Very strong case to be made for staying indoors all month. Here, where it's cool, and I trust most of our fellows to have a reasonable conversation without— more bravado.

[Hah. He tilts his head up briefly to kiss that frown, equal parts thanks for the support and a gentle shush, for the moodiness. He's fine; it doesn't concern him in the least what anyone on that beach yells at him anymore, he's decided. That seems like Anna's problem.]

Like you? [bring to tears (affectionate)] Show me your most outlandish of bloodstone-powered prototypes, the ones I know you write down in the margins when you haven't slept enough; I'll be scathing. You won't need to put one hair outside to get heated.

[play in the space with him, his markers hunger!!]