It works - she trusts the man before her, to be as he is, she has no gift to otherwise. Easy to tell, because her expression at once becomes horrified and shocked as she catches what he is indicating too. What he's asking for. Feels a heat in her face all at once for it - but she had given her word. There wasn't much else to it.

And with that realisation, her face starts to warm up. It's not like she was new to this, she had been married, she had had children, she had ruled and seen to all manner of delegations where exchanges were made. Young, naive, but married. She has no business squirming that a stranger does not understand what he's asking for.

"Are you - ?" This wasn't the time, Lakshmi. "Yes. It is yours." It wouldn't mean anything, anyway, so no one had to know what had passed between them.