Shame, that. He, however, has no strength for alcohol, and is perhaps a bit tipsy by the end of this.

"Do you need help with the stairs?" wonders Isabella blandly.

"I'lllllll accept, thanksssss," he says, grinning at her.

Luca hop hops around them.

She takes his elbow and shows him into the house and up to his room.

"Thanksssss," he repeats, before turning around and falling onto the mattress on his back. "Gosh, you're very pretty."

Luca hop hops over to Sadde and flops onto his face. Specifically his mouth. "We're drunk, don't embarrass us."

"Thank you," says Isabella dryly. "I'm gonna get you some water."

He mumbles something unintelligible into Luca's feathers.

She gets him a glass of water. "If you need a headache spell in the morning because you failed to drink this I will make fun of you."

He bodily removes Luca from his face, sits up, and accepts the water.

"You need anything else?"

Sadde opens his mouth but Luca scrambles to fill it with too many feathers for him to say anything so he just grins and shakes his head.

"G'night."

She goes.

The next morning Sadde spends a bit longer in the bathroom than she did the previous day and when she comes out she looks... quite different.

"Apologies for last night," says Luca when they show up downstairs for breakfast. "It was unbecoming."

"I'm not judging you, you can do what you want."

"Oh, not the getting drunk part, he means the part where when I was drunk I was kinda hitting on you. Which is kinda sketchy, yeah, you're housing me and said you don't date and stuff."

"Oh. No harm done."

Sadde nods.

"So, what are the plans for today?"

"Futzing with the alethiometer and remembering to eat at normal times."

"Got an alarm for that second thing?"

"Yes." She produces her cellphone.

"Then that sounds like a very good plan in my opinion."

Alethiometer fiddling ensues! Path sits on Isabella's head.