[Taako chuckles, making sure Nate can feel it in his chest as he nuzzles it close to his arm.]

Uh, I think what you mean to add there is 'and that's what I love about you', got it. C'mon. This spell's not a hard channel but it is, uh, a channel, you know? And chaboy got like fifteen more minutes on this one.

[He tugs him a bit to keep tromping through the sand.]

You got a compass or something? We should be going southish.