Oh, blushing. Really Klaus, if you wanted Rue to leave you alone, that was not the way to go about it. Blushes were like a challenge. Like waving a red cape at a bull. Rue's grin wasn't visible but the entirety of his bearing--particularly the way that those fingers didn't stop trailing over Klaus's arm and up onto his shoulder--suggested that he was having a lot of fun with this.

"It was all Valdis, I assure you," Rue replied lightly. "We should be handing her a medal for all the work she did putting this together. I just stood around and looked pretty."