"No need at all, hm?" Raine shifted when Solomon did, pausing only briefly to ascertain exactly what he was doing, obligingly changed her focus to those muscles he'd made easier to get at. Her hands were somewhat surer now, more assured in what she was doing.

She couldn't see his face, but that too-even blandness suggested to her that he might not be wholly accurate. "That seems somewhat improbable. Had you planned to give up entirely on your hair for the moment, then?" Her own tone was light, half-sure that he'd returned to some variant of teasing again. If that was the case, he couldn't be too badly off.