Little Miss Iron Body (Part 6)

Susie was not sure what was going on. “Why’s he letting go?” She wondered as the human’s grip on her began to weaken. A second ago, they ☺1had both been holding onto each other for dear life. Now, Kris was not just letting go but pulling away from her. “He-he’s trying to get away...” the thought struck Susie like a slap to the face. The dragons arms dropped from around her partner and she hung her head. Shame and self loathing stung her cheeks to a brilliant blush.

Kris’s movement was brought about not by callousness but an all-consuming curiosity. “She’s so soft, way softer than I thought she’d be.” The words reverberated through the human’s mind at the expense of all else. He did not notice Susie’s arms fall away from him, nor did he notice the look of hurt that had spread across her face. All Kris could focus on was the driving need to figure out the cause of the unexpected sensation. His new position gave him all the perspective he needed.

Like any young person, Kris had spent many a sweaty and flustered morning thinking about what his partner would look like nude. Based on what he had seen of her in the Dark World. Kris suspected Susie had a robust and sturdy build. It was now quite clear to Kris that his thoughts had been misguided. For the nude dragoness that stood before him was quite the opposite of what he had imagined.

Susie had a distinct pear shape. Her ass was wide, thick, and due to its size made her already short tail to appear downright stubby. The entire length of her thighs pressed against one another. Past her knees, Susie’s legs tapered off into muscled, almost well defined caffs. However, what really caught the human’s attention, was the dragoness’s belly. It was round and large. Its softness allowed gravity to pull it into an oblong sphere. The bottom of Susie’s tummy stopped just before the start of her thighs.

Compared to her lower half, Susie’s upper half was down-right trim. Her breasts were small; A cups if the tag in her bra was to be believed. Her arms were plush, yet whenever they moved, Kris could see clear outlines of corded muscle just below the scaled surface.

Susie – sensing that Kris had not moved since stepping back from her – dared to raise her head to look at him. She expected to see a look of disgust on his face now that he had a chance to get a good look at her. An optimistic part of her hoped that maybe it would be a look of confusion that would greet her. When she saw a warm smile on Kris’s lips and a warm glint in his eyes, she almost forgot how to breath.

“Wow,” was the first hushed word whispered by the human as he broke the prolonged period. He felt warm and heavy all over. Those feelings combined to make the few steps back toward his lover a clumsy and awkward shuffle.

“Wow what? Wow look how f-fat I am or… what? Please, wow what, wow what?” The dragon pleaded as she bowed her head to resume staring at the ground. She wanted, no, needed the question answered.

“You look...” Kris began as he closed the gap between himself and his lover. “Amazing.”

“What- what did you say?” Susie stammered.

“You. Look. Amazing.” Kris repeated back to her enunciating each word as clearly as possible.

“Bullshit” Susie spat in response. Self loathing would not let her lover’s words strike home.

“Well if you won’t take my word for it.” Kris whispered. “I’ll just have to show you.” With that, Kris placed a hand on the back of Susie’s head and pulled her into a deep kiss. For a second, Susie resisted. Her holdout broke when she felt Kris’s tongue pass between her lips. A second later and Susie was returning the kiss.

As the pairs’ tongues met, Susie found herself experiencing a second sensation alongside the electric prickles of passion. It was an odd feeling, foreign and small. It sat near the core of her being. It was the first dim embers of self acceptance. They were barely there, but they were there. And they were beginning to bestow unto the dragoness a measure of intimate courage.

Trusting her feelings, Susie did what she felt was right. She wrapped her arms around Kris and slowly pulled him tight against her body. The feeling of her softer features contorting around where he slightly sunk into her plush form sent shivers of both longing and apprehension down Susie’s spine. The feeling of apprehension soon won outand Susie found herself unable to act further.

Susie’s embrace spurred on Kris’s passionate kiss. But soon, the human noticed the dragon had ceased returning it. Concerned, he pulled his lips from hers and looked into Susie’s eyes. He saw in them fear and yearning. A desire to continue but a fear of what might come from continuing.

Kris realized a kiss was not enough. He needed to go further. He placed his right hand on Susie’s left shoulder and gently wrapped his left hand around Susie’s right bicep.  From there, he guided the dragoness down so that she was seated on the edge of her bed.

