"For breakfast? No." Laurent smiled, feeling at peace with his life and hopeful about his future for the first time he could remember. "Just that kiss."

He let his head rest on Damen's shoulder, basking in the domesticity of their morning. "Do you like to read? Or is it mostly the swordplay, wrestling, swimming, and... I don't know, I'm envisioning you mostly naked on clifftops, oiled and flexing, roaring into the wind. Is that the sort of thing you do in Akielos?"

His eyes glinted, lips tilting playfully as he glanced over at Damen.