The stutter might be funnier if the whuff of air didn't send a little shiver of heat down her neck and through her scalp. A ticklish, tingling sensation that seeps all the way down into her belly.

The way he holds her doesn't hurt. It's not common for Vex to feel like she's being treated as though she's... valuable, she supposes. It's not a thought she cares to examine too closely, and she looks at her own reaction to it even less, but there's no denying the way it turns something inside of her soft and makes her bold.

She squirms a little closer to him, if that's even possible. As though if she wiggles gently and just right she can find a way to nest fully flush in the hollow of his chest.

"Are you always so honorable?"