Chen is crying quietly as Rose slowly shrinks herself. Her voice at the end had fallen almost to a whisper, and her body was letting out small sobs in the ruins of her travel dress. It didn't matter, it didn't matter if her clothes were ruined coming in or that Rose's were ruined, or anything else. She had just run out of words, and so she sobbed and she held on, and she hiccupped a little because she was overcome. 

Then she felt Rose shrinking, and that made her sobbed and hiccup again as she saw Rose come back to herself. She saw the tears fade from her eyes, and it made Chen smile even though the combination of trying to smile and sob and hiccup made her cheeks hurt. She clings on tightly as Rose returns so slowly, her whole body a mess, overcome with emotion. There's so much of it! All the tension and anxiety from the flight, and then her Mommy, and everything she'd just done, Chen was entirely out of any ability to make herself look big, strong, and mature in front of everyone. She didn't care, she didn't have eyes for them anyway.

And then, then Rose was saying "I'm here" and "I love you" and and and, that just sent Chen into new sobs and she clung on tighter. It is perhaps something of the true nature of their love that surrounded by all these demons, they have this moment for themselves, uninterrupted save for a distant howling of a demon with swords. Distant, though she stands next to them because Chen at least is simply lost in the release of holding Rose and letting all the feelings inside her burst out through tears and a runny nose until she can breathe again. 

When she can breathe, at last, she gives Rose a gentle kiss. "I love you too, my Rosepetal. I'll love you forever and ever" and she smiles and ruins it with another hiccup because oops those didn't quite go away, and she blushes then as well because she's finally starting to take in their surroundings. 

"We um, we need new dresses" she manages, looking at the tatters left to both of them without letting go of Rose. "And um, didn't they say that you, um, owed the demons time. Is that why you came here, Petal? M-maybe I can help. If we both serve them t-then it counts double right?" That was Chen's understanding of how debts worked, at any rate, and it wasn't like she hadn't played this way in the past, with some of the handmaidens, and that one time with Yin. 

A deeper blush started rising through all of Chen's neck and cheeks, but she was determined and also she might have had dreams like this for years that she never ever (ever ever) thought would see the light of day but here she was. "I-if we both dress as m-maids together we could...um, show the demons what's it like to be treated pro-properly and um...then they'll stop threatening Ys right? And we could go help Yue. Don't you think that's a...um...a good idea, Petal?"

[Chen is marking XP for Rose opening up. This gets her a last second advance, which she will use for heart +3]