Empire imports is happy to continue taking her money for deliveries of various parts and stuff, but doesn't want to touch her selling stuff to them again with a ten foot pole. They kept their legal status by the skin of their teeth and are under a bunch of watchdogs now.

Neither Terel nor Sadde are in any ongoing legal trouble. Except Sadde's income tax, which she should visit the tax guys she hired to finalize in exacting detail.

...okay, she thanks them and will think about deliveries of various parts. Meantime, uh, tax guys?

Have done exemplary work, require more information on some things, and signatures, and, ahem, payment.

Right she's still very rich, what do they need?

A personal visit or meeting a courier someplace, with a medium-ish amount of money.

Right. And what are the complications, exactly?

This one furniture store owner says he paid her some money, is this true?

Yep.

So they need some details on that, and some paperwork regarding this other thing, and she needs to send furniture guy a legal notice that she acknowledges he reported the work and it is now taxable.

Sure, she can do all that.

And then taxes will be taken care of as soon as she actually shows up with the money.

Which she'll need to do in person around people, yes?

...Yes. Unless she, like, knows a courier she really really trusts with that much cash.

Erm.

She looks at Terel.

"...Yeah I really don't want you to go how long can you put it off?"

(Nine days.)

"Mm. I'm not going to be going anywhere near humans. Can they send a courier out here and you meet them like, a few hours by vampire from here?"

(Yes.)

"Then we should probably do that, yeah," she sighs into his shoulder.

Couriers to the middle of nowhere are kind of expensive. The tax office takes it that Sadde doesn't really care, given how much money she has.

Terel hugs her. "No need to get glum, everything is still good. We don't have to go away from each other for a while and only for an hour or two later."

"Yeah. Still terrible. I love you forever."

"Yeah. Still terrible. But feel-bad spirals are also terrible, let's keep smashing them when they try to take over." Kiss.

"Do let's. And I'm not sure they'll be so common anymore, given that now I'm rather certain you love me as much as I love you."

"I do, it's true."

But a while later he does have to go, well, pay.

"I'm gonna miiiiissss yooooouuuu," he whines.

"Me too... I'll just wait right here for you. Only a few hours apart, and then we can have sex some more."

"Okay. ...promise me you won't breathe, and stay away from humans if any show up?"

"Definitely to both. I'll read over the rest of the notes and stuff we haven't covered yet, probably."