Them snapping at each other like dogs makes her laugh again, and this time when she goes in for his chin it's with a kiss instead, shifting herself so that she can brace her weight on her elbows on either side of his ears, her arms crossing on the pillows above his head.

"I am terribly glad I ran into you when I did," she tells him from a bare inch away from his lips, her tangled mass of braids falling down around them in a messy curtain.