[She can't help but laugh a little herself, more in disbelief than any real amusement. Theo would never. If a pair of twins with police batons had tried to kick her in, she probably just wouldn't go at all. Or try to walk in before they could hit her, one of the two.]

Theo could tell me the exact temperature of anything around us. He was really proud of that.

[She misses him, plain and simple. She knows she'll never see him again -- her contract with him is over, he'd intimated as much during their last meeting together in her room, but... she can still miss him. A little huff of a sigh escapes through her nose as her fingertips lightly tighten against his knee.]

Was it hard...? Being a leader?