Kris looked down into his lover’s eyes. He saw that her fear was abating but still not totally gone. He knelt down before her and rested his chin on her kness. Kris then tipped his face up towards Susie’s and whispered, “Tell me what you want. Tell me what you would like me to do.”

The courage planted in her earlier and Kris’s loving look gave Susie the resolve to break from her stalling. She reached out and wrapped her clawed fingers around Kris’s wrists. She guided his hands toward her thighs so that they were hovering just above them. After a brief, tantalizing delay, Susie pressed Kris’s hands against her scaled hide. After she did so, she looked down to see a mix of awe and lust wash over her lover’s face.

“Now what?” The human inquired with a husky whisper. His gaze had become hungry. Susie hesitated for just a second and bit her lower lip. Numerous ideas sprung into the young woman’s mind. So many it was hard to choose, so Susie just said the first thing that came to mind.

“T-touch me...?” Susie managed to stammer out.

Kris’s lips turned up into a small smile as he gave Susie a slight nod. “Anywhere in particular or do you want me to pick?” The human asked, his tone made it clear it was entirely up to her.

“Uh… y-you... pick.”

“Happily” was all the human said as he heeded his lover’s instructions. Kris started by gripping each of the dragon girl’s plump thighs just above the knee. He then brought his face towards Susie’s left thigh. The touch of his lips against her mauve scales was gentle and slow.

“Huhuh, soft” Susie moaned as the human slowly kissed his way up her left leg. Soon, Kris had made his way to Susie’s hip. Upon doing so, he began trailing kisses from the tip of her hip down the inner curve of her thigh. “Fuck.” Susie thought over ragged huffs of breath. “Is he...is he gonna…?” All thoughts flew from her mind as Kris made his move.

Rather than continue kissing his way towards Susie’s sex, Kris opted to place his lips on her belly instead. Susie attempted too react but was to late. A mere two kisses was all it took to bring Kris’s lips near to level with Susie’s naval. The kisses stopped as Kris buried his face into the plush flesh of his lover’s ample waist.

All Susie could do was sit stunned as her boyfriend pressed his face into her most hated feature. For a moment there was complete and utter silence, Susie was not sure if either of them was even breathing. Kris then broke the quite by releasing  a needy moan directly against the dragoness’s belly. As he moaned, he pressed harder against his lover; enough so that Susie began to tip backwards.

After coming to a rest on her back, Susie looked up at Kris. The human had risen to his feet and was now leaning over the dragon’s prone form. “Believe me now?” Kris asked through a caring grin.

For a moment Susie said nothing. The old, horrible voice inside her head was ready and raring to rip into her. To assert that this was just the beginning to an elaborate and cruel prank. He would turn from her and leave soon. She almost gave into the cruel thoughts until the embers of courage began to glow. The warmth they radiated and the sense of protection they offered were enough drive back the cruel machinations of her mind.

Susie’s internal struggle lasted only seconds. But to Kris the paused seemed to drag indefinitely. So much so that Kris worried that maybe he had gone to fast or far. “Heh, point made dude, and then some.” Susie said before Kris could speak. A prideful grin had sprung to her face. The pride came from her realization that the part of her body she hated most had brought out such a passionate response from her lover. “You just gonna stare or are you gonna join me?” Susie said as she patted the bed beside her.

Yeah, just a second though.” Kris responded as he began to disrobe. Susie gawked as the human began to strip. First he undid his belt then shimmied his hips just enough so that gravity took care of removing his pants for him. Susie’s eyes were then drawn to the bulge in Kris’s boxers. So enraptured by the sight was the dragon that she hardly noticed the human remove his shirt and toss it aside. A quick dip at the waist and two small steps later and the human’s feet were bare.

Kris bending over obscured Susie’s view of his entrapped BHC long enough to snap her out of her hormone induced trance. Mind momentarily clear, Susie took the opportunity to thoroughly review her lover’s physique. He was lean, maybe even skinny, and ever so slightly toned. Aside from a peach-fuzz length happy trail starting just over the waistband of his boxer’s, Kris lacked body hair.

Upon noticing Susie’s stare, Kris hesitated as he gripped the hem of a boxer leg. A slight blush ran over the boy’s cheeks as he realized just how casually he had shed his clothes in front of another. “Well, no stopping now.” he thinks as he yanks down his underwear and steps out of them and towards the bed.

