Uh... Ow?

Triss frowned disapprovingly at him as he laughed, and clearly upset his injured throat. "Of course I believe yo--" her face twisted and she coughed. She leaned her head to the side, burying it in his shoulder for a moment as she breathed slowly. Working through the sudden flare of pain in her throat. She hadn't spoken this much since her throat had started to heal, but it was hard not to talk with Crux. She missed him. She missed him so much! The feeling in her throat subsided and she pulled her head back again. She needed to take it easy. Short answers.

She put her paw to his chest, and then to her own. "Believe in you." She said, voice determined to get her point across. She offered him a small smile, one that grew as he rested his head on her paw. She was almost bigger than him this way. She kind of liked that.

She opened her mouth to say - she wasn't sure what - when the rest of his sentence rendered her speechless. She was suddenly much, much more aware of the heat of his chin on her paw. Head flooded her cheeks, and rose in her throat. She could feel a scratch starting there, and breathed shallow breaths. She couldn't speak for a moment, rendered mute by both him and her curse. In, out. In, out. "You think I'm--" her face twisted again, and she started to cough.