"Love, honour, and torturing frightened lower forms in the hallways..." She tipped her glass up in a salute, as if that were a toast, and then smiled at him to show the teasing wasn't meant to be serious before she stared at the board for a few moments and made her move. She tried to take, again, the least obvious move. She wondered if that wouldn't at least draw the game out a bit more this time - she liked the time to talk to him.
"So, did you - " she stopped suddenly when something crashed, though it didn't sound as if it had come from his office. It took only a moment to register that she did not see a white ball of fur anywhere in the immediate area.