[Ryou would like to dissolve into the atmosphere. He has never missed being a shade so much as he does now, so he can just vanish and flit away and pretend this didn't happen.

But he's a naga, and there's nearly thirty feet of him to contend with. So...instead, he awkwardly thps a few times, his snakes shyly hiding in his hair.]

I'm happy with you too. I...I want to stay this way. I don't know if anything might change in the future, and you're welcome to tell me if that's the case, but. You're enough for me to be happy.

I was scared enough thinking you might've gone for good. Let's, um. Let's keep things simplified.

That is, I...c-can't really see myself involving another person, when I still have work to do with just the two of us.

[His words are clumsy and awkward, but he hopes he gets his point across. One potential catastrophe at a time, please...]