Eventually it's going to strike her as dangerous, how easy it is to fall into sharing manna with him. Certainly it will make life easier, not having to ration her energy or work so hard at finding ways to make more, but their bond is so deep already that it would be easy to obliterate whatever decorum remains between them.

For now, though, she'll take companionable silence and a cup of lukewarm coffee right here. She needs the comfort, and even if he's calmer than he was when the change first took him, he needs it more than he's aware of. Somehow or other she'll have to get him to sleep tonight. (Is his biology too plantlike to respond to a tranquilizer? One wonders.)

"Did you have any plans today?" she asks idly, eventually. Fortunately she's off work; though honestly she thinks the gems would've been thrilled if she'd called off to spend the day with a synchrony partner.