The thing they don't tell you about your first kiss is that eventually it's gotta end. And when it's over, that's it. True Love's First Kiss is one of the Seven Ultimate Secret Techniques of the Heart (And Blade!), but it's a literal once-in-a-lifetime use move. The world's not gonna bend over to line up a perfect breeze to play with your hair and skirt and bless you with [i]the[/i] perfect ray of sunshine like history's biggest spotlight while every person, fox, cloud, bird, and passing seed or leaf wafting through the skies turns and... stops to gobble up a lil' bit of your magic while it's there. 

Y'gotta understand, this is a move that can topple empires when it's timed right. This is a moment that forges alliances forever or shatters them into a billion rainbow shards. It can turn a blinding, deadly snowstorm and turn it into a gentle spring rain and fill you with the power to stand up to your worst nightmares and even best them forever in a flourish of acrobatics that mark the end of a long and painful journey. If you don't believe me, ask Jessic. I'd bet you a floofy new tail she's got it on DVD. 

But Yue just spent it on a prison escape. Well, that's not fair exactly, but the point is that it's gone and the world's pretty much the same as it's ever been now that she's just falling, falling, falling through the sky in the firm and delicious arms of Hyra of the Wolves. But then, if she could have kept her feelings from bubbling up out of her until lips found lips and her world melted into the warmest, softest, blinding light she could ever imagine... she wouldn't be Yue, would she? And Hyra would be slipping into the shadows right now to bide her time looking for the next big moment where she could steal somebody's everything again. 

True Love's Second Kiss is a technique so paltry they don't even put it in the cheapo scrolls you can find on the bargain mat at the very end of a bazaar. But they probably oughta, y'know? How's it gonna be True Love if you only ever kiss the one time? How're any of these stupidface so-called swordsman and magicians able to sleep at night knowing they never bothered to tell trembling young maidens that the second kiss feels just as nice as the first? 

And for that matter, the third. And the fourth. And the fifth. And the sixth, the One Where You're Finally Brave Enough To Try Slipping Your Tongue In Her Mouth might actually be better than all those others put together. And, like, sure. I get it. When you're fallin' and you're fallin' and you're fallin' some more and you take all those kisses and just kinda chain 'em all end to end like that, it just kinda turns into True Love's First Makeout Session, doesn't it? Careful Yue, or it's gonna turn into True Love's First Bra Unhooking and... sweetie? You're just not cut out to have that play out in front of such a big crowd. Save it. Let it be special. Private. Ideally in the moonlight by a waterfall, if you can manage. But that's just, like, my opinion. 

But anyway, they come. The kisses, I mean. Light and sweet, then hot and heavy (wow, girl!!), and punctuated with sweet little nothings about her perfectly wonderful girlfriend and all the things that make her somebody's everything whether she's trying to be or not. It bubbles out of her like all the rest of it did, because Y-- oh gosh not again! [i]Princess[/i] Yin's (why is that so hard?) stupid curse made it so hard to do this thing right and sooner like she wanted to so she's just been sitting and waiting and sitting and waiting and gosh darn it she's not gonna do it anymore! But also 'cause she can't help being who she is, which is to say a creature of sweetness and softness who fills every tiny hole she sees with happiness. 

So after the kisses come the little touches and the squeezing. And after the little touches and the squeezing come the breathless smiles. And after the breathless smiles come the blushing and the squeaking because it's finally finally [i]finally[/i] settling in just how bold and, um, lucky she's been. And after the blushing and the squeaking? You'd think it'd be shrieking, y'know, given how she's falling straight out of the Sky Castle down to the earth below without so much as a hot air balloon to help her. 

But she's got Hyra. And she's got Rose. And she's got Chen. And... oh, right! Hahaha, sillyhead, she knows how to fly now! So this is just another first in a journey that's been stuffed so full of 'em even a pepper would blush at the idea. So she doesn't shriek at all, see? She laughs. Uproarious, joyful, rolling, delighted laughter that not even the winds of terbimal velocity (look it up, nerds) can snatch from everybody's ears. 

"I'm leaving the landing to you!"

Ah, that most classic of lines. She falls, and she's safer than she's ever been. And when she makes it where she's going? She's got a whole bunch've hugs to hand out to all of the most deserving people in the world.