The reaction Théadan had to her accusing him of planning out how he would get her into bed caused her to laugh out loud not only at his words, but the scoff on his face. Teasing and flirting with him always felt so good and it was the perfect distraction from any unkind faces they came across as their horses carried them through what had become a hostile city for them. Happy to continue the little verbal spar they were leading into, Navia nodded sagely as Théadan described what could happen in the evening with them being so quick to fall into their passions for each other. He was right after all; with her, he would never have to plan anything. If he wanted her, if he reached for her, she would never be able to deny him, for she would want him just as much if she wasn’t the one doing the reaching instead.<br/><br/>Seeing Théadan pretend to be Wyndagar annoyed at them for being all over each other was also funny enough to have her brightly laughing from Varinata’s back, his antics pushing the reason they were even leaving Puri so early completely from her mind. He could be so silly and she knew he was not like that with many people; in fact, she’d only ever seen him behave that way with her and Ingrid. It was cute and once her laughter had died and he was sitting back up again, she was eying him fondly, wishing they were not walking through a city that did not like their union so she could lean between the horses to kiss him. But then Théadan pinned that they’d end up expressing their passions for each other solely on her, that she would find him irresistible and not the other way around, and Navia had to scoff at him.<br/><br/>Of course, he was not completely wrong. She did find him irresistible and could sometimes not control that primitive need to have him or be had by him, but he was just as guilty of such feelings and he was pinning them all on her. Théadan even had the audacity to say all women behaved in such a way and she stared at him with her lips forming a neat little O that he would be so smug. Quickly her eyes scanned the area around them, as if searching for someone to back her up when she took on such challenging words, but the buildings were thinning and they were growing closer to the protective wall surrounding the city. It was not a conversation she wanted to be having in front of other people and there were a pair of guards at the gate, watching to see who was coming and going, so Navia narrowed her eyes at Théadan, then dramatically turned up her nose at him and gave Vari a gentle kick to coax her into a trot toward the gate.<br/><br/>They met no opposition to leaving the city, and only one of the two guards eyed them with distaste apparent in his dark eyes. Once they were through, the dirt road cut through a large field that was eventually swallowed up by more jungle in the distance. Navia paid it no mind, nor did she acknowledge the line of people heading into the city, likely to take advantage of morning shopping or shoppers if they were vendors. Instead she looked back to Théadan, a prim expression on her pretty features. “<i>Me </i>find<i>you </i>irresistible?” She asked with a sliver of incredulity in her voice, “And all because a town said I couldn’t have you, so now I’ll want you because I was told I couldn’t? Because<i>aaaall </i>women are like that.” She rolled her eyes to continue the dramatics, then shrugged, “Or maybe, because you already said you’re so confident that we’ll end up having sex that I won’t want you at all. What woman would want to be that predictable? We’re supposed to be mysteries to you men.”<br/><br/>She shook her head, reaching out to give Vari’s silvery mane a pat with a nearly mournful expression, “And how I was beginning to look forward to it. We could be all slow and soft and sweet, like we haven’t been lately and how you owe it to me but don’t seem to want to make good on your word.” She shot him a briefly sly expression for expertly twisting their past in her favor for the game before uttering one of the more ridiculous statements she had come up with in recent times, purely to see what he'd do, “But noooo! I think it best if we sleep with the horses between us tonight.”