Too cute for my toes

Not a single aspect of her answer silenced his concerns. Not the look, not the laugh and certainly not the first answer. None of that made his concern worse, either. The second part? The reciting? That made it worse. Aku's fur stood on end as he listened. If that wasn't a curse or a spell of some kind he didn't know what was. Now he had his answer. She professed to be like him, but who would say something like that in response to someone's concern? No, he was being toyed with and this situation was exactly as dangerous as he had first thought.

He straightened slowly, his alarm growing, until he was at his full height and Lorikeet was no longer touching him. Though he may have been rattled, Aku's voice was even and calm. That was typical for him, but here it was deliberate. He didn't wish to anger her again so he was using a measured tone to keep things calm and to help him get his point across. "You say that is all you want, but you say it in the same breath as a threat." There was a storm outside but he was just about willing to face it. "How do I know you will be satisfied with something so simple?" What guarantee did he have that she wouldn't grow bored of him and wrestle him into the fire?