[ She abruptly turns her head back to stare at him with a blank intensity that could mean she's contemplating throwing him into the nearest wall. Certainly, there's an aura of disdain and barely-controlled rage about her even now, but she doesn't speak or even indicate she's heard him beyond that first snap of her head for a number of long seconds. It's a silence that ought to make a normal human nervous -- fearful, even.

She doesn't expect such a reaction from him. ]

I care nothing for their rewards nor their punishments, in this state or any other. But if you wish to resume our alliance, that would be... acceptable.

[ There's something about her that almost seems stung by the entirety of it. Being so limited yet again. Having deigned to show -- to feel an emotion for this fragile creature who refused to even stay dead. It's a horrible indignity that she ought to put an end to here and now.

But she won't. To do so would be it's own kind of lie, and she's made a vow to herself never to do that for him again. ]