"Okay. I love you, I'll be back in a bit." Kiss!

Kiiiss! Not letting go of the kiss!

Yeah that's hard. Maybe just a while longer...

"...You should go now. Get it over with, be back soon."

"Yeah. Love you. Be back as soon as possible." Zip.

Terel waves goodbye.

And thinks about computers. And Sadde. Mostly Sadde.

Sadde'll be a few hours, then.

Yay. A few hours.

But eventually he's back, flying above the wilderness as quickly as he possibly can.

Terel flies up to him with the Wing Pack and kisses him as hard as he has in - well, at least a day. "Yay, you're back! Everything's good now?"

Kisssss! "Yeah, should be fine."

Terel would keep kissing him but the wing pack is kind of terrible at close quarters in midair, so he lands instead.

Sure, they can make out on the ground.

Being a vampire is greeeeeeaaaaat.

Terel continues to get himself more used to blood in short sessions of practice. They continue poking at computers. Even start to work on incredibly-primitive-by-21st-century-Earth's-standards prototypes! At this point they should probably move into the proper workshop Sadde commissioned from Empire Imports, and to install electrical infrastructure and stuff, and possibly to talk to that Fate who said she might be interested in helping, nervous as that idea makes Terel...

"Why nervous?"

"Because Fates. It's a thing that you don't mess with them overmuch because they could just squish you. Most won't, but all could."

"We're much less squishable," he reminds his mate.

"Yeah, but that doesn't help my initial reaction much."

"Let's trust that centaur, I guess?"

"It's worked out okay so far."

"Yeah. Problem is I have no idea how to even find her."

"What, really? I thought it was common knowledge. She lives near this boomtown in the northern Reaches."

"Oh. We could go there, then. Cool."

"When I get used to being within two tiles of people... Which, I think I could withstand you having blood for a while now. If you stay super fast so you can get away if I do something."

"Okay. Should I try now?"