I'm not scolding you. [She said quietly, to keep it between the two of them.] I'm trying to reassure you. If something happened to me, I like to think you would be one of the first people to know - if not the first. [Voile had a hard time imaging anyone else being informed before Knuckles. After all, he'd known her the longest.]

[Her attention turned onto the model he was showing her. With furrowed eyebrows, she leaned over to get a better look.] I think the smaller they are, the cuter they get. My hands are small, after all. It wouldn't do very good for me to have something too large and gaudy. [She wiggled her fingers indicatively.] Do you think it suits me? I want to see if they have it in green - like my hair.