"I suppose she could get a destination if she could scry your -" What is the word here. Is it 'friend'. Is it 'ex'. Is it 'erstwhile party member'.

"- friend," she finishes for him gently. "Her name is Sereh - her mother is from over there, came over as a kid, and Sereh's always wanted to go find the rest of her family and see if they agree with her better." Understandably so - her father and his brothers were all pretty terrible.

She leans into him, sighing happily.

"There you go, simply give a sufficient description to Guiu and find her a lot of appropriately calibrated fights and the rest of this idea should be relatively straightforward."

She nods happily "It's that easy!" and kisses him, giggling. 

It's happening again!! Wow!!

It is! She's doing some interesting new things with how she moves her lips, too, and her hands are running up and down his arms... 

He has technically had arms for his ENTIRE life and yet this application of them has never occurred to him before!

See, this is why it's useful to have a bard around. They're soooo good at knowing things. They have multiple entire class features for it!

He does like having this bard around! Enough that he does not want her to go away forever and is somehow the first person to express this opinion!

He's not the first! Just the first who she likes enough to stick around for.

(It hasn't quite come up yet, and - it's hard to talk about, for her. Easier to face the times she's been hurt over the times when she's hurt people. ...She's at least self-aware enough to know that this isn't great. She's working on it.)

Anyway kissing is one of those things he has no native understanding of how long it's supposed to happen.

An arcanist named Liv that Venn fooled around with in Isarn once posited to her that kissing is best modeled as an unstable equilibrium, because you rarely keep kissing for that long - either you end up disengaging because you have other things to be doing than each other, or you stop kissing because you have better ways to be doing each other. Venn had countered that this wasn't true for the stage of a relationship where kissing was the maximally permitted escalation - you could stay there for quite a while. (Liv smugly claimed that she was still right on long enough timescales. Venn had brightly agreed and stopped kissing her until she admitted that this was a stupid fucking argument.) 

(She's not saying any of this out loud to Blai. They can keep kissing (with some light arms-and-shoulders petting) until dinnertime.)

And when it is dinnertime they can go get some stew.

Stew! She loves stew! (As long as she's allowed to flavor it. Which she is!)

(...Blai is not the kind of partner where it'd be okay to prank him by making his stew taste like her mouth... She should make her lips taste fruity next time they kiss.)

She finds Txell and squad and joins them, doing a good but perhaps not perfect job of hiding her improved mood.

"Wow, who dumped a decent clove of garlic in your stew?"

"As a respectable arcanist I have of course flavored it myself!" she says, grinning. "This is true both literally and metaphorically."

"Garlic doesn't work right that way. If you eat enough real garlic you get a garlic aura for, like, hours. I am not obliged by the Worldwound treaty to let you dodge a question that easy, come on."

"Even though I'm soooo pretty and funny? Surely there's a treaty provision for that."

But she'll whisper into Txell's ear: "So I've been playing chess with Select Artigas in in my spare time, because I like stealing people's hobbies, and I finally beat him! With a handicap, of course, but it was still great."

Txell cackles. "Congratulations, Miss So-Pretty-And-Funny."

She laughs in turn. "Thank you! I'm planning on being insufferably pleased with myself all evening." 

"I only ever played him once and he creamed me. It's supposed to be, y'know, a kind of wizardy game," Txell says in a lower voice. "And yet."

"He's the first cleric I've known who was really into it! Maybe it's all the Law..." 

"Yeah I bet inevitables are good at chess."

"Probably! Maybe they have weird inevitable games that are like chess but way more complicated."

"Hell, I bet you're right. They can't do normal magic any more so they have to make shit up to do."