This conversation required the standard serious-conversation set-up. Which meant piling the bedding in a heap and arranging both of them against it and snuggling in. He was okay. Ruba curled up on his lap for naps, and Rede was a full-fledged Turk now, and Cissney was off destroying the world and ... well, Riina was probably stopping her. Still. He was okay. Right?