"He does that a lot," she said absently. She looked back at the cake again, frowning slightly, as if she were waiting for it to tell her something.

Then she folded her arms and dropped her chin onto them with an aggravated sigh. "I don't get it," she said; it was a pretty general statement from her end, encompassing the cake, his departure, what the heck he thought he was trying to pull, and pretty much any other Tieria-related business you could come up with.