"Maybe I could figure out some system to let you know when you're making noises and how loud and you could figure out what you're doing differently when it's not as loud?"

"Yeah, I can probably eventually moderate it through nothing but, like, how much I'm exhaling, something like that, it'll just take practice. ...I think I got a spell."

"From kissing me? Wow."

"I might not have gotten it if I had gotten impatient and tried kissing you first; I think I got it because I managed to get you to want to kiss me?"

"That makes sense. Still. Gosh. It's awfully flattering."

Giggle.

Kiss!

Eee! (Annie tries to tone down the noises and is partially successful.)

"Quieter that time," she says, and then kisses her again.

Annie tries holding her breath. This means occasional kiss pauses for gasping but nothing loud.

Edie will produce feedback! In multiple forms.

Also Annie can hear herself talk and confine herself to a breathy whisper when she cannot go another moment without saying, "I love you."

"I don't know if I'm in love with you yet," she says after a moment. "But I like you a lot and I care about you and I think that adds up to at least one kind of love."

Annie beams and kisses her again.

Kisses are so great.

It's true!

"Do you want to go out for dinner somewhere?"

"That sounds great."

"What're your food preferences?"

"I'm not picky and don't know how food is - genred, here. Anything that isn't both unfamiliar and fermented, alive, or intensely spicy is probably good."

"Well, 'intensely spicy' rules out many forms of curry, so that's actually useful information. I know a really great Middle Eastern place over on Westcott, they have--I have no idea if you're liable to have any frame of reference if I start naming delicious menu items."

"I don't actually know how good my language thing is at that! Try me."

"My favorite thing they have there is baklava cheesecake with rosewater syrup and they do a really nice tzatziki sauce and I cannot vouch for any of their meat dishes because one of the Jewish cultural things is not having meat and dairy in the same meal and I always have the cheesecake when I go."

"Couldn't you get a slice of cheesecake to take home for later?" wonders Annie. "Anyway I don't have 'baklava' or 'tzatziki' but everything else made sense."

"Well, theoretically I could--although it's not slices, it's little round whole cheesecakes. Tzatziki sauce is really good!"