Tenida is in the kitchen, slicing fruits for a fruit platter. She occasionally eats a slice as she goes: processing fee, you know.

"Ten!"

Tenida chuckles, rolling her eyes affectionately at the wordplay of Kedri shortening her name to 'hi'. "You never get tired of that one, do you?"

Kedri grins. "Never."

She nose-boops Tenida.

Boop!

Tenida offers Kedri a slice of strawberry.

Ooh, yes please!

Tenida takes a piece too, then slices up another berry and arranges the slices on the platter. "Almost done...there."

"So, um-- I got you something."

She still gets butterflies, after all this time.

"Oh?"

"Here, come see."

She leads Tenida over to a couch to sit down.

Tenida follows curiously.

She pulls the little bag--dark grey, with a symbol of a silver bell on it--from her belt, and takes out--

--a glittering blue crystal. It's cut in a careful middle ground between polished and rough-hewn, aesthetic curves and lines but with a complexity and depth to it.

It would be easy to get lost in.

Tenida might have wondered if she was reading too much into it, but the tsanti on the bag makes the context very clear.

"Oh. It's beautiful."

"Could we, um-- I could definitely-- it's that time of the month, you know, and-- Rialu's with the kids right now, I can go make sure he knows not to bother us--"

Kedri did, in fact, know that Tenida was due to be ovulating today.

"Absolutely."

Kedri smiles, takes the silver circlet from where it was sitting on a bedside table in preparation, and puts it on Tenida's head. "I think that should be up to you."

They settle onto the bed together, Tenida sitting in Kedri's lap.

She watches the crystal sparkle and gleam, feeling the comfortable rhythm as she sways back and forth in Kedri's embrace.