Her face flickered at the first little slap, but after the second thudding contact and his laughing words, she jerked her head aside and hissed through gritted teeth, "You assumed I did not already."<br/><br/>As her lips moved, it showed her teeth to now be coated with the pinkening smears of her own blood, and where once her incisors had been were now darkened gaps, the tortured flesh of her gums throbbing almost visibly.