Holding this thought close, Adrien jumped out of bed and went to take a shower. He set his hands against the wall, lowered his head, and let the stream of warm water fall down his hair. He reached for the shampoo bottle and turned it upside-down: no matter how he shook it, he could only coax a dribble out of it. He rinsed the bottle, then picked up the Clarifying Shampoo he'd brewed a few months before, resolving to use that instead. As he rubbed the lemon-scented mixture into his hair, he chuckled to himself: the shampoo worked just fine, but he was in no need of clarity. All he wanted to know, he already knew: he loved Val, and Val loved him back, and they had been acting on their love, and they were making each other happy; and he wished for nothing more than to continue living in this present, to see their bond grow and become.