The corner of Mingjue's lips ticked upward at Xichen's delicate kiss, and he let out his breath in half a huff. Then he passed the kiss on with a swift peck of his own at the knob of A-Yao's spine.

He was sensitive as A-Yao pulled away from him, though, and even if he did allow the wriggling away, he allowed it with somewhat ill grace. There was grumbling involved partially because he was still a bit dazed from the whole thing and partially because of some heretofore untapped sense of possessiveness that had him reaching for both A-Yao and Xichen as he came back to himself.

With A-Yao heading to the side of the pool, he folded himself close to Xichen.

"We'll help you clean up," Mingjue finally said once he'd regained enough equilibrium for words. And since it seemed like A-Yao was ready to go, and Xichen was quiet and a little (worryingly) distant with all that had occurred, well...Mingjue didn't see any reason to delay, not when it was the work of a moment to gather their things so they could head out.

There was a bed in the Unclean Realm with their name on it, after all. Mingjue didn't know about the other two, but he was ready for a good nap.

"Let us go."

~FIN~