"Mm-hmm," he agreed about cats. Although he had heard of cats doing tricks, surely they only did them when they wanted to. Cats were fickle like that. But his attempts at being seductive were totally ruined when she tickled him and he shrieked in a very girlish way and shot back. "Oh, mostly," Mirza noted with dark eyes and a sullen tone, "But I know better than to bother a girl with a knife in her hands."