The dance ended the way it had begun, with her deciding!
The old melody wound itself down to a last few notes, and Thalia drew him close on the final turn, and rose onto her toes, and kissed him on the lips.
It was a single action, soft and brief and entirely unhurried, and it very nearly broke him out of the Reverie. Warmth moved through his existence with no permission asked, and the endless blue of his eyes flickered once, and steadied!
'This woman...'
"I can sense your Provenance pulsing with momentum," she said, still close. "Continue with what you need to do. I will ensure all those who are potential targets of THE Sealed One finish the emergence of their Observable Existences. I will also introduce myself to Barbatos and the others."
A faint curve of her lips formed. "And I will keep an eye on anything coming across Dimensions and Time."
