I take it that's a good sign, then. I think I've found this place to be significantly different from the world I know. Plants didn't make a habit of trying to eat you where I came from, nor did we have cults of foxes trying to harvest life energy, or dragons. It's been quite unique.

Compared to all that, you've been an angel.

( And he accepts the hug which naturally earns him the stroke of her hands over his back and a gentle squeeze, stars under her skin with the pleasant twinkling of chroma singing along her nerves— and she didn't think it'd be his first experience with it. But here they are. He'll hear the smile in her voice when she answers. )

That depends; what does it feel like?