"You have to be open with me." Wulfsen said, giving Sileas a hug.

"I know, and I will try. It's a huge change, and it's going to take me some time to get accustomed to being open about it." She snuggled into his embrace. "It's the price of being expected to be strong for so long."

"Thirty seconds!" Yehudit shouted.

"We will be barring our doors once wed," Sileas stated. "It's just a shame we can't soundproof them too."

Wulfsen nodded.

"I don't think we can ever do anything that would be that loud." He said.

"I don't think anyone else could ever do anything louder than that," Sileas giggled.

"Time's up!" Yehudit threw the door open.

"Oy! You could have a career as a chaperone!" Sileas exclaimed.

Yehudit scowled. "Not for anyone who can do math."

"I can do math just fine, thank you very much. We had important things to discuss."

"Your wedding is tomorrow and when is Sileas Junior due?" Yehudit asked sarcastically. "No parent will ask me to chaperone their children."

Sileas sighed and clenched her fingers tightly around Wulfsen's hand. "It's close enough for people to just assume the babe came early. But you know, if you hate me so much, you could just leave me alone. And by the way, no one expected you to monitor my every move and probably think it's weird that you do."

"I don't hate you." Yehudit glowered. "If you hate me so much why don't you banish me?"

"Me? I'm not the one who's been dripping venom with everything I've said tonight. I don't hate you. I just don't understand why you're suddenly acting this way with me. You've been nothing but accusatory and mean tonight."

"You're the one who was trying to blame me for what you did in the hall!" Yehudit said. "I should have just stayed on my room."

Sileas sighed. "I wasn't trying to blame you. I was trying to determine if you may have inadvertently done something because of what you were thinking about. I didn't believe you did anything intentional. And I did say I believed you."

"You didn't believe me at first." Yehudit said.

"Honestly, can you blame me for that? You've been obsessed with seeing guys shirtless for years."

"And you blame me when it's you two in a bed with that noise coming into the hall?" Yehudit gestured towards the room next door.

"We were distracted, and hadn't heard it," Sileas admitted. "But once we did, we understood why you thought it was us. I'm sorry if I sounded like I was accusing you earlier, I hadn't meant to. I knew you did nothing intentional, I just wanted you to think about something else if you were thinking about shirtless men."

"But Wulfsen kept his shirt on. There weren't any shirtless men." Yehudit said.

"No, but you've also been known to imagine them shirtless."

"Shirtless isn't the same as what you two were doing." Yehudit said.

"Bai's theory is that whomever was thinking any sorts of thoughts relating to...physical activity type things...affected the air. And obviously, whoever is in the room next door was affected worse."

Yehudit just scoffed. "That's just Aunt Ais and Uncle Nelek. Remember how they used to be? This is probably the first time they have been alone in ages."