Grin. "One of the ways." Kiss?

Kiss.

Giggle!

"You're very kissable, too."

"A quality often overlooked."

"Can't imagine how." Kiss!

Mmkiss.

"Other things to think about, I suppose."

"I'd rather think about me kissing you than why others don't want to. We can leave all the optimizing the world to Annatar."

"Fair enough," she laughs. "That does seem her area of competence."

"She fixes problems." Kiss. "I'm glad you have her."

"She's been very helpful, yes."

Snug.

...Though some of the smile slips off her face. 

Hm.

"What is on your mind?"

"She's - useful, in ways I'm not."

"A knife is useful in ways a hammer is not."

Mrrrr.

She does not like feeling vulnerable or like - she tripped while running away from something horrible. (She's been feeling that a lot, lately.)

"I don't feel like - there's much I can do that she can't."

" - It doesn't matter, though."

"No, this is something that sounds like it does."

"And you are- working with you is importantly different. Annatar cares only for the final product. With you, I am reminded of the joy I find in skill, in practice, in the process. The pleasure of what it is to see the unfolding, moment by moment, of what our hands work upon the world."

Snuggle.

"That's - what I want to be. What I want to value."

Kiss.

"You have it."

Kiss!

"It - doesn't always feel like it." Nuzzle. "But you help."

"I shall endeavor to continue to do so."

"I want to make something with you," she says with a laugh. "I always do, but - something fun."

"Something experimental, perhaps?"

- Excited hum. "Annatar's notes indicates that the circle is pretty important, as is the enclosure of a part of the wielder's body, but I was reading through the list of projects and I think changing scale adds complications that might be interesting, and it might not have to be a perfect nor uninterrupted circle..."

"Adding a clasp or buckle would open up greater variety in location on the body."

"And it's easier to make multiple interacting circles in, for instance, a bracelet, of which more may be worn without compromising mobility..."