Nod. "Do you want me to visit there?"

"I don't want you to miss me and I want to know how you're doing but I don't want the drug thing for a while, I think."

"Okay." She wishes he wouldn't call it that but she's not going to say so; she isn't thinking about having left her mind open for him.

"Could try while I'm asleep or something, maybe. Do you want to come visit -"

"I'll bring Ava to make sure nobody who doesn't know what I am touches me and I bet it's really pretty there and I'd miss you otherwise, of course I want to visit."

"Okay. We'll do that, then. Thank you, Ruviri. I'm - really glad you're okay."

She smiles up at him.

He vaguely wishes he could hug her without the magic effects. He sighs. "How long was it for you?"

"Four days. We went a little slower than them but we had to sync every time Ava asked them to give us food. I could keep my gloves on and put my hood up and you could hug me without any magic if you wanted."

" - yes, all right."

And he'll hug her and sing. 

She likes it when he sings, it's the prettiest thing in the world.

She might be biased, but he smiles, and holds her, and is not especially annoyed to be alive.

Timothy takes his nap and then does interviews for the demons list. The interviews are fine; the moments in between, while he's waiting for someone to show, are unexpectedly unpleasant. He's jumpy. He keeps wishing he was looking at something in the opposite direction and then remembering he can move his eyes. 

He asks some of the friendlier demons for food. He doesn't go downstairs. He does two hundred straight.

Eventually it occurs to Cam that he can just check if Timothy is still in bed. He checks. He isn't. He goes up.

Timothy has a circle open; he flicks it off. He gets the door.

"Hey. How was your nap -" He looks at the circle. "- how long has it been?"

"Uh. Wasn't keeping track of time. Two hundred and three new interviews..."

"The wait times alone for that would add up to hours. Did you take only one nap in this time - Timothy -"

"I've had a very restful couple of weeks, I needed to talk to people. People who couldn't read my mind, even, I've found I really like the whole concept of people who can't read my mind -"

Cam hugs him.

Squeeze. "It's fine, really, it's fine, it was especially fine once everything got fixed and no one was in danger, I just - had some pent-up energy or something - I'm sorry -"

"You don't have to be sorry. I love you, I'm so glad he's gone, I love you -" Wingwrapping, nice snug wingwrapping.

Lean. "And Ganymede let you go, that's real institutional progress right there -"

Cam shuffles them over to the bed so they can sit down and he is not in danger of toppling over from being leaned on. "Niari testified, it was very kind of her."

"What did she testify to, what were you even on trial for - Orik offered to go but I thought it'd just distract you -"