【战锤40k同人作品翻译】Ennui 第十九章：时光 Time(15)

“You learn more quickly than I would expect from one of your kind,” I conceded.
“My kind adapt,” Alessandra replied with a playful tension. “All the galaxy is our rightful dominion, and by the grace of Him On Earth, and the holy technologies of the Techpriests, we are made capable of living anywhere within it.”
“Of course,” I made a deep, mocking bow, “how could I forget?”
Alessandra laughed, and I smiled as I straightened and moved to her side. Her laughter was one of my favorite sounds, it was full and it came from her chest, and the way it filled her face was…

Well, I considered myself surprisingly fortunate that I had met her at the end of my life.
I sat beside her and she moved closer, meshing herself against me and pulling her feet up onto the couch as she rested her head on my shoulder and I looped my arm around her waist.
We had not spoken about the events of the chapel. Not about my drinking from her, or about the kiss, or about what had followed or preceded it. We had, however, silently grown more comfortable being in physical contact than not.