"Am I?" Lyra asked in surprise, sitting back so she could see his whole face, and finding a smile spread across her face till she was grinning down at him. Actually, she quite liked that; my girlfriend. It was a similar kind of happiness as hit her when Patrick had called her his daughter, when Aderyn and Iestyn has called her their cousin.
"Wait," she said suddenly, slight worried frown on her brow. "You ain't just being sarcastic cuz that's what your mom thinks I am, right?" She wasn't used to him being sincere... Maybe she just didn't know what it looked like on him?