This is a casino! All the games are different. Terel doesn't really know them either.

They'll probably lose a few hundred kavased just getting to know them.

They have lots more! This is loads of fun.

Yeah, it's okay fun. He doesn't see the appeal as much as Sadde does but he's glad she's having fun, he'll enjoy the delicious complimentary food and drinks meant to make you stay longer and be more pliable with your money in between games, and cheer valiantly when he actually wins at Starstacks or whatever.

They can go do something Terel finds more fun, then.

No, no, this is fine for an hour or two. Really. Good food, cheerful relaxing atmosphere if you're not worried about money. Just not forever.

When Terel picks, they can go to an arts-and-crafts mall thing. Where arts-and-crafts range from glassblowing and smithing to golemcraft, enchanting, weaving, artfully sculpted baking, two dozen other things.

That sounds like fun, too! Does Terel want her to buy him anything?

Maybe if he sees some especially charming shinies. Kiss.

Oh good then she'll buy him whatever especially charming shinies he likes.

He does see some shinies that set him to musing quietly about rings. 

In terms of shinies he'd like right now, not so much.

...musing quietly about rings, you say?

Shhh. Terel doesn't want to confirm or deny ring related thoughts yet.

(It's kind of an obvious eventual step though, turning or not.)

Then she will only eeeeeeeeeee in her own head.

Say, does Terel want to eat Exotic Foods?

Sure... Exotic foods fits with getting the most of being human. Especially if Sadde gives herself taste buds and joins him, vastly inferior to blood as the taste may be.

Sure, she can totally do that for him.

"This is a good place. Good food, good crafts, good hotel. Great girlfriend to spend it with. Pretty much everything about right now is good."

"You keep saying these things, it's almost like you want me to kiss you everywhere."

"Not my goal in saying the things, but still a desirable outcome."

So she goes and kisses him.

Lots of kissing!

This town-ship is relatively permissive of displays of affection. They can kiss as much as they want as long as they're not blocking a path.

Oh good then she can just continue kissing him for a while can't she? After all she has the objectively best mate in all worlds and he needs to be kissed.

Kissing can continue for a good while, yes. Along with occasional contented sighs and happy mumbles.

Those are all very good!

Eventually Terel, being human, will probably want to do other things, yes?

Eventually, yes.

The three and a half day trip to the World Pillars passes pleasantly and relaxingly at this rate.

And then: World Pillars! He bets they're gorgeous. Are they gorgeous?

Yup! They're visible from a day away, hundreds of ten-mile-high spires at more than forty-five degree slopes, narrowing to plateaus near the top. Multicolored cliffs, open veins of ore in some places. The sides are dotted with vertical farms and towns and gardens, and between two particularly close mountains is a whole city built upon bridge upon bridge upon bridge. "Wow. The Mountaingate is really cool."