"It's not a large boat - I mean it is, but we don't have a big area to move around on." He brushes his fingers through Shang Beida's hair carefully, slowly untangling any knots if he reaches them.

... And he sighs again. "You know that's not okay, right? That's not like, normal? Even if you wrote it into your book - which like... probably indicates that you have some issues, I'm sorry schatzi, but you probably do - you should not be being threatened by people and especially not that often. And it's not rude to be uncomfortable, it's a normal reaction to power and especially to someone who's blatantly crazy enough to want to blow up - what, an entire empire, you said?"