Her laughter continued. "Oh, I'm the wretch, am I? What happened to 'We have crabs, Madame Lusine'?" She grinned, the tease light. It was funnier in hindsight. "Cooking a meal is the very least you can do, I think," she said slyly. "Chasing off my Nevarran dragon hunter and then dragging me into the Rose. Really, Knight-Captain, people will talk."

She smiled, pulling out some more of the meat onto her plate. "I think it'd be just enough to keep people talking and no one would be the wiser for a time. Just long enough for something else to happen."