By the time they’re done she’s tired, but not exhausted. There’s not a single trace of their lovemaking on her skin, but she knows if it weren’t for her healing her skin would be marred with purple and black and she’d be too sore to walk. In a way it’s satisfying to know she can drive someone to that level, that she can enjoy it without being harmed or harming others. It’s nice to know he enjoyed it too.

She should probably buy him new sheets, but it was worth it to have the monster soothed.

“If you have questions,” she says softly, eyes still closed, “Now is the time.”