"Now y'know if there's one thing I can't stand, it's a challenge," she murmured, pressing her temple against their cold metal enclosure. At least it wasn't a sweat box, or she'd really be whining.

"We have," she agreed too readily, because it was true. Once she realized where exactly he was headed with that, her shoulders shook with silent laughter. "Was it that bad? Jesus,"

"I'll admit th'honeymoon was... Unconventional," she grinned, "But soul-sucking Kuei-jin aside, I thought th'marriage was a good one."

She fell quiet then, having come too close to something honest when she's deliberately and staunchly avoided the question of why it was so easy for her to pretend he was her husband. "Just be grateful it was only 48 hours. I'm an actual nightmare t'stay married to."