His lips closed sharply under that tapping finger.

"It has," he muffledly admitted out of one side of his mouth, as though her finger had sealed the middle together. "But it's also gotten me out of trouble a lot more times, so I suppose it all evens to positive in the end. Hey, maybe that was why Victoria exiled us! Because I did lick the wall at one point."

He was having trouble not laughing.