The barest of pauses, as Raine blinked at him and processed that. "I didn't want to simply assume," she said, to cover the fact that somehow she actually had missed that she didn't need to ask that. Somewhere in their association, Bakura had come to consider her a friend as well, not only someone useful to indulge. In retrospect, she ought to have noticed when he was asking after her familial troubles; it wasn't as if that really benefited him in any practical sense. "... I'll look forward to it."

How long had she been missing something now staggeringly obvious? Hm. Perhaps some of their more curious interactions bore re-examining.