"I am not." Pause. "... Occasionally I wonder what would have happened if I were."
"Too is an obvious answer," clarifies Prime. "We would never go outside. Instead of you, though, I have no idea."
"... Sorry, I realize now that that was an unhelpful set of sentences."
Aya makes a little noise that neither agrees nor disagrees, and squirms again, and puts her face on his shoulder and sighs.
"I am pretty tormentable right now. I'm not sure if you're going to get anywhere with that plan in the long run without at least kissing me."
And then:
"Okay."
And then he tilts her head up to the proper angle and kisses her.
She flings herself absolutely into it, and - wrenches back into a more restrained posture when she notices she's doing it. But she's not going to be the one to break the kiss.
"Did that help or make it worse?" he laughs when he deems that there has been Enough Kisses For Now.
She giggles and nuzzles the side of his neck and says, "Does it matter? I'm happy."
"Fair. All right then. Please keep being happy, I would like for you to keep being happy."
Nope, no reaction this time. Try again later.
Behold, it's the return of the hair kiss. Back with a vengeance!
"I feel like if I speculated on what would've happened if you'd gotten necklaced instead would sound too much like wheedling."
"I did not take very long to kiss you," defends Prime. "It happened yesterday."
Nuzzle. Nuzzles are fun even if they don't cause Encouraging Breathing.
They are very fun! Also very nice. Even without Encouraging Breathing.