He stops the motion of his hands for a moment to hold her body more closely to his own, quieted in feeling her soft warmth pressed into him, even squeezing her slightly in gesture of support and reassurance, and in offering to her a heightened sharing of the contact between them.<br/><br/>His hands begin to move again after a while, caresses circling over her back, kneading up to her shoulders, fingers spreading to rub over the curves of her body, tracing them in slowed passes back and forth.<br/><br/>"It would be unfortunate for us all if you did. You have a keen intellect, and our current plans are as much yours as anyone else's. It will just take you some time perhaps to see others as not being worth the effort of your spite. Everyone is irksome in their own way to someone else. Even me. Especially me. It is just the way of the world. You find the better things in them to focus on, or the worse things in them to truly hate, or you realize that if all they can give you are the smaller annoyances and rages, they are not worth regarding beyond what they can be used for to further your own purposes. And if not even that, are not worth regarding at all. Thought is a very precious thing says the sort of man who used to be lifeless silver. It is better to spend the currency of it on anything truly of note. Once you can, there is much in the world that rewards you for being able to look to it fully, with eyes unclouded by distraction."<br/><br/>Another soft squeeze of her body. He hrmphs faintly as the snakes flail away, then taken for a moment by bemused impulse, leaning his head to full on kiss the most aggressive of them, just to see how they react, holding back a quiet laugh.