If it were lust I would deliver him to you naked and covered in oil. Alas, sentiment offers its own complications all around as you well know.

[ For someone that is so casually threatening Sabine- he does not sound terribly...enthused about said threat. It truly is a token gesture. ]

So long they are bruises he asks for or enjoys? Bruises you might have yourself as you are both terribly ginger and he is not the sweet innocent precious snowflake so many assume him to be? You've nothing to fear. But you may not make him cry.

Only I am allowed to make him cry.