This interlude, I have to consider it an interlude, of warmth and tentative understanding is so amazingly touching. I just want to roll around it it and have it last forever! And yet it scares me because it can't possibly, and I know perfectly well that you're setting us up oh, for the drop. I swear, next update I'll be too terrified to read.V_V

(Of course I will anyway.)

This whole work is brilliant.