Lifting an eyebrow, the smile at the corner of his mouth took on a wry twist.
It was not that he was unaccustomed to praise -- if nothing else his time spent on this plane had made it abundantly clear where he stood in that respect -- but there was something so very earnest about how she said it. Pure. It was... different.
"Well, I couldn't leave without my bodyguard. Who knows what mischief might befall me if left to my own devices." Much of it likely as a direct result of that. Boredom wasn't kind, but especially to one that was accustomed to a life of near frenzied activity.