He grinned and winked at her, standing his ground and neither going for her, nor falling back from her piercing gaze. Indeed he did a good job of keeping the same level features throughout; a sort of half grin that was infuriatingly confident, for all it's lopsidedness.<br/><br/>"Simple logic, lass. If you thought with your head and not your heart you'd figure it'... I wanna bone you, right, and if the King reckons you pulled a quick one on me I'd hardly get in trouble for it. See, he trusts me a damnside more than he trusts you, so who d'ya think will really get in trouble for it?" He grinned a little broader, the first change of his stoney face for a while. "Not that he'd do much to a, uh, honored guest... But you get your privacy, I get my pussy, everyone wins."<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>