She's sure he will! Spaced repetition is good for learning.

As is the way of things, more adventurers swing through; this group includes a halfling of the "carries five million daggers" combat persuasion, and Blai purchases one of the tiny sharps and commandeers some wandmaking wire to get a sun around it.

Oooh. Venn is interested in keeping him company while he does that, once she's finished hanging out with the new adventuring group and swapping stories with them (...if he wants her company, of course.)

Why wouldn't he?

Well, introverts often like their alone time, and Venn likes to respect that.

She's not practiced at wirecrafting, but she's watched someone do it before and can give a few tips!

And she'll sing Iomedaean songs for the dagger, to tell it what it's going to be now. 

"...is that a functional step?"

She shakes her head. "Not for the dagger, but it's nice for me! Makes it a bit more of a story." Hmmm.

 "If it's ok with you, I do want to spend a bit of my song-sorcery to make it turn out a bit better, I know the trick for that." (He knows she's had some leftover every day since she got third circle spells.)

"Please. The extent of my experience with wirecrafting is that I sat in on someone's wandmaking shortly after I hit third, before I knew I was going to be doing mostly paperwork with this ability instead."

Then she'll weave her magic into the music as he works.

It's a pretty noticeable change - he'll find his hands moving more surely and his mind automatically making small adjustments that usually work out well, as if he had years of occasional experience doing this. 

That's so helpful! Wire wire bend bend. He twirls it around the tip of the dagger so he will be able to wear it it to bed without stabbing himself in his sleep.

Third-circle bards - they're useful! (And fun to kiss. Though she'll wait until he's done and satisfied with it.)

Eventually he's got the wire wrapped up and tucked into place at the end and the whole thing strung onto the chain that used to hold his pentagram.

She will kiss it softly, and then him.

She's very good. How does she do it.

Lots of practice and a can-do attitude?

That does sound similar to how other skills can be acquired. As long as you also sometimes kill a monster.

Well, she's at the Worldwound! So she gets regular chances to do that, too.

The next day, she gets a reply from Marit.

Marit sends his congratulations at the blossoming love and a promise not to tell Demonscourge. He also informs her that Iomedaean doctrine strongly discourages sex before marriage (for the usual reasons), and does not have a listed exception for the case where pregnancies are avoidable.

He's not a theologian but he thinks there are a lot of sensible reasons for this, including "setting a good example" and "you might forget or have your spell slots spoken for".

He ends his letter by telling her that Rowen says that Venn and Select Artigas are making a huge difference for the Chelish forts within their expanded healing radius, and that he's proud of her. (Marit is too.)

It's a biiit embarrassing to share this with Blai, but she a talented bard and can handle a bit of embarrassment. 

He reads this letter very seriously. "I cannot claim to be terribly surprised at the doctrine," he says.

Yeah, fair. "It does makes sense," she says, mildly wistfully. 

...doctrine doesn't forbid kissing, though.

It doesn't! If she wants to just have a Surreptitious Kissing Relationship forever he can do this!

She's growing increasingly sure that she doesn't want that forever, actually, but for now she's enjoying herself veeeeeeery much.

If she doesn't want it forever she is free to leave whenever she wants, or at least that's the interpretation he will naturally go with.