Todd looked over his shoulder as she pressed up against him, but he didn't shove her away. Instead, he caressed her arms around him, then thought of something, tapping the back of her hand with a finger. "No lapses in your ability in some time, even under the strain of the new queen." he said with a smile.

More like no detectable lapses. He hadn't woken up to her shoving him out of bed or getting grazed in the arena on accident, still, it was something.