Redsand Canyon Girl with the bat.

Says you, Towhee retorted without heat, giving a little gasp of dismay when Batman found his way to the doorway and made a quick escape. He left behind his pile of guano and a few droplets of blood where Kallik had evidently nicked him.

Her eyes dropped to catch the latter half of the Scutarius’s first question: “—in here anyway?” Towhee smirked at his followup comment. Was that a joke? Had Kallik just quipped? More likely, he meant it seriously, but her orange gaze danced delightedly all the same.

I’d say you could return the favor, she rejoined, when I hitch my wagon to Maxim’s. But our arrangement is strictly about the family business, none of that lovey dovey stuff for us except when we’re trying to conceive. But I mean, it’s free game then. Fair is fair. Towhee eyed Kallik’s face, wondering how he’d take this information, spoken in her typically frank manner.