When he sits up, she moves back a little, though not far, and tilts her head against the pillow to watch him as he speaks. He's so animated, even now in the middle of the night when she's just sort of useless and incoherent, and she smiles up at him. Although she's trying to listen -- and mostly succeeding, but he's keeping it pretty simple for her, she thinks -- she's caught up in the expression on his face more than anything.

"You need to go back to work, dude," she says as she leans against him again. "Like, pronto." She thinks he'll be a lot happier, not that she imagines he's particularly unhappy right now, but she knows a lot of that is the new relationship glow. She's right there alongside him, but she knows there are other things people need, and he's clearly good at what he does and he loves it. Not a lot of people get to have that.