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Although it displeased Kalika to have Whip break the stream of eye contact which she had been sure to secure, she knew better than to argue with him on it after making such an effort to repair the damage she had already done. Instead, she cooed at him as a mother might her son, making a soft set of tsk sounds and making sure to trail the movement of his head with her own. He asked a fair question, though his childish manner made it sound ludicrous on her ears.

But then with all things considered, Whip hadn't been that bad.

Do you want to? She'd truly had innocent intentions in bringing him here (relatively innocent, considering nothing about Kalika was pure), but he was a maturing young man. Perhaps he had a different agenda, and not one that she was particularly against either.