Then doesn't it make it even worse that you bullied me like that? [ Huff, huff. ] Pick on someone your own size, meanie.

[ Even without Fae Eyes to see through her, it couldn't be any more clear she's just playing. Her expression's all sorts of soft and fond and that's before taking into account all the, uh, very encouraging noises she'd been making just moments before.

So, yes. He's absolutely a brute. But it doesn't seem as though she minds.

Before he can respond, she tips her face up and kisses him again, just as she'd done before - a press of lips to the corner of his mouth, the crest of his cheek, his jaw. And then her arms wind around his neck and she hugs him. Tight. ]

Don't disappear. Help me get my wish. Stay with me, right up until the end.

[ Soft as her voice is, it's an unmistakable command rather than the desperate plea she'd spilled out when she'd first spoken those words. ]

Since I'm your Master... if I give you a command like that then you have to make sure it happens.