"I know." She murmured softly, her eyes closing for a few moments. And she'd never call him harmless to his face, just in her head. Where he couldn't hear her, most of the time unless he really tried.
And if he didn't like the fact that she had them, he'd do something about it. "Yes, she's alive and safe." She shivered a little bit as his hands smoothed up and down her back. She wasn't one who took her own welfare into account, thus her ribs and the like. "I know, Aubrey, I know. But there that doesn't change that I want to.." She settled back against him once he had finished with whatever it was that he was doing, her eyes opening again as she stared at a point across the room on the wall. "Mm, I don't think you would be either. In fact, I don't think you'd have brought me here if you didn't like me. Thank you.."