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[ Ladybird dips her chin, making her eyes large and beguiling, though there's an obvious ploy to it, like she means the pantomime to show clearly through. There was no hiding her true nature from Josias, she had been far too eager to show it to him when he first arrived, and his face had proven far too handsome, his shoulders much too broad, for her to allow him to fall into ruin so quickly. No, as long as his comeliness and cattiness remained, the St. John boy would be immune to the worst of her ladybug charms. Still, she bats her eyelashes at him. ]

I'm pretty and have just as much sparkle, Josias, [ she tells him, petulantly. Ladybird lifts a finger and taps it against the round of his chin. ] Don't you dare tell me I'm fleeting too.

[ A joke, really, given how flighty she could be. But no worse than him.