Hugs!

Possibly gentle snuggles?

Gentle snuggles: also fine. Iris demonstrates, by snuggling back.

This is excellent.

Eva is content with gentle snuggles for the moment.

Iris is, too. It's nice. Soothing, even. A reminder that the world isn't just running for your life from terrifying people trying to kill you. It also has snuggles.

And that the world isn't just explosions and double double quadruple googolplex chocolate and giant hell-beasts and the moons of Askytherion. There are also snuggles.

What a wonderful world they live in! With snuggles.

"I'll work on getting you a list of what's likely to freak me out," says Iris. "Okay?"

Eva nods. "That's very okay. If you'd like, maybe I could give you a memory crystal...? They're sometimes useful for getting across things that are hard to put into words."

"That'd be wonderful, actually, if you're willing to. It's okay if you're not, I'm quite sure I can still figure it out, just. It might be easier to show you things."

Eva takes a crystal from the wall, leaving behind a little empty space on the shelf. "Here. This one should be empty."

She takes the crystal, smiling a little. "Thanks. Um, now how do I use it besides having it set to 'record' all the time?"

"Just... Think the memory at it?"

"... Okay, I can do that. Do I retrieve memories the same way?"

"Yes. Be careful not to retrieve everything at once, though: even with a small crystal it can give you the most terrific headache."

Nod.

Memory dump! ... Memory retrieval? Of kissing Eva? Because if she's testing this she might as well enjoy it?

That is definitely an Eva kiss.

In retrospect, that was probably a bad call for a memory to review, because now she is tempted.

"That worked," she says, smiling a little and looking down. She does have the option of kissing Eva again, doesn't she, but that might tread into dangerous territory if she is too tempted. Why is she so conflicted, why did she have to go and get complicated in the last couple hundred years.

"Somewhat foolishly I decided to review the memory of kissing you," murmurs Iris, because honesty is important in a relationship and sometimes she speaks before she thinks. "And now I am tempted."

Well. That's... interesting.

(OhgodohgodyesbutnobutYES)

"... Tempted to do what, precisely?"

(Please sound seductive please sound seductive -)

Apparently she sounds seductive enough for Iris, because Iris steps closer and gently tilts Eva's head to the correct angle and then they are kissing again.

... That is a very good answer.

(Her arms have decided to wrap around Iris' waist, pulling her in gently.)

Mmm this was a good idea, probably, unless it wasn't, which she supposes she'll find out eventually. But until then, Eva is very kissable and this is very nice, and whoops now Eva is being kissed a bit more insistently against the shelf she hopes that is okay.

Very okay. Very okay.

One of Eva's hands wanders a little lower to squeeze a squeezable Iris.

Iris giggles and makes a pleased sound in her throat and then decides that actually, they should keep this from going further because she might actually freak out, even if this is glorious and wonderful. ... Possibly because it is glorious and wonderful.

She - well, she finds it hard to actually stop kissing, but she can slow it down a little. Sweet, over, uh - hungry. Both are nice, one is more dangerous than the other.

Eva is... Well, not precisely okay with this, but amenable. There can be softer kisses, even if her lizard-brain wants more.

Warm, soft Iris pressed up right against her... definitely still distracting. So, so distracting. Her hand seems to have decided that it belongs in the small of Iris's back.

That is a fine place for a hand to be.

They can stay like this for a while, in fact.

Mmm.

So nice and yet so infuriating.

She will wait. She will wait. She will not squeeze other squeezable bits of Iris. Just kissing.

... Kissing isn't working very well as a distraction from this line of thought, but it's very very hard to stop kissing. She will see if it becomes more effective as a distraction technique over time.