The desert continues to be cold, and now that they've broken the ice on the snuggling, Yvette has decided to commandeer Zash as her snuggle buddy for sleep.
(He hasn't resisted much. He wanted to, but didn't.)
He continues to leak in his sleep, but at least he has no nightmares, and he doesn't get the impression that Yvette catches wind of his... other feelings... so he's mostly been relaxing about that. He has to admit it's nice, sleeping next to someone like that. He hasn't really done it in decades, and he hadn't realised just how much he missed it.