"You could be worse," she pointed out. "You could be the sort of person that can't be comforted at all." Anyway, Starbuck didn't quite see the problem there in any capacity. Some people just didn't want for the same kind of care.

"I figure since the manly folk around here seem pretty incapable most of the time, it's probably better if we start giving 'em hell when they deserve it. That way we won't have any problems later on." She was teasing. Mostly. Also enjoying that brush against her hand, and she closed her eyes then.