Shakespeare Colony [A month later]

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They'd waited for the weather to turn more reliably warm and dry before hosting an outdoor dance in the center of the village. The fight over music had been mostly smoothed over by agreeing to vary the selections between what the colonists who'd arrived recently liked and what the natives had become used to after Ben had offered to provide enough droid spoken word albums to last the entire dance to break the impasse.

Because everyone had agreed that droid spoken word albums were the worst.

And now, in the fine tradition of dances everywhere, no one was dancing in the area cleared for that purpose as everyone gathered in nervous groupings around food and drink tables, staring at people across the floor and hoping someone would ask them to dance.

Ben sighed and tugged at the tie around his neck. "Should we draw names from a hat or something?" he asked Ender.

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"Good thing we're together, then," Ben replied.

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"Very good thing," Ender agreed.

He pressed another soft kiss to Ben's mouth. "Thanks for tonight."

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"Thank you too," Ben said. "It was fun."

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"Even the weird parts?"

Ender made sure to make it sound teasing more than anything else.

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"Even the weird parts," Ben murmured, smiling.

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Ender kissed his cheek. "In that case: good night, Ben."

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Ben snuggled closer and sighed happily. "Good night, Ender."

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Ender pulled up the blankets, tucked his head against Ben's shoulder and closed his eyes.