Susie ogled Kris’s semi-erect cock as it bounced in rhythm with his steps. Two paces led the human to the edge of the bed. Before sitting down however, Kris bent and picked up the cover Susie had discarded earlier. He gripped one side of the cloth, swung the opposite end up into the air above the bed, and then let go. He sat down next to Susie just in time for the old blanket to cover both him and the dragoness.

The embers of courage in Susie’s soul were really beginning to flick up and burn. “Nice toss, now its my turn to throw something.” The she dragon growled as she wrapped an arm around the human. Before Kris knew what was happening, Susie slammed her back into the bed, taking the ensnared Kris with her.

Susie hit the bed hard enough to avoid bouncing. The unprepared Kris however, popped a few inches into the air, just enough for Susie to take full advantage of her hold on him. With a tug of her arm and a twist of her wrist, the dragon turned the small human so his chest was facing towards her and reeled him into her side.

As soon as Kris crashed into Susie, the human’s hands shot out to grab hold of her. His left hand latched onto her right thigh and his right hand began kneading her plush belly. As he groped his dragon, Kris pushed his face into Susie’s neck and took in a deep breath then released an exhilarated sigh.

The hand Susie had on Kris’s back alternated between grabbing onto his lower back and occasionally pinching his hip or rear. Her other hand she rubbed up and down the human’s side feeling the exotic and alluring beat of his heart.

“Hell, he wasn’t lying!” Susie thought as she stroked the human in her arms. “He really doesn't hate my body. He likes it, even the fa-big parts.” Susie’s whole face erupted with a fierce heat as the realization really started to sink in. But a part of her needed to hear him say it. She needed him to confirm with words that which his actions already said. “So freak...” she stammered as a light sweat grew on her forehead, “how long have you been into big girls?”

Kris stopped nuzzling Susie’s neck as he considered the question. A moment passed in near silence; the only noise to be heard was the faint rubbing of flesh against scale. Susie wondered if maybe she had offended Kris. She was about to attempt to apologize when the human finally spoke. “Forever, I guess? I can’t remember a time I didn’t not like them... Must be hard wired in or something.”

“But if you don’t believe me, why don’t you take a look in my sketchbook?” Kris asked Susie with a wiry grin.

“What, you mean that thing you drew of me from the Dark World? That doesn’t count since I’m all muscly and not… f-f-you know.”

“No, I’m talking about my other sketchbook. The purple one in the zipper pocket in my backpack.” Kris then pointed towards the backpack he had left sitting near Susie’s bedroom door.

“Really freak, you want me to get up... now?” Susie squeezed Kris’s side to emphasize her point.

“I promise it will be worth it” is all the human said, the wiry grin had yet to disappear from his face.

“Fine” Susie huffed as she begrudgingly released Kris from her hold and got out from under the covers. After crossing the room Susie found herself rummaging through Kris’s bag. After a moment of searching, Susie found the zipper Kris had mentioned at the base of the back of the pack’s interior. After opening the compartment, Susie removed the sketchbook.

Unlike his main sketch book’s cover, which the human had adorned with doodles of various quality, the cover of the book Susie held was nearly unblemished save for the corners being a bit dog-eared. As the dragoness was about to open the book, Kris stopped her with a yelp. “Hold up a sec, don’t open it yet, come sit down first.” Kris finished as he patted the bed directly in front of him.

“As if!” Susie snorted as she made to open the book; her curiosity now peaked.

“Please.” Kris pleased. “I really want to go through it with you.”

“Wow, try and sound more pathetic why don’t you?” Susie jokingly sneered. “But fine, we’ll do it your way.” With that the dragon returned to the bed and thumped down in the spot Kris had indicated earlier. As she did so, Kris wrapped his arms around Susie’s middle and pulled the plump dragoness directly into his lap.

“Lemme, lemme go damn it! I’m-I’m gonna squash your balls, or legs, or something!” Susie squealed as she thrashed against the human’s grip. Despite the strength and size advantage Susie had over her much smaller partner, somehow she could not break free of the his hold.

Susie kept flailing about but Kris countered by tightening his grasp. Upon realizing resistance was useless, Susie settled down. Once the dragoness was calm, Kris pulled Susie’s back tight against his chest and brought his chin to rest on her shoulder. “The only way your going to hurt me is if you keep squirming.” Kris began. “Now, settle down, quit crumpling my book, and lets look at my drawings together, shall we?

