"I think you can recall well exactly how stubborn I can be." Enough to demand a woman to live, to insist that this was the wiser course. It'd been an intense moment for so many reasons and this is...no less. For very different reasons that she does not entirely mind. Carefully she settles back in her chair, the distance giving her room to breathe and perhaps find her head again.

Fight down this constant warmth in her cheeks.

She is a Councilor, honestly. "Strawberries, I think goes without saying. Honey and...apples."

She has always been terribly fond of apple brandy.