Kiss. Wingwrap.

Pleased sound. "Oh, they're snuggly."

Giggle. "I would not have selected an unsnuggly wing model. They look so uncomfortable, all claws and scales."

"Whatever would enamored foreign monarchs do."

"Be less snuggled, probably." Kiss. "Fun fact: back of my neck is a thing."

"Ooooh." He tries the thing.

He is rewarded with a shiver and a pleased noise!

Oh good that seems like an excellent idea.

Eeeee.

Mitros is so delighted about his birthday present.

Cam wouldn't have it any other way.

Iobel coming in boy is not the best thing about Milliways but it is up there!

Iobel is smug the next time she sees her husband.

Is she.

Yep.

"Thank you for my birthday present."

"You're welcome."

"I am so terribly delighted to have met you."

"You should be."

An Amentan toddler in Revelation wanders off and drowns in a swimming pool. (Her parents are baffled that the government drags its feet so much about hanging the nanny.)

It does seem extreme. Humans would, like, revoke her license or something.

The judge ruled it accidental and revoked her license, fined her, and banned her from similar work, but the parents are absolutely furious about this because in any civilized place you rule it manslaughter and hang her. 

...humans also don't hang people for manslaughter. Or, uh, kill them in some more civilized way (hanging? really?)

What's wrong with hanging people?

Sometimes it doesn't work and they just sort of dangle there awfully till they strangle.