“Oh shit dude, my bad!” Susie yipped, her eyes bulged out after noticing that she had been folding the sketchbook over itself as she fought against Kris’s hold of her.

"No worries, Sus.” Kris breathed as he nestled his chin deeper into the crook of Susie’s neck. “Open the book.”

“Yeah.” Was all Susie said, her focus had shifted from the book to the tingling sensation Kris’s warm breath caused as it met the sensitive scales on her neck.

After taking a moment to collect herself, Susie opened the book’s cover. The first page was blank save for the following words written in its center “Private, stay out!” At the bottom of the page, in a much more scribbled script was written “This goes double for goat’s named Azzy! Next to these final words was a scowling skull. Susie chuckled at the sight and turned the page.

The first handful of pages contained rather crude depictions of what Susie could only assume were meant to be “thicc dragon girlz!” or at least that is what the caption at the top of the pages implied. The crudeness of the drawings confused Susie, She had never seen Kris put out less-then-stellar work, what she saw before her was shoddy at best.

Kris saw the odd look on Susie’s face and elaborated. “Those are about five years old. There from right when I first really started drawing this sort of thing. Cut me a bit of slack.”

“So you’re saying you had a thing for dragon girls since you were like what, 13 or 14?”

“Y-yes. Now why don’t you keep going, huh?

“Fine freak, you’d think you’d be happy someone was taking time to ‘mire your doodles. Kinda rude of you to rush me.

Susie continued to flip through the pages. She realized Kris had told her the truth. The further Susie got through the book the better the drawings got. As the quality improved so did the lewdness of the artwork. No longer were the subjects merely standing around posing nude, now they were engaging in various carnal acts. Some dragonesses were stretched out or contorted seductively while still others grabbed or teased at their softest parts.

As the action on the pages grew hotter, so too did Susie. No longer was she nervous about hurting her mate by sitting on his lap. For as Susie’s eyes ravenously moved from explicit scene to explicit scene in the book, she subconsciously began to grind against Kris’s lap and chest.

Near the end of the book, the pictures no longer depicted only dragonesses; humans had joined them in more ways then simply appearing on the same pages. On the last filled page of the book, one particular drawing caught Susie’s attention. It was of a lithe, blue human holding a chubby, purple dragoness in his lap. It was Susie’s lust addled mind realized, a perfect representation of her and Kris’s current positioning. Well near perfect, the couple in the picture were clearly fucking.

“Like what you see?” Kris whispered to the now panting dragon.

Rather then respond with words, Susie wrapped her clawed fingers around Kris’s wrists. She slammed one of the human’s hands onto her thigh. Susie hesitated for a moment before thrusting Kris’s other hand onto her belly. Susie then used her own hands to force Kris’s to grope her. “Like what you found?” The she dragon huffed out as her mate took to kneading her supple flesh of his own accord.

“Y-yes” Kris moaned out, his breathing became rapid and irregular. Susie continued grinding on the human as she felt him become harder and harder.

“Then. Touch. Me!” Susie growled. For a second both of Kris’s hands stopped moving. Susie wondered if she had perhaps broken the tiny human’s mind with her demand. Her question was answered as the hand Kris had on her thigh slid up towards her sex. Once there, the side of Kris’s pointer finger rested ever-so gently against her dripping lips. The slight bit of contact caused Susie to gasp as her mind flooded with primordial lust.

Rather then immediately plunge his finger’s into Susie’s waiting depths, Kris opted to take his time and have some fun with his demanding lover. He placed the tips of his pointer finger against one of Susie’s lips and his middle finger against the other. He then applied pressure towards Susie’s opening while stroking his fingers up and down. “Is that the kind of touching you meant?” Kris asked through an impish smile.

“Ugh, you-uhuh! You know what I meant.” Susie groaned as Kris continued to tease her. “P-please freak, I’m beggin’ here. I need you.” The dragon whined as the teasing continued.

“As you wish my dragon” was all Kris said before sliding his finger’s into Susie. As Kris’s fingers slipped further and further in, she found herself wracked by deep shivers of pleasure. Enough so that she began to buck her hips as the second set of knuckles of Kris’s paired digits entered her. Kris’s other hand remained firmly planted on Susie’s plush belly, his groping and kneading becoming more intense as his other hand delved deeper and deeper into the dragoness.

