He was lower ranked than she was, a member of a larger squad that would be led by a more senior warrior, perhaps the Major that she had met earlier. H... had the musk of a male who was just coming out of adolescence, not yet mature enough to control his pheromones, his roiling hormones imbuing him with the brashness that would let him approach a superior in this way.His shadow loomed over her, and she looked up to see him peering down at her from beneath his helmet, his unshaven fur protruding. And I wentback to Hennell's office because of the fight. And he called Mom and shebrought me home." Mom drove you home in that outfit?" she asks."Yeah," I mumble."You have to let me see you in it!" she cries out.NEVER!"No way!" I say. "Besides, I just took it off." You wore it around the house after school?" she gasped. "You do like it!Admit it!" she chimed."No!" I say firmly. Or at least what I consider firmly.She smiles and holds the skirt up to me again."Come on!" she presses. "Just for me?". ” Venom dripped form his words. Something must have pissed him off, and it had to be related to Avery. Weird, considering Avery should be helping the man. But Art and Matt said he wasn’t interested; still, she was hoping that was exaggeration. Apparently not.Art raised a hand in a small wave. “Ni-zu tag,” he said. Tash raised a brow. Whatever he said, it was enough to make Eric snort, and set his gaze back to the crowd underneath them. “Knew you’d be an asshole.”Natasha facepalmed. Ok, if Avery. Now you, gentle reader, may wonder as I did, as to just what a copper lolly was and after more than a little research, I discovered the answer. A copper lolly is nothing more than a regular lolly but instead of a paper stick, they are poured over copper swizzle sticks. Of course, the young prince would put the stick aside when he was finished for the staff to retrieve to be used again, but Snaggy had no such compunction and swallowed lolly and stick together. As we all know, the young prince is.