"More likely, I'm like the splinter in his finger that just won't go away and keeps annoying him until he pulls out of me, pulls me out," she corrected automatically, the followed with a little mutter about hating her brain. "But yeah, he cracked a joke the other day."

When they were back on Lian Yu and she was just about the expel another dose of verbal mess all over him while he just stood there and smiled and waited for her to shut up.