"Just a few then," it seemed a good idea to run her fingers through his hair then, as if she were looking for them. "Well, you're safe for the moment. I cannot see anything showing obviously." How odd. Here she was so unstressed except for moment's like this one... and a few other things she didn't feel like bringing up.

Elizabeth lent back a little then. "I still think the water is going to give us all plague. I'd much rather drink wine. It kills bugs. Everyone knows that." She gives him a short grin.

"No... not at all. Queen Elizabeth is vain, sharp and able to say words eloquently enough that, with only a little bit of kidnapping, she is able to get laws pass. Elizabeth just likes dancing and horse riding." There was a difference between the two, hard as it was to keep them apart. There was only one place that it blurred into one, but that too private, for any one.