Suddenly he wasn't in the mood to be teased. She wanted him to chase her, but what was the point? All that time he'd spent coaxing her into staying with him, and now she was going, back to the castle full of horny teenagers. He had almost started to believe she was a toy he could keep forever.
"Suitable mate," he snorted as she turned away from him. "As though you were a fox, or a badger." He sat down despondently in one of the old armchairs that littered the shop. "Go then," he said sulkily. "I'm sure your friends must miss you."