Susie had used an improvised toy or two on herself before. The sensation of something foreign being inside her had been intense but the stimulus paled to nothing compared to what it felt like to have her lover’s finger’s inside her.  Susie’s moans deepened into near feral growls as she felt the third joints of Kris’s fingers brush against the exterior of her lips.

Hours spent “reading” erotic tales of young knights “slaying” voluptuous dragons had given Kris a rough idea of what to do in the situation he now found himself in; however, ideas did not translate to action. Yet, rather then fret and stall while trying to figure out how to proceed, Kris simply continued to press deeper into Susie. The panting and gasping noises Susie was making as Kris went deeper told him he was on the right track. As Kris reached the limits of how far he could reach, Susie began to furiously slam herself up and down the length of the human’s digits. At the same time, Kris felt himself begin to dry hump Susie’s ass.

“I’m-I’m gonna cum.” Susie moaned as she continued to plow herself along Kris’s fingers. Her hip-first assault on Kris’s digits hit a frenzied pace. Soon, any sense of rhythm was lost as the dragoness simply jack-hammered herself against the human in a desperate attempt to finish. The dragon continued her fervent thrusting until she climaxed.

Susie’s orgasm began deep in her loins and reverberated up through her spine until it gripped her shoulders and neck. From there, she began to contract in on herself as every muscle fiber in her body from her thighs to her biceps pulled towards one another.

Susie rode the waves of pleasure until she fell into a limp, wet, panting heap atop Kris. The human figured the dragon would lay incapacitated at least until the afterglow subsided. He was shocked when Susie shot up like a bolt. In a split second she had turned herself over and clawed her way up to his face.

Their gazes were locked together, like the stare shared between predator and prey the moment before the decisive move is made. Kris could feel Susie’s eyes digging into him. She began to lower her face towards his. Within seconds, Kris could feel Susie’s hot breath against his face. As she moved closer and closer, he could feel and then hear a low growl emanating from her.

Lower and lower, Susie pressed herself against Kris’s prone form. Soon she was resting her full weight upon him. Kris could not decide which felt better. The sensual, breath stealing press of Susie’s weight atop him or the perfectly form fitting embrace of the dragoness’s plush belly conforming around his groin and cock.

Kris slowly brought his head up towards the side of Susie’s and whispered four words. They were simple words, tender words. Words that Susie had thought she would never hear said anywhere other then her dreams. They were words Susie planned to follow to a T. “Make love to me.” Was what the human whispered to the dragon.

Susie shifted to her left to create a gap between herself and Kris. She then ran the claws of her right hand down from Kris’s shoulder towards his hip. The human moaned the entire time he felt the dragon’s talons press into his skin. Once her hand was upon the human’s hip, she pulled it between herself and Kris and groped for his cock.

The groping lasted only a few seconds. Due to its size, Kris’s cock was difficult to miss. Susie grasped a hold of Kris’s manhood and soon found the side of her hand become wet and warm. Kris was already dribbling out beads of pre in anticipation of what was to come.

Susie raised her lower half off her lover and aligned Kris’s cock with the entrance to her sex. After a bit of fumbling, Susie felt Kris’s tip press against the outside of her lips. “Fuck” was all the dragoness could moan out as she lowered herself onto her mate’s member.

Inch by inch Susie took in Kris’s entire length. By the three-quarters mark, Susie and Kris were both panting messes. By the time Susie felt her lips press against the front of Kris’s hips, she felt as though she was about to burst.

Susie brought her hands to Kris’s shoulders, braced herself, and began to buck her hips against her lover’s. Her rhythm intensified and soon after starting, she felt Kris begin thrusting beneath her. After a few near slip outs, the pair began to move in unison. Kris would push up, Susie would press down. She would rise and he would fall. With each buck and each thrust, the couple released growls and moans of pleasure and lust.

Kris and Susie neared their climaxes. Susie came first. Her already frantic thrusting turned to mindless, rhythm-less jack hammering. As she felt the first shock waves of pleasure hit her, Susie shot her arms under Kris’s back and wrapped herself as tightly around the diminutive human as she could. She pressed against him with all her draconic strength while her pelvic muscles contracted around Kris’s cock like velvet vices. Her walls milked the human’s member for all it was worth.

