There's hardly time to experiment with that wonderful tie between the minute changes in the angle of his gripping fingers and the strength of the bites over his neck; Francis' answer is very clear, and in the moments after he gives it Raju devotes his attention to meeting Francis' eyes and everything he sees there. "You do," he says earnestly, and decides: "If we run home. Can you be ready again, by then?"

Because he's going to finish them here first, of course. Then, after that, there's no reason they shouldn't be able to try something else.