"You haven't lied to me but that doesn't mean you're not telling the whole truth," Thomas pointed out, bracing a hand down against his bed to keep some of his weight off Krem.

"This has to be hurting you," he murmured, pressing a light kiss to Krem's nose and shaking his head. "I can give you disapproving looks right now if you're doing this and you're in pain and I'm causing more of it. I've been told I make great faces."