With those ribs? You'd better not. Or I will be angry, and I will sedate you for the few weeks it'll take for them to recover. [She narrows her eyes a moment before he gives in, relaxing. She didn't want to have to dope him up for that long, on the one hand it was probably unethical, on the other it'd wreck the fragile...thing. They had. Not quite friends but taking steps in that direction.]

I am. [A flash of a grin before she's walking over to the refreshment table and fetching two cups of hot cider, returning to settle next to Lupin and offering him his cup.]