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“What is that and how did you get it up here?” Hawk asked.

“I dragged it. It’s a map case.”

“Oh. Do you have many maps?”

“No, but I like it. Do you like it?” Cosmo gave him a hopeful smile.

“I—”

“I ordered it online, it came today.”

“Ah.” He didn’t really know what to say. Cosmo was perfectly within his rights to bring a map case up to this room. “Do you need help?”

Cosmo blinked at him a little bit and then smiled. “I would love some. Can you help me move it over here to this corner? I thought it would be a good place for a lamp. Then I thought you could put some of your more special pieces from your hoard in the drawers so that they’d be safe, and you could look at them without getting so dusty.”

Hawk melted. “You bought this for me?”

“I did. I thought this is a safe place. No one knows really that this room is here, and then you would have a place where you could sit with a lamp and look at your favorite stones.”

Hawk grabbed Cosmo up and kissed him hard. “I love it. Thank you.”

Cosmo gave him a wicked grin. “How much do you love it?”

“Very much, my love.” Hawk tugged Cosmo against him. “In fact, I want to show you how much. But not here where it’s still so dusty.”

Cosmo kissed him again, moaning, which surprised him. This was escalating quickly.

“Let’s go to our room.” Cosmo took his hand and pulled him, racing with him in far better than human speed to their room, where he started stripping off Hawk’s clothing. He was flushed brighter than usual, and his fingers trembled. “Need you.”

Hawk smiled slowly, taking in Cosmo’s scent and feeling something click into place that hadn’t before.

Cosmo was in heat, he thought.

“Anything you need, my love.” He pressed Cosmo down on the bed, his cock rising, readying his knot to do what it was meant for. He took a kiss that had Cosmo writhing and yanking at Hawk’s clothes.

“Promise?” Cosmo said, gaze begging him to help him.

“Yes, my love, I promise. Anything at all.”

Cosmo stretched, curling his fingers and toes, really going with it.

He’d been in bed. For days. Like three days, he thought, but he’d sort of lost track. He’d sent Hawk down to the kitchen for food and beverage, and now he was just waiting to see what Hawk had scrounged.

Cosmo sat up, pulling the sheet around his waist to remove temptation when Hawk came back. They couldn’t seem to keep their hands off each other.

He supposed it was normal. After all, the houses—well, it’d never been bad, but it was coming together nicely now. Cosmo felt that everything, not just the bedroom, had little touches that belonged to him too.

There were dozens of little places to sit and snuggle. To read. To play games. Just to talk.

Goddess knew he loved to sit and chat for hours over a jigsaw puzzle, a game of Go or chess.

Cosmo snuggled back into the pillows, glancing out the window. The snow had started around mid-October, and now that they were sliding into Thanksgiving, everything was deep and white.

Most of their supplies had been brought in already. They could get down to pick up packages if they needed to, but it was dangerous to fly there, so they tried to only do it once a month.

Fortunately for them, if they needed fresh veggies, they could just pop out to the dragon side of the universe where it was, happily, summer. They could get ripe berries, lettuce, and whatever they needed that was tasty and good. It was really handy how that worked out.

Hawk was very into making smoothies, especially out of some of the fruits that were unusual to him.