"Well, that too. I mean, what kind of person would I be if I didn't help out a bloke in need?" she continued as she started out of her office with him.
A grin teased across her lips as she started for the stairs to the shortest route out of the castle. "And Ashley's been up to her usual evil ways. Teasing about this and that. It's bordered on harassment, really," Ari continued, though the grin said otherwise. "She's even gotten Ben in on it. Both of them had me trapped in the infirmary, taunting me the other day." She exaggerated a sigh. "Honestly, if I didn't love them so gosh darned much, I'd cut them right out of my life, mean as they are to me."