It was somewhat surprising to him that throughout his mini speech about her, not once did she interrupt him.  Shortly after he concluded, however, Orion caught her eye roll followed by a smile.  Her eye roll was not bothersome or offensive at all.  In fact, he found it to be amusing.  "You like my spunk, huh?" Cassiopeia asked.  Before he could answer in the affirmative, she leaned in and kissed him.  Naturally, he returned her kiss as it would be quite rude not to.<br/><br/>In the midst of enjoying the intimacy, the Prince thought that, yes, she just proved his point about liking her spunk.  After all, he felt it was indeed spunky of her to initiate the kiss.  And he didn’t mind it one bit.<br/><br/>Of course, the matter of finding their way out of their current predicament still remained.  But it was nice to be presented with a most pleasing distraction.