Luckily this isn't the wrong type of laugh to have bubble up during sex. It isn't directed at Percy. Instead, it's a release of tension, and... well, with any luck, something they can both find slight absurd.

Fucking someone for the first time is usually at least a bit absurd, in Vex's experience.

But not less intoxicating because of it. She finds the soap and turns on him, the water somehow making every motion both smoother and more laborious as she reaches.

"Let's get on that."