"Hey!" Billy yelped in an unusually high-pitched voice, shivering at her touch. It would feel soft, almost silky. The wings themselves reached out to embrace her as best they could, tickling her wings in the process.

Lying together was going to be really complicated, wasn't it?

"We'll need to widen the space in the lab," he started, "and I'll need to get more proficient at folding them out of the way. But it's true, there are new options available to us..."

His eyes sparkled with the possibilities.