"Of course we didn't have to," Eleanor said, once she was recovered a little bit from that hug and especially that kiss. Maybe one of these days, she would be able to be a little less surprised by Kamala's easy and open affection with her, but she wasn't quite there yet. Not that she didn't revel in every little bit of it, of course, but it still threw her off. Once she steadied again, though, she leaned into it, into Kamala, arm around her waist and half tempted to just not let her go for the rest of the night. "But we wanted to. As soon as you turned back to yourself again."

Which they hadn't expected to happen almost immediately after discussing it, but they did well on a time-crunch!