"How could that be!?" Grace spoke uncharacteristically loudly, yet still held her ground. "You can contact me at any time! I will always be on the other end to answer! That is the least I can do after you saved… my life…" She sniffled a little as her ears drooped.
She recalled the terrible condition he was in after pushing her out of the way of that large truck. The memory made her feel terrible.
*Pat, Pat.*
Grace: "???"
Cassius's pats came down softer and more caring as his already kind smile became even kinder. "Adorable you are; a burden you are not," he said in a voice mimicking a certain green-colored wizened master. "Silly you are being; Not silly you should be."
Grace's beautiful face cracked into a wide smile, then outright laughter as she found what he said to be both sweet and unbelievably funny given the serious atmosphere. "...Hah… Yo-You… I-I think I might really like you…! I might like you a lot, a lot!"
