All the more reason for me to keep coming over to bug you and steal you off for runs while we go around mooning all the cameras.

[Slowly, quietly, she began a quiet rumbling in her chest; a muted purring in her attempt to comfort him.]

We'll just have to hope the place doesn't run out of beer for you.

[That had a few other questions popping up in her head, but she set them aside for now, intent on trying to make Balthazar feel better, and perhaps herself at hearing that he had a somewhat doomed existence.]