Oooh, and beach houses meant beach runs! Always a big fan of making jogging even more obnoxious with the addition of shifting sand underneath your feet!

Gladio, however, did catch the little pause there, that little odd beat; he sort of wondered how anyone could have missed it, really, but he was always pretty keen on noticing things like that, it'd been part of his job, trained into him since he started pursuing his duty in earnest. He wasn't going to say anything, though, he wasn't even going to lift an eyebrow, he was just going to tuck it away perhaps for use at another time, if it was even really anything to come up again.

Instead, he grinned, snorting a little. "What if," he ventured, "I said no?"

They were for everyone, Lils, they were for sharing, so if you were gonna go and ask silly questions like that...