Earrings don’t poison you however, so scorpions are disqualified.

[ Said with the utmost exasperation as he twines their fingers together and falls into step beside Claude again. They still had work to do here, after all, as much as both of them dreaded the grimness of this news to deliver. ]

Besides. What if I wanna pierce more than just my ears, hmm? What then? [ He tosses that possibility out there with a sassy little smirk and a playful wink shot in Claude's direction. ]