Ruby couldn't help but laugh at that. He was a jerk basically. "So, you dragged all this out so you could get a show in Why Ruby is Awesome? Has it really been that long or did you want to see if I'd still got it after marriage and a kid? Well, least you made with the good scotch I guess. Did I deliver?" she asked with a bow as she pulled back from the hug and settled into one of the comfier chairs. If it was his favourite, tough. He could make a thing out of it. She'd earned this.
"No one down in the pit is as entertaining either hm?" she joked, much as she knew it was possible this was temporary and some day her daughter would enter his sights as a prize to be won it wasn't yet. And when he started to turn she'd be ready. He knew her better than most of course but equally, she knew him. "And my theatrics have a point. But then you know that, and why I needed to say it. Its not that I don't trust...well it is, demon and all. I just don't want to have to wind up on the other side to you. And we don't have to be, you know that much as I do. I do know what you want when this is done and I'd rather you down there than any single one of the others. But the second you decide Emily is 'useful' to you. It's game over."
She sipped again at her scotch, relishing just how good he was at picking the perfect year for this sort of thing.
"Now that that's out of the way though, we don't need to go over it again. So tell me, how messy is it getting down there. Have you been around the Pit lately or did he figure you out?"