"Well it did," he admitted, amusement fading. "And I expect it will startle me several times more. But I don't want to be afraid of you, Newton. And I'm sure you don't want to be worried about that all of the time. Not to mention you may want to swim or submerge as a kaiju and we're not going to be living on the ocean for that to be easy."

Hermann hesitated, fussing a bit with his sleeves.

"Now I'm not saying it's going to be an overnight adjustment, but we probably should try to reach some level of comfort with it eventually- preferably before our wedding."