"Didn't start that way." Honest and deprecating, even if she can't say exactly how it happened. Who, and why, and when, and where. The exact circumstances that would prepare him for too much. It's not going to be a fun line to ride with him. But they've had to handle worse together, haven't they?

"Still, it's got its perks." Is easier, her mouth twisting to an all too easy smirk as her head tilts. "Tiny army at my beck and call, a better closet than a thousand catalogs, and the ability to mind wipe really annoying people."

It's not that, and they both know it, but maybe it's easier as a joke of itself.