Xiu may have flinched a bit when Zuma landed in his lap but she recovered quickly. "All of his girlfriends tell me he is very handsome now, but I suppose I am not the best one to ask." she could be pressed into admitting that her brother did have many features that many girls found pleasing, after all he always seemed flush with girls that wanted to be with him. But she was beginning to get the sense that, from the way she was hanging on him and snuggling up to him that Zuma did not like the idea of Kozu and herself alone. As if he belonged to her and she was not about to let Xiu near him. In that moment part of her wished that the girl would have at least caught them kissing, it would have certainly shut her up.
She looked back to Kozu when he brought up the dreaded 'M' word. "I am sure she will not be," she said almost defensively. "I doubt her father would do that to her, after all, he has not yet had you or Azah married off and you are certainly marrying age now." He would have to think of that, to remind her that this thing between them would probably not be something that lasted. "But I would not worry her with that, these things have a way of working themselves out for the better, no matter how fathers may plan against it." she said pointedly, hoping that he would catch her meaning.