"Can I carry you?"

"Once we're outside, yeah."

They're outside now.

Zoom!

Whee!

"But before we get way too distracted I want to show you everything I have on electricity so far and see if I made any obvious errors... Probably nothing innovative but step one to 'standing on the shoulders of giants' is to climb up to the shoulders by learning carefully."

"Okay! Can we snuggle while you do that, though?"

"Mm, I guess that'll work." He grabs some paper notes then sits on the bed. "So as far as I understand voltage is..."

Snuggle! Electricity! She is so glad she is good at multitasking.

Terel is very much still in the 'learning' phase, but he's learning pretty well, all told.

Eventually he's done talking/asking about electricity and snuggles more fully. "Hm, snuggling is nicer than I was led to expect."

"Whoever told you lies about snuggling?"

"Hm, nobody said it was bad, it's just that it didn't get mentioned as a good thing in the same way as dating-in-general and kissing and sex."

"Snuggling is one of the best things. Top ten, easy,"

"I can definitely see what makes you believe that. Not enough evidence for me to make such a strong opinion on the matter yet."

"You are unfairly delicious."

He gives a little snort of a laugh. "Oh? Show me where it says so in the rules of romance."

"Sadly I left my copy in my world."

Kiss! "Mm, well I think you're pretty delicious even without any magic making it more obvious."

"The nature of the thing is such that I'm sure I'd find you delicious anyway," she says, and starts trailing kisses along his skin.

Just-snuggling time seems to be over, then. Terel is fine with this. Enthusastic, even, given how well he responds and eventually reciprocates.

Yeah. And if it's up to her they'll be doing this for... a while. A good while.

She'd missed him.

Terel continues to have non-superhuman stamina. But snuggling can serve as rest of sorts, he has no objection to snuggling.

Good because lots of snuggling will happen.

And during the less-distracted bits of snuggling idle chat about Earth will happen? Terel still wants to learn lots of stuff about this fascinating place, you see.

Absolutely! She can tell him all about Earth.

Earth is kind of fascinating, and it's interesting to pick at the ways 'Tileworld' is different...

After quite a while of snuggling and related activities, "...Probably time for me to clean up and sleep."

"It is. ...I can still spend the night here with you, right?"