He hand spreads over her bare skin, thumb trailing along the cord of muscle that dilineated the edge of her rib cage, and he stepped in closer, shaking the armoured bracers off his other arm, eyes completely on her face.

"I'm about as far from mindin' as is humanly possible," he admitted, his voice a low, quiet rumble at the back of his throat, before he pressed in close and stole a deep, determined kiss.