"He did, did he?" Kirke remarks, pleased. "Only took you HOW many years to say something nice about me to a stranger?" she teases her brother.

"You are a menace," he grumbles back at her, but there's no heat to it.

When they reach the place she transformed before, Kreyu leaps off of Skellig's shoulders. "Would you make sure they don't see, love?" she asks, voice soft enough that only he will hear.