"Whoever it was was gonna get kissed," Verity said with a sigh, slowly uncurling her toes on the floor. And her fingers from his hair. Huh. When did they even get there?

"Uhh, wanna come in?" she invited, the words incongruously normal with how heavily she was breathing. "The rites have been, uhh, satisfied--" there were more cheers for that "--so you should be able to make it to my couch, at least, without getting mauled."