"This bed is eminently stainable and I should not do any of the half-dozen things I am thinking of right now."

He giggles. "We could go somewhere less stainable."

"But it would also be less cozy!"

"Mmmm, true."

"If I am going to be exiting the cozy anyway I should probably do wing dry runs first. And you can watch."

"All right."

Snuggle. Having resolved this order of operations does not make her magically able to exit the cozy.

What if he scoops her up and carries her out of bed, what then.

She will yelp in delighted startlement and then kiss him is what.

Mmm, kisses.

"Diabolical. Alright, you can put me down, I think I'm competent to go downstairs on my own from here."

"Mmm." Kiss. "All right."

He puts her down.

She kisses him again and goes downstairs to dry-run wing designs.

Serafin follows as a dragon.

Well, that's one way to hide arousal.

Wing designs, it turns out, involve holding open two slit wounds down her back so the blood in the wings is still connected to the blood in her body. And there's a lot of blood in the wings; the human body is a lot bigger and heavier than a bird's and needs a relevant surface area for lift off.

Lovely.

Some of the wing forms are recognizably similar to forms found in nature, and some are not. She drills on shifting from one form to another for a couple of hours before Hank deems her response time adequate, at which point there are a couple of other things she wants to follow up on, but first things first. She heads back upstairs, ostensibly to shower.

Serafin follows her, not particularly caring if anyone guesses why.

There's no one else around so she doesn't have to decide whether she wants to put any meaningful energy into discretion once they're upstairs, just goes into his room and grins and holds her arms out.

He turns human and scoops her up and kisses her.

She curls up into it, her legs hooking over one of his hips, and kisses him fiercely.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

"I love you," she says. "If we don't make a liar out of me about the shower--well, a shower stall falls firmly into the 'not trivially stainable' category."

"Good plan."