//Here, I'll take some of that,// Jono offered, holding out the hand that he'd been hugging Rinoa with in an offer to do just that.

He wasn't going to try to wriggle away otherwise, because he enjoyed a certain level of 'not being broken,' and Rinoa was not unlike a human vice at the moment.

//You'll have to catch me up, too. I've missed out on what you've been up to every bit as much as you've been out of the loop here, after all.//