Her face lights up, because what woman doesn't want to hear she's pretty from the lips of the man she... well, she definitely cares about him more than anything she can think of. It's a bit scary to think of applying the L word to this, though. The two of them do so much better taking baby steps.

"Noooo, we shall hold on to him tightly." She runs her hand over Ponce's head and scratches his ear, while he gives a disgruntled look to Church for blowing on him like that. Cease your wind, human!

"And I will hold on to you tightly too," she adds, slipping an arm around Church's back. Call it paranoia, but the idea of him studying the rifts has her worried he'll accidentally open a way for him to go back too. Not that he would wish to go, right? They both know how that would end for him, but what if he gets pulled back through against his will?