...well, he guesses that's fine.

(It makes him feel kind of manly and powerful and hot to fuck someone so good they're knocked out like that.)

(He's not complaining, though.)

Hye-jin wakes up before him in the morning, extracts herself from snuggles without too much trouble, and eyes the trail of destruction with amusement on her way to the bathroom. For all that they broke with the gleeful experiencing, no bruises seem to be coming in, so either she's got some extra esper durability or Tae-gun has kind of shitty furniture. Possibly both. Both sounds most plausible. Somebody out there makes extra durable esper grade furniture, right, this is absolutely a problem other espers have, she's sure of it.

She has some water, then nestles back into bed with him. Mostly because snuggles are nice, but also they should probably have, like. Some kind of conversation? Or something? She feels like she hasn't gotten to know him very well as a person, for all that she's gotten to know him carnally.

"Mrrr?"

"Hi, good morning," she says, reaching out to pet him. Look, getting to know him carnally has gotten her well and truly acquainted with physical affection, and it's blatantly obvious he likes being pet, so. Pet pet pet.

See! He makes that face. That's how she knows.

She's tempted to ask him what his dungeon schedule is today, but probably she should let him, like, wake up first. Instead she'll just give him snuggles.

... And maybe comment on the furniture. "So I think you should invest in sturdier furniture," she says, because he should.

"Um."

"Sorry. I'm just saying, your stuff is wrecked and I don't think I even have any bruising, clearly we need to upgrade here!"

"Wait, you're not bruised?"

"Not that I can tell? I might have some weird ones in odd places, but everywhere obvious that I could check in a mirror is fine. So I might have some esper sturdiness of some kind going on."

"Uh. Espers aren't really any sturdier? Or, um, I mean, we're, like, healthier and more athletic but, uh. I've. Um. You've. You haven't met Juheon-hyung. Anyway I'm surprised."

"I was a bit too, honestly? I mean I would regret nothing either way, but. This is a very convenient way for things to work out!" As much fun as having marks that he made on her would be, which... Does admittedly sound a little hot. She'll have to get him to give her a hickey (or maybe bite) somewhere just for recreational purposes.

"I mean, uh. Are you sure that you, uh. Don't have some other power? Like, I have the strength stuff, it's not that the furniture is weak it's that," well the bedframe is already broken anyway so he can demonstrate on another piece of it how he can crush it like it's putty, "and so, um, I was worried that I, but you're fine, but I wasn't this harsh on you, I just sometimes get carried away, but."

"I have no idea if I have another power? I could, I guess, though I don't really see how that dovetails with exothermic control. I haven't really tested throwing myself at dangerous things to see if I get out okay. But," she sits up, and turns a little so he can see her completely unblemished back, "there's nothing back there that I missed, right?"

Blink.

"There isn't. I mean, maybe I was sufficiently careful? It's not, like, I don't—I didn't hurt you the other times. I'm not, I mean, completely out of control, just." She was being so hot and was teasing him and kept egging him on and he always has trouble with that and and and.

"You did nothing to me that I did not gleefully welcome," she insists. "But, yeah, I'm surprised too. .... do you want to do science to this, actually, I can have you bite me and see if you can break the skin?"

Then her brain catches up with her and she realizes that this was maybe a bit much to ask. Who said that, oh no, it was her, she is displaying a kink. Admittedly also her love of science but definitely A Kink.

"O-o-or just a hickey or something, just, something easy and verifiable," and hot, don't forget hot, "that we can test."

"Oh a hickey would do it wouldn't it."

"I am fine with either available option, or workshopping alternative ideas, but will have requests about location so as not to have to answer any awkward questions!" she says, in a rush.

"Y-yeah. I mean, it's. It's a good idea, since it's, um. Quick and, uh, easy." Why is he naked. Right, because he always is. He, uh, adjusts the bed covers a bit, though it's not like that isn't in itself conspicuous.

"Right! Um. Somewhere easily covered, like thigh or breast or mmmmmaybe shoulder or lower neck, it's cold enough outside that I can get away with wearing a blouse that covers everything, or a scarf or something." Yes those all just happened to be easily biteable erogenous zones, that is sheer correlation with how clothes work and nothing else, shut up libido she didn't ask you.

Well they're. Both in bed. So he can, uh.

...he can't just aim straight for the kill, unfortunately, he has to set the mood, by which he means even though this was not at all in the plans he is kissing her.

She would honestly be fine if he went straight for the kill here, but she is not going to turn down bite (or hickey? It might just be a hickey) foreplay, so. Kiss! It is nice to kiss him, even without any backlash to make it Extra Nice.

He can, like, immediately start moving down the side of her face then neck then breast, he just felt bad about starting there! And then, yes, hickey, he does not want to end up misjudging and making her bleed, that sounds like a bad time for all involved even if it'd be kind of hot shut uuuuuuup.

Whimper! Positive whimper!!! But also damn it, she hasn't actually been bitten before, and it sounds fun, and she really enjoyed when he was rough with her last night this is fine too! No complaints!

Anyway he can totally leave a mark on her on purpose. There it is, it wasn't even hard to do.