Susie’s sudden, multiple embraces were enough to push Kris over the edge. He gasped and shuddered as he repeatedly thrust as deep as he could into his lover. He felt himself shoot ropes of cum deep into his mate. As he did so, Kris embraced the dragon on top of him as tightly as she held him.

They remained in an unbreakable embrace for what seemed like hours. Eventually, they released their holds and Susie rolled off Kris to his side, her back towards him. Kris turned and draped an arm around the dragon, his hand resting gently on her soft midsection. His fingers lightly tapped a loving beat on the scaled flesh upon which they laid.

The couple basked in their afterglow. Susie took the hand Kris had draped over her and pulled it further down while entwining her fingers with his. As She did so, Kris buried his face in Susie’s wild mane of hair, her thick locks tickling at his neck and nose.

“I love you.” Susie sighed as she snuggled herself deeper into Kris’s embrace.

“I love you too.” Kris replied as he tucked himself as tightly as he could against Susie’s back.

Slowly as her mind settled and normal thoughts began to flow through her brain, a concerned frown came upon Susie’s face and her brow creased with worry. “Kris?” She asked.

“Yeah?” The human replied dreamily.

“Do you think- do you think I could get… you know from what we just did?”

“Huh?”

“You know do you think you could have knoc-knocked me up?” While Kris could not see the concern on his lovers face, he could more then hear it in her voice.

“Susie…” The human began, an exasperated sigh hissing from between his teeth. “You have never once paid attention to a single thing a teacher has ever said, have you? Not one word of sex-ed made it to your brain, did it?”

“Wha-what? What do you mean, we just did it raw. That’s how you get pregnant… right? A deeply quizzical look had worked its way on to the dragoness’s face.

“Sus, humans can’t get monsters pregnant and monsters can’t get humans pregnant. They just aren’t compatible that way.” Kris replied as he reassuringly hugged the dragon girl.

“You sure?” Susie asked a hint of worry still in her voice.

“Yeah, I’m sure.”

“Kris?”

“Yeah?”

The dragon turned herself over to face her smaller lover. “I’m so, so sorry for the way I acted earlier and for the way I’ve acted whenever you tried to hug or hol-.”

Susie’s words were cut short as Kris pressed his lips against hers.

The pair kissed until they both needed to catch their breaths. Susie shifted herself so that she lay with her head resting on Kris’s chest. Kris wrapped his arm around Susie’s shoulders and held her, his hand caressing its way up and down her arm.

They laid like that until Kris felt his legs grow stiff. To undo the forming knots, the human stretched out. As he reached the zenith of his stretch, one of Kris’s toes brushed against something rubbery and malleable.

The object must have been on the very edge of the bed for the human’s light touch was enough to push it off and onto the floor. The object hit the ground and made a wet bubbling noise similar to water flowing from an office water cooler. “Damn, sorry. I’ll get it.” Kris stammered as he shimmied out from under the dragon. He was afraid whatever he had knocked to the floor was spilling.

“Wait no, don’t!” Susie began as the human swung his upper half out and over the edge of the bed and bent towards where he believed the object had landed.

Kris first looked left and saw only a few dust bunnies congregating near the wall next to the head of Susie’s bed. As Kris turned his head to continue looking for the fallen item, he glanced under Susie’s bed. He saw that the entire space between the floor and the bottom of the bed was crammed near to bursting with old frozen food boxes, bags, and wrappers; all picked meticulously clean.

The sight caused Kris to forget why he was hanging halfway out of the bed in the first place. “Uh, Susie…?” Kris began as he pulled himself back up onto the bed. He turned to see Susie staring, heartbroken, down at the cover she had pulled halfway up herself. The dragon turned to look at her mate tears already forming in her eyes.

“So freak”, she began through a tear-chocked, halfhearted chuckle. “Guess you found my hoard, huh...?” As the last words left her mouth, the tears began to spill down Susie’s cheeks.

Kris prepared to lunge after his lover. He suspected she would attempt to backpedal away from him, as was her usual tactic when she got upset. But he did not need to. In fact Kris soon found he could not move at all. For Susie had already wrapped him in a rib-shattering hug.

Kris returned the embrace as Susie sobbed onto his shoulder. “I-I have something to tell you Kris. Just promise… promise me you won’t-you won’t leave until I finish. Please... please.” Kris responded with a powerful nod.