What, a girl can't stare at her boyfriend now and then? You may look beat up, Quill, but you must be seriously gifted to still look pretty good after all that.

[ Her tone is lighthearted and humorous, with its own tint of sarcasm as well. Jokes aside, though, she reaches for his cheek, touching it gently. He may be bruised and beaten and cut in places, but he's still the sweetest, most handsome man in all the galaxy, to her.

And even though it's nowhere near as bad as Peter's, Kasumi's looks like it's seen better days, too. The bags under her eyes telling of just how many sleepless nights she's had, and a small but noticeable cut on her cheek serving as a shameful mark from a close fight with a Phantom, one in which Kasumi actually struggled, if only because her body wasn't obeying her in the way it normally does. It was tired, fatigued, and weighed down by the cloudiness in her mind.

After that mishap, Feron never let her go on any more with him without taking a stimulation pack, first. ]