Oh stop being a stiff antisocial brat bird, you know you like it. She doesn't even flinch when he spits vitriol at her. This was all par for the course. She inhaled to react to his boasting when Joji seemed to appear out of thin air, and she jolted instead, scooting closer to Ankh but not relenting on her hold on his shoulders.

She blinked, and shook her head. He wasn't touchy, and he still wasn't, really. He was probably just tolerating her because he hadn't shoved her away yet.