Down in the mud beds...
Something Gross opens his eyes for a moment, though remaining in his restful repose. He finds Nel's chests undulating with her sleeping breaths above his own, a sweet smile on her face. Content, he resumes his own dormant state.
By this time, the ooze has poured through every pore of the Irishwoman's being, a fine layer of silt replacing her original skin, making her movements whenever she decides to wake slightly sluggish while she acclamates herself to becoming a swamp being. Ffor now, all is calm and serene in the sleepy scene within the muckened morass.