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[ Getting her nose nuzzled will earn him a hand cupping his cheek in turn. A few weeks of this has taken the worst of the embarrassment of the intimacy off, and now it's just ... comfortably, mostly. Familiar and grounding, as she feels the contact cycle her magic through him and back again, even through passive contact just like this, and it relaxes her enough to shut her eyes. ]

Just a couple of hours? That's impressive. [ She really shouldn't underestimate what the full moon can drive monsters to do. When he asks her for her opinion, she hums a little, opening her eyes and glancing to the side.

Except, you know, she can't actually see anything, so it's hard to answer that question. She'd been able to approximate Ritsu's location by his voice and the tug of their Bond, his willing her to come to him guiding her more unerringly than her own eyes could, but that doesn't mean she can actually see in the dark. So, she'll wiggle around in his arms, dropping the bag of treats on his lap, until she's sitting on the ground beside him and both her hands are free. A little concentration lights them up with a soft glow, and with a puff of breath, they scatter upwards in a stream of glowing points, sticking to the ceiling like small, warm stars. They don't brighten up the room completely, but they show her enough, and she makes her pronouncement after another few moments of consideration. ]

It doesn't feel like much of a home yet. [ She isn't one to lie about that sort of thing, and in any case, he could feel it over her bond if she was. ] ... But it could be.

[ How pretty. Ritsu leans against her, tucking his head into the crook of her shoulder; his hands place with the bag idly as his gaze travels across the lights. He appreciates their not-so-brightness, honestly, especially given he's been in the dark for a little longer than her now. ]

Feels more like a home already with you here, [ he replies, warm but - ultimately, teasing, as he cuddles further against her. ] Fufun... Let's stay here together forever, just you and me. The others can take care of themselves...♪

We can't. [ Yako answers, quietly but firmly, even as she adjusts her position to leth him cuddle closer against her. ]

... After all, we do need to eat sometime. Conjury can't feed us, you know... [ She grins up at him. Unsurprisingly, of course, her mind's on food. But she did come here with a question in mind, so she'll rest her hand over one of his, leaning her weight against him.

'How do you feel?' seems like a bit of a pointless question when you can feel someone else's emotions, so instead, she sends a silent inquiry over their bond, a mental nudge to check in on how clearly he's thinking, even with the full moon up. ]

[ Of course she had an ulterior motive, but it's nothing he resents. Given everything that's happened in the short time they've been here, of course she'd be worried about him - especially now that a good bit of the people he knows from home are gone. Better for them too, but he won't deny he feels just a little lonely, and he closes his eyes, taking comfort in the hand on his and in the weight resting against him.

It's grounding the same way that following his instincts to burrow has been, even if he doesn't... like that he feels better doing so. He turns his hand over to better hold hers, exhaling slowly. His mind's mostly clear, and he gives her a mental nudge back to demonstrate so, though it's littered with pinpricks of restrained self-loathing. ]

...I'm doing better than I have been, [ he mumbles softly, in better explanation. ] Compared to the last two moons, anyway...

[ Which isn't saying much, but he brushes aside those feelings before they get too far. ]

Kinda sucks. [ Ritsu's quiet for another moment, opening his eyes again. He hates they don't match anymore ] I think the rest of 'em were lucky, goin' home before they got too far.

[ It's nice, if nothing else, to have confirmation that the Bond works as it's meant to -- she'd worried it wouldn't, irrational as it is, even if there's plenty of evidence around that it's an arrangement that residents of the city benefit from. Those small pricks of self-loathing, she's less sure what to do with, and so she reaches up to brush some hair from his face with the hand that isn't tangled with his. She could feel that, but she won't push it, for now. ]

Maybe ... but it's all right to miss them, though. If you do. [ In his position, she's sure she'd feel similarly -- conflicting feelings of being glad that her friends are somewhere not so strange, coupled with sadness to not have familiar faces around anymore. ] Did you ever ask the Coven how that works?

[ His ears turn back a bit, and he hums; his mood sours over their bond, because the one thing he's never been good at is hiding when he's disgruntled about something. It's not even a hard read on his face, but he turns it away to hide it. ]

Nah. I'm not that curious... [ A bit of a lie. He hasn't gone back to see his mirror anyway, worried it'd freshly show those he's missing now. ] I don't really wanna deal with the Coven anyway... If I ever get really curious, I'll just ask over the watch or whatever. Someone's gotta have checked that out. No reason to do the work myself if I can just copy someone else's answers, y'know? The best effort's the one with the least amount of effort.

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