let's find a hotel right now."

She goes find a hotel right now with him.

The first hotel they see is perfectly happy to have one more pair of guests.

And now they're in a room and those suitcases can just wait right there by the door because kissing is more important than suitcases right now.

It's so important!!! And Terel doesn't need to be wearing his shirt does he—

Well, neither does Sadde. And their socks and shoes can go away and they can go onto the bed because isn't that most of the point of a hotel.

That is so much the point of a hotel!

She believes trousers should go away, too. So unnecessary.

Maybe not quite yet. But soon, very soon...

Now the trousers can go away.

Good yes bye trousers, hers can go, too.

It's much the same thing they've been doing for a while now, but more... Tender? Terel's not in a huge hurry here.

He mutters "I love you," into Sadde's neck.

Oh my god oh my god this is way too overwhelming—

"I love you. So much. I want you forever, I want you to be the happiest person in all worlds, I want to make all your dreams come true and give you interesting challenges and new things to learn and new places to discover and new magic to invent, I love you."

"We're going to have forever."

She's not going to question that now, nope, she is going to kiss him and snuggle him and be with him for as long as he'll have her.

Well. He'll have to go be human for a while eventually. Food, shower and the rest, sleep. But he puts it off as long as possible.

And she'll be just as delighted to accompany him while he humans as she is to do anything else around him.

The next day they schedule a trip to the World Pillars. "Thinking about going to shelling point from here makes me nervous, as if we're going to be locked up again. We'll get around to it."

"It's alright, love, it can wait. We have—" Pause. "Did you mean that? When you said we have forever?"

"Well, I don't have any reason to expect the world to end. And I don't have any reason to expect to prefer dying of old age to turning. It's just - not yet."

She nods vigorously. "Okay. Good. I love you."