[In truth, he probably would just want to go ahead and make it official. After all, with what's happened so far and how they clearly are now, there's no real good reason to wait. Of course if things were normal and in either of their respective worlds, then waiting a while would be sensible. But here, when there is that ever looming question of whether they'll wake up and see each other, there is a different sense of urgency. One that's enough to carry reason and sensibility into the wind.

But even so, this is something they need to talk about if they want to have some semblance of responsibility. So he gently smiles, brushing the corner of her eye before pulling in to lightly press his lips against them. He had heard her say those words once before...and hearing them now makes his heart tremble so strongly that it really is difficult to not just say, "Let's do it now." She can see it in his eyes, that deep desire of taking that final step to completely bind themselves together. But he holds it back.]

And I won't let you wait for that long.

[Can he even wait a month after knowing her answer? A week? A day? A minute? Hell they probably already act like it already so at this point it would just be official formalities. Something definitive.]

But...there are things we should discuss so we can be on the same page on expectations and wants from each other.

...For example, ideally the Story Eater is taken care of first but it's an unknown variable.