Mmmmm. Kisses.

"Should we do something about the deer?" he asks after a minute.

"...Yes, yes we should," she says reluctantly. "...Um, you said you normally eat what you kill raw, I could cut off like a leg or something and you could eat the rest? And then I don't have to worry about skinning the whole thing?"

"Sounds reasonable enough to me." He puts her down.

She holds out an arm, and it bruises, and then blood rises from the bruise in a fine mist, and condenses, and she picks up one of the deer's legs by the foot and with a cracking noise the blood slices the leg off.

Well that's distracting.

The blood proceeds to flay the skin from the leg with a vrrr noise and then act as a cutting instrument as she pries the meat from the bone.

He laughs.

"It's very convenient being able to do this without people running and screaming!"

"I imagine it is."

"Mhm. Now I just need to cook the stuff." She looks at the meat in her hands, shrugs, takes off her ruined shirt, bundles the meat in the clean side, and starts collecting suitable firewood.

Serafin turns into a dragon again and curls up and watches her.

"...Possibly a silly question, but can you breathe fire when you're like that?"

"Wouldn't that be fun? But no, I cannot."

"Ah well."

She gets her firewood piled up, throws in a couple of blank pages torn from her sketchbook for kindling, pours the blood out in a circle around the pile, and sets it alight.

The dragon watches.

She finds a handful of appropriate sticks, skewers the meat, and sets it up on an impromptu spit.

"I am Mankind!" she exclaims, punching the air. "See my mastery of fire and complex tools and tremble!"

He playfully snaps his teeth near her head.

"Not you," she says, making a vague pushing-away gesture. "You're--sapient--you could use tools and fire if you wanted."

He laughs.

She giggles and flops against his side.

It's cute.

He snakes his head over to the rest of the deer and eats it in two bites.

"How does eating interact with the size thing?"

Shrug. "Very conveniently."

"Just conveniently like your stomach isn't going to explode when it gets smaller, or also conveniently like you're not going to need to eat for a while after that?"

He laughs. "Yes, both of those."