Savoring!? No, there's a whole pot of this stuff, savor the next one! That's what Lyra would have said, if she hadn't just swallowed down a jagged piece of star anise and mulled wine hadn't tried to burn its way up her nose as she choked to try and deal with it.
She tried to laugh, and swear and choke all at once, and managed not a single one of them. Gripping onto the oven door for a moment, she wheezed with the back of her hand pressed to her mouth, then decided to have a little sit down on the kitchen floor to try to cope.
Jeez, she was lucky he was a dad and not a boyfriend who'd just said he loved her, cuz wasn't this a surefire way to put em off? Her nose burned!