[ That's even cuter, how is it possible? Amazing. But eventually sanity reasserts itself and her laughter finally dies out again. She spends the last of it pressing a firm kiss to his cheek, and when she pulls out again to regard him with a fond smile, it's finally past. ]

Okay, sorry. Listen, though, I got some serious leverage for you — you can use it if I'm ever being too big a dick.

[ And it pains her to offer that, it really does. Her smile fades into a grimace. Out with it in a rush, like pulling off a bandaid: ]

Ana Ramir's a new thing, I made it up a few years ago. Before that, I was Elisabetta.