Sydney brought up her left hand and placed it on his cheek so the cool of the metal touched his skin. "You certainly have some off the wall ideas," she agreed, then moved in closer to kiss him. "Can we have a day or two? Just a little bit of time where we don't talk about anything about Court, or the Alchemists, or any of it?"

She needed that, she knew, more than she needed to work through the problems they faced. She needed to just...be. And to just be with Adrian. If only for a little while.