Kiss. Hug. And: "I love you," she says, in Ansati.

"I love you too."

"I remembered I never said that in your language before," she says, still in Ansati. "I needed to fix that."

He kisses her. "You're delightful," he says in Ansati.

"You say that a lot," she says cheerfully (still in Ansati).

"You delight me a lot!"

"I like it. I like making you happy."

"I like making you happy too." Kiss.

Kiss.

(Siva is feeling a lot more mellow than excited, and is unlikely to escalate from kiss. But kiss is so good.)

Cozy kisses!

So cozy.

Later, he talks to Anlei.

She doesn't mind if he tells people what happened, it turns out, as long as he makes an effort to gently discourage anyone who might be inclined to go tell her that her feelings are wrong.

It isn't too terribly long after that that Siva calls him again.

Here is a pensive all-powerful sorcerer!

Well. The correct response to pensive is hugs. The correct response to lots of things is hugs but especially pensive.

Snuggle-hug.

"I love you," he murmurs into her hair.

"I love you. What's wrong, or should I not ask?"

Hug.

"Anlei says it's fine if I talk about - the thing that was troubling me - and now I have to decide if I want to talk about it, and how..."

"Is it going to sound horrible if I say 'as long as you haven't and aren't going to do anything bad to me I promise not to love or trust you any less,' because I mean it in a non-horrible way but it sounds kind of horrible."

"...that doesn't sound horrible," he says, "that sounds immensely reassuring."

"Okay. Well, it's true. I can't promise in advance not to have feelings about whatever you say but within the aforementioned caveat they're not going to have long-term negative consequences."

"I love you," he says. "If I'm going to have this conversation I think I want to have it in as comfortable a place as possible."

Cozy bed snuggles?

Cozy bed snuggles.

"It's - after Anlei set me on fire," he says. "When I lost my temper."

"Youuu...did something other than turn her into a swan?"