Curtis basks in the joy unfurling around them, unable to contain the soft smile that emerges as Dejah's emotions mingle with his own. He can hear a close cousin of the light that illuminated her out in the meadow. Her mind revels in building things, in discovering something new; this is another project brought to careful, beautiful fruition, and he can't help but revel in it, too.

"Is the hydra carnivorous too?"