Charades are boring anyway. Try mime. Everybody loves a mime.
[He flinches at her elbow, making a show of it as soon as he realises as if it had been an act from the start. Recently siblings in the vicinity of his ribs have been a bad sign, but he's fairly sure she's not about to stab him, so he puts an arm around her shoulders instead. It's not exactly Hallmark sappy, but it's as close as he's likely to get to it.]
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[He flinches at her elbow, making a show of it as soon as he realises as if it had been an act from the start. Recently siblings in the vicinity of his ribs have been a bad sign, but he's fairly sure she's not about to stab him, so he puts an arm around her shoulders instead. It's not exactly Hallmark sappy, but it's as close as he's likely to get to it.]