She jumps in surprise. After all - they had, kissed very selectively, of late. Little moments when they found themselves standing close. Standing with hands held together, faces tilting near, little furtive glances to make sure no one was watching and the startling apart like rabbits the moment there was. It hadn't been much more than that. Or the time before they had even begun kissing, when Lakshmi tried her best to be singularly bold in how she approached Magni before one night before bed in only her nightgown.

None of it had been biting, and she makes a terribly nervous noise ( not a squeak ), and stills. Letting herself being kissed as she decides she didn't... wholly dislike that.

Which leads to the question of how to find out where else she might like to be bitten. Pressing her fingers to Magni's lips and takes the daring to tilts Magni's face up to look at her, as she for once gets to peer down at her through lowered lashes. "May I join you in the bath?"