Ashton lurched forward and slapped a hand over her mouth, genuine panic flashing across his face. "Are you insane? Why are you announcing that out loud?" he hissed, ears going pink at the tips. "It was only three or four times, not *every* time! And there were extenuating circumstances!"
Heena peeled his hand off her face like it was something particularly dirty she'd found stuck to her shoe, holding it away from her with two fingers before dropping it.
"Three or four is enough," she said dryly, wiping her mouth with her sleeve in an exaggerated gesture of disgust. "You're still the only host in Bureau history who managed that particular achievement. They literally had to create a new category in the database just for you. I believe the official designation is 'Statistically Improbable Patterns of Host Mortality: Subset Venereal.'"
