[ A much as people keep saying the bonding ceremony can be platonic, it does feel... well. Feels like it isn't, but maybe that's just Crowley.

Maybe he simply can't imagine this sort of thing being that way because he isn't used to it.

Maybe because he doesn't want it to be.

He offers Aziraphale his arm, and tries very hard not to think too much about what they're doing. Going to ask about a bonding ritual.

To bond. The both of them.

To be bonded. ]

Let's go find out, shall we? I know I read that they're doing them. Maybe there's a tent or something. Always tents in festivals, aren't there?

[ He actually read about the weddings and handfastings being performed, and he's simply assuming there's probably less fussy bonding ceremonies too.

Maybe.

Probably. ]